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Joshua W. Cotter
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ND Secular Humanist ♾️ Cartoonist When I’m Able 🫀 Fix Your Hearts or Die
https://www.joshuawcotter.com/ -or- https://bio.site/joshuawcotter
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Joshua W. Cotter @joshuawcotter.bsky.social · Nov 6
A drawing of an anthropomorphic goat and sheep, the goat is saying “THEY UNDERSTAND THAT THE FORCE OPPOSING HOPE IS DESPAIR. THE DESPAIR WE FEEL IS MANUFACTURED. AND WHAT HAS BEEN MANUFACTURED CAN BE TAKEN APART.”
joshuawcotter.bsky.social
Making comics (nod away, volume 3, WIP)
A piece of paper covered with little pen thumbnail drawings and notes regarding plans for comics pages.
November 21, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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davis.social
Well put by @drrachelbarr.bsky.social
cinema_nasties 1d Al defenders are so embarrassing j.paulmonter 2h All you are saying is that you want to gatekeep creativity. That's not good. drachelbarr & 20h • •• Neuroscientist here... creativity is a process. A process. A FUCKING PROCESS. Not an output. Nobody is gatekeeping the process - Al simply invites you to skip to the end, to the output. Which, as mentioned, is not creativity. Nobody cares if the output is aesthetically pleasing, because the process, the act itself, the limitation of a single human mind and the resulting creations that capture that one single inimitable human experience... is what makes a creation worth paying attention
November 19, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Young Shadow: Tunnel Vision
Available for preorder, ships in December

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November 19, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
when I was young, i used to wonder how people like this would fare in life, as they didn't seem suited for gainful employment. it turns out, the internet allowed them to accumulate a massive audience of similar idiots, enriching them and turning them into a presidential advisor
Polymarket tweets: "BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani to require all New York elementary school students to learn Arabic numerals." Laura Loomer replies: "You know things are bad when you can't tell if this is real or a joke. Dear God. It's real. Isn't it?"
November 20, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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farel.bsky.social
#monsterus2 #ink #brush #drawing i did a FREE ptreon post where you can check out soph franz’s version of nessie:
www.patreon.com/posts/monste...
an ink drawing on paper of loch ness monster. the drawing is split so you can see underwater and above water. there is a scuba diver in the foreground.
November 20, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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‘nod away, volume 3’, WIP, blue pencil on bristol
Cropped panels of three female characters tied to gurneys, one of them is angrily yelling at a male character. Text is in an unfinished state.
November 20, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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arstechnica.com
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
August 27, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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timdickinson.bsky.social
just opening up the new Epstein docs at random:
November 12, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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davidlasky.bsky.social
Accounts of this ICE facility are everything that America was literally never supposed to have. This country was formed with the intention that things like this would not happen here.
lyndab08.bsky.social Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 19d
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 8, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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This guy’s Sieg Heil (this guy currently concerned about ‘the radicalization of the left’) wasn’t as prominent a Sieg Heil as Musk’s Sieg Heil, but he did do a Sieg Heil.
A watercolor and pencil drawing of Bannon dressed as a sloppy N@zi giving a little guy Sieg Heil, standing next to a realistically depicted cloven hoofed Peter Thiel, the guy concerned about the ‘rise of the Antichrist’ (aka Peter Thiel).
November 7, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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jonathancohn.bsky.social
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.

www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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louceph.com
please watch movies and read books and play games and look at art, please view it with your own eyes through a lens you made yourself and not just through video essayists and ending explained videos please im begging you
October 21, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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thanks for reading my comics! plz consider leaving a one time tip if you wanna. it is becoming increasingly more & more challenging (impossible🙃) to support 3 kids alone in this collapsing country heh oof

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August 8, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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Evening, looking east out of the river valley in rural Japan where we live now. It’s been one year since everything fell apart. We miss our farm, but it is beautiful here.
An evening in a river valley surrounded by mountains heavy with foliage, power lines the only evidence of a human presence.
November 6, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social
Winsor McCay on tariffs
Political cartoon from a century ago beautiful black and white art of a bull in a china shop. the bull has a label on its side saying BONEHEAD TARIFF The china that the bill is smashing is labeled, too INDUSTRY FOREIGN TRADE TRANSPORTATION EMPLOYMENT COMMERCE SHIPPING
November 6, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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‘nod away, volume 3’, WIP, blue pencil on bristol
A cropped page of a comic, female characters showing a range of emotions from surprise to frustration. Central character is saying ‘What the HELL?!’ while the character next to her asks ‘Where are we?’
October 31, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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derfbackderf.bsky.social
it exists! Really fun comp. Put together by Van Jenson, with stories by Mike Allred, Josh Cotter, Zander Cannon, Shaenon Garrity, & 2 pieces by yours truly.
October 27, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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Title page from my ‘08 mini comic ‘March Hare’
Pen drawing of a scruffy, floating rabbit in jeans and a cardigan, text below it reading ‘non compos mentis’
October 30, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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derekmballard.bsky.social
great American survival challenge (1/2)
February 18, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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yeehawtie.bsky.social
my friend Grace is the woman who stood up to the guy in the Nazi SS uniform in those viral videos youve probably seen- he broke her nose with a beer stein - please share & donate and give her a hand with medical expenses, recovery and potential expenses gofund.me/72cb1a415
Donate to Support UGA Student Assaulted by Nazi in Downtown Athens, organized by Alexandra Lang
Hello, My name is Grace Lang, and I am a 23 year old U… Alexandra Lang needs your support for Support UGA Student Assaulted by Nazi in Downtown Athens
gofund.me
October 29, 2025 at 1:19 AM
joshuawcotter.bsky.social
The USA in one image.
hvillealrailfan.bsky.social Huntsville Railfan @hvillealrailfan.bsky.social · 28d
@katewagner.wehwalt.net No idea where this is, as I stole it off of Facebook, but I feel like you need to see this. It is indeed legit, apparently.
An image showing before and after images of a house. In the before image, it looks like a typical suburban house. In the after image, it shows the same house, but with a massive facade on the front to make it look like a bank or something, which does not match the rest of the house.
October 28, 2025 at 10:53 PM
joshuawcotter.bsky.social
Thumbnails for a kids’ comic project that didn’t end up happening. I was really excited to draw this at the time, maybe I’ll be able to get back to it someday.
Graphite pencil thumbnails for two pages of a comic, a sequence of anthropomorphic animas having conversations and walking through a wooden city on a hill.
October 28, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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‘nod away, volume 2’, pen and ink on bristol - Tachikawa t-5 and t-99 nibs, Dr. Ph. Martin’s Black Star Matte, Strathmore 400 Series bristol
A drawing of a spacious rocky landscape within a canyon with unusual eroded forms.
October 22, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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‘nod away, volume 3’, Dr. Serious, blue pencil on bristol
A drawing of a bespectacled bald man with wild white hair on the sides of his head wearing a lab coat and eating a lump of something directly out of a can.
October 20, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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Antifa
workingclasshistory.com Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · Oct 18
#OtD 18 Oct 1931 German workers in Braunschweig went on strike in protest against the Nazis. In the 2nd half of 1931 there were 25 political strikes by 30k workers in protest against fascism, with many more the following year. German antifascist art here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...
October 19, 2025 at 11:05 AM