Brian Nicholson @briannicholson.bsky.social · 13hNothing disproves the lie that teachers are ultra-woke and out to convert kids to transgenderism quite like how obsessed they all still are with Harry Potter 151
Reposted by Brian NicholsonDomino Books @dominocomics.bsky.social · 21hEnjoyed this @briannicholson.bsky.social review of Rotem Anna Diamant's new book, a comic that is hard to do justice to in writing... www.tcj.com/reviews/danc...tcj.comDancing With The Sheyd - The Comics JournalRotem Anna Diamant's interrogation of queer Jewish identity in comics form is reviewed by Brian Nicholson. 144
Brian Nicholson @briannicholson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Wrote about @rotem-anna-diamant.bsky.social's Dancing With The Sheyd for @comicsjournal.bsky.social . During the course of writing this I sung the title to the tune of both "Dancing In Club" (MJ Lenderman version) and Van Halen's "Running With The Devil"tcj.comDancing With The Sheyd - The Comics JournalRotem Anna Diamant's interrogation of queer Jewish identity in comics form is reviewed by Brian Nicholson. 192
Brian Nicholson @briannicholson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Because phone lines are in disrepair since most people have cell phones now, the only people who have landlines are offices like doctors, benefits offices, or the police, and when they call you and can't hear you because their connection is bad they blame it on you that they can't do their job 100
Brian Nicholson @briannicholson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Not the natural audience for sorta throwback soul from garage rockers with massive discographies but the Earth Girl Helen Brown project hits pretty hard. This is just the one I'm playing right now but they all have winnersearthgirlhelenbrown.bandcamp.comMARS, by Earth Girl Helen Brown5 track album 011
Brian Nicholson @briannicholson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I think of my dick like a variable bit rate mp3. You don't need a FLAC file. That's absurd 020
Brian Nicholson @briannicholson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I don't make as many jokes as I'd like to on here, but my brain is attacking everything like "this is kind of funny, there's a joke here," turning it over and just getting depressed 030
Brian Nicholson @briannicholson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026There is a generation coming up - if we're lucky it will only be one - whose social development was stunted due to COVID, and short-form video filled the gap, destroying their attention span, and they are going to be so so stupid 020
Reposted by Brian NicholsonLance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026New word: CLICKWALL. (n) The opposite of clickbait. A headline so unappealing, promising so little reward even by the standards of these things, that it is physically impossible to tap the link to the article. 5473121
Brian Nicholson @briannicholson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026There should be a mobster mascot for a pizza place named Al Calzone 130
Brian Nicholson @briannicholson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Keep thinking "To be a woman and get along in the halls of power you need to have a rape kink" and that's a really unpleasant conclusion to draw about the world 0365
Brian Nicholson @briannicholson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The same people telling you that a country song is really popular and you should've heard it already are the same people telling you Trump's win is indicative of an anti-woke vibe shift when actually both things indicate we just live in a totally insane information environment of separate realities 1130
Brian Nicholson @briannicholson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Shout-out to New Directions for really embracing the one pronunciation of their name with this cover design www.ndbooks.com/book/garden 110
Brian Nicholson @briannicholson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Record-setting popular song in the alternate timeline where we lack antisemitism and country music is irrelevantyoutu.beLily Konigsberg - "Free Byrd" (Official Music Video)YouTube video by WHARF CAT RECORDS 000
Reposted by Brian NicholsonRuss Fischer @russfischer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026the fav dance scene prompt comes up at least once per season and I am happy to post the SIMPLE MEN "Kool Thing" sequence every time 55127
Reposted by Brian NicholsonLee Foltin @leefoltin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026My Instagram ads just keep getting weirder. 1741661
Brian Nicholson @briannicholson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Texting with landlords and feeling like communication is difficult because people don't want to comprehend what you're saying if doing so would require them to change their course of action. Part of me then thinks "and this is why AI exists." Not to aid communication but to reinforce the brick wall 160
Brian Nicholson @briannicholson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Went to see Yamatsuka Eye do a DJ set and realized on my way out the door that I was dressed like Diane Keaton 050
Brian Nicholson @briannicholson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026It's probably a law of economics written about by Marx or whoever that the worse income inequality gets the more perverse economic incentives proliferate, because it's real bad out there right now, but I'm thinking about it for my own petty reasons 010
Reposted by Brian Nicholsonlisten up hombre, @mellowcremepumpkin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026ah a retweet how nice Unless it is from an account named "my infant son is screaming in pain from being currently on fire due to genocide" 161
Brian Nicholson @briannicholson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Wonder if the reason the US hasn't nuked Iran is because then everything going through the Strait of Hormuz would be radioactive. I don't even know if that's true, I just assume that if it is true it's been explained repeatedly to Trump/Hegseth 010
Brian Nicholson @briannicholson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Traveling back in time to explain how expensive groceries get: All cookies are priced like Pepperidge Farm now 000
Brian Nicholson @briannicholson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Disagree, furry airline pilots are the only people I trust to fly a plane into a giant Tony The Tiger's butthole and save New York 110
Brian Nicholson @briannicholson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026"Cognitive surrender" is useful vocabulary, but shouldn't be limited to just A.I. usage. It describes the Epstein class giving up on notions of morality decades ago; that many are now A.I. boosters is not a coincidence 040
