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Erik Missio @erikmissio.bsky.social · 11h

Seeing Gorillaz tonight and checked out merch prices on Reddit and Damon Albarn is really, really testing my unconditional devotion. Again.

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Hagai Palevsky (he/him) @dialhforhagai.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

[Patient] Alabama, Arkansas Life seems harsh and cruel, uh-huh Doctor, tell me, what should I do [Doctor] Holy moley, me oh my How I hate to see you cry Great Pagliacci, he will heal you [Patient] Man oh man, I’m such a mess I scream into the nothingness Doctor, Pagliacci is me [Doctor] Hot and h

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

in relation to our panel on comics for blind readers today, the comic @emilybeitiks.bsky.social & I made for @technologyreview.com - we explored the challenges and potential of making comics accessible. Can see/listen to it here spinweaveandcut.com/mitcomic/

This is page one of our comic on accessible comics. There is an entire alt-text file and audio version of the comic linked to on this page, so please check that out as it is more complete than I can be here.
https://spinweaveandcut.com/mitcomic/

This is page two of our comic on accessible comics. There is an entire alt-text file and audio version of the comic linked to on this page, so please check that out as it is more complete than I can be here. https://spinweaveandcut.com/mitcomic/

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Announcing the merger with Titanic footage is an incredible bit

David Ellison • @ellisonskyd... 2h
What once was the peak, is now just the beginning.
Paramount and Warner Bros. shaped over a century of culture. By combining them, we aren't rewriting history — we're equipping these iconic studios with a more powerful engine. Together, we are Skydance: a creative-first ho Show

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Erik Missio @erikmissio.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Two of my favourite bands--Iceage & Fontaines DC--playing Toronto? But it's at Scotiabank? (just pretend there's the pleased/displeased Drake meme; I'm too lazy) I think, unless you are Gorillaz, I'm done with stadium/arena shows. I'm too old to sit in a chair; GA at front of stage or GTFO.

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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Today! Interested in learning how comics can be made accessible to blind/low vision readers? Tune in to our panel at 2pmET/11amPT to learn more from @emilybeitiks.bsky.social Silvana Rainey, @comicnurse.bsky.social @pfanderson.bsky.social & me! Learn about what we’ve done & explore the exhibition!

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Comics Beyond Sight

This exhibit demonstrates that comics can be made accessible for those who are blind or have low vision.

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Peter Gabriel @itspetergabriel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Peter's new 13-track album o\i will be yours on November 27th. o\i is available as two double LPs: one for the Bright-Side mixes and one for the Dark-Side mixes, as well as four disc CD including both mixes and a hard cover CD book. Available to pre-order now. lnk.to/PG24

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Menestune @menestune.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Highly-endangered Hawksbill Turtle hatchlings emerging from the sand and marching to begin their life in the unimaginably vast ocean. One of the most amazing experiences of my life. As a volunteer, we do not divulge their whereabouts. My heart is melted. #herps #love #marinelife #nokings #turtle

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Constance Lee Menefee @conniemenefee.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Turtle stretches are delightful ... 🐢

Pond slider on a log, legs stretched out in the sunshine

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Rev. Dr. Derek M Ballard PhD @derekmballard.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

whoa Stuffy Derma is in this one

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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Today is National Day for Truth and Reconciliation and we’re live at 11 a.m. ET leading up to the special 90-minute multilingual commemoration, Remembering the Children. Watch live in English, Plains Cree, Anishinaabemowin, Kanien'kéha and Inuktitut here: www.aptnnews.ca/ourstories/r...

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Remembering the Children | APTN News

For 160 years, Indigenous children were taken and put into institutions across Canada. September 30 is a day to remember the children.

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kuš! @kushkomikss.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Very happy to share the results of the Kuš! Comics Residency open call for the two-months residency from January to February 2027 for Nordic and Baltic artists. The selected artist is Vanja Ivarsson from Sweden! www.komikss.lv/residency/

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arpad okay @arpadokay.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

read my review of a comic that is itself a comic

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Ben Sears @bensears.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Looking at ways to raise the cold hard cash needed to print this comic. I don't have anything against kickstarter, but I'd rather just rely on preorders to help fund the printing. Would you preorder this comic? It'd be about 68 pages, risograph printed, probably around $15.

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Erik Missio @erikmissio.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I saw Danko Jones & Joel Plaskett here as well as, I think, The Organ & The Dears (but that might've been another venue?). I was doing my master's at Western, interviewing bands for Scene. (This was also the time I discovered Paul Grist's Kane & stopped eating pig, so 2002/3 was pretty key.)

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Erik Missio @erikmissio.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Sigh. On top of all the bigger, more important reasons, I was thinking he was a lock for the Gorillaz show I am going to on Sunday...

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eric kw @kostiukwilliams.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

peek from a new one-pager comic, written by Carole Pope (!) — in the next issue of West End Phoenix

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Savitri de Sousa @sdesousa.com · 27/09/2026

This little frog is definitely in the pink, and a sunshade of petals is always fashionable 🐸 🌿 #amphibians #frogs

A small brown and green frog peeks out from between the soft pink petals of a water lily, surrounded by green lily pads in warm sunlight.

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Erik Missio @erikmissio.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

1. Learn a book exists. 2. Try to purchase it online. 3. Find out book is out of print & either a lot of money or requiring shipping from Europe. 4. Be sad. 5. Find one miraculously priced used copy with cheap shipping. 6. Buy it. 7. Feel guilt you just bought something you don’t need. 8. Repeat.

