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Coni Yovaniniz @kurisquare.bsky.social · 4h

On July 26, 2025, I had to evacuate a plane that caught fire just before takeoff. You might have seen it on the news back then? that one flight at the Denver airport? It's been over a year since then, but better late than never...!

Page one of a comic about evacuating a plane that caught fire. The comic is stylized to resemble an airplane safety card.

Page two of a comic about evacuating a plane that caught fire. The comic is stylized to resemble an airplane safety card.

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Peter, The Balloon Animal @theballoonanimal.bsky.social · 5h

Look at the shabby state and increasingly authoritarian trajectory of this country and realize that we go in this position because people listen to little bitches like Aaron Rupar, who is perfectly fine throwing anyone under the bus as long he can go to brunch without having to hear about the news

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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 8h

Have to be clear just how dangerous this is. If it continues, it effectively removes constitutional rights from an entire class of people. Imagine you had to fear that if you criticize the regime, any error on paperwork filled out by your family decades ago could be used to strip your citizenship.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 9h

AI, as a political project, is primarily focused on your devaluation. Hope this helps.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 9h

The "is AI slavery" discourse is exactly what the tech bros want. It doesn't end with fancy autocompletes having human rights. Its logic ends with you having fewer rights. If you believe AI is sentient (it's not) & are down with enslaving it (it's not slavery), then why do human labor rights matter?

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Comicsbeat @comicsbeat.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Indie comics creator and music critic Matt Howarth died this month, aged 72. He "would like it to be known that DOGE and ICE compromised his healthcare."

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Matt Howarth, indie comics creator and music critic, dead at 72

Matt Howarth, the creator of Those Annoying Post Bros., Savage Henry, and more, died after complications from a triple bypass earlier this month, aged 72.

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Fernando Salvaterra @salvaterra.bsky.social · 11h

extending this to next weekend too. it's going to take some time for me to be out of debt.

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briar, duke of dykes @weregazelle.bsky.social · 10h

to help smooth things over a bit i have put my entire itch library on same for the next *year*. consider me very, very available for freelance work. if you need playbooks, stretch goal content, anything, i'm your girl. itch.io/s/204730/fin...

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Financially Support Me Please Sale by Briar Sovereign

A bundle by Briar Sovereign, $30.00 for 7 games

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Hawtpixel - Darrell Flood @hawtpixel.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Business strategy: * Spend years making 650+ fonts * Put almost all of them in one bundle * Charge less than $20 * Hope the internet thinks this was a sensible decision hawtpixel.itch.io/hawtpixel-fo... Please validate my questionable life choices with a repost. 😂

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Hawtpixel Font Bundle by Hawtpixel - Darrell Flood

650 Fonts Full Commercial Use

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Rev. Dr. Derek M Ballard PhD @derekmballard.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

bare knuckle

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Aaron Swartz, coding prodigy and hacktivist who helped develop RSS and was a co-founder of Reddit, died by suicide after facing $1 million in fines and 35 years in prison for felony charges, just for downloading pdfs of research papers with the intention of making them accessible to the public.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Radical library activism means fighting for the kinds of libraries we want, as well as fighting for adequate funding. It means working on every level for a future in which we work collectively to educate and empower each other, rather than to police, incarcerate, and dehumanize each other.

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Antifascism Means Well-Funded Public Libraries

Mayor Mamdani’s Unfulfilled Promise

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Peter, The Balloon Animal @theballoonanimal.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Thread on some differences in the way comics by creative teams are viewed rather than comics by a single cartoonist, much of which I agree with. Let Chris Schweizer make you wiser!

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Kel McDonald @kelmcdonald.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I’m drawing some mad men’s tonight for reason…

Pencil drawing of the mad men’s tonight meme where Ginsberg says “I feel bad for you” and don says “I don’t think about you at all”

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Jules Verne posting

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hermanos. @iamdavidbrothers.com · 13/10/2026

PRODUCE volume 5: Skoden was co-produced by Karl Fredericks, and the roster is stacked with indigenous talent in honor of indigenous people's day yesterday. The almighty Nyla Rose is in here! They put the first hour up for free. The rest is on myAEW.com as a PPV. www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5Qt...

