Kathleen Gros
@kagcomix.bsky.social
I've made a bunch of graphic novels. Most recent: CAROUSEL SUMMER (kids) and I HATED YOU IN HIGH SCHOOL (adults).
I teach comics & illustration around Vancouver. I spend my spare time sewing.
Portfolio can be found here: http://www.kagcomix.com/
I teach comics & illustration around Vancouver. I spend my spare time sewing.
Portfolio can be found here: http://www.kagcomix.com/
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i think humans are, for the most part, inherently pretty good. we've been inundated in a world that teaches us to hurt others (and it hurts ourselves to do so as well) out of fear and repression, but it's not natural. if it was the few who AREN'T good wouldn't work so hard to keep it that way
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 14, 2025 at 4:25 PM
i think humans are, for the most part, inherently pretty good. we've been inundated in a world that teaches us to hurt others (and it hurts ourselves to do so as well) out of fear and repression, but it's not natural. if it was the few who AREN'T good wouldn't work so hard to keep it that way
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wearing a mask in, at the very least, public indoor spaces (grocery stores, pharmacies, transit, healthcare) is one of the most basic forms of allyship you can offer disabled people you’re forced share space with.
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 14, 2025 at 3:14 PM
wearing a mask in, at the very least, public indoor spaces (grocery stores, pharmacies, transit, healthcare) is one of the most basic forms of allyship you can offer disabled people you’re forced share space with.
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Flowers, gouache
November 12, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Flowers, gouache
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Feeling inspired by and grateful to my fellow Vancouver residents today for organizing en masse against a budget so sloppy and craven that anyone else would be fired for presenting it at their work.
NEW: The marathon session of Council has resumed after a break for dinner. Speaker #107 of 630+ now up.
ICYMI, Councillor Orr is providing regular updates on speakers.
You can also watch Council live here: www.youtube.com/live/7GvbDBa...
#vanpoli #StopTheCuts
ICYMI, Councillor Orr is providing regular updates on speakers.
You can also watch Council live here: www.youtube.com/live/7GvbDBa...
#vanpoli #StopTheCuts
November 13, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Feeling inspired by and grateful to my fellow Vancouver residents today for organizing en masse against a budget so sloppy and craven that anyone else would be fired for presenting it at their work.
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Look at this map and tell me we can just Keep Logging
For the first time in BC's history, it also provides data on the remaining unlogged primary forests and those that have been degraded.
This is key info B.C. has yet to disclose, say report authors Karen Price and Dave Daust.
This is key info B.C. has yet to disclose, say report authors Karen Price and Dave Daust.
November 13, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Look at this map and tell me we can just Keep Logging
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Got a preview of the thinking behind the COV budget via the mayor's former bagel joint on the corner. Opened strong & seemingly credibly, then relentlessly hiked prices & cut corners, its revolving door of staff looking more & more miserable, til only tourists who didn't know any better ate there.
November 13, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Got a preview of the thinking behind the COV budget via the mayor's former bagel joint on the corner. Opened strong & seemingly credibly, then relentlessly hiked prices & cut corners, its revolving door of staff looking more & more miserable, til only tourists who didn't know any better ate there.
right now the one thing uniting all vancouverites across demographics is how much we hate ken sim and the ABC city council. 🙏
November 13, 2025 at 2:11 AM
right now the one thing uniting all vancouverites across demographics is how much we hate ken sim and the ABC city council. 🙏
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Ken Sim's austerity budget is so severe that they're going to be REMOVING EXISTING BABY CHANGING TABLES
Vancouver, is this really who we are?
Vancouver, is this really who we are?
Listening to Vancouver Council budget discussion in the background this morning. In response to a question from @seanorr.bsky.social about where they'll be retracting from the city just said they're planning to REMOVE baby changing tables and menstrual product dispensers to save costs. Shameful.
November 13, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Ken Sim's austerity budget is so severe that they're going to be REMOVING EXISTING BABY CHANGING TABLES
Vancouver, is this really who we are?
Vancouver, is this really who we are?
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My first ceramics piece is out of the kiln!
I'm taking a college level course & it's been an interesting challenge. I've never done this before & it's both frustrating and freeing. The assignment was to throw a cylinder and then alter it. All additions had to be wheel thrown.
I'm taking a college level course & it's been an interesting challenge. I've never done this before & it's both frustrating and freeing. The assignment was to throw a cylinder and then alter it. All additions had to be wheel thrown.
November 11, 2025 at 6:14 PM
My first ceramics piece is out of the kiln!
I'm taking a college level course & it's been an interesting challenge. I've never done this before & it's both frustrating and freeing. The assignment was to throw a cylinder and then alter it. All additions had to be wheel thrown.
I'm taking a college level course & it's been an interesting challenge. I've never done this before & it's both frustrating and freeing. The assignment was to throw a cylinder and then alter it. All additions had to be wheel thrown.
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doesn't matter the context, real human beings will always be way cooler and more interesting and creative and thought provoking than fucking ai lol. please stop fucking embarrassing humanity with this bullshit
November 12, 2025 at 12:27 AM
doesn't matter the context, real human beings will always be way cooler and more interesting and creative and thought provoking than fucking ai lol. please stop fucking embarrassing humanity with this bullshit
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The ABC budget coming to council tomorrow means huge cuts across the city, including for climate initiatives, services, arts and culture - and road safety. The deadline to sign up to speak at council is today at 5pm. Please register if you're able.
vancouver.ca/your-governm...
vancouver.ca/your-governm...
Request to speak at a Council meeting
Request to speak at a Council meeting
vancouver.ca
November 11, 2025 at 10:44 PM
The ABC budget coming to council tomorrow means huge cuts across the city, including for climate initiatives, services, arts and culture - and road safety. The deadline to sign up to speak at council is today at 5pm. Please register if you're able.
vancouver.ca/your-governm...
vancouver.ca/your-governm...
