Isaac Cates
@drisaac.bsky.social
“Senior Lecturer” (UVM English) in poetry, comics, writing, etc.; sometime drawer of comics, sometime writer of poems; trying to return to the world
Some projects here:
#DailyKrazyDetail
#FourActorFactor
#OrwellVsChatGPT
#WILtVG
Some projects here:
#DailyKrazyDetail
#FourActorFactor
#OrwellVsChatGPT
#WILtVG
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Isaac Cates
@drisaac.bsky.social
· Nov 15
If you’d like to read my essay about George Orwell, writing by machines, and our current nihilism about meaning, I offer you the entire zine in this thread.
I will finish the thread with instructions on how to print your own copies of the zine.
#OrwellvsChatGPT
I will finish the thread with instructions on how to print your own copies of the zine.
#OrwellvsChatGPT
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"People are actively and tangibly watching themselves and the person next to them build community in real time. That's an emotional experience... I think it's a part of what is special about Vermont Green."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnZB...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnZB...
Today You're With Us
YouTube video by Vermont Green FC
www.youtube.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:00 PM
"People are actively and tangibly watching themselves and the person next to them build community in real time. That's an emotional experience... I think it's a part of what is special about Vermont Green."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnZB...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnZB...
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Very cool. love the illustrations.
If you want to read “Why I Love the Vermont Green,” I’ve taken pictures of the little zine for you. Of course it’s nicer if you can hold it in your hands. But here’s the zine in full (1/2)
#WILtVG
#WILtVG
November 14, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Very cool. love the illustrations.
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Are you located in the DC-Baltimore-Philadelphia-New York corridor?
Have you always wanted to have your very own 11 foot long papier-mâché hammerhead shark?
Now available for free!
Perfect for museums, community centers, or your living room!
Save this lovely creature from imminent destruction!
Have you always wanted to have your very own 11 foot long papier-mâché hammerhead shark?
Now available for free!
Perfect for museums, community centers, or your living room!
Save this lovely creature from imminent destruction!
November 14, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Are you located in the DC-Baltimore-Philadelphia-New York corridor?
Have you always wanted to have your very own 11 foot long papier-mâché hammerhead shark?
Now available for free!
Perfect for museums, community centers, or your living room!
Save this lovely creature from imminent destruction!
Have you always wanted to have your very own 11 foot long papier-mâché hammerhead shark?
Now available for free!
Perfect for museums, community centers, or your living room!
Save this lovely creature from imminent destruction!
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This is such an incredible work with both the writing and the illustration. Having watched the season from afar, this team is special. So special they won the whole thing. 💚 Allez Les Verts!
If you want to read “Why I Love the Vermont Green,” I’ve taken pictures of the little zine for you. Of course it’s nicer if you can hold it in your hands. But here’s the zine in full (1/2)
#WILtVG
#WILtVG
November 14, 2025 at 7:12 PM
This is such an incredible work with both the writing and the illustration. Having watched the season from afar, this team is special. So special they won the whole thing. 💚 Allez Les Verts!
I have now drawn more feet in one zine than Rob Liefeld drew in the whole 1990s
If you want to read “Why I Love the Vermont Green,” I’ve taken pictures of the little zine for you. Of course it’s nicer if you can hold it in your hands. But here’s the zine in full (1/2)
#WILtVG
#WILtVG
November 14, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I have now drawn more feet in one zine than Rob Liefeld drew in the whole 1990s
If you’re in BTV and want a copy of “Why I Love the Vermont Green,” I’ll have them at the Fletcher Free Library on Saturday from 11-6 as part of the Non-Fiction Comics Festival.
Look for “Making Comics UVM” on the map. (Trading them for donations to Food Not Cops.)
@vermontgreenfc.bsky.social
Look for “Making Comics UVM” on the map. (Trading them for donations to Food Not Cops.)
@vermontgreenfc.bsky.social
If you want to read “Why I Love the Vermont Green,” I’ve taken pictures of the little zine for you. Of course it’s nicer if you can hold it in your hands. But here’s the zine in full (1/2)
#WILtVG
#WILtVG
November 14, 2025 at 6:54 PM
If you’re in BTV and want a copy of “Why I Love the Vermont Green,” I’ll have them at the Fletcher Free Library on Saturday from 11-6 as part of the Non-Fiction Comics Festival.