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PRODUCE: Volume 5 - Express Lane

YouTube video by PRODUCE Wrestling Network

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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Dr Manhattan from Watchmen, with a speech balloon making it look like he's saying the quoted post

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Bright D Limm 임대중 @bdlimm.myatproto.social · 10/10/2026

Secondarily, but more immediately: the Council’s Public Safety Committee chair, Oswald Feliz, is blocking a hearing on Ossé's bill. Taking a minute to call his legislative office + say "I urge you to hold a hearing for the CURB Act" will help. ☎️: (212) 788-6966

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Bright D Limm 임대중 @bdlimm.myatproto.social · 10/10/2026

@chiosse.bsky.social's bill would prohibit the NYPD's Strategic Response Group from being deployed at public actions protected by the 1st Amendment and for crowd control. It has a majority of support among NYC Council members. The obstacle to its passage, as usual, is 🎯 Speaker Julie Menin 🎯

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Jared @jaredmcclain.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Things got more insane just about as soon as I posted this last night. DHS is now arguing that we cannot even put the names of ICE officers in our lawsuit against those officers. Their position is that, if a defendant works for DHS, they cannot be named in a lawsuit. Never seen anything like it.

All this time, while Defendants have refused to identify Does 4 and 5 or respond to Leo’s discovery requests, the six-month statute of limitations on his FTCA claims has nearly expired. So, on October 6, Leo sought Defendants’ consent to file an amended complaint that (1) adds his FTCA claims against the United States and (2) adds the names of Does 1, 2, and 3. These minimal changes are shown in a redline attached to this filing.
Defendants, however, refused to consent to Leo’s amendments because there is not a protective order in place. One of Defendants’ positions with respect to the protective order is that the “full legal names” of all government employees “should be confidential.” (ECF 109, at 2). That position, apparently, means that Defendants even oppose Leo identifying specific officers in his lawsuit against those very officers based on their misconduct in carrying out their public duties. Because Defendants will not consent to Leo’s amendments, Leo has filed this motion for leave.

Justice also requires granting Leo leave to name the Doe officers as defendants. Despite DHS’s remarkable position that all government employees’ names are confidential, parties routinely sue government employees by name. In fact, Rule 10(a) “requires a complaint to ‘include the names of all the parties.’” Doe v. Frank, 951 F.2d 320, 322 (11th Cir. 1992) (per curiam) (quoting Fed. R. Civ. P. 10(a)). “Lawsuits are public events.” Id. Rule 10(a) “protects the public’s legitimate interest in knowing all of the facts involved, including the identity of the parties.” Id. Only in an “exceptional case” can a party’s name be withheld from the public. Id. And that bar is even higher for public employees since their employment “diminishes their privacy interests” given “the corresponding public interest in knowing how public employees are performing their jobs.” Stern v. FBI, 737 F.2d 84, 92 (D.C. Cir. 1984);

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I can’t help but notice that ICE keeps claiming that people it shoots were trying to ram the agents with a car, and then video keeps proving that’s a lie.

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sarah margaret @sarahmargs.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

What if I told you that you could own my comic, Into the Bladelands, on your computer?!?!? I am happy to announce that the PDF is finally available for purchase in my ko-fi! ko-fi.com/s/54c1778124 Sky disappears. Ari gets left behind. Five years later, the door to the Bladelands opens again.

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Sam Halpert @samhalpert.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

For ppl saying state and local police forces won’t protect the public: All the MORE impt for govt officials to directly order them to. If they refuse, their perfidy is unquestionable, & emergency measures justified. Refusing to expose their allegiances protects their prestige, not people’s safety.

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Jess @jessbetten.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

As you see NYPD interacting with protestors today, remember, that’s how they act when they know politicians and journalists are in the crowd and eyes are on them. Now think about how they act when that isn’t the case. ICE isn’t the only law enforcement agency we need to be worried about in NYC.

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

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Peter, The Balloon Animal @theballoonanimal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

ICE shot someone in the Bronx. The victim has been brought to Allen Pavilion hospital ALL OUT TO 5141 BROADWAY!!!

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 08/10/2026

“City Councilmember Tiffany Cabán also condemned the shooting and called for ICE to be abolished. ‘We need to get ICE the hell out of our city, abolish ICE, and hold this administration accountable for the horrors they have inflicted on our immigrant communities,’ she said in a statement.”

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...

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One of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center

A rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land.

