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Jacob Phillips @thatjacobphillips.bsky.social · 17h

Out today! EVERYTHING DEAD & DYING #2 and the second printing of #1! Get them now. From myself @tatebrombal.bsky.social @pipmartin.bsky.social @adityab.net @imagecomics.com

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Pip Martin @pipmartin.bsky.social · 17h

OUT TODAY!! Everything Dead & Dying #2 by the fab @thatjacobphillips.bsky.social @tatebrombal.bsky.social @adityab.net

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Aditya Bidikar @adityab.net · 20h

Seriously. Bro just made up a word that's technically "the condition of being Sri Lanka".

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Aditya Bidikar @adityab.net · 20h

New on the blog: "Serendipity" – www.adityab.net/serendipity/

Serendipity

I just finished reading the excellent book The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction by Alan Jacobs, whose blog I’ve been following for years, and he’s talking about the importance of serendip...

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Darren M. A. Calvert @dmacalvert.bsky.social · 1d

Drawing of a relatable dog from this day in 2018 😑

A pen and ink and marker drawing of a French bulldog flopped out on its stomach. Below the drawing are a Copic marker and a Faber-Castell Ecco Pigment pen.

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Jacob Phillips @thatjacobphillips.bsky.social · 2d

Delivery! Out this week! From myself @tatebrombal.bsky.social @pipmartin.bsky.social @adityab.net @imagecomics.com @readtinyonion.bsky.social

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Forever Louise Brooks @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.social · 5d

Gwili Andre in a portrait by Cecil Beaton, 1932.

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 5d

“It's like I'm living in two worlds. There's a world where Palestinians are getting killed, and there is you behind the screen, trying to figure out a way to report on it without getting shadowbanned and with actually reaching people.”

Plestia Alaqad in @teenvogue.com

Journalist Plestia Alaqad Is Publishing Her Diaries From Gaza: "A Dystopian World"

"Every time I read it, I just feel disbelief — is this real? Did I really live that? Are there still thousands of people in Gaza living that?”

www.teenvogue.com

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 5d

Plestia Alaqad’s new book features her diary entries reporting on the ground in Gaza for 45 days after October 7. after a hospital is bombed on day 10, she uses the word genocide.

2 years later—as the UN has finally called it one—she says, “turns out, that's only the beginning.” @teenvogue.com

Journalist Plestia Alaqad Is Publishing Her Diaries From Gaza: "A Dystopian World"

"Every time I read it, I just feel disbelief — is this real? Did I really live that? Are there still thousands of people in Gaza living that?”

www.teenvogue.com

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GrokMeAmadeus @grokmeamadeus.bsky.social · 6d

I’m gonna think about this post every day for the next three years.

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Ricardo López Ortiz @rlopezortiz.bsky.social · 5d

The Phantom, 6x9 ink on paper and screen tones. 🤙🏼

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 6d

Just in time for horror season, my story 'You Will Survive This Night' (1st pub in Nightfire's audio anthology COME JOIN US BY THE FIRE s2) is reprinted in the latest issue of @tasavvurnama.bsky.social. A woman navigates a winter house party in the poshest part of Kolkata & finds it deeply cursed:

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GOATS FLYING PRESS @NYCC Booth #1939 @goatsflyingpress.com · 5d

Many thanks to @zackquaintance.bsky.social & @comicsbeat.bsky.social for running an announcement for THREE new additions to our 2026 lineup!

www.comicsbeat.com/goats-flying...

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Pati Cmak @paticmak.bsky.social · 6d

testing new procreate brushes

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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 7d

People who enjoyed my ethnomusicologal folk horror movie might also enjoy my ethnomusicologial folk feelgood documentary, by the way (and I drew those opening titles myself, nice to see them again)

www.disneyplus.com/en-ie/browse...

Watch While You Live, Shine | Disney+

Eccentric musicologist explores ancient melodies, revealing forgotten treasures.

www.disneyplus.com

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Aditya Bidikar @adityab.net · 7d

Issue 2 of my project codenamed SEASIDE is officially second-drafted and about to go the editor after a spellcheck. I am *delighted* with how this is turning out, and with all the changes between the previous draft and this one.

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Avery Hill Publishing @averyhill.bsky.social · 7d

If you want quality comics at the touch of a button, you can’t miss.

ShortBox Comics Fair @shortboxcomicsfair.bsky.social · 7d

It's that time: ShortBox Comics Fair is here!

Over 140+ all-new, original comics created by artists from around the world, gathered exclusively in one place -for October only!

And it's all online, with all digital comics: no shipping, no waiting, no travelling.

www.shortboxcomicsfair.com

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Aditya Bidikar @adityab.net · 8d

New on the blog: Phone Cleanse – www.adityab.net/phone-cleanse/

Phone Cleanse

I’m going conduct an experiment, starting tomorrow, October 1st. As I’ve written about earlier, I’ve managed to get my attention back from social media/the internet enough that I’m able to focus on t...

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Aditya Bidikar @adityab.net · 9d

This is excellent!

Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 9d

@kellymerka.bsky.social delivered on a barn-burner of a piece about Jordan Peele's masterpiece NOPE, the unknowability of animal minds, and the dangers of making living creatures into spectacle

Alien Minds

Was Nope’s antagonist really a monster?

heat-death.ghost.io

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binary sunrise @clarascintilla.bsky.social · 11d

I’m finally back to work and I’m opening my commissions! Info below 🌠

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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 10d

"We're"

Not because he's in law enforcement or an elected official, but because being a billionaire automatically makes you part of the ruling class.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 11d

Larry Ellison envisions a surveillance state in which techbros rule. '“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison said in an hour-long Q&A during Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting last week.'

Larry Ellison predicts rise of the modern surveillance state where ‘citizens will be on their best behavior’ | Fortune

Oracle's Larry Ellison believes citizens and police alike will be under constant surveillance of each other.

fortune.com

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Aditya Bidikar @adityab.net · 11d

I quite liked Mailchimp back when I used it, but I found the lack of support for Markdown to be a dealbreaker – I think it's great when you're designing more complex newsletters, though.

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Aditya Bidikar @adityab.net · 11d

Ahh, that's a bummer. Good platform though. I used it for two years before recently shifting to Ghost, and never had reason to complain.

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Aditya Bidikar @adityab.net · 11d

New on the blog: Two diary entries from 1940. www.adityab.net/two-diary-en...

Two Diary Entries from 1940

I’ve been reading two collections of diary anthologies (more on these anon) which collect entries from diarists organised by the day of the year. Since I got these, I do my best to read the entry for ...

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Aditya Bidikar @adityab.net · 11d

Buttondown is free up to 1000 subscribers (or maybe 500 now), and is quite reasonably priced at $10 per month after that. The only reason Substack is free at all tiers is that it's VC-backed and trying to become the next big social media platform.

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