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Yamara

@yamara.bsky.social

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Writer, cartoonist, game designer, spy.
Barbarian/Rogue when among Society.
Fighter/Thief with the proletariat.

Polytheist all along.

http://yamara.com
http://spellofrevenge.com - Thurs, as possible
http://aethertales.com - New pages, still in the works

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Comics in the Festive Age

@comicsinthega.bsky.social

Today is the birthday of writer & artist Fletcher Hanks (Dec. 1, 1889-Jan. 22, 1976). He was only active in the comic industry for three years but is remembered for his unique style & unusual creations such as Stardust the Super Wizard & Fantomah.

Two of three panels showing the transformation of Fantomah from a beautiful woman to a blue woman with more skull like features in her face.

An unattached head flying through the air and shouting "have mercy."

Destructo’s head retreating back into his gigantic body as he screams for help.

Stardust is holding a man by one hand, squeezing his torso so tight there is no way he could be alive. Stardust is saying "I told you to get your gang together!"

December 1, 2025 at 6:49 PM

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Stephen Collins

@stephencollins.bsky.social

1
Nurse:
It’s become a real problem in this area

2
Nurse:
We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction

3
Show a building sign posted:
Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic
With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it

Nurse:
Ministers, Spads, Researchers…

4
Nurse:
Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely

[Nurse on phone taking a call]
Ok - we’ll be right over

5
Nurse:
We just have a gentle chat

[Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster

Minister:
I understand your concerns…

6
Nurse:
Are you OK love?

Minister:
Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters

7
Nurse:
That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian

[Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters]

Nurse 2:
Give us your phone, love

8
Nurse:
At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to

[We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.]

9
Minister:
YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR

[woman looks baffled]

10
woman:
I just want a bus service

Minister:
LOOK AT MY FLAG
[produces a St George's flag]

[ends]

October 19, 2025 at 3:07 PM

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HoHoHo_Tudor

@rototudor.bsky.social

I have a Tunisian friend who, when I made a “salt the earth” joke looked at me dead in the eye and said “too soon”

Dude. It’s been 2200 years.

Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 1d

What if we razed every Data Center to the ground and salted the earth where they stood

December 1, 2025 at 6:35 AM

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

New Yorkers kept telling me the same thing: they’re thinking of leaving because they can’t afford to raise their kids here. Universal childcare isn’t just a promise — it’s how we make this a city for everyone.

December 1, 2025 at 12:11 AM

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Cat Manning

@catacalypto.bsky.social

A story Stoppard told several times, in several places:

"Years and years ago, there was a production of The Tempest, out of doors, at an Oxford college on a lawn, which was the stage, and the lawn went back towards the lake in the grounds of the college, and the play began in natural light. But as it developed, and as it became time for Ariel to say his farewell to the world of The Tempest, the evening had started to close in and there was some artificial lighting coming on. And as Ariel uttered his last speech, he turned and he ran across the grass, and he got to the edge of the lake and he just kept running across the top of the water — the producer having thoughtfully provided a kind of walkway an inch beneath the water. And you could see and you could hear the plish, plash as he ran away from you across the top of the lake, until the gloom enveloped him and he disappeared from your view.
And as he did so, from the further shore, a firework rocket was ignited, and it went whoosh into the air, and high up there it burst into lots of sparks, and all the sparks went out, and he had gone.

"When you look up the stage directions, it says, 'Exit Ariel.”

November 29, 2025 at 6:10 PM

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Stephanie 🍉

@ageofoddish.bsky.social

Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread

My hand holding a shortbread cookie in the shape of an airplane. There are red sprinkles in the pattern of the survivorship bias plane.

November 29, 2025 at 4:50 AM

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Possible Cabbage 🟢

@possiblecabbage.bsky.social

Like sure "you can talk to the computer and it does stuff"is appealing since that's Star Trek and we want to live in Star Trek. But "you can talk to the computer and then it lies to you" is 2001: A Space Odyssey and we don't really want to live in that.

November 28, 2025 at 6:27 PM

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Bill Mudron

@mudron.bsky.social

Okay, the crowd going nuts like someone just scored a touchdown at the Super Bowl all *through* the KDH performance is a hell of a thing to see hear/see:

November 27, 2025 at 5:42 PM

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Joolia Ghoulia

@jooliaghoulia.bsky.social

The vibe I bring to the turkey function

November 27, 2025 at 5:06 PM

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Marjorie James Keenan

@unenthusiast.com

"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."

Norman Rockwell's Freedom of Speech but it's Ellen Ripley

November 27, 2025 at 2:30 AM

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

New York City helped my mother become the artist she is today. The next generation deserves a City Hall that lifts up tomorrow's artists as well.

November 26, 2025 at 1:49 AM

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Kim Hu

@kim-hu.com

„no pressure“

Joshua, Silverquill Expert @mizzixonmain.bsky.social · 6d

The first step to solving any problem is admitting fault. I applaud you for your bravery 🥰

The xkdc meme about a complex structure built on one thing that would fall apart if the one thing was removed.

November 26, 2025 at 11:31 AM

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Maria Bustillos

@mariabustillos.com

Harry Siegel wrote a phenomenal piece about Art Young at @flaminghydra.com

amazing artist

flaminghydra.com/hell-yes/

Hell, Yes

The only person to return with dispatches from three separate guided tours of hell was also the only cartoonist to be tried, twice, under America’s Espionage Act. That same man was also the only perso...

flaminghydra.com

November 26, 2025 at 9:12 AM

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de’on

@justkeepskeeting.pro

this is mesmerizing

November 25, 2025 at 6:31 AM

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sal tamarkin

@sal.gay

This is what I love about chatgpt

Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 7d

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

November 25, 2025 at 4:16 PM

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Iron Spike

@ironspike.bsky.social

In self-interest but also general interest, folks: Black Friday is coming up, and small publishers/independent creators will always be a better choice than megacorps.

When the sales drop, please remember that!

November 24, 2025 at 3:43 PM