Scott Witmer
@fogcount.bsky.social
Ann Arbor librarian and Nib Rot comics conspirator
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My new minicomic UP is now available at @rimkicomix.bsky.social Big Cartel. Free Nib Rot sticker with each order while they last: rimkicomix.bigcartel.com/product/up-a...
UP: A Roadtrip in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula
Written and drawn by Scott Witmer, this travelogue of a four-day trip to the U.P. features Paranormal Tales from along the route. 5.5x4.25"....
rimkicomix.bigcartel.com
Since I’m running low on copies of UP, it will only be available in the online shop through the end of the year. It won’t be reprinted, and any copies remaining after Jan 1 will be reserved for future shows. Order soon if you want one!
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Virtually our entire leadership caste across multiple segments of society simultaneously tore their masks off to reveal black holes where humans should be. It's quite something!
November 28, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Virtually our entire leadership caste across multiple segments of society simultaneously tore their masks off to reveal black holes where humans should be. It's quite something!
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Sure, they've made an environmentally catastrophic mass hallucination disinformation plagiarism Clippy that will destabilize the world, but also their other goal is to replace human workers entirely and let us humans starve. A boycott of AI is the most important boycott of your entire life.
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Sure, they've made an environmentally catastrophic mass hallucination disinformation plagiarism Clippy that will destabilize the world, but also their other goal is to replace human workers entirely and let us humans starve. A boycott of AI is the most important boycott of your entire life.
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Advent calendar where every window says you don't have to go to work today.
November 30, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Advent calendar where every window says you don't have to go to work today.
As you gather this Thanksgiving, give thanks for the Gathering Man
November 27, 2025 at 2:30 PM
As you gather this Thanksgiving, give thanks for the Gathering Man
Since I’m running low on copies of UP, it will only be available in the online shop through the end of the year. It won’t be reprinted, and any copies remaining after Jan 1 will be reserved for future shows. Order soon if you want one!
My new minicomic UP is now available at @rimkicomix.bsky.social Big Cartel. Free Nib Rot sticker with each order while they last: rimkicomix.bigcartel.com/product/up-a...
UP: A Roadtrip in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula
Written and drawn by Scott Witmer, this travelogue of a four-day trip to the U.P. features Paranormal Tales from along the route. 5.5x4.25"....
rimkicomix.bigcartel.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Since I’m running low on copies of UP, it will only be available in the online shop through the end of the year. It won’t be reprinted, and any copies remaining after Jan 1 will be reserved for future shows. Order soon if you want one!
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Thrilled to see a strong review of our anthology Nib Rot by the fantastic RJ Casey in @comicsjournal.bsky.social. Read all about it here: www.tcj.com/arrivals-and...
Arrivals and Departures — November 2025 - The Comics Journal
RJ Casey has been trapped in the mine for 99 days, 100 if you're reading this on the weekend.
www.tcj.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Thrilled to see a strong review of our anthology Nib Rot by the fantastic RJ Casey in @comicsjournal.bsky.social. Read all about it here: www.tcj.com/arrivals-and...
@comicsblogger.bsky.social posted a kind review of my minicomic UP over on Patreon! www.patreon.com/posts/elderb... Go check it out and also get a copy of the new Comics Blogger zine #14
Elderberry Wine | Comics Blogger
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November 15, 2025 at 3:52 PM
@comicsblogger.bsky.social posted a kind review of my minicomic UP over on Patreon! www.patreon.com/posts/elderb... Go check it out and also get a copy of the new Comics Blogger zine #14
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Page from the 1964 picture book Space Alphabet written by Irene Zacks & illustrated by Peter Plasencia. (See the rest here: www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/s...)
November 12, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Page from the 1964 picture book Space Alphabet written by Irene Zacks & illustrated by Peter Plasencia. (See the rest here: www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/s...)
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Librarians told 404 Media they're being inundated with new pitches for AI library tech and catalogs are being flooded with AI slop books.
But more broadly, AI maximalism across society is supercharging the ideological war on libraries, schools, government workers, and academics.
But more broadly, AI maximalism across society is supercharging the ideological war on libraries, schools, government workers, and academics.
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
www.404media.co
November 6, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Librarians told 404 Media they're being inundated with new pitches for AI library tech and catalogs are being flooded with AI slop books.
But more broadly, AI maximalism across society is supercharging the ideological war on libraries, schools, government workers, and academics.
But more broadly, AI maximalism across society is supercharging the ideological war on libraries, schools, government workers, and academics.
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When Bashir told Garak about the boy who cried wolf.
August 30, 2024 at 7:10 PM
When Bashir told Garak about the boy who cried wolf.
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There are no words for how evil this is
November 7, 2025 at 1:36 AM
There are no words for how evil this is
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Normal People Don’t Want This Shit is running away with the vote tonight
November 5, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Normal People Don’t Want This Shit is running away with the vote tonight
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There are more of us than there are of them.
November 5, 2025 at 2:31 AM
There are more of us than there are of them.
