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Artist who burns metal for science. Co-creator of @KamikazeComic.bsky.social He/Him

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ACTupper @actupper.bsky.social · Jan 19

Hi Bsky! I'm Alan, and I do a bunch of different stuff.

I'm a digital artist that co-creates @kamikazecomic.bsky.social , a backyard tinkerer, and seasonal lobster-boat goon.

I also run Comics.Town on the Mastodon Fediverse, a home for indie comic creators!

#introduction

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Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · 2h

The Alaska evacuations after Typhoon Halong are precisely what the National Guard does best - not being shuttled around like checkers at the whim of a petulent president. (photos by Alaska National Guard) More background in link in replies.

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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 2h

We need a reconstruction party

Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 8h

Reminder: We spent YEARS reading thousands and thousands of articles on the Tea Party and how it was a true expression of the American people's will, and it never mounted anything nearly as big as Saturday's No Kings rallies. [1/3]

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

An astonishingly large crowd!
Chicago

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 2h

Literally all of this is false. 7 million people turned out, probably the largest single-day protest in American history. And at least in DC, what I saw was a hugely representative crowd, mostly with (often very clever) homemade signs.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Trump on No Kings: "It's a joke. I looked at the people. They are not representative of this country. And I looked at all the brand new signs I guess paid for by Soros and other radical left lunatics. We're checking it out. The demonstrations were very small. And the people were whacked out."

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 4h

They won’t even give the movement a name as they did the Tea Party.

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 9h

Remember April 2009 when about 250,000 people took to America’s streets in Tea Party rallies and the media was like “oh man, the Dems are in trouble?” Approximately 28X as many people took to the streets to protest Trump yesterday. Didn’t even make the NYT front page.

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · Apr 10

In April of 2009 I observed the Tea Party rally in Salem. As this front page story says, there were a couple hundred people there. This past weekend in Salem there were roughly 2-3000 people at the Hands Off rally. Yet the Tea Party coverage seemed to take that event far more seriously.

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The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 7h

hell yeaj

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Dr. Nneka D. Dennie @nneka.bsky.social · 6h

so you hate pancakes?????

𝐿𝒥 ∙ ☾𝑀𝑜𝑜𝓃 @southsideofheaven.bsky.social · 6h

Need…

I will not explain why. You see it lol

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D Lavoie @djlavoie.bsky.social · 8h

Also, @hammerandhope.bsky.social is dope as hell and you should subscribe.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 9h

I think we can lay the groundwork to win this. @hammerandhope.bsky.social ran an interview with the folks who won Build Public Renewables in New York, lessons there worth checking out

hammerandhope.org/article/clim...

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ACTupper @actupper.bsky.social · 7h

"Several things.

First of minor importance: DEAR LORD IN HEAVEN WHAT IS THAT CONTRAPTION YOU MEAN TO TELL ME MAN HAS INVENTED THE MEANS OF WINGED FLIGHT?!

Secondly, are the poor citizens well after such an aerial assault?

Finally: hOW DID YOU IDIOTS LET A KING TAKE OVER. DID WE LOSE A WAR?!"

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...

Nederlandse diensten delen minder informatie met de VS: ‘Soms vertellen we dingen niet meer’

Het aantal dreigingen dat op Nederland afkomt is groot, zien de hoofden van de AIVD en de MIVD elke dag: niet alleen Russische agressie, maar ook de opmars van China als digitale macht en binnenlands ...

www.volkskrant.nl

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 8h

There's just no way to exaggerate how cooked your brain has to be to think like this. Trump is an unprecedented, law-breaking, norm-breaking, increasingly demented maniac who is destroying this country's basic institutions. Like, right now! As we speak!

But media elites find that boring.

It’s 2025, and Democrats Are Still Running Against Trump

www.nytimes.com

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 10h

What is “liquid brown,” exactly? We know it’s not coffee!!

What is it?!? TELL US!!

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 12h

President Trump posted what appeared to be an A.I.-generated video on social media showing him wearing a crown and flying a jet labeled “King Trump” that dumps brown liquid on protesters. He shared the video on Saturday, the same day that protesters participated in mass “No Kings” demonstrations.

