Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Ace Combs Art

@acecombsart.bsky.social

23K followers 23K following 2.1K posts

Steam-, Diesel-, and Atom-punk artist. Born Democratic💙. Proud father and partner to rabid left wing nut-jobs. A bookish pasty-faced stay-at-home. Retired, but still making art in wood, metal, and pixels.

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

Ace Combs Art @acecombsart.bsky.social · Nov 12

Please allow me to introduce myself...
I'm a former national union president (the Graphic Artists Guild, at the time affiliated with the UAW), a retired illustrator, and parent to two adult children, both of them creative as hell, with day jobs. Liberal. AF. I still art every day--some of my work:

62 82 640

Ace Combs Art @acecombsart.bsky.social · 37m

Back in the old metal type days, there was a phrase, "etaoin shrdlu" that sometimes appeared in newspaper. It came from Linotype operators running off a slug of type from the first two lines of the machine and appeared only by accident. I present the "etaoin shrdlu" of our new AI world (via Google).

Ace Combs Art @acecombsart.bsky.social · 11h

They other Rs are busy right now deleting shit. I’m sure there’s a lot of scrubbing going on in GOP chatrooms right now. We can assume that this is par for the course.

Ace Combs Art @acecombsart.bsky.social · 11h

“The evil that men do lives after them. The good is oft interred with their bones.“ Said a guy from Stratford-on-Avon over 400 years ago and it still holds true. Bards write the history that lasts.

Ace Combs Art @acecombsart.bsky.social · 15h

"You see these bums, you know, blowing up the campuses. Listen, the boys that are on the college campuses today are the luckiest people in the world, going to the greatest universities, and here they are burning up the books, storming around this issue. You name it." Not Trump. Nixon on Kent State.

Ace Combs Art @acecombsart.bsky.social · 15h

That and Neil Young's "Ohio".

Ace Combs Art @acecombsart.bsky.social · 16h

As someone with a vile mind, all you naifs out there who are saying this is as bad as it gets, let me assure it is not. I can imagine (because I can imagine some nasty shit) that other GOP factotums have said much worse in chats and just didn't get caught. Much, much fucking worse. End the GOP.

Ace Combs Art @acecombsart.bsky.social · 16h

Saw an ad for multivitamins for mature people. It said that it provided everything that people needed to enjoy life in their golden years. Looked up ingredients online. No timed-release OxyContin, no Zoloft, no amphetamine in it at all. Guess I need to file another "Truth in advertising" complaint.

1 1 4

Ace Combs Art @acecombsart.bsky.social · 16h

I guess they're all waiting for the Supreme Court to condone conversion therapy. I'll never understand why gay people support a party which seems to want to roll back all of the progress they've made since Stonewall. Or why Scott Bessent and Peter Thiel are enabling their own destruction.

1 1

Ace Combs Art @acecombsart.bsky.social · 20h

If you're wondering what these people look like since they deride people based on their appearance, here are the key players in the chats (from the politico article). The cream of the GOP crop.

1 1 2

Ace Combs Art @acecombsart.bsky.social · 1d

ICE has hired all the J6 offenders, domestic abuse convicts, military and police rejects, and internal affairs washouts available. Trump’s going to have to pardon some death row inmates and lifers to find people violent and stupid enough to satisfy his base.

Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 1d

more here: youtu.be/BIjw-vrte98?...

Masked ICE agents struggling to find violent criminals in spite of terrorizing cities like Chicago

YouTube video by MSNBC

youtu.be

Ace Combs Art @acecombsart.bsky.social · 1d

Read the bus, Stephen.

1 1

Ace Combs Art @acecombsart.bsky.social · 1d

It's worse than that, This is a discharge petition, which isn't even a vote to see the facts. It's a vote for having a vote on releasing the files. And Johnson is trying to avoid the discharge (double entendre intended).

Ace Combs Art @acecombsart.bsky.social · 1d

I think Meloni is trying to suppress laughter here. She looks like Bill Hader did when there was an especially spicy Stefon line.

