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Dr Ella Hawkins @ellamchawk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Elizabethan playhouses were supplied by a network of tailors, merchants & craftswomen. Their names survive in records, but little is known about their lives. I’m working on new research that brings the stories of these makers & traders centre stage. Here is the project in biscuit (cookie) form. 🍪

A photograph of eight rectangular biscuits (cookies) arranged in two rows on a square white plate. The plate is framed on all sides by a trailing vine pattern in green with pops of red. The biscuits are mostly in shades of ivory, cream, yellow, and grey, with a burst of vivid red and blue in one corner of the arrangement. Moving across the top row of biscuits from left to right, the designs include: neat lines of handwritten names in an early modern parish register; a section of a hand-drawn map from 1561 featuring St Paul’s Cathedral, with street names like ‘Carter Lane’ visible in a tiny spiky font; an extract of text from a funerary monument printed in an early modern book, ending ‘So transitory is our glory’; a section of embroidery from a funeral pall featuring metallic silver armour, crossed gold keys, and two hands holding up a crown. The biscuit designs on the bottom row include: horses prancing past shopfronts on Cheapside in the mid-sixteenth century; a receipt written in early modern secretary hand, which is difficult to read; a portrait of a stern-looking women dressed in a ruff, pearls, and sober dark clothing; swirling calligraphy and dense secretary hand featuring on a will dating from 1638.

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Seth Johnson @inkslinger.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I am not afraid of no ghost. I am afraid of a ghost. In the same room as me. It could be here right now, and I don't know who I'm supposed to call.

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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

McCall's Costumes unlicensed Dr. Strange Men's Costume Multisize will return in Avengers: Doomsday.

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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Works Progress Administration was created in May 1935 as part of the New Deal to provide jobs to the unemployed during the Great Depression. One of the WPA’s most idealistic goals was to send books and librarians to areas where there were none. Read more: bit.ly/4hkgtNC #ALA150

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Nicole aka Nimasprout @nimasprout.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ahh! I forgot to list my new bookmarks in my shop! Dandelions, rabbits reading, two of my favorite loves now in bookmark form. nimasprout.shop/collections/...

Front and back design of dandelion cottage bookmark.

Rabbits reading by a purple weeping willow with fireflies

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Victoria Maderna @victoriamaderna.com · 06/01/2026

Made a little dude.

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Seth Johnson @inkslinger.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The rulebook just hit my inbox, and it's taking everything I can to not throw away my responsibilities and just spend the day reading through it.

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Seth Johnson @inkslinger.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Enough body horror games. I want body hope games that celebrate the meat shells dutifully hauling around our tarnished spirits.

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Seth Johnson @inkslinger.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is going to be a great panel, and I can't wait to see my pal @djstrahd.me on it. I've had a sneak peek at his upcoming Quest for Glory book, and it's fantastic.

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Starshaped Press @starshapedpress.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Sweated through five colors of this print, The City is My Religion, an homage to Chicago and its architectural history. Entirely made from metal type & ornament, with a little help from linoleum and wood. More here: www.starshaped.com/blog/2026/9/...

Print entitled ‘the city is my religion’. Multi colored image resembling a church but made from buildings and structures indicative of Chicago.

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Amy Sundberg @amysundberg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

BREAKING: In Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson's new proposed city budget being released Tuesday, there is no projected deficit through 2030. Given the state of the projected deficit over the past many years, this is quite an achievement.

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SoloRPGList @solorpglist.com · 19/09/2026

New to the #SoloRPG List: Bird is Dragon! by @nipafruticans.bsky.social A solo-ish drawing, nature journalling, and birdwatching TTRPG. LINKY: solorpglist.com/search.php?i...