Look for “Making Comics UVM” on the map. (Trading them for donations to Food Not Cops.)
@vermontgreenfc.bsky.social
Look for “Making Comics UVM” on the map. (Trading them for donations to Food Not Cops.)
@vermontgreenfc.bsky.social
If you want to read “Why I Love the Vermont Green,” I’ve taken pictures of the little zine for you. Of course it’s nicer if you can hold it in your hands. But here’s the zine in full (1/2)
#WILtVG
#WILtVG
November 14, 2025 at 6:47 PM
If you want to read “Why I Love the Vermont Green,” I’ve taken pictures of the little zine for you. Of course it’s nicer if you can hold it in your hands. But here’s the zine in full (1/2)
#WILtVG
#WILtVG
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My most strongly held comics opinion (I hesitate to say "opinion," because it's a fact): lettering should be the first finished thing done, not the last. Done after (or along with) roughs and finalized before pencils. Pencils and inking should be done AROUND the lettering.
November 13, 2025 at 9:25 PM
My most strongly held comics opinion (I hesitate to say "opinion," because it's a fact): lettering should be the first finished thing done, not the last. Done after (or along with) roughs and finalized before pencils. Pencils and inking should be done AROUND the lettering.
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I don't have to prove...that I am creative!
November 14, 2025 at 4:40 PM
I don't have to prove...that I am creative!
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People need to study the humanities, case study number one million.
This is a real flight school, teaching people to fly planes!!! Like????
November 14, 2025 at 2:30 PM
People need to study the humanities, case study number one million.
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It is my birthday, please celebrate according to tradition: as a skeleton screaming for 30 seconds
November 14, 2025 at 8:58 AM
It is my birthday, please celebrate according to tradition: as a skeleton screaming for 30 seconds
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a little background: I found this by searching for the word "fart"
November 14, 2025 at 3:14 PM
a little background: I found this by searching for the word "fart"
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Message to all faculty: your expertise is no longer trusted or valued at this so-called “university.”
November 14, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Message to all faculty: your expertise is no longer trusted or valued at this so-called “university.”
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Growing up in a time when “selling out” was the most shameful thing you could do and then being forced to live through the 2020s feels like being kicked in the head by a horse every day
November 13, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Growing up in a time when “selling out” was the most shameful thing you could do and then being forced to live through the 2020s feels like being kicked in the head by a horse every day
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This shit is deadly serious
Indiana University, which has now been subordinated to the direct control of the Indiana GOP, announces that criticism of the MAGA movement and doctrines of the GOP is forbidden. An instructor is dismissed for speaking critical words about the MAGA movement.
Indiana Professor Removed From Class Over White Supremacy Lesson
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:37 AM
This shit is deadly serious
If you want a window into the magic of the Vermont Green (national soccer champs), enjoy this short film about the preparations for the game that gave them the title:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=pnZB...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=pnZB...
Today You're With Us
YouTube video by Vermont Green FC
m.youtube.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:48 AM
If you want a window into the magic of the Vermont Green (national soccer champs), enjoy this short film about the preparations for the game that gave them the title:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=pnZB...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=pnZB...
Handed out my first sixty copies (mostly to my students) today! Here’s sixty more, waiting to have their covers collated, their paper folded, and their binding stapled.
Come get them at the Fletcher Free Library on Saturday! UTFG
Come get them at the Fletcher Free Library on Saturday! UTFG
November 13, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Handed out my first sixty copies (mostly to my students) today! Here’s sixty more, waiting to have their covers collated, their paper folded, and their binding stapled.
Come get them at the Fletcher Free Library on Saturday! UTFG
Come get them at the Fletcher Free Library on Saturday! UTFG
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At the same time the NY Times was hyping Hillary Clinton's emails, it had a reporter with emails from Jeffrey Epstein that were highly damaging to Trump.
The more NYT apologists try to minimize this the clearer it becomes that they don't understand why much of the public doesn't trust legacy media.
The more NYT apologists try to minimize this the clearer it becomes that they don't understand why much of the public doesn't trust legacy media.
November 13, 2025 at 5:44 PM
At the same time the NY Times was hyping Hillary Clinton's emails, it had a reporter with emails from Jeffrey Epstein that were highly damaging to Trump.
The more NYT apologists try to minimize this the clearer it becomes that they don't understand why much of the public doesn't trust legacy media.
