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Léandre (Andy) P.

@moutondesmers.bsky.social

horror comic test

September 7, 2025 at 5:28 AM

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Tori Sharp - Open to Queries

@ladygoofus.bsky.social

We are a group of LGBTQIA+ middle grade book creators who are hosting this giveaway to support the LGBTQIA+ community this Pride month. By entering this giveaway, you could win a copy of all the LGBTQIA+ middle grade books below!

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May 30, 2025 at 6:05 PM

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pseudonym jones

@pseudonymjones.bsky.social

there are 5 weeks until Make A Terrible Comic day so get all the good comics out of your system now

May 20, 2025 at 8:01 PM

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Kendra, normal version

@kendrawcandraw.bsky.social

One bright side to being forced to live in an AI slop tornado is now I see my artistic mistakes as incredibly endearing. The human machine of my body made that weird line. My worst day of drawing is completely untouchably better than anything AI will ever produce until the heat death of the universe

March 28, 2025 at 1:27 AM

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m. r. sauter

@oddletters.bsky.social

i have such a fucking headache right now literally and also

like

spiritually

March 13, 2025 at 6:08 PM

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Joshua J. Friedman

@joshuajfriedman.com

UPDATE on Mahmoud Khalil from his lawyers and his wife: "Today I spoke to Mahmoud and he is healthy and his spirits are undaunted by his predicament." (Legal team now includes ACLU, CCR.)

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Amy E. Greer, attorney for Mahmoud Khalil provided the following update this evening:

First, importantly, today I spoke to Mahmoud and he is healthy and his spirits are undaunted by his predicament. He also greatly appreciates, and, typically for him, is moved by the extraordinarily broad and steadfast support he has received from a variety of communities that understand what is at stake. He is in ICE custody in Louisiana, and arrangements have been made for local attorneys to visit him today and tomorrow.

The remarks by government officials, including the President, on social media only confirm the purpose – and illegality – of Mahmoud's detention. He was chosen as an example to stifle entirely lawful dissent in violation of the First Amendment. While tomorrow or thereafter the government may cite the law or process, that toothpaste is out of the tube and irreversibly so. The government’s objective is as transparent as it is unlawful, and our role as Mahmoud’s lawyers is to ensure it does not prevail.

Today Mahmoud's legal team, which includes Kyle Barron, CLEAR, the Center for Constitutional Rights, the American Civil Liberties Union, and Amy Greer filed a motion to compel in federal court in the Southern District of New York, as part of the habeas corpus petition filed on his behalf over the weekend, seeking an order requiring the government to return to New York for any immigration proceedings.

March 11, 2025 at 12:06 AM

Léandre (Andy) P.

@moutondesmers.bsky.social

some swing dance art from January

March 10, 2025 at 8:31 PM

Léandre (Andy) P.

@moutondesmers.bsky.social

@travale.bsky.social thank you so much for the jig and the advice!! got the blade sharpened last week :)

March 6, 2025 at 5:53 PM

Léandre (Andy) P.

@moutondesmers.bsky.social

some hourlies i did but never posted!

February 26, 2025 at 1:33 AM

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genice

@genicecream.bsky.social

HEAR ME OUT

>be me
>thinking about colors
>colors are different wavelengths of light
>light=energy
>energy follows the laws of physics
>entropy is a law of physics
>wtf is entropy

low entropy=energy concentrates
high entropy= energy spreads
law of entropy=energy is predisposed to disperse evenly

consider the circle and the sphere:
circle= even 2d distribution of energy
sphere= even 3d distribution of energy

what if... color models are predisposed to form into circles and spheres when "all" ranges are evenly included?

presenting: THE SHRIMP SPHERE
aka. "wouldn't it be sick as hell if there was a color model that 'included' the colors that mantis shrimp can see"

Color is a wavelength of light (energy) that is visible to the human eye. But just because a wavelength of light is unperceivable to humans, does that mean its color does not exist?

Consider the Mantis Shrimp: it has 12 different types of photoreceptors in its eyes, whereas humans only have 3. What can the Mantis Shrimp see, that humans do not? Are the colors it perceives only hypothetical because humans cannot perceive them? Or can it be decided that the Shrimp’s colors exist, because it can be assumed that they would?

