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my comic Bottom's Up! is out now!!
https://store.silversprocket.net/products/bottoms-up-by-barbara-benas

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🅱🅰🅱💰 @illomati.com · Sep 3
A very long overdue reel drop 🧎💦and the obligatory: I am 🤠Available🤠 for animation work - 15+ yr EXP, Emmy winning 💅 (animation! boards! design???), any shares very much appreciated 🙏🙏
Barbara Benas - 2025 animation reel
2D/cel character + vfx animation babs@illomati.com www.illomati.com breakdowns: (0:00 - 0:05) for fun, direction + animation, 2025 (0:05 - 0:07) Broad City Ep.…
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nice to see some hard data on why i've been having a terrible year, i guess
bcmerchant.bsky.social Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 1d
How is AI *really* impacting jobs?

Henley Chiu, the CTO of Revealera, a jobs data analysis firm, analyzed 180 million jobs listings in 2024 and 2025, in an effort to find out. Chiu found an:

-8% drop in all jobs postings
-~30% drop in art, photography, writing jobs
-22% drop in journalism jobs
What’s really going on with AI and jobs?
Record-breaking layoff reports, Amazon's mass firings, and a slump in entry level employment. Is AI behind it all?
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November 14, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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sbworkersunited.org
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.

Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Don't Buy Starbucks! At any location, today and beyond, while workers are on ULP strike!
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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meredithshiner.com
I’m going to think about watching this moment unfold in real time for a long time.

for all the horrors coming out of Chicago and its metro area, the principled courage of everyday people, in the face of such intimidation, never ceases to astonish. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/12/k...
Most of the hearing was routine. At one point, however, Straw's attorney, Christopher Parente, lodged a largely symbolic objection over his client having to turn in his passport, calling him a "boring suburban dad" and saying his whole reason for going to the protest in the first place included objecting to the government checking people's passports and papers. Parente said it wasn't fair for Straw "to sit here now and ask him to turn his passport over to the government for no reason other than they think they can," adding that "landscapers arrested by ICE cannot stand up to the government." "Mr. Straw can, and your Honor can, too," Parente said. Assistant U.S. Attorney Sheri Mecklenburg said the passport was about bond conditions, not about what ICE is doing on the streets, and that defendants have turned in their passports "in every case I've had for 19 years." After McShain decided Straw did not have to turn in his passport, Mecklenburg said she'd drop the requirement for all defendants to ensure Straw was not receiving special treatment.
November 13, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
“The regime wants all of us afraid. It is counting on fear immobilizing us and perhaps even turning us against each other. Instead, what we are currently seeing in Chicago is that solidarity can overcome fear and can give people the courage and tenacity to fight for each other.” --Mariame Kaba
In Chicago, We Run Toward Danger Together
"Faced with unrelenting state violence, Chicagoans have refused to be cowed," says Mariame Kaba.
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November 8, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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vinny
photo of a pencil sketch of my adult cat son vinny sleeping. he loves to grab his foot. i thought i could get more detail in but he rolled over
November 7, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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ani-obsessive.bsky.social
From: MIMT (2024), dir. Ted Wiggin

