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Matthew Smith
@amigasquare.bsky.social
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Writer for Amiga Addict and Pixel Addict. Producer of Amiga Power: The Album With *Attitude*. Pesky nuisance on Antstream. Occasionally draws things for reasons nobody can remember.
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Matthew Smith @amigasquare.bsky.social · Sep 30
Completely out of nowhere, for no reason that I can discern, I can suddenly get into my DMs here again after two-and-a-bit months of them being locked off. So, if you should happen to feel like sending a DM my way, I will in fact be able to read it now. Which is nice.
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cowcatgames.com
To celebrate the announcement of The Brawl Bar on consoles, have a nice picture of Ott's dad 😘
November 14, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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omariape.bsky.social
I did some character portraits for this trailer! Big news for console owners and fans of Brok 👀. @cowcatgames.com thanks again for everything!
cowcatgames.com BROK THE BRAWL BAR now available 🐊 🥊 @cowcatgames.com · 14h
📣 CONSOLES ANNOUNCEMENT 📣

🥊 My addicting beat 'em up BROK: THE BRAWL BAR is coming as a standalone game on PS4, PS5, Xbox and Switch!

📺 Watch the trailer for the release date 😎

🎯 Wishlist now ⤵️
November 14, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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smoothdunk2.bsky.social
your dead AI mother loves you so much ❤️
4 panel comic Panel 1: An AI generated version of Purple Guy’s dead mother is speaking to him on his phone. She says “Look, darling. With AI we can be together forever” Panel 2: Purple Guy looking very upset. He asks “Do you love me, mum?” Panel 3: The disgusting AI fake mum replies “I do. Almost as much…” Panel 4: AI mum turns into an advert for online gambling. She yells: “…As I love getting 10 free spins when I sign up to pocket casino.com”
November 15, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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yourgaylion.bsky.social
WHO'S NEXT? 💪🦁💙

art by the lovely @bactover.bsky.social
Leo, a short muscular white lion man with a blue mane, is flexing a bicep and looking at the camera confidently. He's wearing black boxing gloves with a purple trim. #GayLionOCs
November 13, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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bandannabird.bsky.social
More bird
November 12, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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smoothdunk2.bsky.social
working at the nyt
4 panel comic Panel 1: Newspaper editor and two reporters gather around a desk. Editor (looking mad): We need five more articles calling trans people evil by the end of the week Panel 2: Reporter points to something out of the window behind the editor Reporter: What’s that up in the sky? Panel 3: Up in the sky we see a bat signal, but the bat is replaced by a gross pedo chasing a little girl. Editor (in a very nonchalant manner): oh my god that’s just Epstein’s kiddie-fucker signal calling all the kiddie fuckers Panel 4: Editor bangs violently on desk and yells: FOCUS
November 13, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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ja513b1.bsky.social
Some Ko-fi doodle commissions I did awhile ago!
November 13, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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kermo.bsky.social
Reposting cuz

Ouch
November 11, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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kermo.bsky.social
Some bits of dragon fighting from me Patreon

www.patreon.com/Kermo?utm_ca...
November 12, 2025 at 6:15 PM
amigasquare.bsky.social
It would appear Donkey Kong isn't in this at all. Not interested now.
nintendousa.bsky.social Nintendo of America [Unofficial] @nintendousa.bsky.social · 2d
The Galaxy awaits. The official trailer for The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is here. Only in theaters April 2026.
November 12, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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lioxxlio.bsky.social
A rookie in the ring, but with the soul of a veteran
#furryfandom #furryart #furry
November 10, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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canvaskisser.bsky.social
For this year's fightober @hunter-husky.bsky.social drew Odin and Spike for Day 13!! (blood)

He did an amazing job.. HEHE!!
November 11, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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canvaskisser.bsky.social
AWESOME art I got from @hunter-husky.bsky.social of Bojack landing a punch on Odin in the ring.. HEHE

I still really love how this came out.. :0P
November 11, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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rhandidandy.bsky.social
WHAT DID YOU DO
Pencil sketch of my OC Kedamono, leaning away and looking worried. He's about to be grounded for two weeks because he was up to some dumb shit
November 11, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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tonytamalesmx.bsky.social
The STRENGTH OF THE WORLD pounds down tonight at SCTA ARENA. Ladies and Gentleman, The Copper Valiant!

