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Lucy Bellwood @lubellwoo.bsky.social · 14h

This week you can find The Scale of a Man, my illustrated reflection on craft, grief, and inheritance, on @therumpus.net. Thank you @marinaomi.bsky.social for believing in this piece and getting it further into the world. Read the whole thing here: therumpus.net/2026/10/13/t...

The Scale of a Man, by Lucy Bellwood. In clean, black and blue artwork, a small man in plaid stands between two incoming waves, looking up at a model tall ship in a glass case.

Two hands, drawn in clean, black and blue artwork, hold a pen above a penciled page in progress showing a boat and colonists in pencil. The narration says "Okay, Lucy. You can do this."

The previous pencilled page is now fully rendered in black and blue. A square rigged sailing ship plunges through the sea in the top panel. It's December, 1732. The merchantman Anne is somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic, bound for Yamacraw Bluff. A colonial family look toward the horizon. She carries 114 souls under the leadership of General James Oglethorpe. These English colonists will populate the future state of Georgia. Most survive the crossing, but some do not. The last image of the page shows two small, shrouded bodies plunging below the waves.

General Oglethorpe, in wig and greatcoat, writes at a desk on January 13th, 1733. "We have lost none of our people except the youngest son of Richard Cannon, aged eight months, and the youngest son of Robert Clarke, aged one year and an half. Those were so far gone that all our efforts to save them were in vain." In a similar posture, Lucy sits at her drawing table, a hole cut clean through her chest with the light from her anglepoise lamp shooting through it to illuminate a small box of ashes on the table behind her. Narration reads: My dad died while I was working on this comic. I should probably mention that up front. It's impossible to make anything right now that's not full of his absence. In the panel below, the colonists are now in a small rowboat, headed for the distant coast. The colonists' story rolls on, full of the stuff of textbooks. But I can't stop thinking about those two boys.

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Callie @bomgaars.bsky.social · 5h

Ahhhhh this is beautiful 😢

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Callie @bomgaars.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Between this chunk of broken glass and all the long black hairs coming up from the carpet, I'm beginning to think our landlords were either lying about the apartment being professionally cleaned, or lying about the presence of yūrei

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Jennifer @jenwith1n.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

We are all seeing how just a few months of outsourcing your thinking to AI can wreck your brain. The wealthiest people have outsourced everything to the people around them for YEARS.

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It's World Homeless Day, and I'll just say: Homelessness isn't some great unsolvable mystery. People are homeless because they don't have homes. This suffering persists not for lack of solutions, but because enormous wealth and power are invested in maintaining the very structures that produce it.

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United Wizards of the Coast - CWA @uwotc-official.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Curious how you can help? We ask that you sign our petition for Wizards to voluntarily recognize our union, share it with your communities, and keep an eye on this account for future updates! actionnetwork.org/forms/uwotcp...

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Stand with Dungeons & Dragons and Magic Workers Forming a Union!

The Dungeons & Dragons team and Studio X (Magic: The Gathering; Duel Masters) are forming a union! We are joining the ranks of United Wizards of the Coast - CWA (UWOTC-CWA) and following in the fo...

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Callie @bomgaars.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Casting Director: "I'm thinking we need someone strange and ethereal, preferably with very faint eyebrows." Ugluk, the unfrozen caveman who is a sophmore in high school: "MIA GOTH!" Casting Director: "Yes, Ugluk, we know. We all saw your new boots."

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Callie @bomgaars.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It's so weird that rich people as a class use their wealth to turn the machinery of the state against the common citizen, destroying the public good in order to enrich themselves. Capitalism is probably fine, though.

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Callie @bomgaars.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Bounced *hard* off Crime & Punishment once I realized the protagonist was justifying *murder*. I don't know about Dogstovesky, but in *my* book a crime like that deserves punishment, not platforming! Plus, the streets of St. Petersburg are way too twisted. My city has a sensible grid pattern.

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Callie @bomgaars.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The zombie segment in Treehouse of Horror III

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Every college in this country decided that expelling and/or sending the police to beat the shit out of their own students for the crime of being opposed to genocide was their top priority. That and giving Trump complete control of what they teach. Contrast that with how they treat rapists.

