Joan Zahra Dark 🔥 جون زهر درك
@joandark.com
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(they/them) Writer, organizer, gamedev. I say good words sometimes too! Currently steering @cartoonist.coop, formerly @silversprocket, @bluestockings 📧: [email protected] 🕸️: linktr.ee/whoaitsjoan
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joandark.com
I should probably do an intro with more of you here now, I'm Joan! You may remember me from such works as steering @cartoonistcoop.bsky.social, or my day job as @silversprocket.bsky.social's Production Manager!

I'm also an occasional writer, artist, and game dev, find me at linktr.ee/whoaitsjoan!
Joan wearing a skull buttoned shirt, with their left hand up to their jacket looking to camera in bisexual lighting. Looping gif of ship hovering on Freighter title screen, interrupted by brief start menu click and transition at the end. Title screen for Friendly Delivery game, with a hand-drawn pixel font and sprite work.
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kodyisover.com
So just once again reiterating, if you wanna be a patron of my art, every dollar of your support goes really, REALLY far in making a tangible difference in my life.

patreon.com/kodyisover
subscribestar.adult/kodyisover
ko-fi.com/kodyisover
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skunkcabbagebooks.bsky.social
There's too much to focus on here in Chicago to be on my "Amazon is even worse than you think" soapbox this week, but here's a sample of the ways that they are profiting off of genocide and occupation, both here and abroad. Kill the cop on your doorstep (your Ring camera).
skunkcabbagebooks.bsky.social
idk that this ever got shared here, but the last few years we've made some little zines in honor of a certain day named for a number indivisible by other numbers. tbh I did not have the bandwidth to update it this year, but these two remain relevant. Check out our website for citations.
"What Amazon is doing to us. a digital zine from Skunk Cabbage Books." We all know by now that Amazon is bad for small businesses, especially indie bookstores like us. Amazon's model, on the surface, looks like this - Amazon sells books at the lowest possible prices because they're willing to sell them at a loss to get their consumers into higher margin products like Kindles, Alexa devices, Ring cameras, and Prime accounts. We know Amazon doesn't really need to sell books. We want to dig deeper into why they bother and how Amazon hurts not just small businesses, but our entire communities. On the surface, Amazon's model looks like selling cheap books at a loss to lure people into higher margin tech, like Kindle, Alexa, Audible, Prime, and Ring. But the higher margin items still aren't the product - you are. The consumer Amazon cares about isn't us, it's the companies that will buy all the data Amazon is collecting about you. Our privacy is the most profitable product. Amazon relies on our government's disinterest in protecting our privacy and surveillance devices like Ring cameras and Alexa devices to farm your data. The data is the part that's really profitable, especially when Amazon sells it to agencies like law enforcement. On the smaller scale, Amazon has sold data from people's Ring cameras to local police without any notification or permission from the camera owners. On the large scale, Amazon's tech and data models power models that allow governments to enact mass surveillance and policing. Tech contracts make up a huge portion of ICE's budget and Amazon is using their tech and your data to help ICE surveil, track, and deport our neighbors. ICE's surveillance system pays Amazon approximately $600,000 a month to power their tech.
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priyahuq.art
please support me on patreon before bluesky falls into the sea. my goal is $500/mo, i'm at $60/mo. i need $6K a month to pay all my bills and rent so this feels very modest to me 😂
priyahuq.art
no new patrons yet, i'm looking to change that! here's a thread of the types of posts you can get by subscribing patreon.com/priyahuq #patreon #art #artistpayday #comics
Get more from priya huq on Patreon
making comics and paintings
patreon.com
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nikostratis.com
look if Dolly Parton needs you to pray for her then you find a scrap of floor and get to fucking work
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toril.bsky.social
you should read my horse yaoi
toril.bsky.social
#mybook HOTBLOOD! is a neo-noir Fantasy/Western about bestiality and the Transcontinental Railroad, Publishers Weekly said it was "good," and I'm drawing Vol. 2 for September 2026
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threnody.bsky.social
hi, cis folks in california!

this headline leaves out that newsom has another 5 days to sign these bills into law. if you’d like to tell him he should do that to protect trans californians, you should to reach out.

he also has a phone: (916) 445-2841

want to know what to say? next post! 🧵
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mskellymhayes.bsky.social
I’m. So. Tired.

