Jen Van Meter is Upset
@hopelessjen.bsky.social
Don’t even know if this is a good idea but here I am. Comics. Dog. Unionization. Trying not to lose my grip over the state of the world.
Pinned
To my creative friends, which is all y’all: punk rock outlived Reagan & Thatcher.
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my wonderful fiancé is slated for top surgery next month and we need help making it happen! if you’re not in a position to donate, sharing this fundraiser is also greatly appreciated 🥹💚
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Donate to Help Tess Get Gender-Affirming Top Surgery!, organized by Sloane Leong
Aloha all, I’m Sloane and I’m starting this fundraiser to help my wonderful f… Sloane Leong needs your support for Help Tess Get Gender-Affirming Top Surgery!
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December 5, 2025 at 10:17 PM
my wonderful fiancé is slated for top surgery next month and we need help making it happen! if you’re not in a position to donate, sharing this fundraiser is also greatly appreciated 🥹💚
www.gofundme.com/f/help-tess-...
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My name is Tom Cotton
And I have not gotten
That for which
I have traded my soul.
But some brown guys got killed
And my heart
It is filled
With my party still having control.
And I have not gotten
That for which
I have traded my soul.
But some brown guys got killed
And my heart
It is filled
With my party still having control.
December 5, 2025 at 1:48 AM
My name is Tom Cotton
And I have not gotten
That for which
I have traded my soul.
But some brown guys got killed
And my heart
It is filled
With my party still having control.
And I have not gotten
That for which
I have traded my soul.
But some brown guys got killed
And my heart
It is filled
With my party still having control.
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Hero Initiative is helping writer Mike W. Barr through a series of health problems. If you'd like to contribute directly to Mike as well, go HERE: www.gofundme.com/f/rally-for-...
Donate to Rally for Mike W. Barr's Medical Care, organized by Dave Kellogg
Mike W. Barr has been a writer of comics, science fiction novels and mystery novels… Dave Kellogg needs your support for Rally for Mike W. Barr's Medical Care
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December 3, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Hero Initiative is helping writer Mike W. Barr through a series of health problems. If you'd like to contribute directly to Mike as well, go HERE: www.gofundme.com/f/rally-for-...
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RIP Missouri's own Steve Cropper, one of the best to ever touch them steel strings.
Booker T & The MG's - Green Onions live [Colourised] 1967
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December 4, 2025 at 4:10 AM
RIP Missouri's own Steve Cropper, one of the best to ever touch them steel strings.
Hey so props to that friend who happens to be in the business of selling the niche item you can get for your kid’s love interest for these holidays, and now you are like unto a god. Props all the way to that friend.
December 4, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Hey so props to that friend who happens to be in the business of selling the niche item you can get for your kid’s love interest for these holidays, and now you are like unto a god. Props all the way to that friend.
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❤️❤️❤️
God, I loved this artist-on-artist conversation with @kellysue.bsky.social so much. We cover everything – from her new comic ‘FML’, to the joys of art and the perils of middle age as an artist, to the need to question everything (including your own creative identity) when you embrace the art life.
Q&A: Comic Book Writer Kelly Sue DeConnick Is Still Working on Her Big Third Act
A sprawling conversation about the joys of art, the perils of middle age as an artist, and the need to question everything, including your own creative identity, when you embrace the art life
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December 4, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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I have been canceled and de-platformed for my political beliefs. Learn the full story in my feature-length essay in The Free Press, my interview on 60 Minutes, my chat/cooking demo on CBS Mornings, and my lecture series at the University of Austin.
December 4, 2025 at 1:52 AM
I have been canceled and de-platformed for my political beliefs. Learn the full story in my feature-length essay in The Free Press, my interview on 60 Minutes, my chat/cooking demo on CBS Mornings, and my lecture series at the University of Austin.
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reiterating to whomever wants to be president: I will buy a bag of ballroom rubble like it's pieces of the Berlin Wall
December 3, 2025 at 6:51 PM
reiterating to whomever wants to be president: I will buy a bag of ballroom rubble like it's pieces of the Berlin Wall
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For today's gift book rec, I'm choosing one of the most devastating, beautiful, nuanced, gorgeous, tragic, incendiary, and, yes, hopeful books of the year: ONE DAY, EVERYONE WILL HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AGAINST THIS, by OMAR EL AKKAD. Deservedly won the National Book Award. Summary in alt text. 7/?
