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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 13h

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

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Graphic Policy @graphicpolicy.com · 11h

Chris Campana, Jeph Loeb, Brandon Peterson, Rob Retiano, Rafer Roberts, and Stephanie Williams are coming to Baltimore Comic Con 2025 #baltimorecomiccon #bcc2025

Chris Campana, Jeph Loeb, Brandon Peterson, Rob Retiano, Rafer Roberts, and Stephanie Williams are coming to Baltimore Comic Con 2025

Next week is the Baltimore Comic-Con on October 17-19, 2025 at the Inner Harbor's Baltimore Convention Center.

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Carla Speed McNeil @carlaspeedmcneil.bsky.social · 1d

Ahhhhh. It’s so good!

loaner of an only heart 🏳️‍⚧️ @notaname.bsky.social · 1d

the whole thing is here archive.org/details/xebp...

Great Performances - Much Ado About Nothing : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

For the first time in over four decades, Great Performances presents a Public Theater production recorded live at Free Shakespeare in the Park. After a highly...

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Carla Speed McNeil @carlaspeedmcneil.bsky.social · 1d

YESSSS thank you

loaner of an only heart 🏳️‍⚧️ @notaname.bsky.social · 1d

the whole thing is here archive.org/details/xebp...

Great Performances - Much Ado About Nothing : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

For the first time in over four decades, Great Performances presents a Public Theater production recorded live at Free Shakespeare in the Park. After a highly...

archive.org

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Carla Speed McNeil @carlaspeedmcneil.bsky.social · 1d

This is my dance about how much transphobes suck:

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Carla Speed McNeil @carlaspeedmcneil.bsky.social · 1d

Ohhh man, I want more more more! That is perfect.

chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · Jun 1

whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing

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Carla Speed McNeil @carlaspeedmcneil.bsky.social · 1d

Loooove this book! Highly textured folk horror.

Joroi: The Curse @joefriday37.bsky.social · 1d

One of my all time favourite comic book series. Just phenomenal writing and artistry.

Mr. Tyler Crook @mrtylercrook.bsky.social · 9d

This year marks 10 years of Harrow County! One of the best things I ever worked on and I'm super proud of what @cullenbunn.bsky.social and I were able to accomplish with this series along with the help of @danielchabon.bsky.social and dozens of other artists contributing along the way!

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Joroi: The Curse @joefriday37.bsky.social · 1d

One of my all time favourite comic book series. Just phenomenal writing and artistry.

Mr. Tyler Crook @mrtylercrook.bsky.social · 9d

This year marks 10 years of Harrow County! One of the best things I ever worked on and I'm super proud of what @cullenbunn.bsky.social and I were able to accomplish with this series along with the help of @danielchabon.bsky.social and dozens of other artists contributing along the way!

The creeping hand of the skinless boy reaches from a drawer is blowing eyes within.

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Carla Speed McNeil @carlaspeedmcneil.bsky.social · 1d

Oh for sure. And Melpomene.

Richard Howe @richardhowe.bsky.social · 1d

Clio.

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Carla Speed McNeil @carlaspeedmcneil.bsky.social · 2d

Tangipahoa, Ponchatoula, Bogalousa, Tchefuncte, Opelousas, New Orleans.

Actually that last one has multiple local pronunciations, I retract it and substitute Tchoupitoulas

Benny BKT1138 🎞️📸🎨 @bukket1138.bsky.social · 2d

Quincy, Worcester, Peabody, Leominster, Haverhill, Billerica

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 2d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Carla Speed McNeil @carlaspeedmcneil.bsky.social · 2d

A little touch of DPTSD (deadline post-traumatic disorder). It does kinda suck waiting for overheated machinery to wind down.

It’s nice to have a little money, though. Hope it lasts long enough for you to hit the sweet spot of “just enough rest.”

Art Of Coop @artofcoop.bsky.social · 2d

I've been so busy for the last couple of months, and now that I have a little down time, and some money in the bank, I still can't stop working, I feel antsy and guilty whenever I try to just not do anything, kinda aggravating

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Carla Speed McNeil @carlaspeedmcneil.bsky.social · 2d

Even the AI bullshit has never heard of it. Is Yuma that bad?

Paul "Princejvstin" Weimer📷🚀 🚀 📸 @princejvstin.com · 2d

that is a weird one

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Carla Speed McNeil @carlaspeedmcneil.bsky.social · 2d

The Louisiana/Gulf Coast and Chesapeake Bay parts are right.

