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Brad Walker

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The only artist in comics that hasn’t done a variant for Absolute Batman. Gonna see how long I can keep this streak going! *please don’t color and repost my art*

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Brad Walker @iambradwalker.bsky.social · Jan 23

Since this is a relatively new place for many of us, I wanna take a minute to recommend that all of us in creative fields try a little harder to use it to support each other’s works. I tried on other platforms and I felt like only a smattering of friends really did the same.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 13d

I don't know how many times to point out that is absolutely ghoulish and non-consensual and disgusting behavior.
To exploit the image of a dead woman who was also exploited in real life so you can live out your momentary fantasies of "what is possible" with AI is bad science journalism, also.
Sick.

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Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Happen Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Screenshot includes an AI generated image of what looks like a human cross between Daenaerys Targaryen and Marilyn Monroe on the back of a dragon.

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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 8d

I hope each and every one of the fascists who rule this country read this and choke.

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Brad Walker @iambradwalker.bsky.social · 8d

Did the same. Enjoyed that ending too. 😂

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Diane @dianesf.bsky.social · 10d

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Chibdm @chibdm.bsky.social · 20d

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

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Brad Walker @iambradwalker.bsky.social · 24d

Okay, but were you ever thinking about her hymen?

Brad Walker @iambradwalker.bsky.social · 24d

In a year of very weird sentences…that’s the weirdest sentence I’ve ever seen.

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Brad Walker @iambradwalker.bsky.social · 25d

Not even the point, but bullshit. He absolutely fucking saw it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25d

MADELEINE DEAN: The president is unhinged. He's unwell

JOHNSON: A lot of folks on your side are too

D: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals?

J: I didn't see it

D: It's so dangerous! Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing. You have a POTUS who's unwell.

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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · Sep 27

If you’re worried about losing your health care, apparently Trump has a message for you:

Politico: Democrats are demanding Republicans negotiate a bipartisan stopgap spending measure. Among their asks is for the GOP to extend certain Affordable Care Act subsidies, which were expanded by Congress in 2021 and are due to sunset at the end of the year.

President Donald Trump on Thursday blamed Democrats for making “unserious and ridiculous” demands, foreshadowing what is likely to be the go-to talking point should neither side blink ahead of the Tuesday night deadline.

“He read all the shit they’re asking for, and he said, ‘on second thought, go fuck yourself,’” the White House official said.

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Bill Wolkoff @billwearsties.bsky.social · 29d

Indie director Barbara Marques has been kidnapped by ICE. She is legally married to a U.S. citizen & was at a green card mtg when she was abducted and prevented from seeing her lawyer. Her husband Tucker May does not know where she is. Please spread the word so he can find her /1

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Brad Walker @iambradwalker.bsky.social · Sep 26

Oh, I very much DO get hung up on penciller/inker combos, and this is a great one. In an age where everybody’s inking themselves, this specific kind of chemistry feels like a lost art.

Grim Wilkins @grimwilkins.bsky.social · Jun 20

I don't get hung up on penciller/inker combos, but every time I see Nowlan inking Quesada blows my mind

Brad Walker @iambradwalker.bsky.social · Sep 24

So. Religion was wrong, again.

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Nature Trail to Steve Horton ... In 3D! @stevehorton.mst3k.fan · Sep 19

Welp. My family's bank account is negative. It'll be at least a month or more before my book advance arrives. If anyone wants a signed Bowie book or wants to subscribe to my movie Patreon at the $5 level, now would be a great time. Thanks!

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Democrats @democrats.org · Sep 16

If you live in:

California
New Jersey
New York
Pennsylvania
Virginia

The deadline to register to vote in the November elections is coming up. Check your registration now: IWillVote.com.

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Voter Registration Deadlines

California*
October 20
(Last day registration can be postmarked)

New Jersey
October 14

New York
October 25
(Last day applications can be received)

Pennsylvania
October 20

Virginia*
October 24

*California and Virginia voters: If you miss the deadline, you can register to vote in person during early voting and at the polls on Election Day

IWillVote.com

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Pete “The Cabin in the” Woods @thatpetewoods.bsky.social · Sep 19

Load up your favorite film or TV show. Pause the show 5 times and take a screenshot. Now look at the costumes and background design elements for each shot and understand how someone had to research the design and build something that made sense in the world of the show…

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Mike Royce @mikeroyce.bsky.social · Sep 19

and a retired meteorologist shall lead us

Tweet from Dan Satterfield

Ok, I keep getting asked about how to complain about Kimmel.
The best way to complain that will have the biggest impact?
See if you have a Sinclair or nexstar station in your area.
2. Watch the local newscast tonight or some time this week.
3. Note the companies that bought tv adverts.
4. Call them and let them know you will boycott them until they quit supporting that media company.
Trust me. I worked in tv for 45 years.
Nothing you do will have greater impact.

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · Sep 17

I don't think it's overdramatic to say that we must consider whether we want "working artist" to be a viable prospect in the near future, and how to materially protect the field from corporations, execs, and managers all too happy to automate creative production with AI.

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · Sep 17

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing.

