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Robin Brooks @assumptionprime.bsky.social · 1h

Welp, I've officially sold out of Basically How It Happened!

Thanks to everyone who's grabbed a copy! I've placed a new print order and will update when I've restocked

This has been a wonderful contrast to when I made a print for XP Boost and sold a grand total of two (2), one of them to my sister

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michele abounader @cerealpancake.bsky.social · 2h

WITCHING SEASON is live now on kickstarter!

A 150+ page horror comic anthology from me and Lifeline Comics. Excited for everyone to see what we've been building for most of this year🩸🌙

Cover A by @skyepatridge.bsky.social

More info here:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/phi...

Witching Season cover A by Skylar Patridge

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Zoe TunnHELL @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 1h

The amount of talent in this thing is genuinely absurd and Michele has been busting ass making sure it is all as creepy and witchy as you could possibly want, BACK IT

michele abounader @cerealpancake.bsky.social · 2h

WITCHING SEASON is live now on kickstarter!

A 150+ page horror comic anthology from me and Lifeline Comics. Excited for everyone to see what we've been building for most of this year🩸🌙

Cover A by @skyepatridge.bsky.social

More info here:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/phi...

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Kassandra Jo Tomaras @raconteuse.bsky.social · 17h

When a trans woman dies of natural causes, at an age greater than 75, having lived more than half her life as herself, that is cause for celebration, not mourning.

Thank you, Miss Major.

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Kendra, regular version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 18h

You can't logic your way out of being burnt out. Unless you're me. Who should be able to do it and it's a personal failing that I can't

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 16h

Absolutely gutted by this. She was at Stonewall and represented the best of that generation. The only solace I have is that she lived such a long life and got to see herself become a living legend when so many of our trans sisters don't. Rest in power.

Alt text:
Screenshot of a social media post featuring a long written tribute. The post shares the passing of a beloved community leader and activist, honoring their lifelong work in advocacy, justice, and support for marginalized communities. The text reflects on their legacy, activism, compassion, and impact on many lives, especially within Black and transgender communities. Engagement icons and timestamps are visible at the top and bottom of the post.

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Robin Brooks @assumptionprime.bsky.social · 2h

Over here weighing whether I should try and get surgery overseas because there's literally techniques for designer vaginas that we don't have in the US

And despite not being part of those countries' government healthcare programs, it STILL might be cheaper

What the FUCK is she talking about?

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 13h

The Regime's goal is to grind everyone down. Plain & simple. Our goal is to refuse this by taking turns to fight where and how we can. When one group needs to bow out, then another group needs to step in and so on. We don't all have to do everything. We can all do something though. Stay in the fight

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 23h

Honestly, it needs to go further than this.

We need to confront the fact that democracy and wealth hoarding cannot coexist. Allowing people to amass the resources of a small state/country allows them to act as such, which is inimical to a shared society of “one person, one vote.”

John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 1d

“No Kings” is great , but we really don't get a functioning democracy back until we internalize, bone deep, the instinctive response to this and every other statement like it: “I don’t care what that rich guy thinks.”

Make it your morning affirmation. Say it ten times at the top of every hour.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 1d

Elon Musk calls for US troops to be sent to San Francisco for war on drugs: ‘It’s the only solution’

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 1d

what did she call us | patreon.com/lubchansky

PANEL 1: MATTIE and one other person are handcuffed on a platform over a big cylindrical vat full of glowing liquid. Behind them, TWO ARMED TROOPERS stand. One is shouting, next to a big lever.
TROOPER: You have all been charged with sexual deviance under the new statutes!
TROOPER: You are hereby sentenced…

PANEL 2: Closer in on MATTIE and the person next to her.
TROOPER (VO): …To being dropped into a big vat of acid, thus dissolving your perverted bodies!
MATTIE: I sure did prefer life before we were overrun by fascist stormtroopers.

PANEL 3: The TROOPERS look at each other.
TROOPER 2: Sorry…What did she-he call us?
TROOPER 1: NOT Cool…

PANEL 4: The other TROOPER from panel 3. He's crying, and pulls the lever. Some acid splashes into the frame.
TROOPER: STOP BULLYING ME!
SFX: CLUNK
SFX: SPLASH

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 1d

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

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Melo @letitmelo.bsky.social · 1d

Oh sure, actual sex pest Jared Leto gets to roll up to work and force everyone to call him by a different name, but the second someone gives their pronouns...

Lady Emily ☄️ @ladyemily.nebula.tv · 1d

Finding out that Jared Leto kept doing his method acting shit and insisted on staying in character on the set of Tron Ares and would only answer to the name of Ares is so funny, like making a big ass douche of yourself for the third Tron movie where you play “computer program that gains feelings”

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Robin Brooks @assumptionprime.bsky.social · 1d

I remember people complaining about 11.0.5, and I just didn't get it? We got Stellagosa and Valtrois? It was a perfect patch???

