Doctor B. Popular

Presenting Work with Confidence! It doesn't matter how good your work is, if you can’t present it it's going in the trash. Come learn how to present with confidence.

If you do something worthwhile that requires you to talk to people, and maybe convince them of something, sometimes, this workshop next week is very supportive and effective. Also fun.

www.eventbrite.com/e/presenting...

Our monthly comics jam is tonight in SF. cartoonistconspiracysf.wordpress.com/2026/03/05/s...

A flier for Dormant Spin, an art show at Center Edo running from March 6- March 16th. The art on the flier is an epic hand throwing a yo-yo. The string of the yo-yo zig zags down like a lightning bolt. The art is pink pixel art on a black background.

More yo-yo themed pixel art. This is black fabric with reflective white silkscreen ink showing a statue of a giant hand holding a giant yo-yo.

Pixel art in black, yellow, pink, and white, showing a young woman throwing a yo-yo. Instead of a straight line, the yo-yo string is forming a pentagram mid air, while the yo-yo sleeps.

Yo-yos and pixel art, two of my favorite things, come together in Hermippe’s “Dormant Spin” show at Center Edo in Tokyo. I wish I could see it in person. Hermippe’s work is fantastic.
https://center-online.net/?category_id=66a71bdab5941f0034dea1f7 #yoyo #PixelArt

Miami Lice: Season Four, by Lice (Aesop Rock & Homeboy Sandman) 8 track album

The new EP by Aesop Rock and Homeboy Sandman is pretty good. It's my favorite in their "Lice" series so far. https://aesoprockhomeboysandman.bandcamp.com/album/miami-lice-season-four #AesopRock #HipHop

A microphone

Shallow waters. #yoyo

Graffiti on a brick wall that says “No ICE in West Marin”

White spray paint graffiti on a brick wall. It is a large cartoon style drawing of a cat. Artist unknown.

Graffiti showing Audrey II (the man-eating plant from Barbershop Of Horrors)

Simple graffiti that says “Oy Vey”

Graffiti in Point Reyes. #graffiti #PointReyes

A charcuterie tray filled with soft cheese, hard cheese, fruits, and crackers. Two glasses full of Heidrun Mead are also on the table.

Back home now, all washed and unpacked. Enjoying cheese and mead from our favorite spots in Point Reyes.

Spent the weekend kayaking and camping along Tomales Bay. We watched elephant seals, ate great food, swam with glowing dinoflagellates, and woke up to the sound of a juvenile gray whale near our campsite. Couldn’t have picked a better weekend for it.

“Piracy is the most effective form of artistic distribution these days. So be it.”

-Werner Herzog on NPR just now 🔥

A board title “Draw an elephant seal”. In it are dozens of post it notes with drawings of elephant seals by different people.

A purple post it note with a drawing of a cute seal looking at the viewer. Text says “seals are the best”

A drawing of an elephant seal relaxing on a chaise lounge. Its funny to see a seal reclining in a living room with art on the walls and nice furniture

A kind of realistic drawing of an elephant seal looking towards the viewer.

Various depictions of elephant seals spotted at Drakes Beach Visitor Center in Point Reyes.

Limited edition benefit sweatshirt for The Trans Continental Pipeline from Bikini Kill Limited edition benefit sweatshirt for The Trans Continental Pipeline from Bikini Kill

While I have your attention, this is ONLY available today. bikinikill.bandcamp.com/merch/limite...

