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Klint Finley

@klintron.com
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He/him. These days I mostly post about politics and comic books. Also into crime fiction, horror, post-punk. Podcast/newsletter/website: sewermutant.com Portland, OR

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Kroger plans to lay off 37% of its corporate employees over the next three years. Its CEO believes AI will help eliminate duplicative work, allowing the company to cut prices and invest more in store employees. Whether or not you believe in AI productivity gains, your CEO does.
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Klint Finley @klintron.com · 10/10/2026
Would specifically like reviews of: Empty Zone, Fringe (Caliber Press), CLF: Cyber Liberation Front, Ratsbane, and Shatter. But not limited to those. Reviews of newer comics welcome! Email klintfinley@gmail.com or reply with what you want to review.
Wanted: Very short (2-3 sentence) nano-reviews of cyberpunk comic books for the Sewer Mutant Cyberpunk Spectacular zine.
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Klint Finley @klintron.com · 09/10/2026
Did something a little different this time around: Looked at two different books from two different decades, both written by the late great Steve Gerber: The forgotten The Legion of Night with Whilce Portacio and the controversial Void Indigo with Val Mayerik. sewermutant.com/steve-gerber...
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Podcast: Steve Gerber double feature: Void Indigo and The Legion of Night - Sewer Mutant
Today we’re continuing our exploration of the history of the Dark Age of Comics, but we’re jumping around the timeline a little bit to look at a couple things written by Steve Gerber: The Legion of Ni...
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Klint Finley @klintron.com · 08/10/2026
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 06/10/2026
over at the newsletter I wrote about the useful bogeyman that is "polarization":
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The Problem Is Right Wing Extremism, Not 'Polarization'
Ambiguous media whining about "polarization" or "partisan tribalism" redirects attention away from the real cause of modern U.S. division: violent right wing extremism.
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Jennifer C. Martin @notreallyjcm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Extremely grateful for these two grocery store ladies recreating Prodigy’s Firestarter
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Klint Finley @klintron.com · 02/10/2026
Worth revisiting @vermontgmg.bsky.social ’s essay from last year on Trump’s health, particularly the last section comparing media coverage of Biden’s age and capacity with Trump’s. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/it-s-time-...
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It’s time to have a serious conversation about Trump’s health
Six questions worth digging into more.
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firstname lastname @jc-roper.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
AND I WOULD DO IT AGAIN
FIST ultra edition GOTY box set
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Ian MacEwan @ianmacewan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Wolftober!
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Alan Henry @halophoenix.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Oh boy, looks like some fuckass op-ed take is going around again! Allow me to tap the sign: buttondown.com/alanhenry/ar...
So here’s the problem: the usual reaction to stories like these is to try not to hate-read it, collectively dunk on it on social media, and then dismiss it as just another bad take, engineered to get clicks and drive traffic. That’s partially true, but I’ve been around long enough to notice there’s something a little more consistent about them. While yes, they’re definitely engineered to drive engagement, they’re also engineered to remind you that these people have the space to air these bad, generally ill-thought-out opinions, and you don’t. That they’re not only of a class of people with the privilege to be arguably bad people without consequences, but they get paid to be. And they get paid, on average, a lot. 

They’re there to remind you that they get to make the rules and you don’t. That you’ll always, on some level, be on the outside of the club, looking in, that they get to define the status quo, regardless of how ridiculous their definition may be. Periodically I get a brief window into those worlds—the ones just apart from ours, where these people live, work, and play, and where they make their own rules and have no interest or obligation to obey the ones that control our lives. It’s not pretty.

They have a platform and a megaphone to air how terrible they are, but the rest of us will likely never have the same platform to discuss how we should be good to each other—and even if we did, it wouldn’t be interesting because it’s not the kind of thing you couldn't hear anywhere else. After all, encouraging empathy and compassion aren’t newsworthy, but telling someone they shouldn’t trust the CDC or those generations of cultures that ask you remove your shoes when you enter someone’s home are all wrong because I say so are guaranteed to be “buzzy” and “generate discourse.” See the issue?
