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Benjamin L. Clark
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Eisner-winning comic museum curator and book writer. PERSONAL acc’t. Big fan of Snoopy and the gang. AKA BenjClark, BLClark

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Santa Rosa, CA
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Benjamin L. Clark @benjaminlclark.com · Oct 18
Hey, new folks! INTRO — I'm Benjamin. I write comic history, curate museum exhibitions, and other stuff. I've won some awards, and I'm open to other projects when I'm available. Find me other places:
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People Who Make Things: PLEASE put a link to the cool thing you do in your bsky profile. P/TY
February 12, 2026 at 6:23 PM
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The guy who was/is the bassist? for Maroon 5? The Wonkette lady? Matthew Sweet?
williamadler78.bsky.social William Adler @williamadler78.bsky.social · 2d
Who's the most famous alum of your high school?

I'll go first: David Draiman of Disturbed
marisakabas.bsky.social Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 4d
guys i just found out i went to the same high school as howard lutnick. please respect my privacy at this time.
February 12, 2026 at 6:38 AM
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This is what the internet is for.
February 12, 2026 at 6:23 AM
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Our exhibition 'The West Coaster: New Yorker Cartoons from the Other Side' features works by Oregon and California-based creators Zareen Choudhury, Eric Drooker, Lonnie Millsap, Tom Toro, Mike Twohy, Mark Ulriksen, and Shannon Wheeler. cartoonart.org/the-west-coaster #artexhibition #humor
New Yorker cartoon by Tom Toro of a man looking at his phone during a graveside funeral and receiving the message: " Auto-reply: I am dead and will have limited access to email."
February 11, 2026 at 9:38 PM
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Umberto Eco’s List of the 14 Common Features of Fascism

14.) Ur-Fascism speaks Newspeak. “All the Nazi or Fascist schoolbooks made use of an impoverished vocabulary, and an elementary syntax, in order to limit the instruments for complex and critical reasoning.”
Umberto Eco’s List of the 14 Common Features of Fascism
Creative Commons image by Rob Bogaerts, via the National Archives in Holland One of the key questions facing both journalists and loyal oppositions these days is how do we stay honest as euphemisms an...
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February 11, 2026 at 9:39 PM
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GOOD NEWS!!:
explodingarrow.bsky.social Tiffany Babb @explodingarrow.bsky.social · 2d
The news is out in @publisherswkly.bsky.social! I am VERY excited to announce a new print comics publication - The Comics Staple, a monthly comics zine filled with reviews, recommendations, interviews and more.
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/newsbrief...
February 11, 2026 at 9:43 PM
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Milt Gross: Banana Oil Masterpiece – A Source Revealed?

I’m *loving* Paul C. Tumey’s latest book, The Art of Milt Gross Volume 1: Mastering Cartoon Pantomime – Judge 1923-1924. Read the latest on my blog:

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Milt Gross: Banana Oil Masterpiece – A Source Revealed?
I’m *loving* Paul C. Tumey’s latest book, The Art of Milt Gross Volume 1: Mastering Cartoon Pantomime – Judge 1923-1924. I’ve become even more interested in this era, when t…
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February 11, 2026 at 9:20 PM
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Drop some horses! 🐴🐎🖤🎠🏇

✒️Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz, originally published Sunday, June 29, 1958
In a Sunday Peanuts comic, by Charles M. Schulz, Linus is wearing a cowboy hat and bandanna, and is vigorously riding rocking horse. He gets wilder and wilder as the strip progresses, finally falling over backward with a WHAM onto his head. He's dazed for a panel, then he sits up, unties his bandanna, revealing it was in fact his security blanket. In the final panel, smooshed cowboy hat on his head, he assumes his regular pose of sucking his thumb and holding his security blanket. His rocking horse is still toppled over.
February 11, 2026 at 6:08 PM
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The pronoun labeler, which was by far the most useful labeler on the site, was deleted by its creator. But thanks to @ripperoni.com there’s a new one available. I highly recommend it. It’s a great way to share your pronouns or see someone else’s pronouns at a glance.

bsky.app/profile/pron...
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February 11, 2026 at 6:39 AM
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Sounds awesome and my lucky day — my library has it on @hoopladigital.bsky.social
February 11, 2026 at 5:20 AM
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the museum industry in the United States employs more than twice as many people as does the coal industry
February 11, 2026 at 4:13 AM
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Bunnies

Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz, originally published August 11, 1963
A Sunday comic featuring Snoopy in Peanuts. Snoopy greets a bunny, saying "This way little friend of mine," walking to his doghouse. He lies on top, as usual, and the little bunny lays on his stomach in the same fashion. Snoopy says, "It's good to have a friend." Then a few more bunnies arrive. They too stack up on Snoopy's stomach. In the final panel, he thinks, "Although I can see where having too many friends could be hard on the stomach."
February 10, 2026 at 10:28 PM
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📢 Educators: It's not too late to get quick NLP tips on how to use The Sift newsletter for teaching #NewsLiteracy!

