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Jason Orrill

@jorrill.bsky.social
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Multi-hyphenate dilettante

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Brian McFadden @mcfadden.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is a great summary 'cause I ain't readin' that book Bill Galvin sent.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
*so important*: if you’re voting by mail, assume the USPS will delay because it’s its policy. You can: —put it in drop box —go to counter to watch them postmark in front of you —if you’re dropping it in a mailbox, do it VERY EARLY.
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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
we fucking loved it, even when there was basically nothing on it, and let me tell you something else: we loved it because of human connection, human diversity, human creativity. WE DON'T NEED A SINGLE THING ANY OF THESE COMEMIERDAS HAVE MADE AND TRIED TO SELL US IN ORDER TO HAVE A GREAT INTERNET.
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Econ Analytica @econanalytica.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Cartoon by @lartist.bsky.social
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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Oh my: LibreOffice just made "no AI" one of their official features: blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/09...
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Yes, no AI is now a feature - TDF Community Blog
One of the comments on the announcement of LibreOffice 26.8 was a simple question: “So, no AI is now a feature?” LibreOffice does not reject artificial intelligence out of hand, but an office suite us...
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Paul Kingsley @paulkingsley7.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🧪 “The National Science Foundation, one of the biggest sources of federal research funding, withheld $1.4 billion that Congress had intended for research over the course of the past year, according to internal data reviewed by The New York Times.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...
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National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress (Gift Article)
The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 02/10/2026
Calling all NYC artists — painters, filmmakers, poets, musicians and more! Did you know our city provides grants to support your work every year? And this year, we're DOUBLING the amount — from $5,000 up to $10,000 per artist! Deadlines are approaching fast — apply today at nyc.gov/artistgrants.
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Hannah Alexander Artwork @hannahartwork.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Kiki's Delivery Service, No. 1 in Koriko since 1989 ✉️ 🎁 🍞
An art nouveau style posters featuring Kiki flying on a broomstick with Jiji. The background shows various scenes of bread and pastries, plus the town of Koriko.
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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I'm currently writing about animal trespass in enclosure disputes. This may be the modern equivalent.
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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Great, great work by @siouxsieqmedia.bsky.social @savannahsly.bskyverified.social @siridahl.com @iamfivestar.bsky.social @goodstein.bsky.social and the rest of the team pushing out this incredible campaign.
Hot2Vote Poster featuring Hazel Grace Casey Calvert Hot2Vote posterSiouxsie Q Hot2Vote posterLittlePuck Hot2Vote poster
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Brian Clevinger @bclev.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Someone needs to hand Alan Ritchson a copy of Atomic Robo
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Amelia Sandrine Reisinger 🏳️‍⚧️ @ameliasandrine.com · 17/09/2026
Gonna start referring to Democrats who take anti-trans stances as “Biological Republicans”
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
god this is good
flight of the concords scene with murray, brit and jemaine. 

"How's this, then? Ed Sheeran, beloved by all, left without an opening band at present. Enter you two."

"What if we want a free Palestine, Murray?"

