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I like SF, superhero comics, and indie comics. Somehow I mostly share political stuff. *shrug*

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Imaginary Stories @imaginarystories.bsky.social · Jun 22
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His back to the reader, one arm raised at a 90 degree angle, the fingers on his hand are spread as Mister Fantastic looks up at bubbles in which are windows to live battles. "CLEVER," he says, "A quadrillion crises across as many galaxies. An endless string of 'events' meant to overwhelm and fatigue us. And ALMOST all of them are smokescreens."
May 9, 2024 at 10:38 PM
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2026.

I will draw, even if it’s bad.
I will draw, even if it’s challenging.
I will draw, even if it’s been done before.
I will draw, even if it’s imperfect.
I will draw, even if someone else is better.
I will draw, even if I have much to learn.

I will draw because it’s fun.
Because I’m human.
January 4, 2026 at 2:13 AM
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October 19, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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[Insider] Social media app X's Grok bot is processing user requests to sexualize women without their consent. Cosplayers and artists in Japan have fallen victim - and some of them are pissed. More in this week's article for subscribers below.

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[Insider] Princess in a Bikini: Japan Lashes Out at Grok, X's Nonconsensual Lewds Bot - Unseen Japan
A new wave of deepfakes enabled by the social media network's Grok chatbot is angering Japanese cosplayers and artists.
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January 4, 2026 at 3:48 AM
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Because it feels like that kind of #cutiesaturday ya know
a girl with a dinosaur growing out of her neck and body
January 4, 2026 at 3:51 AM
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I can't recall where this originated but I'll never ever stop laughing at it.
September 12, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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I brought Ice Cude back a few years back -- what a trippy fun era of Archie
Pure heart and Steel Sterling
January 3, 2026 at 5:03 PM
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Bluesky pals! I have a sci-fi graphic novel called DRIVE, & it's my favorite thing I've ever done! If you need a long, escapist read at the moment the entire thing is free to read, here: drivecomic.com
(THIS PAGE: I Know Those Heartbeats...)
PANEL 1: A space scene, with the MACHITO flying in the foreground. Stars zoom behind to a point of white. In the while is a silhouette of a ship following them. SKITTER, from inside the ship: CAAAAPTAIN! I’m sensing a ship behind. us in pinched space! PANEL 2: The CAPTAIN points as she gives orders. SKITTER floats in his flying chair next to her, puts out his hand as he talks. CAPTAIN: Orla, fire up the fear cannons! Cuddow, bring up the holos! SKITTER: Oh wait. WAIT! I know those heartbeats. Those are HUMAN heartbeats. PANEL 3: SKITTER in his chair, floating against a panel-less background. TELEPATHIC VOICE: Hey there, Sailor. What’s a Rhinn like you doin’ in a place like this? SKITTER (outloud): …and a Rhinn??? PANEL 4: A split panel showing two locations at the same time. On the top half is GENN, the Rhinn. On the bottom half is SKITTER. GENN, telepathically: Saw you goin’ my way. Mind if I pull alongside? SKITTER, telepathically: GENN? Is that you?!? PANEL 5: TRES PRIMO’s ship, with a strip and a 3, has pulled up beside the MACHITO as they zoom through space. GENN, telepathically: Same as ever! But, um, Skitter…? YOUR MIND FEELS TOTALLY DIFFERENT. —— Want to read the full story? Join us at Patreon.com/drive for the *FULL* Tales of the Drive archives, art giveaways, fun community, and more! DRIVE copyright Dave Kellett. Colors by Beth Reidmiller
January 1, 2026 at 7:30 PM
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COMIC: What Artists Do
PANEL 1: A black woman with a grey streak in her curly hair, stands at a canvas on an easel, holding a paint bush. Narration text: PAINTER WOMAN: Give me a canvas and I will lift your imagination! PANEL 2: A latino man with thinning grey hair and a thick grey mustache, holds a book open. Narration text: AUTHOR MAN: Give me a page, and I will transport your soul! PANEL 3: A young red headed woman sits ona stool, wearing a plaid shirt and holding a guitar. Narration text: MUSICIAN WOMAN: Give ma a microphone, and I will fill your heart! PANEL 4: A portly man with long, stringy brown-grey hair, wearing denim overalls without a shirt, holds a finger in the air while motioning to his computer screen, where an image of Darth Vader is shown. Vader is holding up two thumbs up, and has 6 nipples down his front, protruding like that one terrible Batman costume. Narration text: A.I. ARTIST Man: Give me two server farms powered by a hydroelectric dam, and Imma generate a Vader with six nipples. ——— Want 5,000 more comics like this? Join us at Patreon.com/sheldoncomics for the *FULL* Sheldon archives, art giveaways, fun community, and more! Sheldon Comics copyright Dave Kellett. Colors by Beth Reidmiller
January 2, 2026 at 4:02 PM
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If you see this reblog with a robot 🤖
man: Believe it or not, I've never actually had sex with a robot before. It always seemed kind of iffy consent-wise. Robot: Well, we don't have to have sex if you don't want to, but you don't have to worry. Robot: Either I'm sentient and am therefore capable of giving consent or I'm not sentient, in which case I'm basically just an incredibly advanced sex toy. Robot: It's the former, but either way you're good. Robot, revealing his hand can turn into a wide variety of sex objects: Also I have accoutrements. Man: oooooh
January 4, 2026 at 2:47 AM
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Pixel Scroll 1/3/26 Rotating PixelScrolls And The Possibility Of Global File Violation
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Pixel Scroll 1/3/26 Rotating PixelScrolls And The Possibility Of Global File Violation
(1) BEGIN BY DISCUSSING INTELLIGENCE. Joe Stech at Compelling Science Fiction contends “Intelligence Is a Landscape, Not a Ladder”. Over the holidays, many friends and family members as…
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"There’s much to enjoy in this collection: a panoply of voices, styles and ideas, with stories tackling different aspects of similar issues...

