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Marco Rudy
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A Storyteller. Visual storyteller with a couple of words mixed in.
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so many cool, inventive and interesting animated projects none of you even knew were being made for the past few years just got shitcanned because of this netflix/wb merger

When you're like "geez there's no animation jobs" "geez there's like no new shows anymore", this is why
December 5, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Re-upping for the end of the week. Did you know I'm authorized to live and work in three different anglophone countries? That's *three nations* that have a chance to hire me and win this prize.
Hey, so, I've been fired. Now that I'm unemployed like the other half of Bluesky, if anyone knows of work for a writer, reporter, or nonprofit grants manager, I'd be much obliged. You all know where to find me.
December 5, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Snow on Sumida River - Tsuchiya Koitsu
December 5, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Please please PLEASE read this, sign on, and support Mike and the folks over at @techdirt.com.
Remember when the internet wasn't awful? We can go back to that.

Some friends and I have released the Resonant Computing Manifesto: a call to bring back such a time, to see if we can bring back a world where technology works for us, rather than against us.

resonantcomputing.org
The Resonant Computing Manifesto
Technology should bring out the best in humanity, not the worst—a manifesto for resonant computing built on five principles that reject hyper-scale extraction for human flourishing.
resonantcomputing.org
December 5, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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I don't know what to think about this stuff, but I know that I really don't want my friends to get laid off so the numbers will go up for people who will never, EVER have to worry about making enough money to survive.

www.thewrap.com/netflix-wins...
Netflix Wins the Warner Bros. Discovery Bidding War, Enters Exclusive Deal Talks
Warner Bros. Discovery has selected Netflix after the streaming giant offered $30 a share for the studio and streaming assets.
www.thewrap.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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This normalizes corruption, feeding the sentiment that both sides suck and so politics is pointless. A Dem party focused on rehabilitating its broken brand would be criticizing Trump and booting out Cuellar. Let the corrupt guys become corporate lobbyists - they’re dragging our party down.
Jeffries claims the charges against Cueller were "very thin" and says Trump's pardon was "exactly the right outcome"
December 3, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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A special project by an outstanding creative team. There's still time to get in on the ground floor as the issues come out, but as Henry says here, you can already pre-order what is going to be an in-demand and highly sought-after Trade Paperback. I want to see more comics in the world like this.
Since I was out, the last issue of the series was solicited. Covers by Vanessa Del Rey, @jgonzo.bsky.social, and introducing @bizarropizarro.bsky.social.

With your help, we can make more Ricky Téllez comics if you preorder the single issues or the TPB. Preorder here bindings.app/read/Y5jVaWmp
December 2, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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Editing and Writing Comms!

bsky.app/profile/blub...
Do *you* have a story you're trying to get off the ground? Whether it's to be self published or sent as a pitch, I can help as your editor 🌟 (amongst other services that I offer).

Anyway! Commissions are open~
January 9, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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An essay for World AIDS Day and the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks's valiant act of resistance, an essay on quilts and solidarity, on stitching the fragments together.
Solidarity Stitches Us Together: Today, World AIDS Day, Is Also the 70th Anniversary of Rosa Park's Historic Protest
I saw two radically different versions of what a quilt could be yesterday and yet they spoke to the same issues. I caught the show Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California ...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Literally buying one copy of a book at your local indie bookstore can mean the difference in whether they buy future books from that author.
November 24, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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The White House’s new anti-media website includes denunciations of:

-ABC, which bribed the president
-CBS, which bribed the president and moved away from fact-based journalism trying to appeal to him and his fans
-WaPo, which spiked a Harris endorsement and tilts coverage in Trump’s favor

Fools.
November 30, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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I worked in a non-magical area of tech sector, power conversion devices for infrastucture/telecom.

Found it sad to revisit the site I helped develop years ago now has marketing posts about powering AI data centers while listening to Ketan's interview bsky.app/profile/tech...
Tech giants are building loads of hyperscale data centers to power generative AI. What happened to their climate pledges?

This week @ketanjoshi.co joins @parismarx.com to discuss the greenwashing of data centers and how they’re driving fossil fuel demand.

Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/304_...
November 27, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Christmas is coming, and the Black Friday sales signal we’re in peak gift-buying season.

When you’re picking out gifts for friends and family this year, there’s a whole slew of tech products that are better to avoid. I put together a guide to help you through it.
A tech critic’s guide to holiday gift-giving
Maybe your grandma doesn’t need that Alexa smart speaker
disconnect.blog
November 25, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Out today!
November 26, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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We linked up with The Friendly Fridge, a food mutual aid project in the BX, and the Black Trans Travel Fund, to see their work in action. We also chop it up w/ brilliant poet and writer Fatimah Asghar, and swing by legendary Lloyd's Carrot Cake for a bite! www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gB2...
November 25, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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“Device hoarding” un fucking real

Both major political parties agree we have one job and it’s to buy shit
stupid young people, stop buying a new phone every year if you don't want to be broke. wait no, not like that.
November 25, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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November 24, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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We saw it with big tobacco, we saw it with the fossil fuels industry. When their own internal research showed the harm from their product, the defunded the research and attacked independent researchers coming to the very same conclusions.
#ScienceUnderSiege
Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges
Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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For graphic novels, especially adult genre fiction, it's incredibly helpful to review it online, talk about it, recommend it to a friend—adult fiction in the graphic novel space is difficult to place, and nothing convinces readers that they'll like a book more than the personal testimonial.
If you like an author's work, the best thing you can do is buy it. The second best thing you can do is ask your local library to buy it. Or, do both!
A reminder that the median book deal for a debut author in the UK is £7000, paid over 12-18 months. (from 2022 Society of Authors report). Some of your favourite writers are struggling. societyofauthors.org/2022/12/06/a....
November 24, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Bill 60 is open season on renters.

It gives corporate landlords more power to hike rents, evict tenants, and squeeze families who are already stretched thin, all while Ontario is dead last in home-building.
November 20, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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The EPA has approved a new pesticide that contains PFAS, or 'forever chemicals', to be used on vegetables like lettuce, broccoli and potatoes.
November 24, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Dear Bluesky,
www.thenerve.news is still tiny. We launched it with no dirty money (no money at all, lol!). But we're proving what's possible with a small expert team & no billionaire owners.

We knew the UK press wouldn't understand or properly cover this story, so we did. Thank you for the support!
This is the Observer's coverage of the Reform Russian Spie Scandal... 600 words on page 22 of the printed newspaper.

observer.co.uk/news/politic...
More MEPs investigated in Russian bribe probe | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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UNICEF says baby girl among several children killed this week as Israel carried out a wave of bombings despite truce.
At least 67 Palestinian children killed in Gaza since ‘ceasefire’ began: UN
UNICEF says baby girl among several children killed this week as Israel carried out a wave of bombings despite truce.
bit.ly
November 21, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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More art for Sundays drop! 7pm AT www.artbycanucks.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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OpenAI Introduces 'ChatGPT for Teachers' to Further Destroy the Minds of Our Youth
OpenAI Introduces 'ChatGPT for Teachers' to Further Destroy the Minds of Our Youth
Soon we can have chatbots grade the work of chatbots.
gizmodo.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:56 PM