These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

Artists are losing work, wages, and hope as bosses and clients embrace AI

Visual artists, illustrators and graphic designers share their stories about how AI is being used to lower wages, degrade work and even replace it altogether, in this installment of AI Killed My Job.

www.bloodinthemachine.com

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GigerPunk @gigerpunk.bsky.social · Sep 18

Fuck me this is bleak.
But please, do continue to use GenAI slop thumbnails for your YouTube videos, or your album art, or your book covers or whatever else. I'll continue to refuse to watch/listen/read any of them, knowing already they're not worth the time & that you're a disappointing lazy hack.

‘Children's book illustrator isn't a job anymore.’
I've been out of work for a while now. I made children's book illustrations, stock art, and took various art commissions.

Now I have several maxed out credit cards and use a donation bin for food. I haven't had a steady contract in over a year. two weeks ago, when a client who has switched to AI found out about this he gave me $50 out of "a sense of guilt." Basically pity for the fact that Illustrator, as a job, does not exist anymore.

It was my birthday recently and I sincerely considered not living anymore.
The worst part of all is that the parents who once supported me fully in being an artist sent me an AI generated picture of a caricature of themselves holding a birthday cake with my name spelled incorrectly.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · Sep 18

Pardon me, but while MAGA and Trump may want to use it that way, we don't need to let them.

I think it is absolutely the case that Trump aspires to be something like a fascist dictator, I said so last October.

But we are not powerless and they have not won yet.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · Sep 18

It's pretty clear that they got their Reichstag Fire with the Kirk assassination. Democracy is dead.

We now have a fascist dictator.

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Screenshot of a Truth Social post by Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) dated September 17, 2025, at 8:26 PM. The post reads:

"I am pleased to inform our many U.S.A. Patriots that I am designating ANTIFA, A SICK, DANGEROUS, RADICAL LEFT DISASTER, AS A MAJOR TERRORIST ORGANIZATION. I will also be strongly recommending that those funding ANTIFA be thoroughly investigated in accordance with the highest legal standards and practices. Thank you for your attention to this matter!"

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Brad Walker @iambradwalker.bsky.social · Sep 11

I walked 18 blocks to get my teeth cleaned today, an appointment I rescheduled twice because it costs me $275, out of pocket. On the way down, alone, I got asked for money by 3 homeless people, in a relatively affluent neighborhood. So…

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · Sep 10

Larry Ellison just became the world's richest man. He's in talks to lead an acquisition bid of Tiktok and his son just completed a takeover of Paramount/CBS.

By year's end, he will likely be in control of legacy media and the largest social media platform.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Ellison Tops Musk as World’s Richest Man After $101 Billion Gain

Larry Ellison has become the world’s richest person for the first time, ending Elon Musk’s nearly year-long reign in the top spot.

www.bloomberg.com

Brad Walker @iambradwalker.bsky.social · Sep 8

Seems kinda unrealistic that everybody is going, “Release the Epstein files” considering we’re shouting it at the guy who’s IN the files. “Give me the evidence to bury you!” Shouldn’t it be something like, “Somebody HACK the Epstein files!”?

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Osita Nwanevu @ositanwanevu.com · Sep 7

It's seeming likelier and likelier that AI really could eliminate a lot of jobs very soon. Just not in the way boosters have suggested. www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...

Just How Bad Would an AI Bubble Be?
The entire U.S. economy is being propped up by the promise of productivity gains that seem very far from materializing.

By Rogé Karma

The capability-reliability gap might explain why generative AI has so far failed to deliver tangible results for businesses that use it. When researchers at MIT recently tracked the results of 300 publicly disclosed AI initiatives, they found that 95 percent of projects failed to deliver any boost to profits. A March report from McKinsey & Company found that 71 percent of companies reported using generative AI, and more than 80 percent of them reported that the technology had no “tangible impact” on earnings. In light of these trends, Gartner, a tech-consulting firm, recently declared that AI has entered the “trough of disillusionment” phase of technological development.

By one estimate, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Tesla will by the end of this year have collectively spent $560 billion on AI-related capital expenditures since the beginning of 2024 and have brought in just $35 billion in AI-related revenue. OpenAI and Anthropic are bringing in lots of revenue and are growing fast, but they are still nowhere near profitable. Their valuations—roughly $300 billion and $183 billion, respectively, and rising—are many multiples higher than their current revenues. (OpenAI projects about $13 billion in revenues this year; Anthropic, $2 billion to $4 billion.) Investors are betting heavily on the prospect that all of this spending will soon generate record-breaking profits. If that belief collapses, however, investors might start to sell en masse, causing the market to experience a large and painful correction.

The dot-com crash was bad, but it did not trigger a crisis. An AI-bubble crash could be different. AI-related investments have already surpassed the level that telecom hit at the peak of the dot-com boom as a share of the economy. In the first half of this year, business spending on AI added more to GDP growth than all consumer spending combined. Many experts believe that a major reason the U.S. economy has been able to weather tariffs and mass deportations without a recession is because all of this AI spending is acting, in the words of one economist, as a “massive private sector stimulus program.” An AI crash could lead broadly to less spending, fewer jobs, and slower growth, potentially dragging the economy into a recession. The economist Noah Smith argues that it could even lead to a financial crisis if the unregulated “private credit” loans funding much of the industry’s expansion all go bust at once.

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