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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 1h

Tbf it also exists to subject men to ritualized abuse in order to irreparably bond them to each other so that they won’t blow the whistle on all the raping

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Mariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · 46m

Our society is exhaustingly awful to sexual assault victims on such an ingrained, default, level that it's actively crippling our ability to move forward as a species.

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Mariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · 3h

"X place is an old school LA staple, it's been around since the '90's!" Look. Unless you're talking about the 1890's let's not.

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Mariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · 6h

If you're reading this, you're reading the skeet of a 47yo woman who experienced 1. gross sexual attention from men starting around age ten 2. multiple sexual harassment situations before I was twenty five 3. sexual assault. Every single AFAB person I know has experienced similar or worse.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 8h

A man replied to this saying in earnest that women need to get organized and fight for our rights and men will follow. We did that. We do that. We mobilized the largest single day protest in global history on every continent and yet I have fewer rights than my mom did at my age.

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Mariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · 7h

You can't "not all men" when 1. there's no way to tell which men by looking at them 2. Cornell 7 3. the entire GROUP CHAT that said nothing. We have to assume all men because you've given us no other option. The end.

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Mariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Extremely bureaucratic week for me but hopefully several steps closer to some much needed resources. Stuff like this always makes me tired af for some reason.

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Mariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There was a tiny carnival at our local park over the weekend and we went all 3 night. It was so cute to see families, teens, and adults doing goofy ass, low-fi carnival stuff with real joy.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.

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DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.

In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam

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Mariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Nice try, Karl. I'm 47, I remember your basically-also-a-Nazi shit. The whole shocked pikachu these dudes keep trying is really annoying. You knew. You liked it. You're also Nazi's.

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Mariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Whoa, Slow Horses S6 you are not messing around.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 25/09/2026

America cannot have a multiracial, multicultural democracy if the United States Supreme Court is allowed to continue to exist in its current form

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 26/09/2026

What *the f ck*

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Jeremy C. Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I have some bills piling up, so a sale or two at my shop would be much appreciated. If you're interested in my fabric art, I'd love for you to check out what I have available. Each Jeremy Creature is designed and hand-sewed by me and takes many hours to create. jeremycreature.bigcartel.com

Here's a lovely photo of a plethora of hand-sewn fabric art creatures. There's a watermelon creature with a red face, eight black seed-like eyes, and a wide mouth with five sharp teeth. There's a white ghost trinket bag covered with purple embroidered flowers. She has a gray face, sparkly black eyes and a little frown. There's a strawberry creature with three bulbous green eyes. There's a watermelon ghost, and a black creature with sharp teeth wearing a bulbous eye earring. There's a large purple creature with many yellow eyes and an open mouth, with a little green creature popping her head out. All the creatures are sitting on green fur and there's a galaxy print fabric in the background.

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Lilah Sturges @lilahsturges.com · 25/09/2026

Hi everyone, it’s “be nice to yourself o’ clock” which means you have to forgive yourself for something boneheaded you did AND you have to make a plan to do a small nice thing for yourself. That’s the rules. What’s a small nice thing? For me it was driving through my favorite local coffee place.

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Mariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

1000%. And building time OFF into schedules. I will die on this hill but we expect comics creatives to write/draw until their arms fall off without breaks. This does not save time it just inevitable causes burn out and missed deadlines.

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Mariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If you're wondering why so many comics people are po'd about the Publishers Weekly PR stunt for an "AI" "graphic novel publisher" is because the whole piece is an insult to the hard work people do to make comics. No element can just be outsourced to a machine and then traced and not look like crap.

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Mariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Writers, artists, crafters, we all love talking shop. For us that's fun and exciting and endlessly interesting, to talk about our process and hear about others.

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Anna Daviscourt @annadaviscourt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If you see this, post some cats

A digital illustration of two cats looking up at a gardener harvesting tomatoes in a yellow sunny garden, watermark: annadaviscourt.com

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Mariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Man, I wish more people understood the artistry behind color work in comics. That gross "AI" publishing co doing graphic novels has an ugly ass two-tone example that makes me want to scream. But I'm sure some people wouldn't see the problem.

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Mariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Truly. He's around the same age as my mom and today when I mentioned him she rolled her eyes and said basically this and how she wished he'd shut up 30yrs ago.

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Mariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The season finale of @gamechanger.dropout.tv had me wondering what my on-the-spot skills would be. Drawing is obv tho 1-2 min is tough. I also came up with: talk about the dwarves history in The Silmarillion in an interesting way, sing Spike's song from Buffy, & convince people to watch Farscape.

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Nicole aka Nimasprout @nimasprout.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

🌹 Rose & Berries 🌹 Acryla gouache and airbrush on watercolor paper mounted on arched wood panel. An ode to summer and our garden 💖 Part of Antler Gallery group exhibition opening tonight in PDX

Arched panel painting featuring roses, raspberries and fever few flowers.