‘Trying to be Mother Teresa:’ Tenderloin leaders react to Mayor Lurie’s security brawl #### Read Mission Local often? Help **grow our newsroom** , joining the 3,250 readers who support us by giving below. Donate today! A day after a San Francisco police officer on Mayor Daniel Lurie’s security detail told _Mission Local_ that he was attacked while guarding the mayor, new security footage calls that claim into question. In a TikTok video posted online Friday, which appears to be a snippet from a surveillance camera over the Lower Nob Hill alley, the bodyguard appears to speak to Tony Phillips, 44, the man later identified by the San Francisco Police Department as having attacked the officer. Lurie is seen standing a few feet behind. Phillips, holding a blanket, is standing next to another man. He appears to try to walk around the bodyguard, approaching within a foot of his body. Want the latest on the Mission and San Francisco? Sign up for our **free daily newsletter** below. Sign up Then, in a matter of seconds, the bodyguard abruptly shoves Phillips backward, knocking him into a pile of debris on the sidewalk. > @abuallah1 > > Welcome to the tenderloin The mayor of San Francisco getting attacked #foryourpage #tenderloin #fypシ゚viral #tik_tok #sanfrancisco > > ♬ I’m the Mayor – Mayor Philips rises and comes back at the bodyguard. The officer makes contact with him a second time, and the two go into a clinch. The bodyguard holds Phillips in a headlock before Phillips throws the officer to the ground, where the officer hit his head and sustained an injury. As the two men hold onto each other, Lurie can be seen backing away and then hurrying out of frame, seeming to signal to someone on Larkin Street. Moments later, another officer runs towards the two men on the ground, trying to pull Phillips off of the bodyguard, who is pinned to the ground. Another man, who officials identified as Abraham Simon, stood by as the two men fought. He briefly rushes towards the second bodyguard and shoves him to the ground before backing away. At the scene on Thursday evening, _Mission Local_ witnessed the bodyguard bleeding out of the back of his head. The officer told his fellow cops that two men had refused to comply with requests to move along, and that Phillips had come at him. The video calls the officer’s narrative into question. The _San Francisco Chronicle_ was first to report on Friday’s video. Lurie, when asked about the incident, also told _Mission Local_ that the men had tried to fight a police officer but did not mention the officer shoving the man to the ground. This morning, Lurie told press gathered at his City Hall office that the men had been blocking the middle of the street, though the 90-second TikTok video shows both men standing near the sidewalk on Cedar Street with plenty of room for cars to pass by. The mayor’s spokesperson declined to comment and said that the police investigation is “ongoing.” Phillips and Simon were arrested at the scene. Phillips was booked for threatening an executive officer, assault on a peace officer with force likely to cause great bodily injury, battery on an officer, resisting or obstructing an officer, and petty theft and possession of drug paraphernalia. Simon was booked for resisting or obstructing an officer. In 2019, Phillips was accused by police of stabbing a man to death a few blocks away, at Van Ness Avenue and Fern Street, though prosecutors declined to charge him. #### Join the 3,300 readers who keep Mission Local free for all! Because of you, Mission Local reached and surpassed our $300,000 year-end fundraising goal. **All we can say is thank you.** Thank you for choosing to invest in a local newsroom rooted in San Francisco’s communities — one that listens first and reports deeply. If you haven’t yet had a chance to give, it’s not too late to be part of this community. **Your contribution today helps sustain the reporting our city relies on all year long.** We’re grateful you’re here — and we’d be honored to have you join our donors. Donate ## Latest News ### ‘Trying to be Mother Teresa:’ Tenderloin leaders react to Mayor Lurie’s security brawl ### Remembering ‘Diamond’ Dave Whitaker, 88, San Francisco’s common thread ### S.F. immigration courts gutted: 21 judges down to 2 after planned departures ## Follow Us * X * Instagram * YouTube * LinkedIn * Mastodon

Video shows Daniel Lurie’s bodyguard, an off-duty SFPD officer, violently attacking a Tenderloin resident. Moments later he gets his ass beat.

Two men were arrested. Neither of them started the fight.
https://missionlocal.org/2026/03/sf-mayor-daniel-lurie-video-tenderloin-attack/

Quarantined Beats (and Inside Voices), by Doctor Popular 20 track album

Speaking of #BandcampFriday, my entire discography is up at docpop.bandcamp.com and I’m always thrilled when folks support my music.

Happy #BandcampFriday! Did you know that Bandcamp shows you cute emoji when typing in certain amounts on the checkout screen?

A six panel comic of a man and a woman where their word balloons are actually other panels (there are no words) indicating future actions and explaining why they did what they did.

a three panel comic about Søren Kierkegaard in which the text of the man reads backwards and the dog forwards "Life can only be understood backwards" and the dog "but it must be lived forwards"

It's that time in my Making comics intro course when I talk image-text relations, which gives me an excuse to share 2 favorite comics that do bewildering things that can only be done in comics! Ibn Al-Rabin's seminal Le Verbe Prophétique alongside the always brilliant @tomgauld.bsky.social. So good!

