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Colleen Frakes

@colleenfrakes.bsky.social

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Rhymes with "rakes" or "lakes". No relation to the Star Trek guy. I write and draw lots of stuff. Rep'd by Susan Hawk of Upstart Crow Literary. Trans rights. Free Palestine. We're all in this together. (She/they) http://www.tragicrelief.com

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Colleen Frakes @colleenfrakes.bsky.social · 12h

So...25th amendment time? 25th amendment? Section 4? Anyone?

...please?

Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 16h

WSJ: President Trump believed his Truth Social post demanding prosecutions of James Comey and other political foes was a private message to his attorney general, and "and was surprised to learn it was public."

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Lee Scheinbeim @lee.scheinbe.im · 15h

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

pearl, one of the crystals gems who rebelled against the diamond authority at the side of rose quartz

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Colleen Frakes @colleenfrakes.bsky.social · 18h

Hahaha! That's an amazing coincidence.
But sorry, my kid wants to be an Astrobot

a white and blue robot with a blue eye and a blue nose

ALT: a white and blue robot with a blue eye and a blue nose

media.tenor.com

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Colleen Frakes @colleenfrakes.bsky.social · 18h

Halloween costume step 1:
$16 for a white shirt and pants
$11 in blue fabric

Photo of a white shirt, white pants, and a pile of blue fabric

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Zoe TunnHELL ➡️ NYCC (Friday only!) @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 1d

We CANNOT lose Dolly Parton this year I don't care what dark pacts need to be done get to work, team

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d

Dolly Parton's sister is asking fans to "pray with me" amid the country music icon's health issues

Dolly Parton’s Sister Says ‘I Was Up All Night Praying’ Amid Country Icon’s Health Issues and Asks Fans to ‘Pray With Me’

Dolly Parton's sister Frieda is asking fans of the Queen of Country to "pray with me" amid Dolly's continued health struggles.

variety.com

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Colleen Frakes @colleenfrakes.bsky.social · 1d

Me: I'm gonna draw a shorter comic this time, I'll aim to keep it under 60 pages

Me (A few months later just finished page 55): oops

Colleen Frakes @colleenfrakes.bsky.social · 2d

Without downloading anything new, where are you mentally?

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 2d

Really want to encourage libraries - especially school libraries - to put no-AI content into your collection development policy. At the very least, if you have a clause in there about requiring accurate information, you can use that to weed out or prevent genAI purchases.

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 2d

“When you get a suspicious book, “you look it up to see what else the [author] has written. And you see there's 30 things, and none of them have any reviews, and they were all written in the last two years,” DeMeester-Lane says.”

How Local Librarians Keep AI Slop Off the Shelves

AI is being used to create nonsensical, sometimes dangerously inaccurate books. Local librarians are tasked with keeping these volumes out of their collections.

www.governing.com

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Colleen Frakes @colleenfrakes.bsky.social · 2d

Paid Patreon members get my little diary comics once a week
www.patreon.com/posts/140477...

Colleen Frakes @colleenfrakes.bsky.social · 2d

YES!!

Reasons why Rebecca Sugar is the best choice

1. She must understand how gay Moominvalley is, and will hopefully bring the subtext into text

2. SONGS!!!

Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 3d

Rebecca Sugar (Steven Universe) to direct a "Moomins" animated feature film.
variety.com/2025/film/ne...

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Colleen Frakes @colleenfrakes.bsky.social · 3d

Yay! Bread and Puppet has been doing this since 1963.

Colleen Frakes @colleenfrakes.bsky.social · 3d

Kid: Mom? What will happen if I get marker on the tablecloth?

Me: We'll wash it off because your markers are all washable.

Kid: Good.

Spouse: Are you asking because it already happened?

Kid: Yeah.

Colleen Frakes @colleenfrakes.bsky.social · 3d

My honor mode playthrough is going great

Photo of a TV. On the screen is Baldur's Gate 3, Act 3 in Lorroakan's vault. The game has gone glitchy and the screen is mostly red and green

Colleen Frakes @colleenfrakes.bsky.social · 3d

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 3d

Earlier this year, Dr. Jane Goodall sat down for an interview for Brad Falchuk’s new Netflix series, Famous Last Words.

The premise of the series is to interview people on the condition that the interview not air until the subject has passed away.

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Colleen Frakes @colleenfrakes.bsky.social · 3d

You can read Cursed on Patreon as a FREE member!

www.patreon.com/posts/139206...

Cursed 31-32 | Colleen Frakes

Get more from Colleen Frakes on Patreon

www.patreon.com

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Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 4d

Moomin is the greatest comic that was ever made and its creator had to be harangued into making it and the first chance she got, she shoveled it off onto her little brother

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Colleen Frakes @colleenfrakes.bsky.social · 4d

This story is BS.from the first line, there's no Build-a-Bear in Seattle.

So she either traveled from Tukwila to...Tukwila, or went all the way north to Lynnwood for some reason. Or it's all made up.

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Lee Scheinbeim @lee.scheinbe.im · 4d

any person acting as if genAI is alive is just a person who was told a pencil's name was steve

youtu.be/z906aLyP5fg?...

Community - A Pencil Named Steve

YouTube video by Neil Collins

youtu.be

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Colleen Frakes @colleenfrakes.bsky.social · 4d

Look, you have a job 😆

Colleen Frakes @colleenfrakes.bsky.social · 5d

Take them and dress up your cat!

Colleen Frakes @colleenfrakes.bsky.social · 5d

Yeah, mine was in 4th grade. Everyone gets a Greek mythology phase! 😁

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Colleen Frakes @colleenfrakes.bsky.social · 5d

Our child has entered the Greek myth phase early, thanks to Goat Simulator 3, so we're watching Hercules.
Which we got from the library since Disney+ is still cancelled.

a cartoon of hades giving a thumbs up

ALT: a cartoon of hades giving a thumbs up

media.tenor.com

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Dana Simpson’s Treehouse of Horror 🎃 @danacorn.bsky.social · 5d

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. Trump is shutting down the government to prevent the Epstein Files from being published.

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Colleen Frakes @colleenfrakes.bsky.social · 5d

Dang. Thank you for putting so much effort into this!

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Colleen Frakes @colleenfrakes.bsky.social · 5d

If you send me a message saying your students liked my book, I'll probably send you a sketch. Because I'm just not that busy 😆

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