Cover for the solo plus RPG: Bird is Dragon! a solo drawing, journaling & birdwatching TTRPG. Drawing of a cute little bird with an arrow pointing to a journal with black line art of a dragon

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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Daily bunny no.3446 is not left-handed

Bunnies re-enact the duel between Inigo and Wesley in "The Princess Bride", with a masked bunny fighting against a dashing shaggy bunny with a gold sword. The masked bunny is cornered, near the edge of a rocky cliffside, but still has a trick up his sleeve

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Seth Johnson @inkslinger.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

As a kid poring over Who's Who in the DC Universe, I marveled that Batman's utility belt contained not just explosives but teeny little pineapple grenades. Such crime-fighting craftsmanship.

The BATMAN'S UTILITY BELT page from the 1980s Who's Who in the DC Universe comic book encyclopedia series. Each capsule on the belt is labels and illustrated with its contents.

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Seth Johnson @inkslinger.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

“Don’t think you are going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don’t be afraid to go in your library and read every book.” – President Dwight Eisenhower

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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Hello. They are going to try to fuck with your vote, and we are NOT going to let them. Last week I pinged my friend Dana Chisnell, who knows how elections work, and said "Hey, let’s make it hard for them to fuck with us.” Today, we are very proud to announce the HOW TO VOTE zine. howtovote.tips

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How to Vote / Cómo Votar

A free field guide to what stops people from voting, and what to do about it. English and Spanish, ready to print.

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Seth Johnson @inkslinger.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Absolutely gorgeous illustration!

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Seth Johnson @inkslinger.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

If the final tour of the multiverse in Avengers: Doomsday doesn't include a scene on the home world of the Muppets, what's even the point of corporate IP consolidation?

A cropped version of the cover art for The Muppets Take the Marvel Universe #1, featuring some of the Muppets charging at the viewer among a crowd of Marvel Comics characters.

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Seth Johnson @inkslinger.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I wrote parts of a number of these books as well, and this is definitely a bundle worth checking out for a ton of great material from that era of TTRPGs.

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Seth Johnson @inkslinger.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

What I really want out of life is to be curious, creative, and compassionate, and connected to people for whom those things matter. Also, a slice of chocolate cake once in a while.

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Seth Johnson @inkslinger.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Greetings, Starfighter! You have been recruited by the Star League to defend the frontier against Xur and the Ko-dan Armada!

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World Bollard Association™️ @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

These supersized pencil bollards will brighten your entire year. #WorldBollardAssociation 📸@camdencyclists.bsky.social

Supersized multi colour pencil bollards line the street and make it perfect,

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Ann Aguirre @annaguirre.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

In honor of Hasbro telling certain people to cease and desist:

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Matthew Dow Smith @matthewdowsmith.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

THE AFTER SCHOOL VILLAIN SOCIETY A serialized kids comic Story and art by Matthew Dow Smith NEW CHAPTER EVERY FRIDAY!

The cover of THE AFTER SCHOOL VILLAIN SOCIETY

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Brian Grubb @briancgrubb.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

THE PREMISE IS THAT THE MUPPETS ARE PUTTING ON A SHOW CALLED THE MUPPET SHOW

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 09/09/2026

Not to brag, but our product has been foldable since 1828.

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Chris Millard @chrismillard83.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

this is perhaps the most useful thing that LLMs and GenAI have done: to provoke people into articulating (over again) that even the 'hardest' of 'hard sciences' are human endeavours, with human meaning, and concerned with human understanding of the significance of the world we all inhabit

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Hinokodo @hinokodo.com · 08/09/2026

hinokodo.itch.io/human-made You can get it here for free.

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Human Made by HINOKODO

An icon pack made by humans

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Seth Johnson @inkslinger.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

There’s no I in HEIST, because there’s two in ALIBI.

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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Nancy 9/7/26 … Happy Labor Day 🛠️

8 Hours for Work, 8 Hours for Rest, 8 Hours for What We Will. Based on a screenprint by Ricardo Levins Morales after the organizing work done by Robert Owen.

