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Liz Szabo @lizszabo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Measles doesn't stop harming people when the rash goes away. Measles can damage the immune system, causing "immune amnesia" for up to five years. Measles outbreaks this year and last could leave thousands vulnerable to other infectious diseases. www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles-outb...

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Measles outbreaks could leave thousands vulnerable to infectious diseases for years

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Steve Lieber @stevelieberart.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

NEW ADVICE-FROM-LIEBER LIST! I've posted these tips as a thread before, but I figured it's about time I made it available as a single, shareable image.

MISTAKES I'VE MADE THAT YOU CAN AVOID
Don't be like me.
1. Don't trash your own work when complemented. In that context your self-deprecation is insulting someone else's taste! Just say thanks and change the subject. Maybe credit an influence?
2. As far as your readers are concerned, comics are drawn with a printing press or a monitor. Don't fetishize the original art or the tools you make it. Anything that gets the story told the way it needs to be told is the right tool for the job.
3. Don't use one job to audition for another. It's unfair to your collaborators and a betrayal of the reader to get flashy or sexy or explosive if the moment in the story doesn't call for it.
4. The important storytelling choices on a page can be worked out in thumbnails. Gesture, camera angle, framing, broad arrangement of tones-get this stuff right before you worry about anatomy, lighting, drapery, or facial expressions.
5. Some artists can put down a final inkline with no underdrawing, but that's because they're skilled and experienced enough to do all that underdrawing in their head. You probably aren't. Get your underdrawing right and save the masterstrokes for the masters.
6. What you're feeling while you work doesn't matter. What the audience feels when they read it does. You can be happy and still do a great drawing of someone in agony. You should understand what you're depicting. It's not necessary to experience it in real time at the board.
7. Get a fresh eye on your work. You never know when some accidental juxtaposition is going to completely change your intended meaning.
8. Don't let getting things 100% right keep you from getting things done. It's easy to get bogged down in research or prep sketches. Make a schedule at the start of a project so you know how much time you have. Do the best you can with the time allotted and move on. But...

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Steve Lieber @stevelieberart.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Can't make it to my Office Hours? Cursed to live somewhere that is not Portland, Oregon? Here's some advice that might apply to your comics.

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skip intro @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026

daniel kachamba demonstrating his "putugizi" style of guitar playing..

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Daniel Kachamba showing the Putugizi technique (Göttingen, 1972)

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hispanics working in the USA 👏🏽

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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

dangerous white supremacy on display here that demands that all Indian Americans reckon with our deep attachment to being in close proximity to whiteness as if we weren’t always just expendable

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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 01/10/2026

AP News: “Israeli strikes in Gaza kill 5, wound 19.” Life is treacherous for the displaced Gazans. They rely on our donations to survive. Please give to my dear friend so she can take care of her children. No amount is too small. And find and help others. 🙏 chuffed.org/project/1981...

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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 02/10/2026

I'm sorry, folks out there still tell us not to consider these people dumb marks?

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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

And let the memes commence.

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Michael Deibert @michaeldeibert.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Puerto Rico ACLU says ICE seized beloved Mexican restaurant owner and removed him from island "knowing that habeas corpus had been filed" over which island's judiciary holds authority www.elnuevodia.com/noticias/seg...

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“Lo sacaron de Puerto Rico”: ICE traslada a dueño de restaurantes Callejeros a centro de Estados Unidos

La ACLU denunció que fue trasladado del centro temporero en Puerto Rico pese a una orden judicial federal que lo prohíbe, por lo que deberá ser trasladado nuevamente al lugar

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

US Ambassador to China David Perdue says in their recent meeting Trump asked President Xi if China wanted to buy weapons systems from the US.

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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Today is the 40th anniversary of Cleveland's epic Balloonfest debacle. Second only to Ten Cent Beer Night in the great list of Cleveland WTFs. Cheers to all who celebrate.

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The Doomed Cleveland Balloonfest of '86

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

ICE brutally detain woman's gardener-right in front of her house. 4 goons drag and violently pull man out of truck head-first. Kneel on his back after pinned down to pavement. "I can't breathe! I can't breathe!" he cries out. Incident occurred in Everett, Washington.

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Oubao Moin 𓆏𓆌𓆉𓆈𓆚 🇵🇷🇱🇧|🍉🌻🌿 #VivaPuertoRicoLibre @astrophobia.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Para el Grito de Lares, el Dr. Ramón Emeterio Betances también comisionó la creación de un himno para alientar al pueblo en son de lucha armada. La poeta Lola Rodríguez de Tió escribió “La Borinqueña”, usando la melodía de una danza. Ese fue nuestro primer himno y es el himno real de Puerto Rico.

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La Borinqueña (Versión Revolucionaria)

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Dærick Gröss @daerickgross.com · 22/09/2026

Collins also exemplifies why we need a press willing to stand up and push back, rather than spend years fearfully what-abouting and softballing around important and egregious things...

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 22/09/2026

"Reading the World" is a new documentary about Paulo Freire, the acclaimed Brazilian educator whose revolutionary approach to teaching connected literacy to critical thinking and democratic participation. We speak with one of its co-directors and a consulting producer.

