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Siding with the Pope was not in my bingo card, but it happened. This is a thing that happened.

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The rush to accuse, without anything approaching due diligence, artists of using "AI," should be treated with contempt. An artist gets their work *ripped off* to train a plagiarism machine, which then shits out inferior versions of that work, so then you accuse the artist of using "AI"? Fuck you.

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Gaby Fermi @gabyfermi.bsky.social · 15h

I can't stop laughing at this.

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socalbookish.bsky.social @socalbookish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This👇👇👇👇👇👇

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TheShunbun @theshunbun.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Roaring 20's Lacye reminder 🖤

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Barry Deutsch @barrydeutsch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A Bunch of Einsteins By me and @postcardsbybecky.bsky.social Read more cartoons! —> #Policartoon Support the cartoons! —>patreon.com/barry

TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON
This cartoon has six panels.

PANEL 1

A bearded man in a red cap is recording a video of himself.

JAKE: Why should taxpayers be on the hook for science research with no real-world value? If their research were worth anything, private industry would already fund it!

PANEL 2

Jake’s rant continues over a cross-section of the landscape, from farmland and suburbs to a city; his voice is coming from a little cabin. A fiber-optic cable runs underground all the way across the panel.

JAKE: Believe me, these researchers aren’t a bunch of Einsteins!

CAPTION: There wouldn’t be high-speed internet for this doofus’s videos without fiber optic cables!

PANEL 3

Under the ocean, a fiber-optic cable runs along the ocean floor. Word balloons coming from the fiber optic cable contain the icons of many internet-based services — Facebook, Zoom, Discord, Netflix, Minecraft, and more.

CAPTION: Without fiber optics, the internet would be far too slow for how we use it today.

PANEL 4

CAPTION: So where did fiber optics come from? Well…

CAPTION: 1966

In a laboratory break room, an excited scientist throws his arms wide while another scientist eats at a table.

SCIENTIST: Now that lasers exist, we can use ultrapure glass fibers to carry light long distances!

OTHER SCIENTIST: How does that do anything?

PANEL 5

CAPTION: 1960

A scientist proudly holds up a diagram of a newly invented device. Another scientist sits at a microscope.

SCIENTIST: I call it a “laser”! It’s based on the old theory of stimulated emission.

OTHER SCIENTIST: But Theo, what use is it?

PANEL 6

CAPTION: 1917

Outside a university, a pompous-looking man gestures indignantly as he reads a scientific paper. He's speaking to a young Albert Einstein, who rolls his eyes.

MAN: Albert, where’s the practical value in this “stimulated emission” drivel? It’s a waste of taxpayer money!

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Gaby Fermi @gabyfermi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

- Welcome mats were created by vampires to get easy access to people's homes--it's not like the owner was compelled to put the mat there, so it was an explicit invitation - Glitter bomb baths were created by the fae to normalize people entering magical portals

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Gaby Fermi @gabyfermi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A bit of what's happening in my country, my friends.

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Gaby Fermi @gabyfermi.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Oh, and you don't even need to bite anyone else to make this work? Who could have thought of that?

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Gaby Fermi @gabyfermi.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I persist. So do the horrors.

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Gaby Fermi @gabyfermi.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Following the trend, my 9 games, in chronological order.

My 9 games list:
1. Phantasy Star
2. Darklands
3. Final Fantasy X-2
4. Ys I & II Chronicles
5. Okami
6. Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin
7. Bloodborne
8. City of Heroes
9. Baldur's Gate III

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Gaby Fermi @gabyfermi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Yeah... Been there, done that.

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Gaby Fermi @gabyfermi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Anyone who says the Minor Arcana is unnecessary really doesn't know a thing about Tarot.

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Gaby Fermi @gabyfermi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Spring Blessings to all in the Southern Hemisphere. [And no, autocorrect, it's not Sluthern, thank you.] Autumnal Blessings to those on the other side.

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Gaby Fermi @gabyfermi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I don't know much about comics, but I like the main characters of the DC continuum because of their alliterative names: Wonder Woman, Super Strong, and Goth Guy.

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Gaby Fermi @gabyfermi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I thought that after the 101st time I answered those interrupting "YouTube surveys" with "None of the above" would give them a hint, but no... Look, pal, I won't help you with that. I'm there for the music and the cool videos people create, not to satisfy your marketing desires.

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Gaby Fermi @gabyfermi.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I believe I can use the word 'autumnal' every day.

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Gaby Fermi @gabyfermi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Tonight's plan: do something with a few friends online. Tomorrow's plan: asking them if they recall what we did tonight, so I can say "So you do remember the twenty-first night of September!"

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Gaby Fermi @gabyfermi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"Batman's no killing code has one purpose only: prevent the writers from having to create new villains every issue." A friend said that once. I still think of that from time to time.

