samutara
@samutara.bsky.social
Rides a bicycle.
Knows a few things about a few things.
Eng / 日本語 (下手ですけど…)
Knows a few things about a few things.
Eng / 日本語 (下手ですけど…)
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Cheap Notebook Setup - Day 9/30
November 29, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Cheap Notebook Setup - Day 9/30
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If you're in the UK and itching for some Wine Ghost goodness at a discount, ICC has you covered in the link below!! 🍷👻
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Smut Peddler X, Smut Peddler, Sordid Past, and My Monster Girlfriend/Boyfriend are all up for grabs! 🌶👀 kateashwin.com/shop/product...
November 28, 2025 at 7:37 PM
If you're in the UK and itching for some Wine Ghost goodness at a discount, ICC has you covered in the link below!! 🍷👻
Ha ha ha ha, look at the big doofus who put gyoza on a supermarket Caesar salad.
November 28, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Ha ha ha ha, look at the big doofus who put gyoza on a supermarket Caesar salad.
Post something random or you'll have an awful December.
November 28, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Post something random or you'll have an awful December.
Okay, yeah, I'm the one who wanted to live near the bustle of the city.
But I didn't think that would mean two police cars, one ambulance and one fire engine at the same time but all going in different directions to different emergencies in my neighborhood.
But I didn't think that would mean two police cars, one ambulance and one fire engine at the same time but all going in different directions to different emergencies in my neighborhood.
November 27, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Okay, yeah, I'm the one who wanted to live near the bustle of the city.
But I didn't think that would mean two police cars, one ambulance and one fire engine at the same time but all going in different directions to different emergencies in my neighborhood.
But I didn't think that would mean two police cars, one ambulance and one fire engine at the same time but all going in different directions to different emergencies in my neighborhood.
Thinking of the time I saw this decoration of... Garfield? (And ketamine nightmare Baron Silas Greenback, maybe?) at a nursery-daycare.
Exactly the right level of menacing for your 2-5 year old darlings.
Exactly the right level of menacing for your 2-5 year old darlings.
November 25, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Thinking of the time I saw this decoration of... Garfield? (And ketamine nightmare Baron Silas Greenback, maybe?) at a nursery-daycare.
Exactly the right level of menacing for your 2-5 year old darlings.
Exactly the right level of menacing for your 2-5 year old darlings.
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Stop comparing yourself to people who have support systems.
October 12, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Stop comparing yourself to people who have support systems.
100% this. Everyone who digs comics should know Kate Beaton's work👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id...
www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id...
November 23, 2025 at 1:10 PM
100% this. Everyone who digs comics should know Kate Beaton's work👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id...
www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id...
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Taroman: A Taro Okamoto Style Tokusatsu Drama Episode 10
May 6, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Taroman: A Taro Okamoto Style Tokusatsu Drama Episode 10
How did I overlook that one time Calvin & Hobbs predicted the AI-in-art argument?
November 22, 2025 at 11:00 AM
How did I overlook that one time Calvin & Hobbs predicted the AI-in-art argument?
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If you’d like to get your hand on “one of the most starkly affecting comics you’ll read this year” (Broken Frontier), 5 MORE MINUTES is now available from my online shop:
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November 21, 2025 at 9:41 AM
If you’d like to get your hand on “one of the most starkly affecting comics you’ll read this year” (Broken Frontier), 5 MORE MINUTES is now available from my online shop:
hannahberry.bigcartel.com/products
hannahberry.bigcartel.com/products
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as a comics journo who, in a former life, wrote about webcomics: Lavender Jack is exceptional and I could not more highly recommend it @danschkade.bsky.social
Reminder: Comic artist @danschkade.bsky.social Webtoon webcomic Lavender Jack comes to Dark Horse in a beautiful print edition! Volume 1 releases in March. Pre-order your copy: bit.ly/3JaIzfn
By Dan Schkade, @jennmanleylee.bsky.social and @dylantodd.bsky.social
By Dan Schkade, @jennmanleylee.bsky.social and @dylantodd.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 12:15 AM
as a comics journo who, in a former life, wrote about webcomics: Lavender Jack is exceptional and I could not more highly recommend it @danschkade.bsky.social
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Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
Tried to find instructions to adjust pressure on my boiler today. 2 years ago, this query was easy.
Today? Even with make, model and type info, the first 5 pages of links were to slop-articles, chatbots, and ads for boiler insurance cover.
Don't ask how we got here. We all goddamn know.
Today? Even with make, model and type info, the first 5 pages of links were to slop-articles, chatbots, and ads for boiler insurance cover.
Don't ask how we got here. We all goddamn know.
a woman is sitting on top of a pile of garbage bags .
Alt: Two women are looking around confusedly, the scene pulls out to show they are on a pile of garbage bags, on a fully loaded garbage barge.
media.tenor.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Tried to find instructions to adjust pressure on my boiler today. 2 years ago, this query was easy.