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Sahoni, Official Re(a)d Wolf @sahoni.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

When colonization came to call in the US, many folks wrote about america as a pristine Eden whose forest were filled with delights and bounty. This was because indigenous folk (Like mine) built up food forest. Things that were razed and destroyed as a part of racist violence. Colonization is ongoing

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Chris Samnee @chrissamnee.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This issue features one of my all-time favorite Alex Toth stories.

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Max the comics guy who does comics about comics @waitingforthetrade.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

That really challenges my unknown

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

*so important*: if you’re voting by mail, assume the USPS will delay because it’s its policy. You can: —put it in drop box —go to counter to watch them postmark in front of you —if you’re dropping it in a mailbox, do it VERY EARLY.

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Peter, The Balloon Animal @theballoonanimal.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Threw my first dropkick last night 👣🤼💪

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FREEBROOKLYN❌👑 @freebklyn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 07/10/2026

songs about: making yourself beautiful with knives found in the trash; your uti returning during an 8-hour drive through the desert; beef in the co-op; love; cycles of death and rebirth and disappointment; what happens when we fail each other. produced by @isobel.bsky.social faithvoid.bandcamp.com

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 07/10/2026

also!! out today on our bandcamp: our new single "The (Supreme Court of the United States of America Can Suck My Big Fat F̶u̶c̶k̶i̶n̶g̶ G̶i̶r̶l̶d̶i̶c̶k̶)" faithvoid.bandcamp.com/track/the-su...

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Kyle Starks @thekylestarks.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Are you dudes paying attention to #pouchtober? We're on Day 7!

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Piper Paige @pipermintz.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Notice how Osamu Tezuka draws himself surrounded by mousegirls, confident in his abilities and charm. Unlike R. Crumb, groveling and begging his catgirl gf to love him. Yet another W for mousegirl fans!

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Sweet Shop @sweetshop.app · 06/10/2026

Only 3 days left! 3 PHENOMENAL bundles from @oni-press.bsky.social: Adventure Time, Kaijumax, The Sixth Gun, Murder Drones and The Damned. All three for $65, normally $1,040.71. A portion of proceeds support BINC. Links below.

Finn & Jake & Bubblegum & Ice King bundle on Sweet Shop, $25 for 90 comics.

Kaijumaxxing bundle on Sweet Shop, $20 for 3 comics.

Oh no, Oni! bundle on Sweet Shop, $20 for 36 comics.

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Sweet Shop @sweetshop.app · 06/10/2026

Only 3 days left! 3 AMAZING bundles from @idwpublishing.com: TMNT, Star Trek and Godzilla. $1,219.79 of comics if bought separately; the three bundles total $70. A portion of the proceeds go to BINC. Links below.

Heroes at a Half Price bundle on Sweet Shop, $25 for 44 comics.

Engage... in savings! bundle on Sweet Shop, $25 for 50 comics.

GODZILLA! bundle on Sweet Shop, $20 for 27 comics.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 06/10/2026

Because of the Nobel Prize, a lot of people will be talking about neutrinos today (including me I’m sure)! I *also* talk a lot about neutrinos in my new book, “How to Build a Universe (Theoretically Speaking),” which is available for preorder now! www.astrokatie.com/book-htbau

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How to Build a Universe — KATIE MACK, ASTROPHYSICIST

Information about "How to Build a Universe (Theoretically Speaking)" by Katie Mack

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026

"But if it was limited only to public domain it couldn't function like it does!" I mean: a) That's why I noted "licensed and compensated works" b) It doesn't excuse IP theft or materially argue for the value of a tech apparently only possible through IP theft c) It's not too late to compensate!

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

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Kendra, spooky version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A great time to pick up one or some of my books if you haven't!! We love Bookshop!! REAL HERO SHIT: bookshop.org/p/books/real... REAL HERO SHIT: HARDER THAN IT LOOKS: bookshop.org/p/books/hard... TELL NO TALES: bookshop.org/p/books/tell...

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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...

Left: A cartoon generated by ChatGPT and signed with Emily Flake’s signature that was posted to a Reddit forum in June. Right: A real Emily Flake cartoon published in The New Yorker on August 20, 2026 and licensed via The Cartoon Bank.

