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If comic creators were paid a comparative hourly rate to any other profession then comic books would be so expensive as to be completely inaccessible. The way you can sustain affordable and widely-available creative media is through Universal Basic Income, the only other avenues are exploitative.

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We are still living in penance for irony marring everything, even the good values, the few rock-solid important ones like doing what you can to reduce the suffering of those around you even if it costs you. You don't gotta hang on the fuckin' cross, but you can give somebody 20 bucks.

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"the activists pushed too hard and too fast!!!" is a bedtime story that people tell themselves when they fundamentally do not believe the activists in question should have rights

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ME: I can't believe after one night together I'm already in love with you. BLADE: I told you before, vampire hunters can't be tied down. You humies are all the same. (sunglasses on) But you were the most adventurous lover I've ever taken. ME: My history leads me to take higher sexual risks, Blade.

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Medium only modestly successful because power figured out it could be a lab for developing the tools of exploitation that would ultimately end the viability of a life doing creative work in any other medium in the United States. All in service of making monthly commercials for fascism and inaction.

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Joe an all-timer, one of the best in the biz. I woke up thinking about a joke he DM'd us a couple months ago that's funnier than any post I've ever seen. He just threw it away, the way you might remind someone to pick up milk on the way home. ANIME SICKOS PODCAST.

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John's secretly been one of the great living cartoonists, the kind of handshake cult shibboleth underground types that you'd be excused for thinking weren't still out there toiling in Pynchonian secrecy. And now he's gonna have new illos in print for this wild book. Incredible.

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it will feature such as: pretty pictures, by yours truly. "only kings and geniuses may look at the pictures" was a premise we considered but after careful deliberation decided against. All may look at the pictures

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eight years ago i saw this sign in a window at the shore and "looks crazy, feels insane" has been stuck in my mind ever since. the phrase "looks crazy, feels insane" does not appear online except for this very post. i don't know what it means. here it is on street view www.google.com/maps/@38.978...

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It was up to 89 degrees in this apartment today with no A/C and I had to make and shoot that animation in the windowless room. Absolutely disgusting, excited to see what I do with the medium when I am not so encumbered by exhaustion and frustration and heat and sweat

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Who would ever want to know more about this

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cowboy content

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whew yeah whew yeah

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every morning I read some Merritt Comics switching back and forth with some Mark Beyer comics while I eat my breakfast and I just finished all my Mark Beyer comics yesterday morning so it's basically diminish and go into the west hours for the kid ... anyway this is a really funny one

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What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? The location of my buried treasure within the field and the code to disarm the electric fence surrounding the field.

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hard at work

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This is one of the hardest things I've ever done: asking for help. After a financially devastating divorce, I am asking for help getting FFS, a gender-affirming surgery for which I am having to pay a vast majority out of pocket. Any bit helps. www.gofundme.com/f/help-blue-...

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About today's public transit discourse: I believe that riding public transit is a spiritual good for increasing your empathy and practicing minding your own business. It also helps you internalize that most people mind their own business, e.g. no one is looking at you.

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It's 2002, and after watching the new movie about Pavement, I stop at the record store and pick up a copy of Pedro the Lion's Winners Never Quit It's 2025, and after watching the new movie about Pavement, I stop at the video store and pick up a copy of Pedro the Lion's Winners Never Quit It's 204

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we saw an oriole and @beckkramer.bsky.social took a picture of the oriole and then I drew the picture she took of the oriole and then watercolored that picture

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people are like "this is unamerican" but what's more american than having everything suck shit all the time

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Something I wish liberals - and, for that matter, a lot of leftists - would internalize: The goal is not to out-argue, disprove, fact-check, debate, or point out the inconsistencies or hypocrisies of fascists. The goal is to defeat them.

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anyone who got on social media after 2014 or so is under the mistaken impression that the primary goal of social media is for it to Accomplish Something while those of us who have been on since the start know the true purpose of social media is to give us a place to Post so we don't go (more) insane

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