Ruben Bolling 🪲

@rubenbolling
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Cartoonist, “Tom the Dancing Bug”
2-time Pulitzer Prize Finalist, Herblock Prize, RFK Journalism Award, Berryman Award, #1 Dad Coffee Mug Owner
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I wrote on Boing Boing about a video of an inebriated Bob Dylan trolling a bored John Lennon about his "Norwegian Wood" theft/parody.
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https://boingboing.net/2026/06/15/watch-an-inebriated-bob-dylan-troll-a-bored-john-lennon-about-stealing-norwegian-wood.html
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I wrote on Boing Boing about advances in decoding whale language, and what that might mean about their legal rights.
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https://boingboing.net/2026/06/11/decoding-whale-language-could-unlock-new-legal-rights-for-them.html
Decoding whale language could unlock new legal rights for them

Project CETI has mapped a sperm whale phonetic alphabet and is now using AI to decode what whales say to each other.

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THEY WALK AMONG US
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🔴 Brand new Tom the Dancing Bug now up on Boing Boing
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THEY WALK AMONG US.
TRUST NO ONE.
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https://boingboing.net/2026/06/10/tom-the-dancing-bug-they-walk-among-us-trust-no-one.html
Tom the Dancing Bug: They Walk Among Us. Trust No One.

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I missed posting this on D-Day, so here it is the day after. This was the comic for the week before the 2024 election. My "closing argument."
I wrote on Boing Boing about an upcoming area of Disney World where humans are invited into Monsters, Inc.'s Monstropolis city.
https://boingboing.net/2026/06/05/at-disney-world-youll-soon-be-able-visit-monsters-inc-s-city-to-celebrate-h-u-m-a-n-day.html
At Disney World, you'll soon be able visit Monsters, Inc.'s city to celebrate H.U.M.A.N. Day

Disney is currently at work transforming the former Muppets Courtyard at its Hollywod Studios in Orlando into Monstropolis, the city of monsters from Pixar's franchise, Monsters, Inc. They've just released…

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The MAGAs swoon over their ideal of masculinity
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