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cial | notfun @demon-sushi.com · 11h

come to the somerville ma zinefest at the bostonFAC any time before 6pm oh yay!!!!!!

my setup for zinefest!!!! at a half table

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 11h

Anything you share with one person can now become a dataset for someone else's AI agent to mine, without so much as a heads up, because the "human in the loop" doesn't give a shit about ethics.

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Sarah Archer @sarcher.bsky.social · 12h

The catalog for “Charley Harper: Creatures Wild and Tame” at the Cincinnati Art Museum is available for preorder and comes out next Tuesday! It includes essays by CAM curator Julie Aronson, @michaelbierut.bsky.social, Julie Zickfoose, and yours truly: www.rizzolibookstore.com/product/art-...

The cover of Charley Harper Creatures Wild and Tame showing a stylized polar bear’s face and with a cardinal perched on his head, yellow type on a glacial blue background.

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 21h

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A lot of people in the comments are mentioning that USA Today is owned by Gannett. One of my big concerns is that *every* Gannett-owned newsroom might have access to my interview now. I will never interview with any of them again.

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 22h

I need to rest up so I can go buy a bunch of zines at the Somerville Zine Fest tomorrow!! I’m not tabling but I will be around for a bit checking everything out, so say hi if you see me!

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 22h

Made it back to Boston after a very long but wonderful day in Vermont for TWIST, lots of comics and zines! I had such a good time, everyone was the absolute best! (and now I cannot wait to go to sleep immediately for like 12 hours)

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 23h

It’s that time of the year again

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 08/10/2024

Doing Octoblerone, where I eat toblerones every day for a month and draw absolutely nothing.

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I would advise people not to talk to USA Today for any reason, about anything ever, based on this thread. It's bad enough that the whole profession is circling the drain, but for a remaining publication to feed interviews into a slopifier without telling sources? When it's about SA? I just.. 🌋

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 31/07/2026

"I just use it for research" like it's neutral, like nothing built by big tech ever had bias baked in? "It helps me find papers." Okay, but do you think there might also be a chance the plausibility generators surface papers by men more often than women, for instance?

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Alex Kittle @alexxkittle.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Starting work on one of the most important cinematic cats of all 😎

In-progress digital illustration of The Cat Who Wore Sunglasses.

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 03/10/2026

Can’t believe I had to scroll this far to see the first mention of “Thomas Guides”!!

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sid @sidvicious.ca · 03/10/2026

donkey kong 64

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Clare - Little Conkers @littleconkers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#Crochet pattern for three teeny amphorae: bit.ly/2Xnw9WZ #amphora #amphorae #archeology

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 03/10/2026

come thru and say hi!

Four cyanotypes from the records of enemy surveillance series on the wall, next to some of the prints of the same series. Blue pieces of wood with images of flock cameras from above, with red thread

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I've been a journalist for 35 yrs &never done anything like this. Esp in this area, I can't think of anyone reputable who'd do this. I hate this happened to you & IMO it's not ethical. IF it were possible they were going to share yr interview internally, you should have been told up front at MINIMUM

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 14/12/2025

She’s style, she’s grace, she’s got a tiny hat on her face

A cat with a tiny needle felted flat cap on her head

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 14/12/2025

She's so stylish

a grey cat with a tiny needlefelted hat on her head

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I can’t imagine any off the record remarks were removed from the audio recording before it was shared—including before it was potentially uploaded into an AI service.

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Betsy Streeter 🐋 @betsystreeter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Oh gosh this is great company!

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 01/10/2026

Just had time to sit down and read some of them, not just from today, but from this week, wonderful newsletters from: @cabfolio.com: buttondown.com/Cabtastic @erhartscribbles.bsky.social: buttondown.com/erhartscribb... @betsystreeter.bsky.social: buttondown.com/thespaceboat

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Lynn Wartski Sculpture @lwartskisculpture.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Working title for this one is Questions. #EmperorPenguin family with a talkative youngster. #art #sculpture #needleFelt #FiberArt #bird #Penguin #ColorADay #BWFri #EaskCoastKin #ECK

"Questions" needle felted original sculpture of a family of three emperor penguins by Lynn Wartski. Baby in middle is grey with white and black head, has mouth open. Black and white with orange and yellow highlight adults on each side.

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 01/10/2026

I am always so charmed when people trading for zines and comics at shows are like downplaying their stuff with “I have no idea if you’ll even want this but it’s (proceeds to list specific things you love or are very interested in)” and I get to be like YES THAT IS WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT LET‘S GOOOO

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 01/10/2026

I was literally raised in a video store run by my family, zines about bad 80s movies are my sacred texts.

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 01/10/2026

Someone said this to me about their zines about graphic medicine and bad 80s movies and I was ready to climb over the table to get my hands on them zines, are you kidding me??? I must have them.

