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Stephen Mullinax

@stephenmullinax.bsky.social
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Illustrator/designer of sorts

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.
A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with 
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future
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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
At a practical level: Every minute you spend arguing online about harm reduction voting with someone who doesn’t believe in the concept would be better spent volunteering for a campaign and texting early voting reminders to people who have never and will never care about this debate.
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𝔻𝕖𝕖𝕡 𝕋𝕙𝕠𝕥 @thatsgoodweb.bsky.social · 21/10/2023
Clyde Caldwell, Sympathy for the Devil
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Mike McMahan @mikemcmahan.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Walking to a comic book store and grabbing an issue or two of something that looks cool is such a simple pleasure. Grab a friend, some coffee, take it slow and don't worry about collecting. You don't need a plan on what issues to get, let the unknown be what drives you.
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Franki Butler @frankitheb.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
This is why I hate convos about the "creator economy" and entertainment; all the "just make it and put it on YouTube!" bs. Destroying the avenues that pay people a living wage while cycling through an endless stream of desperate kids isn't "democratization;" it's just devaluing labor.
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🌸 DreMeMoTo @drememoto.com · 27/03/2026
I Will Go Sailing No More but Woody Won't Shut The Fuck Up The Entire Time
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Victoria Maderna @victoriamaderna.com · 20/03/2026
Spring Parade. Gouache on paper. Featuring some of the local wildlife + wild and planted flowers from the garden 🍃🪻🌼 Prints: www.inprnt.com/gallery/vmad...
A line of anthropomorphic woodland creatures carrying spring flowers. Painting in gouache by Victoria Maderna.
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Jenée 🩷💜💙 @itsjenee.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
My best attempt
A 1990s "Read" poster with Miss Piggy lounging and reading dressed as Cleopatra and Kermit standing behind her dressed as Julius Ceasar holding a stack of books. The caption at the bottom reads: "some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing"
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 16/02/2026
The fact that these sentences always end with "... which we will cram with more work for them" and not "... so we moved to a four-day workweek" really illustrate the hollowness of some AI evangelists' promises that AI will deliver us to some kind of post-work utopia.
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Nicky 2 @nickyflowers.com · 11/02/2026
look, gambling apps aren't going away. you have to embrace them or get left behind. incorporate Kalshi into your workflow. get your kids onto Polymarket to prepare them for the future of America. send threatening DMs to athletes if they fuck up your parlay. Uncut Gems is aspirational now
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
the way people talk about AI is like it's a stalker you ought to be nicer to
"AI is not going away," says a bluesky user
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Down Here For Your Soul @bombsfall.bsky.social · 01/11/2024
November is great. We should not allow the erasure of the back half of fall due to making the year about christmas right after halloween. Embrace your time and live in it!!
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Stephen Mullinax @stephenmullinax.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
DO NOT LET THIS MAN IN YOUR HOUSE, HE WILL NEVER LEAVE
A blue and orange children’s entertainer escapes from a tv into the real world. A child is delighted while a man looks distressed
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
We should have listened when the modems screamed at us.
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Stephen Mullinax @stephenmullinax.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
The movie Be Kind Rewind has done more to democratize filmmaking than AI ever will
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Elon saying he’s going to reprogram his chatbot’s view of history is a perfect example of why these kinds of AI products aren’t the neutral “tools” people always defend them as. They’re little political projects reflecting the ideologies of their creators
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Mike.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ @dumbmike.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
I joined Bluesky exactly two years ago and I wrote a piece about my thoughts on the platform - how it's been coming along so far and where it seems fated to go. Thanks for reading.
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Animation World Network @animationworld.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
#Titmouse and #KCGreen Partner on #AnimeClub Animated Series: show based on the comic of the same name by Green follows a group of high school outcasts obsessed with pop-culture who decide to form an unofficial, unfunded, and misunderstood anime club. bit.ly/43tucuA #Animation #AnimationWorld
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Anarchy Goose @anarchygoose.northsky.social · 15/05/2025
The whole 'Grok is a boer now' thing is very funny, but it also really exposes how every 'AI tool' isn't just passively biased from training data, but actively designed to shape your worldview according to the interests of the billionaires who made them.
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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
If you make it your life's goal to defund things like this, you are my enemy and I hope you die alone and afraid. Stevie Wonder performs a fire version of "Superstition" on Sesame Street. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ul7...
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Stevie Wonder - Superstition live on Sesame Street
YouTube video by Ryan's Smashing Life
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𝔻𝕖𝕖𝕡 𝕋𝕙𝕠𝕥 @thatsgoodweb.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Hiro Isono, 1993
Hiro Isono, 1993
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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Robert McGinnis has died. An absolute icon of mid-late 20th century commercial #art and #illustration.
Robert McGinnis painting of a womanRobert McGinnis Diamond are Forever posterRobert McGinnis painting of a  cowboyRobert McGinnis painting of a woman
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Stephen Mullinax @stephenmullinax.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
It's just a tool bro. Why are you screaming bro?
"No it's cool, I only really use it to brainstorm ideas..." says one man to his buddy as he gazes down in horror at a writhing, screaming mass of heads and bodies. The abomination has apparently been tasked with coming up with podcast topics on a white board, upon which it has  written a single word "REVENGE"
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Retro Computers @retrocomps.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
COMPUTERS PUT PEOPLE OUT OF WORK (Source.)
This newspaper-political-cartoon style comic from the book "A Common Sense Guide to Selection of a Computer System" shows a very mean all-in-one computer giving the boot to a hapless old man, kicking him out the door and down the stairs.
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Stephen Mullinax @stephenmullinax.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Don't worry, I almost got it
First Frame: A figure that may resemble myself, lying on the ground in intense pain, screaming AAAAAAA, MY BACK!! while a voice out of frame asks Honey? What Happened??

