Chris Maka
@chrismaka.bsky.social
Video game writer-designer on SWTOR by day, comic book writer by night. Anti-fascist, pro-compassion.
Greed, for want of a better word, is not in fact good. It’s really, really terrible, actually, and we should push back hard on efforts to normalize or ennoble it.
November 25, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Greed, for want of a better word, is not in fact good. It’s really, really terrible, actually, and we should push back hard on efforts to normalize or ennoble it.
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tech bro: i have made Artificial General Intelligence
programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
November 25, 2025 at 5:12 PM
tech bro: i have made Artificial General Intelligence
programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
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If everything is a top priority, then everything gets done quickly. That's basic management
November 25, 2025 at 8:15 PM
If everything is a top priority, then everything gets done quickly. That's basic management
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US holiday sees an increase in new writers wanting to make comics so I tried to take new writers through an easy step by step process with examples on how to turn their idea into a script.
Also a few scripts on there available for artists to practice or collabs.
www.reddit.com/r/ComicBookC...
Also a few scripts on there available for artists to practice or collabs.
www.reddit.com/r/ComicBookC...
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November 25, 2025 at 8:48 PM
US holiday sees an increase in new writers wanting to make comics so I tried to take new writers through an easy step by step process with examples on how to turn their idea into a script.
Also a few scripts on there available for artists to practice or collabs.
www.reddit.com/r/ComicBookC...
Also a few scripts on there available for artists to practice or collabs.
www.reddit.com/r/ComicBookC...
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stupid young people, stop buying a new phone every year if you don't want to be broke. wait no, not like that.
November 25, 2025 at 5:51 PM
stupid young people, stop buying a new phone every year if you don't want to be broke. wait no, not like that.
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The Master the Fight: Mobile Market Bundle is now live and available until Jan 13th, 2026! www.swtor.com/info/news/%5...
November 25, 2025 at 5:08 PM
The Master the Fight: Mobile Market Bundle is now live and available until Jan 13th, 2026! www.swtor.com/info/news/%5...
The theme of today's NFL Power Rankings on ESPN.com is each team's Best Thanksgiving Memory. Turns out a lot of those memories for other teams involve beating the Detroit Lions. *sigh*
November 25, 2025 at 5:21 PM
The theme of today's NFL Power Rankings on ESPN.com is each team's Best Thanksgiving Memory. Turns out a lot of those memories for other teams involve beating the Detroit Lions. *sigh*
Continuing to inject comic book goodness into your doomscrolling via comic book covers.
Micronauts is why I don't freak out whenever a new movie based on a toy or game is announced. You never know when smart, creative people will beat the odds (and a Micronauts movie would be rad AF).
Micronauts is why I don't freak out whenever a new movie based on a toy or game is announced. You never know when smart, creative people will beat the odds (and a Micronauts movie would be rad AF).
November 25, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Continuing to inject comic book goodness into your doomscrolling via comic book covers.
Micronauts is why I don't freak out whenever a new movie based on a toy or game is announced. You never know when smart, creative people will beat the odds (and a Micronauts movie would be rad AF).
Micronauts is why I don't freak out whenever a new movie based on a toy or game is announced. You never know when smart, creative people will beat the odds (and a Micronauts movie would be rad AF).
Saw Gerrera knows what this week is about.
November 25, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Saw Gerrera knows what this week is about.
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Order TEN #5, catch up on back issues, even BE in the latest issue!
Click here:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/chr...
Click here:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/chr...
TEN #1-5
The Ten are back in action, for the first time! The exciting conclusion of the opening arc of our superhero series.
www.kickstarter.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Order TEN #5, catch up on back issues, even BE in the latest issue!
Click here:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/chr...
Click here:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/chr...
Letterers are important creators, too, y'all
November 25, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Letterers are important creators, too, y'all
Great days in entertainment history.
Today in 1988 Mystery Science Theater 3000 premiered on KTMA in St. Paul Minnesota. #MST3K
November 25, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Great days in entertainment history.
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In Morrow County, healthy adults were coming down with unexplained medical conditions, including diseases that usually afflicted the elderly.
In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported.
🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported.
🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
November 25, 2025 at 1:39 AM
In Morrow County, healthy adults were coming down with unexplained medical conditions, including diseases that usually afflicted the elderly.
In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported.
🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported.
🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
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narrator: 50 years ago...
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
November 25, 2025 at 2:11 AM
narrator: 50 years ago...
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
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If you like an author's work, the best thing you can do is buy it. The second best thing you can do is ask your local library to buy it. Or, do both!
