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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 10h

Happy Anita Bryant Humiliation Day

A four-panel image of Anita Bryant being pied in her sanctimonious face by gay rights activist Thom Higgins, 1977.

Alison Robin @alisonrobin.com · 6h

Put stuff on hold at the library in such a way that I thought the holds would be up staggered and I'd get like one thing a week and of course everything came in all at once

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Alison Robin @alisonrobin.com · 7h

Yes. She's also part chihuahua like yours, but he's got more chihuahua than she does.

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Alison Robin @alisonrobin.com · 7h

ZIPPY DOES THIS TOO. I have to be like gently encouraging her to eat her food and then she performs an elaborate and bizarre ritual of pushing her bowl around and only then can she eat it. If she is interrupted at any point she must perform the ritual again.

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more mr. dice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · Apr 16

telling you i'm going to "check my avails" then reading an entire daily Far Side desk calendar

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Alison Robin @alisonrobin.com · 7h

One of the stories, "Madame Painte: For Sale" is written in the second person. At one point my father burst out with a reply to a character and said almost precisely what the You/Reader character was about to say in the text. I said "he's writing you so well!"

Alison Robin @alisonrobin.com · 9h

There's always The Culture series, which doesn't have to be read in any order and can just be read as standalone novels.

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Boowellyn 👻 @llewellynrose.bsky.social · 10h

Hi #portfolioday!

I'm Llewellyn and I'm a medical illustrator, comic, and horror artist! I'm going to be available for work in December.

You can view more examples of my work at meganllewellyn.com

✉️[email protected]

black and white illustration showing the surgical view of an anomalous origin carotid artery repair

black and white illustration from Emmet Nahil's From the Belly, a man in pain with an amputated arm and barnacles growing out of his skin

black and white illustration of a clam shell thoracotomy to expose the heart and aortic aneurysm

black and white comic page of a close up of a turkey vulture, a woman aiming a hunting rifle, the vulture falling, the woman looking up to the sky holding a rifle

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Alison Robin @alisonrobin.com · 14h

My unhinged Hellraiser opinion is that "The Scarlet Gospels" (while far from a perfect book and with parts that made me mad) is a laugh out loud comedy almost every time Pinhead is present, in nearly everything he does. His arrival in the opening scene of the book feels like a punchline.

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 15h

RIP the legendary Drew Struzan (1947-2025) 😩

Even though we were expecting the news any day now, it makes me very sad. What an artist.

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Alison Robin @alisonrobin.com · 14h

I feel like the cenobites are there as a kind of red herring in the films (The ones Barker worked on at least) and when I pitch the movies to people I usually stress that the main narrative isn't about Hell so much as it is about weird family problems magnified by an evil device.

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Alison Robin @alisonrobin.com · 1d

I dreamed there was a four-seasons-long comedy sitcom about people who lived in a hotel and their hotel room had a mystery hole in the floor and anyone who fell down was gone forever. They could never get changed to a better room and were bothered by the hole, but it was irrelevant most episodes.

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Alison Robin @alisonrobin.com · 1d

The series was rebooted a few years later but the hole wasn't in it anymore. I saw people watching the new one and was like "oh I love this show, where's the hole?" and people didn't know what I was talking about. The reboot cut the entire thing with the hole out but reused 90% of the old jokes.

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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 1d

John Oliver is what liberals imagine Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert to be — a genuine critic of America’s systemic failures who stands up for trans people and other marginalized groups, while actually offering real actions and hopeful solutions.

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 1d

This is "debanking", and its a problem that has plagued sex workers for decades. It isnt right when its targetting sex workers and its not right when its targetting game devs and creators either.

Give paypros and your givt reps your grievances and demand that debanking of adult content stop

Ana Valens | 🔞 | Comms Open @acvalens.net · 1d

Per Reddit: Steam adult developer in the UK is sitting on a USD equivalent of six figures, can’t find a bank to take his money because the developer creates adult games

www.reddit.com/r/UKPersonal...

r/UKPersonalFinance
3 hr. ago
Previous-Camera1641

I develop adult video games on Steam. I can't find a bank that will actually let me withdraw my money from Steam. Can I get some advice?
Game has sold quite well on Steam. I've got almost £90,000 ready to withdraw after Steam's cut + VAT taken off.

However, it's been 2 months now and I can't find ANY bank in the UK who will let me withdraw my money from Steam.

I've been banned/refused/unable to get a business account with:

Wise
Revolut
Monzo
Monese
Chase
Starling
Nationwide
Halifax
Barclays
Lloyds
RBS

It always comes down to, "Where did you get this money from?"

"It's coming from games I sell on Steam."

"Can we see the store page?"

"Sure."

"I'm sorry, we can't do business with you at this time."

It keeps coming down to a commercial decision purely because I make adult content.

What the hell am I supposed to do? I've pretty much exhausted the whole banking system. I just want to be able to be paid for products I've sold.

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Alison Robin @alisonrobin.com · 1d

"Why are you reading horror stories as bedtime stories for your parents"

Because they read me Misery when I was in elementary school :)

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Alison Robin @alisonrobin.com · 1d

So I was reading the book aloud as bedtime stories tonight and the flow of Langan's writing is so good for speech that I could read it very quickly without stopping/starting and I ran out of breath! Was not remotely a problem for the last seven books I read aloud. And my mom keeps going "OH NO!"

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Alison Robin @alisonrobin.com · 1d

I think you're required to put them down. The flag is holstein patterned though, right? It would have to be.

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Alison Robin @alisonrobin.com · Sep 2

Devastated today to learn that the middling horror film "10,000 Creepy Crawlies" starring Clancy Brown as the boogeyman summoned by the protagonists to kill the titular monster invasion was actually something I dreamed about a decade ago and not a real movie when I tried to recommend it today

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Alison Robin @alisonrobin.com · Oct 28

You know my horror-loving ass would have been tuning in every week. More info in the quoted thread.

A digital drawing. Somewhere outside in a concrete structure, a girl dressed like a detective hides behind a pillar. In the background, a very sick looking person leans against another pillar. There is blood around the second person's feet and some entrails on the ground nearby. In the background there's water and some green hills. A pink floating robot accompanies the first girl. In the bottom right of the image it says "7PM MONDAYS WALDA" as if to advertise a television show called Walda

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Alison Robin @alisonrobin.com · 1d

There was also a radio play spin-off thing that was published on records where you could listen to dialog and stuff but it also did not involve the hole at all. But the album art had all the faces of the main actors. They also reprised all their roles for the reboot.

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Alison Robin @alisonrobin.com · 1d

The series was rebooted a few years later but the hole wasn't in it anymore. I saw people watching the new one and was like "oh I love this show, where's the hole?" and people didn't know what I was talking about. The reboot cut the entire thing with the hole out but reused 90% of the old jokes.

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Alison Robin @alisonrobin.com · 1d

I dreamed there was a four-seasons-long comedy sitcom about people who lived in a hotel and their hotel room had a mystery hole in the floor and anyone who fell down was gone forever. They could never get changed to a better room and were bothered by the hole, but it was irrelevant most episodes.

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Alison Robin @alisonrobin.com · 1d

Sometimes! It totally depends--Shakespeare didn't write very many stage instructions, so this is almost always up to the director. I've seen some Shakespeare stuff with cheap, almost empty sets and some with hyper-detailed ones. It's always fun to see what the director chooses.

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Alison Robin @alisonrobin.com · 1d

Oh yes!! And this was performed and recorded in Central Park, too iirc

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