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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1h

Feels like this will be a useful meme for the next few years

Peacemaker looks at a mural embedding Hitler into American symbols

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 7h

Almost like we founded the entire country on opposing this exact sentence.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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Cody Badders • Commissions Open @seebadd.bsky.social · 6h

ko-fi.com/codybadders

I've got a kofi if anyone would be kind enough to donate toward a replacement drawing tablet!

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Cody Badders • Commissions Open @seebadd.bsky.social · 6h

I missed portfolio day troubleshooting my tablet and finally accepting it's broken. Womp womp.

Guess I'm no longer open for commissions.

Cody Badders • Commissions Open @seebadd.bsky.social · 22h

My drawing tablet died and there goes even my little bit of remaining hope of getting commission work.

Well, this sucks a lot.

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Cody Badders • Commissions Open @seebadd.bsky.social · 22h

This is just devastating and depressing because I'm basically helpless at this point. I have a new day job, but a fuckload of new debt to payback for the move and my time between jobs.

I genuinely don't know when I'm going to be able to draw again outside of sketchbook stuff.

Fuck dude. Fuck.

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Cody Badders • Commissions Open @seebadd.bsky.social · 22h

My drawing tablet died and there goes even my little bit of remaining hope of getting commission work.

Well, this sucks a lot.

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scary bravo @sierrabravoart.bsky.social · 1d

oh my god it's #PortfolioDay again and i really want to get to do another comic soon, please let me do some history and mythology stuff thanks

www.sierrabravoart.com
email: [email protected]

promotional art for the tenth anniversary of Hans Vogel is Dead! Hans and Reineke walk through a birch forest, Hans looking behind him at the viewer.

an illustration of the chimera from Greek mythology, walking through some ruins overgrown with ivy and a charred stone wall.

a comic page from HANS VOGEL IS DEAD, showing a dogfight between multiple German and Polish aircraft.

a comic page from HANS VOGEL IS DEAD, showing a boxing match between Princess Glückskind and the leshy. The leshy attempts to turn into multiple animals, unsuccessfully.

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Moosh 🍄🐶 cms open @mooshpuppii.bsky.social · 1d

just in case anyone needs the confirmation - our class had an editor from a well-known comics publisher come in today and told us she won't even look at the dead bird app anymore when they're looking for artists. hosting your own website for your art (or here on bsky!) is the best right now.

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AdequateEmily @adequateemily.bsky.social · 22h

Wow, I voted so hard, I’m sure my votes in an overwhelmingly blue state I’ve lived in my entire life will have an impact, instead of immediately getting crowded out by politicians serving swaths of farmland states away gerrymandered into the most painful shape imaginable.

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Cody Badders • Commissions Open @seebadd.bsky.social · 16d

DISAPPEAR!

Sue Storm/Richards aka The Invisible Woman of the Fantastic Four!

Probably my favorite healer in Marvel Rivals! She got great heals and is very lethal when you know how to use her!

Marvel Rivals Invisible Woman using her ultimate move!

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Cody Badders • Commissions Open @seebadd.bsky.social · 22h

Thanks man! Here's hoping too!

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Tango @tiredsai.bsky.social · 1d

Hey #PortfolioDay - It's Tango, Comics Writer/Artist. Origin story set in New York. Always invested in big action, gritty noir, and survivor stories.💛 Drop me a line to discuss Cover Art, Scripts, & Sequentials :
akatango.carrd.co
💌[email protected]

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Tony Parker MEDUSA from Dark Horse Comics In Stores Now! @tonyparkerart.bsky.social · 22h

Anyone calling an anti fascism rally “anti American” is telling you exactly what they want America to be under this Republican regime.

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Cody Badders • Commissions Open @seebadd.bsky.social · 22h

This is just devastating and depressing because I'm basically helpless at this point. I have a new day job, but a fuckload of new debt to payback for the move and my time between jobs.

