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Brian Olsen Was Dead the Whole Time @brianolsenbooks.bsky.social · 1d

My sketch team 15 Minutes Away has a new show this Thursday, 10/16, at 9pm at the Pit Lab in NYC. It's shaping up to be a great show - I wrote a couple sketches and am in a bunch, too. Come and see!

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NYC SKETCHFEST'25: 15 MINUTES AWAY | Peoples Improv Theater

The PIT’S 11TH ANNUAL NYC SKETCHFEST’25 is New York City’s premier sketch comedy festival, and one of the nation’s largest. ...

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Brian Olsen Was Dead the Whole Time @brianolsenbooks.bsky.social · 2d

I saw Zohran Mamdani today getting out of a cab, being photographed, and for a split second before I recognized him I honestly thought he was a model doing a photo shoot

I guess what I'm saying is New York has suffered enough, we deserve a hot mayor

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Brian Olsen Was Dead the Whole Time @brianolsenbooks.bsky.social · 3d

Help I’m drunk and buying art

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Brian Olsen Was Dead the Whole Time @brianolsenbooks.bsky.social · 3d

Pretty much did everything I wanted to do at New York Comic Con so now I’m in the food court getting drunk

My friend John, who is dressed like Storm from the X-Men, and me. We are in the Javitz Center food court seating area drinking colorful alcoholic drinks from plastic cups.

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Evangeline “I’m Scared” Gallagher @egallagher.bsky.social · 4d

just in general bending my life towards spending as much of my time as possible around freaks and queers and weirdos has been the best thing ever

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Brian Olsen Was Dead the Whole Time @brianolsenbooks.bsky.social · 4d

Watch this, please.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 4d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Brian Olsen Was Dead the Whole Time @brianolsenbooks.bsky.social · 4d

Anyway, cant wait to start my umpteenth Elfquest reread.

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Brian Olsen Was Dead the Whole Time @brianolsenbooks.bsky.social · 4d

It was very similar to when I met Phil Foglio at #NYCC a few years ago and I couldn’t understand why there wasn’t a line around the corner. Don’t you kids today recognize legends when you see them? (shakes fist at cloud)

Brian Olsen Was Dead the Whole Time @brianolsenbooks.bsky.social · 4d

I told Wendy how when I was a kid I would make my mom take every issue to work and xerox the pages so I could cut them up and hand pictures of the characters on my walls. She was… politely bemused. #NYCC

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Brian Olsen Was Dead the Whole Time @brianolsenbooks.bsky.social · 4d

I met Wendy and Richard Pini at New York Comic Con today and I’m still buzzing. Elfquest was so hugely fundamental for me. My brother bought me the first trade when it first came out and I still have it. It’s falling apart now so I bought the nice new edition from them today

Wendy and Richard Pini, posing at their comic con booth in front of an Elfquest poster.

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Brian Olsen Was Dead the Whole Time @brianolsenbooks.bsky.social · 4d

Look at how close I was to Simu Liu. Look. I behaved so well I stayed in my seat I’m so proud of myself

#NewYorkComicCon #NYCC

Actor Simu Liu sitting on a New York Comic Con panel with his legs wonderfully crossed.

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Brian Olsen Was Dead the Whole Time @brianolsenbooks.bsky.social · 5d

Was gonna go to a Wayne Brady nerd improv panel later but he went to that Saudi Arabian comedy festival so fuck that

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Brian Olsen Was Dead the Whole Time @brianolsenbooks.bsky.social · 5d

At New York Comic Con for day two. Seated fourth row center for Simu Liu’s panel. My eyes are not ready

Brian Olsen Was Dead the Whole Time @brianolsenbooks.bsky.social · 5d

A triptych of Doctor Who cosplay from my first day at New York Comic Con yesterday (including @getoutgurl81.bsky.social as 14)

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Brian Olsen Was Dead the Whole Time @brianolsenbooks.bsky.social · 5d

At New York Comic Con today I did the "Starfleet Academy" experience where you play games as if it's your entrance exam, and it was really fun, and at the end they tell you what your major will be based on your test results, and I got "undeclared".

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Brian Olsen Was Dead the Whole Time @brianolsenbooks.bsky.social · 6d

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Brian Olsen Was Dead the Whole Time @brianolsenbooks.bsky.social · 6d

Done with work until Tuesday and ready for New York Comic Con. My mental health has never depended so much on spending four days with a convention center full of nerds

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 8d

with alt-text

A screenshot from Zelda Williams' instagram stories. It reads:

Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. Its dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough', just so other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

The second Instagram stories screenshot from Zelda Williams. It reads:

"And for the love of EVERY THING, stop calling it 'the future'. AI is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume."

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 9d

"Why is antagonizing the existing bluesky userbase harmful to bluesky inc's goals?

It feels odd to even have to answer this question"
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