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Dave Clarke @daverclarke.myatproto.social · 17/10/2026

Thank you! This was a perfect way to start the day.

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Barbara Waxer 🌈 @barbara-waxer.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

When Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens begins playing “Old Corn Liquor,” a traditional Black American folk tune, acclaimed Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man recognizes similarities to Chinese pentatonic music and spontaneously joins in. The joy on their faces says it all.

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Dave Clarke @daverclarke.myatproto.social · 16/10/2026

I would love that. You’ve done such a great job with Flash. The Shadow has some really fun elements.

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Dave Clarke @daverclarke.myatproto.social · 16/10/2026

Those Gibson stories are real fun and Rozen and Gladney sometimes painted striking covers. I’m a big pulp cover fan. The movie’s script was a mess. I’m not sure the Shadow can be done nowadays.

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Dave Clarke @daverclarke.myatproto.social · 16/10/2026

The Shadow is mostly remember as a radio show but it was also in pulps starting a year after its debut on air. The magazine ran for about 15 years.

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Zé Burnay @zeburnay.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

New instalment of the risograph series: A Fungal Organist. 4 colors, limited edition of 60. Signed and numbered. Order from the worldwide shop: Zeburnay.bigcartel.com Or pre-order it via the US shop if you're US based : Zeburnayusa.bigcartel.com

A fungal organism mimics an organist, but what sound does it produce?

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Nilah "Nine Jobs" Magruder @nilahmagruder.com · 05/10/2026

She's yelling about graphic novels again. I wrote a blog post about how to track work hours and do the math to build better work schedules. This speaks to graphic novelists specifically but it's good info for any freelancer!

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Graphic Novel Math

How comic artists can track work hours to manage time and build better graphic novel production schedules.

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Dave Clarke @daverclarke.myatproto.social · 01/10/2026

Okay, 3 tries and the image never uploads(?). Or maybe it’s just me and my janky phone.

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Dave Clarke @daverclarke.myatproto.social · 01/10/2026

Lino micro-cutting challenge. I decided to try a linocut of this before moving to drypoint but didn’t realize just how small the line work is at 5”x7”.

A 5"x7" sheet of grey linoleum with a red (mostly) contour line drawing of a group of reindeer on it. The reindeer are about 3" tall at most. Some areas of dark are added to suggest the darker areas of the reindeers' fur.

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Dave Clarke @daverclarke.myatproto.social · 30/09/2026

The cool/fun/embarrassing thing about hand making stuff is how imperfections happen almost in spite of one’s efforts to be perfect. (This is a big oopsie imperfection that needs to be fixed but still a good example.)

A three-color lino cut print of a dragon emerging from fire, its wings spread and its mouth open spewing fire around a small ceramic jug. The image is printed in a deep, mustard yellow and a dark red and black. The yellow and black layers are almost right in their registration (alignment) but the red is very “off”. The image is intended for a poster for the Fall run of the local anagama kiln. Letterpress type will be applied above and below the image.

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Dave Clarke @daverclarke.myatproto.social · 30/09/2026

That Bell ruling is fascinating. I learn so much reading your posts.

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Dave Clarke @daverclarke.myatproto.social · 30/09/2026

When I started in design I assumed the foundries were mostly concerned with the cleanliness and clarity of their dies but the more I looked they really push their “unique” output/creativity which makes sense for display faces but less appropriate for standard text faces.

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Dave Clarke @daverclarke.myatproto.social · 30/09/2026

I was so busy wording my reply I missed yours. I should have waited. That answers a lot.

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Dave Clarke @daverclarke.myatproto.social · 30/09/2026

There are many common typefaces across the books as expected often times with small differences (perhaps, the designer’s fine tuning?) but sometimes the faces are fully interchangeable across foundries. Sometimes (as still happens today) the name is modified but it’s still the same typeface.

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Dave Clarke @daverclarke.myatproto.social · 30/09/2026

Thank you! That’s really interesting. I have a small library of hot metal type sample books and that helps explain some things about what’s in there.

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Dave Clarke @daverclarke.myatproto.social · 30/09/2026

The patent is for the printer’s type? So theoretically could you have multiple patents involving the same font? I’m sorry if that’s a silly question.

