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Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling

@rubenbolling.bsky.social

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Cartoonist, Writer. Two-time Pulitzer Prize Finalist, Herblock Prize, RFK Journalism Award, Berryman Award, NCS Awards, Top 76 Theme Park Influencer. Follow for more comics

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@rubenbolling.bsky.socialAug 5, 2026, 6:46 PM Pinned

🔵 This week's Tom the Dancing Bug comic
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🇺🇸 THE TOP-SECRET TRUTH ABOUT TRUMP AND THE REFLECTING POOL
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Brought to you by the patriotic Inner Hive, including long-time member Leo MT and new member EvilTwin1955.
Join us at bit.ly/theInnerHive
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Read it right here👇

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@myp-comics.bsky.socialOct 1, 2026, 6:24 PMReposted by @rubenbolling.bsky.social

The short story "The Million Year Picnic" by Ray Bradbury was originally set on Mars in October 2026. It's the final story of the collection THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES. (More recent editions have shifted the dates forward 30 years.) The original founder of the MYP, Jerry Weist, was a huge Bradbury fan.

A book with a red and black cover on a wooden chair. The cover reads, "75TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES
With an introduction by the author
RAY BRADBURY"
It shows a tiny figure in a stark red, white, and black mountainous landscape. There is a gold National Book Award seal.
@rubenbolling.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 9:54 PM

A booking error puts the Partridge Family in a black neighborhood in Detroit. To save Richard Pryor and Lou Gosset Jr’s soul music club, Keith writes a “sort of Afro thing” song and writhes around at a fundraising block party, to a mostly indifferent black audience

youtu.be/75qtf9AcxME?...

@rubenbolling.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 8:23 PM

650,000 PEOPLE killed in the war Russia started by invading Ukraine, but Zelensky hits a Russian BOT farm, and Musk says,

@chadbourn.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 7:01 PMReposted by @rubenbolling.bsky.social

Ukraine blows up Russian data centres and immediately and mysteriously online talk about Germany’s Far Right AfD virtually disappears. Stop Putin you stop the Far Right.

Chart showing online talk about the AfD going off a cliff edge
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@rubenbolling.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 2:24 PM

Saturday morning cartoons…

@rubenbolling.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 7:18 PM

Hey thanks to everyone who came to see me at
the #nycc! Fun to meet so many great people. I’m definitely doing it again next year

@rubenbolling.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 5:50 PM

Tom Gammill
IS
Ernie Bushmiller
IN
A Morning with Ernie Bushmiller, in which he inhabits the author of the Nancy comic strip. “THE THEATRICAL EVENT OF THE SEASON!” -Ruben Bolling @boingboing.net

boingboing.net/2026/10/09/a...

@rubenbolling.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 2:32 PM

It’s happening again. Join me! #nycc

Ruben Bolling at NYCC 11am-1pm booth 3810
@rubenbolling.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 12:55 PM

📣 IT'S...
if you know, you know

🤖 The cutest A.I. you ever saw
🌍🌎 the shocking COUNTER-EARTH
💦 Punchlines 'n' Spit-Takes
💩 Hilarious Only to Six-Year-Olds
🦸 Erectile Dysfunction Man
&MORE!
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FREE, and a better newsletter a billionaire's money can't buy!
tomthedancingbug.substack.com/p/i-never-me...

@rubenbolling.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 8:01 PM

🟠 This week's Klassik Tom the Dancing Bug
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🌏🌎 Education on COUNTER-EARTH!!
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www.gocomics.com/tomthedancin...

@anothercultland.comOct 8, 2026, 7:16 PMReposted by @rubenbolling.bsky.social

as an Inner Hive Member, i've been waiting to tell you that i absolutely LOVE the "DON'T FEAR ME AND DON'T REGULATE ME!" panel. Dammitall, this _needs_ to be a T-shirt. Or a poster. Or both. 😬👏👏👏

@rubenbolling.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 7:16 PM

Yet Musk arrived in the US from Africa on a student visa. Which he then violated when he went into business, making him an “Illegal Alien.”

@kevinrothrock.meOct 8, 2026, 6:20 PMReposted by @rubenbolling.bsky.social

how is this real life

@rubenbolling.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 3:07 PM

If they’re Ethical™️

@rubenbolling.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 4:42 PMReposted by @rubenbolling.bsky.social

If you’re coming to the New York Comic Con #nycc, you’d BETTER stop by and say Hey
tomthedancingbug.com

@rubenbolling.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 1:20 PM

🔵 This week's Tom the Dancing Bug
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MARK ZUCKERBERG PRESENTS "A.I. AND U!"
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Brought to you by the heroic Inner Hive, including long-time member Casey 2 and new member Steven Titmus! (tomthedancingbug.com/the-inner-hi...)
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READ IT RIGHT HERE👇

@rubenbolling.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 4:42 PM

If you’re coming to the New York Comic Con #nycc, you’d BETTER stop by and say Hey
tomthedancingbug.com

@rubenbolling.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 1:29 PM

Great review and I agree with just about every word. It’s a fascinating piece of art, and I have no interest in discourse about the horserace context of box office and Oscar worthiness.

@rubenbolling.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 1:59 AM

I loved it and have become a Digger Defender.

@taniel.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 10:53 PMReposted by @rubenbolling.bsky.social

*so important*: if you’re voting by mail, assume the USPS will delay because it’s its policy. You can: —put it in drop box —go to counter to watch them postmark in front of you —if you’re dropping it in a mailbox, do it VERY EARLY.

BBolts@boltsmag.orgOct 6, 2026, 10:00 PM

Many states require that mail ballots be postmarked by a specific day. But due to a USPS rule announced late last year, voters may need to put their ballot in a mailbox days in advance.

boltsmag.orgIn an Intense Election Year, New Post Office Rules Could Trip Up Voter Registration - BoltsA change in how mail is postmarked could lead some voters to miss key deadlines, including voter registration. Advocates worry the people most affected will be those already facing voting barriers.
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