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Chuck’s Comic Lists @comiclist.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Oni Press will release December’s ARTISTS FROM THE ABYSS: DAVID LAPHAM #1, featuring new and classic works from Eisner Award-winning artist David Lapham, as part of a series honoring notable talents in EC Comics.

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ARTISTS FROM THE ABYSS features David Lapham this December

Oni Press will release December’s ARTISTS FROM THE ABYSS: DAVID LAPHAM #1, featuring new and classic works from Eisner Award-winning artist …

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RJ City @rjcity.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The instinct to share something personal about Pac, but the amount of respect, care and commitment he had to wrestling and to being a professional is a line I can't bear to cross - but let that remind you just how good he was. Forever loved, forever respected. What a fucking Bastard.

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SNAKEMAN @kingserpentico.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My heart breaks for a second time this month. Pac was utmost professional and the one of the nicest human beings you’ll ever come across. It was an honor and a pleasure working together one final time last night. Be good to each other. 🖤

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DTL @dtl.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Sonoran mud turtle in a more diffuse medium #herps

Close-up of a turtle face poking out of water. Speckled brown with a stripe through its golden eye.
©️DTL 2026

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Erik Missio @erikmissio.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

At the ball game. ⚽️🇨🇦

My daughter and me, clad in red Canada Soccer attire, at BMO Field in Toronto to watch the MNT against Chile. Allez les rouges, etc.

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Dan Berry inexplicably @thingsbydan.co.uk · 24/08/2026

I’m having a sale on blade pens and so I drew a demon with one and filmed it and then edited the drawing together with some music I made into a video. Use the code TENTENTEN to get 10% off thingsbydan.myshopify.com

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arpad okay @arpadokay.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

microtonal music freaks i have something that needs watching

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Jenny Lee Shee @jennyleeshee.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We're building a pillbug terrarium in grade 3 so I've spent some time today in the world of isopod hobbyists. 👀 These are rubber ducky isopods. They're on sale at a local shop for $11. EACH! Our roly polies will be scooped up from my patio. FOR FREE! Then again, these little ones are pretty cute...

Yellow and black isopods with faces that look a little bit like rubber duckies.

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Erik Missio @erikmissio.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It gives me no great pride (in the name of love) to say I really, really like the new U2. (And as a devotee of the 90s incarnation of Bono, was thrilled to see Señor MacPhisto.)

youtube.com

U2 - Silencio

YouTube video by U2VEVO

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Seeing replies here and elsewhere saying the sea turtles in California are a bad sign, and it is and it isn’t. Yes, it’s a sign that climate change is affecting species and ecosystems (bad). But it’s also a sign that species are shifting their ranges to track areas of climatic suitability (good).

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Erik Missio @erikmissio.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Look at this spectacular spider, man. 🕷️

absolutely huge striped fishing spider on the rocks. Mountain Lake near Minden, Ontario.

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Erik Missio @erikmissio.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Great interview between two great cartoonists… with bonus WTF work-for-hire-what-if revelation!

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Erik Missio @erikmissio.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

“I hope they are compelled to play Luc de Fougerolles more!” I thought, as the monkey’s paw curled.

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Erik Missio @erikmissio.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Treat yourself: you deserve a giant eurypterid stuffy.

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Ryan North @ryannorth.ca · 23/09/2026

Pompeii is a UNESCO world heritage site not because it was remarkable in its prime, but because it survived to our era untouched: one moment, preserved for all time. But future generations won't know what OUR world was like unless we do the same. This is why we MUST bury Toronto with a volcano

Picture of the streets of Pompeii, from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pompei_-_panoramio_(26).jpg. Taken by Tanya Dedyukhina, used under CC

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Erik Missio @erikmissio.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Angine de Poitrine, friends, Angine de Poitrine. 🔺 (I’m going to bed now, but thank you @polarismusicprize.bsky.social for showing me what every awards show SHOULD be.)

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Erik Missio @erikmissio.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Throwing this out there: if you have Aaron draw and write your comic, I will buy it.

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Mortimer @webvein.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

You ever love a band so much you draw them as fish? #anginedepoitrine

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Denise Horoky @fadedbleujeans.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Museum London in London, Ontario / #ldnont is proud to introduce its inaugural Musician-in-Residence program in Fall 2026. This year-long residency welcomes acclaimed Canadian musician Shad back to the city where he grew up and began his career. museumlondon.ca/musician-in-...

museumlondon.ca

Musician-in-Residence | Museum London

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arpad okay @arpadokay.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

microtonal freakrock from iran if you're into it

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Bill Amend @billamend.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Woohoo! My new book “Impossibly FoxTrot” is officially out and available in lots of places: foxtrot.com/impossibly-f...

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Erik Missio @erikmissio.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Going out tonight; pretty excited.

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Erik Missio @erikmissio.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

As an old who has never seen TikTok or ever watched anything remotely comics-related on YouTube, I get my comics news the way all cool masochists do: painstakingly reading every digital page in the Lunar and Penguin Random House catalogues while hating every minute of it.

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Erik Missio @erikmissio.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

He's so good. Was thrilled to see him at a talk in Toronto a little while back. At the time, he only had a PEOW short and a Shortbox comic en anglais, but he's had some more stuff translated since (though, honestly, the words are almost beyond the point).

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