Nick Mizgala
@nmizgala.bsky.social
Gen X, old, nerd, queer, cranky, could use a nap. Likes vintage retro crap, drawing, fixing stuff.
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Yay!!!!! Three of Magnolia's songs (written with the fabulous John Jarvis and Kerry Marx) are on the official @fallout.bethesdastudios.com Season 2 soundtrack! Diamond City Radio lives on...
"Man Enough"
"I'm the One You're Looking For"
"Good Neighbor"
open.spotify.com/playlist/37i...
"Man Enough"
"I'm the One You're Looking For"
"Good Neighbor"
open.spotify.com/playlist/37i...
Fallout Radio
open.spotify.com
December 19, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Yay!!!!! Three of Magnolia's songs (written with the fabulous John Jarvis and Kerry Marx) are on the official @fallout.bethesdastudios.com Season 2 soundtrack! Diamond City Radio lives on...
"Man Enough"
"I'm the One You're Looking For"
"Good Neighbor"
open.spotify.com/playlist/37i...
"Man Enough"
"I'm the One You're Looking For"
"Good Neighbor"
open.spotify.com/playlist/37i...
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"concept artists can experiment with AI to make their lives easi-"
wrong
I smack you with Claire Hummel's immaculate and detailed understanding of costume design, which she got by studying historical references, which made her strong, which you will not become by relying on AI
get good
wrong
I smack you with Claire Hummel's immaculate and detailed understanding of costume design, which she got by studying historical references, which made her strong, which you will not become by relying on AI
get good
December 18, 2025 at 9:39 PM
"concept artists can experiment with AI to make their lives easi-"
wrong
I smack you with Claire Hummel's immaculate and detailed understanding of costume design, which she got by studying historical references, which made her strong, which you will not become by relying on AI
get good
wrong
I smack you with Claire Hummel's immaculate and detailed understanding of costume design, which she got by studying historical references, which made her strong, which you will not become by relying on AI
get good
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I watched him talk about this at SXSW or somethin 20 years ago, but there’s a key element he’s leaving out today.
He concludes this utopia only after lowering the human population by at least 50%. We know now he sees all the survivors as white.
He concludes this utopia only after lowering the human population by at least 50%. We know now he sees all the survivors as white.
December 17, 2025 at 10:21 PM
I watched him talk about this at SXSW or somethin 20 years ago, but there’s a key element he’s leaving out today.
He concludes this utopia only after lowering the human population by at least 50%. We know now he sees all the survivors as white.
He concludes this utopia only after lowering the human population by at least 50%. We know now he sees all the survivors as white.
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"You shouldn't make art for the money" buddy I'll take it one step further and say we shouldn't have to labor for capital at all but in the meantime pay an artist
December 11, 2025 at 7:02 PM
"You shouldn't make art for the money" buddy I'll take it one step further and say we shouldn't have to labor for capital at all but in the meantime pay an artist
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Gordon ramsey: you fucking DONKEY. What did I tell you?
Chef: You said you've got to... pay the cheese tax every time you're um cooking
Ramsey: so why did this fucking puppy come looking?!
Chef: I forgot to-
Ramsey: jesus christ this bastard forgot to pay the cheese tax
Chef: You said you've got to... pay the cheese tax every time you're um cooking
Ramsey: so why did this fucking puppy come looking?!
Chef: I forgot to-
Ramsey: jesus christ this bastard forgot to pay the cheese tax
June 29, 2024 at 6:28 PM
Gordon ramsey: you fucking DONKEY. What did I tell you?
Chef: You said you've got to... pay the cheese tax every time you're um cooking
Ramsey: so why did this fucking puppy come looking?!
Chef: I forgot to-
Ramsey: jesus christ this bastard forgot to pay the cheese tax
Chef: You said you've got to... pay the cheese tax every time you're um cooking
Ramsey: so why did this fucking puppy come looking?!
Chef: I forgot to-
Ramsey: jesus christ this bastard forgot to pay the cheese tax
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I honestly don't think anyone still contributing free time and effort to Elon Musk has any sense of self interest or any reasonable, logical way they can be reached.
All we can do is support regulation and try to build up alternatives as much as possible. Those left there are unconvincable
All we can do is support regulation and try to build up alternatives as much as possible. Those left there are unconvincable
I'm begging any artists still using Twitter claiming it's integral to their work to just leave. It's been revealed the site works off a made up "credit score" from hell and punishes you for posting like a normal human being.
Abandon Twitter for good. It's time. It's been time.