Wonderful art and gift by @poncho.bsky.social ! (2022)
Illustration made by Boar_on_Board / Poncho. Gulf showing off a pose looking directly at the audience. The background is that of an arena, with 2 big red and blue highlights pointing to the ring's center, where Gulf is at. In the audience there's a big sign with a cute drawing of gulf, saying "Copper Valiant" being help up by Poncho and Padzyan. In the front of the image there's a font that says "GULF, THE COPPER VALIANT"
November 11, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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iandunt.bsky.social
Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.

news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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enydimon.bsky.social
Test for the win screen stuff.
November 8, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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mistergasptoons.bsky.social
Kongs
#donkeykong
#crankykong
#cartoonart
November 8, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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blacklion21.bsky.social
He's Spike! 🐰
Do you know him?! Then you must be a real Michael Jackson fan! Hahaha

He appears in the music video "Speed ​​Demon" from the movie Moonwalker

HIGH-res➡www.patreon.com/posts/143132216
November 8, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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zeiroslion.art
Bet this guy gives a mean headlock. Shortstack dorito lookin ahh.
A sketch of Buzzsaw, wolverine luchador, snagging my lion Zeiros into a meaty headlock, fingers locked and squeezing on the lion's head like a grape, as the hold forces the lion to bend over awkwardly, giving the wolverine even more leverage.
November 7, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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ironcircuscomics.bsky.social
Looking to read more of Failure to Launch? You can get a copy here!: store.ironcircus.com/products/fai... Take your breaks at work, people worked for those!
I bet you're wondering: "how did Harry trick Iron Circus into letting him write a pro-luddite story for their anthology about technology?" Well, I'll tell you. Because the Luddites weren't against technology! They were for a world where this technology improved people's lives. A new machine replacing thousands of jobs should be a good thing! A world where people are freed to do more and better! Instead, it's mostly good for whoever saved money firing all those workers. The Luddites simply observe earlier than most that it doesn't have to be this way. We didn't even make the work holding the world together less back breaking, we just exported that work somewhere else. This is the capitalist version of progress: people doing shitty jobs for no money. But elsewhere where you don't see it. When people question the way technology is being used - feel their opportunities and autonomy getting smaller - the world luddite gets dusted off for reuse. When the used states took Microsoft to court for being a monopoly and illegally crushing their competition, Microsoft's lead attorney John Warren called it: "Not really an antitrust case but a return of the luddites, 19th century reactionaries who... went around smashing machines with sledgehammers." Microsoft lost incidentally. But the sentiment is clear: criticism of the future modern tech giants are building, even their crimes, is opposing progress itself. But the reality is people are still being looted by factory-masters. The industrial revolution massively increased productivity, but the profit from doing so went directly to the hands of the Owners. Take the same measurements of the 20th century's innovations and what do you get? The extremely simple truth - that it doesn't have to be this way - is terrifying if you benefit from the way things are now. An old ghost starts to feel close at hand. So have a little sympathy for the owners of the world. It's a scary time for them too. They're really panicking. (listed is several headlines of Union-targeting actions by multi-billionaires and their accessories) Companies the world over have spent hundreds of millions trying to stop unionization efforts. Soon it might even be cheaper to just pay people more. Amazon even tried to ban words like 'injustice', 'compensation', and yes, 'UNION', from their internal apps. They must be vigilant - the old ghost cannot be killed. Only kept at bay. Looming over Elon Musk, who the writer of this alt text truly hates, Ludd brandishes his sledgehammer with glowing red eyes. Elon looks like he doesn't know what to do without hundreds of thousands of people willing to get hurt for his money or acknowledgement. "--We used to shoot these people in the dick." Thank you for reading this comic! Be sure to always take your scheduled breaks. Do not let some 50+ year old slug tell you that you aren't "a team player" because you are not letting them take just a little more. Each break and benefit you get to take is written in blood, and you're only pissing off those who came before you and making someone who isn't paying you smile by doing extra. Want to read more of Failure to Launch? we've got that here: https://store.ironcircus.com/products/failure-to-launch
September 1, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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ironcircuscomics.bsky.social
Be sure to follow @hbomberguy.bsky.social and @skutchdraws.bsky.social ‬if you enjoyed this comic!
In the early days of the movement when machines were found destroyed, people would joke "Ned Ludd is back! The secret union ran with it, now they were the Luddites. I don't think people recognize how fucking FUNNY it is a massively popular social movement named themselves after a joke. FUN FACT!: There's recorded instances of the police actually searching for 'Ned Ludd', criminal leader of the Luddites, in Sherwood forest. Some even claimed to have glimpsed him. Cops were really smart back then. In Ludd's sights was Enoch Taylor of Marsden, West Yorkshire. The Taylors built machines for the textile mills that abused their workers. Luckily, the Taylors also made Sledgehammers. "Enoch made them, and Enoch shall break them!" I sweat this stuff writes itself. William Horsfall, a Marsden factory owner, once boasted that he would love to "ride up to my saddle in luddite blood!", Horsfall was later assassinated by Luddites, during an altercation in which he reportedly received a "groin injury". In history's greatest L, a rich guy talked shit about murdering Luddites, until they shot him in the dick to death. Mills were being stormed by hundreds or sometimes thousands of protestors, the movement was GROWING. A spectre haunted England - the spirit of Ned Ludd. To the rich the answer was clear- kill all the luddites you can before people figure out they have a point. In 1812 Parliament found the time to pass an 'emergency measure": the Frame Breaking Act which made smashing machines punishable by death. The tens of thousands of soldiers were sent to deal with Luddites in mills and factories across the country. This was a sizable amount considering Britain was CURRENTLY FIGHTING NAPOLEON. Parliament happily went to war against British Luddites when they were supposed to be fighting actual wars. In 1813 17 luddites were hanged in a day, with more than 14 sentenced to be transported to Australia which was even worse than that. Historians view this as the point major Luddite activity started to die down. A portrait of goofy, crown wearing Ned Ludd, covered in weaponry used upon him in a 1700s art style. "But here's the problem: they couldn't kill Ned. You can't kill people's ability to question how the benefits of automation have been distributed. He's still out there. And One day he'll be BACK."
September 1, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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ironcircuscomics.bsky.social
Happy Labor Day!

