Mark Smylie
@marksmylie.bsky.social
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Occasional illustrator, writer, and TTRPG game designer, former comics publisher (founder of Archaia once upon a time) and editor. Feeder of cats, birds, deer, possums, raccoons, and foxes. Not necessarily in that order.
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marksmylie.bsky.social
Having to rewrite this pin for 2025 because I'm now off FB.

WIP on my Patreon: www.patreon.com/c/marksmylie

A dusty website that I swear I will update one day: swordandbarrow.com/wp/

Stuff for sale (some of it also on Amazon but I won't link there): www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher...

Thanks!
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navmecheng.bsky.social
> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis
Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.
marksmylie.bsky.social
A great listen on asset capitalism and its connections to neoliberalism and both MAGA elites and the MAGA base. Reminded me of @patrickwyman.bsky.social's analysis on the landed gentry that holds local power in much of America, with the sharp analytical/historical edge that the Dig usually brings.
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deevelliott.bsky.social
We have a DATE!

And the CLOCK is TICKING...

#A1deadline #Comics #Kickstarter
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pghguy.bsky.social
this is what it takes. we're here now folks, there is not a "if the nazis came" it's "they're here and your mettle will be tested now"
marksmylie.bsky.social
I suppose you could hope someone is trying to play n-dimensional chess and this is a ploy to drive a wedge between Trump and the anti-Maduro crowd and off-ramp an American regime change operation
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ddbtorres.bsky.social
the queen's mirror, 2025
graphite and digital color

#art #illustration
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marksmylie.bsky.social
My pleasure, Russel! And looking forward to more!
marksmylie.bsky.social
Here's a look at the wrap cover for @russelfrans.bsky.social 's second book, HISTORY AND FATES. This was a fun one to do!
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marydudziak.bsky.social
Thread.
tedmccormick.bsky.social
A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.
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mark-bray.bsky.social
“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’
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scumbelievable.bsky.social
I don't like him personally, but David Simon on AI is the final word on the subject.
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ddbtorres.bsky.social
mother Goethel, 2025

-{ #art | #illustration | #fantasy }-
An illustration of mother Goethel, the witch from Rapunzel. She stands in the center, surrounded by thorny bushes and between two crooked trees, holding a baby wrapped in luminous white cloth and her eyes glowing a malicious golden color. In the foreground we see rampions growing from golden vines which intertwine like braids; in the background, in the distance and in the middle of a forest, we see a lone tower
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fireh9lly.bsky.social
This combined with Bloomberg posting this terrifying graph convinced me to withdraw all the money in my stocks and shares ISA. I'm giving it a few months
marksmylie.bsky.social
With a young Dennis Hopper no less, IIRC
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jasonsanford.bsky.social
Really bad news for authors, libraries and book lovers.
cyberpunklibrarian.bsky.social
Baker & Taylor appears to be shutting down. A post on the r/libraries subreddit from an employee of B&T breaks the news and there appear to be other employees in the comments confirming the situation.
From the Libraries community on Reddit
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marksmylie.bsky.social
Did you include alt-text as Link did? If I were to hazard a guess it’s that Bluesky’s moderation is based on AI-driven text analysis. They can’t analyze images so they need the alt-text to help them flag something. Hence also the vaguely astroturfy alt-text campaign to get us all to do it.
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thorbenson.bsky.social
Don't let JD Vance see what Curtis Yarvin posted today
Excerpt from Curtis Yarvin's substack that says the Trump administration is failing
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brandonfriedman.bsky.social
Judge Diane Goodstein crossed the Trump administration last month. Yesterday, her home burned, her husband was injured and it's being investigated for arson.

www.postandcourier.com/news/crime/s...
Judge blocks South Carolina from giving DOJ millions of voters' data
Sep. 3, 2025 Judge's house on fire
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voxparlour.bsky.social
Taylor Swift announces next album title: The Queen in Yellow. She told Variety: "A few years back I came across this amazing play and I was so inspired. It's been living in my head for years. I even dream of it, of the city in the play."