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Ted (& technically Ro)
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We write & draw comics! DC, Marvel, most others. Currently:
#WorstManOGN

(skeets probably by Ted)

Web: https://bio.site/brandtandstein

Agent: @stephaniewinter.bsky.social
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Ted (& technically Ro) @brandtandstein.com · Oct 17
Hello new chums!

We’re Brandt&Stein, and we make comics. Marvel, DC, Image, BOOM!, Dynamite and plenty of others. We like character acting, violence, silliness, and never drawing the same way twice. Currently working on a bunch of things we absolutely cannot talk about
A page of inks from Gotham City Sirens 4. The Sirens and White Rabbit are watching as Punchline avoids a stampede of animals, only to get cornered by some of them and dragged off. A double page spread from CROWDED. Charlie is watching with increasing horror and nausea as Circe goes on a very violent rampage, killing a whole bunch of people outside the car A splash page from Power Rangers Infinite, introducing Power Rangers Paladin Force, one of the many teams we designed. They’re all swords-and-sorcery knight themed,with Ranger diamond tabards, in a dynamic team pose against a stormy, mountainous backdrop A double page spread from “Morgonna the Crimson” in Red Sonja: Black, White & Red. Sonja is doing a series of tasks only to receive unwelcome and effusive praise and gifts, the punchline hitting when she sulkily rides off on her horse, which is incredibly overladen with stuff, and there is a goose sat on her head
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johnrogers.bsky.social
1) I was having drinks with @gregrucka.com who is in LA for VERY SECRET REASONS and we were discussing this post, because he had just finished A Thing and I am in the middle of A Thing and write all day, literally 9 to 5, and we were talking baout how THAT felt ...
chuckwendig.bsky.social Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 1d
I said it before, will say it again -- generative AI fetishizes "ideas" while sneering at effort, execution, and education. That, despite Gen-AI being built on and out of other people's effort, execution and education.
A.I. and the Fetishization Of Ideas
In writing and in dispensing my (very dubious, probably shady) writing advice, I am often keen to note that ideas are bullshit. Most writers treat them like precious gems when really, ideas are lik…
terribleminds.com
December 10, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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keezyyoung.bsky.social
i saw some other folks doing alternative color palettes for 2026 so here's mine! (it's very much manifesting chasing rabbits happening lmao)
a bunch of color swatches with titles: old nosebleed on a sweatshirt sleeve, barbie prom 1976, transvaal daisy (that's the one with the eyes), hello, sunshine, and the blob (terror has no shape)
December 9, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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aftermath.site
Uh oh, you have billions invested in generative AI:

aftermath.site/generative-ai-...
December 9, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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aplante.com
no point in starting DS9 before the holidays so i'm making @brandtandstein.com watch S7 of taskmaster with me in the interim and i forgot that literally everything that comes out of james acaster's mouth just makes me cackle
aplante.com Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · Jul 6
"Why don’t- why don’t you talk to me in the beginning of the tasks?"

"It's not in the task, is it?"
A couple drawings of comedian james Acaster looking as disdainful as a person can be. A speech bubble at the top says “hello james” to which james responds “the task isn’t ‘say hello to alex’”
December 9, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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sambeckdraws.bsky.social
love doing fun endpapers. Here are the two that appear in the Alanna book 1! Corus and the Black City
illustration of a medieval city in the distance is a castle on a hill. it is monochromatic purple illustration of a fantasy city with lots of buildings that have domed roofs and spires. it is monochromatic purple
December 9, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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tendermiasma.com
Lawmakers and bible thumpers don't want you to understand the people they're demonizing are doing more good for society than they ever would
wweek.com Willamette Week @wweek.com · 1d
Tatas for Toys benefit has made it rain $183,000 over the past 14 years.
Strippers Are Now No. 1 Donor of Toys to Children’s Hospital
Rachel Saslow
www.wweek.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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kodyisover.com
Things Daniel has in common with his father, David:

- some DNA
- they are both near-sighted
- they are currently eating at the same restaurant