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Klint Finley @klintron.com · 30/09/2026
This is how we get the Dead Internet.
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Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This means to protect public health and create more access for people whose absence in social life was taken for granted before the pandemic began shouldn’t be ceded for the false and temporary trappings of “normalcy.” It’s ground that should be maintained wherever possible.
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Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Let’s not forget that the precautions we associate with Covid (clean air, PPE like masks) were *lessons* more of us learned in the earlier stages of the pandemic. Lessons that, applied, can protect from many other viral illnesses and create greater access for immunocompromised people.
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Klint Finley @klintron.com · 28/09/2026
“Banning The Bluest Eye isn't protecting anyone. In fact, it enacts a type of harm through omission that ensures children will continue drinking from the trough of ignorance. It's a kind of harm that encourages us to remain blind to the pain of others and allows adults to play pretend...”
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Comics in the Spooky Age 🧛‍♂️🧟‍♀️🎃 @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Today is the birthday of cartoonist, illustrator, & animator Winsor McCay (Sept. 26, 1869-July 26, 1934). Best known for the comic strip Little Nemo in Slumberland and his early work in animation, particularly on Gertie the Dinosaur (1914).
A black and white photo of McCay.An installment of Little Nemo in which his toy animals slowly grow and come to life over eight panels.
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Klint Finley @klintron.com · 26/09/2026
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toastvira, mistress of the posts @toasty.cx · 26/09/2026
green text on a black background reminiscent of an old computer terminal from the days before graphical user interfaces

the text reads, in all caps:
Technology used to be cool, but now it's owned by the worst, most moneysick humans on the planet. But there are transsexual furry hackers out there, still fighting the good fight
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Listen, I just think it's weird that the same people who are saying they're worried that AI is going to wipe out humanity are also eager for military contracts that will give AI control of weapons.
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Klint Finley @klintron.com · 24/09/2026
This stinks. icv2.com/articles/new...
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Kakao Pulls the Plug on Tapas Webtoon Platform
Home of 'Solo Leveling,' 'Overgeared' to Go Dark
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Klint Finley @klintron.com · 24/09/2026
I’ve seen this revised as “write what you want to know.”
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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
computer art (1991) archive.org/details/Mond...
a pixelized skull and cross bones overlaid across a barcode. computerized font above: ha! ha!   ha!
computerized font below: your fax machine has been infected by a virus
(a small line of colour inverted skull and cross bones)
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Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 20/09/2026
Here’s my compromise position on trans sports: if it becomes an actual problem whereby trans athletes are crowding cis women off the podium, we can talk. But right now this is naked bigotry masquerading as a solution in search of a problem, and anyone pushing it can fuck off.
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This point, from my recent interview with @perrybaconjr.bsky.social for TNR, is so crucial. Trans people are desperate for relief from the relentless Republican attacks impacting all of us. When Democrats move right, they signal relief may not be coming, and that engenders a lot of despair.
And so for Democrats to say, They have a point on some of this, it is engendering a lot of hopelessness and a lot of fear in the trans community, because we have been just trying to hold on, hoping that this time would end and we would be able to get back to where we were five years, six years ago. And what Democrats are signaling is, like, No, we’re going to keep things as they are, and maybe even make them worse.
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Klint Finley @klintron.com · 19/09/2026
m.youtube.com/watch?v=QGL8...
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The Sinister Ducks - The March Of The Sinister Ducks
YouTube video by Docteur De Peste
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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
As the TeamPCP cybercrime group carried out an unprecedented spree of software supply chain hacking this year, it had been infiltrated by an undercover analyst from Google's threat intel division. Google watched from inside, warned victims, even disrupted extortions. www.wired.com/story/an-und...