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Gaby Fermi @gabyfermi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Stop suggesting machines can do the creative work. It's insulting.

3-panel strip.
Panel 1:
(Left, holding a book) -I wish had more time to write my dnd campaing--
(Right, holding a phone) -Just ask ChatGPT.
Panel 2:
(Left looks sternly at Right)
Panel 3:
(close-up of Right taking a well-deserved punch to the face)

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Set Piece Games🔜Metatopia @setpeicegames.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Art is inherently political. You may not like that, but it is true. If you make ttRPGs, you are making art. The sooner you embrace these things, the better off you will be. Make art, change your world. THEY, are scared out of their minds by Art and Artists. Make ART, any way you can! RESIST.

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Gaby Fermi @gabyfermi.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It's not even 8am here and I've seen in my feed: - people protecting a building, but not worrying about my transgender friends; - people calling a bunch of line of codes "an actress / she", but never using the correct pronouns when talking to my transgender friends. Things matter more than people?

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Deus Hex Machina @asterionhex.monster · 18/09/2026

Holy shit that needs to be returned to Bajor immediately

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✧ SkyMagpie ✧ (left my ❤︎ in Undermine) @skymagpie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I was worried if my comic is perhaps too self indulgent, but then I remembered the words of Björk and now I need to make it even more self indulgent 🥰

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Out of Touch Thursdays Deluxe!! @ootthursday1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Thursday Emblem: Fortune's Weave!

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Gaby Fermi @gabyfermi.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

YouTube has a "Do not recommend channel option". I like to use it, to trim the occasional AI slop that appears there. But once I click a video, and THEN see it's AI, my hands seem to be tied. 1/2

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Gaby Fermi @gabyfermi.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I still think of my first jRPG, on the Sega Master System, back in 1991 (it took a while to come to Brazil). Phantasy Star taught me that girls could be protagonists of great adventures and change the world for the better. If you see this, post your first jRPG and what it taught you.

Sega Master System cover of the videogame Phantasy Star, picturing the four protagonists in a fight.

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Gaby Fermi @gabyfermi.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It's been months since I talked about my books, so here's Eschaton, an Urban Fantasy TTRPG powered by the Tiny D6 system -- Uncover hidden truths, forge uneasy alliances, and use your unique abilities--be they mundane or supernatural--to fight back the shadows. www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/4...

Cover of the Urban Fantasy TTRPG Eschaton, showing a woman in the middle of a street at night holding a flower and a magical flame.

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purr.in.ink @purrinink.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Be nice to yourself. Schedule your existential crises accordingly. 🐾🤍

A large, fluffy black cat with one visible, unimpressed eye peeks in from the lower-right corner of a textured mustard-yellow background. White handwritten text reads: “It’s okay to have an existential crisis if you must. But if you’re going to have one, have it during working hours. Never panic for free.”

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Gaby Fermi @gabyfermi.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Look, you don't need a degree in Psychology to understand the message underneath, but I happen to have one. Magnificent. Such a magnificent self-burn.

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Gaby Fermi @gabyfermi.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Louder, for the people in the back.

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Gaby Fermi @gabyfermi.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I lead a supergroup in City of Heroes: Homecoming, and the premise was to have characters from 15- to 25-yo, mutants, who would fight together to try to make the world a better place, and all that. I didn't expect to see the supergroup turning into...

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Captain Edward Jellico @captainjellico.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Nearly 60 years since this episode aired, and its message continues to be as powerful today as it was in 1966 #StarTrek #StarTrek60

"Leave any bigotry in your quarters. There's no room for it on the bridge"

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Andy “voice of Brak” Merrill. 🎅🏻🤡🐒💩 @amerrill2.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I was told last year at a con that I should do more Space Ghost Coast to Coast episodes. I said that it would be impossible seeing that I was the only voice actor left alive. He suggested that I just use ai. I answered him a little loudly, “Oh, so I should just shit on my friends’ memories?”

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Gaby Fermi @gabyfermi.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I am with the Goth crowd here.

Miles O'Brien as Emo: the world is broken and I'm sad that I can't fix it.
Jadzia as Goth: the world is broken but there's a beauty in the dark parts.
Kira as Punk: the world is broken and I will fight to fix it.
Q as Ska: the world my be broken but I have a fucking trumpet.

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Gaby Fermi @gabyfermi.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

When you feel the urge to rewatch a show you love...

This has all happened before and it will happen again

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🧟‍♀️ Ditty Doop and the Creppy Spoops 🎃 @goosname.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

“What if the confederate flag I fly in my yard was one I stole from Walmart?” That’s what you sound like when you say you’re gonna pirate Harry Potter.

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