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(mmmm)Mike McGhee(eee)

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Comicker in Seattle. He/They Illustration, character design, etc. Poking at gamedev? Open for freelance, commissions closed atm Buy me a coffee? Buy my stuff: https://ko-fi.com/mmmmmike/shop mmmmmike.com | plasticsoulsstudios.com

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(mmmm)Mike McGhee(eee) @plasticsouls.bsky.social · Jan 14

Happy #portfolioday ! I figure 2 posts this round makes sense.

1) a general smattering with some fanart...

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 6h

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 1d

Nobody wants it as a story but I have multiple NYPD sources who voted for Mamdani, are eager for his win in November, and who say their colleagues quietly feel the same.

They like that he wants NYPD to focus on crime, not quality of life enforcement.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 3h

It infuriates me that as human-made porn is being increasingly censored across the board, AI porn is not only allowed, but celebrated. And AI porn exists because of stolen content from non-consenting, unpaid human pornographers. It's maddening.

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 4d

“I still can’t believe how unhinged the last update was. Not only the nudity but the motions, boobs bounces more realistically, it’s incredible.”

Elon Musk's xAI seems to have relaxed filters on Grok's video generation, allowing users to create and share explicit AI pornography.

Musk's AI Is Being Used to Make Hardcore Porn: 'Grok Is Learning Genitalia Really Fast!'

bit.ly

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(mmmm)Mike McGhee(eee) @plasticsouls.bsky.social · 2h

It's happening..!!!

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Proud to be the 2,857th 😎 on @BackerKit for MILESHIPS - A Narrative Art Book by Ian McQue..

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Andy Oliver @andywpoliver.bsky.social · 2h

I had never heard of 1940s Marvel comic WACKY DUCK before today but now I demand they uncancel the Masterworks line so we can have a collection. That cover to #4 below is amazing! Sadly no record of who drew these on the GCD.

The cover of Marvel Comics Wacky Duck #4.

The cover of Marvel Comics' Wacky Duck #5.

The cover of Marvel Comics' Wacky Duck #6.

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Spoopy Larsen @larsenproject.bsky.social · 17d

I'm a Larsen and I make pictures.
Website (Portfolio|Store|Blog): thelarsenproject.com
Patreon: www.patreon.com/c/larsenproj...
Newsletter: thelarsenproject.eo.page/dank
My Comic Series: christinelarsenillustration.com/comics-1

Pinning this. Find me off SM.

The well, in which a character is devoured by a bowl of water. This whole comic is a metaphor for being sucked into social media. Which is a thing I am constantly struggling against. But I’m gonna tey and swear it off again unless it is PURELY for self promo, so find me off sm…

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Bengal @bengalart.bsky.social · 1d

I'll be the artist on the new #AbsoluteCatwoman series!
Imagine that! 😊 Che will be the author of the script!
I've been in touch with Scott for over a decade, we were hoping to work together someday, and this is it!
EXCITING!

AIPT @aiptcomics.com · 3d

Just announced, Absolute Catwoman! From Che Grayson, @ssnyder1835.bsky.social, and Bengal
#NYCC #NYCC2025 #Batman

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Eniko Fox @enikofox.com · 1d

remember this for every AI headline you read

but also keep this one in mind, too

The metaverse economy offers the potential of a wide range of revenue streams, with some estimates predicting it could become an $800 billion-dollar market in just two years and that it could contribute $3 trillion dollars to the global economy in the next decade.

Euronews, August 17, 2022 https://www.euronews.com/business/2022/08/17/new-virtual-economy-what-does-the-rise-of-the-metaverse-mean

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Mx. Moz @mleelunsford.com · 1d

I've made this scale to help people out during this holiday season

a scale of Dracula to Not Dracula going from right to left: Dracula (Dracula), Count Orlok (Legally Distinct Dracula), Drake from Blade Trinity (Might Be Dracula), Vlad the Poker (Probably Not Dracula, and Morbius (Not Dracula)

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Thomas N. Perkins IV @tnperkins4.bsky.social · 19d

Tokusatsu Ethics a la Kamen Rider Build...

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Thomas N. Perkins IV @tnperkins4.bsky.social · 3d

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Thomas N. Perkins IV @tnperkins4.bsky.social · 3d

Portfolio #Flashback:
Developing The #Antimonitor for #GLTAS
As a kid, I really dug all the multiverse shaking drama of The Crisis On Infinite Earths quite a lot. I was then super stoked when I got to do the redesign for the cosmic villain. #thomasperkins #characterdesigner #greenlantern

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(mmmm)Mike McGhee(eee) @plasticsouls.bsky.social · 3d

Option rights and a higher royalty rate in lieu of ownership? I can't imagine warner disco even going that far

But what does 'alt' even mean anymore?

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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 4d

habeas corpus is the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa

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Ryan Barr @artbyrbarr.bsky.social · 4d

Such a beautiful man.

samuel @quilombo.bsky.social · 4d

This from @realgdt.bsky.social talking about 'Frankenstein' is so good.

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 5d

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 5d

It took me a second to figure out the person on trial is the victim of the shooting and not the ice agent who shot somebody

David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 6d

It's not looking good for DHS's account of yet another shooting theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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G! (spoopy edition) @gpike.bsky.social · 5d

Omfg

priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 6d

have been desperately looking for this old erotic Spanish comic I stumbled on almost 10 years ago called "El secreto de Frankenstein" and I'm so happy to report I finally found it

black & white comic panel depicting a sexy, thicc Frankenstein's monster disrobing in 3 different poses - pulling his shirt of his shoulder, seen at an angle; from the front, shirtless, beginning to take his pants off; then almost totally nude as seen from behind. the words at the top read "Strip-tease de Frankenstein..."

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chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · 5d

to add: it speaks also to how the aesthetics of fascism are always stolen or appropriated. the swastika is from euroasian religions like hinduism or buddhism. the fedora was originally women's fashion. gAI being popular among fascists makes sense when its entire function is to steal aesthetics

chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · 5d

idk if it's overly reductive but I'm convinced fascism is born out of creative envy. every far right character is a failed or obsolete writer/comedian/actor/artist/etc

which is so annoying since these are losers who made their rainbow drawing not being good enough for the fridge society's problem

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Joan Zahra Dark 🔥 جون زهر درك @joandark.com · 6d

Before October 7th, it was August 5th 2022. Or May 2021, or March 2018, or December 2008, or June 2007. Or 1982, or 1967, or 1948.

Over 77 years of Palestinian exile, occupation, and suffering at Israel's hands. We need to be shutting everything down to fight, to give way to a truly free Palestine.

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Simon Roy @simonroy.bsky.social · 7d

I’m currently drawing the conclusion of this story (for next month), and undercutting my own nice flat color approach with a whole end sequence that requires much too much rendering. Gotta cut this masochistic behaviour out!

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Dr Artyom Trakhanov - SHARP EYE IS LIVE ON KICKSTARTER NOW @vor-bokor.bsky.social · 6d

Show this to your local village snake flag cretin to make them mad

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 6d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Seth Jacob @sethjacob.bsky.social · 6d

I’m not sure it’s possible that a social media company can ever be purely benign and benevolent…they are like casinos, designed to addict you and rob you of your time and energy. labyrinths of distraction with no windows or clocks. and no matter how many likes and RTs you get: the house ALWAYS wins.