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I'm mickey @spiderbabby.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Check out my "retrospective " at fuller speed shop in providence, ri , opening this weekend
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Michael DeForge @michaeldeforge.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
not for nothing, but in 2020 i wrote about the ethical choices we make as commercial artists and tried to update Milton Glaser's classic "12 Steps To Design Hell" list. 6 years later, my list of hypotheticals already seems sorta quaint www.ssense.com/en-mx/editor...
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12 (New) Steps On The Road To Design Hell
Artist Michael DeForge Updates The Classic Milton Glaser Guidelines For Contemporary Hellscapes
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Michael DeForge @michaeldeforge.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
webbing
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 24/09/2026
Just when I think I can’t hate OpenAI and Sam Altman any more, new details come out about how ChatGPT helped a shooter plan one of the worst mass shootings in Canadian history in Tumbler Ridge, BC. OpenAI made an explicit decision not to report the user to authorities.
motherjones.com
ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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Michael DeForge @michaeldeforge.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Drew this poster for Black Gold's preview screening of the incredible Once Upon A Time In Harlem paradiseonbloor.com/movies/once-...
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Michael DeForge @michaeldeforge.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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The Grind @thegrindto.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
In the lead-up to the World Cup, Toronto police built up permanent surveillance infrastructure for a threat that never came. Its centrepiece is a counter-drone system that may be linked to an Israel Defense Forces’ intelligence unit. The latest Cops and the City column by @aliyapabani.bsky.social.
thegrindmag.ca
FIFA Fake Out
Toronto police used the spectre of terrorism to quietly build up permanent surveillance infrastructure for a threat that never came. Its centrepiece is a counter-drone system that may be linked to the...
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Michael DeForge @michaeldeforge.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
very grateful for such a sharp reading of the book!
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Michael DeForge @michaeldeforge.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
repurposed Josie and the Pussycats illustration for this poster advertising a Naughton Gallery screening of it - free copies will apparently be available to attendees www.instagram.com/p/DdTkRJEt5ZI/
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Michael DeForge @michaeldeforge.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
poster for Tsui Hark's Don't Play With Fire aka Dangerous Encounters Of The First Kind
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Michael DeForge @michaeldeforge.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
PSA
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Michael DeForge @michaeldeforge.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Artwork for the Blu-ray slipcover for Chris Marker's Le Joli Mai (The Lovely Month of May) vinegarsyndrome.com/products/le-...
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Jillian Tamaki @dirtbagg.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Interview with Eleanor Davis and Kate Beaton about our new picture books out this month 📚 garden-variety.org/picture-book...
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Picture Book Chat: Kate Beaton, Eleanor Davis, Jillian Tamaki
My entry for this week is a recent interview conducted between myself (Jillian), Eleanor Davis, and Kate Beaton. All three of us have been in the same creative circles for over 20 years, starting in i...
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Michael DeForge @michaeldeforge.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
everyone's so fucking stupid lol
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The Grind @thegrindto.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Two weeks after a government-commissioned report on campus antisemitism was published, its authors revealed new information showing that 92 per cent of anti-Zionist Jewish respondents actually found campuses safe and inclusive. Professor Joshua Sealy-Harrington digs in.
thegrindmag.ca
Campus Antisemitism Report Hid a Key Finding that Turns the Results Upside Down
In early August, mainstream outlets repeated the findings of a flawed report describing alarming levels of antisemitism on university campuses. Two weeks later, the authors stated that 92 per cent of…
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Michael DeForge @michaeldeforge.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Poster drawn for this Many vs the Money counter-summit www.manyvsmoneysummit.ca
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Michael DeForge @michaeldeforge.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Pile and Ren
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Justin Decloux @declouxj.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Here is the list of movies that will play during today's 24-Hour Summer Movie Mind Melter at secretcinematheque.com (subject to change):
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Michael DeForge @michaeldeforge.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
A good illustration of petty Zionist grievances. The Giller boycott ended, so instead of complaining about that, Marsha Lederman's upset that --- what, people aren't celebrating the Giller Prize sufficiently? How much veneration does it need www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
theglobeandmail.com
Opinion: A happy ending for the Giller Prize – or is it?
Canada’s most prestigious literary award has found a new donor. Will it silence the critics?
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Michael DeForge @michaeldeforge.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
cover illustration for the UK-based Dope Magazine
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Jillian Tamaki @dirtbagg.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I have a 30-page story in this 😇😈
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Richie Assaly @rdassaly.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Israel is deliberately starting wildfires in Lebanon, destroying olive groves and woodlands, in what environmentalists describe as an “ecocide”
theguardian.com
Israel deliberately starting wildfires in southern Lebanon, firefighters say
Emergency services, residents and environmental groups say military dropping flares to destroy forests and crops
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Michael DeForge @michaeldeforge.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
TIFF 2026 is hosting an Israeli film that is a "retelling of October 7," but the festival's description of the film (second screenshot) goes out of its way to avoid mentioning October 7 at all. it's just a vague "catastrophe strikes" lol tiff.net/films/our-lo...
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Michael DeForge @michaeldeforge.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
LOOSE 2026 - new sketchbook zine. Run of 200, 28 pages, 14 bucks. Available exclusively at The Beguiling in Toronto, Ontario, plus one second store to be confirmed
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Michael DeForge @michaeldeforge.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
stacked announcement tbh
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Reuters @reuters.com · 03/08/2026
Cuba's national electric grid collapses, plunging island into darkness reut.rs/4fKWwgK
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Cuba's national electric grid collapses, plunging island into darkness
Cuba's national electricity ​grid collapsed late on ‌Sunday, the state-owned national electric utility ​said, plunging the ​island of about 10 ⁠million people into ​darkness as blackouts are ​becoming ever more frequent.
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Cathy G. Johnson🏴 @cathygjohn.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Two more of our neighbors were picked up this week, please consider donating to AMOR Network RI to help support the resistance to ICE. We are in this together. amorri.org
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AMOR – Alliance to Mobilize Our Resistance
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Michael DeForge @michaeldeforge.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
full comic up for Patreon subscribers www.patreon.com/michaeldefor...
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Michael DeForge @michaeldeforge.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I'm among these arrestees whose charges have been dropped, and provided a few comments here about the way Mayor Chow, the Crown and Toronto police arbitrarily use Palestine solidarity arrests to score political points
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Michael DeForge @michaeldeforge.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
www.thegrindmag.ca/the-grind-is... @thegrindto.bsky.social is being sued by an IOF soldier - another example of Zionist lawfare projects trying to deplete the resources of media outlets or institutions they target they're a paper that's very much worth donating to
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The Grind Is Being Sued By an IDF Reservist Soldier
This defamation case could sink one of the only publications closely covering the Palestine solidarity movement in Toronto and the repression it has faced. We need your help…
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 15/07/2026
These photos of FNs community members fleeing their homes by boat are genuinely apocalyptic (Photo via Wayne Wastaken of Collins, Ontario, who says his “hometown is gone”) www.facebook.com/share/r/1ArN...
Photo via Wayne Wastaken

