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Jamal abu hashem🇵🇸 @jamalzuhir.bsky.social · 16h

The feeling of the Gazan citizen now is that he survived and will not die from the missiles, and also his feeling that he literally lost everything.

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J Bogart @jonathanbogart.net · 7h

Comic fiction in English of the late 19th and early 20th century was a cohering genre as formalized, diverse, and inventive as the contemporary mystery, sci-fi, horror, western and romance that were then consolidating into discrete genres, but it petered out post-WWII for a variety of reasons.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 16h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Dr Artyom Trakhanov - THERE COMES FOR YOU A DAY is out now! @vor-bokor.bsky.social · 6h

Fuck it, let me post the whole comic on here - Gumroad became unusable for me again, and Slavic Nihilism is not on Itch, so....
(1/4)SLAVIC NIHILISM: CONGREGATION

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 8h

Here is a website that can help you look into your pension fund to see if there is an investment in Israel. They also have a sample letter if you want to organize and divest lgpsdivest.org

Home - LGPS Divest

lgpsdivest.org

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 8h

This app/extension can help you keep track of what to boycott
www.boycat.io

BoyCat - Ethical Shopping & Secure VPN Services

Search brands, scan products, and make ethical shopping choices with confidence. Plus secure VPN services for private browsing.

www.boycat.io

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 8h

or this app
apps.apple.com/us/app/no-th...

‎No Thanks app

‎Welcome to our No Thanks App! Our app simplifies the process of scanning barcodes, It makes your shopping goes easily, just scan the product and the app will tell you. Key Features: Effortless Barc...

apps.apple.com

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 8h

Ethical consumer for a deep dive, as well as suggestions for alternatives www.ethicalconsumer.org/ethicalcampa...

Ethical alternatives: brands to buy from if you boycott Israeli apartheid | Ethical Consumer

Boycotting brands that are complicit in Palestinian human rights violations is a powerful form of consumer activism, but how ethical is the product you buy instead?

www.ethicalconsumer.org

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 9h

Keep it going. Get your family and friends to join
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Boycotting Israel has gone mainstream: ‘We’ve never seen such traction before’

After decades of being dismissed as fringe, the boycott call has been taken up by leading figures across arts, sports and politics

www.theguardian.com

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Ritesh! @riteshwriter.bsky.social · 8h

Ahahaha, of course. That's why that looked so familiar. No wonder.

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shazleen @shazleenmkhan.bsky.social · 9h

I am organising direct action against Reform UK to fight against their racist misinformation. Posted more about it over on my insta, but here's the main bits!

Find out more: www.instagram.com/sticker_up_f...
Grab a PDF of the zine: www.shazleenkhan.shop

too many people i love are being victimized by nigel farage and i am going to mobilise the entire uk comics industry to fucking defeat him and protect myself, immigrants and refugees

our target is the 2026 local council elections. through targetted sticker and flyer campaigns i aim to destroy reform UK's momentum in vulnerable constituencies throughout the UK

this is a link to resources. I am sorry people who use screen readers I am not able to transcribe everything. I am one guy and I am doing this on voluntary basis. if you use a screen reader and have mates who would be willing to help me convert my text posts into readable formats please link us up

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Ritesh! @riteshwriter.bsky.social · 9h

These look like covers for some prime 80s-90s manga about fashion that never existed.

I love em.

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robin @squarehead333.bsky.social · 9h

This whole series of illos is career-best work by López, btw. Cycling gloves and caps and oversized knit sweaters have never seemed cooler

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robin @squarehead333.bsky.social · 9h

I want a hat like the guy in this 1984 Antonio López illustration has but I have no clue what it's called. Some weird kind of flap cap

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Ritesh! @riteshwriter.bsky.social · 9h

A thing I haven't ever seen in mecha is a true integration of Mitsuteru Yokoyama's foundation with George Akiyama's critical model.

Surprising that it hasn't really been done in any meaningful way since.

A huge pathway never pursued, practically just abandoned.

Lots of possibilities there.

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Ritesh! @riteshwriter.bsky.social · 10h

I regularly flip through his pages--he's so compulsively readable, and so aesthetically pleasing to do so.

Pretty much nothing he can't draw.

His figurework is impeccable.

