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Joseph Knoop @josephknoop.bsky.social · 1h

Extra funny when you think about how Sinners, which features Michael B. Jordan gunning down Klansmen in broad daylight in slow-mo, is the 10th highest-grossing R-rated film of all time - higher than The Hangover, 300, Logan, John Wick 4, etc....

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 1h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 2d

if you announce that you're breaking up with Nicole Kidman because she wanted too much sex you need to do it at a press conference where you're in a full body cast. just a little slit in the head area where a pair of wild, haunted eyes are staring out

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Laika L. Gagarin @laikalgagarin.bsky.social · 1h

They seriously tiktokified Fascism.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 4h

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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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1h

The essence of Bari Weiss: not reporting, but crude partisan propaganda presented in the form of reporting—and usually pronounced from the mouths of anonymous sources which likely don't exist. Expect this sort of prolefeed at CBS News soon.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 1h

Life would have been better never knowing what I'd lost because of these racists. Because this might kill me.

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 1h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Amazing Digital Carcass @amagire.bsky.social · 1h

the "do your own moderation!" to "no NOT LIKE THAT" timeline was shorter than I expected. I really did think they'd wait until we had ads and people started coordinating to block those

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Heidi MacDonald @comixace.bsky.social · 4h

"That's the point – the smudge, the rough line, the hesitation - that's what makes my work come alive." - Jim Lee talking about why DC will never use AI storytelling. "AI doesn't dream, feel or make art, it aggregates it."

@jimlee.bsky.social speaking very passionately at Retailer Day. #nycc

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Cat Fitzpatrick @catfitzpatrick.net · 1h

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Phil Murphy @crashtesterx.bsky.social · 4h

Maybe the LGBTQ people of the US should stop paying their taxes if their country will not treat them like citizens or with basic human decency.

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David Ferguson-Honsbein 🏳️‍🌈 @davidpbferguson.bsky.social · 3h

My article about some @jamesthefourth.bsky.social comics that you should read this spooky season.

Gay Community News @gcnmag.bsky.social · 3h

Discover the often-frightening worlds of James Tynion IV. Read 👉 buff.ly/N3JKCIf #GCNnews

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Stíofán Mhac an Bhaird (Stephen Ward) @stephencward.com · 2h

Best of luck!!😁😁😁

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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 2h

😭 help . I planted a beefsteak tomato thinking it was going to grow bits of cattle flesh but it was just tomato. I'm so confused, the EU parliament needs to help me. I've been tricked and mislead

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 3h

Hear, hear

Comic Book Club @comicbookclub.bsky.social · 3h

Jim Lee's impassioned words about why DC will never use AI have already won New York Comic Con.

Jim Lee On Why DC Will Never Use AI: “AI Doesn’t Dream, Feel, Or Make Art, It Aggregates It”

The President, Publisher, and Chief Creative Officer of DC Comics spoke out at today's Retailer Day at New York Comic Con.

comicbookclublive.com

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Zac Thompson @zacthompson.bsky.social · 1d

I’m so damn proud of this series. I really think it occupies a unique space on the shelf. I hope now that it’s all collected more folks give it a shot.

My mean mug holding a copy of INTO THE UNBEING PART TWO.

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 5h

It’s been years since I read 1964’s Amazing Spider-Man Annual #1. Crikey but Steve Ditko was at the top of his game. Visually, I can’t help but believe it’s the definitive Spidey. If such a thing exists, it exists here. (*1)

*1: Other opinions are readily available.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · Dec 8

The videos for both days of the "Reimagining AI for Environmental Justice and Creativity" talks are now available at the Karsh Institute website; highly recommend checking them out, here:
karshinstitute.virginia.edu/events/reima...

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Stíofán Mhac an Bhaird (Stephen Ward) @stephencward.com · 5h

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Stíofán Mhac an Bhaird (Stephen Ward) @stephencward.com · 5h

also just generally being kept in the loop with new comic releases from the scene/ events

Stíofán Mhac an Bhaird (Stephen Ward) @stephencward.com · 5h

discovered the Irish comic scene (living in the sticks meant I wasn't really aware of it pre-interweb), which lead to me contributing to Irish Comic News for a time:)

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 16h

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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PJ Holden @pauljholden.com · 5h

Very much the dead internet. All those comics marvel did with ugly great big AR symbols on top of gorgeous art, evey qr code on the back of every book. All now filled with the equivalent of digital landfill.

Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 5h

Yikes. Just got a message from my child’s school: some children’s books by Andrew Cope (inc. Spy Dogs, Spy Cats, and Spy Pups series) have a printed URL at the back. This used to go to the author’s website, but now goes to an “adult content” site.

So, yeah… be careful with that URL 😳

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 5h

So last night I migrated @gregpak.net from Bluesky to Blacksky's myatproto.social server for non-Black users! A few thoughts on the process for anyone thinking about this...

Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 14h

whew. that took a while! but it looks like i'm done! all blobbed up in blobtown!

screenshot of a notice that says "You are good to go! You have all 4131 of the expected 3669 blobs. You're done!!"

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 5h

Trans rights are civil rights. If you aren't willing to die on the hill of trans rights, then you aren't willing to die on the hill of Black rights. Of Jewish rights. Of disabled rights. Of gay rights. Of anyone's rights. Human rights.

the tallest stone @talleststone.bsky.social · 6h

I hate to say it but the majority of the country is not going to die on the hill of trans rights. We can’t protect ANY groups if we can’t win a national election, so purity tests only serve to make specific groups feel triumphant. That’s not “erasing” them; it’s long-horizon strategy.

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Lisa Sterle @lisasterle.bsky.social · 5h

Today’s the day! MARY SUE #1 is available now at your local comic shop ❤️ today I’ll be at the iconic Laughing Ogre from 4-6 selling and signing comics and probably drawing my own Mary Sue. Her name is Sailor Sun and she is a Sailor scout and I created her when I was 12. 🌈 happy NCBD!

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Little Deer Comics @littledeercomics.bsky.social · 5h

Restocks from Sunday’s @dublincomicarts.bsky.social !

Here until 5 logging local New Arrivals!
littledeercomics.ie

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Matthew Parkinson-Bennett @matthewpb.bsky.social · 6h

“Mr Donald said his work with the Sunday World involves him working alongside colleagues from the Irish Independent and that he regularly told the story in the newsroom of how he was owed money by Mr Gavin.”

www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

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