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Ela Bambust 🏳️‍⚧️ @ela-bambust.bsky.social · Jul 16

Visa and Mastercard have killed more art than every studio combined and most people don't even know about it

NoahFuel_Gaming @noahfuelgaming.bsky.social · Jul 16

Valve just updated their Steam rules to ban content that “may violate rules set by payment processors or banks.” Sounds boring. It’s not. It’s the quiet normalization of financial censorship and it’s going to hurt LGBTQ+ games and devs

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orphe @orphetoon.bsky.social · Jul 16

yuri cowgirls,,,, yuri cowgirls!!! #ocs

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jack but art @astrumreverie.bsky.social · Jun 30

15 YEARS AGO... The first page of Paranatural was uploaded to TheComicSeries. In honor of such a momentous occasion, 30+ artists and writers have come together to create this special zine!

L!NK BELOW ⬇️

THANK YOU @paranatural.bsky.social !!!!!!

#paranatural

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orphe @orphetoon.bsky.social · Jun 17

the new farcille figures are gonna kill me

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Ethan M. Aldridge @ethanmaldridge.bsky.social · Jun 14

No kings

Fours different hands pull a golden crown apart, surrounded by the words "Many hands make light work."

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orphe @orphetoon.bsky.social · Jun 11

sometimes u binge rewatch some old flash cartoons and u gotta make art abt it #eddsworld

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Siana @sianapark.bsky.social · Apr 17

Modern Knights

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orphe @orphetoon.bsky.social · Jun 7

additional sketches

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orphe @orphetoon.bsky.social · Jun 7

white boy summer

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · May 26

Still of Roy Batty in Blade Runner delivering his “time to die” monologue

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orphe @orphetoon.bsky.social · May 25

perhaps the best #totk roleswap comic i’ve made

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orphe @orphetoon.bsky.social · May 25

totk roleswap designs from nearly two years ago #totk

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orphe @orphetoon.bsky.social · May 24

should i repost all my totk art on here since i dont think any of it is on blusky

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orphe @orphetoon.bsky.social · May 24

its only been two years since i last drew totk roleswap surely thats a normal length of time

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ceej @ceej.online · May 15

oh dang, you still post on twitter because you "get engagement there?" that's cool. I still hang out at that nazi bar everyone always talks about from that allegory because their drink specials are pretty good. all my old friends stopped going because of the nazis, but I'm making some new ones

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orphe @orphetoon.bsky.social · May 15

watch cartoons online forever

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Gale 🔞 @poxinox.bsky.social · May 12

"hey how do you come up with ocs"

I start hallucinating a guy and then I give them a name

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orphe @orphetoon.bsky.social · May 13

u ever make something that was way cooler in ur head but ended up kinda meh. yeah anyway ( #dungeonmeshi)

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♎ jentrification @jentrification.com · Mar 21

no lies detected. #civilrights

The image shows a text post from a tumble user with the handle "theconcealedweapon" making an argument about the importance of protecting the rights of criminals as a safeguard against government tyranny. The post presents the following key points:

If you want to prevent government tyranny, ensuring criminals have rights must be your top priority
This is not meant as a joke or exaggeration
Without rights for criminals, governments can simply label people as criminals to strip away their rights
The post claims this has been a common tactic of tyrannical governments throughout history
The post concludes that believing people who break laws should forfeit their rights is effectively supporting tyranny

The argument centers on the idea that due process and legal protections for accused/convicted persons are fundamental safeguards against authoritarian government overreach.

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Ed Lynch @goatburgler.bsky.social · Apr 14

Quick AI tip: Just because a bunch of greedy, antisocial techbros invested billions in AI and will try to push it everywhere to recoup their losses doesn't mean you have to use it.

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People’s City Council - Los Angeles @pplscitycouncil.bsky.social · Apr 14

“This is not legal” does not matter to these people and the courts are not going to save us. Not like the weak ass Democratic Party is going to do anything about it.

Look out for one another. Community self defense.

Ricci Sergienko, Esq. @riccisergienko.bsky.social · Apr 14

24k likes on this post... Again, it's a serious mistake to depend on the courts to protect us & even worse to rely on "legality" & what's "lawful" narrative/rhetoric. This kind of stuff is going to passively get more people thrown in cages & killed.

Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · Apr 14

If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · Apr 12

Info on its energy gobbling should be in every news story about AI. It is newsworthy. It is inseparable from the tech itself.

Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · Apr 12

It's all fun and games until …

"Professor Gina Neff of Queen Mary University London told the BBC #ChatGPT is "burning through energy", and the data centres used to power it consume more electricity in a year than 117 countries."

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