Full film: vimeo.com/952721889
November 7, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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particledogs.bsky.social
getting pinned by a field biologist who cuts my ill-fitting shirt off and then releases me back into the wild
November 6, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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digital color illustration of a red, horned devil magician reaching into his magic hat. inside the hat is a cacophony of doves and the magician’s assistant, who is carefully hiding in wait to stop them from being taken
November 6, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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petersteineck.bsky.social
share with your friends that like internet
1.5h of animation about the future of the internet to supplement your existential dread (Web 5000.0)
YouTube video by Hellavision Television Network
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November 5, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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haymarketbooks.org
“While there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.” —Eugene V. Debs
Eugene V. Debs mugshot
November 5, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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littlegoodfrog.online
My only dream is to one day be the aloof and beautiful cartoonist accused of orchestrating a mayoral campaign
November 4, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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michaelcisco.bsky.social
william balfour ker -- just posting this for no reason
struggling working people punch through the floor of a grand ballroom full of rich assholes, nineteenth century etching
November 5, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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ZOHRAN
November 5, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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workingclasshistory.com
#OtD 4 Nov 1811 Luddites attacked machinery in Bulwell, England. While 'Luddite' is used today to mock those who don't like/know how to use technology, the Luddites didn't oppose technology as such, but how capitalists used it to make them unemployed stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1046...
November 4, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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finally finished this giant honker 😤
photo of my hand holding up a hefty paperback library copy of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrel by Susanna Clarke, clocking in at a sweat-inducing 846 pages. Its substantial shadow is cast over my cat son Vinny who is dozing in the background. The book was very good
November 4, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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philipncohen.com
"My Grandma would want me to fight them." I have loved Lynda Barry cartoons for 40 years. Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/o...
November 1, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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In this house we love Gassy 🫶⛽
sarahmaes.bsky.social Sarah Schmidt @sarahmaes.bsky.social · 14d
New episode is officially up! Thank you so much to all our voice actors, the AS team, and all the fans in the chat. This was so much fun to make. Happy Halloween everyone ⛽🎃 www.youtube.com/watch?v=YH4L...
Gassy’s Gas ‘N Stuff 03: The Ghost | adult swim smalls
YouTube video by Adult Swim
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November 1, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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clever-reports.bsky.social
We report: a well of light dances on the water far away. The wind unhurriedly moves the clouds, and the patterns of the shade are predictable. Our expert stirs us towards the sunshine, and we immediately feel the heat high on our cheeks. The seabirds flee on our approach.
We report: a well of light dances on the water far away. The wind unhurriedly moves the clouds, and the patterns of the shade are predictable. Our expert stirs us towards the sunshine, and we immediately feel the heat high on our cheeks. The seabirds flee on our approach.
October 29, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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digital illustration of a lizard businessman dramatically passed out in a tiled urban courtyard at night. the streetlight cast on him creates an iridescent glow, illuminating the papers spilling out of his briefcase
October 26, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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traversed a great distance to see @realgdt.bsky.social 's Frankenstein in the cuntiest theater imaginable, Five Stars
photo of the outside marquee of the Paramount theater in Kankakee, IL photo of the inside of the main auditorium, built in 1931. Built in "movie palace" art deco style with cherry red walls, green and silver decorative detailing on the ceiling, and detailed golden wall sconces and edgework. also multiple dainty little chandeliers because why not photo of the inside of the main auditorium, view of the screen from the center of the room photo of the exit doors from the inside of the main auditorium. more art deco styling of the doorway facade featuring golden sun rays emanating from the glowing exit sign, a lot of intricate fancy detailing on the border, and two flower petal-shaped stained glass window panes on each door that are fitted with iridescent rainbow colored stained glass. like, oh my fucking god
October 26, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Good news everyone, it's #repostober
illomati.com 🅱🅰🅱💰 @illomati.com · Oct 14
just me clicking around through my computer folders for a good #repostober, feeling accomplished
digital sketch of a pauper raccoon, placidly working as a temp at a glossy high-end computery workplace. The turquoise glow of computer screen light hazily diffuses throughout the space. There is a nondescript, trendy potted plant in the corner.
October 23, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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digitally colored pencil sketch of a salmon-orange colored creature with large hands--good for farmwork--dressed in humble feudal attire - brown leather cowl and boots, weathered forest green tunic, and powdered pink tight leggings. set against a mint green flat background with unfinished/variant sketches of the same character. they have an underbite with a large protruding pointed tooth, closed eyes, and a contented expression.
August 18, 2023 at 5:23 PM
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my little men
photo of a sketchbook page of queer little guys in various masquerade dress, all looking a bit cheeky
June 10, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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jakemgrumbach.bsky.social Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 26d
Vibe shift in the culture towards earnestness
October 21, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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silversprocket.net
🥐👻 Sprocket’s Halloween Highlight Day 5: BOTTOM’S UP! by Barbara Benas @illomati.com 🎃

Equal parts recipe blog and comic book, this surrealist tale whisks together sardonic humor, existential dread, and a pinch of gig economy camaraderie. 🧀

Pick up your copy of BOTTOM’S UP! today!!
October 9, 2025 at 6:02 PM