#KeepingTime #webcomics

🎸 Latest update: keepingtimecomic.com
🎸Start from the beginning
A panel from the webcomic KEEPING TIME. Daniel, a Japanese dude in his 20s, sits across a table from his greying father, who coughs into a napkin.
December 9, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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brandtandstein.com
Quote with your starry art
A comics cover; in the centre is DC’s Stargirl, holding her cosmic staff above her head. It’s bursting light upwards, and energy is bursting around her. Behind all of that is a galaxy full of stars
December 8, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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adampknave.com
Last few years on my blog (which normally updates more but deadlines last while so...) on Xmas eve I post a bit of holiday flash fiction. They're all different and fun. Last year I posted The Goblin Toymakers and well for the first time, this year there's gonna be a sequel. Brace for impact.
The Goblin Toymakers
Santa’s Workshop stood as a beacon of light in wintery darkness. The sounds of bustling, toymaking, and joy emanated from within. Alongside them rang out sounds of violence, light weaponry, a…
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December 9, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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mimmymum.bsky.social
Remember when Helen Joyce was called out as "not an expert" by Australian courts - Now Maya Forstater has been told the same in the Peggie judgment! 👏👏👏

The judgement states outright that the evidence submitted by her & Sex Matters was “not skilled evidence.”

This is the Tribunal’s exact wording!
Highlighted paragraph: Evidence from Ms Forstater and Mx Valentine 1038. We turn to address the evidence from Ms Forstater and Mx Valentine, which the parties had described as “research evidence”. That is not, so far as we are aware, a term of law. Nothing was cited to support the use of that term. It is not skilled evidence as explained below, and the parties did not suggest that either witness was skilled or expert in that sense. It was not necessarily inadmissible, given the terms of Rule 41, and until read and considered the extent to which it might be relevant could not be assessed, but the weight to attach to it was a different consideration Highlighted sections: 1040. In many respects the evidence in the statements was more in the nature of material for the public debate on wider issues as to what the law should be, and on occasion it appeared to us to be polemic, rather than evidence relevant to the issues at an Employment Tribunal. 1041. Opinion evidence was addressed in Walker and Walker on Evidence, Fifth Edition (“Walker”), which explained the distinction between evidence of fact, and of belief or opinion. Opinion evidence may be led from what Walker describes as an ordinary witness (the classification of witnesses is between ordinary and skilled), and examples of that are given. Ms Forstater 1042. The statement from Ms Forstater was not presented as impartial evidence, but specifically as one given in support of the claimant. It had at paragraph 10 an argument as to facts, of which Ms Forstater said that she was certain. They are however we consider not facts, but expressions of her opinion. The assertion at 10 (b) for example was “Sex is in general readily perceptible and is salient to other people.” That we consider cannot be other than her opinion, for which no support from any document in the Supplementary Bundle appeared to be referred to in her written witness statement. It was contradicted by other evidence, and the terms of a Note issued by EJ Tinnion on 5 January 2025 in relation to the second respondent. It did not appear to be an assertion related to the second respondent in particular, but as a more general proposition. 1043. The assertion at (d) had a further series of propositions which were opinions although presented as facts. If the 1992 Regulations, then as discussed they are not within this Tribunal’s jurisdiction, and the comment appears to be an argument over the policy of the law, or how the law should be interpreted, neither of which are relevant evidence before us. 1044. The sub-paragraphs include, by way of example, (ii) “women are in general more fearful of men than men … Highlighted sections: That is again an expression of opinion without cross reference to any document in the Supplementary Bundle. Sub-paragraph (v) was “unless rules about single-sex spaces are clearly stated and enforced it leaves women open to risk of sexual harassment and assault, and makes these spaces feel unsafe.” That again is an expression of opinion. The witness statement purports to expand on the comments at paragraph 10 stating that the facts stated are true. In our view they are not reliable as evidence from a person not a skilled witness on the propositions that are advanced. 1045. Where there was reference to documentation it is in our view both partial and incomplete. Part of it is based on research undertaken by Sex Matters, an organisation of which she is the Chief Executive Officer. It is a campaigning organisation, as set out in paragraph 4. There is an obvious risk that that research is impacted by the nature of it, which is not suggested to be an independent academic study .... In our view it would not be dealing with a case fairly or justly to rely on expressions of opinion from a person campaigning on one side of the argument on such an issue. We did not consider that the case of Connor on which the claimant founded, cited above and which indicated that in some situations evidence which was not expert in nature could be sufficient, was applicable to such a matter. 1047. Our review of the literature referred to by Ms Forstater reveals that the broad generalisations she seeks to take from it are not sufficiently supported by the document or document founded on, both from the terms of the document and the other documents in relation to the same broad issue, to be treated as reliable evidence.
December 9, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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johannamation.bsky.social
I decided that spooky season extends into December, bc who doesn’t love a heartwarming ghost story during the cold winter months?