![Red cover with the silhouette of a child with a missile falling from above with title ONE DAY, EVERYONE WILL ALWYS HAVE BEEN AGAINST THIS, author Omar El Akkad "Author of American War"
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • PALESTINE BOOK AWARD WINNER • From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad comes a powerful reckoning with what it means to live in a West that betrays its fundamental values.
"[A] bracing memoir and manifesto." —The New York Times
"I can’t think of a more important piece of writing to read right now. I found hope here, and help, to face what the world is now, all that it isn’t anymore. Please read this. I promise you won’t regret it." —Tommy Orange, bestselling author of Wandering Stars and There There
On October 25, 2023, after just three weeks of the bombardment of Gaza, Omar El Akkad put out a tweet: “One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.” This tweet has been viewed more than 10 million times.
As an immigrant who came to the West, El Akkad believed that it promised freedom. A place of justice for all. But in the past twenty years, reporting on the War on Terror, Ferguson, climate change, Black Lives Matter protests, and more, and watching the unmitigated slaughter in Gaza, El Akkad has come to the conclusion that much of what the West promises is a lie. That there will always be entire groups of human beings it has never intended to treat as fully human—not just Arabs or Muslims or immigrants, but whoever falls outside the boundaries of privilege. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This is a chronicle of that painful realization, a moral grappling with what it means, as a citizen of the U.S., as a father, to carve out some sense of possibility in a time of carnage.
This is El Akkad’s nonfiction debut, his most raw and vul…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jvhw6v6rt4motcndq4gh5qo7/bafkreieuaku7fvqyktelutykflyzanjmna6j3oiiqfkdxvgebund6pdz2e@jpeg)
December 2, 2025 at 10:50 PM
For today's gift book rec, I'm choosing one of the most devastating, beautiful, nuanced, gorgeous, tragic, incendiary, and, yes, hopeful books of the year: ONE DAY, EVERYONE WILL HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AGAINST THIS, by OMAR EL AKKAD. Deservedly won the National Book Award. Summary in alt text. 7/?
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Cheetah and Cheshire Rob the Justice League is one of, if not the best limited run DC's done this year and todays #5 is the best issue yet. @gregrucka.com and @nicolascottart.bsky.social have outdone themselves.
#comicsky
#comicsky
December 3, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Cheetah and Cheshire Rob the Justice League is one of, if not the best limited run DC's done this year and todays #5 is the best issue yet. @gregrucka.com and @nicolascottart.bsky.social have outdone themselves.
#comicsky
#comicsky
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I switched to this and @bookshop.org for every book, ebook, and audiobook purchase where they have what I want - which is 99% of them -- and the apps are great, and I get to support a local bookstore. It's all win here, folks.
If you happen to be looking for an alternative audiobook listening platform, there are many out there, including us at Libro.fm 👋
We aim to build community in many ways, including by supporting independent bookshops with every purchase you make—versus tearing communities apart.
We aim to build community in many ways, including by supporting independent bookshops with every purchase you make—versus tearing communities apart.
December 3, 2025 at 6:05 PM
I switched to this and @bookshop.org for every book, ebook, and audiobook purchase where they have what I want - which is 99% of them -- and the apps are great, and I get to support a local bookstore. It's all win here, folks.
So this new De La Soul record, Cabin in the Sky. I think it’s pretty good.
It has not made me cry at all. Shut up.
It has not made me cry at all. Shut up.
December 3, 2025 at 6:51 AM
So this new De La Soul record, Cabin in the Sky. I think it’s pretty good.
It has not made me cry at all. Shut up.
It has not made me cry at all. Shut up.
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Cheetah & Cheshire Rob the Justice League #5 is out tomorrow! WITNESS THE GLORY OF @nicolascottart.bsky.social and Annette Kwok and Troy Peteri! Variants by Gerald Parel and Elizabeth Torque!
December 3, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Cheetah & Cheshire Rob the Justice League #5 is out tomorrow! WITNESS THE GLORY OF @nicolascottart.bsky.social and Annette Kwok and Troy Peteri! Variants by Gerald Parel and Elizabeth Torque!
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THE HIEST IS ON!!
Cheetah & Cheshire
Rob the Justice League #5
is out this week!!
