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Gary Frank @1moregaryfrank.bsky.social · 2h

Thank you. I'm glad you liked it.

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Lee Ferguson (MALICENT BLACK is live on Kickstarter NOW!) @leeferguson.bsky.social · 1d

We’re still at it! Only $899 away from our goal :)

Lee Ferguson (MALICENT BLACK is live on Kickstarter NOW!) @leeferguson.bsky.social · 3d

I know with Portland burning to the ground daily 🙄 and all of the news that’s going to be coming from NYCC over the next few days, it’s going to be easy to get lost in all the noise…

But my son and I have a campaign going for our comic on Kickstarter right now…

www.kickstarter.com/projects/211...

MALICENT BLACK: MUNDICIDE

MALICENT BLACK RETURNS! Not long after the events of the previous issue, Mal finds herself on a sentient planet...

www.kickstarter.com

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Gary Frank @1moregaryfrank.bsky.social · 8h

The Kremlin's beloved talking head shares some of his strategic thinking/psychotic masturbatory fantasy in case anyone was forgetting who are the good guys and who are the bad guys.

Julia Davis @juliadavisnews.bsky.social · 20h

Meanwhile in Russia: frustrated by the creeping speed of Putin's invasion, state TV host Vladimir Solovyov provides his advice to the troops on how to speed up their advancement, and proposes various terrorist attacks and sabotage against Europe & the US.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ghan...

Vladimir Solovyov tells the Russian military how to advance faster and how to punish the West

YouTube video by Russian Media Monitor

www.youtube.com

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 21h

A 15 year old boy with autism went missing earlier this week

He was selling fruit with his family in Springbranch when he disappeared

They filed a missing person’s report & begged the public to help find him

Turns out he was in a Houston ICE detention facility

They kidnapped a disabled child!

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 12h

9-yr-old Ukrainian Sasha Paskal has won gold&bronze medals at the All-Ukrainian Rhythmic Gymnastics Competition "Black Sea Cup"

In the summer of 2022she was seriously injured by a Russian strike and underwent a leg amputation

Sasha didn’t give up.She went through rehabilitation
📹bokareva.solovey.m

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Gary Frank @1moregaryfrank.bsky.social · 12h

Thanks. Then Geiger awaits you if you haven't tried it already!😉

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Lee Ferguson (MALICENT BLACK is live on Kickstarter NOW!) @leeferguson.bsky.social · 3d

@1moregaryfrank.bsky.social did this variant cover for the new MALICENT BLACK: MUNDICIDE campaign @drewmferguson.bsky.social and I are running RIGHT NOW on Kickstarter…

That Gary … he’s something, eh? 😈🖤

www.kickstarter.com/projects/211...

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 4d

I'm not an economist but seems worrying that the whole US economy is seven companies in a trenchcoat, passing the same $20 up and down

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Gary Frank @1moregaryfrank.bsky.social · 9d

No, I'm afraid not.

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Gary Frank @1moregaryfrank.bsky.social · 10d

Smells a bit Musky, doesn't it?

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Gary Frank @1moregaryfrank.bsky.social · 12d

And those who did not choose to "return to Russia" were given the options to either flee, be tortured and murdered or shut the fuck up and pretend".

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Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · 12d

Ridiculous and appalling that Open Ai, amongst other GenAi companies, think they can dictate how THEY use OUR works.

No, Open Ai, it should not be authors and copyright holders opting out of your exploitative models. It should be you, Open Ai, asking authors and copyright holders to opt IN.

OpenAI's new Sora video generator to require copyright holders to opt out, WSJ reports

OpenAI is planning to release a new version of its Sora video generator that creates videos featuring copyrighted material, unless copyright holders opt out of having their work appear, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter.

www.reuters.com

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 12d

I’m opening a movie theater in which I show recently released films that I ripped from the internet but the studios are welcome to opt out if they wish.

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 13d

Exclusive: OpenAI is planning to release a new version of its Sora video generator, which creates videos featuring copyrighted material unless copyright holders opt out of having their work appear.

OpenAI’s New Sora Video Generator to Require Copyright Holders to Opt Out

Executives at the startup notified talent agencies and studios over the last week.

on.wsj.com

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Lee Ferguson (MALICENT BLACK is live on Kickstarter NOW!) @leeferguson.bsky.social · 16d

Just sharing this around again … our next campaign launches soon, and we’ll have some limited original art tiers and other cool things, so if you wanna be notified when we go live…

Lee Ferguson (MALICENT BLACK is live on Kickstarter NOW!) @leeferguson.bsky.social · 17d

The prelaunch page for our upcoming Kickstarter for the second issue of MALICENT BLACK is now live!

Come sign up to be notified of the launch, and please share this link with friends who are into sci-fi horror and planets where it rains blood. 😈

www.kickstarter.com/projects/211...

Coming soon: MALICENT BLACK: MUNDICIDE

MALICENT BLACK RETURNS! Not long after the events of the previous issue, Mal finds herself on a sentient planet...

www.kickstarter.com

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Gary Frank @1moregaryfrank.bsky.social · 15d

Right now, Freddy Church should be starting ahead of Salah

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Gary Frank @1moregaryfrank.bsky.social · 15d

Someone needs to say it... Mo isn't meriting an automatic full 90 and hasn't for a while.

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Gary Frank @1moregaryfrank.bsky.social · 16d

I want them to cut taxes but spend more on health, education etc. Plus, I want my wages to go up and inflation to come down.
Also, I want cheese that reduces my cholesterol....

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 18d

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

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Gary Frank @1moregaryfrank.bsky.social · 17d

He's one of the very best working in the industry today.

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Gary Frank @1moregaryfrank.bsky.social · 18d

The only "autism problem" is the one of how autistic people can be protected from dangerous, eugenics-curious grifters and fuckwits.

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 20d

Imagine both sidesing this

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Ellen Hopkins @ellenhopkins.bsky.social · 21d

If you're not totally aware of how bots try to sway minds, here's a good example.

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Hannah Pumpkins 🎃 🍂 @hannahposts.bsky.social · 23d

The idea that the combined MMR is dangerous but separately the vaccines are fine was created out of whole cloth by Andrew Wakefield, a disgraced former doctor who had a patent on a non-combined version of the MMR. We've known his research was bunk for almost 30 years.

Kristin, but Haunted @hrm-kristin-i.gay · 23d

We are ruled by malicious conspiracy theorists

CNN headline

BREAKING NEWS
CDC advisers vote to recommend against combined measles, mumps, rubella and chickenpox vaccine for young children

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Gary Frank @1moregaryfrank.bsky.social · 26d

I think that was Mark Buckingham but not 100% sure. I was a bit further North in Yate.

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Gary Frank @1moregaryfrank.bsky.social · 26d

Congrats. Looks amazing. Will watch!!!

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