THE GHOSTKEEPER is a mug of hot cocoa and bundled in a blanket on a therapist’s couch for the soul ☕️ 👻

Find it here: theghostkeeper.carrd.co
TAKE TIME TO BE SAD. YOU'RE NOT A BAD CHILD, LUCY..YOU'RE A HURT CHILD. GIVE YOURSELF PERMISSION TO GRIEVE FO THE WAY THINGS WERE, AND THEN SEE IF YOU CAN REACH OUTSIDE OF YOUR SADNESS TO A MORE NEUTRAL PLACE. ONLY THEN CAN THE ROT START TO HEAL.
December 1, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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alexjaffe.bsky.social
302/885: CROWDED #5 (2018)

Asexuality truly is its own spectrum, in the way that @brandtandstein.com play within sexuality creatively in a way I don’t think I really could. And yet we are no more or less ace. It feels like Tim Robinson making spot-on office comedy when he’s never had an office job.
December 8, 2025 at 11:19 PM
brandtandstein.com
Good morning, chums!
December 9, 2025 at 5:42 AM
brandtandstein.com
I was just going through my old photos and for some reason found a Kentaur
It’s Ken from the Barbie movie but his lower half is a horse body
December 8, 2025 at 9:17 PM
brandtandstein.com
Quote with your starry art
A comics cover; in the centre is DC’s Stargirl, holding her cosmic staff above her head. It’s bursting light upwards, and energy is bursting around her. Behind all of that is a galaxy full of stars
December 8, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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robinince.bsky.social
As the trans community have known for a while now - the definition of activist is someone who dares to state they exist
HADLEY FREEMAN Wes Streeting must stand up to the ADHD activists I can help with the minister's review: some people are just confused by life Hadley Freeman
December 8, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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trungles.com
Happy holidays, we’re transvestigating festive baked goods today lmao
adambienkov.bsky.social Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 1d
Nothing says getting into the festive spirit like going online to shout at some biscuits
December 8, 2025 at 7:53 PM
brandtandstein.com
Look, everything about the WB sale is trash whether it’s Netflix or Paramount, but we all need a good laugh so thanks deadline for giving us Jane Fondant
A screenshot of the deadline article from the quoted post. It reads “Hollywood legends, like James Cameron and Jane Fondant have spoken out, describing the (Netflix) deal as a disaster for theatrical films.”
December 8, 2025 at 7:32 PM
brandtandstein.com
Completely unironically: if a journalist or media outlet talks about ai controversy as old v new, I think it ought to be fine to steal their computer, hand in all their upcoming articles for them and take the fee
December 8, 2025 at 8:46 AM
brandtandstein.com
“The battle between technology and tradition” fuck this disingenuous bullshit it’s the battle between CREATION and THEFT
en.afp.com AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 2d
Belfast Christmas market bans sale of AI-generated art.

In Belfast, the battle between technology and tradition is playing out at an artists’ market. Organisers of the Christmas fair have banned AI-generated artwork, insisting on "human creativity" as artificial intelligence floods the art world
December 8, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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naomialderman.bsky.social
this is potentially TMI but also *v useful information* so: did you know that (in the UK) if you start to feel you're getting a UTI on Saturday evening you can do an online form with eg Boots and be picking up your antibiotics by 10am on Sunday morning? and then start to feel better by 11am?
December 8, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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keezyyoung.bsky.social
snik snek
a purple snake drawing. it says sssss
December 3, 2025 at 10:15 PM
brandtandstein.com
When the bubble finally bursts you’ll be able to buy Nvidia for the current price of one of their GPUs
December 8, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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mckelvie.bsky.social
This has reminded me that at one time Image was publishing comics called Sex, Criminal, and Sex Criminals.
December 8, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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mckelvie.bsky.social
An absolutely absurd amount of comics in this deal, including some of the best direct market comics of the century so far.
humblebundle.com Humble @humblebundle.com · 4d
In the early hours after Halloween of 1988, four 12-year-old newspaper delivery girls uncover the most important story of all time in Paper Girls Vol 1 - 6.

The Image in the ‘10s comics bundle supports Binc | https://bit.ly/4adULaG
December 8, 2025 at 6:53 AM