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Carla Speed McNeil @carlaspeedmcneil.bsky.social · 4h

Even the AI bullshit has never heard of it. Is Yuma that bad?

Paul "Princejvstin" Weimer📷🚀 🚀 📸 @princejvstin.com · 4h

that is a weird one

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Carla Speed McNeil @carlaspeedmcneil.bsky.social · 4h

The Louisiana/Gulf Coast and Chesapeake Bay parts are right.

Paul "Princejvstin" Weimer📷🚀 🚀 📸 @princejvstin.com · 4h

that is a weird one

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 12h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Grave Boneyard @dconrad.bsky.social · 9h

I'm delighted to hear Dolly Parton is okay but now I'm reimagining this classic post only about Dolly Parton

Please stop praying for my grandpa u are making him too strong. He broke out of the hospital & cops say their tasers don't work on him :(

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 9h

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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 14h

It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 10h

i appreciate @meredithshiner.com’s wisdom, as well as her refusal to let the coons-valentine’s day story fade from public memory

It is certainly self-evident that Democrats do not care to "do democracy," but what I would argue is that speeches about democracy do not carry the weight of collective action in support of democracy. In 2024, President Joe Biden told us repeatedly that "democracy was on the line," and yet three years earlier, Senate Democrats prematurely ended the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump because top Biden ally.
Chris Coons of Delaware wanted to go home for Valentine's Day. Congressional Democrats, despite their supposed 2024 warnings that democracy was on the brink, almost all attended Donald Trump's inauguration in 2025 as if it were normal and acceptable, and Biden himself welcomed the Trumps back into the White House with open arms.

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Carla Speed McNeil @carlaspeedmcneil.bsky.social · 4h

Yes, it is interesting….

“Hellexico”??

Paul "Princejvstin" Weimer📷🚀 🚀 📸 @princejvstin.com · 9h

It's an interesting map.

William Hazen @williamhazen.bsky.social · 1d

This is the most accurate depiction of the Midwest to date. Wichita has always felt like the last Midwest city while also being the first plains city.

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Miles Grant @milesgrant.bsky.social · 9h

There are no national newspapers or broadcast networks doing straight journalism anymore

The Washington Post & CBS News are now pure billionaire propaganda, and everyone else is sliding down that path

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 20h

Last week, new WaPo opinion editor Adam O'Neal quietly carried out another purge of staffers, cutting editors and major names like Marc Fisher and David Hoffman, among others.

Meanwhile, he welcomed three conservatives to the section.

Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/washington...

Post Traumatic Disorder

Adam O’Neal says he’s bringing “intellectual diversity” to The Washington Post’s opinion pages—but the moves he’s making behind the scenes tell a different story.

www.status.news

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Dan Schkade @danschkade.bsky.social · 17h

All right, just turned in the last strips of my second year on FLASH GORDON. That's 730 installments in the bag -- appearing in a rough average of 1.5 panels per strip, I've drawn Flash about 1,095 times. Still takes me a couple tries to get his hair right. Tomorrow we start on year three ⚡

Flash Gordon and Prince Thun take on a squad of green-skinned Shark Men

And old man looks up at a mural of Flash Gordon crossing swords with Ming the Merciless.

Flash Gordon frees Edda from her locked helmet, and the mechanic can't help herself from laying a smooch on him.

Flash Gordon negotiates with Empress Aura. "Tch. Fine," she sneers, conciliating. "Savior of the Universe..."

He smiles back. "You love it."

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 22h

I'm not even trying to make light, this is horrific.

It's just... If you're shooting at Presbyterian USA ministers only 9 months into your modern presidency, something has gone sideways

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Carla Speed McNeil @carlaspeedmcneil.bsky.social · 22h

Frank, you whore, you’re distracting me

S E Case @secase.bsky.social · 1d

frank hates that you're making him do this

www.kickstarter.com/projects/iro...

Frank: (wearing a sleeveless crop top that says "support Rigsby on kickstarter") Look at this slutty shirt they're making me wear
Anna: Yikes

Frank: So demeaning
Anna: (bending over) Wait a minute

Anna: What are all these fabric scraps
Frank: (holding scissors) just shameless

Support Rigsby WI on Kickstarter
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ironspike/rigsby-wi-volume-2-burn-it-down-by-se-case?ref=d40qwl

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Carla Speed McNeil @carlaspeedmcneil.bsky.social · 1d

I do love me some Frank!