Trump Posts Fake A.I. Video of Himself Flying a ‘King Trump’ Jet Over Protesters

President Trump shared what appeared to be an A.I.-generated video on social media. It shows Mr. Trump wearing a crown and flying a jet that dumps brown liquid on demonstrators.

nyti.ms

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 1d

The situation we’re in is not a choice between something with a low cost and barrier of entry like No Kings and something like this. We need both. We have to do both. And some people will be suited for one who are less suited for the other, and that’s neither a bad nor an unusual thing

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 1d

As the protesters chant "show me what democracy looks like"...

The vibe here is prepared, resolved, and weary. People dug in for the long term. People who have been brutalized. Respirators and goggles

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Howard A. Rodman @rodman.bsky.social · 1d

More people marched today than at any time in the history of the United States.

For @nytimes.com, it was the 6th most important story.

They are making sure that those in power do not see what they do not want to see.

This is not what we were brought up to think of as journalism.

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Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 1d

I’m not a member of their group and I can’t tell them what to do but the No Kings crew should consider doing another one soon

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states.

Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 1d

“The Purdue student newspaper owns its own presses” is the sound of engines revving

Gabrielle Hecht has no more spoons @gabriellehecht.bsky.social · 1d

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

Sara Whitmer
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I'm sure many of you have heard by now that earlier this week, IU k*lled the print edition of its student paper, the IDS. The issue that was supposed to print this week contained criticism of the Whitten regime and IUs further slide into scist control, and they couldn't allow that to happen during Homecoming, when all the rich alumni are in town.
Enter Purdue! The Purdue student paper, The Exponent, owns its own presses. Yesterday, in an act of tremendous solidarity with their biggest rival school, they printed the forbidden issue of the IDS. They then drove it to Bloomington overnight and stocked all of the IDS boxes on campus, just in time for Homecoming.
Solidarity is what makes us stronger, and solidarity will be what ultimately allows us to triumph, if we can ever truly get it together. I hope everyone has a fun, safe day if they're going out today, and I hope we can think about what acts of solidarity we can begin taking to really make this movement MOVE - beyond a permitted expression of upset into more active resistance.
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 1d

Almost none, apart from the fact my first website was built and maintained in Notepad. :V Tried some Javascript back in the day, but bounced off it hard.

Getting back into the swing of things, this "GDScript From" Zero widget was a HUGE help. Gets you started free!

www.gdquest.com/learn-to-cod...

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ACTupper @actupper.bsky.social · 1d

It seems like a non-trivial part of maga culture is a deep desire to engage in cartoon villain-esque moustache twirling.

"Aha! I have brazenly transgressed this ethical boundary you saps kept yapping about! Wail and gnash your teeth at my transgression!"

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ACTupper @actupper.bsky.social · 1d

And now a break from all the protestposting to remind myself that yes, I do in fact make art and post it occasionally (every week).

Kamikaze (KMKZ) @kamikazecomic.bsky.social · 11d

New Kamikaze art?

New Kamikaze art.

Patreon (2X size) link: www.patreon.com/posts/xl-pat...

Digital illustration of Kamikaze vaulting backwards into a reverse somersault as she's chased by masked and armed goons through Inner Trinity.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

If you think something doesn't matter, you don't respond to it.

He responded. The people have the upper hand.

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ACTupper @actupper.bsky.social · 1d

The fact that they're trying to speedrun all this may end up being a boon for us frogs.

The water is getting hot, real quick.

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Fear Captain @cheercaptain.wang · 1d

I wasn’t exaggerating it rules so hard

Pin from today’s No Kings protest showing Barney and Friends and the phrase “Join Antifa”

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Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 1d

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 1d

Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.

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ACTupper @actupper.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like the universities slowly all going "Nah." to the regime's attempt coerce fealty is an important bellwether too. The panic is starting to fade at institutions, and they're seeing that cooperation doesn't guarantee protection. That impacts behavior.

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