Today we're bringing you The First Union, as told by HBomberguy (@hbomberguy.bsky.social) and illustrated by Skutch (@skutchdraws.bsky.social) It's the dawn of the industrial revolution, and of the way many of us work...

Have you ever heard of the term "Luddite" from an elder?
Stanhill, Lancashire, 1764. Wear and carpenter James Hargreaves invents the Spinning Jenny, the first practical spinning-frame, to make the tedious task of producing cloth a little bit faster. He doesn't know it yet, but this will destroy the world. Spurred by inventions like his, the industrial revolution will transform everything -- work power, the wealth of nations. Society as we know it began here, and it wasn't great for everyone. But a group of weavers and textile workers saw this future coming. And did their best to prevent it. "Curse you spinning jenny, you ruined everything!" The standard narrative does that LUDDITES were foolish lunatics who, in fear of technology, decided progress was bad, and started hitting it with sticks. But the truth is entire ways of life were being destroyed. Previously, skilled craftsmen were respected for the time and effort it took to do their work. The entire family usit would form a cottage industry - creating something valuable, and command a decent living. But when a machine can work 10 times faster its owner can charge less for the prodcts- craftsmen couldn't compete and were left out of work almost overnight. And as factories became a fixture of the british landscape, these now unemployed labourers often ended up working the factories that had just destroyed their way of life. Britain was the most prosperous nation in history, factory owners became extremely wealthy and influential. But the people doing the actual work saw almost none of it. Factory work paid little, since "the machines" did "the real work" human labourers were deemed unimportant and replaceable. FUN FACT!: Factory owners preferred to hire ORPHANS since less people would notice if they were maimed or killed on the job! Now the owners quickly realized the workers might notice they did all the work for almost no pay. If they went on STRIKE or ARGUED FOR HGHER WAGES, this would threaten their tremendous wealth. In 1799, Parliament passed the Combination Act, which made FORMING TRADE UNIONS, COLLECTIVE BARGAINING, AND GOING ON STRIKE ILLEGAL. Organizing against the rich became a crime. If you were living through it, opposing the industrial revolution wasn't techno-phobia. It was SELF-DEFENSE. The combination act forced unions underground into secret societies. And the greatest secret of all was their leader - Ned Ludd. Ned had been a folk character for years. In one version after being whipped by his master, he smashed two knitting frames in a rage. In more fanciful versions, he then escaped to the Sherwood forest, here he lived among the animals as their king. Some versions specifically call him 'Much Better Than Robin Hood'.
September 1, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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November 6, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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cowcatgames.com
GAMEOVER!
November 7, 2025 at 6:27 PM