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Avery Kaplan
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Writer 📚 Bylines @ Star Trek, Geek Girl Authority, TCJ, Popverse, Prism Comics, PanelxPanel, The Comics Courier & MORE ♏️🏳️‍⚧️ Eisner Award winning Features Editor @ Comics Beat (she/her) IDIC 🖖🏻 Cali class ✨ Spousey: @rebeccaoliver.bsky.social
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Avery Kaplan @averykaplan.bsky.social · Nov 11
Learn more about the world’s greatest beverage! The perfect trojan horse gift for your worst relatives!! This issue’s beneficiary is Freedom for Immigrants!!! LFG!!!!
"HISTORICALLY AT ODDS, THE LABOR AND GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENTS COLLIDED IN THE 197OS, WHEN THE TWO GROUPS ALLIED FOR MUTUAL ECONOMIC BENEFIT." Final Gravity A Beer Zine OLLIE & AVERY KAPLAN FINAL GRAVITY ISSUE 10
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Been watching Enterprise all day and can't decide if I actually think Soval is attractive or not 🤔😂
January 18, 2026 at 12:03 PM
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nocontexttrek1.bsky.social
Shaxs from Star Trek Lower Decks is pictured. He's a cartoon, because Lower Decks, besides being the best effing show ever, is a cartoon. Shaxs is a big burly man wearing his gold Star fleet uniform and also an apron over the front like he's doing some sort of art project or baking a nice sourdough. In each hand he's holding a broken bottle like that thing you do where you take a bottle and break off the bottom and then use it as a weapon. His eyeballs are bulging large, his brow is furrowed, and he looks absolutely unhinged with rage and fury. Closed caption reads, "Fighting fascism is a full time job!"
January 18, 2026 at 2:19 AM
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It’s all a dream had by this guy after a Tranya bender
Balok having a glass of Tranya. Star Trek: The Original Series, “The Corbomite Maneuver.”
January 18, 2026 at 4:34 PM
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January 18, 2026 at 4:23 PM
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Elon and Stephen Miller: I don't know what Star Trek you watched when you were younger. This is the one I watched:
Collage of nine images of political and socially conscious-themed episodes from Star Trek TOS, Star Trek TNG and Star Trek DS9.
January 17, 2026 at 9:37 AM
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New #StarTrek has arrived! Here's my episode poster for the series premiere of #StarfleetAcademy: "Kids These Days".
Poster art for "Kids These Days", with drawings of the episode's main characters drawn overtop the cover of a Starfleet Academy Course Catalog.
January 17, 2026 at 8:30 PM
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Amazing drinks at The Cocktail Geeks for my lovely lady’s birthday. Their theme this month is Studio Ghibli.

The cocktails were super inventive 😳
January 17, 2026 at 8:47 PM
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katespeace.bsky.social
Yup. A lot of the people making excuses to support Gavin Newsom despite his blatant hate for trans people are also those who ignored or denied the Gaza genocide of Palestinians. It's a pattern.
soozuk.bsky.social Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 2d
I can't trust politicians who are anti-trans. Not because I'm "only searching for perfection" which is what centrists will be accusing me of for the rest of my life, it's because if you're not pro-trans you'll be garbage on lots of other issues too. Being anti-trans NEVER exists in a vacuum.
January 17, 2026 at 8:44 PM
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This episode is a TREAT. Go listen.
trekmarrykpod.bsky.social Trek Marry Kill Podcast @trekmarrykpod.bsky.social · 3d
Conspiracy Month continues as the most prolific director in Star Trek history, Mr. David Livingston, joins Bryan to play TREK MARRY KILL with his own work: Deep Space Nine's "Homeland."
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Joseph Sisko looking away from Benjamin Sisko, who's insisting that Joseph consent to a blood screening to prove he's not a shapeshifter. Picture of David Livingston with the caption, "Supervising Producer / Director"
January 17, 2026 at 3:28 PM
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Abolish ICE. A little journal comic from South Minneapolis.