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An Undercover Google Analyst Infiltrated a Notorious Supply Chain Hacking Gang
TeamPCP pulled off the worst-ever software supply chain hacking spree and breached thousands of companies. Now Google’s threat intelligence group has revealed it had a mole inside the hackers’ inner c...
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 18/09/2026
yeah, I think our current AI millenarian sex cult has lots in common with Scientology. I also suggest this book on the Weird Millenarian aspects of Silicon Valley culture, which traces it all the way from the 1940s to the hippies to the 2000s (and is now being expressed via, well, AI sex cults).
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Counterculture
Cyberculture
Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network,
and the Rise of Digital Utopianism
Fred Turner
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Klint Finley @klintron.com · 17/09/2026
This week's a mini-episode on the late Glen Hammonds, the most important person in Outlaw Comics that you've never heard of. sewermutant.com/podcast-glen...
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Podcast: Tribute to Glen Hammonds, the most important man in Outlaw Comics - Sewer Mutant
This one’s a mini-episode, with me going solo again to talk about the late Glen Hammonds, a hidden figure in the development and popularization of Outlaw Comics. Hammonds, who passed away of pancreati...
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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Every generation doesn't get the cyberpunk opening line it wants, but it does get the one it deserves.
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Frighty MacDonald @comixace.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
“Everything about Tundra was catastrophic. Including the ending where they said Kitchen Sink bought Kitchen Sink.” Groth’s interview with Kevin Eastman covered every catastrophic move with tundra - like buying a recording studio. See the Comics Will Kill you podcast for more on this history! #spx
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/09/2026
Once again this isn't like gay marriage. We're not asking for something new. We're asking not to lose rights we've had for decades. When Dems say they agree with enacting new restrictions on trans people, that's a betrayal. They are actively going out of their way to harm trans people.
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I do not really know what to do about the reactionary core, their values are so alien to mine that I fear we can only have conflict with one another. But I will say that all the people who get psy-oped into adopting their positions or aesthetics are betraying their best selves and sending us to ruin
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
What is more, and relatedly, a larger section of the electorate has successfully been psy-oped into thinking that the reactionary bigot core is somehow The Real Volk who deserve some special deference, and pandering to whom is a sign of seriousness and proof that you are authentic and even Manly.
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Dia VanGunten / Writer @pinkzombierose.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
ouroboros can have a little ouroboros
(as a treat)
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Klint Finley @klintron.com · 27/08/2026
Love him or hate him, we can’t talk about the Dark Age of Comic Books without talking about Frank Miller. Also: Lynn Varley, Jenette Kahn, and how manga and European comics came to North America. sewermutant.com/frank-miller...
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Ronin: Looking back at Frank Miller's most quietly influential work - Sewer Mutant
We’re finally diving into Frank Miller’s Ronin this episode. Love him or hate him, you can’t really talk about the Dark Age of Comic Books without talking about Miller. His work on Daredevil and Dark ...
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Klint Finley @klintron.com · 10/09/2026
Just randomly came across an email I sent someone who wrote to be about becoming a writer back in 2017. Part of my response:
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Klint Finley @klintron.com · 08/09/2026
Possibly the most cyberpunk moment of my life: Getting an instant message on my smartphone from my editor asking me to cover a cryptocurrency heist. (2016) www.wired.com/2016/06/50-m...
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Someone Just Stole $50 Million from the Biggest Crowdfunded Project Ever. (Humans Can't Be Trusted)
The code behind the biggest crowdfunded project ever was supposed to eliminate the need to trust humans. But humans are tough to take out of the equation.
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Comics in the Spooky Age 🧛‍♂️🧟‍♀️🎃 @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The Mandrake the Magician Sunday strip from September 6, 1959.
In this six panel color Sunday strip, a man is walking down the street when he is suddenly held up by a talking horse holding a gun.
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Klint Finley @klintron.com · 05/09/2026
Evergreen.