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“Pedagogy of the Oppressed” Brazilian Educator Paulo Freire Profiled in Film, “Reading the World”

Reading the World is a remarkable new documentary about Paulo Freire, the acclaimed Brazilian educator whose revolutionary approach to teaching connected literacy to critical thinking and democratic p...

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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Wrote it with Rob Smigel. And yes, it was pulled from reruns.

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 21/09/2026

🆗🛑 Gen AI is software. It is code. It is not a "co-scientist." Even if that's the name of the product, that doesn't make it so. Microsoft Word is not a "co-writer." (No, not even with spell check enabled.)

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

new toon: large language muddle www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

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Large language muddle

A cartoon by Tom Tomorrow.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

one hates to nitpick but i’m pretty sure there were korean and chinese people in the 90s

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Matthew Eadie @mattheweadie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Video of this incident shared on Facebook This appears to be the end of the incident. I'm told Evanston police responded and the man was a U.S. citizen and was taken to a local hospital Police made contact with the agents near Dodge/Brummel Story with more info TK momentarily

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 21/09/2026

Video appears to show an injured man — from being struck by an ICE agents’ car or from being beaten is unclear — and the ICE agents driving away with a flat tire (!) while the man is still laying in the street. Unreal.

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Luis Joel Méndez González @mjoel17.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Environmental groups in #PuertoRico are getting creative because of the island's inability to join international climate forums as a sovereign nation. Now, they are building power from the ground up. Read my latest for @prismreports.org: tinyurl.com/yc76t49y. #JusticeRequires

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Shut out of global climate forums, Puerto Ricans bet on the power of community

Puerto Rico's environmental groups are developing grassroots strategies to fight the climate crisis, collaborating with and strengthening the power of their communities

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026

Americans: oh, look, a systemic issue. I will solve it individually

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

any person who is varying degrees of Extremely Online needs to have friends who will intervene when it is clear said person 1) needs to log off and go outside, 2) is vulnerable to MAGA-grifting, and/or 3) has developed a serious case of Poster's Disease

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nullifie @nullifie.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A photo of Donald Trump inspecting the scale model of the Trump arch with drones, snipers, and golden statues was unavailable due to reporters being banned from the briefing. So, here is Hitler and other top Nazis inspecting a scale model of a planned Triumphal Arch in Berlin, circa 1939.

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026

I just honestly can't get over that Save Women Sports, an anti-trans group could only find five trans athletes competing K through 12. Five. The NCAA president testified a year and a half ago or so that there were less than 10 college level trans athletes. What the fuck are we doing, people

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Jen Sorensen @jensorensen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This week's comic: The Big Picture

For millennia…

Barbarism prevails, might makes right

Dominant religious groups persecute “heretics”

Racial hierarchy entrenched

Gender hierarchy entrenched

Non-straight people ostracized

Finally in the second half of the 20th century
Woman: At last, a bit of fairness and equality!

And then…
Pompous guy: Here’s an outside-the-box idea! What if we tried traditional hierarchies?

©2026 Jen Sorensen

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026

When someone claims that a mistake just happens in the system, and it's always the same kind of mistake, and it always benefits the person who set up the system... It's not a mistake. It's happening on purpose.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Big Tech is using panic to suck the air out of the room just as people are demanding transparency and accountability for the sector’s egregious, monopolistic overreach into every facet of our lives. My latest column with bonus track open.spotify.com/track/403oiK...

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Thieves in the Temple

Prince · Music from Graffiti Bridge · Song · 1990

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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Big fan of shadow puppets.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Alt text for video continued: Alex: Yeah, absolutely. I'm like, why should we trust anybody talking about jobs if they've literally only had two jobs? One which is founder, and the other which is philanthropist. Sounds like you haven't done actual shit, my man. Emily: Not at all.

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 17/09/2026

Mel Blanc screams are like Greek fire, we lost the technology to make sounds like this

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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The part he leaves out of this is we’re governed by a moron

Interest Rates in the United States should be 1%, or less, because we are the Best Credit in the World — BY FAR. Our Country is BOOMING with new Investment! If we stopped Trading with every country that we have a Deficit with, which is most of them, we would make, at least, 1.5 Trillion Dollars a year. The word “Deficit” is nothing more than a fancy word for LOSS. We are “carrying” almost every country in the World, and that cannot go on any longer. LOWER THE INTEREST RATES FOR THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND FAST! President DONALD J. TRUMP

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Instead of saying "the Kennedy Center board decided to close" we should note that "a group of Trump appointees including Laura Ingraham and Dan Scavino decided to shut it down"

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Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Notice how those “apolitical” people ALWAYS end up siding with the oppressors

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Just swap out "communist" with "fascist"

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pitusa.bsky.social @pitusa.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

One of my cats is addicted to belly scritches. The other one’s planning an intervention.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Also, Trump running an institution into bankruptcy. Who'd have guessed that a Queens casino operator who ran his own company into bankruptcy multiple times might do that?

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This is a weird way to frame it. More like "Kennedy Center Board Packed with Trump Apparatchicks Votes to Close It Down After Trump Wrecks Its Finances and Has Toddler-Like Meltdown After Courts Rule That He Can't Just Crayon His Name On the Building"

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