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Alex Firer

@alexfirer.bsky.social

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Order the dang Doughboys comic at BeOurKids.com Writing Credits: Doughboys: The Comic Book, Rick and Morty for Oni Press, Diablo Comic, The Onion News Network, Bowieverse. These things are resumes sometimes, it's fine.

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Alex Firer @alexfirer.bsky.social · Sep 4

Doughboys Issue 2

It’s going to hit your mailboxes real real soon, or order it at BeOurKids.com. Art, as always, by @FredCStresing.bsky.social and color by @MegCasey.bsky.social

Here’s a preview link: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/v3s6j...

Tiger Wiger the So Cal Surfer Dude of Venice Beach. Wiger is surfing dead faced as people look on in awe.

Gabrus doing the power hour with Betsy Sodaro and a bunch of old times public domain comics characters. Popeye, Jeff of Mutt and Jeff, Mama Katzenjammer, Krazy Kat, Stardust.

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Vulture @vulture.com · 13h

Comedians like Aziz Ansari and Jessica Kirson need to look elsewhere for organizations to donate their Riyadh Comedy Festival money. Human Rights Watch said they ‘cannot accept’ donations from them.

Human Rights Watch Doesn’t Want Any Riyadh Comedy Festival Money

www.vulture.com

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Alex Firer @alexfirer.bsky.social · 15h

Vertigo was the coolest shit in comics and it looks like it will be again hell yeah.

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Ram V @therightram.bsky.social · 16h

Just announced at NYCC, my new book with the incredible Mike Perkins at DC Vertigo. Black Tower!

Spies, Spells, London, Magic and Espionage!

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Alex Firer @alexfirer.bsky.social · 22h

INT Coffee Shop - Day

Alex Firer enters. He's hot... but he doesn't know it.

Alex Firer @alexfirer.bsky.social · 22h

That's fine.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 22h

“Suspending who?” the president scrambled to respond when asked about “habeas corpus,” apparently mistaking the Latin phrase for a person.

trib.al/96CzEk0

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 23h

Whenever anyone says how much of the U.S. economy is tied to AI right now, I'm like...damn, what if a single rich person had any idea other than "try to zero out labor costs through theft."

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Alex Firer @alexfirer.bsky.social · 1d

Can you imagine if I created This is Fine dog? I'd give him a nice chin tho. The this fine dog mews.

Alex Firer @alexfirer.bsky.social · 1d

Batman should give his money to charity you’d love that comic right?

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Alex Firer @alexfirer.bsky.social · 1d

My favorite kind of post is writing about superheroes as if they’re real people instead of fake fiction things mean to be fun

Airship Chronos says TRANS RIGHTS @airshipchronos.bsky.social · 5d

No.

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Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 1d

It's truly brilliant how the American state is run by what I can only describe as a small group of child rapists doing everything in their power to dodge even theoretical accountability.

Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 1d

Adelita Grijalva won her election fair and square.

Now House Speaker Mike Johnson is refusing to swear her in because she would be the final signature to release the Epstein files.

Mr. Speaker, respect democracy. Obey the law. Swear Representative Grijalva in immediately.

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J. Effingham Booweather @jeffinghambellw.bsky.social · 1d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

Young and smoking hot Jack and Roz Kirby

#comics

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ben schwartz @benschwartz.bsky.social · 7d

My new piece, up now @thenation.com: "If only trans activists had known what size check to cut for Chappelle, they could have shut him up years ago and saved themselves all the picketing at Netflix." www.thenation.com/article/cult...

The Sad Spectacle of American Comedians Selling Out in Saudi Arabia

It turns out that edgy free-speech warriors will scuttle their principles for a check from a brutal autocratic regime.

www.thenation.com

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Alex Firer @alexfirer.bsky.social · 1d

I keep hearing AI defenders say it’s here to stay, never that it’s good. Just this is your new shitty roommate, so get used to it.

Listen, I have a Rick and Morty saga with a Bored Ape Club bit, this shit goes away.

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Alex Firer @alexfirer.bsky.social · 1d

My bitter worldview writ large. If I leave the readers with one message it's this.

Art: @fredcstresing.bsky.social
Colors: @megcasey.bsky.social

A Morty Earth speaks: You are here solely to die for our amusement, baby. The whole world is against you, you know? And I should know! That's me! I'm the world!

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Alex Firer @alexfirer.bsky.social · 1d

(Clears throat, ready to do a new character named "Jewish Rizzler")

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 12d

Lately I've been thinking of this as "platform logic" bc it's pretty much always got a platform

You aren't connected to a person or people. You're connected to the platform, which can facilitate specific types of interactions with people.

You don't have a dr, you have a care platform

J🎃ckie (possibly) @doesnotcare.lol · 13d

And! You have zero continuity of care. You see a different doc every time you go - there’s no ONE person looking at your chart to notice trends/patterns.

You get worse care - things get missed - you get *worse.*

Insurance company makes even *more* money.

It’s gross af.

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Alex Firer @alexfirer.bsky.social · 1d

My bitter worldview writ large. If I leave the readers with one message it's this.

Art: @fredcstresing.bsky.social
Colors: @megcasey.bsky.social

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Alex Firer @alexfirer.bsky.social · 1d

Typing "what does crime look like BIG crime" into Chat GPT

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Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 1d

this is how I, a resident of LA, found out that the Palisades fire was arson, that they caught the guy, and that he used gen AI to work his way up to doing the crime

niki grayson @nikigrayson.com · 1d

the city of los angeles burned in january in part because of a man who couldn’t stop generating images of burning cities on ChatGPT, and then after he lit the fire he asked if the fire he started was his fault

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 1d

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

Despite getting whatever anti-trans narrative they wanted out of the Charlie Kirk shooting, the American right is now blaming the Jews instead, because content must be created. It is almost like the "first they came for" thing is not hypothetical!

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

It's the golden rule of grievance politics: you will never be happy. You are a permanent captive to the infinity goalpost.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

genuinely think they are feeding him AI videos

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Alex Firer @alexfirer.bsky.social · 1d

I asked if @fredcstresing.bsky.social and I could appear in the book and promptly die as our goodbye to the audience. Lo and behold!

Fred Morty and Alex Morty excited to do the comic

Fred and Alex Morty being brutally killed by other Morty's.

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Alex Firer @alexfirer.bsky.social · 1d

I asked if @fredcstresing.bsky.social and I could appear in the book and promptly die as our goodbye to the audience. Lo and behold!

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