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Phil Szostak @philszostak.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

“Tony [Gilroy] finally turned to me, and he said, ‘Hey, you just got to stop pitching plot. Plot is bullshit. Plot is what happens when you get the behavior right. Pitch me a line of dialogue, pitch me atmosphere, pitch me something visual. Stop pitching stuff that happens.’” 1/2

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Seth Johnson @inkslinger.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I am always surprised that people as funny as improv comedy teams can come up with something as unfunny as improv comedy team names.

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Erin Green 🖖 @erin-o-green.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Pumpkin Spice has broken containment.

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Seth Johnson @inkslinger.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Sometimes it’s less a trolley problem and more a trolley opportunity.

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The Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026

As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.

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There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series

You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.

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Seth Johnson @inkslinger.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

A. Mazing. I can't wait for this book, and my only worry is that the physical object might be too small for my tired eyes to properly perceive and appreciate all the detail Chris puts into his work.

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Seth Johnson @inkslinger.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This looks like it's going to be a terrific class that's going to have some very lucky students.

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Steve Lieber @stevelieberart.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

NEW ADVICE-FROM-LIEBER LIST! I've posted these tips as a thread before, but I figured it's about time I made it available as a single, shareable image.

MISTAKES I'VE MADE THAT YOU CAN AVOID
Don't be like me.
1. Don't trash your own work when complemented. In that context your self-deprecation is insulting someone else's taste! Just say thanks and change the subject. Maybe credit an influence?
2. As far as your readers are concerned, comics are drawn with a printing press or a monitor. Don't fetishize the original art or the tools you make it. Anything that gets the story told the way it needs to be told is the right tool for the job.
3. Don't use one job to audition for another. It's unfair to your collaborators and a betrayal of the reader to get flashy or sexy or explosive if the moment in the story doesn't call for it.
4. The important storytelling choices on a page can be worked out in thumbnails. Gesture, camera angle, framing, broad arrangement of tones-get this stuff right before you worry about anatomy, lighting, drapery, or facial expressions.
5. Some artists can put down a final inkline with no underdrawing, but that's because they're skilled and experienced enough to do all that underdrawing in their head. You probably aren't. Get your underdrawing right and save the masterstrokes for the masters.
6. What you're feeling while you work doesn't matter. What the audience feels when they read it does. You can be happy and still do a great drawing of someone in agony. You should understand what you're depicting. It's not necessary to experience it in real time at the board.
7. Get a fresh eye on your work. You never know when some accidental juxtaposition is going to completely change your intended meaning.
8. Don't let getting things 100% right keep you from getting things done. It's easy to get bogged down in research or prep sketches. Make a schedule at the start of a project so you know how much time you have. Do the best you can with the time allotted and move on. But...

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Martin Monkman 🇨🇦 @monkmanmh.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Eternal wisdom.

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Is doomscrolling bad for you? A meta-analysis of 42 studies (N=46,912) finds that consuming short-form videos is linked to increases in inattention & impulsivity; reductions in working-memory span & self-regulation; elevations in anxiety, depression & stress; and a surge in addiction symptoms.

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Seth Johnson @inkslinger.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Thank you to the Seattle clouds for clearing long enough for us to get a good look at the eclipse!

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Pam Wishbow @pamwishbow.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I need to finally get around to doing a photoshoot and writeup to document the stuff I made for @waywardretreats.bsky.social this year

Photo of a moon calendar that is heavily illustrated, made by pam wishbow

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Matt Johnson @matthewjohnson.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

You don't realize the power of water until you watch it casually roll a boulder the size of a house down a valley in Nepal.

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Seth Johnson @inkslinger.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I know everyone is proud of their downhill skiing achievements, but it would honestly be a lot more impressive if they were skiing uphill.

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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I spent seven hours yesterday trying to chase down a guy going by the name of John Bigwalk, Big Walk's own mischievous, merry wanderer who has a "golden radio voice" and is making community-led public lobbies a lot more interesting.

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