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ngoziu @ngoziu.com · 03/09/2026

Quote-posting twice because it's that important. The three most important resources that I give comics students are linked in this thread. 1. Mad's breakdown of COMIC PANEL VARIATION (@madrupert.bsky.social) 2. How to start stories by Darin Strauss 3. I need you to understand character motivation

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etra @j-judas.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Saw the Odyssey today, was pretty good. 9/10

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That girl with The Posts @roodypatooti.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Please share this one.

$HEY YOU! YES YOU! TAKE THIS SHIT OUT OF LINKS! example.com/article{?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=emai} /youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcC{?si=Aa1Uc_fRHXC0ay85} These are source identifiers Source identifiers are used to track your activity on a site.Where you came from, what device you use, and even who you talk to. Whether it's written clearly in the url or tied to a random string of characters, it's assigned to your activity. When you send a link containing a source identifier to somebody and they click it, it signals to the website that you two are connected. And that data goes right back to the website operators, and thus their advertisers. Whenever you select "share" or "copy link" on a social app or website, it creates a link like this. If you give even the smallest shit about online privacy, it's important to remove them. Everything after the "?" symbol can be removed without issue, especially sections starting with "si=" or "utm _source="$

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♡ 𝒽𝑒𝒶𝓇𝓉 𝒸𝑜𝓁𝓁𝑒𝒸𝓉𝑜𝓇 ♡⊹˚₊ @dolcekissez.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

i know that “hand shadow meme/trend” has become pretty popular but it’s a shame none of the artists i’ve seen it from know or post where the original comes from to properly credit it— i linked it in my own on main, but marinachoyy on insta is the original 🥺💕

Screenshot of the original “hand shadow meme” picture, a photograph of Marina Choy, on Instagram.

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Lilah Sturges @lilahsturges.com · 27/04/2026

Have you ever noticed that the massive, coordinated, multi-year assault on trans rights is based on NOTHING WHATSOEVER

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Oni @onidraws.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Some suggestions for notebooks in pocket format that are NOT Moleskine. It's a thread 🧵 ⬇️

A bunch of pocket notebooks laying on a desk

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Lum @brokentoys.social · 07/04/2026

after a quick review of my timeline i feel the need to point to the sign

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Anni K. Comics @annikcomics.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Happy International Asexuality Day, from me and my OCs Mark (from Transfusions) and Jousia (from The Witch Door)! 💜 #internationalasexualityday #thewitchdoor #transfusions #annikART

Digital drawing done in black, white, grays and purples, picturing Anni and her two characters eating cake and drinking coffee. There is a big text in the background that reads "I WOULD RATHER HAVE CAKE".

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Jaws🎃 @jaws-stone.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Writing a comic is not the same as drawing one. Drawing it takes 100x more work, pays like shit and is treated like shit. Artists should be first bill and treated like gods.

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🌲🏳️‍🌈MTO 🔞 @mtomauw.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

ppal doesn't give a shit if you sell commissions via their platform. They care if you function as a business while pretending to be friends and family payments only to dodge the 5% **TAX DEDUCTIBLE** fee they ask businesses to pay or to dodge the charge back option. Just send a fucking invoice.

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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 28/06/2024

Here's my GNCRT Zine Project contribution, The Little Book of Book Banner Blunders. The printy-foldy version is available at the link above, at #ALAAC24, and hopefully at a library near you.

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grimwyle🌌 @grimwyle.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

hey all, i recommend contacting @ko-fi.com and letting them know what you think about genAI on their platform: help.ko-fi.com/hc/en-us/req...

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Submit a request – Ko-fi Help

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CarmahnArt 🩷 @carmahnart.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Afro Index has finally launched! It’s a visual reference library of Black hairstyles, good for artists, animators, writers, and anyone want to learn more about Black hair! Check it out at afroindex.org 💛✨ #digitalart

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Cath Kastner @cathkastner.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

A gentle reminder to move your bones

Illustration of skeletons in 5 panels following instructions written: unclench your jaw, move your neck, stretch, fix your posture, adopt a positive mindset. The drawings are in red and duplicated and distorted in purple. The background in yellow.

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saba sabaton @ gateway fate 501 @sabato-n.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

yo yo, i've been talking recently with the folks at namicomi and i'd like to let u guys know that they just posted a guide to licensing your webcomic/webtoon work under fair terms! there are plenty of predatory contracts out there so i highly recommend taking a look. namicomi.com/en/fair

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tracey 🌱 🔜 gateway fate 203 @sheepskin.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

just as a note blocking someone you followed doesnt forcibly unfollow them, so you gotta make sure you unfollow them before you block, otherwise you still show up in their followers list

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right. Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement. This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.

