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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 2d

My wife goes for a poo only in the upstairs toilet. When she does, I go for a poo in the downstairs toilet hoping that her poo and my poo will meet in the pipes. No idea why.

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Nate Piekos of Blambot @blambot.bsky.social · 2d

Update on Project Pixel Panels: Almost done creating the regular version. I think this is going to be your next indie font selection.

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Saoirse ☀️ @scratchcarddust.bsky.social · 6d

If you know basic kabbalah it's actually not too hard to make a golem out of a labubu. Don't recommend it though. They have a pre-existing body-dharma. As soon as they wake they run straight for the sea. V hard to counter. Lost the first one. No idea what it's doing out there. Moved like lightning.

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 3d

Dude I’m calling it, Thiel is cooked. He accidentally dropped a Tangible Detail. Most people didn’t know he existed and now he’s The Billionaire Who Thinks That One Piece Is Jesus.

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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amanda cotan @amandacotan.bsky.social · Apr 15

An angry cat driving a small car with their belongings stacked on top.

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Lucy Sullivan @lucysullivan.bsky.social · 6d

TTWF Official poster is out!
Get your tickets booked & look out for my scratchy, inky art on screens…
(Cumberbatch is a bit bloody good too)

Poster for THE THINGS WITH FEATHERS feature film in cinemas from Nov 21st (UK) & Nov 28th (USA) starring Benedict Cumberbatch, adapted from Max Porter’s acclaimed novel, written & directed by Dylan Southern. Featuring art by Lucy Sullivan.

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 4d

Letter from the advertising department at The Lady magazine, 1977

Our Ref: Sit/QC
22nd March 1977
Mrs A. Miconi,
Flat 17, Lyncourt, The Orchard,
Blackheath,
London SE3
Dear Madam,
We thank you for your letter and payment of £3.80, received on 21st March.
Before proceeding, we must whether you would agree to a slight wording amenament of the wording in order that the advertising conforms to our normal style. The words "Socialist feninist" we would prefer to read "Friendly, motherly," thereby allowing the wording to conform.
We now look forward to your further instructions, whilst advising you that our next issue is 7th April for which we close for press upon receipt of the first post Tuesday 29th March.

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Toronto Comic Book Club @tocomicbookclub.bsky.social · 5d

Join us this Tuesday, October 14th at 8pm ET on our Discord, to discuss THESE SAVAGE SHORES: THE DEFINITIVE EDITION created by @therightram.bsky.social, @artofsumit.bsky.social, Vittorio Astone, & @adityab.net.

Along These Savage Shores, where the days are scorched and the nights are full of teeth.

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Deniz Camp @denizcamp.bsky.social · 6d

Just announced!

𝗦𝗧𝗜𝗣𝗔𝗡 𝗠𝗢𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗡 @stipanmorian.bsky.social · 6d

BLEEDING HEARTS! @denizcamp.bsky.social on a typewriter, @matthollingsworth.com with a paint roller and me with chikin' leg voodoo pencils, almost like grabbing a live wire!

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chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · Jun 1

whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing

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David Aja @davidaja.com · 6d

As DC Vertigo is coming with his classic logo, let's all praise its designer, the great RICHARD BRUNING.
He was DC art director for years and thanks to him we have Watchmen, The Dark Knight or The Killing Joke designs...

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George @hannahtempler.com · 6d

Just announced at NYCC! A new Vertigo series from Grace and I about fandom, obsession... and parasocial chaos :)

the cover for Fanatic, a new series from DC vertigo by Hannah Templer and Grace Ellis. The cover depicts a woman cast half in shadow, looking back over her shoulder in a look of surprise as she is caught holding a shovel and wearing a tattered costume in a wooded area. The colors are in two tones of blue and red

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𝗦𝗧𝗜𝗣𝗔𝗡 𝗠𝗢𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗡 @stipanmorian.bsky.social · 6d

BLEEDING HEARTS! @denizcamp.bsky.social on a typewriter, @matthollingsworth.com with a paint roller and me with chikin' leg voodoo pencils, almost like grabbing a live wire!

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Matt Hollingsworth @matthollingsworth.com · 6d

Yeah. I'm back working with Vertigo after all these years and loving it, loving my collaborators.

𝗦𝗧𝗜𝗣𝗔𝗡 𝗠𝗢𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗡 @stipanmorian.bsky.social · 6d

BLEEDING HEARTS! @denizcamp.bsky.social on a typewriter, @matthollingsworth.com with a paint roller and me with chikin' leg voodoo pencils, almost like grabbing a live wire!

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 6d

I am dealing with a “thorny problem” right now, today. It is hard and scary because IT IS ALWAYS HARD AND SCARY. But it is also where you do your best work. It is where stories go from “meh” to “WOW”. When I fix it - because that is the job - I will be that much closer to something worth reading.

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 6d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Jacob Phillips @thatjacobphillips.bsky.social · 6d

The news is out!!! Brutal Dark, the new series by myself and @christophcondon.bsky.social is coming from VERTIGO in 2026!! Meet Ezra Caine, our Nazi-Punching-New-Yorking- P.I!

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Popverse @popversesays.bsky.social · 6d

Want the full list of DC Vertigo's 2026 launch slate? Here you go, complete with artwork: www.thepopverse.com/comics-live-...

DC unveils 2026 Vertigo relaunch: See the full list

The Nice House by the Sea, 100 Bullets, and eight all-new series are leading the future of comics as DC Vertigo makes its triumphant return at NYCC 2025.

www.thepopverse.com

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Luki @lukimalt.bsky.social · 9d

A watercolour sketch of the wonderful @noathemodel.bsky.social 🔥 Loved the water so much💕🌊

#aquarellportrait #study #watercolor #aquarell #drawing #art #watercolorart
#zeichnen #malen #sketchingpeople #sketchbook #kunst