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Dave Clarke @daverclarke.myatproto.social · 20/09/2026

Chauncey begged to go outside, presumably for a walk. Yet, here we are now.

A tan and black pekingese dog lays on its side sleeping soundly on the somewhat damp driveway just a few feet from the door it just exited to get outside. It wears a teal harness and lead that seem a tad bit superfluous.

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Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

My dad (92 years old!) has lost his lease in #NYC because building was sold. He must be out of the office by end of the year. So if you or anyone you know might be interested in #vintage #beads, #stones, #crystals, #chain, or other #jewelry parts or supplies, check out CJSSales.com Please share!

A selfie with my dad (on his 90th birthday, 2 years ago) at his jewelry warehouse. Boxes and boxes of vintage glass beads, seed beads, chain, Swarovski, Preciosa, copper, metal, findings, etc. Wholesale only. Must have Tax ID.

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Dave Clarke @daverclarke.myatproto.social · 31/08/2026

I still have some crumbling, tanned pages in a file folder somewhere.

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Dave Clarke @daverclarke.myatproto.social · 31/08/2026

This book, if you can find it, has some good exercises and technique practices. I still use some of these with my students.

The cover of a large book entitled Pen & Ink Book subtitled Materials and Techniques for Today’s Artist by Jos. A. Smith. The cover image is of a mix of splattered ink and a variety of ink line styles with a few dip pens and a brush on top.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Red State Universities: we believe in indoctrination and job training Students: we hate that is there another option? Blue State Universities: we promise to have no values except job training. It ain’t enough. My latest. Gift link.

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Perry: Republicans fought ‘indoctrination.’ Now they’re telling students what to study.

The conservative attack on higher education in states like Iowa is hard to watch. But it also provides an opportunity for blue states like Minnesota.

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Dave Clarke @daverclarke.myatproto.social · 29/08/2026

Make your favorite film sound as boring as possible without giving away the title: Workers react to bad management (This could work for a few films now that I think on it.)

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Shawn Pryor @shawnrpryor.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

For the evening crowd. FAST BREAK comes your way this October!

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Dave Clarke @daverclarke.myatproto.social · 27/08/2026

Guess I basically missed International Dog Day. Oh well. Have a mix of old art of dogs I’ve done down thru the years.

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Dave Clarke @daverclarke.myatproto.social · 25/08/2026

Borrowed A’s earbuds and you literally can’t chew gum and use them. They keep opening Voice Control and trying to Facetime random folks in my address book. Gaaaah!

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Dave Clarke @daverclarke.myatproto.social · 24/08/2026

Gonna need a lot of aloe for that

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Dave Clarke @daverclarke.myatproto.social · 23/08/2026

Post your album cover kitties A. When Xena was tired of the boys in the band and released her first solo album B. Scamp’s original album of neo-soul love songs

A picture of a tabby cat sitting with her front paws draped over the back of a brown leather chair as she stares with smoldering anger directly into the camera.

A tuxedo cat lounges back on a red and white striped blanket folded on a yellow armchair with a white floral pattern. He stares out at the viewer with a slight forward tilt to his head and heavy eyelids.

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Dave Clarke @daverclarke.myatproto.social · 23/08/2026

See, I’ve always said I want to be taxidermied so I could sit in the corner with a glass at the wake and enjoy the company one more time.

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amulya.bsky.social @amulya.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

My husband Drew wrote this at breakneck speed while moving cross-country and caring for an 8 month old, bc he felt it was necessary, ethically and politically, to correct the record. If you read Tyler Austin Harper's piece, I hope you'll read this.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 19/08/2026

Democratic Socialism: Myth Vs. Fact theonion.com/democratic-socialism-m…

MYTH: The government will take away your money and give it to the poor.

FACT: You are the poor.

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Dave Clarke @daverclarke.myatproto.social · 19/08/2026

I continue to be infuriated that we have succumbed to the marketing and continue to call half-assed large language models “ai” when they clearly are not.

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Dave Clarke @daverclarke.myatproto.social · 13/08/2026

Looking back at old ideas for inspiration? affirmation? Adopt a Cryptid. I was inspired by the adoption ads we ran when I worked at the local shelter.