Abandon Twitter for good. It's time. It's been time.
December 5, 2025 at 8:02 AM
I honestly don't think anyone still contributing free time and effort to Elon Musk has any sense of self interest or any reasonable, logical way they can be reached.
All we can do is support regulation and try to build up alternatives as much as possible. Those left there are unconvincable
All we can do is support regulation and try to build up alternatives as much as possible. Those left there are unconvincable
“Now I know what a TV dinner feels like!”
December 3, 2025 at 1:44 AM
“Now I know what a TV dinner feels like!”
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Buy affordable original art from real life artists! I've got a couple inked pieces in here for just $30, along with other illustrations from my @helioscopepdx.bsky.social studiomates.
Apologies for so much etsy posting, but it’s a big part of how we operate. Anyhow, there is a TON of original art on sale rn for pre-Black Friday. Go take a look! helioscopepdx.etsy.com?section_id=6...
helioscopepdx.etsy.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Buy affordable original art from real life artists! I've got a couple inked pieces in here for just $30, along with other illustrations from my @helioscopepdx.bsky.social studiomates.
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Hello, graphic designer of over fifteen years here:
It’s because ultra rich conservatives would never pay a professional graphic designer to do something that an intern who technically knows how to operate Adobe Illustrator couldn’t theoretically do for free.
That’s why they like generative AI.
It’s because ultra rich conservatives would never pay a professional graphic designer to do something that an intern who technically knows how to operate Adobe Illustrator couldn’t theoretically do for free.
That’s why they like generative AI.
[P] I rotated this a touch so that the top of the shield lines up with the green line.
Look how misaligned the "D" and final "R" in DEPARTMENT OF WAR are. The Getty watermark obscures it, but the "U" and final "A" of UNITED STATES OF AMERICA are off, too.
Some Design 101-level shit.
Look how misaligned the "D" and final "R" in DEPARTMENT OF WAR are. The Getty watermark obscures it, but the "U" and final "A" of UNITED STATES OF AMERICA are off, too.
Some Design 101-level shit.
November 13, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Hello, graphic designer of over fifteen years here:
It’s because ultra rich conservatives would never pay a professional graphic designer to do something that an intern who technically knows how to operate Adobe Illustrator couldn’t theoretically do for free.
That’s why they like generative AI.
It’s because ultra rich conservatives would never pay a professional graphic designer to do something that an intern who technically knows how to operate Adobe Illustrator couldn’t theoretically do for free.
That’s why they like generative AI.
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Huh. Almost as if
Where are the "You guys he said he doesn't know anything about project 2025 and we should just believe him" people at? I just want to talk to them
this is beyond bad. This is christofascism
this is beyond bad. This is christofascism
October 5, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Huh. Almost as if
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It is unfathomable to me that we’re all just supposed to be okay with higher energy costs and more air and light pollution, in exchange for a machine that steals personal data and copyrighted material and produces slop and wage theft, and big tech can do this to our society unilaterally.
October 5, 2025 at 2:25 AM
It is unfathomable to me that we’re all just supposed to be okay with higher energy costs and more air and light pollution, in exchange for a machine that steals personal data and copyrighted material and produces slop and wage theft, and big tech can do this to our society unilaterally.
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The government has obtained tools that permit “indiscriminate and warrantless data collection” that “can absolutely assist ICE in turning law-abiding citizens and protestors into targets of the federal government,” EFF’s Beryl Lipton told @san.com.
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ICE’s surveillance capabilities expand under Trump
Immigration and Customs Enforcement is rapidly expanding its high-tech surveillance capabilities under President Donald Trump.
san.com
October 3, 2025 at 1:58 PM
The government has obtained tools that permit “indiscriminate and warrantless data collection” that “can absolutely assist ICE in turning law-abiding citizens and protestors into targets of the federal government,” EFF’s Beryl Lipton told @san.com.
san.com/cc/ices-sur...
san.com/cc/ices-sur...
I read them both in the 80’s and moody likely have them in a box downstairs.
These two books from the late, great A.C. Crispin that tells the story of Zar, Spock’s son in Sarpeidon’s past.
October 1, 2025 at 2:19 AM
I read them both in the 80’s and moody likely have them in a box downstairs.
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He’s blocking her because she would be the final vote necessary to force a vote on releasing the Epstein files. He’s doing this to protect pedophiles. Release his Grindr profile!
Mike Johnson continues to refuse to swear in a Democrat who won in a landslide.
