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Comicker in Seattle. He/They Illustration, character design, etc. Poking at gamedev? Open for freelance, commissions closed atm mmmmmike.com | plasticsoulsstudios.com
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Good news everyone: Thanks to Molly Crabapple, there is now a courtroom drawing of Luigi where he looks accurately hot www.theverge.com/law/617946/l...

It's pretty cool that Eater put together resources for restaurants about how to handle ICE raids

Yes. It looks bad and it’s bad for public health on a social and physical level.

“They’re Scared Shitless”: The Threat of Political Violence Informing Trump’s Grip on Congress @gabrielsherman.bsky.social: www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

as someone who spent the last 4 years of my life getting us ready to self publish: yup. it’s the way to go, but it will require way more than a pound of flesh to get off the ground

THE SHAPE OF COMICS TO COME. @jebriodo.bsky.social and my new, ongoing @imagecomics.com series, years in the making, has finally been revealed. FREE PLANET #1 hits stores May 7, 2025. Click through for preview pages!

This absolutely will make flying less safe. Maybe not today. But inevitably. Conceivably *this* will finally get public attention? About the danger of just blowing up structures built with care over decades? Maybe some GOP Sen/Rep will think: "I'd rather not be on the wrong side of this one"?

Is it April 1st? What gives?!?!

Over the past week, several recent ex-State Dept officials reached out to me with a major concern. DOGE could soon access a huge defense-export database that represents a massive, if not transformational corruption opportunity for Musk & allies. Meet USXports:

Reminder: we already paid for this. This is our tax $$ he’s trashing.

Noise and math out there catching strays. Please learn the difference. My DM's are open if you're curious.

Also a reminder that the British Library Flickr page has over a million images listed on the site, and they're ALL in the public domain that you can use for anything. Currently scouring for a suitable image for my latest project www.flickr.com/people/briti...

Reminder that you don't own the ebooks you "buy" on Amazon. They can take it all away from you with the click of a button, and if they decide to comply with "any mention of queer or trans lives is pornographic," they can digitally burn your whole library.

Scoop: The databases powering DOGE.gov are insecure, and people outside the government have already pushed their own updates to the site to prove it: www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...

NEW: At least three more DOJ Public Integrity Unit senior officials have resigned after meeting with Emil Bove on the Eric Adams case. Five in Public Integrity overall. That’s six officials who resigned, triple the number that happened during the Saturday Night Massacre.

Is it still too tinfoil hat of me to say that LLMs and image generators have been fascist disinformation tools from the start? If you can make a computer system that gets math wrong and then sell that system as a necessity for everyday life, you're abandoning the concept of fact altogether

Give your Disney Plus subscription to a marginalized artist's Patreon instead

Though I will say I expected better from the National Park Service.

Please consider helping one of the best people in our comics community, Vita Ayala. Details at the GoFundMe: www.gofundme.com/f/support-vi...

In case you missed it, TwoMorrows is hurting because Diamond didn't pay them for their books the last couple months. TwoMorrows is a great publisher that could use your help, i.e., for you to buy something. The good part is, their stuff is amazing, so buying it is a win all around. Twomorrows.com

Not my business, but if someone was interested in the superhero genre but had no clue where to begin, I would just tell them to read the entire Astro City run and call it a day.

Google removing Black History month from their calendars WHILE we’re in the midst of Black History Month is vile behavior. They also removed Pride Month.

She is a legend in the world of superhero comics since the mid 70s. So proud of her for coming out!

Moebius

Everyone ends up on this trans-dimensional train somehow but the one rule is: you can't leave. But with an opportunity to get railed in every railcar, who would want to? Get onboard the Unsinkable Ship of Fools by @jonasgoonface.bsky.social!🚂🚃💨 #KickstarterRead www.kickstarter.com/projects/iro...

A lot of you new folks haven't seen my comics work! This page alejandrobruzzese.com/proxy has some stuff from a very prolific period a little over a decade ago (including a motion comic), and this page alejandrobruzzese.com/sunday features more recent work.

Hello Bluesky.

Not sure what/who this is—but I like it. Love it when an unplanned drawing leads somewhere. Feels like it will belong in Fortress.

Misinfo: bad information. Disinfo: bad information circulated in order to bring about specific goals (the "d" is for "deliberate," I like to say) Counter misinfo: fact-checking Counter disinfo: debunking; is highly public, often confrontational, can appear very partisan, and makes you sound nuts

Where the hell is Lin-Manuel Miranda? Why isn’t he, in full costume, outside the Treasury Department, right now, RAPPING?!

Thank you so much!

There are also many ways to BE the logistical hurdles truthout.org/articles/whe...

there are doctors in Alabama who told those banning this care to go fuck themselves and come arrest them. disappointing to see cowards in California caving so easily.

Realness

The Treasury Department right now. People are turning out against Musk and DOGE staging a takeover of the Treasury’s payment system. This crowd is big. The whole block is packed. “Lock him up,” everyone yells.