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PORK-PIE 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @porkpie.ca · 26/09/2026

A peek at some #storyboards and backgrounds for the opening titles of @frankbottom.com. Painting watercolour washes is one of my favourite things to do.

An artist’s work table covered with papers, paintings, sketchbooks, and pens.

Several watercolour boards laid out to prepare them for colour washes. Also seen are several tins of paint and some brushes.

Several watercolour boards laid out with colour washes of green, orange, red, and blue. Also seen are several tins of paint and some brushes.

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PORK-PIE 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @porkpie.ca · 10/09/2026

*I used old BGs from Mr Magoo! (I think these were by Sterling Sturtevant.) I love their neutral monochrome, because my characters’ colours are so saturated. Read about the incomparable Sterling Sturtevant here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterlin...

Purple leather-daddy trans man Frank Bottom and green drag queen Barb A. Fella standing against a neutral taupe coloured background. He’s saluting in a goofy grin, while she is giving someone the evil eye.

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PORK-PIE 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @porkpie.ca · 10/09/2026

Barb A. Fella colour tests*. It took me several attempts to finally get her design to a place where she “goes with” Frank. Much happier with this. Her boobs are inspired by @jimbothedragclown.bsky.social & her “don’t-fuck-with-me” glare by #Willam #animation #lgbtq #queerart #indieanimation #scifi

Green drag queen Barb A. Fella standing against a cool gray background reminiscent of old steamer ships. There are three versions of her, from different angles and with different expressions.

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PORK-PIE 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @porkpie.ca · 01/09/2026

Done! Scripts for the 3 (well 5 kinda?) teaser episodes for my indie #animation series #FrankBottomConquersUranus. Supporters & subscribers get all of them today, but you can read the 1st one FREE at the link below. (Can you repost? It helps me reach supporters!) 🙏 drive.proton.me/urls/X30GZ83...

Photo of several script pages on a table. Scattered about are some pens, a pair of glasses, a notebook, and some index cards with storyboard sketches on them.

A cartoon leather-man stands at attention with a goofy grin, saluting to the camera. To his right is a title reading: "FRANK BOTTOM CONQUERS URANUS!" Below this is a sub-heading that reads: "A queer sci-fi cartoon by Luc Latulippe". Everything is sitting atop a watercolour painting of a colourful galaxy in outer space.

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PORK-PIE 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @porkpie.ca · 03/07/2026

Doing some homework, breaking down an old episode of Roger Ramjet. Exactly 110 scenes for a 4-minute short (or "shots" if you're a live-action person).

A screen-grab of all the shots in an old Roger Ramjet cartoon. Each shot is numbered, and includes the relevant dialogue under each panel.

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PORK-PIE 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @porkpie.ca · 01/07/2026

Here's an older ink & watercolour sketch of #FrankBottom (plus a wee #BarbAFella squeezed in). For a while I drew Frank's jaw blocky like this; it kinda works sometimes depending on the expression. I really love bright colours.

Ink and watercolour sketch depicting various poses of a muscular moustachioed trans man and a green-skinned drag queen with curly red hair.

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PORK-PIE 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @porkpie.ca · 08/06/2026

Hello @crowdfundr.bsky.social! Hey could you add more share options to the bottom of payment confirmation emails? Or allow users to customize them? I'd love to see more than just FB and X (I personally use neither of those). How about buttons for Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads, etc…? Thanks!

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PORK-PIE 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @porkpie.ca · 05/06/2026

I'm tweaking the design for Frank's partner-in-crime: Barb A. Fella. Think of Barb as the result of a drunken threeway between @jimbothedragclown.bsky.social, Willam, and an Orion slave-girl. See the rest on IG: www.instagram.com/p/DZLs-gNj4x...

Sketches of a drag queen named Barb A. Fella. She's wearing a skintight tube-dress (probably leather) and thigh-high boots, and her skin is green.

