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Neal
@nskorpen.bsky.social
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Comic creator, graphic artist, aikido guy, in the twin cities with my wife, our son, dog, cats and guinea pigs. #noAI #noNFTs #antifa
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Were-crab monologues in today's Simane the Slayer. More at simane.thecomicseries.com
#webcomic #werewolf #werebat #therianthropes #urbanFantasy
panel 1. Simane, from off panel: there's more than one of those fucking things? Crab Guy, in human form, adjusting a sleeve: Do you know, we're supposed to be entering another ice age... panel 2. View from above, Panic the bat flies around, Simane stands at the edge of a pit in the floor. Crab Guy from off panel: It's no skiing holiday, I assure you. Little access to the finer things, and less capacity to enjoy them. panel 3. Looking up past Crab Guy's joyous face, a swirl of energy is on the ceiling with cables feeding into it. Crab Guy: But the in-between time! Glorious! We can choose our forms, we can travel anywhere in the blink of an eye...And we can work the most unlikely magic. panel 4. Looking over Crab Guy's shoulder at Simane, across the pit. Crab Guy: So my friends and I thought, why not make the in-between time the only time? Simane: You...started climate change? panel 5. View of Crab Guy's feet at the edge of the pit. Crab Guy: Oh, no. Credit where due. Your people started it, with your ingenious extraction and burning of the liquefied dead. But now you've almost used them up...so we're making a fresh crop. panel 6. Panic lands on Simane's shoulder. Her expression is dubious, maybe a little snarky. Simane: Wow.
December 2, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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I’m very happy about Stranger Things season 1a
November 30, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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construction nightmare up my street from a couple weeks ago #photography
photo of a residential street at night, both sides lined with construction equipment, with a harsh streetlight in the upper center photo of a construction machine on a residential street at night, with the moon shining through a curve-edged opening photo of a residential street at night, both sides lined with construction equipment, with a harsh streetlight in the upper center, past some leafy treetops
November 30, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Walnut is weird #caturday
Black and white photo of a cat on a cat post, laying on a platform on his side, with one hind leg braced awkwardly against a higher platform, and tail dangling below in a roughly reflecting shape
November 29, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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A woman recently went viral for holding up a window sign during a traffic stop, part of a growing trend of drivers using cards to assert their rights instead of speaking to police.
November 29, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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azalben.bsky.social
Happy Brak Friday
a cartoon character is wearing a mask with sharp teeth and green eyes .
ALT: a cartoon character is wearing a mask with sharp teeth and green eyes .
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November 28, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
screenshot of a tumblr post from user “wildmansters” The thing that really boils my potatoes about Al in general is that I have been a creative professional for over a decade now and the devil has ALWAYS been in the details. Big and small, I've had single-person businesses rip me to shreds over how their colors turned out on newsprint, and have worked with huge companies with THICK brand guidelines with every detail of their brand identity laid out and enforced with an iron fist. But I guess all of that stuff doesn't matter anymore? Who gives a fuck if this Al generated baby has six fingers, that mom-and-pop shop is still going to use it. That rug from Temu says Happy Thanksgivirg? Oh well haha it's just a silly funny thing now (nevermind that you never would have given a B-grade item from a craft show the same consideration). I don't actually care that the Al Coca-cola ad has a truck that changes size every scene, but I can't help but think about how, if it had been some poor underpaid artist, they would have been laughed out of the building. I don't really know how to put it in a succint way but it just feels all the more obvious how much more grace and flexibility has always been possible but never offered.
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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Thanksgiving is problematic. Giving thanks is not. As someone who wants to remember the attempted genocide of indigenous people but also likes a reminder to practice gratitude, I like to use Indigenous People's Month to support (and be grateful for) indigenous creators. A partial list! /1
November 27, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Hiccup showing off his sutures #photography
#caturday
High contrast black and white photo of a cat sitting on a countertop looking at the camera , in front of a doorway in deep shadow. A stitched up wound is visible on the cat’s shoulder
November 26, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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“It’s the principle” is not an argument. Principles are great but life is complicated
November 26, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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The anti-bigot generation is coming. Either get with the program or get out of the way
November 26, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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Watched My Dinner With André, which I’d never seen before. My takeaways:
-both a product of its time (1981) and even more relevant today
-I had no idea it was written by the two stars, or that they play some version of themselves
-it’s impossible to not squee when Wally drops an “inconceivable”
November 26, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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The latest in Æthernaut. Full comic at flintpunk.com
To get your copy of the graphic novel vol. 1, check this: www.patreon.com/posts/aether...
#webcomic #steampunk #weirdFantasy #earlyModern #pirates
panel 1. Lemuel stands on a small stage, looking out over a crowd like a deer in the headlights. Denumar is on one side, doing a handstand and holding up his cloak with his feet. Arome is on the other side, smiling and gesturing. Behind them a pair of attendants are handling prop stars and a large prop Moon. caption: Lord Arome then brought us to an odeum, where the guests had already gathered, and made a great show of our introduction. I could summon no words for ther assembled visitants, but Lord Arome and Denumar between them supplied a colorful, if wholly inaccurate, account of our adventure. panel 2. View from above of Lemuel surrounded and jostled by party guests. caption: Next came an interminable torrent of questions, overtures, and anecdotes from the peerage. I found myself still incapable of the slightest articulation. Fortunately the gentility were only too happy to carry on conversing without my aid. panel 3. View of Lemuel's face, looking questioningly toward the off-panel voice. caption: I allowed myself to drift among the folk as I had in the open æther. A not unpleasant experience, until I met with another familiar face. Voice from off panel: So, young Rasmussen. panel 4. View of the speaker, Lord Tochville, looking smug. Tochville: You've returned to us with quite the yarn.
November 25, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Over the last decade I’ve gotten pretty fed up with the faux documentary style show, because it never makes sense in the context of the show, and it’s used as a crutch to directly explain characters and tell jokes. But!
1/2
November 25, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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I kid you not, there’s a man in this Minneapolis dog park with dogs named Betcha and Uffda. Didn’t catch the third dog’s name but my money’s on Ope
November 24, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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I invented this thing called The Utility Mat

It’s a silicone work mat that captures excess mixed resin and forms it into useful tools and items (Stir sticks, scrapers, spreaders etc) instead of amorphous trash. You work right on top of it

I make them myself and sell them at keithdecent.com

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Excess yellow uncured resin being poured into a scraper shaped recess in a utility mat A yellow scraper made of cured resin being removed from a utility mat A Utility Mat Mini in orange. It’s the smallest version at 7”x7” A pile of resin tools that were made from a utility mat. There are several stir sticks, spreaders, tool handles, combs, spatulas, and washers all piled up. These would have all been amorphous blobs of plastic trash
November 3, 2024 at 8:51 AM
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half our government are flirting with fascism to see how far they can get. It’s unforgivable. Nuremberg every last one of them
November 23, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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Walnut, office helper #caturday
Photo of an orange cat standing on a desk in front of a computer, looking at the camera
November 22, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Why do 90% of big tech offerings add zero value to our lives
November 21, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Best lesson from being a parent: when a living creature is being impossible, check if they’ve had enough food/water/sleep
November 21, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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I posted this on a discord server and then figured I'd turn it into a thread for the Trans day of Remembrance. Following are some of my favorite trans authors and what they write. 1/?
November 20, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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It’s like falling off a bike
November 20, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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November 19, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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Before 11/30 is the perfect time to join my Patreon: $10/month gets you a graphic novel now, and original art next month!

www.patreon.com/posts/aether...
Æthernaut: The First Voyage, In Print | Neal Skorpen Comic Art
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November 19, 2025 at 8:24 PM