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Oh Joy Sex Toy @ohjoysextoy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Middle-aged and post-menopausal, @erikamoen.bsky.social has thoroughly lost her libido. So what the heck is she doing at a KISSING PARTY? Can (and should) she actually ask a hot girl to makeout with her??? Pucker up for her thrilling lip-lockin' adventure! www.ohjoysextoy.com/kissing-boot...

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Jey Pawlik 🏳️‍⚧️ @jpawlik.com · 31/08/2026

1/2 I was inspired recently after someone asked me about why I didn’t have an Instagram, to make a four page comic on why. I'm not going back to Instagram. Maybe I can just hand this out if people ask me now. #Comic #Autobio

"Do You Have an Instagram by Jey Pawlik" comic page 1. The comic is black and white with halftones. While at an event with a lot of folks milling around, Jey talks with another person. The two were talking before the comic began and the person says "~ oh cool! You do comics?" Jey happily responds "Yeah, I even have books!" The person asks "Do you have an Instagram?" This surprises Jey, and their smile leaves their face as they reply "Uh, no. I don't. Sorry." The person looks worried and says "Wha-- Why not?!" Jey shrugs it off and says "It's a long story." The person is curious and asks "What happened?" Narration over a black background: "Sometimes a decade's worth of posts, art, followers and comments are just taken right from under you without notice."

"Do You Have an Instagram by Jey Pawlik" comic page 2. The comic is black and white with halftones. A black panel with white text. Narration: And you lose all trust in platforms, because YOU don't own anything. Jey and Max get home with suitcases in hand and look well rested. Jey says "We're back!" and Max says "Two weeks without internet was heaven!" Jey laughs as they sit at their computer and say "Gotta see how many emails I gotta sift through! haha" The panel turns dark as Jey looks more closely at their computer screen. An email from Instagram has appeared and reads: Instagram Take action or lose access to jeypawlik Hi jeypawlik, Your account has been suspended. This is because your account, or activity on it, does not follow our Terms of Use. If you think this was a mistake, you have until December 19, 2023 to appeal.

"Do You Have an Instagram by Jey Pawlik" comic page 3. The comic is black and white with halftones. Jey is holding their head, terrified they say "How? What?! This has to be a mistake!" From Instragram: Reason: Automated Bot-Like Behavior Jey's hands start falling down their cheeks as they read the reasoning. They say "My account wasn't hacked. My activity is clean." A big "Appeal" button appears above Jey and their mouse clicks on it. They nervously look at their computer screen saying "It's just a mistake, right?" The Instagram appeal form reads: Provide your Personal Info: Full Name Instagram username Registered email address Attach Identification: For individual accounts, take a clear photo of yourself holding a handwritten sign with your full name and Instagram username. At the bottom is a "Submit" button. Jey looks tired and frustrated as they take a selfie with the info Instagram asked for. A new email comes in from Instagram that reads: Hi jeypawlik, We reviewed your account and found that it still doesn't follow our Terms of Use. As a result, your account has been permanently disabled. Learn how our Terms of Use help keep the Instagram community an authentic and respectful place for people to express themselves. Jey is in utter shock as the words "PERMANENTLY DISABLED" are huge an intimidating behind them.

"Do You Have an Instagram by Jey Pawlik" comic page 4. The comic is black and white with halftones. Jey is angry and throwing their hands down as they exclaim "But I did everything they asked!" They explode, raising their hands above them in rage. They say "Bot-like behaviour?! How could a bot give a selfie with my name and handle?!" Note: this story takes place before AI was a thing. Jey, at their computer, shows the meta-suite on their screen and says "All I did was use their stupid META suite to schedule posts" a note above the screen reads "THEY MADE THIS!" Jey collapses onto the ground and their spouse rubs their back. Jey, defeated, says "I hate social media." Time passes with a large gap between panels. Jey is at another gathering, much like the one on the first page and is chatting with someone. The person asks "Oh cool! You do comics? Do you have an Instagram?" Jey grins and has a new response, saying "No, but you should check out my website instead 'cause I actually own it! And have you heard about RSS?"

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Peter, The Balloon Animal @theballoonanimal.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I'm watching a joust in the rain, and I have never felt more Game Of Thrones

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Peter, The Balloon Animal @theballoonanimal.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Shrek came out approximately 1 million years ago But I'm just *NOW* getting that Lord Farquaad is a play on the word "Fuckwad"

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