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Genie Lauren @moreandagain.social · 1d

OpenAI is fucking disgusting and so are the people who use it

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

ai is a fascist tool. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Ilyasah Shabazz didn’t want to look at the AI-generated videos of her father, Malcolm X. The seemingly realistic clips — made by OpenAI’s new video-maker Sora 2 — show the legendary civil rights activist making crude jokes, wrestling with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and talking about defecating on himself.

“It is deeply disrespectful and hurtful to see my father’s image used in such a cavalier and insensitive manner when he dedicated his life to truth,” Shabazz, whose father was assassinated in front of her in 1965 when she was 2, told The Washington Post. She questioned why the developers were not acting “with the same morality, conscience, and care … that they’d want for their own families.”

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Chloé Stawski (Spooky Edition 🎃🦇) @chlowski.bsky.social · 2d

I'm sorry but I can't stop laughing, these dudes can't even function properly if a game doesn't give them an instant boner

Ana Valens | 🔞 | Comms Open @acvalens.net · 4d

Gamers’ brains are so cooked dude. The woman on the right is gorgeous and beautiful. Straight gamer men literally can’t find normal women attractive anymore.

Designed With
Gamers In Mind Designed With
Activists In Mind

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 2d

This. This exactly.

A lack of interest in prioritizing goonerbait characters is (correctly) interpreted as an acknowledgement of the widening of the audience for video games, and "gamers" don't want anyone else's wants or desires to matter. Only their own.

Lucky_Bun @luckybun.bsky.social · 2d

This isn't about porn or gooner brain or whatever, it's not even about looks, this is about power. They don't want to see beautiful women, they want all women in media to be nothing but objects for the pleasure of (white) men.

Ana Valens | 🔞 | Comms Open @acvalens.net · 4d

Gamers’ brains are so cooked dude. The woman on the right is gorgeous and beautiful. Straight gamer men literally can’t find normal women attractive anymore.

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M. Belanger @sethanikeem.bsky.social · 2d

Because it needs to be said:

The Salvation Army does not exist to save you

The Salvation Army exists to convert you

And if they cannot convert you, they will not lift a finger to save you

Do not support those whose “charity“ comes with conditions

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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michiums @ deadlines @michiums.bsky.social · 3d

this old piece went viral on tumblr back in 2023 so here it is again since I don’t think I posted it here before !

A dreamy purple, pink, green and blue sky with a bunch of little ghosts and text in white that reads “your trans dreams,love,rage,existence are enough”

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LetUsAllExist (🥬🥬🥬🥬🥬🥬🥬🥬🥬🥬🥬🥬🥬🥬🥬🥬🥬🥬🥬🥬🥬🥬🎈🥬) @letusallexist.bsky.social · 3d

Here's my updated script (refined through calling a few times,) to tidy things up for time, and specifically apply to both of them.

Call daily if possible!

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 3d

Abolish ICE.

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 3d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 3d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 3d

#SaveSpeech

KOSA has amassed more cosponsors recently, jumping from 42 to 60 total

You need to call your reps and DEMAND that they oppose this legislation ASAP

The link below contains more info about KOSA and an easy way to contact your reps
5calls.org/issue/kids-o...

Please call DAILY

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Sam Benc 🐟 @nonvieta.bsky.social · 4d

People who think the idea of "give me ideas" is something genuinely creative people want have literally never experienced the absolute EUPHORIA of a brainstorming breakthrough, either solo or with a human collaborator. They don't understand what is happening when artists create, on a basic level.

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 5d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Dezblade 🏳️‍⚧️ 🔜MFF25 @dezblade.bsky.social · 4d

If you haven’t checked out Robin’s modern day ish fantasy webcomic it’s got lots LGBTQ+ themes (some pages have some warnings) but it’s very well thought out and funny as hell.

PLEASE READ PLEASE

Robin Brooks @assumptionprime.bsky.social · 4d

Spell X Sword Update! Page 54: spellxsword.com/comic/chapte...

helpfully expositing

Dani and Mira sitting across a table from each other, both wide eyed and embarrassed.

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Errol 🦇 🏳️‍🌈 @eerieseymour.bsky.social · 5d

The Orphan Crusher is here to stay. If we don’t feed more Orphans to the Crusher the Orphan Crushing industry will die. It’s time to wake up to the reality of the Orphan Crusher. The Orphan Crusher is worth billions. We need to teach people to use the Orphan Crusher. It’s here to stay.

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Errol 🦇 🏳️‍🌈 @eerieseymour.bsky.social · 5d

“Maybe we don’t need to crush orphans” you FOOL. You absolute LUDDITE. Don’t you know the Orphan Crusher is here to stay?

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