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Cartoonist. Contact: [email protected] stevethueson.com PINK HEART comics anthology and newsletter ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️ https://pink-heart.ghost.io/

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Steve Thueson @stevethueson.bsky.social · Aug 6

I started a print comics anthology/movie newsletter with my wife and cat! We’ll be posting movie reviews for free, and sending out comics in the mail to paid subscribers. Check it out????

Hello, this is Pink Heart.

Welcome to Pink Heart, a print-only comics anthology and an online newsletter about movies. It's both! Our online movie review content is free. Paid subscribers receive the Pink Heart anthology + eve...

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Steve Thueson @stevethueson.bsky.social · 1h

You can purchase a copy of The Night Never Ends from stevethueson.bigcartel.com

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 9h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Ralph Bakshi @ralphbakshi.bsky.social · 2h

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Steve Thueson @stevethueson.bsky.social · 3h

I can’t believe The Morning Show’s Joe Rogan analogue is literally named Bro

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 21h

There's no "regular politics" anymore because you can no longer maintain the idea that we all agree on common goals but we only differ about the means of getting there or whatever. The guys in charge now are plainly amoral, sadistic nihilists. They delight in it! You can't civilly disagree with that

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Steve Thueson @stevethueson.bsky.social · 19h

Is there any written history of the Tootsie Pop commercial?

Steve Thueson @stevethueson.bsky.social · 21h

Same

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Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · Sep 3

The Coca-Cola Freestyle machine is an echo chamber. Good luck finding nuanced debates about hot button issues on that touch screen. It’s just soda names and flavored syrups

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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 1d

excited to start drawing Nancy again, here’s a strip I drew in Paris last year

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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 1d

"Gay fascist out of his mind on speed who sees the Antichrist in a popular anime" is a character PTA rejected from One Battle After Another for being "too much."

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Steve Thueson @stevethueson.bsky.social · 1d

I, for one, feel secure in knowing this man controls the vice president

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Stephen R Bissette @stephenrbissette.bsky.social · 1d

S.R. BISSETTE'S TYRANT® print, artwork/collage by me, color & digital by Chuck Forsman.

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 1d

Mamdani promises to deploy *hundreds* if lawyers to fight for trans rights, create a new office of LGBTQ affairs, and allocate millions of dollars to fund housing and healthcare for trans kids and adults

This is what fighting back looks like--elevating activists to materually support trans people.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 2d

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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Steve Thueson @stevethueson.bsky.social · 1d

Tbh his Clint Eastwood impression is outstanding

Steve Thueson @stevethueson.bsky.social · 1d

In Jim Carrey’s American television debut on Johnny Carson he does an impression of E.T. The Extra Terrestrial. And when he says he’s going to do it you can hear a woman in the audience yell “yaaay! E.T.!!”

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Steve Thueson @stevethueson.bsky.social · 2d

Please pick up a copy of my children’s graphic novel Timothy Dinoman Saves The Cat

Steve Thueson @stevethueson.bsky.social · 2d

It rocks that every day is worse than the last and all our dreams are dead

Steve Thueson @stevethueson.bsky.social · 2d

Sorry for tumblr posting, but my tummy hurts

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 2d

Remember, this is how much it has cooked people’s brains after like one year. Think of what 10 years of this will do. Think of the brains of kids who will grow up not only unable to spot AI but unable to understand “real” and “AI generated” as two different concepts.

Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 2d

"even if it's AI, it's at least true" hard to overstate the damage this stuff is doing to people's brains. we're gonna be cleaning the slop out of archives for decades

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Steve Thueson @stevethueson.bsky.social · 2d

Sitting my cat down to show him scenes from Tron

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Black Agenda Report @blackagendareport.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks to @benpassmore.bsky.social for joining us on Black Agenda Report radio.

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Black Arms to Hold You Up: A History of Black Resistance | Black Agenda Report

Ben Passmore is the author of the newly published graphic novel: “Black Arms to Hold You Up: A History of Black Resistance,” published by Pantheon Publishing. Ben Passmore is an award-winning politica...

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Brian Box Brown @boxbrown.bsky.social · 3d

AI ART’s pitch is like “what if you never had to have sex again??”

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Steve Thueson @stevethueson.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah 😔

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Steve Thueson @stevethueson.bsky.social · 3d

I’m gonna smash my head through a wall

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Steve Thueson @stevethueson.bsky.social · 3d

lol Jesus Christ

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 3d

a lot of people are finally waking up to the importance of the 3rd amendment. As a 3A absolutist, i think it should be illegal for soldiers to be quartered anywhere in this country. they should be camping under the open sky at all times. all military bases and barracks are unconstitutional.

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