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United Wizards of the Coast - CWA @uwotc-official.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This morning, the D&D team and Magic's Studio X informed our leadership of our intent to unionize. We love the games we make and the work we do, and unionizing is how we protect that work. unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/dnd-stu...
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Dungeons & Dragons and Studio X Join United Wizards of the Coast - CWA
Today, October 6, 2026, the designers, artists, writers, producers, and workers behind Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: The Gathering, Duel Masters, D&D Beyond, and countless other games are uniting in soli...
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Dave Gray-Donald @dgrdon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Wow, there's a giant NDA (non-disclosure agreement) up as a Nuit Blanche art installation calling out the silencing of curators and artists who've spoken critically of Israel. It's in the alley off Spadina south of Richmond leading to Cinecycle. By No Arms in the Arts.
Photo of a 10-foot high non-disclosure agreement in an alley in Toronto with fog and people in the foreground. The contract says "NDA" and "I will not talk about getting fired for criticizing Israel"
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Michael DeForge @michaeldeforge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"My Son Will Know Me As A Coward" new comic, available exclusively to Patreon subscribers www.patreon.com/michaeldefor...
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Michael DeForge @michaeldeforge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Previous: letterboxd.com/mdfmdf/list/...
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Horror Movies For You 2025
Previous: letterboxd.com/mdfmdf/list/horror-movies-for-you-2024/ letterboxd.com/mdfmdf/list/horror-movies-for-you-twenty-twenty-three/ letterboxd.com/mdfmdf/list/more-horror-movies-for-you/ letterboxd...
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Michael DeForge @michaeldeforge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Yearly horror movie recommendation list letterboxd.com/mdfmdf/list/...
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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 · 29/09/2026
at least they don't have "sniper" or "wicked" in their titles
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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.
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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.
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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
yeah they're just sketches of different subway riders and every few years the most annoying people in the world decide to treat this like it's some sort of problem archive.is/yVQEy
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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.
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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
of course, most of the Giller's PR damage was self-inflicted: its leadership lied about being responsible for years-long criminal charges against protestors, its executive director called its 2023 winner a liar in the press, and went on bizarre, harassing personal tirades against dissenting authors
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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...
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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”
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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
Also whoops 7 years passed between the last one of these I made
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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
recent subscriber posts also include some collage-y process work, my going long on the Earth Liberation Front, How To Blow Up A Pipeline, The Catonsville Nine and the Catholic activist Plowshares activist group, and some iQIYI straight-to-streaming action movie recs www.patreon.com/michaeldeforge
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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
I've been a contributor in the past: www.thegrindmag.ca/illustration... www.thegrindmag.ca/the-law-orde... if you'd like to support The Grind's legal defense, you can go here: www.thegrindmag.ca/support-the-...
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Illustration: Canadian Media’s Anti-Palestinian Bias
Special pull-out poster from the Feb/
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Michael DeForge @michaeldeforge.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
the Zionist lawfare strategy goes after individuals or publications that don't have a ton of cash to throw at legal battles. winning the lawsuits is beside the point. I was once threatened with one myself
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Michael DeForge @michaeldeforge.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
for operating on such a shoestring budget, The Grind punches well above its weight in terms of journalism. they're one of the few local publications that bothers to cover the Palestine solidarity movement. they also publish arts coverage and comics at a time when, like, no one else does
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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.
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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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