Second Frame: 5 minutes and 3 seconds earlier:
The same figure is watching a tutorial on YouTube on how to perform a kip up. The duration of the video is exactly 5 minutes. His face is full of awe and wonder as he is convinced that a sedentary man of nearly 40 should be able to accomplish this feat easily.
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Stephen Mullinax @stephenmullinax.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Aw man
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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
In general, I think we'll look back on from the 2005-2025 era and realize they worked to deskill everyone--from casual users down to actual coders--in anything related to computers. I'm often teaching undergrads things like "how to save a file as PDF" even. AI really accelerates this trend though.
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Stephen Mullinax @stephenmullinax.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Just a valentine only graphic designers will get
HEY GIRL, HOW BOUT WE GET THIS MOCKUP INTO PRODUCTION:

A poorly composited photo of a man and woman holding hands with the words "you" and "me" slapped on top
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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Democrats have too much respect for the voters. They assume they're making complex, nuanced, reasoned decisions and must be approached with care, while Republicans assume voters are simplistic and emotional and you have to pound them over the head with your message. Guess which is more effective.
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Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
"Imagine a world in which an A.I. can analyze your reading patterns and alert you that you’re about to buy a book where there’s only a 10 percent chance you’ll get past Page 6..." Fuck off. That's not empowerment, that's outsourcing your soul. That's outsouling. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/o...
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Opinion | AI Can Work for Us
A.I. can be designed to dramatically enhance individual empowerment.
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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
People. TikTok, like all the other awful social media platforms, led plenty of people to hateful right-wing content. Trad wives, manosphere influencers, Trumpists (as Trump himself bragged about) etc. were all huge on there. None of these billionaire big tech corporations are our friends.
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Stephen Mullinax @stephenmullinax.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
HAPPY NEW YEAR
THE POSSIBILITIES ARE...

As we crest the hill of a brand new year, many new paths present themselves...PRETTY LIMITED ACTUALLY

But in reality we have very few practical options
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Stephen Mullinax @stephenmullinax.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Thinking about the unused music video concept for @redstateupdate.bsky.social’s song Christmas Crow and wanted to see if it could at least work as a fake book cover.
THE CHRISTMAS CROW
A child in a crow costume is ruining a Christmas pageant
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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
That being an "independent" artist means being trapped by Kindle/TikTok/Spotify etc. algorithms and ecosystems, combined with a decimation of artist payouts by those same corporations (requiring ever more virality to survive)... I think this basically defines so much of modern culture.
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Stephen Mullinax @stephenmullinax.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
The elves are putting on their fanciest footwear
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Stephen Mullinax @stephenmullinax.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
It's that time of year when we get the jug-band back together
It's Emmet, Harvey, Ma, Charlie and Wendell!
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Stephen Mullinax @stephenmullinax.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Seeing if I can push some boundaries here
The left hand is covering the right hand which is definitely NOT making any kind of obscene gesture
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Johan Peitz - Icy Tower is coming soon! @johanpeitz.com · 28/11/2024
picoCAD is out on Steam today! 📐 Build tiny models! 🖼️ Texture with pixel art! 📽️ Export spinning gifs! (and OBJ/MTL) Get it 👉 bit.ly/picoCAD (15% off) #gamedev #pixelart #lowpoly #pico8
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Stephen Mullinax @stephenmullinax.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Glad Bluesky is taking off, but I wonder if the logo could be less subtle…
What if twitter bird, but butterfly?It works in reverse!Flawless logo grid
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𝔻𝕖𝕖𝕡 𝕋𝕙𝕠𝕥 @thatsgoodweb.bsky.social · 22/09/2023
I don’t support or condone AI art in any way, so don’t come at me with that Wack shit
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Stephen Mullinax @stephenmullinax.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Posting 101:
TEXT: if EVERYONE is MAD at YOU it means YOUR opinions are RIGHT (unless you're actually wrong)

Despite the arrows and knives he caught in his back, he solemnly vowed to never stop posting
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Stephen Mullinax @stephenmullinax.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Posting my best, most marketable content
Title: Grind your own business
Subject: A poor man winces and gives a thumbs up as he churns himself through the "hustle" grinder into a bloody dollar sign. Intended to be satirical of the terrible advice of creative influencers, but could be easily misconstrued as sincere.
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Stephen Mullinax @stephenmullinax.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Hate to say it, but
Title: Nobody Likes Graphic Design 
Underneath: A man glaring at Paul Rand's famous IBM poster with contempt despite being drawn in the same style.
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Stephen Mullinax @stephenmullinax.bsky.social · 13/05/2024
I'll eat them up, I love them so
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Stephen Mullinax @stephenmullinax.bsky.social · 22/04/2024
Thinking back to simpler times on the r/graphicdesign subreddit when this question would get asked five times a day.  Original Illustration by Otto Wilhelm Thomé
The words "IS THERE A NAME FOR THIS STYLE?" incorporated into a botanical Illustration by Otto Wilhelm Thomé
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