New Year’s Tom🇵🇸 🇺🇦🏳️⚧️
@tomtificate.bsky.social
Writer and ex-podcaster specializing in anime, comics and film; currently in education for the money, such as it is. Barnacle on the hull of the publishing industry (proofing, editing, etc.). He/him/bi. ADHD. Banner art from MAWS
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HEY PUBLISHERS: pay attention to this entire thread; and recognize that a HUGE part of the problem is assigning comics projects to editors with no comics knowledge or experience. Editing comics is a discrete discipline, and when you don't recognize that, you fuck both creators and yourself over.
I've had to explain that no, I cannot pencil and ink a 260-page GN in two months, do you even understand the words you're saying to me? I've been asked to design characters, pencil, ink, and color a 200-page GN myself in eight months (I said no).
January 6, 2026 at 3:59 PM
HEY PUBLISHERS: pay attention to this entire thread; and recognize that a HUGE part of the problem is assigning comics projects to editors with no comics knowledge or experience. Editing comics is a discrete discipline, and when you don't recognize that, you fuck both creators and yourself over.
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my 75yo mother told me last night that she’s planning to delete Instagram and Facebook because she’s sick of not being able to tell what’s AI and what’s not, and I genuinely don’t think tech companies have reckoned with this kind of move as an actual possibility
January 6, 2026 at 3:12 AM
my 75yo mother told me last night that she’s planning to delete Instagram and Facebook because she’s sick of not being able to tell what’s AI and what’s not, and I genuinely don’t think tech companies have reckoned with this kind of move as an actual possibility
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day 2 of posting margot photos from the archives until morale improves
January 6, 2026 at 3:36 AM
day 2 of posting margot photos from the archives until morale improves
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Okay, who's got a Dolby Vision–compatible 4K UHD blu-ray player they can donate to me to make up for the one I finally splurged to buy that can't play Dolby Vision at all? 😭
January 6, 2026 at 2:59 PM
Okay, who's got a Dolby Vision–compatible 4K UHD blu-ray player they can donate to me to make up for the one I finally splurged to buy that can't play Dolby Vision at all? 😭
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I’ll alway treasure that moment when everyone realized it was actually Jay Johnston and not just a guy who looked like him. One of the last really fun days of Late Twitter.
A terrible crime and harbinger of things to come, with one very, very funny subplot
January 6, 2026 at 4:17 PM
I’ll alway treasure that moment when everyone realized it was actually Jay Johnston and not just a guy who looked like him. One of the last really fun days of Late Twitter.
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I felt it was my duty to inform everyone that these old-ass men are finally living their truth
January 6, 2026 at 6:30 PM
I felt it was my duty to inform everyone that these old-ass men are finally living their truth
That shot they’re reacting to was so cool
January 7, 2026 at 3:40 AM
That shot they’re reacting to was so cool
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i know genx invented body shots because you get to drink out of the hoes
January 6, 2026 at 6:02 PM
i know genx invented body shots because you get to drink out of the hoes
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Because they like swords and can't read. Saved you a click
How did The Lord of the Rings end up so beloved by the right wing?
How did The Lord of the Rings end up so beloved by the right wing?
How did The Lord of the Rings end up so beloved by the right wing?
www.independent.co.uk
January 6, 2026 at 11:38 PM
Because they like swords and can't read. Saved you a click
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Got paid AND his job back, lmao. Keep fighting these dweebs
January 6, 2026 at 11:44 PM
Got paid AND his job back, lmao. Keep fighting these dweebs
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With this victory, Virginia Governor-elect Abigail Spanberger will continue to have a Democratic trifecta when she is sworn in next week.
Congrats, Senator-elect Jones!
Congrats, Senator-elect Jones!
January 7, 2026 at 12:40 AM
With this victory, Virginia Governor-elect Abigail Spanberger will continue to have a Democratic trifecta when she is sworn in next week.
Congrats, Senator-elect Jones!
Congrats, Senator-elect Jones!
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Holy crap. I'm actually getting royalties from The Eltingville Club collection -- almost ten years after it was published. (digital sales pushed it over). Thanks very much to the readers/buyers for this minor comic book miracle.
