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tatiana 🌈 @caterwaul.bsky.social · 21h

this is the time for would-be patrons to shine tbh. get small, get local. a new favorite piece of art or writing or music is in your area, i promise.

Grunkle Harm @harmcox.bsky.social · 1d

pov: every artist and writer you know realizing that social media is collapsing into a bog of rich arrogant dumb-dumbs, leaving us the option of continuing to exploit ourselves on the extremely off-chance we go "viral" OR opting out and resigning ourselves to regional lit mag poverty and obscurity

sally in the back of the truck at the end of TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE. a bloody woman laughing and screaming at the same time. sally never had to learn how discord works, so who is the victim here exactly?

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Nick Filardi he/him @nickfil.bsky.social · 20h

I'd want a snout. For smelling better.

JR McCormick @oldcinnamon.bsky.social · 21h

Today I’m thinking about the flat faced werewolves like Wolf Man and Oz from Buffy… and also the snout men werewolves like from Van Helsing and Dog Soldiers.

I think if I was a werewolf, I’d be ragin if I was one of them flat faced ones.

#werewolves #thinkinaboutwolves #wolfthoughts

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Joey Esposito @joeyesposito.bsky.social · 1d

logan gets it

yolo

Nick Filardi he/him @nickfil.bsky.social · 1d

Comics are good.

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Nick Filardi he/him @nickfil.bsky.social · 1d

You need any kinda special training or school for this job or....

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Nick Filardi he/him @nickfil.bsky.social · 1d

Comics are good.

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🎃SCARE-sha🎃 @spacethey.gay · 1d

from a purely economic standpoint, thats a 46% return on investment. literally wasting money by not doing it!!!

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 1d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Nick Filardi he/him @nickfil.bsky.social · 1d

Comics are good.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 2d

Me: *pays 140 dollars*

Tim Meadows: get away Dewey! don’t eat that Panda Express Orange Chicken! you don’t want any of that shit! It’s delicious!

Me: *delighted* *pays 140 dollars*

Meadows: Dewey get out of here! Don’t eat the rangoons! You don’t want any of that shit!

Me: *delighted* *pays 140

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X-Men Don't Need Britches 💙💛 @rphutch1975.bsky.social · 2d

Monday
Into the week like... color guide by Gregory Wright for the Uncanny X-Men #268 cover recolored and re-used for the 1991 Marvel Comics Poster Book Featuring Jim Lee!
#xmen

Color guide by Gregory Wright for the Uncanny X-Men #268 cover recolored and re-used for the 1991 Marvel Comics Poster Book Featuring Jim Lee!

Its Black Widow, Captain and Wolverine full figure posing together

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Nick Filardi he/him @nickfil.bsky.social · 3d

We've hit spooky mode.

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Brian Michael Bendis @brianmbendis.bsky.social · 3d

Random cool shit from my photo roll: Event Leviathan by @alexmaleev.bsky.social Pearl by @tulalotay.bsky.social Young Justice by @rileyrosmo POWERS by @oeming.bsky.social @nickfil.bsky.social

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Joe Quinones @joequinones.bsky.social · 4d

God, everything is so so stupid.

Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 5d

Marvel just not bothering to take people to court over ripping off the Punisher logo the same way they would for literally any other piece of IP has consequences and here they are now www.theguardian.com/books/2020/j...

Post on X by NBC’s Ken Dilanian:
“The challenge coins being handed out by @FBIDirectorKash. Seems someone put a lot of thought into this.”
[pic of a medallion in the shape of a stylized Punisher skull with two teeth made of revolver barrels on the obverse and the text “PRESENTED BY THE DIRECTOR OF THE FBI KASH PATEL,” the FBI seal, a tommy gun, a signature, and a blue number 9 on the reverse]

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Nick Filardi he/him @nickfil.bsky.social · 4d

:shaking people: *LOOK AT THIS*

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Troy Little @angoranapkin.bsky.social · 4d

HARK!

Oni Press @oni-press.bsky.social · 5d

Worship at the feet of The Cult Of The Lamb: Schism Special #1!