The more NYT apologists try to minimize this the clearer it becomes that they don't understand why much of the public doesn't trust legacy media.
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Stay for the alt text.
I simply refuse to accept that police ever have to look like this. this is just pure cosplay. it should be illegal for cops to be dressed like soldiers going to war.
November 13, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Stay for the alt text.
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The east wing of the White House that was demolished had known asbestos issue
—> ACECO, the demo company, had its asbestos-abatement license revoked in 2022
—> no documentation has been released to show how mitigation was carried out or which firm performed it or whether ACECO had proper licensure
—> ACECO, the demo company, had its asbestos-abatement license revoked in 2022
—> no documentation has been released to show how mitigation was carried out or which firm performed it or whether ACECO had proper licensure
November 13, 2025 at 12:29 AM
The east wing of the White House that was demolished had known asbestos issue
—> ACECO, the demo company, had its asbestos-abatement license revoked in 2022
—> no documentation has been released to show how mitigation was carried out or which firm performed it or whether ACECO had proper licensure
—> ACECO, the demo company, had its asbestos-abatement license revoked in 2022
—> no documentation has been released to show how mitigation was carried out or which firm performed it or whether ACECO had proper licensure
I had an amusing dream.
I was at some sort of arts residency program, and the guys from OK Go were also there. Damian, the singer, was sort of looking glum by himself in a lecture hall, so I offered him an unopened Coke.
He was like, “Thanks, man, I’m okay.”
And I said, “No, listen to it.”
I was at some sort of arts residency program, and the guys from OK Go were also there. Damian, the singer, was sort of looking glum by himself in a lecture hall, so I offered him an unopened Coke.
He was like, “Thanks, man, I’m okay.”
And I said, “No, listen to it.”
November 13, 2025 at 12:27 PM
I had an amusing dream.
I was at some sort of arts residency program, and the guys from OK Go were also there. Damian, the singer, was sort of looking glum by himself in a lecture hall, so I offered him an unopened Coke.
He was like, “Thanks, man, I’m okay.”
And I said, “No, listen to it.”
I was at some sort of arts residency program, and the guys from OK Go were also there. Damian, the singer, was sort of looking glum by himself in a lecture hall, so I offered him an unopened Coke.
He was like, “Thanks, man, I’m okay.”
And I said, “No, listen to it.”
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Chat is it a good idea to physically invade the pope's hometown
BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.
NEW: At Pope Leo’s Urging, Bishops Issue Historic Rebuke of Trump’s Raids
Nearly all U.S. Catholic bishops united in Baltimore to denounce the Trump administration’s “inhumane” deportation campaign — a near-unanimous, unprecedented moral stand against a sitting president.
www.thelettersfromleo.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Chat is it a good idea to physically invade the pope's hometown
Why would we agree to a government that does not protect the disempowered against the powerful?
It’s been in the founding documents all along
It’s been in the founding documents all along
November 13, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Why would we agree to a government that does not protect the disempowered against the powerful?
It’s been in the founding documents all along
It’s been in the founding documents all along
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The room is
almost all
elephant.
Almost none
of it isn’t.
Pretty much
solid elephant.
So there’s no
room to talk
about it.
-Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room”
#everynightapoem
almost all
elephant.
Almost none
of it isn’t.
Pretty much
solid elephant.
So there’s no
room to talk
about it.
-Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room”
#everynightapoem
November 13, 2025 at 12:13 AM
The room is
almost all
elephant.
Almost none
of it isn’t.
Pretty much
solid elephant.
So there’s no
room to talk
about it.
-Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room”
#everynightapoem
almost all
elephant.
Almost none
of it isn’t.
Pretty much
solid elephant.
So there’s no
room to talk
about it.
-Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room”
#everynightapoem
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"Unchecked, the fossil-fueled data center expansion could account for 10% of US economy-wide emissions and 44% of the power sector emissions allowable to meet the US climate target under the Paris Agreement."
#medlibs 📚
www.commondreams.org/opinion/clim...
#medlibs 📚
www.commondreams.org/opinion/clim...
November 13, 2025 at 1:41 AM
"Unchecked, the fossil-fueled data center expansion could account for 10% of US economy-wide emissions and 44% of the power sector emissions allowable to meet the US climate target under the Paris Agreement."
#medlibs 📚
www.commondreams.org/opinion/clim...
#medlibs 📚
www.commondreams.org/opinion/clim...