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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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AM reblog #Copra

AM reblog #Copra

Forgot to post the 3rd piece yesterday: Manhead!! #Copra

one factor that I think gets left out a lot in (imo bad faith) discussions of "intellectual diversity" is that the reason a lot of shall we say "viewpoints" aren't widely discussed or given oxygen is because they were at one point evaluated and found to be worthless. why force relitigation

Polish poster for Ingmar Bergman’s Cries and Whispers, by Waldemar Swierzy

Umm…people who carry EpiPens, y’all know about this?!?

I spoke to another person this week—also a US-born citizen—who showed me the DHS email she received informing her that she had to leave the country. Incompetent, evil or both?

Another WaPo Exclusive. Wow: Trump administration overrode Social Security staff to list immigrants as dead. A sr exec who objected was marched out of his office and put on leave, by @hannahnatanson.bsky.social @reinlwapo.bsky.social @merylkornfield.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Trump wants to deploy troops to American soil. If you think he'll stop there...

Analogies are never perfect, but this one is instructive. If you’ll indulge me: What would you call it if a German government ordered books from Jewish authors removed for being “subversive” and “anti-German” while having no problem with white supremacist literature? Because that’s what this is.

Day 2 of #copra fanart: the boys at A.R.M. I betcha that hallway smells like robot jockstrap

Tired of those boring animated movie lists claiming to be obscure, but they have like...the Iron Giant or something on them? Yeah, me too. So I made a list of 101 of the stangest, most obscure animated films I've ever watched. How many have you seen? www.listchallenges.com/obscure-anim...

Yes!! I remember when Obama was elected I thought we'd "fix" the overreach of the Patriot Act. Ha ha I was so young. I still remember him running on getting rid of wiretapping on citizens and announcing after first security briefing that he'd changed his mind. I think a LOT about how bin Laden won

Shakespeare's comedies are about jocks and his tragedies are about goths, I don't make the rules. Hamlet is a goth who hates his stepdad. King Lear has three goth daughters. Macbeth kills his boss because his goth girlfriend told him to. Bottom: jock.

COPRA fan art will always be the coolest thing. Sharing a recent batch of drawings here for the world to see. 🙏🙏🙏 Lloyd/Thriller • Sam Panico Vitas Crew • Con Chrisoulis Count Compota & A.R.M. • Mike McGhee aka @plasticsouls.bsky.social

All of these spoke to me, deeply.

I would say more broadly that as policy you really shouldn’t allow government officials to accuse people of *terrorism* anonymously.

Just finished up a couple newer #fanart pieces of @michelfiffe.bsky.social 's #Copra as it's coming to the end of its (EPIC! INSPIRED! GAME-CHANGING!!!) run. Wish I had time to do more, but here's Count Compota to start

They are officially not letting trans people in this country. FYI

3 days ago RFK Jr. told the CDC to stop recommending water fluoridation, claiming it was a neurotoxin (this is a lie). Turns out he also just eliminated the CDC’s entire Lead Program, and now lead poisoned children in Milwaukee are just on their own. Lead IS a neurotoxin and harms brain development

they are busy insider trading

Just finished reading the second of these. They're graphic novels written by Kim Hyun Sook and her husband @ryanestrada.com based on her life growing up in a repressive South Korean regime. Their reminders that hidden outlets can be found in such times may be a necessary message for US youth today.

don’t ask me for an explanation but this tv guide cover from 1999 is very bluesky coded

First #PortfolioDay ! I'm Nez, illustrator and character designer for ethereal horror and eerie fantasy ⚔️

if only anyone had said this for years

It's no longer cold

The person who runs the Libs of TikTok account says she "arrested some criminal illegal aliens" with Kristi Noem this morning in Arizona and promises some "exclusive" social media content "coming soon." She's also wearing a badge in this picture.

Hello #PortfolioDay 💗 I'm Alecia, and I'm a freelance Concept and Illustrator based in Montréal. I love designing humanoid and robotic things! I'm currently looking for work! Portfolio: tallnquirky.artstation.com 📧: [email protected]

"We are living through a responsibility recession." And it's culture-wide. On FB I once saw Seattle folks get upset about being expected to shovel their elderly neighbors' sidewalks after a snowstorm. "This is totally unreasonable. What if I was disabled?" Okay but you're not, and your neighbor *is*

Nintendo can get around the tariffs by using a floating barge with claw machines just outside US waters You can take a boat and pay $450 for unlimited attempts to win a Switch 2 from a claw machine If you win, it counts as “personal treasure,” exempt from tariffs under maritime salvage laws

Mileships wip crop

I’m suddenly reminded of the scene in the beginning of District 9 where Wikus holds the relocation consent clipboard in front of one of the aliens, the alien slaps it to the ground and goes back into its house, and then Wikus tells his crew “you see that, he left his mark there, that’s a signature”

Gamergate was really the first successful trial run. Online right-wing radicals found a method and a formula that allowed them to recruit followers and avoid consequences. Everything that's followed has been a refinement and an expansion of the same techniques.

relatedly:

BREAKING — The family abducted by ICE is returning home, per email from Sackets Harbor Superintendent:

Courtesy of Jennifer Lynch: David Lynch has been laid to rest at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.

I know it's confusing for a lot of people, but "this digital storage has lasted 70 years so far" is a huge flex actually

working on something sick as hell

Cory Booker is just the latest Reagan Democrat pretending to care

Online Discourse is way less stressful when I realized it’s usually somebody being kind of wrong and then a few people being like, “I don’t think so!” and then way more people being like, “I have never had this argument before, let me work out my first draft thoughts on the topic in public.”

Insane normal

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Been thinking about this Zappa quote a lot lately.