@gamesradar.com.web.brid.gy has the first look at the powerful new, 48-page special from acclaimed writer @alexpaknadel.bsky.social and Eisner Award-nominated artist @angoranapkin.bsky.social!

www.gamesradar.com/comics/non-b...

"Non-believers will be re-educated" in a new Cult of the Lamb story that puts a schism between the Lamb and their flock

Check out an early preview of pages from Cult of the Lamb: Schism Special #1

www.gamesradar.com

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Nick Filardi he/him @nickfil.bsky.social · 5d

Happy #LetterboxdFriday! #LastFourWatched

Haven't yet hit spooky mode- but I'm about to this weekend.

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Nick Filardi he/him @nickfil.bsky.social · 6d

I just remember it being so weirdly fun and odd.

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Nick Filardi he/him @nickfil.bsky.social · 6d

a man wearing glasses and a tuxedo is sitting in a crowd

ALT: a man wearing glasses and a tuxedo is sitting in a crowd

media.tenor.com

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Nick Filardi he/him @nickfil.bsky.social · 6d

Watched, rated, ranked, and reviewed all the X-Men movies.

If you want to check out the reviews www.letterboxd.com/nickfil

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Jason Song Quinn @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 7d

Telling a cartoonist to just do a little self promotion a day to maintain an audience.

columbo screenshots @columboscreens.bsky.social · 7d

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Benito Cereno @benitocereno.bsky.social · 7d

It’s October, gang! And that means I have once again prepared for you a list of streaming horror movies to enjoy this spooky season! As with the last few years’ lists, these are all movies I have never featured on a list before!

boxd.it/Omfwc

New Screams to Stream for Halloweam 2025

If you’re reading this in October, there's a better than average chance that you might be looking for something spooky to watch this month, so I'm here to help you out with suggestions of good movies ...

boxd.it

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Meredith McClaren at ROMICS Oct '25 @iniquitousfish.bsky.social · 7d

So my local zoo @phoenixzoo.bsky.social invited me and a few other comic artists to participate in a gallery show!

Comic Conservation will have an Opening Celebration, this October 4th, from 9am to 1pm.

(The show runs 'til Jan 2026 tho)

You should go peep the art!
And then go peep the animals!

A small illustration in black and white of myself from behind. I'm looking at two pieces of art (my own) from the Comic Conservation show at the Phoenix Zoo's Wild Side Gallery.

The opening celebration will be this October 4th, from 9am to 1pm.

And the show runs until January 2026

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Nick Filardi he/him @nickfil.bsky.social · 8d

Same.

Brandon Williams @stupidartpunk.bsky.social · 8d

Im so sick of angry little men with ignorant loud voices telling the rest of us how to live.

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Alanna Smith @alannamode.bsky.social · 8d

Give folks their flowers

No, I mean right now. Go tell someone you loved their work right now. They're on social media just say it, it has never been easier

"They know how much people love--" no they don't go say it right now to a composer or artist or game dev or writer or anyone AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

Murlin @murlin.bsky.social · 9d

From bravewave.net/interviews/t...

Mo: Do you remember the first time you met someone who said they loved your work on Mega Man 2?

Tateishi: You’re the first, in 2013. No one else has.

Mo: Wow. I’m surprised. I don’t even have a follow-up question… how could no one come up and say something.

Tateishi: …

Mo: Now that you know how big Mega Man 2 is outside of Japan, do you look fondly back at the soundtrack?

Tateishi: Yeah, my thoughts have changed since I met you and became more aware of how people felt. But even when I was at Konami, I didn’t even bother telling anyone I did Mega Man 2. So the fact you came all the way to Japan to tell me these things makes me very happy I worked on the game all those years ago.

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The Ken in Yellow @kenlowery.bsky.social · 8d

Walmart nostalgia is Blockbuster nostalgia, to me. The things you liked about it were pale imitations of concepts they stole from the places they ran out of business. You don't like Walmart, you like the shadows of the things they destroyed

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merritt @merrittk.com · 8d

the way people respond to those ai nostalgia videos has led me to believe that at least 75% of humanity will walk right into the bone harvesting chambers as long as a crude facsimile of a living being tells them there's gameboys and PB Crisps inside

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