Ace Combs Art @acecombsart.bsky.social · 1d

Today is a federal holiday which means government offices are closed today. Also tomorrow and for the foreseeable future. Unless you're in the House of Representatives, in which case you've already had most of August, September, and half of October off. It's like Ramadan, only longer and no fasting.

Anti-Fascist Collective… @wtafc.bsky.social · 1d

1 3 2

Ace Combs Art @acecombsart.bsky.social · 1d

Vance manages to insult Native Americans, Palestinians, Israelis, and Gaza hostages all in one tweet. Truly a unique skill-set.

1 1 7

Ace Combs Art @acecombsart.bsky.social · 1d

God didn't save his ankles. Those fuckers are gone forever, buried under swollen meat.

Ace Combs Art @acecombsart.bsky.social · 1d

This is the only superlative that Johnson could aim for in his tenure as House Speaker. He is in all other ways, including being a person, an abject failure and a blot on history.

Ace Combs Art @acecombsart.bsky.social · 1d

Happy "First Asian Crossing the Land Bridge Day", over 20000 years ago. Now that was someone of their time. When we don't view history through a Western lens, things come into better focus.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 2d

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.

Ace Combs Art @acecombsart.bsky.social · 2d

He's swimming in it.

Ace Combs Art @acecombsart.bsky.social · 2d

Putin keeps poking NATO in hopes that they might be willing to make concessions in Ukraine ceasefire or peace
negotiations (if they happen) to avoid war with Russia, which really isn't a threat. Because war has worked out SOOO well for Russia.

GSFxEdge🌻 @gsfxedge.bsky.social · 2d

Off the coast of France, the Russian diesel-electric submarine B-261 "Novorossiysk," carrier of Kalibr missiles, surfaced: reports indicate a serious malfunction

🇺🇳 A French Navy frigate has been dispatched to monitor it, and NATO has announced they will keep watch on the submarine

1 3

Ace Combs Art @acecombsart.bsky.social · 2d

When Bob was WA Attorney General he sued Trump's ass off every chance he got (probably why DJT wears diapers now). What did they think was going to happen?

CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 2d

🚨🚨🚨WA Governor Bob Ferguson responds to a letter he received from AG Pam Bondi in which she threatened to place him in jail. 🧯He is on fire! 1/2

Ace Combs Art @acecombsart.bsky.social · 2d

Future 3: You're busy, picking crops in work camp for 12 hours a day.

Excuse 4: It's not that bad.
Future 4: It's much, much fucking worse.

Excuse 5: There will be another protest soon.
Future 5: There won't be.

Excuse 6 : Live and let live.
Future 6: You're dead.

Don't be dead. Be there.

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

www.nokings.org

4 12

Ace Combs Art @acecombsart.bsky.social · 2d

No Kings: attendance isn't optional.

Excuse 1: Kid's soccer game
Future 1: You have to stand, right arm raised, singing the "Charlie Kirk Song" before every game.

Excuse 2: There might be violence
Future 2: Your partner is flung to the ground, cuffed and disappeared.

Excuse 3: I'm busy that day.⬇️

1 6 14

Ace Combs Art @acecombsart.bsky.social · 3d

Not only is RFK Jr. not a doctor, he's the antithesis of a doctor. He's an antidoc. If the doctor's creed is "First, do no harm", Kennedy's is "First do lots of harm, then try to justify it despite not knowing what he's talking about, then make up some proof".

Rosegarden54 @rosegarden54.bsky.social · 3d

Ace Combs Art @acecombsart.bsky.social · 3d

Bill "Bone saw" Burr doesn't see the problem in culture-washing a repressive murderous regime. He's probably trying out as a speechwriter for Trump's 3rd term, because his Saudi blood money won't last forever and he probably sawed his career into little tiny pieces and made it disappear.

Bill Burr calls critics of Riyadh comedy festival ‘sanctimonious’ and ‘phoney’

Comedian defends appearance at controversial comedy festival, saying: ‘It felt right afterward. I vibed with them’

www.theguardian.com

1 4