A sobering but heartening theme [of] We Will Rise Again is that there’s no final battle, no completed revolution—only the work to build a better tomorrow."
January 4, 2026 at 3:00 AM
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It cannot be underestimated how much Trump & co. are trying to win the 1990’s.
johnsmillie42.bsky.social John Smillie @johnsmillie42.bsky.social · 8h
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It is entirely possible Venezuelan oil reserves aren't worth anything.

Clue: They have the world's largest reserves, but produce 1M bbl/day to our 13.5

Their breakeven price sucks and their crappy oil trades at a discount.
January 4, 2026 at 3:06 AM
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Beedo from Star Wars
January 4, 2026 at 2:32 AM
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The inheritor of a fabled superhero name must prove herself by solving the one mystery her predecessor never could in Aleyara’s Descent by Christopher L. Bennett. buff.ly/hqtGdkx @clbennett.bsky.social #fantasy #sciencefiction
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Infinite Dimensions. Endless Possibilities. Universal Questions. Across multiple realities and…
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January 4, 2026 at 3:07 AM
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Drawn into a cosmic conspiracy, the Arachne’s crew learns that the Chirrn’s ancient choices have exacted a terrible toll on more than just human history. How to undo the damage of millennia? And survive the effort? #ArachnesExile especbooks.square.site/product/arac... @clbennettauthor.bsky.social
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The Arachne Book II What a Tangled Web…When the colony starship Arachne unwittingly destroyed a…
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January 4, 2026 at 2:05 AM
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My whole life, advocating war has been fed to me as “the adult position,” akin to drinking your coffee black or reading the business section of the newspaper. Let’s be very clear — war is the childish nonsense of impulsive destructive idiots playing baby-brained video games with real human lives.
January 4, 2026 at 2:02 AM
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I am tired of Earth. These people.
January 3, 2026 at 11:10 PM
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congrats to Charlie Kirk on 114 days without saying anything racist
January 2, 2026 at 11:26 PM
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*If* this was just a coup intended to put Delcy in power, it may functionally be pretext for the U.S. to "switch sides" from the Venezuelan people (represented by exiled opposition leaders) to the Venezuelan dictatorship (now represented by Rodriguez).
January 3, 2026 at 11:29 PM
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Maduro is not a Putin or a Chavez. (Or a Trump, for that matter.) He's not some machiavellian genius or charismatic autocrat at the center of a personalistic regime. He's a former bus driver who inherited a consolidated autocracy built by Chavez. He's a front man for a mafia state.
January 3, 2026 at 11:19 PM
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In offing Maduro but leaving the rest of the regime untouched, Trump has effectively just forced the mafia state to switch spokespeople.

Cue Delcy. Who, unlike Maduro, is often considered to be a very sophisticated political operator and in many ways has been the key regime functionary since 2013
January 3, 2026 at 11:23 PM
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They’re against democratic legitimacy, which is premium-grade legitimacy; but they’re against nationalist legitimacy, communist legitimacy and even royalist legitimacy. They want to rule unaccountably, and they are opposed to any theory that could hold them to account.
January 3, 2026 at 11:15 PM
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Timothy Snyder has mentioned how Russia and other autocratic states blatantly stealing elections or holding sham referendums are meant to make a mockery of the democratic process and any country or leader who endorses them or their results contributes to delegitimizing it as an institution
louisevans.bsky.social Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 12h
Okay here’s an actual take: the fascist international is at war with the very concept of legitimacy.
gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 14h
Their messaging is so fucking incoherent. Maduro was an illegitimate leader who lost in 2024, which is why we're replacing him with his VP instead of the person who won in 2024. We did this to stop fentanyl, which is why he's indicted for cocaine.

We're also occupying Venezuela via Zoom call.
January 4, 2026 at 1:04 AM