S E Case @secase.bsky.social · 1d

DO you like weird little (tall) guys?? Do you like Frank??? Well then maybe you should pick up a copy of Rigsby WI: Burn it Down because it is a real frank show

www.kickstarter.com/projects/iro...

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S E Case @secase.bsky.social · 1d

DO you like weird little (tall) guys?? Do you like Frank??? Well then maybe you should pick up a copy of Rigsby WI: Burn it Down because it is a real frank show

www.kickstarter.com/projects/iro...

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Carla Speed McNeil @carlaspeedmcneil.bsky.social · 1d

Little adrenaline-junkies.

Tiff Hudson @tiffhudson.com · 1d

My best friend in the whole wide world had a little sister like that.

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Kip Manley @kiplet.bsky.social · 1d

Some legal analysts are invited to sit the fuck down.

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 1d

US House Speaker Johnson: Some legal analysts don't believe in shutdown backpay.

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Carla Speed McNeil @carlaspeedmcneil.bsky.social · 1d

I just backed Rigsby WI - Volume 2: Burn It Down, by SE Case on @kickstarter.com because this book is so, so good! Small town dynamics like few other writers in any medium have captured, and the art is GORGEOUS. www.kickstarter.com/projects/iro...

Rigsby WI - Volume 2: Burn It Down, by SE Case

The second volume of SE Case's Eisner-nominated webcomic about the brutal disaster of being a teen in the early 2000s!

www.kickstarter.com

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Carla Speed McNeil @carlaspeedmcneil.bsky.social · 1d

More pages of SETTLERS OF THE STORM WORLDS! Free to read on Patreon, though of course yo dollahs are always appreciated.

I'm deep into WITCH HAT ATELIER right now, it rocks the rock house, but as always the making of a book is so different from the reading of one.

www.patreon.com/posts/settle...

SETTLERS OF THE STORM WORLDS, pages 22-24 | Carla Speed McNeil

www.patreon.com

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Catie Gray 🌘 @anintrinsicgray.bsky.social · 1d

can you believe they've made cutesy make up accessories based on this strip and they purposefully exclude the diva in the third panel???

A moomins newspaper comix strip where Snorkmaiden repeatedly fails to put on lipstick due to her design not having a defined mouth and a big hippo nose, notably putting it directly under her eyes in panel like a total freak

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Jody Alford 🫘 💙🦋☮️🌊🌎🇺🇸🇺🇦 @jodyalford.bsky.social · 1d

Let’s not forget or gloss over what Maxwell was convicted of.

dr alex concorde @doctoralex.bsky.social · 2d

The victims were as young as 14 years old when they were groomed and abused by MAXWELL and Epstein, both of whom knew that their victims were in fact minors.

MAXWELL knew and intended her actions would result in their subjection to sexual abuse.

From:
www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr...

Ghislaine Maxwell Sentenced To 20 Years In Prison For Conspiring With Jeffrey Epstein To Sexually Abuse Minors

www.justice.gov

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T. Greg "Antifa General Counsel" Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 1d

Seems suboptimal

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Judge speaks out after her $1.5m mansion 'exploded'

Diane Goodstein, 69, was out walking on the beach when the suspected arson attack happened - just weeks after she had issued a decisive ruling against the Trump administration.

www.dailymail.co.uk

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 1d

Pritzker is also furious: “Should National Governors Association leadership choose to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization.”

Gov. JB Pritzker’s letter to the National Governors Association

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Iron Circus Comics @ironcircuscomics.bsky.social · 2d

Eisner-and-Ignatz-nominated Rigsby WI Book 2: Burn it Down is a ❤️PROJECT WE LOVE❤️ on Kickstarter!!!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/iro...

Rigsby WI - Volume 2: Burn It Down, by SE Case

The second volume of SE Case's Eisner-nominated webcomic about the brutal disaster of being a teen in the early 2000s!

www.kickstarter.com

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Carla Speed McNeil @carlaspeedmcneil.bsky.social · 2d

Whaaaaaa

Beanie (Alina T) @whatsupbeanie.bsky.social · 2d

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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 3d

Department of Homeland Security agents were seen abandoning one attempt to arrest a man in Chicago over the weekend after being outnumbered by protesters.

DHS agents retreat as Chicago cops refuse to shield them from swarming protesters

Department of Homeland Security agents were seen abandoning one attempt to arrest a man in Chicago over the weekend after being outnumbered by protesters. In at least one case, the Chicago Police Department was ordered not to assist federal agents swarmed by demonstrators, according to reports. In v...

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