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Chris Mautner

@cmautner.bsky.social
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Editor at @pennlive.bsky.social. Co-editor at @comicsjournal.bsky.social. Putters around here and there.

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Fun @funkelly.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Screen shot from a YouTube video by someone named MEpearl, an older woman with short hair wearing a red long sleeve shirt and a dark floral scarf. She sits before a wall of books, though it may be a photograph of a wall of books, but the important detail is that in her lap is a beautiful possum, and that possum is eating from a plate of fruit on the table before them. The title of this video is “is your possum a narcissist.” It has 31k views and was posted 5 days ago.
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Little Girl's Gasp Reaction
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 18h
@CethanLeahy

Me: oh wow, this shop has everything my heart desires!

Spooky shopkeeper: yes, I will warn you... every item comes with a price.

Me: yes, I know how shops work

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Spooky Shopkeeper: The price may be more than you expect to pay.

Me: Yes, I know how US taxes work, too.

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Shopkeeper, increasingly exasperated: I'm trying to tell you that I'm evil and offering these wares with no regard for the harm they will do!

Me, also increasingly exasperated: I know what capitalism is too goddammit
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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...
Left: A cartoon generated by ChatGPT and signed with Emily Flake’s signature that was posted to a Reddit forum in June. Right: A real Emily Flake cartoon published in The New Yorker on August 20, 2026 and licensed via The Cartoon Bank.
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Chris Beveridge @chrisbeveridge.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
aw fuck this hurts. I loved Post Bros.
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Matt Howarth, Creator Of Savage Henry And Post Bros Has Died, Aged 72
Matt Howarth, Creator Of Savage Henry And Those Annoying Post Bros. Has Died, Aged 72 #RIP
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Richard Gagnon @gasp65.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It has come to my attention that the seemingly unstoppable cartoonist Matt Howarth has recently passed away. Condolences to my fellow Howarth aficionados and friends. His truly was a rare talent. From a few years back, here's a paean to one of his finest creations: whosoutthere.ca/2020/10/13/t...
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Tentacle Tuesday Masters: Matt Howarth and His Keif Llama
Wasting the wide range of my xeno-tech training on a home office job was like putting a carpenter in charge of the psycho-ward. Like any fish out of water, I didn’t fit in. Bureaucracy said I…
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404 Media @404media.co · 05/10/2026
The vulnerability could have let a Muse user access sensitive internal Meta databases.
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Meta Rushed to Fix Muse 'VM Escape' Vulnerability Immediately Before Launch
The vulnerability could have let a Muse user access sensitive internal Meta databases.
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The incredible Special Effects of KAREL ZEMAN — without whom there’d be no Terry Gilliam, Tim Burton or Wes Anderson to name but three.
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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I don’t think I’m ever going to get the appeal of pivoting to video for podcasts. I’ve been listening to podcasts for 20 years, and never once have I thought, my God, I need to SEE these people! I’m on a walk or doing the dishes, I don’t need video. 
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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 04/10/2026
A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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A Reckoning in Springfield
A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.
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Chris Mautner @cmautner.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Disappointed Homelander from The Boys
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Chris Mautner @cmautner.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I’m mad I haven’t thought of this
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Memento (spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
A murder of crows? You mean caws of death??
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NosferaPru @prufrockluvsong.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Please stop calling me on my phone that's not what it's for
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jam @socialistboat.dad · 01/10/2026
Caffeine doesn't replace lost hours of sleep, it only masks the fatigue signals to your brain so you don't realize how tired you actually are. You still suffer the cognitive and physiological deficits from the sleep deficiency, you just can't tell. Which is good actually and fine I've decided
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Chris Mautner @cmautner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Abra-ca-pocus
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gothic göre @britneyspheres.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Everyday Life of the Bourgeoisie: Watercolours by Josabeth Sjöberg
A couple in a tidy living room, he's playing songs to her on the guitar, colored drawing
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Jordan Kurella @jordankurella.com · 01/10/2026
waking up every day in 2026 like:
a construction sign on the side of the highway that says "IT'S COMING IT'S BAD"
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bossk baby @bonnnt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
absolutely incredible shit
On his 58th birthday, Goessling met his birth mother in person and later connected with his biological father over the phone. When Goessling asked what he did for a living, his father mentioned he was a musician preparing to tour through St. Louis that summer.

