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Akil Wilson

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I write and draw riso-comics about black folks. I also teach math. Black, bi, and nonbinary He/They 💖💜💙 Comics and other contacts on http://akilwilsoncomics.com

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Akil Wilson @akilwilson.blacksky.app · Oct 18

Hey, everybody! I’m Akil and I write and draw riso-comics about black folks.

I made a comic called Carl & the Magic Coin and you can read the digital version of it for free on my website! You can even download it if you like!

Check it out here:

akilwilsoncomics.com

We see Carl’s face, reflected in orange from the window of a drying machine, as he stares down at the drying machine display, confused, and says, “What the…?”

The display of the drying machine reads “- 10 yrs”

#makingcomics

Carl frowns and mutters “Great… goddamn slug broke the whole machine”

#drawingwhileblack

Carl focuses his attention away from the drying machine to say, “Hey Hassan, that slug didn’t work. Do me a favor and go tell the guy that we -“ but doesn’t notice that his reflection is now blue and shows him 30 years younger, dressed in a fast food restaurant uniform.

#risograph

Carl looks shocked as he notices his younger self in the reflection of the drying machine.

#minicomics

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Dan Membiela @danmembiela.bsky.social · 3h

Mynocktober Day 13
The dealer won't speak, but the sith lord takes what he needs from his thoughts.

#Batober
#BewareTheMynock2025

Vader brings his face close to the choking ugnaught.

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jacky. @jacky.wtf · 12h

Gender roles really be ruining so much and the prisons they create limit so much of what folks can see of themselves

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sarah margaret (scary) 🍂 @sarahmargs.bsky.social · 12h

“Why do it if you won’t make a living from it?” Because what else is living for

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Bodybag Jones @daydreamcomix.com · Sep 1

For the past 40 years, rumors have swirled around the mysterious death of Sarah Shaw. Whispers became gossip, gossip became tall tales, tall tales became legend. But hidden within the stories are rotten truths waiting to be unearthed.

Read WHO KILLED SARAH SHAW here: globalcomix.com/c/who-killed...

1 - Flasback 80s. Int. Girl’s locker room. It’s empty besides Sarah and Tiffany. Tiffany sits on the bench in the middle slipping on her Converse. Sarah pulls her bag out of her locker.

TIFF: After the game, I stayed behind as long as possible. I wanted to soak it all in.

TIFF: Sarah took her time waiting for everyone else to clear out.

TIFF: I thought she was going to tear into me, but she surprised me.

2 - Sarah faces Tiff, looking downs at her. She seems genuinely earnest in her congratulations.

TIFF: She said, “Nice shot out there tonight. If it wasn’t gonna be me, I’m glad it was you.”

3 - Close-up of Tiff surprised by Sarah’s compliment.

TIFF: I thought we were still fighting, so it took me by surprise. I didn’t know what to say. I just stared as she walked towards the exit.

4 - Tiff turns back with a smile on her face. It’s not bitchy though. She’s genuinely happy that her friend got her moment and that she’s going out for dinner with Matt.

TIFF: At the door Sarah turned back and said, “Matt’s taking me out for dinner. I guess we’re both winners.”

TIFF: Then, she left.

5 - Present day. Tiffany is processing this moment. Tears are beginning to well up in the corners of her eyes.

TIFF: God, she could be such a bitch sometimes.

TIFF: I miss her.

1 - Jes looks at the shrine, so we can see the photo, doll, and candles. Not close-ups but an even better view than we got in the splash.

JES: …to Sarah.

2 - Jes picks up the vandalized photo of her.

JES: Doesn’t look like they were worshiping her though.

3 - Dave approaches from behind. Camera up and rolling.

DAVE: Who is The Briar Queen?

4 - Jes picks up the Briar doll.

JES: Could be a nickname for Sarah. Tiffany did say she was found in a briar patch.

5 - She accidentally pricks her hand and drops the doll.

JES: Ow! Fuck!

6 - Close-up of the briar doll on the floor with trash, some of Jes’ blood from her hand is on it.

JES: …or it could be something worse.

1 - Jes faces forward. Shocked at this reveal. She is starting to understand that they may be entering dangerous territory. She murmurs under her breath.

JES: George Higgins owns the cabin…

MAYBERRY: What’s that?

2 - Higgins getting into the police cruiser.

JES: Has Deputy Higgins always owned the cabin that Sarah was murdered at? Was it his family’s?

MAYBERRY: What are you getting at?

