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Scott Edelman @scottedelman.bsky.social · 4h

An exchange which reminded me of this sad but true cartoon.

A four panel cartoon titled "Comics Future" set in a museum with comics art on the walls. It depicts the following exchange.

ADULT: "People used to draw stories in little boxes, and they called them comics. And the people who drew them were called cartoonists. And they had no money. And they were very sad."

CHILD: "What happened to the sad cartoonists?"

ADULT: "They all died. Sad, alone, stupid, and covered in dirt. Every last one of them."

The comic is sighed Sweater1 at the lower right.

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 23h

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 3d

An entirely charming Mary Blair concept painting for the 1952 Walt Disney animated short “The Little House”.

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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 2d

whoops!

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Jon Sung @ferociousj.bsky.social · 3d

We need something nice to look forward to; here is that something (it's in a month) (please propagate this far and wide in the hope that someone who needs it will see it)

www.eventbrite.com/e/instant-ba...

Instant Band Night 33: BANDSGIVING

Instant Band Night is a party where musicians who've just met form bands on the spot. Come play or come watch!

www.eventbrite.com

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Sonia Harris @swearingpattern.bsky.social · 2d

I did this, and highly recommend volunteering with @sftrees.bsky.social if you’re able. It was very healing to find that even I could contribute something, and to learn that I have multiple neighbors who are physically capable of swinging a pickaxe for 4 hours on a random Thursday! Very impressive.

Friends of the Urban Forest @sftrees.bsky.social · 3d

The sidewalks of Duboce Triangle got a little greener last month! Huge thanks to everyone who made these sidewalk gardens possible: all the wonderful volunteers, Supervisor Mandelman, Super Duper Burgers, and Castro Community Benefit District! 🌺

#urbanforestry #urbanforest #sanfrancisco

Four smiling people planting a sidewalk garden. Larger group of people planting behind them.

A before photo of a sidewalk marked for concrete to be removed. An after photo of plants planted in the sidewalk garden.

Three people with shovels preparing the soil for planting.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 3d

I've decided to dedicate my life to confidently popping into people's replies and saying "why are people surprised by this" despite nobody, anywhere, expressing any surprise

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Norcross @floridanorcross.bsky.social · 3d

got bored. couldn’t sleep. so i made a Magic 8-Ball iOS shortcut www.icloud.com/shortcuts/97...

Shortcuts

www.icloud.com

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Sonia Harris @swearingpattern.bsky.social · 3d

A friend sent this sweet version of the r.a.i.n. meditation and it helped me handle the burning in my fingers today, so maybe it’ll give you a moment of strength and care. (Personally, after this long in America, I enjoyed the uk accent too 😁) on.soundcloud.com/s9Zb3wU8JCff...

25-minute meditation for overwhelm - Helen Williams - The Sharpham Trust

For when overwhelm threatens your peace of mind and equanimity. Helen Williams, House Manager at The Sharpham Trust, shares a serene practice to support you when too many things are vying for attentio

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Dean Sabatino @deansabatino.bsky.social · 3d

ITLM will be making some sound shapes on the porch up in Manayunk this Saturday 10/11 at 4:40pm. Come on by and give your ears some love! Free and all ages!

The band “I Think Like Midnight” plays a Saturday afternoon set on 10/11 at 4:30pm for the Roxyunk Porchfest.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 3d

People think that when you become disabled, support magically appears

That once it’s “official” you will have your basic needs met

The truth is people fight for years to get the bare minimum in benefits

Caregivers are nearly impossible to find

If you’re not rich or very lucky… you’re on your own

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 3d

This Halloween season there’s no movie as frightening as everything currently happening in real life

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Bex Ollerton @schnumn.bsky.social · 4d

(I'm gonna be reposting variations of this post several times today haha sorry if it's annoying!! I really want this to find a home, I believe in it SO MUCH)

Bex Ollerton @schnumn.bsky.social · 4d

#DVpit Graphic novel pitch:

VIOLAPSE explores the nuances of escaping a dangerous home when violence has become the new normal. Ultimately hopeful, VIOLAPSE is both an indictment and celebration of anger.

