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Paul Tobin

@paultobin.bsky.social

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Multiple Eisner winning writer of Bandette, Bunny Mask, Plants vs. Zombies, the Versus book series, String, Heart Acres, the Mammoth, and more. You can find me at PaulTobin.net

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Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social · 25m

The traditional Stardust celebration? Yes.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5h

Nice recap

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Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social · 1h

Thanks!

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 9h

👇👇

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 5h

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 6h

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social · 3h

It's like "alternating head size" is one of his powers, yes.

Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social · 6h

Now that Duolingo has fired a lot of their human staff and gone in on AI, I often get "exercises" like this one, where I audibly hear the Italian word "camminiamo" (basically... "we walk") and then, using all that I've learned, I need to choose what I've just heard from all the available choices.

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Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social · 7h

I finished my write-up blog-gallery on Stardust the Super Wizard!
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Stardust the Super Wizard — Paul Tobin

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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 8h

No identification, no paper trails, no accountability

People lost and transferred all through the system.

None of these girls and women are protected from sexual violence from their policing abductors

Ever.

But especially as these men have wholly anonymized themselves.

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Tom Fowler @tomfowler.bsky.social · 7h

Perhaps my greatest work?

My version of the predator meme but with Kermit and Fozzy’s arms clasped.

“Fozzy, you son of a bitch!”

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Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social · 7h

I've known the works of Frederic Remington my entire life but I never knew the man's middle name was... Sackrider.

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Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social · 9h

Help me I can't stop saying the author's name out loud in the "Bond, James Bond" arched eyebrow style.

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Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social · 9h

it me

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 11h

“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

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Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social · 9h

There are a lot of things I enjoy about working on a second draft, but keeping track of all the facts I established when I was free-stylin' my ass through the first draft is not one of them.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 17h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social · 15h

King Kong alone in his jungle, completely unbothered by the modern world, rolling up a third fat blunt.

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Thomas N. Perkins IV @tnperkins4.bsky.social · 1d

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CalyxWorks @calyxworks.com · 1d

Turns out we are ALL #PortlandFrog!

Shirts, hoodies and mugs now available.

Profits to Portland Immigrant Rights Coalition. ✊

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Portland Frog Little Beirut » Calyx Design

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 1d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Mollie Katzen @molliekatzen.bsky.social · 1d

"President Trump continued to describe Portland as a city on fire Friday even as residents enjoyed the first fall rain and the lone demonstrator at the city’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement building was dressed as a pink Care Bear."

Sometimes there is a good sentence or two in the NYT.

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Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social · 1d

Good storytelling.

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Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social · 1d

Just found out today is Friday.

(thought it was Saturday)

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Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social · 2d

Wail Of The Lonely Wench is my favorite Hardy Boys adventure.

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Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social · 2d

Calm night, getting a little more work done, listening to Willie and Orville.
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Orville Peck & Willie Nelson - Cowboys Are Frequently Secretly Fond Of Each Other (Official Video)

YouTube video by Orville Peck

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