3 - Higgins driving through Hardground, a grimace plastered across his face.4

JES: It’s strange that he owns the cabin where Sarah was murdered. She was one of his friends.

JES: Why would he want to own it?

MAYBERRY: This is a trail that goes nowhere, Ms. Ruiz.

MAYBERRY: George is a good man who has done right by this town.

4 - Higgins driving up the old dirt road to the cabin.

MAYBERRY: He bought the cabin awhile back because he didn’t want city folk coming up and turning it into a rental.

MAYBERRY: He doesn’t even like going there.

5 - Higgins, parked in front of the cabin, resting his forehead on the steering wheel, deep in thought.

MAYBERRY: Unlike you two, George has actually tried to honor Sarah’s memory by letting her rest and not turning her into a sideshow.

1 - Sarah and Marvin walk down the street at night. Dressed in their winter wear. They are both laughing.

HAROLD: It seemed like such a small thing at first.

HAROLD: Sarah was always close with The Rainey’s. They were like her second parents.

2 - They stop about down the block from their houses and face each other. Sarah has both of Marvin’s hands in hers as she tells him something. He seems surprised but supportive. They’re body language shows that they are incredibly close, but not necessarily romantic.

HAROLD: They came to all of her basketball games. They would babysit when she was a kid. Christ, she slept over at their house.

HAROLD: This was different.

3 - Harold pulls down the blinds from inside their house so he can peek outside.

HAROLD: I saw them together one night. God knows where they were coming from or what they’d been doing.

4 - Sarah and Marvin share a nice, big warm hug. Her arms around his midsection. His arms around her shoulders and he bends over a little bit for the hug. Again, incredibly close, but it’s just a hug. Nothing necessarily romantic about it.

HAROLD: I saw her hug him goodbye. She never hugged me like that. It was like she was in love with him.

5 - Harold sits in his chair, drinking a beer, we can see 2-3 cans already on the side table. This living room setup is EXACTLY the same as present day. The only change is the beer cans and Harold.

JES: What did you do when you saw them?

HAROLD: Nothing.

HAROLD: Like I said, parents choose to see these things or not…

6 - Cut back to present day, some panel as the previous page’s last panel but now Harold is old and there are no beer cans. He seems miserable reminiscing about this moment.

HAROLD: By the time I learned the truth, it was too late.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 16h

i believe i said "fuck" on a comic con stage for the first time today.

the full quote:

"Fuck 'A.i.'"

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 14h

This morning I ran the NYC Gaza 5K in Prospect Park for the third time, alongside the Harlem Run Club, to raise money for @unrwausa.bsky.social, which delivers critical humanitarian aid and services to Palestinians in Gaza.

I hope you'll join me in donating: unrwausa.org

Zohran jogging alongside a member of the Harlem Run Club in Prospect Park.

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Genie Lauren @moreandagain.social · 14h

OpenAI is fucking disgusting and so are the people who use it

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 15h

ai is a fascist tool. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Ilyasah Shabazz didn’t want to look at the AI-generated videos of her father, Malcolm X. The seemingly realistic clips — made by OpenAI’s new video-maker Sora 2 — show the legendary civil rights activist making crude jokes, wrestling with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and talking about defecating on himself.

“It is deeply disrespectful and hurtful to see my father’s image used in such a cavalier and insensitive manner when he dedicated his life to truth,” Shabazz, whose father was assassinated in front of her in 1965 when she was 2, told The Washington Post. She questioned why the developers were not acting “with the same morality, conscience, and care … that they’d want for their own families.”

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Akil Wilson @akilwilson.blacksky.app · 13h

🍂 🍁 Fall Filmtastic 2025🍁 🍂
🍃 🍂(aka Auteur Autumn)🍂 🍃

Inside Man by Spike Lee

Kiddo’s second Spike Lee joint and he’s already on the lookout for the signature shot…

A poster for Inside Man by Spike Lee, starring Denzel Washington, Jodie Foster, and Clive Owen

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Capital B @capitalb.bsky.social · 1d

“In this environment that we’re in right now, it feels like an understatement to say that there’s misinformation being spread about this community. People really forget that we’re human beings.”

No One Was Helping Black Transgender Youth. So These Parents Stepped In.

A new nonprofit provides resources to Black families of transgender and nonbinary youth at a moment of heightened political hostility.

capitalbnews.org

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Chirs @aesungaia.neocities.org · 2d

LAZINESS IS VIRTUOUS AND I'M NOT JOKING

Drawing of Myrrh relaxing in a hammock, wearing a bikini and star-shaped shades, declaring 'You are morally obligated to slack off!!!'

