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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 1d

g. willow today:

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Alex Jaffe “Alex Jaffe” Alex Jaffe @alexjaffe.bsky.social · 1d

This G Willow Wilson run on Poison Ivy just keeps on going, luxuriating in multi-year long-form storytelling about a B-tier DC Comics character despite the fact that it’s not the 1990s anymore. It’s the world of possibilities I want to live in

G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 1d

We rise, we fall, we rise again.

POISON IVY Annual 2025, an oversized issue with story by me, art by MARK EFFING BUCKINGHAM, colors by Lee Loughridge, and letters by Tom Napolitano. Final order cutoff is Oct 20, so tell your local comics shop to order a copy just for you!

A woman's hand reaching out of a body of water, holding a sword, with bursts of pink light in the background.

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Escape Pod Comics @escapepodcomics.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, my driver and all his standard fill is are great! It's higher up where it all falls apart, for me

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Escape Pod Comics @escapepodcomics.bsky.social · 1d

Almost every time I deal with UPS I am reminded that the people who work there are just drones for a mega corporation and I have to temper my temper and it's so hard when their Explanations are so infuriating.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 2d

Police officers who publicly declare that they’ll quit if a mayoral candidate they dislike wins the election are (1) usually bluffing—sure buddy, toss away that paycheck and pension—and (2) exactly the sort of cops cities would be better off without, ones who don’t see themselves as public servants.

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Georgina Kiersten @ingloriousgigi.bsky.social · 4d

You should be concerned about the rate of authors leaving publishing. Especially from marginalized communities. This year I have seen so many authors just pack it up and go. And it's only getting worse.

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Kelly Mangan (She/Her) 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙 @kellyamangan.bsky.social · 2d

In case you aren’t aware, any video you see with the label “Sora” is A.I. generated. It’s fake.

Do NOT make or share #AI videos. It contributes to misinformation, and to a larger culture of disrespect for truth and disregard of reality.

Plus it enriches capitalist techbros raping the planet.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 2d

This is correct, in part - as the grim, military historian in me feels the need to note - it is psychologically much harder to get soldiers to open fire on people they view as 'respectable.'

And I dread, with grim increasingly certainty, that we are headed to a point where that matters.

WhatSaraSaid @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 2d

protests against this government should include white Boomer grandmothers who meet for pilates class, get a pitcher of mimosas & walk together to the public space

we need people in the street who think everyone can talk their way out of a speeding ticket, they're key to winning

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 2d

Abolish ICE.

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 2d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Dinosaur Comics! @qwantz.com · 2d

my new calendar presupposes earth's orbit has been adjusted from the old style (the planet taking a full 365.2422 days to complete a single orbit around sun) to the new style (a comfortable yet zippy 7)

www.qwantz.com/index.php?co...

T-Rex: We've got a calendar with some months of 30 days, some of 31, and one of 28 - and sometimes 29?? And "December" is the TWELTH month, despite having "ten" right there in its name?

T-Rex: WHAT are we DOING?

Dromiceiomimus: What we're doing, T-Rex, is not messing with calendar reform, because it's only been successfully done a handful of times in history, and the last time we did it with ANY success was in 1582 with the Gregorian calendar, and that took a whole-ass POPE to pull it off!!
T-Rex: Not even a half-ass pope?
Dromiceiomimus: NOT EVEN!

Utahraptor: And even THAT'S a lie because it still took HUNDREDS of years for everyone to get on board!
T-Rex: Hmm.

T-Rex: So what I'm hearing is, change needs to be FORCED. Thus, if we - and by "we" I mean "I" - ALTERED Earth's orbit, then all current calendars would be INVALID, and people would be eager for my new calendar!
Utahraptor: Hold up - how are you going to alter Earth's orbit??

Off panel: ...I'm serious, I want to know!
Off panel: You can't just stand there motionless and think I'll walk away. I won't do it, T-Rex!!
Off panel: JUST TELL ME WHAT YOU INTEND TO DO AND HOW YOU INTEND TO DO IT

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smokey @sjmokey.bsky.social · 2d

This is why luddites were smashing new factory machines

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Darryl Mott 💀 @gamerstavernshow.com · 2d

He did not discover America as the continent was already populated. He wasn't even considered worthy of having it named after him - that honor went to Amerigo Vespucci. He wasn't even the first European in this content as the Vikings beat him here by several centuries.

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Suzanne ✨🌑 @tendermiasma.com · 2d

This is all the serotonin I need for the rest of the year.. like wow.. things are really good sometimes

Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 2d

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a cancer vaccine that has shown STUNNING results, PREVENTING up to 88% of MULTIPLE aggressive cancers by harnessing dual-pathway nanoparticles that train the immune system to recognize and destroy tumor cells. In some cases, it COMPLETELY prevented metastasis.

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scott⚡️mccloud @scottmccloud.bsky.social · 2d

Select all squares with
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If there are none, click skip

Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 3d

gaseous cloud collapses, gathers into itself - heats up - remaining material thinly spread outward - only rock nearish, gas/ice farther still. Solar system is forming... Panels 10/30...
#Nostos #Unflattening 2

10 panels from a comics page in progress - in two rows of 5 each. Top row, panel one a gaseous cloud. 2-4 - supernova, its shockwaves colliding with that cloud. 5th panel see the cloud collapsing beginning to turn. Second tier - first panel - spinning gases, center warming. Panel 2 - great cloud of gas spinning and partly obscuring proto star within, panels 3-5, other side of protostar seen in prior panel - it's later in the solar system's evolution, we see no gas near the star, then a thin layer of rock and farther out gas - a differentiated disk swirling around the star...

