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drawing mewtwo using only the shittiest ref possible

This is lowkey hilarious to me because literally no one except covid aware people know that HICPAC has been the center of a 2? 3? year long protracted war of public health advocates vs the (majority) corporate sellouts on the committee--

We report rainbow weather: a spring shower is meeting the course of the sun, and it is difficult to see much of anything between the rain and the light in our eyes. The rain is falling harder than we had expected, but the sun is also shining brighter, loud in a different way.

"Sydney Sweeney could have an entire career of choosing only hits, of never taking a break, and still not reach the kind of money the generation before her made more or less passively once their work was done."

i love supporting my local library but navigating the buggy mysterious black hole that is their online search catalog is taking years off my life

always love to see the 'Bible for understanding why everything about the US sucks and is broken' mentioned

Hearty CONGRATS to all the winners and nominees!! support them!! my heart and head are full of comics 🫄💕 @stc019.bsky.social @camccaff.bsky.social @ledazawacki.bsky.social @mopedcow.bsky.social @dialhforhagai.bsky.social @oliveoilcorp.bsky.social @danielavicoso.bsky.social @planetsmudge.bsky.social

happy may day here is a painting I did a long time ago

calling myself “clean air pilled” instead of covid cautious to my gen z cousin bc im hip to the lingo

this scene is older than ICE

was extremely honored to receive the heavenly blessing of OVER 300 MINICOMICS to read and nominate with my fellow judges for the 2025 Minicomics Awards!! Awards stream this thursday 😈 i love comics cartoonist.coop/journal/the-...

wh..wha. what 🥺

this pot of warm water I'm currently bathing in feels really nice

Hey y'all, in light of being suddenly laid off, I've got a emergency fund going while I try and figure out next steps. I know things are tough for a lot of people right now but if you can afford to share or boost this, it would truly mean a lot! gofund.me/1f8f774c

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me final riso class i tried doing some typography art of some text steph delazeri sent me of a disney strike pamphlet and im p happy with it

hostile architecture

he aint thinkin a damn thing

Hi, I got laid off from Silver Sprocket last week and yesterday was my last day! I'm still so grateful for the chance to support some of the best cartoonists out there and to work with some amazingly-skilled colleagues. Everyone is struggling right now BUT I'm looking for work if you've got it!

“every border implies the violence of its maintenance” includes gender

“Wings Of The Heart” Neopian Times Issue #111 (2003)

everywhere i look i only see lines going up

i desperately want to be an animation industry crank on main but i'm too unemployed

Everyone should read this, especially for the bits in the article that give us some insight into what these detention prisons used by ICE are like. And no one, no one, should be traveling to the US if they can avoid it. No one. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I bet dinosaurs were feeling good everyday for millions of years

lateposting bc this is me when it's #transdayofvisibility

MARRY -- FUCK -- KILL: Roko's Basilisk, Grey Goo, The Great Filter Sound off in the comments

its extremely comforting to have my local tornado forecasters here in a place that's not overrun by nazi slop

I thought this was really good: newsocialist.org.uk/transmission...

A new study finds that workers aren’t buying into AI hype. They see it as a tech “that will primarily benefit large corporations, be used to surveil them & invade their privacy, & over which they will have little power,” @bcmerchant.bsky.social reports. www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/workers-kn...

Swings

it's getting pretty serious (making an official playlist for my new comic)

shproing

I just added more things to this list today: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Bernie Wagenblast, the iconic voice of @mta.info subways, has a message, the day after the feds took the letter "T" referring to trans people, off websites about the Stonewall National Monument. @thecity.bsky.social

Elon Musk and his band of interns are ransacking the government, and online, big tech is colonizing the web with AI slop. How do the humans, the users, fight back? Guest host Cory Doctorow helps break down the carnage and even offers some words of hope. Listen: www.buzzsprout.com/2425400/epis...