The political effects of X's feed algorithm
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10098-2
Received: 16 December 2024
Accepted: 4 January 2026
Published online: 18 February 2026
Open access
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Germain Gauthier,5, Roland Hodler?5, Philine Widmer35 & Ekaterina Zhuravskaya3,4,5 m
Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects'. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk's platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects.
Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users' feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X's algorithm has persistent effects on users' current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship.

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Lydia @coyoteprince.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

My Kalma has been diagnosed with breast cancer. The good news is she is in good health it may be low grade, meaning surgery will drastically improve life expectancy. The bad is it normally costs around $6000 and is time sensitive- things I just do not have. ko-fi.com/coyoteprince

Photo of a brown tortie cat curled up on a blanket

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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Worth noting that blocking someone you follow doesn't remove you from their follow list, so it's possible a chunk of those people don't realise they show up as still following him.

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ash s. @housegoblin.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

sorry for being cringe I'm trying to enjoy being alive

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CastBound🔞🇻🇪 @castbound.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Reminding everyone, PLEASE, DO NOT sub to your favorite content creators through phone apps as it not only charges you more, it also takes a higher % from us AND to top it all off blocks the money from being received for 30 fucking days for some goddamned reason.

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Kuna @wryote.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

I’m doing my part

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Cartoonists United @cartoonist.coop · 12/01/2026

The Hiveworks Artist Guild has released a public statement alleging years of labor abuses, financial mismanagement, and misconduct at Hiveworks at the hands of Xellette “Xel” Velamist and Isabelle “Isa” Melançon. Read their full statement at: cartoonist.coop/hiveworks-gu...

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I R A @roira.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Friend was venting a bit about struggling with "moot perception" and I think in 2026 some of you need to regain control and agency of your spaces. Having the "what will my followers think" mindset is self-harming. It's your account, with your rules, and every follower is a guest. Don't forget that.

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WIRED @wired.com · 08/01/2026

We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.

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Hannah Bluish @hannahbluish.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

‘Sh*t’ art is better than no art

Make shit art on purpose, it’s fun and no one cares

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Kelly Bastow @moosekleenex.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

avoid self loathing ✅ your art is special because YOU made it ✅ literally anything you create is better than AI✅

a three panel comic with a character looking at a laptop. the test says 'this artist has a PERFECT style. it looks so intricate yet effortless. the vibes are IMMACULATE. I will continue to be blessed with inspiration and awe at their work, and continue to develop my art, which is also cool and good.'

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etra @j-judas.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

I despise it when people attack others for the crime of being born into a broken system. Your issue is with the government, not the people suffering under it, even if that suffering is invisible to you, it still exists.

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brigidfaye @brigidfaye.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

I’ve said it before - fan fic is cookies someone made at home and brought in to share. Yes, they should be labeled for allergies (tagged). No, you don’t leave a nasty review if you don’t like them - they weren’t professionally baked, they were made by your peer ❤️ Build community, not negative clout

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IVES @ventiskull.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Underrated point of discussion with the AI + social media uproar is giving thanks to patrons of the arts, especially non-artists, who are willing to put in the effort to support artists at a time when it has never been easier or more normalized to do the opposite.

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🌿barayajis (*•̀ᴗ•́*)و🌿 @ziggyzagz.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Welcome back to bsky from the exodus, friends. Don't forget, tagging your art is actually useful here and you can view ALL tags by just a certain user by clicking this!! Another tip, use your feeds!!

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Shayna MoooOOOooon (she/they) @themoonis.gay · 20/12/2025

Say it with me now- placeholder assets are supposed to be bright and obvious so you DON’T ship with them. Also it doesn’t matter if no ai-generated assets are in the final executable?? The rising sea levels aren’t gonna be like “oh well no one saw that so the climate change doesn’t count”

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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Getting to know this legend has been one of the greatest joys of my life and I'm so pleased to introduce you to her with this gorgeous feature from the Inquirer, where she speaks for the first time in over 30 years on her incredible journey share.inquirer.com/XdfXr9

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Harlow's still here

Fifty years ago, Harlow was the queen of Philadelphia nightlife, Jack Kelly’s girlfriend, and the city's most famous transgender woman. Today, she’s ready to tell her story.

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Kody @kodyisover.com · 18/12/2025

In addition to this administration trying to kill kids, and they're also coming for our binders? OUR BINDERS.

"In a related move, the Food and Drug Administration issued warning letters to a dozen companies that market chest-binding vests and other equipment used by people with gender dysphoria. Manufacturers include GenderBender LLC of Carson, California and TomboyX of Seattle. The FDA letters state that chest binders can only be legally marketed for FDA-approved medical uses, such as recovery after mastectomy surgery."

Screenshot from The AP posted on The Seattle Times.

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Dr. Jey McCreight 🏳️‍⚧️🧬 @jeymccreight.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

If any journalist wants to talk to a trans man with a PhD in Human Genomics who was trained in labs that studied the evolution of sex, I'm right here Or just keep platforming Republicans who have a 5th grade understanding of biology so they get more trans people killed, sure 🤷🏻‍♂️

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☀️Fawn☀️ @fawndart.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Important PSA: I hope you never see other artists as competition. Please take their success as proof that you can also succeed here.