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Ritesh! @riteshwriter.bsky.social · 10h

Kubo man.

Forever in my heart as an artist and aesthetician.

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Ritesh! @riteshwriter.bsky.social · 10h

Still cool as fuck.

Tite Kubo's Bleach-- action schene wherein a young man clad in black (Ichigo) strikes at the antagonist bearing a black blade, with a mask covering his features

The aftermath of the attack on the opponent, in a splash page

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Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 13h

It infuriates me that as human-made porn is being increasingly censored across the board, AI porn is not only allowed, but celebrated. And AI porn exists because of stolen content from non-consenting, unpaid human pornographers. It's maddening.

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 4d

“I still can’t believe how unhinged the last update was. Not only the nudity but the motions, boobs bounces more realistically, it’s incredible.”

Elon Musk's xAI seems to have relaxed filters on Grok's video generation, allowing users to create and share explicit AI pornography.

Musk's AI Is Being Used to Make Hardcore Porn: 'Grok Is Learning Genitalia Really Fast!'

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Nate Piekos of Blambot @blambot.bsky.social · 11h

Update on Project Pixel Panels: Almost done creating the regular version. I think this is going to be your next indie font selection.

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Ritesh! @riteshwriter.bsky.social · 12h

Real ball-knowers knew that talking point was nonsense even when they were toddlers

Bleach double-page spread by Tite Kubo, with the lettering credits turned into visual design elements operating as SFX, echoing a screeching howl, while the text reads BLEACH 250 THE LUST

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Its ruaa @itsmeio.bsky.social · 16h

It’s a terrible feeling to have genocide take away even your education. 😔
Ruba, my neighbor in the camp, is a pharmacy student who had to stop studying after her sick father passed away. She needs $500 for the missed semester and $500 for the next one.
Please chip in lets give a girl some hope.

Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 19h

Ruba is friends with @itsmeio.bsky.social whom I’ve shared, has social media in Gaza that predates the war and sent me a photo of her Palestinian ID.

Ruba has been volunteering at medical clinics while also trying to complete her studies. She wants to continue studying and help her family.

Support Ruba: A Pharmacy Student’s Survival in Gaza

Hello, everyone. I’m Casey York and I live in the U.S.. I have created this fundraiser on behalf of my close friend, Ruba, as she is in Gaza and unable to create one for herself because GoFundMe does ...

chuffed.org

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Ritesh! @riteshwriter.bsky.social · 15h

CEO the fakest job of all time, shut up man

Futurism @futurism.com · 18h

So that's where we're at.

Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren't Even "Real Work" to Start With

Worried that AI will destroy work? Well, Sam Altman asks if you've considered what a farmer from half a century ago thinks of your job, first.

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 15h

Why does our reality have an unfun Skeletor.

Futurism @futurism.com · 18h

So that's where we're at.

Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren't Even "Real Work" to Start With

Worried that AI will destroy work? Well, Sam Altman asks if you've considered what a farmer from half a century ago thinks of your job, first.

trib.al

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ed @asleepturnpike.bsky.social · 16h

really cannot emphasize enough how true this is. you're not a better person for not using twitter, and bluesky is an intensely niche, American-centric place.

Anand @calmerfuture.bsky.social · 19h

not available on this app : most of Africa, Asia and Latin America

very available on this app : people virtuously instructing other people Already. Using. This. App. that everyone should use this app

Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 21h

What the Twitter takeover did so effectively was fracture the way we get our news. If, for example, I want to get in-depth updates on Sudan I still check in with Twitter as that's where a lot of the biggest accounts are. There's no one-stop shop anymore.

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Ritesh! @riteshwriter.bsky.social · 17h

Mfs from Seattle get really upset if you ever tell them Twitter is still in fact way more useful than anything on here, because frankly most of the world is still on there.

Anand @calmerfuture.bsky.social · 19h

not available on this app : most of Africa, Asia and Latin America

very available on this app : people virtuously instructing other people Already. Using. This. App. that everyone should use this app

Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 21h

What the Twitter takeover did so effectively was fracture the way we get our news. If, for example, I want to get in-depth updates on Sudan I still check in with Twitter as that's where a lot of the biggest accounts are. There's no one-stop shop anymore.

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