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Magna Tolvan

@magnatolvan.bsky.social

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The “official” Bluesky account of Magna Tolvan from the Doctor Aphra comics 🦾 • She/Her Cis • Anti-capitalist Anti-imperial • ACAB • FREE PALESTINE🔻• Abolish ICE • No gen AI • Communist ☭

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Magna Tolvan @magnatolvan.bsky.social · Mar 25

MFW I #MagnaTolvan get a HoloCall from #DoctorAphra and I *think* it’s going to be about meeting up today, the 10th anniversary of Chelli’s 1st appearance!

But then it turns out to be #Aphra asking me to rescue her — AGAIN. Sloppy!

Happy birthday, Doctor Aphra! 🎂

Alt-text 2: Me on a Zoom Call, mouth open almost yelling, gah! Am wearing a burgundy mock turtleneck longsleeve, leaf earrings and airpods. Karl Marx looks on sagely from a picture on the wall behind me, and there is a bookshelf to my left

Alt-text 3: Me on a Zoom Call looking straight ahead gesturing out AT YOU. Am wearing a burgundy mock turtleneck longsleeve, leaf earrings — which in this shot look like the tail of mullet behind me — and airpods. Karl Marx looks on sagely from a picture on the wall behind me, and there is a bookshelf next to me

Alt-text 4: Me on a Zoom Call looking out AT YOU, all Popeye-eyed, gritting my teeth. IIRC, I was saying something like OH COME ON FOR REAL before grimacing. Am holding my hands out to the side for emphasis. This feels very New York to me tbh lol. Am wearing a burgundy mock turtleneck longsleeve, leaf earrings — which in this shot look like the tail of mullet behind me — and airpods. Karl Marx looks on sagely from a picture on the wall behind me, and there is a bookshelf next to me

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 6h

Chicago

sevedge @sevedge.bsky.social · 13h

photo of a Do Not Enter traffic sign on a Chicago street, but someone has altered it to say Do Not -Let ICE- Enter

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Magna Tolvan @magnatolvan.bsky.social · 11h

Ooo ye olde yardde saele finds! Good inspiration

Magna Tolvan @magnatolvan.bsky.social · 14h

Excellent work. Really captures medieval high fantasy energy. Love this DnD illuminated manuscript!

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Magna Tolvan @magnatolvan.bsky.social · 18h

Thank you! Just doing my duty 🫡

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

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

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

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/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Curb Your Malthusiasm 2.0 @manucleardevice.bsky.social · 1d

My senator (Durbin) literally said he would not do anything about the ICE Agents in Chicago attacking his constituents! I’ve been talking to parents all morning setting up protective lines at school today and my own fucking senator can’t be bothered!

cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 1d

"well what are the Democrats supposed to do" I don't know! They're supposed to know! I'm not the one who sought and obtained a political position that would require me to know what to do when the ruling party attempts to install the President as a dictator!

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 1d

Can we please stop pretending that any judges’ orders are going to do shit about fuck when it comes to ICE?

They’re already violating every amendment and law that they can get their hands on.

Chicago TV journalist pushed to ground and arrested during Ice raid

Witnesses call arrest of video editor Debbie Brockman, a US citizen, by masked federal agents, ‘absolutely horrifying’

www.theguardian.com

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 1d

She's a U.S. sponsored opposition candidate and the daughter of a steel oligarch. Machado champions the privatization of Venezuela's oil, power, and steel industries.

Connie Schultz @connieschultz.bsky.social · 1d

New York Times:

“Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado awarded Nobel Peace Prize for “her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela & for her struggle to achieve a just & peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.”

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

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Magna Tolvan @magnatolvan.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you and exactly! Fuck that noise 🚫

Magna Tolvan @magnatolvan.bsky.social · 1d

In my assessment (which I sent w photos), I wrote:

"Clean print w no video/audio issues otherwise BUT this looks like some AI-upscaling bullshit. The AI doesn't know how to interpret face details and characters in wide shots become malformed/distorted... this looks bad and people will know it"

Magna Tolvan @magnatolvan.bsky.social · 1d

After I left for the day, a coworker texted me and told me that my other coworker said they'd "never seen someone say 'bullshit' in a professional email before" lol

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Magna Tolvan @magnatolvan.bsky.social · 1d

Fought the good fight in the war against AI today at work!

A distributor sent us test files for 4 cartoons that had been AI-upscaled/upconverted. They looked like shit & I told them so. The AI didn't know how to interpret faces in wide shots & turned everyone's face into noticeably distorted blobs!

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Magna Tolvan @magnatolvan.bsky.social · 1d

True! I liked her character, despite the whole, you know, betrayal thing

Magna Tolvan @magnatolvan.bsky.social · 1d

LOVE the dynamic, air-drop action-pose for the helicopter character here!

Magna Tolvan @magnatolvan.bsky.social · 1d

Love all these Underworld character cameos

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Magna Tolvan @magnatolvan.bsky.social · 2d

😓😓

Magna Tolvan @magnatolvan.bsky.social · 2d

OMG sloppy! How could I forget this one, which immediately vaults into my top 5 faves:

-Cowboy Bebop ("Tank!")

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Kyle @ohiojedi89.bsky.social · 3d

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”
(Understatement of the century)

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Magna Tolvan @magnatolvan.bsky.social · 2d

YES! Slomo too. Didn’t realize they had made toys, esp for such a short-lived show. Lucky you!

Am lucky enough to get to work on (what I believe is) the entire slate of Gerry Anderson marionette programs at the office

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Magna Tolvan @magnatolvan.bsky.social · 2d

Heck yeah! It’s such a banger. To open, and what a way to close after any given episode’s cliffhanger ending 🤘🏼

Magna Tolvan @magnatolvan.bsky.social · 2d

*high-fives you through the internet*

Magna Tolvan @magnatolvan.bsky.social · 2d

Thank the Maker for BBC reruns! (I also had a huge crush on Simone Bendix as Officer Castle 😍)

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Magna Tolvan @magnatolvan.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you, thank you! Just doing my duty 🎶🫡

Magna Tolvan @magnatolvan.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you! 📺🔊🤘🏼

Magna Tolvan @magnatolvan.bsky.social · 2d

Forgot to mention!

-Taxi
-Batman TAS

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