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 2d

Folks who visited my table during the four days of the #NYCC donated a grand total of $1329 to @thenyic.bsky.social. I am absolutely blown away and hugely grateful! Find out more about the New York Immigration Coalition here, and thank you all so much!!! nyic.org

Immigration Advocacy, Immigration Education - NYC, Long Island, New York State | New York Immigration Coalition

New York Immigration Coalition: NYIC represents over 200 immigrant and refugee rights groups in NYC, Hudson Valley, Buffalo, Long Island, Syracuse, and throughout New York State. Become a NYIC member ...

nyic.org

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Grave Guiltyman 💀🗣️🎙️ @davidgiltinan.com · 2d

#HireHazel

dr. hazel 🐝 @hazelmonforton.com · 2d

Sadly, my contract with Blizzard ended in September. That means I'm looking for fulltime or contract work as a senior writer or narrative designer. If you need someone who can write sharp characters, poetic prose, and emotional stories, I'm available! www.hazelmonforton.com

dr. hazel 🐝 @hazelmonforton.com · Jul 8

It's #portfolioday! I'm presently a senior narrative designer at Blizzard, but before that I was at Bungie and Arkane. I wrote for the Writer's Guild award-nominated Dishonored: Death of the Outsider, and a bunch of critically acclaimed seasons and expansions in Destiny 2.

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Escape Pod Comics @escapepodcomics.bsky.social · 2d

So... @ironspike.bsky.social, @kelmcdonald.bsky.social ... A customer was a bit surprised that the title of @ironcircuscomics.bsky.social latest anthology is the same as one one of the series the boys create in Bakuman... It has to be intentional, right?!

Escape Pod Comics @escapepodcomics.bsky.social · 2d

I'm so hype for this! Are you?

Escape Pod Comics @escapepodcomics.bsky.social · 4d

Don't forget, Editor and author Sara Miller is coming October 19th! She'll be signing books at 4:30pm and doing an informal talk about Breaking Into Comics at 5:30! Don't miss it!

Escape Pod Comics @escapepodcomics.bsky.social · 2d

OK fam, I'm sorry but we're gonna call it for the night. I'll be here till about 730pm closing up.
Please let me know ASAP if you're en route or something!

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The Princess Formerly Known As Prince @nataliereed84.bsky.social · 2d

Imagining accusing the people who DON’T use this garbage of laziness. Fucking amazing.

Chris Towers is in Offseason Mode @cptowers.bsky.social · 2d

How it started: How it’s going:

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 2d

Whistling when ICE is about to kidnap someone for no reason is incredibly effective. They know what they are doing is wrong and will scatter in the wind when too many witnesses gather.

FORM A CROWD
STAY LOUD
PROTECT EACH OTHER
CODE I:
ICE NEARBY
BLOW QUICKLY IN A BROKEN RHYTHM:
PRE-PRE-PRE!
→ ALERTS THE COMMUNITY THAT ICE AGENTS ARE IN THE AREA.
ROGERS PARK WHISTLE PROTOCOLS
WHY A WHISTLE? ON THE STREETS
• A SIMPLE TOOL FOR FAST ALERTS.
• LOUD.
RECOGNIZABLE.
IMPOSSIBLE TO IGNORE.
• OUR VOICES ARE
STRONGER TOGETHER.
WHISTLES GUIDE
PEOPLE TO:
• FOLLOW ICE CARAVANS
• CATCH UP WITH THE CROWD
• ALERT NEIGHBORS
TO JOIN IN
NOISE = VISIBILITY.
CODE 2:
CODE RED
BLOW THREE LONG BLASTS:
PREEEE-PREEEE-PREEEE!
→ ICE IS DETAINING SOMEONE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
DON'T STAY SILENT. STAY NONVIOLENT.
WHY IT WORKS
• INSTANT ALERT
SYSTEM
• FASTER THAN SOCIAL MEDIA
• TURNS SILENCE INTO COMMUNITY
ACTION
ORIGINAL FLYER CREATED BY:
WHAT YOU CAN DO
• WEAR YOUR WHISTLE AROUND YOUR NECK
TEACH FAMILY
EIGHBORS TH
CODES
• USE IT WHEN ICE IS
SPOTTED
• PROTECT EACH OTHER, ALWAYS
TOGETHER, WE KEEP OUR COMMUNITY SAFE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
THIS FLYER DISTRIBUTED BY:
PROTECT RP
• @PROTECTRP_

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Vita "Empancipated Blacula" Ayala @definitelyvita.bsky.social · Jan 29

Hello, all. In a time where everything is so much for so many people, I feel guilty asking but my family and I are in need of help.

Even if it is a signal boost, any help is appreciated.

I love you all, and I hope you are all safe.

gofund.me/980022e5

Donate to Support Vita Ayala After Fire Displacement, organized by Tini Howard

Hi everyone, I'm Tini Howard, and this is for my friend, and your favorite comi… Tini Howard needs your support for Support Vita Ayala After Fire Displacement

gofund.me

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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 2d

Let it be understood, the *only* definition of africanfuturism I acknowledge is the one I wrote. Everything else is an interpretation, many of which are quite wrong (especially when it comes to the black diaspora; my God, so many people don't get it, despite the fact that I was clear).

The End.

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Escape Pod Comics @escapepodcomics.bsky.social · 2d

Omnibuses are fine...
You're not serious.

So, it's a fun game I play to see what I can grab that fits where we ended the conversation and doesn't fulfill what was first asked for. Am I an asshole? I'm just amusing myself, at this point?
Anyway, here's the stack.

Escape Pod Comics @escapepodcomics.bsky.social · 2d

Questions and specifics.
And then I go and put together a silly version of what they asked for, just because I like to be a man of my word and I always end by saying I'll get it together.

But buddy... If you start by asking for $700 of comics in mylar and end the conversation saying trades and

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