🔗 Join us at 5pm ET TODAY: go.newslit.org/SiftWebinar26

#EdTech
#EduSky
Graphic for a free 30-minute webinar titled 'Teaching news literacy made easy.' Includes a phone displaying 'The Sift' and date Tuesday, Feb. 10.
February 10, 2026 at 7:21 PM
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Gay is easy! My goodness. If you don't find Gay easy to explain to a child in a mature, accurate, loving way, then you have some work to do on yourself. There are lots of books that can help you and your kid.
amybrown.xyz amy brown @amybrown.xyz · 4d
always so funny to me when people are like “how am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?” my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. “why did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?” I don’t know. please ask me about Gay
February 10, 2026 at 5:29 AM
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A Brief History of Children Today Are Growing Up Too Fast

🧵
February 10, 2026 at 12:44 AM
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I got this a while ago and it's fun. Do you love comics and old paper, and ephemera, and history, and old comic shops, and plunking over a couple bucks to a comics person to get a piece of something cool? Grab it.
February 9, 2026 at 9:54 PM
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Brandi Carlile's accompaniment for "America the Beautiful" before the game last night was SistaStrings. The duo, Chauntee and Monique Ross, played another American anthem, "Lift Every Voice and Sing," on the Library's Stradivarius instruments in 2024.
Here's a clip of that impromptu performance. ⬇️
February 9, 2026 at 6:55 PM
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The Largest Historical Dictionary of English Slang Now Free Online: Covers 500 Years of the “Vulgar Tongue”
The Largest Historical Dictionary of English Slang Now Free Online: Covers 500 Years of the “Vulgar Tongue”
'The three volumes of Green's Dictionary of Slang demonstrate the sheer scope of a lifetime of research by Jonathon Green, the leading slang lexicographer of our time. A remarkable collection of this ...
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February 6, 2026 at 5:05 PM
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Job offer!!
I’m helping a PBS series look for a social media manager/content creator for an upcoming promotional campaign. The start date is ASAP, and a project timeline that currently goes to July.

This is for a series on American Muslim history, so candidates with cultural familiarity preferred!
February 7, 2026 at 2:10 AM
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LOVED the new Muppet Show. Sabrina Carpenter was an inspired choice to be the guest. I really hope there’s more to come!
February 7, 2026 at 4:44 AM
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The cartoon that appeared this week on the front page of France’s most influential national newspaper, Le Monde

Brilliant work by the cartoonist, Guffo.
A large stuffed folder of files with the title “Epstein” is seen with what looks, at first glance, like a red page marker sticking out of the bottom. On closer inspection it is the bottom of a Trump red neck tie. French newspapers once again showing the kind of basic journalistic integrity lacking from most US national newspapers - whose collective negligence has helped ensure a man implicated in the world’s most notorious sex trafficking ring gets to remain President. That the orange pedo felon remains in office is a plague on all their houses. Cunts, one and all.
February 6, 2026 at 10:43 PM
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Huh. Same. I had a couple of half-remembered things to check, and nope, also all after 1941. Seems possible there would be an earlier example, but ...
benzilla.bsky.social Ben Towle @benzilla.bsky.social · 7d
Seems like this is relatively late in the game for this (1941) but I can't think of anything earlier? I immediately went to New Treasure island as a possibility but that's '47. Also, there are full pages in the Tintin books, but those are from making them work as collected books, so not until 1950.
February 6, 2026 at 6:34 PM
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Because I can tell y’all need some serious distraction:

I’ve dropped the ebook price for the first of Richard Stark’s Parker novels, The Hunter, to $2.99. Buy it direct below, or from any major ebook retailer.

You won’t regret it.
The Hunter
Where it all begins: The first book in the action-packed classic crime series that's the basis for the forthcoming film Play Dirty! Richard Stark's Parker novels are the hardest of hard-boiled, classi...
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February 6, 2026 at 2:58 PM
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Parenting hack: I address my kid as Broseph in a cool dude surfer voice whenever he tries calling me Bruh and that has been working.
February 6, 2026 at 5:00 AM
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Hey Bitcoin is going on sale!
junlper.beer onion person @junlper.beer · 8d
20 minutes later after my last webpage refresh. what a day
February 5, 2026 at 9:58 PM