dirk vanstralen

@SethDKlein What a harrowing experience, and what a reassuring outcome. Best wishes for your Dad’s recovery!

Well, my holidays didn’t go quite as planned. First day in, my dad had a major heart event – an aortic dissection – requiring emergency surgery. Was touch and go (I’ve learned this is the highest priority surgery), but he made it and is on the mend... 1/4

My cartoon for today's @thetimes

@chrisriddell50 Up the paddle without the creek.

Five years…a sketchbook of political drawings. Volume Three available to preorder at thecyclingfishbooks.bigcartel.com

Well yes Steve, we are in a minority of our own. Lol. But cancelled? How many other minority representatives keep writing opinion pieces about having their opinions cancelled - ad nauseam?

@jeremydstewart Claim Chowder™ (Jon Gruber reference): Child will eventually write self-supporting show that will make people laugh.

Me, to 6yo: excuse me, are you very funny? 6yo: *big laugh * you KNOW I am!

@iansco @BJennings90 @guardian Thanks for taking my breath away.

© Ben Jennings @BJennings90 in the @guardian

@stuartlosaltos News has always been ideology; delivery systems are evolving, is all.

Elon Musk seriously misunderstands what is happening here. The legacy media have arrested their tailspin by giving up on not just objectivity (like FoxNews) but balance as well. Our culture has shifted & people are demanding propaganda in place of news.

@stuartlosaltos Yes! Right before collapse.

I am such a sucker for shoot-from-the-hip populism, this guy charms me way more easily than I thought he would. Remember the late Cold War era when politicians said things like this?

@ememess I think the Tesla Board™ is probably squeezing him into installing a CEO Puppet™.

@FinnianBurnett Officially, satire is dead.

I didn't turn the sound on because I can't stand his voice but you don't need the sound to get how hilarious this is. Bound to go over well with the "I got my degree from Trump University" crowd.

@IanBoothby Yeah, but tonight thank god it's them instead of you.

This is the time of year where we stop and think about how terrible the lyrics to Do They Know It's Christmas? really are.

@IanBoothby @TransphobicLs This response is beautiful and profoundly compassionate.

@TransphobicLs Improving yourself in any way could be taken as not accepting yourself for who you were.

Plot twist, your gender assigned at birth isn’t who you are

This evening.

@FinnianBurnett @Millikenmoon Seance?

@jeremydstewart Definitely, don't hesitate: BOTH. Pay double, and you'll know – every day – what frames you want to wear.

you folks have been very helpful lately, so let me ask you this: the light frames or the dark frames?

@zanneslaw All my life I only wanted to eventually become a hundred aire.

@vanstralen Oh they have 👀

@thelaceylondon Always Robert, seeing nothing but shame.

In six words or fewer, write a short story about this photo... #amwriting #sixwordstory

@andreareimer Not a book – but – the beatitudes, and I don't even believe in God™.

What is the one book that every Mayor and Councillor should read?