Paul "Princejvstin" Weimer📷🚀 🚀 📸 @princejvstin.com · 2d

that is a weird one

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 3d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

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.

buff.ly

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Grave Boneyard @dconrad.bsky.social · 3d

I'm delighted to hear Dolly Parton is okay but now I'm reimagining this classic post only about Dolly Parton

Please stop praying for my grandpa u are making him too strong. He broke out of the hospital & cops say their tasers don't work on him :(

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 3d

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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 3d

It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 3d

i appreciate @meredithshiner.com’s wisdom, as well as her refusal to let the coons-valentine’s day story fade from public memory

It is certainly self-evident that Democrats do not care to "do democracy," but what I would argue is that speeches about democracy do not carry the weight of collective action in support of democracy. In 2024, President Joe Biden told us repeatedly that "democracy was on the line," and yet three years earlier, Senate Democrats prematurely ended the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump because top Biden ally.
Chris Coons of Delaware wanted to go home for Valentine's Day. Congressional Democrats, despite their supposed 2024 warnings that democracy was on the brink, almost all attended Donald Trump's inauguration in 2025 as if it were normal and acceptable, and Biden himself welcomed the Trumps back into the White House with open arms.

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Carla Speed McNeil @carlaspeedmcneil.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, it is interesting….

“Hellexico”??

Paul "Princejvstin" Weimer📷🚀 🚀 📸 @princejvstin.com · 3d

It's an interesting map.

William Hazen @williamhazen.bsky.social · 3d

This is the most accurate depiction of the Midwest to date. Wichita has always felt like the last Midwest city while also being the first plains city.

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Miles Grant @milesgrant.bsky.social · 3d

There are no national newspapers or broadcast networks doing straight journalism anymore

The Washington Post & CBS News are now pure billionaire propaganda, and everyone else is sliding down that path

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 3d

Last week, new WaPo opinion editor Adam O'Neal quietly carried out another purge of staffers, cutting editors and major names like Marc Fisher and David Hoffman, among others.

Meanwhile, he welcomed three conservatives to the section.

Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/washington...

Post Traumatic Disorder

Adam O’Neal says he’s bringing “intellectual diversity” to The Washington Post’s opinion pages—but the moves he’s making behind the scenes tell a different story.

www.status.news

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Dan Schkade @danschkade.bsky.social · 3d

All right, just turned in the last strips of my second year on FLASH GORDON. That's 730 installments in the bag -- appearing in a rough average of 1.5 panels per strip, I've drawn Flash about 1,095 times. Still takes me a couple tries to get his hair right. Tomorrow we start on year three ⚡

Flash Gordon and Prince Thun take on a squad of green-skinned Shark Men

And old man looks up at a mural of Flash Gordon crossing swords with Ming the Merciless.

Flash Gordon frees Edda from her locked helmet, and the mechanic can't help herself from laying a smooch on him.

Flash Gordon negotiates with Empress Aura. "Tch. Fine," she sneers, conciliating. "Savior of the Universe..."

He smiles back. "You love it."

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 3d

I'm not even trying to make light, this is horrific.

It's just... If you're shooting at Presbyterian USA ministers only 9 months into your modern presidency, something has gone sideways

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Carla Speed McNeil @carlaspeedmcneil.bsky.social · 3d

Frank, you whore, you’re distracting me

S E Case @secase.bsky.social · 3d

frank hates that you're making him do this

www.kickstarter.com/projects/iro...

Frank: (wearing a sleeveless crop top that says "support Rigsby on kickstarter") Look at this slutty shirt they're making me wear
Anna: Yikes

Frank: So demeaning
Anna: (bending over) Wait a minute

Anna: What are all these fabric scraps
Frank: (holding scissors) just shameless

Support Rigsby WI on Kickstarter
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ironspike/rigsby-wi-volume-2-burn-it-down-by-se-case?ref=d40qwl

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Carla Speed McNeil @carlaspeedmcneil.bsky.social · 3d

I do love me some Frank!

S E Case @secase.bsky.social · 3d

DO you like weird little (tall) guys?? Do you like Frank??? Well then maybe you should pick up a copy of Rigsby WI: Burn it Down because it is a real frank show

www.kickstarter.com/projects/iro...

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S E Case @secase.bsky.social · 3d

DO you like weird little (tall) guys?? Do you like Frank??? Well then maybe you should pick up a copy of Rigsby WI: Burn it Down because it is a real frank show

www.kickstarter.com/projects/iro...

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