Posters From Tech Workers Criticize Google and OpenAI’s Work With the Military and ICE - Doc Pop's Weblog Who is behind the wave of posters criticizing big tech companies like Google and OpenAI for their willingness to spy on citizens and build tools of war?

A wave of posters on Mission Street is calling out Google and OpenAI for their work with the military and ICE. The folks behind these posters claim to be current employees concerned their work is being used “for domestic mass surveillance and autonomously killing people”
docpop.org/2026/03/post...

A yellow circular creature playing with a yo-yo. It sort of looks like Pac-Man but with arms and legs. It’s yo-yoing and almost hit a parrot that was flying above it. The flier says “SF Yo-Yo Club at 826 Valencia. All ages. On the second Saturday of month. Human-made art by DocPop.”

Made a new flier for the SF Yo-Yo Club, which meets on the second Saturday of each month at 826 Valencia in #SanFrancisco. Come #yoyo with us.

ICO writes to Meta over 'concerning' AI smart glasses report Videos, including of glasses-wearers using the toilet or having sex, are sometimes reviewed by a Kenya-based subcontractor.

Last year when I was checking into a hotel, the desk person was wearing Meta glasses. I kindly asked them to take them off. They were annoyed. I said, “I do not consent to you looking at my credit card and ID with Meta glasses on.” My instincts were correct: www.bbc.com/news/article...

Huib Petersen, an artist who lives on this block, is the artist responsible for these awesome crocheted creatures. www.petersenarts.com

More info about the folks behind these posters can be found here https://notdivided.org/

4 posters on Mission Street criticizing the leaders of OpenAI and Google for letting their tools be used for killing and surveillance.

Two more posters on Mission Street criticizing big tech for working with the Department of War. These are signed by “We Will Not Be Divided” and link to www.NotDivided.org

New posters in San Francisco calling out Google and OpenAI over their business with the Department of War and ICE.

The group behind them, We Will Not Be Divided, say they’re current employees worried their work could be used “for domestic mass surveillance and autonomously killing people”.

I've now printed and shipped over 20,000 whistles, sent across the country to groups that need em. That's 20,000 off a single 3d printer that has basically run continuously in my basement since about mid-January. The crew I print with has sent out over 1M now, and we can send to you too. toot.supply

One block in Noe Valley is covered with these incredible crocheted creatures. I'm not sure who the artist is, but I love this. #SanFrancisco #NoeValley

Stickers on the back of a smart phonle. One says "there are never purely technological solutions to societal problems" and is referenciing the Simpsons' meme of a bus driver pointing at a sign at the front of a the bus.

I love spotting my stickers out in the wild!

Saw one of my “no purely technological solutions to societal problems” stickers on a stranger’s phone at the gym yesterday. What a small world.

With Iran War, Kalshi and Polymarket Bet That the Depravity Economy Has No Bottom Gambling markets have conveniently found a stance that allows them to continue to profit from death and war.

Hat tip to @jasonkoebler.bsky.social for that handy term www.404media.co/with-iran-wa...

the depravity economy

A photo of a grassy hill in San Francisco with some houses in the foreground. The houses are uniquely SF (ie lots of victorian houses). The hill is green and grassy, and the sky is a rich blue. It looks like the old Window's desktop image, also known as "Bliss".

Bliss (SF remix)

Autechre Guitar, by Shane Parish 10 track album

"Autechre Guitar" is out now. An album of #Autechre songs performed entirely on solo acoustic guitar. I'm not hugely familiar with the original works, but #ShaneParish's renditions are great! https://shaneparish.bandcamp.com/album/autechre-guitar-2

“The Depravity Economy”, @jasonkoebler’s term for insider trading within prediction markets, is spot on. Feels like a description we'll be hearing a lot this year. https://www.404media.co/with-iran-war-kalshi-and-polymarket-bet-that-the-depravity-economy-has-no-bottom/