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Cat Randall the Vampire Queen @catrandall.bsky.social · 6h

My final month in Japan looked like this:

Tokyo and Osaka in April (Plus Star Wars Fan Fest Tokyo 2025!)
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Tokyo and Osaka in April (Plus Star Wars Fan Fest Tokyo 2025!)

YouTube video by Trizzyvision

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Alex Segura @alexsegura.bsky.social · 17h

Just announced at NYCC: I’m writing a KNOW YOUR RIGHTS comic with artist @davidhahn.bsky.social in partnership with @nycschools.bsky.social #civicsforall comics program, covering and explaining student rights when it comes to immigration enforcement.

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Wayward Raven 1845 NYCC @waywardraven.bsky.social · 10h

New to comics? We LOVE seeing stuff from newcomers! This is a paid anthology gig. Send your original short comics & art pieces for We Suck at Comics V3! Guidelines: http://bit.ly/4mT0aGX #NewCreators #IndieComics #FirstTimePublished #SubmissionsOpen

Submissions Open: We Suck at Comics Vol 3 - Errant Adventures — Wayward Raven Media

Submissions are OPEN for We Suck at Comics Vol 3: Errant Adventures! Send your short comics, prose, & art. We're looking for unique, innovative indie stories. Paid gig!

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Cat Randall the Vampire Queen @catrandall.bsky.social · 10h

Your morning North Hollywood squirrel.

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Cat Randall the Vampire Queen @catrandall.bsky.social · 1d

Did a skills test for a graphic design job out here today, too. Or is that “skillz?”

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Cat Randall the Vampire Queen @catrandall.bsky.social · 1d

The best danged frozen yogurt I’ve ever tasted!

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Cat Randall the Vampire Queen @catrandall.bsky.social · 1d

*Not in a filthy trailer as depicted in the 2010 movie THE RUNAWAYS, which is filled with inaccuracies and mythologizing. But still entertaining.

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Cat Randall the Vampire Queen @catrandall.bsky.social · 1d

I’m staying 2.3 miles from where the teen nightclub the Sugar Shack was, where Kim Fowley and Joan Jett recruited Cherie Currie, a scene queen of the day, for the Runaways in November 1975. 17 minutes by car from where she auditioned, a former studio in West Hollywood.*

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Cat Randall the Vampire Queen @catrandall.bsky.social · 1d

You’ve heard of Greek fire. Well, these are Greek fries.

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Northwest Museum of Cartoon Arts @nwmoca.bsky.social · 1d

It's only 25 days until we open and we've still got $ to raise. The great news is that we've raised 41% of our goal - $7400 of $18,000! We need to raise $18,000 to cover 6 months rent and utilities. So we still have $10,600.

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Cat Randall the Vampire Queen @catrandall.bsky.social · 1d

Ume is back in the Halloween video business!

youtu.be/_EXhgFsN7SE?...

Hollywood Halloween 2025 (Part 1)

YouTube video by Trizzyvision

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Cat Randall the Vampire Queen @catrandall.bsky.social · 2d

Columbo in a heart and he says, “Even with some of the murderers that I meet, I even like them, too.”

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malcoholic @lepetitereboot.bsky.social · 2d

Columbo was on air for so long he was solving cases in 1968, and chasing a tech-savvy Rue McClanahan who uses a cellphone and demands emails in 1998

this show is amazing.

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Dan Schkade @danschkade.bsky.social · 3d

And if you're just now hopping aboard, here's something to get you situated:

Dan Schkade @danschkade.bsky.social · Jun 9

Want to read my run on FLASH GORDON but aren’t sure where to start? This is the thread for you ⚡

Dale Arden, Flash Gordon, and Doctor Zarkov blast off into danger, madness, and adventure

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Dan Schkade @danschkade.bsky.social · 3d

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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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 2d

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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Cat Randall the Vampire Queen @catrandall.bsky.social · 3d

Pamela Anderson’s scat singing scene in THE NAKED GUN is hilarious.

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Skylar Patridge @skyepatridge.bsky.social · 3d

Keep pressure on Great Value Patrick Bateman. He has until the end of the week before he actually acts on this.

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 3d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 3d

Under the Third Reich, most Germans generally lived in the law-bound normative state, while Jews and other disfavored people were victims of the arbitrary and violent prerogative state.

The dual state is characterized by the facade of normalcy obscuring the fact of an authoritarian state.

The “dual state” theory was invented to describe Nazis. The Supreme Court could take us there.

Authoritarianism—but make it look like the rule of law.

www.motherjones.com

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Leonard Sultana (An Englishman In San Diego) @englishmansdcc.bsky.social · 3d

Posted on that there Reddit: incredible Len Wein tribute by Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez, Joe Prado, and Mark Chiarello

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KristyQ01 @kristyq01.bsky.social · 3d

Just used the form to send a message. It’s really easy!

Trans rights are human rights, and I am APPALLED that you haven’t signed in protections for my friends in that community. There are multiple bills on your desk that you could sign to help them:

emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 3d

tap into this article to see the details of the bills that would protect trans & queer people that are still on the table.

when you call, tell him he needs to sign all of them. name them!

gavin: (916) 445-2841

AB 82 / SB 497
AB 1084 / SB 59
SB 418
AB 554
AB 727
AB 678
SB 590
SB 450