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PORK-PIE 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @porkpie.ca · 26/05/2026

“That explosion was not unexpected, according to SpaceX.” 🫠

Video still of SpaceX rocket exploding, which does not seem normal for a rocket to do. Surprisingly the caption reads: “That explosion was not unexpected, according to SpaceX.”

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PORK-PIE 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @porkpie.ca · 24/05/2026

“…agentic AI could drive a 24-fold increase in token consumption by 2030 as consumers and enterprises adopt AI agents, reaching a staggering 120 quadrillion tokens per month.”

Screen grab of text from an article titled “Microsoft reports are exposing AI's real cost problem: Using the tech is more expensive than paying human employees” that highlights the following line: “…agentic AI could drive a 24-fold increase in token consumption by 2030 as consumers and enterprises adopt AI agents, reaching a staggering 120 quadrillion tokens per month.”

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PORK-PIE 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @porkpie.ca · 24/05/2026

“Uber […] had already burnt through its entire 2026 AI coding tools budget in just four months.”

Screen grab of article about how the cost of using AI is more expensive than using actual humans:

Uber's CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga told The Information in April that the firm had already burnt through its entire 2026 AI coding tools budget in just four months. That comes after the company had actively incentivized adoption through internal leaderboards ranking teams by AI tool usage.

The reports may throw cold water on the bets tech's biggest firms have placed on the technology. While some cling to the promise of an Al "renaissance" or "revolution," the cost of adoption is proving a stubborn bottleneck. These developments also suggest that the economics of replacing or augmenting human labor with AI may be more complicated than some early forecasts originally implied. That echoes what Bryan Catanzaro, vice president of applied deep learning at Nvidia, recently said in an interview with Axios.

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PORK-PIE 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @porkpie.ca · 15/05/2026

WTF my Linktree has been deleted, with no explanation whatsoever. Good reminder to self-host everything. Fuck these anti-LGBTQ companies.

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PORK-PIE 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @porkpie.ca · 06/05/2026

Not just pens and pencils either: www.theguardian.com/world/articl...

Illustration showing over a dozen different harmless items that Israel bans from entering Gaza including toys, sewing machines, spices, paper, pencils, fabric, and more.

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PORK-PIE 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @porkpie.ca · 06/05/2026

We are just days away from the 47th anniversary of the White Night riots in San Francisco, which took place on May 21, 1979.

Black and white photo of the “White Night Riots" on May 21, 1979, in San Francisco. The scene depicts a crowd on the steps outside a courthouse being held back by a handful of riot police wearing helmets and brandishing clubs. Above them on the entrance is a banner that reads: "Stop Attacks On Lesbians & Gays". This riot was sparked by an announcement of a lenient sentencing of Dan White who assassinated both George Moscone, the mayor of San Francisco, and Harvey Milk, the first openly gay member of the city's Board of Supervisors.

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PORK-PIE 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @porkpie.ca · 05/05/2026

Jen Gerson claiming she warned about this a month ago over on the Globe and Mail 😒 www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/882b4e8...

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PORK-PIE 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @porkpie.ca · 05/04/2026

Sketchbook doodle of @frankbottom.com in a lil space scooter 🛵

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PORK-PIE 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @porkpie.ca · 03/04/2026

At the start of 2020 I decided to try posting a sketch a day. These are some of them. I am (insanely) thinking of starting this up again.

A 10x10 montage of various sketches. Some are in colour, some in black and white.

A 3x3 montage of various sketches. Some are in colour, some in black and white.

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PORK-PIE 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @porkpie.ca · 01/04/2026

I contributed this for #TransDayOfVisibility for the @cag938.bsky.social’s Pride Committee 🏳️‍⚧️ 🧱 www.instagram.com/cag.pride/p/...