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Callie @bomgaars.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Data doing karaoke [pitch-perfect Brandon Flowers voice]: "I am coming out of my cage and I have been doing just fine I have got to, I have got to be down because I want it all..."

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Callie @bomgaars.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Feminize a band name: The Barenaked Gentlemen

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Callie @bomgaars.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I have been informed that some people ship Clive and Maurice from "Maurice" Like... "We all love the closeted gay who chooses repressive social acceptance over genuine self-actualization from E.M. Forster's hit novel, 'Don't Choose Repressive Social Acceptance Over Genuine Self-Actualization'"

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Callie @bomgaars.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

*looking around at all the catastrophic problems in the world's most successful capitalist society* "Wow, I can't wait until capitalism fixes all these unrelated and non-systemic problems!"

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Lucy Bellwood @lubellwoo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is making the rounds on Tumblr again, so I'm sharing it here for anyone struggling to put Accurate Boat Stuff in their creative work. (These are excerpts from my comic A Week at Sea with OHP, which you can read online here: lucybellwood.com/new-comic-a-...)

An illustrated diagram showing the different parts of a square sail on a tall ship, including tacks, head, leeches, reef nettles, foot, and clews, along with how they work together to bring the sail up to the yard or down to be set.

An illustrated step by step guide to setting a square sail on a tall ship. 1. Cast off your gear, 2. Sheet home, 3. Tend your braces, and 4. Haul your halyard!

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Callie @bomgaars.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

⭐️☆☆☆☆ I remember in the Second Age when this Chili's was nought but a grove of gemspider-infested eïllorwn trees, and let me tell you: the table service has *not* improved.

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Callie @bomgaars.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Cyberpunk character suffering cyberpsychosis after trying on too many glasses at warby parker

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Callie @bomgaars.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Mine was Exile III: Ruined World Make a party of people, cats, and lizards? Break out to the surface world to fight a bunch of slimes? Count me in!

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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I'd never seen this Roy Lichtenstein painting before, but it's incredible how he manages unfailingly to make his copies worse than the original comics he's ripping off.

A drab pop art painting of a sinister man driving a car, watching a stoic blonde in leopard print fur. The proportions of the guy's face are off

The original image, from Girls' Romances 78 by Tony Abruzzo. The guy has a more sinister leer, while the woman has heavier mascara and feels both sadder and more determined. A caption reads "I vowed to myself I would NOT miss my appointment -- that I would NOT go riding with him--yet before I knew it..."

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Callie @bomgaars.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It's a shame Ancient Warfare didn't include photo credits, because that Greek key motif is... interesting. I know key patterns often incorporate swastikas, but it's always a choice on modern re-enactor gear, and this one appears to be *just* interlinked swastikas, which is *definitely* a choice.

Interlinked red swastikas on a Greek tunic, partially onscured by folds of fabric and overlapping armor, but still pretty visible.

Another view of the linked swastikas, still slightly obscured but still pretty obvious. Doesn't appear to be any more complex pattern than "swastikas, but they touch at one point."

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Callie @bomgaars.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Got back in touch with an old friend and I'm kicking myself for not saying "Every day I get in my cybertruck and commute to my job at raytheon where I coordinate AI development with the IDF"

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 21/09/2026

great news! | patreon.com/lubchansky

PANEL 1: A TECH BRO running through the street, holding a laptop over his head.
TECH BRO: GREAT NEWS! I THINK I WROTE THE COMPUTER PROGRAM THAT'S GOING TO KILL EVERYONE.

PANEL 2: MATTIE peers at the laptop, which just says KILL ALL HUMANS on it, with a blinking cursor. Another WOMAN runs away.
MATTIE: IT LOOKS LIKE YOU JUST TYPED A SENTENCE HERE ON THE LATPOP.
WOMAN: AHHH! DON'T LET IT NEAR THE NUKES!

PANEL 3: The TECH BRO shakes his head.
TECH BRO: NO. YOU CRETIN, YOU DON'T TRULY UNDERSTAND ITS CAPABILITIES.
TECH BRO: PLUS, IT'S SCRAPED FROM SOMEONE *ELSE* TYPING IT. IDIOT.

PANEL 4: A BUSINESSMAN hands the SCIENTIST a big bag of money. The space behind him is also filled with bags.
BUSINESSMAN: HERE IT IS! EVERY PIECE OF CURRENCY EVER MINTED INCLUDING COINS FROM THE ANCIENT WORLD
TECH BRO: THANK YOU.

