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Shaenon K. Garrity

@shaenon.bsky.social

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Cartoonist and skiffy writer. 2022 Inkpot winner. Narbonic, Skin Horse, Willowweep Manor. Repped by Brent Taylor. https://www.patreon.com/c/Shaenon

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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 13d

I'll be at the Cartoon Art Museum on October 19 to celebrate THE NEFARIOUS NIGHTS OF WILLOWWEEP MANOR, my new graphic novel written by me and drawn by the great Christopher Baldwin!
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Cartoonist IRL: Shaenon K. Garrity — Cartoon Art Museum

The Cartoon Art Museum is proud to host author and illustrator Shaenon K. Garrity and celebrate her latest graphic novel  The Nefarious Nights of Willowweep Manor , the second book in her Willo...

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California Fast Food Workers Union @cafastfoodunion.org · 15h

BREAKING: Burger King workers are on strike in Oakland due to pregnancy discrimination.

The store cut our coworker’s hours because she is pregnant and asked for accommodations to ensure a safe pregnancy. 🧵

#UnionsForAll

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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 3h

The guest list for your show's big debut should contain few to no names that make me say out loud, "They're not dead?"

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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 4h

Cut to him saying that after talking to her, he immediately realized she was the next Edison Jesus Einstein and of course he signed off on it.

I don't understand this skill but it really works. 2/2

Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 4h

There's an amazing bit in one of the Theranos docs where Holmes's thesis advisor, an older woman, wouldn't sign off on her thesis because Holmes clearly didn't know what she was doing. So Holmes went to another professor, an older man. 1/2

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 22h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 4h

Not a documentary, but Downfall is a real feel-good movie these days. Just three hours of Nazis finding out. You only feel bad for the kids and Hitler's dog who clearly doesn't want to be there.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 6h

Just TWO BACKERS AWAY from 300, now!

Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 11h

It would be pretty darn cool if we could get Rigsby to 🎉300 backers🎉 before the end of the evening! Just saying!!!

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Rigsby WI - Volume 2: Burn It Down, by SE Case

The second volume of SE Case's Eisner-nominated webcomic about the brutal disaster of being a teen in the early 2000s!

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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 4h

I got my best grade for the paper on the movie I only watched half of (8 1/2, I saw 4 1/4) because I left to catch a talk by Calvin Trillan.

I was a wild woman.

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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 4h

I had a film class at 8:00 AM the morning after the weekly screening of film class movies, which meant watching the movie, hurrying back to my dorm, dashing off a response paper, and optional sleep. I got so damn good at writing under the wire.

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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 11h

Imagine the hellworld where a pregnant woman could get medical treatment and an immigrant could ALSO get medical treatment

They could even be the same person

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Maia Kobabe @redgoldsparks.bsky.social · 14h

It's Banned Books Week. If you are an author, please join @authorsabb.bsky.social! If you work in the publishing industry, please join @pubprosabb.bsky.social! Canadian authors, you can now join Canadian Authors & Illustrators Against Book bans: linktr.ee/caiabb. Working together feels good! 📚✍️👏

The black and white cover of a zine titled Do you make books? Yes? I want YOU to join Authors Against Book Bans! By Maia Kobabe. The image shows author Maia Kobabe holding a stack of books and pointing at the reader

WHAT IS AABB?
A coalition of writers, illustrators, editors & other book creators, standing united against the unconstitutional movement to limit the freedom to read. We support the availability of diverse voices in our libraries, in our schools, & in our culture. We pledge to band together against the oppression of literature, to speak when our voices are silenced, to go where our bodies are needed, & to fight to ensure this freedom.

Our concern is not only for the books, but for the children, families, educators,
librarians, & communities who suffer when the freedom to read is challenged and taken away.

WHAT CAN AABB OFFER YOU?
- Regional groups working on legislation to protect authors & the freedom to read state-by-state
- Online trainings on digital security, public speaking, & how to counter book challenges in your community
-Affinity groups for BIPOC authors, queer authors, authors with disabilities, indie, nonfiction, romance writers & more
-Support if your book is challenged or your school visit is canceled!
-A very active discord community

Maia: I’ve been facing intense challenges to my book since 2021. Knowing that I am not alone in the fight against censorship is what keeps my spirits up!

Watching the folks in AABB share information, co-write legislation, show up to library & school board meetings, & speak up to publishers about the need to protect diverse books & minority authors has been amazing!

This is a weird & scary time to be an author, but you are not alone! Join thousands of us fighting for the freedom to read, the freedom to write, the freedom to teach, the freedom to learn, & the freedom to share our stories!
-Maia Kobabe, 2025

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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 12h

Even the incredibly petty thing he's pretending to be outraged about is fake!

Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 12h

He's talking about federal coverage for uninsured ER visits, which is unconnected to citizenship status, i.e. he's lying anyway.

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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 14h

Me doubled over from preeclampsia: oh my god I hope this facility isn't compensated for setting an immigrant child's broken bone

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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 14h

In this scenario, where I'm a pregnant woman having some kind of medical emergency, I'm supposed to care how much money the hospital makes from treating me? Why? The fuck is he talking about?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 14h

This month's Patreon wallpaper is kaiju.
www.patreon.com/c/Shaenon

A wallpaper design with two kids, one dressed as Godzilla and one as the scientist who studies Godzilla, with a background of autumn gingko.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 16h

This might be the worst ICE video yet, because it’s literally random dudes hanging around, and then a bunch of heavily armed thugs running them down completely out of nowhere, because they’re brown. It’s a nightmare that would have seemed excessive in Jim Crow. Everyone in America should see this.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 16h

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

doomscroll break

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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 1d

Screw this, these ghouls do not deserve a seasonal pumpkin shake

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Jimmie Robinson @jimmierobinson.bsky.social · 8d

Sneak peek of new ARTillery cover art. Want to see it finished in full color? Order yours from Lunar distribution from Invader Comics #art #comics #comicnews @invadercomics.bsky.social

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 1d

It should be very very clear to everyone right now that the Attorney General was asked under oath if she possesses pics of the President with undressed teens and she refused to say “no.”

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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 1d

The first time I visited NYC, the New Yorker who was showing me around pointed out the sheer diversity of people in our subway car, just hanging out together. It's a dang miracle and one of humanity's great achievements.

Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 1d

Trump's insistence that he has smart genes because an uncle 40 years ago taught at MIT continues to be one of my favorite pathetic things about him.

Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 1d

Jack Black, best known as Electric Giovanni Ribisi's wingman in The X-Files.

A couple of 1990s teenage shitkickers who happen to be pre-stardom Giovanni Ribisi and pre-stardom Jack Black.

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