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Cyrus 🪼 @cyrusmakescomics.bsky.social · 24d

ANNOUNCEMENT!!! 📣

I have recently changed my username handle on all my socials. My new user will be @Cyrus.makes.comics (some sites may have the dots replaced with spaces or no spaces/dots). 🪼

#newyear #newme #update

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Heather Paterson

@heatherpaterson.co.uk

⚠️TRIGGER WARNING ⚠️ self-harm reference involving a child ⚠️

This is absolutely heart-breaking, unnecessary cruelty. This is NOT what protecting children looks like

🌈 She Just Wanted to Wear the Uniform — How a Six-Year-Old Trans Girl Was Left Behind

🌈 She Just Wanted to Wear the Uniform — How a Six-Year-Old Trans Girl Was Left Behind

An impact story of a 6 year old trans girl.

medium.com

January 27, 2026 at 9:44 AM

Cyrus 🪼

@cyrusmakescomics.bsky.social

Sometimes when I’m bored I take pictures of me doing funny faces. The last image (on part 2 of the thread) is me laughing my ass off (1/2)

January 27, 2026 at 1:12 AM

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Cartoonist Cooperative

@cartoonist.coop

Hourly Comics Day has MOVED!

It's the 20th anniversary and we're taking a stand alongside our Black cartoonist members and friends to demand a change to honor Black History Month- draw your comics on the 8th, not the 1st!

hourlycomicsday.com

#hourlycomicsday #hourlycomicday #hcd

"IN OBSERVANCE & SOLIDARITY". Two black speech bubbles with white text read "HOURLY COMICS DAY IS NOW ON FEB 8TH. CARTOONISTS HONOR BLACK HISTORY MONTH. FEB 1 - MAR 1". There is an illustration of a black silhouetted hand raised and holding a pen in the top right, and an illustration of a nib pen and an ink well personified on the bottom right. The nib and ink are bumping fists. A URL at the bottom is "hourlycomicsday.com".

January 26, 2026 at 9:21 PM

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I<3Alligators

@iheartalligators.bsky.social

Sunny portrait cus i lov him

January 26, 2026 at 4:04 PM

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani

@mayor.nyc.gov

The snow and cold are not letting up. If you see someone who needs shelter, please call 311.

January 25, 2026 at 8:51 PM

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Wendy Xu

@wendyxu.bsky.social

was pissed off at relative's kid decided to take it out on a linkedin poster instead

Comic Con banned Al art. https://Inkd.in/dEeA7GFZ
On one side: Artists fighting to protect craft, credit, and originality.
On the other: Creators finally able to bring ideas to life without mastering the traditional tools.
Al is dividing the creative world in two.
But hasn't this happened before?
Was Photoshop cheating?
Was digital photography?
Is CGI less "real" than practical effects?
Is animation less valid than live action?
Studios are already using Al.
Cinema is evolving.
Music, design, apps - everything is shifting.
We're not just witnessing a tech shift. We're living through a cultural evolution.
Yes, we "should" protect artists.
Yes, we *must* talk about ethics, consent, originality.
But should creative expression only belong to the trained?
Al is giving more people a seat at the creative table.
To build, paint, compose, animate - without gatekeepers.
Maybe we'll need two categories:
@ *Human-only*
2 *Al-assisted*
Or... maybe not.
Because creativitv should

me

the way you people act like you've been consigned to a siberian gulag when told you can't use the environmentally damaging plagiarism machine to extrude an image that you can sell for quick profit is absolutely incredible. your audacity and greed are breathtaking. try getting a real job

January 25, 2026 at 4:45 AM

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Pat Lewis

@patnlewis.bsky.social

If you have to be out working in this weather, at least you can get a free cup of the worst coffee known to man.

Facebook post from a local news channel: "Eat'n Park offering free coffee to first responders, snowplow crews during winter storm"

January 24, 2026 at 10:46 PM

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani

@mayor.nyc.gov

Today, at least 5 New Yorkers lost their lives. While it’s still too early to determine the causes of death, it is a reminder that every year New Yorkers succumb to the cold. The danger of this weather cannot be overstated.

January 25, 2026 at 1:17 AM

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani

@mayor.nyc.gov

As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today.  ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.

January 24, 2026 at 6:00 PM

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ACW1234

@acw1234.bsky.social

😯

January 23, 2026 at 3:36 AM

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vocal stim bot

@lazquotes.bsky.social

WILLY NILLY CROCODILLY!!!!!!!

January 22, 2026 at 2:05 PM

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Time is Now 🇨🇦

@tobekind.bsky.social

I hope that board of genocide, the genocide architects, all the profiteers, and all their admirers go faster to hell than expected. The end of this dark chapter gonna be massive. We are not quite there yet.

Owen Jones cuts through the noise with crucial big-picture perspective. Read this. 👇

Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 7d

Donald Trump's 'Board of Peace' is naked colonialism.

And it's not just designed for Gaza.

It's a template for naked American theft and self-enrichment.

New column 👇

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...