A very large, bold caption reads: 'Don't be productive! Capitalism robbed you of your life. Steal it back!!!'

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 21h

Don't forget that your homeless neighbors, the people living in the streets & out of their cars around you that you see every day, are part of your real world community.

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Amanda Griffiths 🎨 COLOUR WITCH @darjeeliarts.bsky.social · Jan 21

TIMELINE CLEANSE for everyone understandably having A Whole Day today.

Stop doom-scrolling for a moment and bask in the cuteness of Bella's baby pictures. (And stand, stretch, take a break and get something refreshing to drink.)

Bella loves you all and wants you to take care of yourselves 💖

A calico kitten sitting on a grey and white blanket looking bewildered at her existence.

A calico kitten with an upraised paw full of spotty toebeans, like she's waving hello.

A calico kitten laying on a mousepad next to a coffee mug, which is larger than she is, she really has no idea how small she is.

A calico kitten sound asleep on a white shelf and green sheets, back arched, not a care in the world.

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Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 6d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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Montresor’s Groucho Puppet @winteron.bsky.social · 11d

for fun, I’m going to try to post one piece of classical music that has spooky vibes for each day of October—and to not use only pieces by Chopin, Scriabin, or Ravel

Day 1: Chopin’s Nocturne in G Minor, op.15/3

G minor, op. 15, n? 3

YouTube video by Ivan Moravec - Topic

youtu.be

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Akil Wilson @akilwilson.blacksky.app · 23h

Right?! 💖

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The Grim Spectre of Christian Lipski @christianlipski.bsky.social · 1d

If your account is primarily dedicated to sharing images, use alt text. Yeah, you should use it no matter what, but making your whole feed unintelligible to blind people is pretty shitty. Unfollowed.

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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 1d

With the holidays upon us, don't give to Salvation Army. Not even change. It's a scumbag "charity" run by anti-gay zealots.

Habitat for Humanity is great. Your local Food Bank is great.

So many "charities" are for-profit scams. Use Charity Navigator to vet them. www.charitynavigator.org

Fascist Dem Tracker @fascistdemtracker.bsky.social · 1d

Fun fact about the Salvation Army: they use a form of substance use treatment called work therapy. Oh, and by treatment, I mean they have people who have been convicted of drug charges work for their stores & warehouses in exchange for room, board, around a $1 a week, and minimal actual therapy.

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 1d

To all the TERFs spreading lies about me.

Here's the real story.

metro.co.uk/2025/10/12/c...

I couldn't believe my male friend's reaction after I came out as trans

I felt flustered and uncomfortable at the offensive remarks.

metro.co.uk

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Joe Schmidt @hsglobalhistory.bsky.social · 1d

If you are at NYCC 25 Sunday, stop by Civics For All Comics Group BOOTH 4453 l. We still have FREE copies of @gregpak.net’s @alexsegura.bsky.social & @davidhahn.bsky.social’s @geneluenyang.bsky.social’s @kaysohini.bsky.social’s comics & many more! @ryandunlavey.com will be signing @ the table too!

Chuck Suffel @chucksuffel.bsky.social · 2d

Hey @gregpak.net, @alexsegura.bsky.social, @davidhahn.bsky.social love these books you did with Civics For All!

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Aaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 1d

I want to add this, because if you haven't been in this situation, maybe you don't know. When a cop in riot gear is shoving you and yelling "GET BACK," there's usually nowhere to actually get back to, because there's a crowd of people behind you and you literally can't move at the pace they want.

shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 1d

state police continue to push protesters down 25th street. at one point, cops swarmed a group of people and pushed them to the ground.

multiple people arrested.

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Akil Wilson @akilwilson.blacksky.app · 1d

📷📱
#mobilephotography

A picture of the Atlantic Ocean taken at Coney Island. The picture is a long vertical strip with cleanly divided sections of the sky on top and the ocean and beach at the bottom.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 7d

i think it is fair to request a statement from @jay.bsky.team on TRANS PEOPLE and where we fit in on @bsky.app.

i think as a transgender journalist, it's acceptable and makes sense for me to ask this

and so, the question, am i not a person as a trans girl and do i not deserve to feel safe here?

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 1d

People need to stop the thinking that’s like “well when things get back to normal we’ll do this.” Remember how we said that about COVID years ago & we’re still in a pandemic? The United States is not coming back to glory & that shouldn’t be the goal. But WE can try to survive if we get together.

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