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PORK-PIE 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @porkpie.ca · 14/03/2026

This is demented. The majority of Canada's English-speaking entertainment industry exists as a giant subcontractor to the US. This list should be the fuel we use to power a genuinely sovereign Canadian industry, but will it? /via @sanders.senate.gov

Screen grab of Bernie Sanders' social media post saying: "One family, the right-wing Trump-aligned Ellisons, will soon control: TikTok, CBS, CNN, HBO, Discovery Channel, BET, Cartoon Network, Comedy Central, DC Studios, Fandango, Miramax, MTV, Nickelodeon, Paramount, PlutoTV, Showtime, TBS, The CW, TNT, Warner Bros., and more. This is oligarchy."

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PORK-PIE 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @porkpie.ca · 13/03/2026

I enjoyed this episode so much. 👏 Great arguments by @ianagp.bsky.social so passionate and eloquent:

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PORK-PIE 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @porkpie.ca · 12/03/2026

Powerful essay by @esqueer.net: www.thedissident.news/exit-conditi...

This is what it feels like to be a trans person in an increasingly authoritarians and autocratic America in 2026.

Every path that should lead to safety, to justice, to the simple baseline dignity of existing in public, has been engineered to dead-end. Advocate peacefully through institutions—the courts are captured by conservative super-majorities who will never uphold your rights. Build coalitions and watch the funding dry up as foundations flee and donors go silent, and as organizations like the Human Rights Campaign hemorrhage staff in mass layoffs. Appeal to moderates but the Overton window has already shifted so far that your mere existence is now the "extreme" position. Exhibit any outrage at the indignities perpetrated against you and you confirm the narrative they've spent years constructing that you are violent, dangerous, a threat to children. Stay quiet, get erased quietly. Every option looks like an exit. None of them actually terminates the loop.

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PORK-PIE 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @porkpie.ca · 10/03/2026

The article in question at Haaretz: www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Haartez article about BetterHelp.com, with a headline reading: "Locked Down and Uptight? Israeli-founded Online Service Might Be The Solution"

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PORK-PIE 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @porkpie.ca · 10/03/2026

Is it weird that 90% of affordable mental health services come out of a country committing multiple genocides? And that the conditions of the pandemic helped those businesses skyrocket? Because it feels pretty weird. archive.is/202310101719...

Matas founded BetterHelp in 2013, and sold it two years later to Teladoc, a U.S. company traded on the New York Stock Exchange that specializes in telemedicine services. Coincidentally, BetterHelp's chief competitor, Talkspace, was also founded by Israelis - husband and wife Oren and Roni Frank. So at present, 90% of the online mental health services market in the United States is controlled by companies founded by Israeli entrepreneurs.

The online psychotherapy service offered by BetterHelp sounds like it was created especially for the coronavirus crisis. Millions of people around the world are suffering from anxiety, loneliness and emotional distress because of lockdowns and fears for their health and financial wellbeing. But they can't leave the house to get help. For them, BetterHelp has 10,000 certified therapists available by video, telephone or chat.

"Even though we have grown quite quickly in the last few years, the last few months have been something else altogether. The growth is like nothing we've seen before," president and founder Alon Matas told TheMarker. "For problems of depression, anxiety and tension, we've seen an increase of more than 100% in inquiries, compared with March through July in 2019, both by current and new users. It's all due to the stress and anxiety of the health and economic situation, and the bleak mood."

But it's more than coronavirus restrictions that have made online therapy a viable option. "There's also a long-term trend of people growing accustomed to working online.

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PORK-PIE 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @porkpie.ca · 05/03/2026

Doodling Frank in different styles. Influenced by seeing some old work by Ryohei Yanagihara the other day.

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PORK-PIE 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @porkpie.ca · 07/02/2026

So I’m very ambitiously going to try to produce a web-series starring my @FrankBottom.com character. (Think "Barbarella + Roger Ramjet.") I’ll post a crowdfunding link soon! Sign up for updates: buttondown.com/frankbottom

Cartoon character Frank Bottom smiling and waving to camera. He’s dressed in a sexy leather spacesuit and sporting a big handlebar moustache.