I genuinely don't know when I'm going to be able to draw again outside of sketchbook stuff.

Fuck dude. Fuck.

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Cody Badders • Commissions Open @seebadd.bsky.social · 22h

My drawing tablet died and there goes even my little bit of remaining hope of getting commission work.

Well, this sucks a lot.

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Sith_art aka A’ine! 🏳️‍⚧️ @sith-art.bsky.social · 22h

Unless "Ethics" is preceded by "Breach of" or "Lack of", OpenAI and Ethics don't belong in the same paragraph.

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Tom Rogers @tomrogers.bsky.social · 2d

STOP using Spotify.
Here's some other great reasons:
*the CEO invested in AI military drones
*pushing genAI songs they themselves created/ripping off human creators
*funding Joe Rogan's podcast with big bucks
*paying the lowest streaming royalties to artists of any music platform.

Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 2d

Spotify has reportedly been running ICE recruitment advertisements in the US.

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Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 2d

Isn't it awesome that democracy is being set on fire so someone who thinks One Piece is Jesus can inherit everything? Fantastic job, universe.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 3d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 2d

Bravo on John Oliver for highlighting the extreme journalistic malpractice of Bari Weiss and The Free Press’s anti-trans reporting.

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Ela Bambust 🏳️‍⚧️ @ela-bambust.bsky.social · 2d

Because "resisting transphobia" is just a pet project to most liberals, one they don't take very seriously and don't mind rejecting if it's inconvenient or gets in the way of the bag

Alex Ries @alexries.com · 2d

What are your theories as to why nominally 'liberal' people like Simon Pegg and Matt Berry are willing to work with Rowling?

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The bones of Natasha 🏴🌻 @alterici.bsky.social · 2d

Guys, Sam Altman owns OpenAI. He knows what a bullshit job is. He knows what bullshit work is. He is profits handsomely off of bullshit. What he's actually talking about is, (and this is almost always true of these billionaire freaks) is eugenics. He is talking about who is disposable.

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The bones of Natasha 🏴🌻 @alterici.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, I don't wanna go back to twitter. I'd rather be over here, with human-made, artisinal pornography. 😌

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 6d

“I still can’t believe how unhinged the last update was. Not only the nudity but the motions, boobs bounces more realistically, it’s incredible.”

Elon Musk's xAI seems to have relaxed filters on Grok's video generation, allowing users to create and share explicit AI pornography.

Musk's AI Is Being Used to Make Hardcore Porn: 'Grok Is Learning Genitalia Really Fast!'

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Cody Badders • Commissions Open @seebadd.bsky.social · 2d

60% of the population living paycheck to paycheck isn't a mistake. It's so the narcissistic ghouls in power can hold your entire life hostage when you disagree with them.

Fuck Donald Trump and all of his sycophantic pieces of shit.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Bessent: "No Kings means no paychecks. No paychecks and no government."

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Christopher Baggett @jcbaggee.thehomeworld.net · 2d

I am not paid by a King or the government. In fact, the government and its loser wannabe dictator seem to want me and everyone else in my tax bracket dead.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Bessent: "No Kings means no paychecks. No paychecks and no government."

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Jason Song Quinn @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 2d

What I love about all these celebs who are trying to save their reputation by playing ignorant is that this only works the quieter that lunatic JK is. You know, the person who just started dropping Hitler quotes to millions of people around the time their tired ass audiobook cast got announced.

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 3d

right … which is .. what so many of us are asking for as trans people ???

Kiera Knightley sounds like a BlueSky moderator

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Keira Knightley said that before joining the voice cast of Audible's "Harry Potter: The Full Cast Audio
Editions,
" she was "not aware" of the fan boycott
of all things "Harry Potter" over J.K. Rowling's statements about the transgender community:
"You know, I think we're all living in a period of time right now where we're all going to have to figure out how to live together, aren't we? And we've all got very different opinions. I hope that we can all find respect."

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