January 7, 2026 at 12:31 AM
Holy crap. I'm actually getting royalties from The Eltingville Club collection -- almost ten years after it was published. (digital sales pushed it over). Thanks very much to the readers/buyers for this minor comic book miracle.
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All Republicans are terrible all the time there is simply no reason to act like they can be negotiated with or redeemed. This is the anniversary of Republicans accommodating a coup to maintain political power, and all we get from Democrats are promises to work with them.
January 7, 2026 at 3:15 AM
All Republicans are terrible all the time there is simply no reason to act like they can be negotiated with or redeemed. This is the anniversary of Republicans accommodating a coup to maintain political power, and all we get from Democrats are promises to work with them.
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After the Trump/GOP/MAGA opening salvo on democracy in 2020, 100+ businesses crowed about not giving money to election deniers. Many of us knew it would be short-lived, a PR stunt. We were right.
However, there are just 10 companies remaining true to their word.
popular.info/p/five-years...
However, there are just 10 companies remaining true to their word.
popular.info/p/five-years...
Five years later, these 10 corporations still aren’t funding election deniers
Five years ago today, on January 6, 2021, a violent mob stormed the Capitol building.
popular.info
January 6, 2026 at 12:23 PM
After the Trump/GOP/MAGA opening salvo on democracy in 2020, 100+ businesses crowed about not giving money to election deniers. Many of us knew it would be short-lived, a PR stunt. We were right.
However, there are just 10 companies remaining true to their word.
popular.info/p/five-years...
However, there are just 10 companies remaining true to their word.
popular.info/p/five-years...
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Not crazy to say there was a much clearer criminal case against MBS, who ordered the murder of an American newspaper columnist, than there is against Maduro.
BARTIROMO: With all due respect, I think the goal here is to stop the drug and human trafficking into America, and I don't think Saudi Arabia is sending fentanyl into America
RAND PAUL: Well, neither does Venezuela
RAND PAUL: Well, neither does Venezuela
January 6, 2026 at 3:39 PM
Not crazy to say there was a much clearer criminal case against MBS, who ordered the murder of an American newspaper columnist, than there is against Maduro.
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I constantly think about how one of the "leading voices" on the right in the culture space is a dude that literally had cockroaches climbing on him during a livestream... can't think of a better image to encapsulate that whole movement.
January 6, 2026 at 4:53 PM
I constantly think about how one of the "leading voices" on the right in the culture space is a dude that literally had cockroaches climbing on him during a livestream... can't think of a better image to encapsulate that whole movement.
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I am once again asking the media to treat it as a huge fucking scandal that the Vice President of the United States has pickled his brain in white supremacist, antisemitic garbage babble
Curtis Yarvin has written a very long screed in defense of his post in which he said, “Hitler spoke the truth.”
A sampling of select portions is below and includes, in reference to Jewish people, the words:
“The only way to tell is the name and the nose.”
A sampling of select portions is below and includes, in reference to Jewish people, the words:
“The only way to tell is the name and the nose.”
January 6, 2026 at 3:56 PM
I am once again asking the media to treat it as a huge fucking scandal that the Vice President of the United States has pickled his brain in white supremacist, antisemitic garbage babble
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If you're watching YouTube and you see one of the hundreds of local news stations airing the lies of the facsist regime...
..report the post as spam or misleading.
You'd be surprised how many actually get taken down for misinformation.
..report the post as spam or misleading.
You'd be surprised how many actually get taken down for misinformation.
January 6, 2026 at 5:05 PM
If you're watching YouTube and you see one of the hundreds of local news stations airing the lies of the facsist regime...
..report the post as spam or misleading.
You'd be surprised how many actually get taken down for misinformation.
..report the post as spam or misleading.
You'd be surprised how many actually get taken down for misinformation.
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IR people who decry gender studies or arguments are fish refusing to believe the study of water is important.
kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life
January 6, 2026 at 2:23 PM
IR people who decry gender studies or arguments are fish refusing to believe the study of water is important.