Barbara Fella, a green drag queen with big orange hair, squeezed into an extremely tight leather spacesuit.

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PORK-PIE 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @porkpie.ca · 26/01/2026

Don't forget the many connections Canada has to the murders we're watching ICE & CBP commit. Canada keeps profiting off of colonialism & racism. "What happens in Palestine... etc…" Screen-grab from The Daily News podcast by @nolore.bsky.social Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...

Screen-grab of podcast transcript from The Daily News by Nora Loreto. The highlighted section reads: "And on site at the moment that Pretti was killed were Rochelle armored vehicles built in Brampton [Ontario] by Ukrainian refugees at a factory owned by an Israeli Ukrainian who spent more than a decade in the IDF."

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PORK-PIE 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @porkpie.ca · 20/01/2026

I really love the monthly newsletter from Modern Bartender (by Rhett Williams in Vancouver). Makes it hard to stick to #DryJanuary. 🍸 us6.campaign-archive.com?u=f17bf635f5...

Illustration from 1888 of a bartender pouring cocktails from his shaker into six Nick & Nora glasses which are stacked in a pyramid atop his bar. He's barely paying attention so in reality this probably spilled all over the place. The caption underneath reads: Harry Johnson's style of straining mixed drinks to a party of six. Copyrighted 1888.

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PORK-PIE 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @porkpie.ca · 18/01/2026

Your zine inspired me to make a similar one a while back for an ongoing action to improve indoor air quality in schools. Download link here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/aoq13...

Mini-comic titled: Clean Air in Your School and Everywhere. Two masked kids in capes are flying in the air like superheroes, followed by an air-cleaner with a face, like a little robot sidekick. The comic is on a wooden table top.

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PORK-PIE 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @porkpie.ca · 03/12/2025

Mine did multiple colours on the same plant this year ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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PORK-PIE 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @porkpie.ca · 05/08/2025

It flew over one of the fireworks nights too on July 26. 🇵🇸

Plane flying a banner that reads: “Israel is starving Gaza” against a blue sky.

Closeup of a banner that reads: “Israel is starving Gaza” against a blue sky.

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PORK-PIE 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @porkpie.ca · 29/04/2025

She's back 😫 But she only comes out at Pride to slow down the parade, and for photo ops with the PM. Otherwise she's basically invisible.

consSketch of Hedy Fry, with the words "I'M BAACK!" underneath. She's glaring at the viewer, knowing she'll ghost any constituent who dares try to speak to her about important issues. She'll soon disappear in a puff of smoke.

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PORK-PIE 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @porkpie.ca · 01/04/2025

Hey Vancouver! Give ABC the BOOT 🥾💥 on April 5, and vote @copevancouver.bsky.social in the upcoming Vancouver by-elections! #EvictKenSim

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PORK-PIE 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @porkpie.ca · 10/03/2025

Memorizing this so I can use it in arguments. Thank you @nolore.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/noralore...

Text graphic, reads: "There is no material difference between having someone beat you up and insult you versus having someone beat you up and apologise." From Nora Loreto's Substack, from her article entitled: "A Carney in Charge of The Circus"

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PORK-PIE 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @porkpie.ca · 05/02/2025

"…the most significant cultural reaction we have is: well, I’m going to buy Canadian! As if Free Trade even allows us to make that decision. The Farmers’ Market is too expensive. I’ll just buy whatever Save on Foods has on sale. Cultural pride, deflated."

Consumerism has rushed to fill most of what used to be cultural identity, though this isn’t limited to Canadian identity. Indeed, try performing femininity without also having to pay for it. But when Trump acts the bully, the most significant cultural reaction we have is: well, I’m going to buy Canadian! As if Free Trade even allows us to make that decision. The Farmers’ Market is too expensive. I’ll just buy whatever Save on Foods has on sale. Cultural pride, deflated.

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