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Jamie McKelvie

@mckelvie.bsky.social

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I make comics. My new book ONE FOR SORROW out now from DSTLRY. I drew The Wicked & The Divine, wrote Captain Carter, designed Captain Marvel & Ms Marvel, amongst others. I have ADHD if you're wondering why I'm like this. www.jamiemckelvie.fyi

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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · Nov 24

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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · Nov 23

I sort of assume anyone following me already knows a bit about me but maybe not? I'm an artist/writer/designer working mostly in comics. Created The Wicked + The Divine with @kierongillen.bsky.social after our run on Marvel's Young Avengers. Currently writing and drawing ONE FOR SORROW at DSTLRY.

Cover for ONE FOR SORROW #2, drawn by me. The hooded figure of spooky vigilante Magpie faces off against a horde of men carrying various weapons, in a Victorian industrial corridor.

Cover the Young Avengers Vol2 complete collection, drawn by me and coloured by Matt Wilson. Drawn from the point of view of someone being lifted up by their shirt by America Chavez, who has a fist up and ready to punch with, the cover shows the rest of the Young Avengers team behind America ready for action.

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Hayes Brown @hayesbrown.bsky.social · 55m

adhd is dying of thirst and looking over to see the glass of water on the counter you poured an hour ago mocking you

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 55m

Pointless bullshit, same as with the constant stream of new smartphones.

Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 1h

404Media has a grim take on Microsoft ending its support for Windows 10: "There’s 400 million computers that are going to enter the waste stream."
www.404media.co/the-end-of-w...

The End of Windows 10 Support Is an E-Waste Disaster in the Making

In an example of egregious planned obsolescence, as many as 400 million computers will soon hit the waste stream.

www.404media.co

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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 1h

Friendly reminder that Tidal ($10.99) is now cheaper than Spotify ($11.99), delivers better audio quality, pays its artists 2x as much, and generally doesn't allow AI slop.

You can move your entire music library over in a matter of minutes.

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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 1h

I’ve never felt so old in my entire life.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1h

Aftonbladet's report is harrowing and should make anyone who doubted it feel ashamed.

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”

– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

www.aftonbladet.se

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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 1h

"Dance, dance, dance, dance, dance to the radio..."

Joy Division, live on BBC2, 15 September 1979.

Tussauds' waxwork of Lee Harvey Oswald killing

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Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 1h

I was very sad to learn of the passing of one of the most amazing artists of my generation, Drew Struzan. His was a stellar talent, especially in his chosen field of endeavor. 1/3

Drew Struzan holding up the movie poster for Back to the Future

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honey i am a guy & i shrunk the kids @snowrespecter.bsky.social · Nov 15

how did he die? sadly we may never know

Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · Nov 15

A Roman solider who was killed during Julius Caesar's Gallic Wars (58-50 BC).

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Kristy Rawson @kristyrawson.bsky.social · 3h

"People who abuse women abuse every kind of power they have" 🎯 @lindseyboylan.bsky.social

Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 4h

Lindsey Boylan was the first of about a dozen women to accuse Andrew Cuomo of sexual harassment and is now supporting Zohram Mamdani for mayor of New York City.

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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 2h

Could not be more excited to be in @defector.com talking about SMiZE&DREAM HOT MAMA Hot Ice Cream defector.com/tyra-banks-p...

Tyra Banks Please Explain What The Hell You Mean By “Hot Ice Cream” | Defector

Tyra Banks’s eyes are wild. Or maybe they were just always that way, her piercing green-gray irises one of many reminders that right, before she was a TV host and an MLM kingpin and a meme, she was a ...

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 1h

left side: how it starts
right side: how it goes

The Sun webpage for articles by their Home Affairs correspondent Julia Atherley.

on the left-hand side is an article with the headline: "DEPARTURE SCROUNGE: Fury as migrants facing deportation given 'luxuries' in £260m splurge"

On the right-hand side is a column of four articles, the bottom one of which has the headline: "SHOCK STATS: Hate crimes soar with religious & racially motivated attacks up, stats reveal"

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 3h

It's somehow both wildly underreported and just out in the open that the vice president is either a neo-Nazi or, at a bare minimum, a neo-Nazi fellow traveler.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 4h

Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching."

He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.