I don’t just want you to pay attention to Chicago because I want you to understand our plight. I want you to see how hard people are fighting and know wtf you’re made of. We’re not just fighting for this place. This is for all of us.
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joandark.com
Before October 7th, it was August 5th 2022. Or May 2021, or March 2018, or December 2008, or June 2007. Or 1982, or 1967, or 1948.

Over 77 years of Palestinian exile, occupation, and suffering at Israel's hands. We need to be shutting everything down to fight, to give way to a truly free Palestine.
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benpassmore.bsky.social
today is the day my book Black Arms To Hold You Up officially comes out. about 5-7 years of hard ass work finally in the world. i’m mfing terrified 😂
joandark.com
The CryptID Show has been so much fun to work on getting to crowdfund, @atticus.haus and the whole team do a great job at capturing horror comedy in this book.

I truly can't wait to hold this cryptid radio storytelling game, go back it now!

www.backerkit.com/c/projects/p...
The CryptID Show
An storytelling game about call-in shows and cryptids woes.
www.backerkit.com
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plusoneexp.bsky.social
WE ARE LIVE!!!

The Cryptid Show by @atticus.haus at ttrpg.link/CryptidShow
Black Flies by @goosepoopgames.com at ttrpg.link/BlackFlies

THE BLACK CRYPTID COLLAB LIVES! Support these spooky season #TTRPGs now!
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atticus.haus
THE CRYPTID SHOW IS LIVE ON BACKERKIT NOW. Please back it and share it with your friends! Also please enjoy these fucking fantastic bumper stickers i came up with as a backer reward
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/p...
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kodyisover.com
KEEPING TIME returns, as promised!!

#KeepingTime is a bittersweet bummer of a gay band romance that just started its 4th chapter, which means there's already 106 pages for you to dive into. #webcomics

🎸 keepingtimecomic.com
Full page spread of a close-up of a bulletin board. A flyer that reads, "Chapter 4: My Father's Dreams" takes front and center of the spread. Around it, numerous flyers and business cards are pinned to it with colored thumbtacks.
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clementeworks.com
I don't have a sign to tap but, now that it's Prime Day again; you CAN disengage from Amazon. It wasn't super easy when I did it a decade ago (it's probably a lot harder now), but it's worth doing.
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derek.bike
lots of people know Łink from what he did to promote alt text usage here. this tip about pretending you’re describing an image over the phone has been burned in my brain since i saw it
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@knilirabaj.bsky.social that says 

It's pretty cool you're using that alt text accessibility feature. It's not cool that you're not really describing the image though. Nice and simple is a good start. Descriptive and accurate is the way to go. You'll get the hang of it. Try pretending you're describing the picture over the phone.

July 1, 2023 at 10:33 PM Everybody can reply
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celeste.lgbt
Friendly reminder that it didn’t all begin on 7 October 2023.

It began with the Balfour Declaration of 1917, the Nakba since 1948, the Six-Day War of 1967, the full blockade of Gaza since 2007, and so much more.

The genocide in Palestine is the culmination of racism and settler colonialism.
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broadwaybabyto.bsky.social
ICE is hog tying protesters in Portland and removing them on Dollies.

This is dangerous and could cause serious injury.

The Department of Homeland Security thinks it’s a joke.

They’ve shared this video with the tagline “Refuse to Walk? We’ll give you a ride”.

Stay strong Portland.
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weredawgz.blacksky.app
PLAY BASTIONNNNNNN PLEASE
wario64.bsky.social
Bastion is $2.24 on Steam buff.ly/ZMDxAhW

Deck playable
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plusoneexp.bsky.social
Two new retailers signed on to buy wholesale from PlusOneExp.com this week!

If you are retailer who supports indie & small press #TTRPG we would love to work with you!

If you have have a FLGS you love and want to buy our games from let us know! I'd love to reach out an connect with them!