#iceoutmpls #iceoutcomics #iceoutofmpls
Just before Christmas, I got a puppy. Her name is Minerva, and we call her *Minnie. I'm still learning how to understand her. Me: Do you need to go outside? Do you need to go outside, little baby? Do you need to do a poo? Do you need to do a widdle piddle? Minnie: Arf! *I just call her "little baby" most of the time. I'm also realizing I can't turn off the baby talk now. Nobody tells you about that. I got so lucky with my first puppy. Her wonderful foster parents had her completely house-trained by the time we adopted her, so taking her outside for potty time has been pretty easy. I've got the puppy poopy routine pretty much down, now. Me, putting on my coat: Let's see... I got the little poopy bags, puppy treats for bribes, jacket, scarf, phone… I think that's everything… Oh yes! And my passport. I had been carrying around my passport for a while, but I knew it didn't matter. This is wrong. Nobody is required to carry around their papers. I became a US citizen when I was seven. Since I was born in a refugee camp, I was stateless. The US is the only nation where I've ever held citizenship. It's the only passport I've ever had, and it still felt important. Protective. I would hold it in my pocket like a talisman, like it might ward off ghosts or something. But I realized I was holding onto it basically out of superstition. ICE will pick up anybody. I know that. So I tucked my passport away. And I largely avoid leaving my house. I live a few blocks just South of George Floyd Square. I was in the neighborhood for that, too. And all the neighbors came together to protect each other. We're already organized. We'll do our best to get through this. Me, to my dog: I hope I can take you for a walk someday soon. Won't that be nice, little baby?
January 16, 2026 at 1:27 PM
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15/16 Audrey Horne (Twin Peaks) by @danparent.bsky.social
June 26, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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She’s doing the Crusher Maneuver 😏 #StarfleetAcademy #Startrek
January 16, 2026 at 11:43 PM
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billcorbett.bsky.social
Block the absolute shit out of this nazi filth. Do it with an ancient curse on your lips, with black lightning coursing through your blocking finger. Or just do it the regular way. Point being: block ‘em.
January 17, 2026 at 12:15 AM
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It's true. #StarfleetAcademy
A meme with a picture of Detective Rosa Diaz from the show "Brooklyn Nine Nine" holding a photoshopped image of new Klingon character Jay-Den Kraag from "Starfleet Academy," and the top image says: "I've only (edited) known about Jay-Den Kraag (end edit) for a day and a half..." And the bottom image (which is the same), says: "but if anything happened to him, I will kill everyone in this room and then myself." Hilarious! This is how I feel!
January 16, 2026 at 10:46 PM
averykaplan.bsky.social
Leela transcribes the exploits of the Humplings of Rumbledeehump. From Futurama, “Yo Leela Leela.”
January 16, 2026 at 7:09 PM
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Actually this *is* the future liberals want, the fact it's sending Stephen Miller into conniptions is just a side benefit
The young and clearly racially diverse cast of Starfleet Academy
January 16, 2026 at 1:55 PM
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wmercierjr.bsky.social
My favorite kickstarter #TheComicsCourier is here with the latest edition. The prints, beautiful. The Tarot cards, very cool. Cant wait to dive into the catalog and find more comic based content that I won't have time to consume haha. Also, what a front page. Thank you @explodingarrow.bsky.social !
January 14, 2026 at 12:57 PM
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trekmarrykpod.bsky.social
Still from TNG's "The Arsenal of Freedom." Riker's right foot is atop a rock. He's leaning against it. Data is side eying him. Yar is behind him looking past him. Riker is glaring at someone off camera.
January 13, 2026 at 11:42 PM
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tillybridges.bsky.social
if you’re so inclined

Star Trek Voyager: Homecoming is eligible for Best Graphic Story or Comic 👀👀👀
reactorsff.bsky.social Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 10d
Did you know that you, yes YOU, can vote in the Hugo Awards??

@mollytempleton.com breaks down the process, including how to register before the January 31st deadline!
Anyone Can Vote in the Hugo Awards — And Here's How - Reactor
You — yes, you! — can nominate work and vote for the winners of the 2026 Hugo Awards!
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January 14, 2026 at 1:45 AM
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NOMAD sitting in the Cerritos bar being ignored by several famous captains and other AIs. Above NOMAD are the words “They don’t know I did multiple genocides.” Image from Star Trek: Lower Decks: The Badgey Directive.
January 14, 2026 at 12:28 AM
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“I see grids dissolving, panels bleeding into one another...It works almost like a soundtrack.”

@comictropes.bsky.social picks DROME by @jesselonergan.bsky.social, published by @23rdstbooks.bsky.social, as the Best Comic of 2025. Listen to him & others: cbccpodcast.podbean.com/e/the-stampi...
January 13, 2026 at 7:40 PM
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A reminder that my strip took over Dilberts vacant spot in the Washington Post after they dropped his ass. 😎

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How a St. Louis cartoonist replaced 'Dilbert' in the Washington Post
"Heart of the City" replaced "Dilbert" in the Washington Post.
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January 13, 2026 at 4:43 PM
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tuyoki.bsky.social
doing exercises and cat decides to help
January 12, 2026 at 9:38 PM
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rebeccaoliver.bsky.social
Using an image, share ur favorite Studio Ghibli movie 🦝🌳
Pom Poko balls
January 11, 2026 at 9:16 PM