‘College Group Chat’: JD Vance Dismisses ‘Pearl Clutching’ Over Young Republicans Leak to Attack Jay Jones

Liberals hit back at Vance's blunt dismissal of racist, antisemitic and misogynistic messages leaked from a Young Republicans group chat.

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KINDAFREE | IRI @denofsin.bsky.social · 2h

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SoulMuppet Publishing @soulmuppet.co.uk · 2h

We're in the last 24 hours of our soulslike #TTRPG DOOMSPIRAL!!

For a game with:
Dramatic fights against dangerous foes
A dying but wondrous world, sprawling and labyrinthine
A range of characters to play as from knights of an ancient order to banished spellcasters to a guy with a shovel

🔗👇

Screenshot of Doomspiral Kickstarter page £52306 raised 893 backers 23 hours to go

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 2h

The problem is that board game would change texture during the evening and pieces would begin to fuse with your hand as you moved them around. The landscape on the board would seem to shift by the latter stages and by night's end wing itself out the window you opened in yourself all unknowing.

Philip Purser-Hallard @purserhallard.com · 10h

A combination of activities last night has left me thinking it would be really cool to make a board game based on @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social's Southern Reach books. A bit like Wingspan, but with sanity checks.

The cover of Absolution, book #4 of the Southern Reach trilogy, by Jeff VanderMeer. It shows an alligator hybridised with various flora.

Wingspan by Stonemaier Games. The box shows an image of a bird -- a swift, I think, maybe? Not really my area of expertise.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 19h

I think what's bothering me about all these statements I'm seeing from politicians that are variations of "Israeli hostages and Palestinians are returning to their homes, yay" is that Israelis are returning to their homes and Palestinians are returning to uninhabitable post apocalyptic rubble.

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Tasha Suri @tashasuri.bsky.social · 8h

"This shows that if Israel, with the whole world watching, can treat a well-known, white person with a Swedish passport this way, just imagine what they do to Palestinians behind closed doors."

Edvin Alpros Ⓜ️ antisocial dominans minister @edvinalpros.bsky.social · 13h

www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”

– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

www.aftonbladet.se

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Alistair Davidson @moh-kohn.bsky.social · 3h

In general the younger left is sound on this, but the middle aged and old left (a group I'm in) let fascists march around town because it was about "gender"

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Alistair Davidson @moh-kohn.bsky.social · 3h

When Ngo was in Glasgow, the left largely failed to oppose him while the queer community did show up - because he was attending a KJK anti trans rally. Some self-described socialists even rallied with him.

Jordan Green @byjordangreen.bsky.social · 4h

NEW: DHS Secretary Kristi Noem's risible claim to have arrested "the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa" opening an investigation that could potentially expose a nationwide terror network comes from Andy Ngo, a pro-Trump conservative media personality.

www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...

‘Absurd’: Noem claim to have arrested ‘antifa’ founder’s girlfriend stirs ridicule

A dramatic claim by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to have arrested “the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa,” therefore putting the Trump administration in position to “eliminate” th...

www.rawstory.com

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 3h

We have to penalize blatant lying, particularly by public figures. We’ve slid
into a post-truth world and nothing but sheer cultural gruntwork is going to get us out.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 5h

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.

Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Save the Children NI @savethechildrenni.bsky.social · 4h

The bombs have stopped, some supplies are getting in, but these are precarious days - our humanitarian director in Gaza, Rachael Cummings, speaks to @rteradio1.bsky.social www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Humanitarian aid situation in Gaza still precarious

Rachael Cummings, Humanitarian Director for Save the Children in Gaza, highlights the current situation in relation to humanitarian aid in Gaza.

www.rte.ie

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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 3h

I spent a day talking about the history of the British empire, with some clever kids. My new book for children, Journeys of Empire, is out now on Puffin now. www.sathnam.com/empire

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 4h

weird phenomenon i keep encountering where “writers” correctly identify the soul-sucking danger that large language models pose to their craft, but for some reason have no problem using generative AI to make images. like….are you stupid!!!!

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 6h

Every time a Democrat gets caught on tape saying like “Some Trump voters are racist” we have a national scandal and JD Vance demands an entirely new kind of apology and meanwhile every Republican group chat is like “Good morning fellow SS members. Who’s ready to respect Hitler today?”

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Oli Franklin-Wallis @olifranklinwallis.bsky.social · 9h

Rare case of someone who should lose their job because of AI

Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 11h

kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school

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