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 01/10/2026

But also you should hype your stuff up more instead of downplaying it much as I do love being like “au contraire, my friend, I absolutely want to trade for your wonderful zines, just look at them! They’re amazing!”

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 01/10/2026

Tomorrow!!

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 01/10/2026

Several weeks ago, Phil Tippett's legendary animation studio in Berkeley, CA closed. An anonymous hero noticed a folder of CDs. This turned out to be hundreds of unseen hi-res images and videos from Star Wars, Robocop, Jurassic Park, etc. ~90 isos for you to browse: archive.org/details/tipp...

A casual Star Wars alien fella at the cantina, in a sun faded, reddish photo. Someone will be mad at me for not knowing who this is.

Phil, a balding Caucasian man, poses a model of the garthok, an antagonist from the Coneheads movie.

Phil, a balding caucasian man, points at some CG on a CRT computer monitor, as a younger man looks on. The screen shows a model of a dinosaur attacking a jeep, while there's an actual physical model of that event in the foreground for reference.

an isolated shot of a star wars vehicle. Sorry, I don't know star wars lol

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Ron Bronson @ronbronson.com · 01/10/2026

2026 Portland Design Month calendar is live all month chock full of interesting events throughout the city from studio tours, panels, participatory design, art, culture, music and more. The whole calendar is here: www.aigapdx.org/portland-des...

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 01/10/2026

He looks like if the men from Ryan Murphy shows were allowed to age instead of being replaced by younger men with the same face over and over.

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 01/10/2026

The ad was for some snake oil that would cure your old bones or some shit, but Mr. Salt and Pepper just seems so credible, the kind of guy where men want to be him and women want to be with him, so of course it gets generated repeatedly for scams.

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 01/10/2026

Once I pointed him out, we just sat there and watched tv for a bit and almost immediately there was an ad with a generated Mr. Salt and Pepper lol, they spotted him so fast.

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 01/10/2026

I did a good deed though, recently, over the weekend, I told a bunch of people in their 60s and 70s about “Mr. Salt and Pepper” the AI generated man who is so incredibly ubiquitous in slop, especially in catfishing/pig butchering scams.

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 01/10/2026

Every time I get served an ad with a generated date/place/etc to make it feel urgent and/or familiar to people, it makes me want to scream.

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 01/10/2026

I like my email for this - I have a hey.com email address (it does cost $, we have a family plan with a couple of accounts on it) but it creates a section of your mailbox specifically for reading newsletters, so I just stick them all in there and then read them that way, it’s pretty great.

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Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm going to Victoria (BC) in mid-October for a literary event. Wondering if anyone has recommendations for any antique stores, thrift stores, or flea markets I should check out if I'm looking for vintage photos, ephemera, etc. related to Victoria's Chinatown / Chinese Canadian history.

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 01/10/2026

They did switch to the plastic bottles though and it was never the same.

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 01/10/2026

There’s a pizza place near my old apartment that still gets them and at the start of the pandemic I would order from them a lot and a few times they just put an extra Orangina in the bag for me because I’d ordered there so much lol they just knew

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 01/10/2026

Listen, it is the fanciest of all beverages

A page from one of my comics:

Let’s go to Paris and Build a website

I knew I wanted to plan a trip to Paris. I had been learning French since I was a very small child.

I loved the idea of being on a picnic in Paris, drinking an Orangina*

*the fanciest of all beverages (at least to 8 year old me)

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NHMARF @nhmarf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Introducing our newest free store location: Exeter! Held at the Exeter Public Library parking lot, on the 1st and 3rd Sunday of each month, starting this Sunday! 11am to noon.

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 01/10/2026

That’s what’s so galling to the people in those communities, too, just showing up in a fly by night post “I didn’t really put in effort to learn anything about you but I do know enough to know that you have value I can extract” Just careless - a lack of respect for people’s time, work, and energy.

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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

October issue

The cover of Vizier Monthly with a shapely big-haired woman in a loose blue gown with a trailing yellow scarf, seated in a throne-like chair. Headlines around her read:
"Some of us are hot": Urda the Fair on the Politics of Pleasure
Ladies of Miss Rule: Tyranny knows no gender!
Oh My Goddess! Simple Ways to Make Him Worship You
Poison Rings: Hot or Not?
It's Lit! Arson, Parliament, and You
So You've Been Overthrown: 10 Tricks to Get Back on Top

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 01/10/2026

Ugh, so many posts on Reddit now, too, someone comes into a community, seen it in crafting, parenting and art business related comms with “what are your pain points?“ which I just always translate as “How could some vibe coded garbage I make pretend to help you so that I can charge you for it?”

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 01/10/2026

Some of these are monthly and do come out on the first and others do an “every so often” model and I think they just liked the idea of posting on October 1st as like “the start of fall” vibes sort of thing, a new season calls for a new newsletter.

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