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Klint Finley @klintron.com · 04/09/2026
There have been some reports that jihadists don't use AI because "AI is prohibited and un-Islamic because it's trained on Western voices and faces." But: "There's a big disconnect between what some of these groups present publicly" and what they actually do. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/lawf...
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Lawfare Daily: How Terrorist Groups are Using Artificial Intelligence
Discussing the risk of catastrophic AI-enabled terrorism.
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Klint Finley @klintron.com · 04/09/2026
"This is a scaled abuse and scaled abuse is detectable and if it's detectable, it's preventable. So, the onus is on [the platforms] to do something about this." www.youtube.com/watch?v=973m...
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How Cyber Sleuths Tracked Down a Nigerian Scammer
YouTube video by 404 Media
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Muppet divine circus hours 🤹‍♂️🔞 @toboldlymuppet.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
my love, my demise my faithful lover still my piece for @novamali.bsky.social monster riso zine! ☠️
a loyal knight riddled with arrows lovingly caresses her death
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RPG Trader @rpgtrader.com · 03/09/2026
⚠️ Accessories are here! RPG Trader just got a big upgrade. Creators can now offer print-on-demand physical accessories for their games - alongside digital downloads & print books. Cards. Dice. Maps. GM screens. Tiles. Character sheets. Game boxes. And it all happens directly through RPG Trader.
Screenshot showing the 7 accessories now available - Screen, Tear-off pad, Sheet, Cards Hex Tiles, Dice and Game box
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Klint Finley @klintron.com · 03/09/2026
Current listening. This is @jordanharper.bsky.social’s most obviously James Elroy-inspired novel yet. All jagged prose and Burroughsian street philosophy. LA gutter culture, what I expected out of Everybody Knows but didn’t quite get. If he sticks the landing it really will be his masterpiece.
A Violent Masterpiece by Jordan Harper
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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
A note re Warren Ellis: I've seen the narrative floating around that the process of transformative justice between Warren and SoManyOfUs fell apart for reasons outside of Warren's control, sometimes with an implication that these reasons were on the side of SMOU. This is not true.
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Ian MacEwan @ianmacewan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I didn't know Marvel released a version of Al Williamson's Blade Runner adaptation in b&w with all the panels broken up into something trying to resemble a novel. Weird, looks great
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Klint Finley @klintron.com · 01/09/2026
I picked up most of the original Deathlok run from Astonishing Tales a few months ago. The cyberpunk zine project emerged largely as an excuse for this splurge. Watch for my “Cyberpunk 1974” article on Deathlok and OMAC!
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Matt Cohen @mattcohen.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Some authors say they didn’t *write* their books with AI, but they needed to use it for the *cover* because they couldn’t afford an artist. To prove that’s not true, I am offering authors FREE cover design by me, a former graphic designer. They probably won’t be great, but they’ll be better than AI.
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Spike @do-not-fold.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Saw a wonderful comment yesterday about her. Something like "Imagine being talented, beautiful, rich and famous, and the first thing people think of to say about you is how good a person you were." 💔
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Klint Finley @klintron.com · 27/08/2026
Love him or hate him, we can’t talk about the Dark Age of Comic Books without talking about Frank Miller. Also: Lynn Varley, Jenette Kahn, and how manga and European comics came to North America. sewermutant.com/frank-miller...
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Ronin: Looking back at Frank Miller's most quietly influential work - Sewer Mutant
We’re finally diving into Frank Miller’s Ronin this episode. Love him or hate him, you can’t really talk about the Dark Age of Comic Books without talking about Miller. His work on Daredevil and Dark ...
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Catomika- Open for work!! @categerbasi.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Open again for commissions! the price ranges from $250 to $500 for a full illustration depending on the complexity of the piece. But I am also available for work in games and smaller ink illustrations. Below are examples of my range as an artist. categerbasi@gmail.com or my dms. Please share <3
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