How many birds and butterflies did I miss looking at dumb phones? How many good notes or interesting pieces of trash or who knows what?

Maybe I do have a phone problem.

Never Not Nervous is a solid comic. This one spoke to me as someone who has attempted to use a Light Phone in the past.

Related: I spent the weekend in Sheboygan with my family, as is our annual summer kickoff tradition. We spent an hour or two on the beach, and I found a rock. It was a pretty dope rock; I spent 20 minutes slowly examining it, noticing that my up close vision is not quite what it used to be.

I took the rock home and it's sitting on my desk now.

I can't wait to get home and look at it some more.

I was totally sobbing by the end of this beautifully illustrated version of Danny Fenster, an American journalist who was arrested for months in Myanmar for the crime of... uh, journalism.

One of the big things I took away from his story was how he trained himself to embrace boredom. I really should try to get into meditation.

If pain is weakness leaving the body, it follows that pleasure is weakness entering the body.

File this under “things you can’t unsee.”

Person 1: Do you think the arc of history bends toward justice?

Person 2: Of course. But then again, the moon bends toward the earth constantly, and still gets farther away every year.

Man, this comic delivered a haymaker directly into my core belief of justice. ?

I love the hottest take. ?

(For what it's worth: I am starting to come around on pineapple on pizza, especially if it's part of a really spicy pizza.

A couple years back, I tried to watch all the MCU movies in release order. I gave up after Winter Soldier. It was just too much. I'm glad superhero movies exist, but they're not my cup of tea these days.)

Get me a print of this, stat.

I spent 6 hours drawing Pokémon today and it never occurred to me for a second that anyone else might be better or worse.

Even if it had, I would’ve been excited for them, not sad for myself.

Damn, now this is the philosophy I want to have.

…but this year will be different!

Politics isn’t a per se bad. It’s a process. Making politics more productive and substantial make society better. Having people “nope” out of society whenever they get uncomfortable doesn’t help with any of the hard work politics does for things like allocating scarce resources, justice, or equity.

Poignant. I love this web comic.