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Mariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Tonight was a real mixed bag. First, discovered our cars battery died and frankly it's a miracle it lasted so long since I'm pretty it's the original from 2015. But then we took a walk to a new TJ's that had WIDE OPEN CLEAR AISLES. Nothing was weirdly angled or claustrophobically narrow!

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Heidi MacDonald @ SPX @comixace.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Hire Jules! 👏 Hire Jules! 👏 Hire Jules! 👏

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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

SPECIFICALLY if you can get to Park Slope and your bailiwick includes LGBTQ+ rights, unhoused people's rights, LGBTQ+ sex and consent ed, clubhouses and community resources, or anything adjacent to, PLEASE HMU.

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Mariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Love to see the NYC mayor actively celebrating the arts.

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Mariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Just want to give @tkingfisher.com some support for some stuff going on in a thread of theirs. I get that people have head canons & get very attached to characters but trauma dumping on an author for not writing your head canon is not healthy. I've been there when I wrote Angel. It is rough.

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Mariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Today was clearly designed to piss me off specifically.

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Mariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A lot of my gn work is adaptations and let me tell you; if you try to do it this way you are going to get the worst slop imaginable. I've seen what other co's have produced with this kind of thing. They are a MESS with truly no value. This is a collaborative medium for a reason.

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Mariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

When I get stressed I like to draw stilly things which often results in Monster Cupcakes like these Classic Monsters.

Monster Cupcakes; ink and watercolor cupcakes in the them of Frakenstein's Creature and his Bride and a Vampire.

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Mariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

First full of day of fall so here's some cozy art to help keep the brain goblins away!

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Foxfeather Zenkova @foxfeather.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Peacock loafs, of the pied variety.

Two pied peacocks laying on a van roof, loafing comfortably

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Mariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Whew, I need a palette cleanse after reading up even a little on this "AI fanfic sex cult". It's giving "Heaven's Gate" and frankly I worry about any children stuck in that environment + the inherently effed power dynamics and abuse that must be happening.

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Mariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I just read some of their actual beliefs in this thread and as a fiction editor, it's the most regurgitated sci-fi nonsense. I'd be marking up with a lot of "how" "why" and "that's the plot of Terminator/Neuromancer". This is what people truly believe? I don't understand -why-.

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Mariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Stop every kind of scrolling and watch @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social Last Meals. It is a delight to soothe our weary souls. www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6td...

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Josh Johnson Eats His Last Meal

YouTube video by Mythical Kitchen

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

jesus christ. the new president of the university is closing down the biggest, oldest repository of fossils, specimens and artifacts with a single month's notice because I guess, archaeology is too woke or something? where the fuck is it all going to go? into the bin? get mad about it:

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Mariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Newsom won't spend time babbling about how awesome he is until everyone disassociates. He'll say a lot of things centrists want to here and make a show...and then -quietly- do untold damage. Like he just did by vetoing a bill to protect abortion & trans care seekers.

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Mariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

You'll notice that this horrible nugget isn't over on his bsky profile as something he's proud of. He often operates like this, touting one thing while quietly doing shady af things.

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Mariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

On the disaster that is Newsom: I do not think his mega dive right is because he thinks it will get him GOP voters. I mean, he could be that delusional but that well is poisoned forever due to being CA's "Dem" governor. Imho it's probably a lot closer to what he actually believes + for donors.

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Mariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I cannot emphasize enough how right @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social is about Newsom. This right here sounds like a comic book plot but it's 1000000% what Newsom is.

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Mariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I cannot stress enough as a person who lives in California how true and important this is. He cannot be the Dem nominee, we must not let him near even the possibility of the presidency.

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Mariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Between the sums some people sell out for and the level of incompetent corruption like this, it is WILD to me that we haven't collapsed sooner at this point.

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Mariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

He's even still got his hand up, ready to cook a dwarf.

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Mariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

1. I doubt that, Oz. 2. Literally not fraud since they're paying for it. 3. Many have pointed this out but plenty of people have car insurance they don't use because they don't get in an accident. Not fraud. 4. They just want to kill Obamacare which would be disastrous.

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Mariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is also true, though. I personally wasn't taught to take "write what you know" literally. More like, it can be helpful to draw on your own experiences when developing your stories & characters. Not literally "only write what you specifically know". Which would be weird and unhelpful!

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Celeste Pewter @celestepewter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Fellow #kidlit writers/author pals: help me with a wholesome (ish) surprise? Using my work skills and building my cowriter an Insta. He’s new to publishing. Follow him? www.instagram.com/ckhale.author

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Create an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you.

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Mariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Everything is again Too Extremely Much so I am rewatching The Curious Creations of Christine McConnell. I love the combo of creepy comedy with crafts and muppets. I always rewatch it this time of year for inspiration.

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