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im beginning to suspect that between the decades of creeping voluntary liberal austerity and the newly emboldened smash and grab by our bloated elites, the times they may be a changin
November 3, 2025 at 9:27 PM
im beginning to suspect that between the decades of creeping voluntary liberal austerity and the newly emboldened smash and grab by our bloated elites, the times they may be a changin
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Private equity destroys 200-year-old book distribution company that libraries around the country rely on and now libraries are having trouble getting new books:
www.404media.co/libraries-sc...
www.404media.co/libraries-sc...
Libraries Scramble for Books After Giant Distributor Shuts Down
Why it might have been and may continue to be harder to get new releases from your local library.
www.404media.co
October 30, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Private equity destroys 200-year-old book distribution company that libraries around the country rely on and now libraries are having trouble getting new books:
www.404media.co/libraries-sc...
www.404media.co/libraries-sc...
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the nyt posts this stuff like avoiding AI for 48 hours is hard and meanwhile i have literally never once intentionally used an AI program for anything ever
October 28, 2025 at 5:55 PM
the nyt posts this stuff like avoiding AI for 48 hours is hard and meanwhile i have literally never once intentionally used an AI program for anything ever
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A lotta folks are gonna be losing their food stamps, so I’ll be reposting several comics about hunger & food insecurity.
great American survival challenge (1/2)
October 28, 2025 at 10:59 AM
A lotta folks are gonna be losing their food stamps, so I’ll be reposting several comics about hunger & food insecurity.
I love Fred Kida’s art in this story about an engineer inventing AI, from Men’s Adventures n.21, 1953 (reprinted in Shiver as You Read)
October 28, 2025 at 1:30 AM
I love Fred Kida’s art in this story about an engineer inventing AI, from Men’s Adventures n.21, 1953 (reprinted in Shiver as You Read)
Saw the new @realgdt.bsky.social Frankenstein on the same day I finished reading the book. Amazing film! See it in the theater
October 26, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Saw the new @realgdt.bsky.social Frankenstein on the same day I finished reading the book. Amazing film! See it in the theater
I’ve still got a few copies of my new minicomic, which features ghost stories and other paranormal tales from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula along with a travelogue of Bigfoot encounters. Get one at the link below and I’ll mail it out to you (or message me to trade). 👻
My new minicomic UP is now available at @rimkicomix.bsky.social Big Cartel. Free Nib Rot sticker with each order while they last: rimkicomix.bigcartel.com/product/up-a...
UP: A Roadtrip in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula
Written and drawn by Scott Witmer, this travelogue of a four-day trip to the U.P. features Paranormal Tales from along the route. 5.5x4.25"....
rimkicomix.bigcartel.com
October 23, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I’ve still got a few copies of my new minicomic, which features ghost stories and other paranormal tales from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula along with a travelogue of Bigfoot encounters. Get one at the link below and I’ll mail it out to you (or message me to trade). 👻
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I fucking knew it.
October 22, 2025 at 12:59 PM
I fucking knew it.
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Hi. I wrote an essay about AI slop: How it feels like an invasive species for the internet. How its boosters describe building a future that’s devoid of craft. How frictionlessness can be nihilistic & how this stuff seems to leach part of our shared humanity out of the world. I hope you'll read it.
AI’s Invasive Species
The slop is winning.
www.theatlantic.com
October 20, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Hi. I wrote an essay about AI slop: How it feels like an invasive species for the internet. How its boosters describe building a future that’s devoid of craft. How frictionlessness can be nihilistic & how this stuff seems to leach part of our shared humanity out of the world. I hope you'll read it.
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Maybe he’s going to flip it?
October 20, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Maybe he’s going to flip it?
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From something I’ve been working with @annamillsoer.bsky.social and other colleagues regarding the threat posed by agentic AI and outsourced proprietary ed tech:
October 19, 2025 at 6:30 PM
From something I’ve been working with @annamillsoer.bsky.social and other colleagues regarding the threat posed by agentic AI and outsourced proprietary ed tech:
Scream/Taste of Fear is a masterpiece! Is it the best of Hammer’s ‘mini-Hitchcocks’? I’m also partial to Paranoiac for Oliver Reed’s unhinged performance, but it’s definitely between those two.
Halloween got you hungry for Hammer? Then come and have a Taste of Fear.
This totally twisted thriller stars Susan Strasberg and Christopher Lee in the tale of an heiress plagued by terrifying visions!
"The best film Hammer ever made." - Christopher Lee
Blu-ray available now: tinyurl.com/5cdyv4pc
This totally twisted thriller stars Susan Strasberg and Christopher Lee in the tale of an heiress plagued by terrifying visions!
"The best film Hammer ever made." - Christopher Lee
Blu-ray available now: tinyurl.com/5cdyv4pc
October 16, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Scream/Taste of Fear is a masterpiece! Is it the best of Hammer’s ‘mini-Hitchcocks’? I’m also partial to Paranoiac for Oliver Reed’s unhinged performance, but it’s definitely between those two.