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Crockett: "Everyone wants to talk about how Maduro was illegitimate. As we sit here on January 6, I do want to be clear: somebody else was trying to be a Maduro of the United States. Somebody else wanted to do the exact same thing. The difference is Maduro was successful."
January 6, 2026 at 7:38 PM
Crockett: "Everyone wants to talk about how Maduro was illegitimate. As we sit here on January 6, I do want to be clear: somebody else was trying to be a Maduro of the United States. Somebody else wanted to do the exact same thing. The difference is Maduro was successful."
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Abortions will remain legal in Wyoming. The state’s supreme court ruled Jan. 6 that two near-total abortion bans are unconstitutional. (via @wyomingpublicmedia.bsky.social)
Wyoming Supreme Court protects abortion access
The state’s highest court ruled that two near-total state abortion bans violate the constitution.
n.pr
January 6, 2026 at 5:10 PM
Abortions will remain legal in Wyoming. The state’s supreme court ruled Jan. 6 that two near-total abortion bans are unconstitutional. (via @wyomingpublicmedia.bsky.social)
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I lost 2 colleagues to COVID. Many of in my family (myself including) grappled with all manner of strange new afflictions & conditions after have it one or more times. It was no joke.
there’s a thread on reddit right now called “was COVID really that bad?” and it is interesting to read people’s accounts five years out
there seems to be a collective trauma response where people (outside of healthcare workers) don’t remember how many people died
someone called it anticlimactic
there seems to be a collective trauma response where people (outside of healthcare workers) don’t remember how many people died
someone called it anticlimactic
January 6, 2026 at 8:35 PM
I lost 2 colleagues to COVID. Many of in my family (myself including) grappled with all manner of strange new afflictions & conditions after have it one or more times. It was no joke.
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my brother and his then wife were once standing outside their house when they heard a noise
and it was a hamster in a plastic ball rolling down the street
by itself
i think about that a lot
and it was a hamster in a plastic ball rolling down the street
by itself
i think about that a lot
January 5, 2026 at 7:50 PM
my brother and his then wife were once standing outside their house when they heard a noise
and it was a hamster in a plastic ball rolling down the street
by itself
i think about that a lot
and it was a hamster in a plastic ball rolling down the street
by itself
i think about that a lot
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⚠️ Dec 23 Fathi update:
✅💌 Fathi’s fundraiser is dying
Real humans—peaceful families—are 🍽️ & 😵 bc 🇮🇱 has successfully controlled the ceasefire narrative & capitalist Xmas is swallowing support
$20/$100 raised twds evac 💬♥️🔁💸
- Nicola
gofund.me/4f9407199
✅ @mommunism.bsky.social
#SaveFathi
✅💌 Fathi’s fundraiser is dying
Real humans—peaceful families—are 🍽️ & 😵 bc 🇮🇱 has successfully controlled the ceasefire narrative & capitalist Xmas is swallowing support
$20/$100 raised twds evac 💬♥️🔁💸
- Nicola
gofund.me/4f9407199
✅ @mommunism.bsky.social
#SaveFathi
December 23, 2025 at 8:45 PM
⚠️ Dec 23 Fathi update:
✅💌 Fathi’s fundraiser is dying
Real humans—peaceful families—are 🍽️ & 😵 bc 🇮🇱 has successfully controlled the ceasefire narrative & capitalist Xmas is swallowing support
$20/$100 raised twds evac 💬♥️🔁💸
- Nicola
gofund.me/4f9407199
✅ @mommunism.bsky.social
#SaveFathi
✅💌 Fathi’s fundraiser is dying
Real humans—peaceful families—are 🍽️ & 😵 bc 🇮🇱 has successfully controlled the ceasefire narrative & capitalist Xmas is swallowing support
$20/$100 raised twds evac 💬♥️🔁💸
- Nicola
gofund.me/4f9407199
✅ @mommunism.bsky.social
#SaveFathi
Starting my first day at the new job! Thoughts and good vibes and prayers appreciated
January 6, 2026 at 1:51 PM
Starting my first day at the new job! Thoughts and good vibes and prayers appreciated