October 1, 2025 at 12:55 AM
He’s blocking her because she would be the final vote necessary to force a vote on releasing the Epstein files. He’s doing this to protect pedophiles. Release his Grindr profile!
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If techno fascists are trying to convince you to abdicate your decision making and imaginative processes to them and their machines, that is reason enough to resist generated art. They do not have your interests in mind.
They are attacking creatives as a class, and using that tech makes you a scab.
They are attacking creatives as a class, and using that tech makes you a scab.
May 21, 2025 at 1:04 PM
If techno fascists are trying to convince you to abdicate your decision making and imaginative processes to them and their machines, that is reason enough to resist generated art. They do not have your interests in mind.
They are attacking creatives as a class, and using that tech makes you a scab.
They are attacking creatives as a class, and using that tech makes you a scab.
The exact reason I keep telling AI “artists” to fuck right on off.
LRT: I've been a full-time, self-employed cartoonist for 18 years and I make about as much as a school teacher with no benefits and way higher taxes. I'm considered a *success* in this industry, think about that.
99% of the artists you run into are a paycheck away from poverty, give us a break.
99% of the artists you run into are a paycheck away from poverty, give us a break.
September 10, 2025 at 3:12 AM
The exact reason I keep telling AI “artists” to fuck right on off.
If he did anything, he gets no excuses. Nail his ass to the in a court of law.
GOP greatly overestimates the number of fucks GenX and younger give about Bill Clinton.
September 10, 2025 at 3:07 AM
If he did anything, he gets no excuses. Nail his ass to the in a court of law.
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Jessica Watkins is a trans woman who was an Oath Keeper militia member convicted for her actions in the January 6 insurrection. Trans people can be led to commit violence by the same dumb, insidious bullshit that leads cis people to commit violence. So maybe calm the fuck down about the MN shooter.
August 27, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Jessica Watkins is a trans woman who was an Oath Keeper militia member convicted for her actions in the January 6 insurrection. Trans people can be led to commit violence by the same dumb, insidious bullshit that leads cis people to commit violence. So maybe calm the fuck down about the MN shooter.
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Life comes at you fast
August 17, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Life comes at you fast
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The country’s most famous houseplant is missing. What did Trump do with it?
The country’s most famous houseplant is missing. What did Trump do with it?
The Oval Office Swedish Ivy was a gift to John F. Kennedy.
www.motherjones.com
August 16, 2025 at 8:51 PM
The country’s most famous houseplant is missing. What did Trump do with it?
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This made me laugh. And then I sat and thought about it. This is correct.
August 6, 2025 at 3:30 AM
This made me laugh. And then I sat and thought about it. This is correct.
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If you think a golden ballroom is more important than childhood cancer research… I have nothing left to say to you. Please unfollow me.
#pediatriccancer #cancermom
#pediatriccancer #cancermom
August 5, 2025 at 9:40 PM
If you think a golden ballroom is more important than childhood cancer research… I have nothing left to say to you. Please unfollow me.
#pediatriccancer #cancermom
#pediatriccancer #cancermom
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If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages
August 6, 2025 at 1:01 AM
If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages
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ARTISTS! if you have an old drawing tablet that doesn't have any drivers available anymore or is just unsupported now, i HIGHLY recommend checking out opentabletdriver.net
my old wacom bamboo is now unsupported and you can't even get old drivers anymore, works perfectly (even in windows 11).
my old wacom bamboo is now unsupported and you can't even get old drivers anymore, works perfectly (even in windows 11).
April 1, 2025 at 4:48 PM
ARTISTS! if you have an old drawing tablet that doesn't have any drivers available anymore or is just unsupported now, i HIGHLY recommend checking out opentabletdriver.net
my old wacom bamboo is now unsupported and you can't even get old drivers anymore, works perfectly (even in windows 11).
my old wacom bamboo is now unsupported and you can't even get old drivers anymore, works perfectly (even in windows 11).
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reminder to yell specifically at Mastercard about Patreon as they're the reason Patreon wants your face to post anything vaguely ""adult"" and also the increasingly strict definition of such over the years causing multiple creator purges
i've yelled about it before in the context of Patreon, if you're new around here unknownbinaries.tumblr.com/post/7275574...
If I Close This Account, Here's Why: | Patreon - dev/zero
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July 30, 2025 at 11:17 PM
reminder to yell specifically at Mastercard about Patreon as they're the reason Patreon wants your face to post anything vaguely ""adult"" and also the increasingly strict definition of such over the years causing multiple creator purges