A reminder that the median book deal for a debut author in the UK is £7000, paid over 12-18 months. (from 2022 Society of Authors report). Some of your favourite writers are struggling. societyofauthors.org/2022/12/06/a....
A profession struggling to sustain itself - The Society of Authors
ALCS report on author incomes shows 60% drop in median incomes since 2006
societyofauthors.org
November 24, 2025 at 5:39 PM
If you like an author's work, the best thing you can do is buy it. The second best thing you can do is ask your local library to buy it. Or, do both!
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Incredible story of tracking down the real human behind AI slop stories, by @nickhunebrown.bsky.social
"I was embarrassed. I had been naively operating with a pre-ChatGPT mindset, still assuming a pitch’s ideas and prose were actually connected to the person who sent it"
Stunning investigation of how slop merchants are getting work into established media outlets
thelocal.to/investigatin...
Stunning investigation of how slop merchants are getting work into established media outlets
thelocal.to/investigatin...
November 24, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Incredible story of tracking down the real human behind AI slop stories, by @nickhunebrown.bsky.social
I just backed Sincere: American Nightmare - A Hub City Crossover Event on @kickstarter.com
www.kickstarter.com/projects/stu...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/stu...
Sincere: American Nightmare - A Hub City Crossover Event
Anti-villain Sincere, Lightning Strike, and Midnight Tiger team up to fight against a rigged, corrupt system in the heart of Compton.
www.kickstarter.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:55 AM
I just backed Sincere: American Nightmare - A Hub City Crossover Event on @kickstarter.com
www.kickstarter.com/projects/stu...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/stu...
R-A and his partners create cool AF comics. I'll be backing this and you should too!
November 24, 2025 at 12:54 AM
R-A and his partners create cool AF comics. I'll be backing this and you should too!
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tech companies continually learning people don't want these things
November 24, 2025 at 12:08 AM
tech companies continually learning people don't want these things
Apparently the Cowboys learned nothing from scouting the Lions going for it on 4th down and failing five times versus the Eagles last week.
Look, I know one of the things we love about sports is that anything can happen, but I'm not comfortable with this level of anything being able to happen. #EaglesCowboys
November 24, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Apparently the Cowboys learned nothing from scouting the Lions going for it on 4th down and failing five times versus the Eagles last week.
Look, I know one of the things we love about sports is that anything can happen, but I'm not comfortable with this level of anything being able to happen. #EaglesCowboys
November 24, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Look, I know one of the things we love about sports is that anything can happen, but I'm not comfortable with this level of anything being able to happen. #EaglesCowboys
OMFG, Kevin Burkhardt doing play-by-play on Fox for this game has dropped some version of "the Eagles are flying!" like it's clever about 20 times already, and the second half just started. Don't they have a director or somebody who can tell him to stop? WE FUCKING GET IT ALREADY, KEVIN.
Unfortunately for Dallas Cowboys fans, the Eagles will because they are wearing their sweet, sweet throwbacks. Also, they're a better team whose roster wasn't constructed by a self-deluded billionaire fool. But mostly because of the unis. The football gods love best-look throwback unis.
November 23, 2025 at 11:02 PM
OMFG, Kevin Burkhardt doing play-by-play on Fox for this game has dropped some version of "the Eagles are flying!" like it's clever about 20 times already, and the second half just started. Don't they have a director or somebody who can tell him to stop? WE FUCKING GET IT ALREADY, KEVIN.
Why did the Cowboys rough the punter to give the Eagles a free first down? The football gods pushed him into the punter's plant leg. I'm telling you man, throwbacks for the win.
Unfortunately for Dallas Cowboys fans, the Eagles will because they are wearing their sweet, sweet throwbacks. Also, they're a better team whose roster wasn't constructed by a self-deluded billionaire fool. But mostly because of the unis. The football gods love best-look throwback unis.
November 23, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Why did the Cowboys rough the punter to give the Eagles a free first down? The football gods pushed him into the punter's plant leg. I'm telling you man, throwbacks for the win.
Unfortunately for Dallas Cowboys fans, the Eagles will because they are wearing their sweet, sweet throwbacks. Also, they're a better team whose roster wasn't constructed by a self-deluded billionaire fool. But mostly because of the unis. The football gods love best-look throwback unis.
November 23, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Unfortunately for Dallas Cowboys fans, the Eagles will because they are wearing their sweet, sweet throwbacks. Also, they're a better team whose roster wasn't constructed by a self-deluded billionaire fool. But mostly because of the unis. The football gods love best-look throwback unis.
I love Aidan Hutchinson.
I do not love the Lions defense right now. Come on, guys.
I love Jahmyr Gibbs.
November 23, 2025 at 9:30 PM
I love Aidan Hutchinson.