Today? Even with make, model and type info, the first 5 pages of links were to slop-articles, chatbots, and ads for boiler insurance cover.
Don't ask how we got here. We all goddamn know.
Today? Even with make, model and type info, the first 5 pages of links were to slop-articles, chatbots, and ads for boiler insurance cover.
Don't ask how we got here. We all goddamn know.
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When half the internet doesn't work because of a failure of a single vendor, that vendor is a utility, in the same way that power, water, and, back in the day, the phone companies, are/were utilities.
3/5
3/5
November 18, 2025 at 8:03 PM
When half the internet doesn't work because of a failure of a single vendor, that vendor is a utility, in the same way that power, water, and, back in the day, the phone companies, are/were utilities.
3/5
3/5
'Calvin and Hobbes' at 40: Bill Watterson's comic strip transmogrified everything www.npr.org/2025/11/18/n...
40 years ago, Calvin and Hobbes' raucous adventures burst onto the comics page
The adventures of a precocious 6-year-old and his stuffed tiger debuted on November 18, 1985. NPR's Renee Montagne spoke with the comic strip's editor, Lee Salem, in 2005.
www.npr.org
November 19, 2025 at 10:08 AM
'Calvin and Hobbes' at 40: Bill Watterson's comic strip transmogrified everything www.npr.org/2025/11/18/n...
Finally got to open Perfect Crime Party - fantastic comics to start the day!
(Almost spit my coffee out reading "Psikotika Will Strike at Midnight" by @illuminatedcomics.bsky.social)
(Almost spit my coffee out reading "Psikotika Will Strike at Midnight" by @illuminatedcomics.bsky.social)
November 18, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Finally got to open Perfect Crime Party - fantastic comics to start the day!
(Almost spit my coffee out reading "Psikotika Will Strike at Midnight" by @illuminatedcomics.bsky.social)
(Almost spit my coffee out reading "Psikotika Will Strike at Midnight" by @illuminatedcomics.bsky.social)
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Learn about the great cartoonist and illustrator Ethyl Hays. colleendoran.substack.com/p/ethyl-hays
November 14, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Learn about the great cartoonist and illustrator Ethyl Hays. colleendoran.substack.com/p/ethyl-hays
If no human people want to pay a mortgage for their entire working life, who would want a debt+asset item that's also tax-deductible for 50 years?
What if it was meant for corporations?
Like Blackstone or FirstKey or whoever else buys up single-family homes at scale and rents them out.
What if it was meant for corporations?
Like Blackstone or FirstKey or whoever else buys up single-family homes at scale and rents them out.
i wish i could have been in the room when they were brainstorming how to solve the housing crisis and someone raised their hand and said "what about 50 year mortgages?"
November 15, 2025 at 11:23 AM
If no human people want to pay a mortgage for their entire working life, who would want a debt+asset item that's also tax-deductible for 50 years?
What if it was meant for corporations?
Like Blackstone or FirstKey or whoever else buys up single-family homes at scale and rents them out.
What if it was meant for corporations?
Like Blackstone or FirstKey or whoever else buys up single-family homes at scale and rents them out.
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Happy Partially Muscled Skeleton Stands By The Perimeter Fence And Screams For Thirty Seconds Before Vanishing day for those that celebrate
November 14, 2023 at 9:06 AM
Happy Partially Muscled Skeleton Stands By The Perimeter Fence And Screams For Thirty Seconds Before Vanishing day for those that celebrate
Weather here is &#+*@, but I got a delightful slice of brightness in the post yesterday!
Sooo good to get back to the Grobusverse from @simonroy.bsky.social, with @thenazavr.bsky.social and @gnarlyghost.bsky.social!
Sooo good to get back to the Grobusverse from @simonroy.bsky.social, with @thenazavr.bsky.social and @gnarlyghost.bsky.social!
November 14, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Weather here is &#+*@, but I got a delightful slice of brightness in the post yesterday!
Sooo good to get back to the Grobusverse from @simonroy.bsky.social, with @thenazavr.bsky.social and @gnarlyghost.bsky.social!
Sooo good to get back to the Grobusverse from @simonroy.bsky.social, with @thenazavr.bsky.social and @gnarlyghost.bsky.social!
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Two former editors at The Nib, Shay Mirk and Eleri Harris, have created the only primer on ethical comics reporting.
Two Former Editors at The Nib Have Made the Only Primer On Ethical Comics Reporting
Suzette Smith
www.portlandmercury.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Two former editors at The Nib, Shay Mirk and Eleri Harris, have created the only primer on ethical comics reporting.
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The Uninhabitable United States
What Climate Change Will Do to America by Mid-Century
Many places may become uninhabitable. Many people may be on their own.
www.theatlantic.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:24 PM
The Uninhabitable United States
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Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 12, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...