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The climate & sustainability department stands to be eliminated entirely. Planning, urban design, & sustainability faces 14% cuts. Arts, culture, & community services - 12% cuts. But police budget gets a 10% increase. 🙄 Please sign up. If you’re nervous, COPE is holding a training tonight at 6.
Speak Out Against The 2026 Budget
www.copevancouver.ca
November 11, 2025 at 7:32 PM
The climate & sustainability department stands to be eliminated entirely. Planning, urban design, & sustainability faces 14% cuts. Arts, culture, & community services - 12% cuts. But police budget gets a 10% increase. 🙄 Please sign up. If you’re nervous, COPE is holding a training tonight at 6.
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Tomorrow is the only opportunity for the public to speak out on this tragedy of a budget. Over 300 people have signed up so far. If enough people speak out, the hope is that the vote will be delayed. Please sign up! You can speak over the phone; it’s easy. Deadline to sign up is today at 5pm.
November 11, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Tomorrow is the only opportunity for the public to speak out on this tragedy of a budget. Over 300 people have signed up so far. If enough people speak out, the hope is that the vote will be delayed. Please sign up! You can speak over the phone; it’s easy. Deadline to sign up is today at 5pm.
My first ceramics piece is out of the kiln!
I'm taking a college level course & it's been an interesting challenge. I've never done this before & it's both frustrating and freeing. The assignment was to throw a cylinder and then alter it. All additions had to be wheel thrown.
I'm taking a college level course & it's been an interesting challenge. I've never done this before & it's both frustrating and freeing. The assignment was to throw a cylinder and then alter it. All additions had to be wheel thrown.
November 11, 2025 at 6:14 PM
My first ceramics piece is out of the kiln!
I'm taking a college level course & it's been an interesting challenge. I've never done this before & it's both frustrating and freeing. The assignment was to throw a cylinder and then alter it. All additions had to be wheel thrown.
I'm taking a college level course & it's been an interesting challenge. I've never done this before & it's both frustrating and freeing. The assignment was to throw a cylinder and then alter it. All additions had to be wheel thrown.
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You should be allowed to draw comics as your profession
Society has been on the rocks since cartooning has declined as an occupation
Society has been on the rocks since cartooning has declined as an occupation
Drawing comics should be a job
November 10, 2025 at 5:39 PM
You should be allowed to draw comics as your profession
Society has been on the rocks since cartooning has declined as an occupation
Society has been on the rocks since cartooning has declined as an occupation
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a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,
November 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,
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Some of the best advice I ever heard was from @silviamg.bsky.social who said that you shouldn't set goals that require other people to do what you want. You can write a book. That's a goal. You can't control whether anyone buys it. Other people have free will.
November 9, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Some of the best advice I ever heard was from @silviamg.bsky.social who said that you shouldn't set goals that require other people to do what you want. You can write a book. That's a goal. You can't control whether anyone buys it. Other people have free will.
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Authors are constantly telling people how they made it! It's just that it takes a LOT of hard work and *patience* but people like this didn't wanna hear that advice. They think there's some kind of secret code or magic words that'll let you skip all that.
November 9, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Authors are constantly telling people how they made it! It's just that it takes a LOT of hard work and *patience* but people like this didn't wanna hear that advice. They think there's some kind of secret code or magic words that'll let you skip all that.
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Devastating. They were saving lives. A prime example of how legal and moral are not always the same thing.
Breaking: the founders of DULF have been found guilty of three counts of drug trafficking. @michellegamage.bsky.social will have the full story later today thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...
Safe Drugs on Trial: DULF’s Trafficking Case Begins | The Tyee
The founders are charged with trafficking. Their lawyers argue they had a legal exemption from drug laws.
thetyee.ca
November 7, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Devastating. They were saving lives. A prime example of how legal and moral are not always the same thing.
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Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
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One thing that I’ll never be able to forget, to show how evil Elon and every single one of his cronies are, is that they thought life saving nutritional paste that cost 30cents was too expensive. $40 could keep a child fully fed for over 2 months. He makes more than that per second, not even joking
"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
November 7, 2025 at 3:54 PM
One thing that I’ll never be able to forget, to show how evil Elon and every single one of his cronies are, is that they thought life saving nutritional paste that cost 30cents was too expensive. $40 could keep a child fully fed for over 2 months. He makes more than that per second, not even joking
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If you have a regional accent, please never try to get rid of it. Accents tell stories.
November 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
If you have a regional accent, please never try to get rid of it. Accents tell stories.
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2023: ABC refunds millions of dollars of Empty Homes Tax to developers
2025: ABC refuses to use EHT money for its intended purpose, putting 81 affordable homes for women and children at risk
What an astonishing decision by Ken Sim and ABC.
2025: ABC refuses to use EHT money for its intended purpose, putting 81 affordable homes for women and children at risk
What an astonishing decision by Ken Sim and ABC.
November 6, 2025 at 12:23 AM
2023: ABC refunds millions of dollars of Empty Homes Tax to developers
2025: ABC refuses to use EHT money for its intended purpose, putting 81 affordable homes for women and children at risk
What an astonishing decision by Ken Sim and ABC.
2025: ABC refuses to use EHT money for its intended purpose, putting 81 affordable homes for women and children at risk
What an astonishing decision by Ken Sim and ABC.
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The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 2:08 PM
The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.
I stumbled across making guide layouts in photoshop and now setting up my ridiculous guide grids to plan quilt designs is like a thousand times faster
November 6, 2025 at 6:51 AM
I stumbled across making guide layouts in photoshop and now setting up my ridiculous guide grids to plan quilt designs is like a thousand times faster