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Callie @bomgaars.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Such fun in unbelievable techno-nightmare CCP hell

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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Why did Seattle's former City Traffic Engineer sigh with exasperation in this tweet from 2019? 🧵

Dongho Chang: "Sometimes we agree to disagree, the best we could do here (sigh)"

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themboy insomniac @riotliturgist.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

i call this "neoteny of the oppressed" btw. because children are the archetypal objects of legitimate coercion (violence, authority, control, etc) any vulnerable group can have their autonomy stripped by first linking them to children & childlikeness. the comparison legitimizes any act of coercion

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Callie @bomgaars.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

As I explain that "we have to sacrifice the human rights of some groups" and "you actually don't have a choice about who you vote for" are sentiments that directly contradict the founding principles of Liberalism, I am repeatedly tased and dragged away by police, to the applause of onlookers

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Callie @bomgaars.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

They have to say that to win in their state. Have you ever been there? Just fall in line and vote for them, they have the right letter after their name. Don't be a wrecker.

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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

i think in the future all art will be a perfect sphere that we all go look at, one giant orb in the center of america that we all go and stand in front of and point at it and say "there it is, there's the art". nobody knows who made it or where it came from or why it's there, we just look at it.

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Callie @bomgaars.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

When you realize you've just written a 100-page tangent and need to get back to the main plot:

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Callie @bomgaars.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

"I am an ally of the trans community!" Nice, which trans activists do you find most influential on your work? "None of them! They all hate me because of the things I say!"

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Callie @bomgaars.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Radical trans terrorist organization that forcefems anti-trans politicians wait this is the plot of X-Men

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Callie @bomgaars.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Today marks 25 years since the only time Republicans considered a big coastal city to be representative of all America

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Benjamin Dewey @benjamindewey.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Here's a few more Star Trek fan art pieces. I hand-letter everything because I don't have all the fonts or the knowledge of how to do it another way (that I'm satisfied with.) I've always got time for Odo/Quark/O'Brien tributes.

A mash up illustration of Odo and Columbo labeled as "columbodo"

Miles O'brien with his hands on his hips with his sleeves rolled up. Around him is the statement "Endure and Thrive like you are Miles F'n O'Brien"

Odo and Quark having a stare-down with each other. Quark is amused. Around them in a circle is the text: Sometimes your nemesis and your best friend are the same weird little goblin.

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Callie @bomgaars.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Wonder what these two are up to. You don't hear a lot about them anymore.

Kanye West and Taylor Swift during the Imma Let You Finish incident

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Callie @bomgaars.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

*laying your neck gently on the chopping block* Don't worry, this is just part of my plan to defeat the Executioner

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Callie @bomgaars.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Seems like a fair price. Anyone wanna buy my free will?

Corner of a brochure that says "Free Will ($159 value)"

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Callie @bomgaars.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

[Johnny Cash voice]: Your own... personal... data

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Callie @bomgaars.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

A party of high-level adventurers downing potions right outside Anthropic HQ

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Callie @bomgaars.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"Wow, that's really good advice!" "Thanks, I got it from a screenshot of an instagram post of a screenshot of an old twitter post of someone paraphrasing something their therapist told them, supposedly."

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Callie @bomgaars.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Liberal Centrist reading a book about labor history: "Why are these commies rioting so hard for something the ruling class is just going to give them in a couple decades anyway?"

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Callie @bomgaars.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Me 2 years ago: "I will not lie to my daughter just to make things easier for me." Me today: "You can't eat bread in bed. They sound too much alike."

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Callie @bomgaars.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Oh, you think you can be a gatekeeper? Name 3 shibboleths

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Callie @bomgaars.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Yes. The USSR directly -with soldiers, tanks, and planes- fought fascists in Spain while the UK and France fucked the Republic over. Stalin fucked the Republic over too! But my point is that the USSR is on a very short list of countries who directly fought nazis pre-1939. Important context.

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Callie @bomgaars.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Yeah, big fan of sending tanks and planes and soldiers to fight the fascists, not a big fan of purges and crushing the anti-Stalinist factions. Stalin bad, etc.

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