"I reckon you'll get lots of things for free when you're proper rockstars. This might be your ticket."
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Jason Poulos @poulos.house · 16/09/2026
In the all-party primary system, super PACs would have a greater opportunity to "buy" a candidate's place in the general election. Super PACs already spend money in single-party primaries, with the amount of spending related to the perceived competitiveness of the primary.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Poll watching right now is like, "Normal candidate with normal opinions ekes out small lead against sweaty bag of farts who sends dick picks to orphans and once dropkicked a puppy with leukemia."
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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Me and my archaeology colleagues had a party after unearthing the world's oldest known tibia, which was nice because I do like a good shin dig.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 15/09/2026
Colleges could subsidize books for students rather than paying for premium versions of ChatGPT
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Howard Sherman @hesherman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Farewell to costume designer Bob Mackie, a designer of spectacular gowns for great divas, but also the creator of perhaps the greatest costume sight gag in history.
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Students often come to me ashamed, saying they don’t know why so much is going wrong (health, injuries, family), that they feel cursed & fear teachers will think they’re lying. When I say it’s normal, everyone is having crises b/c mind & body r worn down by world crisis, they’re so relieved they cry
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でんか @k-hermit.com · 12/09/2026
磯歩いてて変な生き物がいると思って見てみたらタコの赤ちゃんだったやつ🐙
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University of Minnesota Press @uminnpress.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Here’s the Cover For American Occupation, a Powerful Document of Minnesota’s Resistance to ICE, via​ @literaryhub.bsky.social : lithub.com/heres-the-co...
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Here’s the Cover For American Occupation, a Powerful Document of Minnesota’s Resistance to ICE
Two days after Alex Pretti was murdered by federal ICE agents in Minneapolis, on January 24, 2026, we published a “Letter From Minnesota” from the poet Dobby Gibson. As I wrote at the time of the f…
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Broken Frontier @brokenfrontier.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
News! @darkhorse.com to Bring Paul Chadwick’s ‘Concrete’ Back to Print in 2027 in the First of an Omnibus Range. www.brokenfrontier.com/dark-horse-b...
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Dark Horse to Bring Paul Chadwick's 'Concrete' Back to Print in 2027 in the First of an Omnibus Range – Broken Frontier
If you're a 'Concrete' fan or have just wanted to read this classic series it will be back in print for the first time in 20 years in 2027.
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Claire Zagorski, PhD, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I made this design in 2019, and it’s been ripped off by countless creepy little Temu shops, as well as by Shein. Seeing it in an AI ad is ruining my day, ngl. If you like it, buy one from me - link in bio. I actually give money to queer mutual aid and medical care groups.
A shitty AI ad on Instagram showing my “you are safe with me” design being sold by a company that is not me.
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Comics in the Spooky Age 🧛‍♂️🧟‍♀️🎃 @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Today is the birthday of artist Barbara Fiske Calhoun (Sept. 9, 1919-April 28, 2014). During the Golden Age, she worked under the name Barbara Hall on heroes such as the Black Cat, the Girl Commandos, & the Blonde Bomber, who she cocreated.
A black and white photo of Calhoun.A panel of the Girl Commandos freeing prisoners from a camp. There is a dead Nazi lying in front of them.A panel showing the Blonde Bomber (Honey Drake) standing in front of her plane.
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tunes to make you run away @whippoorwont.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
"people are anthropomorphizing LLMs because they are so astonishingly good at processing human thought and language" people will anthropomorphize a chair if you put the stitches in the right place.
chair with a "face"
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Gre-Gory Weird @gdub1972.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Happy 89th birthday to the MAD genius, Sergio Aragonés!
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Thinking about how dissonant Hakeem Jeffries saying "we have 5 working groups on affordability" is with the completely reasonable demand for righteous judgment on those who have wronged us
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A.C. Esguerra @blueludebar.com · 31/08/2026
work in comics in the U.S., or know someone who does? (self-pub and webcomics count) tell 'em to fill this @cartoonist.coop survey! sharing knowledge is power 💪🏽🔏 airtable.com/appLRxNDI7Yj...
the top of the website form for the 2026 Comics Worker Survey by Cartoonists United, showing an image of Inkling (a cartoon inkwell) holding Nibford (a cartoon nib pen) encircled by text reading "Cartoonists United". underneath the picture, body text reads "The 2026 Comics Worker Survey / -This is for comics workers who live and work in the US / -Please answer relevant fields with your earnings from 2025 ONLY"
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WOLFSKULLJACK @wolfskulljack.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
ARTISTS- share your shop links and maybe some pictures of what you’re selling in the comments here. I am feeling bummed out and want to buy myself something to make me feel better