Brian Nicholson @briannicholson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Working with younger people makes me less likely to adopt their slang. You are not "crashing out" you are "being a little bitch" 120
Brian Nicholson @briannicholson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026It nust be crazy to be a gambling addict. You'd make so much money! 010
Brian Nicholson @briannicholson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The news about the US only allowing white South African immigrants is so upsetting... Based on that meme about how the boyfriend in every heterosexual couple is "the most racist man alive" they're gonna get so much pussy 010
Brian Nicholson @briannicholson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I hate spelling it "cum" but sometimes I have to do it, for the sake of the writing 110
Brian Nicholson @briannicholson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026You are not "shifting into soup mode." You are twelve years old and will eat what your mother prepares 010
Brian Nicholson @briannicholson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026We are forbidden from asking "Are LLMs a MLM?" because it sounds too much like just spelling something out loud 030
Brian Nicholson @briannicholson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Marie has a show of her sculptures opening tonight at International Waters in Brooklyn internationalwaters.international 0122
Brian Nicholson @briannicholson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Meanwhile, an American art form - jazz - once had a home in the nation's capital at the Kennedy Center, which will soon be destroyed out of spite by a horribly narcissistic racist 120
Brian Nicholson @briannicholson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026There is something about the fact that America's century of global cultural dominance is ending that makes the vision of the world ending seem like a narcisstistic delusion. But we're ceding everything to oil money at a time of climate catastrophe so it really is just planetary suicide 130
Brian Nicholson @briannicholson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026This is the new thing so crazy it blows my mind - a series of mergers and deregulation making it so pretty much of all of American pop culture production is owned and controlled by Saudi Arabia 010
Reposted by Brian NicholsonErin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Well like SOLD where do we SIGN 720930
Brian Nicholson @briannicholson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I do hope we see a world where people feel the cost is too great to just keep driving everywhere. Unfortunately one of the first things I see the average suburbanite giving up on, under that set of circumstances, is voting 000
Brian Nicholson @briannicholson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026If the alt-right was really alt there'd be hipsters with RACE WARS knuckle tats 010
Brian Nicholson @briannicholson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026The thing that's crazy about Dems adopting right-wing perspectives to win elections is that they already tried that with WAR, one of the most unpopular things there is 011
Reposted by Brian Nicholsonactual heathcliff comics @realheathcliffs.bsky.social · 16/09/202616 Sep 2026 7638120
Brian Nicholson @briannicholson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Being good at cooking is attractive, not because it's gendered female, but because it's a way of directing intelligence towards something that's not a defense mechanism like humor is. That this strength is gendered as female is coincidentally very funny 020
Brian Nicholson @briannicholson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Was wondering if more physical-media music people will make the leap to CDs from vinyl due to economic pressures from an oil crisis before remembering vinyl is itself a petroleum product 000
Brian Nicholson @briannicholson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Imagine the sad life of a children's magician, realizing the audience is far more excited to meet and stroke the fur of his pet rabbit than they are in seeing any of his tricks performed 250
Brian Nicholson @briannicholson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Thinking about the Spindrift product placement in I Want Your Sex as I drink my second Spindrift of the night like damn there was supposed to be more to the lifestyle of this beverage than this 010
Brian Nicholson @briannicholson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026One funny way AI could end life on Earth is an AI-generated Trump voice call to the missile silo 020
Brian Nicholson @briannicholson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026If you are at all interested in Providence, Fort Thunder, the intersection of fine art and comics, beautiful drawings, urban exploration, or boats, I hope you'll read this, the piece I've done for The Comics Journal I am most proud of and excited about. Contains large images, best read on desktoptcj.comMarie Lorenz: Nautical Milemarker - The Comics JournalBrian Nicholson tracked down and talked to one of the lesser-known Paper Rodeo contributors about comics, sculpture, water and exploration. 43014
Reposted by Brian NicholsonNick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Alan Moore & Melinda Gebbie's "This is Information" from the 2002 9/11 Tribute Anthology comic is one of my favorite comics ever – its metaphorical approach to narrative had a profound influence on my comics making. I share bits of it in class frequently, but worth revisiting on this day... 316268
Brian Nicholson @briannicholson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026The Nashville airport being renamed in honor of Dolly Parton is cool, but it's too bad Hooters Air isn't still around to make it a hub 020
Brian Nicholson @briannicholson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026This is a Big Essay Thought but: The lie Trump reveals, that Americans will fight for their freedom and use guns to do so, prefigures the AI schizophrenia machine. It is the revelation that this myth is a lie which leads to reliance on a compulsive reality-destabilzing device. 121
Brian Nicholson @briannicholson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026People talk about how time seems to speed up as you get older, but do other people feel like it is harder to see new people as friends the older you get because you feel like you haven't known them long enough or is this mostly a me problem? 130
Brian Nicholson @briannicholson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026The smoke alarm indicatiing you need to change its batteries by making a loud noise every two minutes has gotta be one of the worst design decisions of all time 130
