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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 6h

Because there's so much awful stuff to write about, I decided to write my latest column for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social about something interesting and removed from all that: the discovery of a blue pigment in a Neolithic artefact.
www.thenewworld.co.uk/philip-ball-...

How did cave artists get a brand new pigment?

The discovery of traces of a blue pigment on a stone shaped into a shallow dish at a Palaeolithic site in Germany is quite a find

www.thenewworld.co.uk

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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 1h

Sweet! Our cargo terns have been life changing - almost no driving the past several years. When I don’t have small humans to take around everywhere, the foldable looks like a great option someday. Enjoy!

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1h

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Jordan Collver @jordancollver.bsky.social · 6h

I won't be able to make it to this excellent panel discussion with @karriefransman.bsky.social @paulfisherdavies.bsky.social and my boy Rik, but some of my art will be part of the exhibition alongsides greats like @nsousanis.bsky.social @kaysohini.bsky.social @cartoonkate.bsky.social !

FredRIK WORTHam 🎃 @rikworth.bsky.social · 8h

If any of you lovely people are in Leeds for the @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social The Comics Research Group at Leeds University is hosting a roundtable and exhibition event on Comics Theory and Practice on Nov 12.

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/comics-pra...

Comics Practice and Theory: Roundtable & Exhibition Launch

An exploration of comics, research and creative practice. Part of Thought Bubble Comic Arts Festival.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 10h

I appreciated this piece by @theoatmeal.bsky.social on Ai art - really thoughtful (it's long, but worth it!) theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal

This is a comic about AI art.

theoatmeal.com

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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 10h

thanks for sharing this - one back at ya! bsky.app/profile/nsou...

Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · Aug 24

My statement on Ai from the mini-comic as syllabus i made for new class I'm teaching that starts tomorrow! It robs you of your decisions & struggles - and the joy of being surprised. We won’t to be robbed of our learning - this is essential. This & the full mini at post:
bsky.app/profile/nsou...

a snippet of a mini-comic, at top - straight line stretches from point A to B. Immediately below, same dot at A, then becomes a curving, meandering line that winds through the page and ends at a point with rays and a question mark emanating from it. Text reads: "Nothing can do this for you - for that robs you of experience and conflates answers with learning. Rather, it's all the decisions you make along the way, the mistakes, struggles, and surprises! These pathways you create - this is learning.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 16h

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 13h

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 15h

Here’s video of the incident

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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 1d

Ooh... free shipping at @bookshop.org today and tomorrow as part of their "anti-Prime sale."

Includes preorders, so get your copy of Life After Cars.

bookshop.org/a/9252/97805...

Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile

Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile

bookshop.org

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 18h

I fear if things don’t change right now, this image is going to come back to haunt us

Laura Rodriguez, on Twitter:

A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them.

Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.

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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 19h

all good - I just had a related conversation with students the other day, and I really wanted to read what you posted!

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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 20h

sweet - congratulations!

Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 20h

did you mean this link? thank you! edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1275

Who Wants to Be a Teacher in America?

Long-standing compositional disparities and more recent concerns about the health of the teaching profession highlight the need to increase our understanding of the pipeline into K–12 teaching. Levera...

edworkingpapers.com

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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 21h

the Ai grift is definitely linked to fascist intent... bsky.app/profile/nsou...

Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · Aug 24

My statement on Ai from the mini-comic as syllabus i made for new class I'm teaching that starts tomorrow! It robs you of your decisions & struggles - and the joy of being surprised. We won’t to be robbed of our learning - this is essential. This & the full mini at post:
bsky.app/profile/nsou...

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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 21h

There needs to be significant consequences for this sort of lying to the public - jail time, the end of their political careers - and permanent shaming in public life…

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”

@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 22h

Last night in class in our discussion around bell hooks’ teaching to transgress, students referred back to drawings I’d made for the syllabus. So you know it sticks! bsky.app/profile/nsou...

Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · Aug 20

My drawn statement on Ai as standalone from my now finished minicomic as syllabus for new liberal studies class! As promised this is shareable, printable - all from my site, feel free to make use of it, cite me & let me know how it’s received. Share away all here! spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-sy...

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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 1d

And this is from the new minicomic made for this term with my ai statement… bsky.app/profile/nsou...

Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · Aug 24

My statement on Ai from the mini-comic as syllabus i made for new class I'm teaching that starts tomorrow! It robs you of your decisions & struggles - and the joy of being surprised. We won’t to be robbed of our learning - this is essential. This & the full mini at post:
bsky.app/profile/nsou...

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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 1d

I got a few exactly like this :)

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” -Edward R. Murrow

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 1d

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 1d

I should stress, drawn syllabi needn’t only be for comics classes (& as I pointed out, my noncomics syllabus minicomic was more of a comic than others) - good any subject!
My dad’s physics class materials from way back inspired me (and he occasionally got me to make drawings for it as a kid!) do it!

Sketches and words from a physics course

More physics notes with drawings and Batman

Batman drawings that accompanied the physics momentum materials

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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 1d

Do it! As I said here, my non comics syllabus was the most comics-y! Go for it!

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 1d

this is a very very big story because of the apparently totally fake story ICE/DHS put out about what happened.

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 1d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 1d

All my syllabi and teaching materials live here permanently for anyone to make use of spinweaveandcut.com/education-ho...

Education – Home

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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 1d

Meant to share a while ago, all my drawn syllabi for the semester, including the minicomic as syllabus with my Ai statement in it. (Curiously there are more words in my comics syllabi than the non-comics one…) All available (with text versions as well) on my site spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-sy...

Photo of drawn syllabi - two for comics classes and one for a non comics class as a minicomic

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