Come see how this crew of A to Ds pull off the crime of the century.
Or do they…?
Cheetah & Cheshire
Rob the Justice League #5
is out this week!!
Come see how this crew of A to Ds pull off the crime of the century.
Or do they…?
December 3, 2025 at 5:57 AM
THE HIEST IS ON!!
Cheetah & Cheshire
Rob the Justice League #5
is out this week!!
Come see how this crew of A to Ds pull off the crime of the century.
Or do they…?
Cheetah & Cheshire
Rob the Justice League #5
is out this week!!
Come see how this crew of A to Ds pull off the crime of the century.
Or do they…?
I want @clairewillett.bsky.social and @synecdocheworks.bsky.social to know each other.
December 3, 2025 at 2:59 AM
I want @clairewillett.bsky.social and @synecdocheworks.bsky.social to know each other.
I’ve donated to PJP. I learn so much from their newsletter and articles. And, most importantly, their work makes incarcerated people Visible in a way outside journalism rarely even tries to do. It’s vital, human work of enormous value.
Here’s how your donation helps ⤵️
☑️ Provides journalism training for incarcerated writers.
☑️ Offers edit-coaching support so writers can grow their skills.
☑️ Maintains a publication that brings their stories outside prison walls.
☑️ Keeps our stories free for families and communities.
☑️ Provides journalism training for incarcerated writers.
☑️ Offers edit-coaching support so writers can grow their skills.
☑️ Maintains a publication that brings their stories outside prison walls.
☑️ Keeps our stories free for families and communities.
December 3, 2025 at 1:32 AM
I’ve donated to PJP. I learn so much from their newsletter and articles. And, most importantly, their work makes incarcerated people Visible in a way outside journalism rarely even tries to do. It’s vital, human work of enormous value.
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What, you might wonder, could possibly go wrong invading the Watchtower in Cheetah and Cheshire Rob the Justice League #5, on shelves and digital platforms December 3, 2025, from @gregrucka.com @nicolascottart.bsky.social @DCOfficial #DCComics
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What, You Might Wonder, Could Possibly Go Wrong Invading The Watchtower in Cheetah and Cheshire Rob the Justice League #5 - Comic Watch
What, you might wonder, could possibly go wrong invading the Watchtower in Cheetah and Cheshire Rob the Justice League #5, on shelves and digital platforms December 3, 2025, from #GregRucka @NicolaSco...
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December 1, 2025 at 9:39 PM
What, you might wonder, could possibly go wrong invading the Watchtower in Cheetah and Cheshire Rob the Justice League #5, on shelves and digital platforms December 3, 2025, from @gregrucka.com @nicolascottart.bsky.social @DCOfficial #DCComics
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(Though what's far worse is the occasional person who's like, "I can always tell when we're about to have an earthquake!")
December 1, 2025 at 7:15 AM
(Though what's far worse is the occasional person who's like, "I can always tell when we're about to have an earthquake!")
I named my fists Salt and Pepper because they’re pretty basic, honestly.
I named my fists MSG and Garlic Powder, because your face is in season for some tenderizing.
I named my fists Knit and Purl because you're gonna need stitches.
December 1, 2025 at 6:23 AM
I named my fists Salt and Pepper because they’re pretty basic, honestly.
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If you saw the sandstorm scene in Lazarus: Fallen #6 and are not sure how I created the balloon effects, I wrote out a tutorial for @rogue151.bsky.social in the thread below. Don't click if you don't want to know how I pull a rabbit out of a hat -- it's not that exciting once you see the technique.
Random comics thing that makes me happy: I’m rereading last week’s Lazarus and I love what I’m guessing @airy.bsky.social did with the speech bubbles here. It conveys in such a fun what the characters trying to talk and it getting jumbled in a sandstorm.
November 29, 2025 at 5:55 PM
If you saw the sandstorm scene in Lazarus: Fallen #6 and are not sure how I created the balloon effects, I wrote out a tutorial for @rogue151.bsky.social in the thread below. Don't click if you don't want to know how I pull a rabbit out of a hat -- it's not that exciting once you see the technique.
I mean, I didn’t want to know, but now, @profanity.accountant, I do.
November 30, 2025 at 12:09 AM
I mean, I didn’t want to know, but now, @profanity.accountant, I do.
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