Fire clouds over Collins, Ontario as community members flee their homes by boat
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Michael DeForge @michaeldeforge.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
excerpt
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 08/07/2026
Aid worker who organised World Cup screenings in Gaza killed in Israeli strike
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Aid worker who organised World Cup screenings in Gaza killed in Israeli strike
Egyptian Mohamed al-Wahidi died when a missile struck his taxi shortly before his country played Argentina A Palestinian aid worker who had organised screenings of World Cup matches in Gaza was killed by an Israeli missile strike just before the game between Egypt and Argentina on Tuesday evening. Two brothers aged eight and 10 and another man who was in the street near the site of the attack were also killed. Continue reading...
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Michael DeForge @michaeldeforge.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
artwork drawn for the companion album release by Yang Chen
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The Grind @thegrindto.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Israel Engaged in Illicit Foreign Interference in Canada: Report A recent @cjpme.org report details how the Israeli government is covertly trying to influence Canadian public affairs. Canadian officials have yet to comment directly on the report.
thegrindmag.ca
Israel Engaged in Illicit Foreign Interference in Canada: Report
Government officials have not responded to questions about a troubling new report published in May by Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East…
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Michael DeForge @michaeldeforge.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
drawing for a Toronto screening of John Waters' Pecker, put on by the Hear Me Out! series
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Michael DeForge @michaeldeforge.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
you know who
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Michael DeForge @michaeldeforge.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
it's that time of the year
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Michael DeForge @michaeldeforge.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
poster design for a Toronto screening of A Litany Of Survival: The Life And Work Of Audre Lorde, put on by the always excellent Black Gold
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Michael DeForge @michaeldeforge.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
t-shirt design for WFMU wfmu.store/products/new...
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Michael DeForge @michaeldeforge.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
slipcase cover for Good Manners big fan of this movie and Juliana Rojas' work! vinegarsyndrome.com/collections/...
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Michael DeForge @michaeldeforge.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
shirt design for Vinegar Syndrome vinegarsyndrome.com/products/vin...
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Michael DeForge @michaeldeforge.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
front and back cover for this Vinegar Syndrome VHS cover for Sgt Kabukiman NYPD vinegarsyndrome.com/collections/...
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Jillian Tamaki @dirtbagg.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I started a newsletter-blog with my friends Eleanor Davis, Lala Albert, and Ian Foster-Dimino. Today was my first post! Just trying to have fun posting on the internet again, folks garden-variety.org
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Michael DeForge @michaeldeforge.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
theijf.org/article/pro-... The Canada Revenue Agency is attempting to revoke the charitable status of HonestReporting Canada, a notorious Zionist harassment and misinformation vehicle. HRC is challenging that decision in court, but the details of that audit + revocation are extremely funny:
In the January revocation notice, tax officials noted that a few months after the audit results were sent to HRCCO in July 2025, three “backgrounders” appeared on the charity’s website with the headings "Fake Post 1," "Fake Post 2" and "Fake Post 3." Each post contained the same article, with a description of the charity at the end.

“However, the description actually refers to HRC [HonestReporting Canada] and is the same information that HRC uses on its articles,” the appendix reads.

“It appears that, in an attempt to maintain its registered status, the organization purposely created webpages that contained false/misleading information to provide the impression that it conducts its own activities.”
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Robin Bougie @robinbougie.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
They gave US zinester Elizabeth Soto *50 fucking years* in prison for publishing a zine that supports an anti-fascism stance. Prosecutors also used her feminism themed zine, and an anti-AI zine as evidence against her. This is unprecedented.
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Michael DeForge @michaeldeforge.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
deciding which core memory to push out so that these four panels can find a permanent home in my mind palace
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Michael DeForge @michaeldeforge.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
very proud to have drawn this cover for Jody Chan's upcoming book, Madness Belongs To The People www.brickbooks.ca/shop/madness-belongs-to-the-people-by-jody-chan/
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