"And I said, 'Are you Michael McDonald?" Goessling said. "And he said, 'Yeah, I'm afraid so."
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404 Media @404media.co · 30/09/2026
USPS says the cameras, put on USPS truck dashboards, will scan roads, signs, and more.
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USPS To Put Cameras in Trucks That Scan Roads for ‘Community Safety’
USPS says the cameras, put on USPS truck dashboards, will scan roads, signs, and more.
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Chris Mautner @cmautner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Aw man, I love your turntable posts
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Chris Mautner @cmautner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
But who's going to find out who put the ram in the ram-a-lama-ding-dong? The Riddler?
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Chris Mautner @cmautner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Man, good thing that guy decided to wear an oversized shirt. “You never know, I could get turned into a centaur today.”
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Ian @crossoverappeal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Miller, Janson, Varley, Starlin, Wrightson, Wray, and Reagan. Unbound in the Square. A 68 page chapbook benefit for Asheville Prison Book Project. avlpb.bigcartel.com
Detail from Batman: The Cult by Starlin, Wrightson, and Wray. An announcement is made that Gotham is in a state of emergency as a sniper aims his rifle out of a storm drain saying “you bet your ass it is.”
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Guggenheim Collection @guggenheim.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Bright Unity by Vasily Kandinsky, 1925 botfrens.com/collections/212/conten…
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York 
Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection, By gift

© 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris
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Tom Shapira @tomshaps.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I see @shelfdust.bsky.social has republished my old Horror Comics and the Holocaust essay (originally edited and published by @cuntersthompson.bsky.social) I was really proud of that one at the time shelfdust.com/2026/09/28/t...
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The Dead Come Back: Mid-Century Horror Comics and The Holocaust
Originally published on The Gutter Review on October 8, 2021. The spirit of The Gutter Review lives on today in the form of Trash Humper, a zine you can buy with your grubby hands right now: head h…
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Steven Lemongello @stevelemongello.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Florida Senate demanded the Orlando Sentinel and South Florida Sun Sentinel destroy a long-hidden state report detailing property insurers’ payments to sibling companies whose profits remained secret. Now we are publishing the complete report. www.orlandosentinel.com/2026/09/25/n...
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News organizations publish Florida’s secret examination of insurer profits
The Florida Senate demanded the Orlando Sentinel and Sun Sentinel destroy a hidden state report on insurers’ secret sibling company profits. Read it here instead.
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The Comics Journal @comicsjournal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
OBBLYN FOR MAYOR : An Interview with Mickey Zacchilli by Ana Woulfe www.tcj.com/obblyn-for-m...
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OBBLYN FOR MAYOR : An Interview with Mickey Zacchilli - The Comics Journal
Mickey Zacchilli talks to Ana Woulfe about Obblyn's roller coaster mayoral race- could the white house be next?
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New from 404 Media: when you upload images to Copilot, they're not private. Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users' prompts/images, according to internal docs we got And they're horrified at what they're seeing. Bombarded with requests to make sexual AI images www.404media.co/humans-readi...
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Humans Are Reading Copilot Prompts — And They're Horrified
Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users’ prompts and uploaded images, according to internal documents obtained by 404 Media. The contractors are also bombarded with users’ requests for sexual AI...
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404 Media @404media.co · 28/09/2026
Executives working on AI at Microsoft and OpenAI admitted what its critics have been saying all along: LLms are predatory pieces of technology that have been built on what a Microsoft executive called “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions.” www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...
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‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft
"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ha ha that’s gross and should make everyone uncomfortable, anyway, Rahm presided over a Chicago police black site, lied about what it was and then I sued the Chicago police for its records that proved it:
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Homan Square revealed: how Chicago police 'disappeared' 7,000 people
Exclusive: Lawsuit exposes scale of detention at off-the-books interrogation warehouse while attorneys describe find-your-client chase ‘from a Bond movie’
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
context. sentiment. inferences. People seriously cannot do these things anymore. That’s why they angrily demand you spell out every joke, every reference, super duper promise you mean something only this one prescribed way. They cannot do it for themselves or tolerate the any ambiguity.
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The literacy crisis is not just referring to people's ability to literally read and write. It's also people's inability to read for context. I've been a public educator for over 20 years and I have never, ever seen it this bad.
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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.
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KUMI Kaoru @kaorukumi.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I’m very happy to share that my new essay has just been published in _The Comics Journal_. The timing feels particularly meaningful. The essay comes out just as Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi travels to the United States to meet with President Trump. www.tcj.com/japans-first...
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Japan’s First ‘President’ and the transformation of Japanese Comics: From Godzilla to Aircraft Carrier Ibuki - The Comics Journal
Kaoru Kumi takes a trip from Godzilla to modern military-themed manga and examines how Donald Trump's second term could affect the industry's future.
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Azure Emerald Empire @azureemeraldempire.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
At the store reading the news
A printed note on a supermarket shelf:

The current shortage of sardines is primarily due to environmental and supply chain factors.
Key Reasons for the Shortage
Environmental Changes: Warmer ocean temperatures have disrupted the plankton supply, which is essential for sardine populations. This has made sardines harder to catch.
Export Restrictions: Morocco, the leading exporter of sardines, has halted frozen sardine exports to protect domestic supplies and stabilize prices.
• Increased Demand: There has been a surge in popularity for canned sardines, leading to higher demand that outpaces supply.
Global Supply Chain Issues: Various logistical challenges have compounded the availability of sardines in stores.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 20/09/2026
BREAKING: An ICE agent shoots and wounds a man in Austin, Texas, officials say.
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ICE agent shoots and wounds man in Austin, Texas, officials say
A local official says a federal immigration agent has shot and wounded a man in Austin, Texas. City Councilmember Mike Siegel says the Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer rammed the man’s car then got out of his federal vehicle and opened fire at least five times.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 20/09/2026
Breaking News: Federal officials are drafting an executive order that would help cement President Trump’s ability to control billions of dollars in scientific grants funded by the National Institutes of Health.
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White House Moves to Take Control of N.I.H. Grants
Federal officials are drafting an executive order that would place grants under review by an outside panel, the latest effort to redirect billions of dollars in research spending.
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Forgotten Comic Strips @forgottencomics.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
"Sesame Street" by Cliff Roberts, 1970-1975 August 21st, 1975 as seen in the Alamogordo Daily News
Comic strip "Sesame Street," based on the children's show of the same name. Big Bird and Cookie Monster are going through the alphabet, and Big Bird asks what "Y" is for. Cookie Monsters yells, "YELL!"
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Pennsylvania Capital-Star @penncapital-star.com · 19/09/2026
ICYMI: UPMC is one of more than 20 hospitals that received subpoenas last year for the patient records of children receiving gender-affirming care.
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UPMC agrees to end gender-affirming care in settlement with Justice Department • Pennsylvania Capital-Star
UPMC is one of more than 20 hospitals that received subpoenas last year for the patient records of children receiving gender-affirming care.
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Andrew McCabe @andrewahala.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The Kennedy Centre was a gift from the world 3700 tons of white marble from Italy tapestries by Matisse woven by the ancient des Gobelins factory in France silk stage curtains woven by Japan Orrefors glass lighting and chandeliers from Sweden Not paid for by the US, gifted by us to honour JFK
Orrefors chandeliers in the foyerMatisse tapestry showing birds and fish, blue backgroundInterior view, round Orrefors chandelier, silk red Japanese stage curtainsCarrera marble being mined by Italy to donate in JFK memory
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Guggenheim Collection @guggenheim.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Singer of the Comic Opera by Paul Klee, 1923 botfrens.com/collections/212/conten…
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Estate of Karl Nierendorf, By purchase

© 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
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Ian @crossoverappeal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
@comicsjournal.bsky.social has an excerpt of my chapbook, Unbound in the Square, covering Frank Miller’s Dark Knight Returns and Starlin, Wrightson, and Wray’s Batman: The Cult. www.tcj.com/excerpt-unbo...
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Excerpt: Unbound in the Square: "Hunt the Dark Knight" - The Comics Journal
It's apparently Batman Day tomorrow, so here's an essay on Batman, courtesy of Ian Thomas, from a self-published charity zine.
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Evan Dorkin @evandorkin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
R.I.P. Gerrit Graham. Always entertaining.
The late actor Gerrit Graham
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The Onion @theonion.com · 18/09/2026
“This is, uh, Jimmy and his songwriting partner, Freddie.” — Ed Sheeran
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Barefoot Ed Sheeran Introduces Sock Puppets That Will Open For Him On Tour
PHILADELPHIA—Shambling barefoot into a press conference to promote his next show, English artist Ed Sheeran introduced reporters Thursday to the sock puppets he had booked to open for him on his stadi...
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 17/09/2026
Fantômas Paul Fejős, 1932
 A shadowy, dark-masked character emerges from a black background.
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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026
Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!
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Comics in the Spooky Age 🧛‍♂️🧟‍♀️🎃 @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Little Nemo in Slumberland by Winsor McCay from September 16, 1906.
In this installment, the Princess is taking Nemo to meet her father, but he is heavily guarded. First they must walk under several ten ton blocks that are suspended by rope. There are guards standing by to cut the rope if Flip were to approach. Then they must walk through a room in which a dozen cannons are lined up on both sides ready to be fired by more guards standing behind them. Then they have to ride in a small lift that is carrying them over a fire. Another guard is standing by to cut the wire holding the lift if needed.
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Chris Mautner @cmautner.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Thanks!
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 24/08/2024
My brother is in a touring hardcore band and just arrived at his venue for today
[photo of a punk venue with Statler and Waldorf puppets in their own little nook]
TEXT: I cannot mess up any songs tonight
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