In a hypothetical exhibition of this color model, the sphere would be constructed with a multitude of nodes. Each of these nodes would emit or reflect and absorb a specific wavelength of energy. Then, using math, the wavelengths of energy would be evenly and 3-dimensionally spaced apart, until it forms a sphere.

Within the sphere, there are two kinds of nodes:
Positive nodes, and Negative nodes.

Positive nodes emit light (energy), and within the visible spectrum are perceived as “additive color.”
Negative nodes reflect and absorb light (energy), and within the visible spectrum are perceived as “subtractive color.”

The resulting construction would probably be reminiscent of the HSL color sphere, however because the Shrimp Sphere includes wavelengths of energy invisible to the human eye, large sections of it would likely appear to be empty whiteness or blackness. In this way, the Shrimp Sphere is ultimately just a demonstration of both the limits and potential of human perception.

How It Works

upper range: invisible to the human eye and probably damaging to the human body (eg. UV light, x-rays, gamma rays)

center: ("white") limit of human perception of additive color

range of visible light: range between the center (white) and the human limit of perceiving subtractive color (black)

"black": limit of human perception of subtractive color

lower range: wavelengths too low to be detectable by the human eye (eg. infrared light, radio waves)

north pole: infinite mass of energy (eg. God, probably)

south pole: complete absence of energy (eg. void of outer space)

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Intersections with Other Color Models

human vision of additive color: sits on the upper half of the range of visible light

human vision of subtractive color: sits on the lower half of the range of visible light

gamut of human visual perception: sits in the additive color vision range, with the white point in the middle. this is demonstrated in the diagram with the CIE lab gamut, which contains the subtractive model of color, thus the placement in the upper half of the visible light range.

if the CIE lab gamut were to be integrated more accurately into the Shrimp Sphere it would probably sit within it in a shape reminiscent of the CIE 1964 chromaticity model, with the "white point" in the center of the sphere

thou shalt not literally create the shrimp sphere

February 12, 2025 at 8:15 PM

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Léandre (Andy) P.

@moutondesmers.bsky.social

here’s my favorite comic i drew about being trans and dancing

November 28, 2024 at 9:20 PM

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Lucy Knisley

@lucyknisley.bsky.social

Hourly Comic Day is only a week away! Here’s a very earnest invitation to join in, and some advice from someone who’s been doing this for almost 20 years! Read my old ones here: www.lucyknisley.com/hourly-comic...

January 25, 2025 at 2:25 PM

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Kiku

@kikuhughes.bsky.social

1/5 - I wrote this short comic immediately after experiencing a hate crime inside the Wing Luke Museum (Seattle's Asian American history museum). I didn't sit down to make the comic until over a year after it happened, but now it's done. I have exorcized the feelings.

Comic page rendered in black, red and blue. The first panel shows a woman walking on a city street. It reads "September 2023, I'm on my way to a Tsuru for Solidarity meet-up at the Wing Luke Museum. On the way I pass a mural. The CID fighting for its existence yet again." There is an overlaid panel of the mural in question, it shows two fists holding chopsticks and reads "Chopsticks in a bundle are unbreakable." Panel 2 shows the same woman opening a red door. Narration reads "(I don't know anyone yet, I've been following Tsuru's work from afar so I'm hoping to connect with them today)." Panel 3 shows a woman's face, straight short hair and a red beanie. There are two other people talking behind her. Panel 4 shows a grid of Japanese language signs. The text reads "We gather in the theater, where the museum has created a tapestry made from signs that used to line the streets of Nihonmachi, before they were all shuttered by executive order 9066"

January 21, 2025 at 3:46 AM

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TracketPacer

@tracketpacer.bsky.social

every year around christmas time the ballet dancers who play the rats in the nutcracker come out with a series of unexplained banger tiktok videos and anyway this is my favorite part of the holiday season

December 14, 2024 at 5:06 PM

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Rori!

@roricomics.bsky.social

Tweet from @farfinfarfin:

the fastest way to improve your art is to become some sort of pervert, doesn't really matter kind, whatever you're comfortable with

October 7, 2024 at 3:22 AM

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Tori Sharp - Open to Queries

@ladygoofus.bsky.social

The first pre-launch episode of THE PAGE TURN PODCAST is live! Host Introduction 1: From Fanart to Freelance with Sydney Dean. youtu.be/_2pG4U-pr6Q?...