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Rainesford Stauffer @rainesford.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

For @slate.com, I reported on the nostalgia surrounding Pizza Hut's Book It! program 🍕 People shared fond memories of falling in love with reading, what it meant to them as kids in terms of food access, and the glory days of books + personal pan pizzas. Gift link:

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It Might Be the Best Thing a Corporation Has Ever Done. It’s Finally Back.

Reading may reportedly be in crisis, but the personal pan pizza is forever.

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Daryl Hannah @dhlovelife.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

timeline cleanse Romeo got to visit with some Veterans 🦄 💕 www.instagram.com/romeoroadsho...

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AnthropoceneMPG 🌊 @anthropocenempg.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

The world is on fire 🔥

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Resharing: I reflect on what it means to be labelled an "activist" as an academic, why racialised scholars are often described this way when others are not, and whether the distinction between scholarship and activism is hardly ever a good-faith one. tinyurl.com/3jafr3xc

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When Scholarship Is Called Activism: Race and the Politics of Naming

Who Gets Called an Activist? And who is seen as the default and “proper” scholar?

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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 05/08/2026

anyway, if anyone has a lead on jobs for a science journalist/writer who has been a planetarium director (meaning I can talk to the public), please let me know. I am *awfully* broke.

1918 letter from Edna St. Vincent Millay to her editor: "Spring is here,—and I could be very happy, except that I am broke. Would you mind paying me *now* instead of on publication for those so stunning verses of mine which you have? I am become very, very thin, and have taken to smoking Virginia tobacco. Wistfully yours, Edna St. Vincent Millay. P.S. I am *awfully* broke. Would you mind paying me a lot?"

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Dave Clarke @daverclarke.myatproto.social · 26/07/2026

I would never have thought to use the term “pegging” in that way

A screenshot of an image search for “Horse Rider With Lance” showing an image of a horserider galloping with a lance with the caption “1,032 Pegging Stock Photos, High-Res Pictures, and Images - Getty Images”

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nancyforde.com @nancyfjorde.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Tater surplus! 🥔

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Dave Clarke @daverclarke.myatproto.social · 25/07/2026

Not everybody looks good with a shaved head. You look sharp.

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Dave Clarke @daverclarke.myatproto.social · 24/07/2026

Went in to Lowes last week and was greeted by a twelve foot Pumpkin-headed monster and gang.

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Dave Clarke @daverclarke.myatproto.social · 24/07/2026

Big Boy, Green Giant, Little Caesar, and Mr. Peanut for my uncle who was him in Toronto in the 50s/early 60s.

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Carla Speed McNeil @carlaspeedmcneil.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Today’s the day SETTLERS OF THE STORM WORLDS returns to Patreon, this time in glorious full color! This third chunk is titled “The Circus Runs Away With Us,” featuring a mess of various genre characters under the Big Top! No AI, all by hand! Please share and repost! www.patreon.com/carlaspeedmc...

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SETTLERS 3 pages 1-3 | Carla Speed McNeil

SETTLERS 3 pages 1-3 by Carla Speed McNeil on Patreon. Join Carla Speed McNeil's community for exclusive content and updates.

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Dave Clarke @daverclarke.myatproto.social · 20/07/2026

Morning arms workout – squeezing the water out of cabbage

A large silver bowl is filled with diced purple and green cabbage which has been lightly salted and squeezed to remove water content in the first step of making fresh coleslaw.

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Chris Schweizer @schweizercomics.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

If you're not reading A GREAT AND TERRIBLE WRATH (which you can do on this thread!) you're missing out. Skutch's writing is beautiful & challenging & heartbreaking & rich and you'd think that pages as objectively gorgeous as these would be the main draw for a comic like this, but nope, equal measure

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Dave Clarke @daverclarke.myatproto.social · 11/07/2026

Grilled sausage, mustard, relish, and fried onions on a toasted bun. Pretty basic but a good sausage shines in that setting.

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Dave Clarke @daverclarke.myatproto.social · 11/07/2026

He loves his shelf and will not let me replace it with a longer one.

A long tuxedo cat lays sleeping, stretched across a short wooden shelf. His lower half hangs off one end of the shelf. His head is resting on one paw while the other forepaw is extended out.

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