Genre: adult thriller/horror
More info: schnumn.com/violapse
Contact: [email protected]

A black and white comic page depicting a woman washing dishes in an eerie way with a bruised eye. The final panel reveals a man tied up at her feet.

An illustration of a red-haired woman holding up a sheet of paper that's burning.

A comic page showing a woman vomiting black tar into another woman's mouth

An illustration of a woman sat on a fancy couch in a dark room. She's looking creepily into the camera as if she's expected you

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Michael Molcher @molcher.bsky.social · 4d

"I use it, it's just a tool like Photoshop," is the refrain from people I know that has me biting virtually clean through my tongue.

No. It's emptying you.

MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 8d

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat.
People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

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Sonia Harris @swearingpattern.bsky.social · 4d

PSA: There's nothing I can do to guarantee a good medical experience when health fails you, but this helped a little; Last year I added a short summary of my medical history to the top of my records. It saves doctors' time and means I don't have to describe traumatic medical experiences again.

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Sonia Harris @swearingpattern.bsky.social · 4d

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Frank Strong @frankstrong.bsky.social · 4d

GREAT NEWS from Leander ISD. To Kill a Mockingbird, House on Mango St, and Narrative of Life of Frederick Douglass will be returned to classrooms after a massive outcry. Thanks to everyone who spoke up!!!

From an email to teachers today:

*An important update regarding the books that
were previously paused from curriculum use as a
result of concerns around Senate Bill 12.
Thirty-six of the forty books are being reinstated
to the secondary curriculum book list, with
revisions made to the curriculum to ensure TEKS
alignment and compliance with SB 12. Four
titles, Stamped, Melissa (George), Gracefully
Grayson, and The 57 Bus, will remain paused for
additional review of curriculum alignment. Please
note that all books, including these four, should
remain available, or be returned if removed, to
classroom libraries for individual student choice
reading.

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Sonia Harris @swearingpattern.bsky.social · 4d

Over the years I’ve lost too many friends to this addiction, people who truly believe they’re doing something, educating people... Instead they’re throwing their lives away to argue with bots in endless loops, but they’re so invested they can’t admit it. 😬

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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 4d

It’s just more proof that arguing online is so pointless it’s able to be automated, so why even bother.

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 5d

hi, cis folks in california!

this headline leaves out that newsom has another 5 days to sign these bills into law. if you’d like to tell him he should do that to protect trans californians, you should to reach out.

he also has a phone: (916) 445-2841

want to know what to say? next post! 🧵

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Albert Ching @albertching.bsky.social · 5d

Hiring on my team! Looking for someone passionate about comic books and graphic novels, marketing, and the book and library markets. Happy to answer any questions about the role!

careers.wbd.com/global/en/jo...

Representative, Marketing (DC) in Burbank, California, United States of America | Marketing & Communications at

Apply for Representative, Marketing (DC) job in Burbank, California, United States of America. Marketing & Communications at Warner Bros. Discovery

careers.wbd.com

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 5d

everything about the attempt to co-opt the language of social justice to promote AI personhood makes my skin absolutely crawl

that people are doing it in the current political environment, where the most basic human rights are crumbling before our eyes, is as bleak as it gets for me

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 5d

This thread highlights a point I have been making for many years: the logic of authoritarianism and the logic of domestic abuse are exactly the same. It is only a difference of scale.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 5d

Y'all who keep lecturing protesters to "not give them an excuse" need to pause for a minute. Imagine yourself telling a DV victim, "Be sure not to mouth off or make any mistakes so he won't hit you. Don't give him an excuse! It's what he wants!" That's what you fools sound like.

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Comic Book Yeti @comicbookyeti.com · 12d

EPISODE 400!!! @jimmygaspero.bsky.social chats with @megfitz89.bsky.social about MARY SUE, fan fiction, Supernatural, and genre TV shows cancelled too soon. Come celebrate with us! @boom-studios.com Listen below or wherever you get your podcasts.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 6d

Don't forget to go outside and look at the supermoon tonight! I will be pointing my Seestar at it.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermoon

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