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Notorious RBMK @comraderobot.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
fuckin god damn! it worked!!! 🔭 no digital compositing just one tenaciously stupid asshole with an hour’s worth of four and a half minute timers and a large format camera
me holding negative with a bunch of dark spots changing size in a diagonal line negative converted and cropped into a photo showing to moon rising to the right and increasing in size as it comes out of eclipse
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
okay! Kendra asked for some suggestions here, and I'm going to offer something like a Litany of the Saints for all your "dear God, please let It™️ happen soon" prayer intentions there's no one immediate obvious candidate, but an "Avengers, assemble" approach to these folks might be worth trying:
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Marshelle Woodward @mwoodward.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
That any public service should be run like a business.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 27/08/2026
Grim timeline synchronicity.
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Lisa Schmeiser @lschmeiser.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
If you are in your feelings about Dolly Parton AND you love speculative fiction, you should make time for @catvalente.bsky.social's excellent "When He Calls Your Name," in the excellent @uncannymagazine.bsky.social: www.uncannymagazine.com/article/when...
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When He Calls Your Name - Uncanny Magazine
There’s nights in the deep end of summer so hot and thick and wet you can feel the dark wrinkling up your fingers like bathwater—and my last night breathing was one of those. 2 a.m. came to ring my be...
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Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I just saw this Pieter De Poortere comic strip and now here it is for you. 👍
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M. Belanger @sethanikeem.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
“How will we ever replace them?” FUND. THE. ARTS.
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Jason Orrill @jorrill.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
*cough* Washington Bridge it’s not just Ireland
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Abra / Jessica Conwell, Carmella Creeper's Gender Doula🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
"If we want people to stop using AI, we need to help them come up with alternatives for what they use it for." THINKING. WITH YOUR BRAIN. THAT'S THE ALTERNATIVE.
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Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I think Marvel Comics should make an official statement that they are proud of Nazi-Punchin' Spider-Man.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
“Carney’s official statement deserves to be read in full, slowly, with a beer, because underneath the diplomatic wallpaper it’s the most quietly savage document a G7 leader’s put out in years. It reads like a bank manager foreclosing on a bloke’s entire self-image & the bank manager is enjoying it.”
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KING CARNEY ACTIVATES KONG MODE WITH ZERO FUCKS
Carney Reads the Clock Like a Pro Wrestler
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Phillip Anderson @phillipanderson.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
No amnesty. No mercy. No fucking plea deals. Nothing but relentless pursuit and vigorous prosecution for every last one of these fucking monsters
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Andy Oliver @andywpoliver.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Petition to rename any cartoons created with generative AI "slop motion animation."
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Delilah S. Dawson @delilahsdawson.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
my grandparents: In my day, you could get a job on a handshake and support a family of four. my parents: In my day, you could buy a house on a single salary and still afford to go to Disney World. me: When I was a kid you could eat blueberries and salad and not poop yourself to death. my kid:
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Favorite Eye Roll
ALT: Favorite Eye Roll
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Chef Kennedy🐸🏳️‍🌈 @kennedy.northsky.social · 20/08/2026
Mid Century Modern tableware and where I think it would stand on trans issues, a thread
A Mid Century Modern ad for tableware, quirky hanging laps, weird wood paneled kitchen bar, oh yeah it's MCM as hell up in here (kinda love it)
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
When your government says it’s planning to open multiple prisons that will house up to 3,000 children, it’s time to demand a new government. There is no context in which this is legitimate or acceptable.
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 20/08/2026
I know it's too soon to be thinking about "after Trump." But we can't go back to the time when the GOP cut the federal govt, the Dems partially restored it while giving federal workers double the work. Having a working federal govt is a good thing and we need reps willing to make that case
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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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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
In the Renaissance people theorized, since the Aeneid is great, if you wrote poems made only of words & phrases from the Aeneid rearranged they should be great too, since a great source regurgitated should yield greatness. They produced NOTHING we still read. Thinking about that a lot lately.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 18/08/2026
I'm listening, I'm learning. Safety first, NYC.
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