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Elise Schuenke @troubledminnesotan.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

An old journal comic repost to remind myself that the time is now and I’m not stuck

Panel 1
A character looks at their phone, bombarded with scary, sad and bad news.
“I can’t tell if I’m in denial or just stubborn.”

Panel 2
Character pours themself a steaming cup of coffee.
“…but I don’t want to just give up.”

Panel 3
Character talks to someone on their laptop using their headphones.
“I want to keep doing what I can.”

Panel 4
Character sits at their desk drawing on a digital tablet connected to their laptop
“So that in the end I can be proud that I did the best I could with whatever time I had left.”

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.chantal//RYAN @thoughtrise.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous this is worth sharing and educating people about

screenshot of a post on facebook from Alex Lamoreaux, depicting two versions of the "same" photograph of a bobcat in front of a pine plantation, one labeled original game cam photo, one labeling AI processed

the markings have been altered on the AI photo, and the head changed and resized

text says:

Oh! A neat goose hybrid posted to ‘What’s this Bird?’ but when you zoom in on the photos the bill details have been too manipulated by AI photo editing to be accurately assessed for which species may be involved.
Scroll on… A cool-looking Red-tailed Hawk that someone is wondering which subspecies it might be - right up my alley! But when you zoom in on the photos literally every feather group has been so heavily manipulated and altered by AI editing that it’s impossible to determine subspecies because the photo is essentially fake now; just a mashup of whatever AI thinks parts of a Red-tail should look like.
Scroll on… WOW! That’s a remarkable trail cam photo of a Bobcat! It almost looks like a painting!… but the head looks oddly small…. hmmmm. After some prodding the original photo is produced and sure enough it had been so heavily altered by AI ‘post processing’ that the photo posted was essentially a digital mock-up with totally different proportions and fur markings. No longer the photo off the trail cam; it may as well have just been ‘created’ by AI from scratch.
This stuff is killing me. My days on social media are becoming very limited. We can’t even trust simple, everyday photos of animals to be real. The wildlife community needs to quit editing with AI, and we need to start calling out photographers that are using it. Our reality is being destroyed all around us.

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Rine @rine.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Since Polygon is leaving it out of the headline: Epic Games partnered with The Game Awards to put money into the pocket of a bigot who uses her wealth to further the genocide of trans people through lawsuits and legislation. Every 'free' game gives money directly to JKR, and they are complicit.

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Jim Wise @jimwise00.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

For anyone thinking of downloading this: (Credit: www.tumblr.com/lohboh/70879...)

Harry Potter Fans: “I can excuse rampant transphobia, but I draw the line at spoiling a game”

Response: “Professor Fig dies at the end no matter what ending and also Rookwood cursed Anne and framed the goblins”

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✨steph ✨🏳️‍🌈 @iridescentdreams.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

friendly reminder that you didn't waste your year. any moments of happiness or comfort. any small accomplishments, they all matter. this has been a really hard year, and simply surviving is something to be proud of.

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RoninYorch @roninyorch.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Anti-A.I. stamps! For illustrations, comics, photos and all your creative works, printed and digital! You can download the transparent file for free here: ko-fi.com/i/IT6T718NAKF (but consider donating please 😘)

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Frank&Stein @brandtandstein.com · 11/12/2025

Also, congratulations everyone who made something this year. A comic, a song, a film, a novel, a painting, a poem, a short story, a sculpture, crochet, embroidery, whatever it is. In this era of slop and theft, if you *make* something you are a shining jewel and I am so grateful for you.

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Crits For Cats, Inc. Cat Rescue @crits4cats.org · 11/12/2025

Tinsel is also terrible for wildlife once you dispose of the tree! Other holiday dangers for cats: Lillies (do not even bring them in your home!) Poinsettias Essential Oils (Lavender and others) Grapes/Raisins Garlic & Onions Chocolate

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Yeougui @ MEX 2026 @yeougui.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

It's been removed. It should've never been there to begin with though and it seems like it can happen again any time. This makes bsky extremely unattractive to use. I don't want to have to fight to defend myself as a real artist. The system is good in spirit but the execution needs to be changed.

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Bastard Angela @werewolf.pizza · 30/11/2025

If you've read Blue's stories "Unknown Number", "Names and Addresses", "Love Bite", or "Ghosts", and were struck by them as I was, please consider repaying her generosity of word and vision by contributing to her surgery fund. She deserves it! www.gofundme.com/f/help-blue-...

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Donate to Help Blue (author of Unknown Number) get her surgery, organized by Blue Neustifter

I'll be honest: Choosing to make this project, to ask for help, i… Blue Neustifter needs your support for Help Blue (author of Unknown Number) get her surgery

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