Ted Closson
@vinegartom.bsky.social
All this machine does is draw and write and make little comics, that's all. (Bi, He/Him)
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Ted Closson
@vinegartom.bsky.social
· May 16
Drawn to MoMA: Comics Inspired by Modern Art – Hardcover
Edited by Alex Halberstadt and Arlette Hernandez. Preface by Walter Scott. A vibrant anthology of comics inspired by visits to the museum, featuring Roz Chast, Liana Finck, Walter Scott and more—and...
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Some of my work just arrived in this printed anthology from the MoMA store.moma.org/products/dra...
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I am shooting my shot.
I love writing op-eds.
@teenvogue.com was my main outlet, but if there are any others (especially independently ran) that are looking for a contributing writer on race, gender, and the economy, I'd love to work with you.
Signed,
A Black woman who writes for the public
I love writing op-eds.
@teenvogue.com was my main outlet, but if there are any others (especially independently ran) that are looking for a contributing writer on race, gender, and the economy, I'd love to work with you.
Signed,
A Black woman who writes for the public
November 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I am shooting my shot.
I love writing op-eds.
@teenvogue.com was my main outlet, but if there are any others (especially independently ran) that are looking for a contributing writer on race, gender, and the economy, I'd love to work with you.
Signed,
A Black woman who writes for the public
I love writing op-eds.
@teenvogue.com was my main outlet, but if there are any others (especially independently ran) that are looking for a contributing writer on race, gender, and the economy, I'd love to work with you.
Signed,
A Black woman who writes for the public
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the biggest lesson from the emails today is that powerful people are so unafraid of consequences for crimes as bad as “raping children” that they will just talk about it openly in emails
the only path to a better society is one where that is no longer true
the only path to a better society is one where that is no longer true
November 12, 2025 at 10:51 PM
the biggest lesson from the emails today is that powerful people are so unafraid of consequences for crimes as bad as “raping children” that they will just talk about it openly in emails
the only path to a better society is one where that is no longer true
the only path to a better society is one where that is no longer true
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🏳️⚧️ We’re back with paid opportunities for Trans+ creatives!
Writer? Illustrator? Audio producer? This is for you.
With @transhistoryweek.com we’re investing in 20 Trans+ creatives to make content for Trans+ History Week 2026.
Deadline 2nd Dec 2025, 11:59PM GMT 🗓️
🧵 Details 👇
Writer? Illustrator? Audio producer? This is for you.
With @transhistoryweek.com we’re investing in 20 Trans+ creatives to make content for Trans+ History Week 2026.
Deadline 2nd Dec 2025, 11:59PM GMT 🗓️
🧵 Details 👇
November 11, 2025 at 2:46 PM
🏳️⚧️ We’re back with paid opportunities for Trans+ creatives!
Writer? Illustrator? Audio producer? This is for you.
With @transhistoryweek.com we’re investing in 20 Trans+ creatives to make content for Trans+ History Week 2026.
Deadline 2nd Dec 2025, 11:59PM GMT 🗓️
🧵 Details 👇
Writer? Illustrator? Audio producer? This is for you.
With @transhistoryweek.com we’re investing in 20 Trans+ creatives to make content for Trans+ History Week 2026.
Deadline 2nd Dec 2025, 11:59PM GMT 🗓️
🧵 Details 👇
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#SaveSpeech
KOSA is continuing to pick up co-sponsors. You need to call your representatives and demand they oppose this bill!
Use the links below to find your representatives and hammer their phone lines!
5calls.org/issue/kids-o...
www.congress.gov/members/find...
KOSA is continuing to pick up co-sponsors. You need to call your representatives and demand they oppose this bill!
Use the links below to find your representatives and hammer their phone lines!
5calls.org/issue/kids-o...
www.congress.gov/members/find...
Oppose S. 1748 The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) ⭑ 5 Calls
Congress has again put forward legislation aimed at controlling what content children see online, known as the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA). During …
5calls.org
November 11, 2025 at 4:38 PM
#SaveSpeech
KOSA is continuing to pick up co-sponsors. You need to call your representatives and demand they oppose this bill!
Use the links below to find your representatives and hammer their phone lines!
5calls.org/issue/kids-o...
www.congress.gov/members/find...
KOSA is continuing to pick up co-sponsors. You need to call your representatives and demand they oppose this bill!
Use the links below to find your representatives and hammer their phone lines!
5calls.org/issue/kids-o...
www.congress.gov/members/find...
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I'm sorry to ask for help bc I know I'm only alive bc of y'all's help during earlier tough times & things are hard for MOST of us rn, but if anybody can spare some gas/grocery money for a disabled nonbinary artist w/ Parkinson's, I'm struggling.
$maydaytrippe
@maydaytrippe
maydaytrippe@gmail.com
$maydaytrippe
@maydaytrippe
maydaytrippe@gmail.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:53 PM
I'm sorry to ask for help bc I know I'm only alive bc of y'all's help during earlier tough times & things are hard for MOST of us rn, but if anybody can spare some gas/grocery money for a disabled nonbinary artist w/ Parkinson's, I'm struggling.
$maydaytrippe
@maydaytrippe
maydaytrippe@gmail.com
$maydaytrippe
@maydaytrippe
maydaytrippe@gmail.com
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we now know that it’s not illegal to throw sandwiches at ICE agents, an important development
BREAKING: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EATS A LOSS IN 'SANDWICH GUY' CASE AS JURORS FIND DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Jury acquits D.C. 'sandwich guy' charged with chucking a sub at a federal agent
Sean Dunn faced single misdemeanor offense after federal grand jurors refused to indict him on the felony charge sought by prosecutors.
www.nbcnews.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:42 PM
we now know that it’s not illegal to throw sandwiches at ICE agents, an important development
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Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
November 6, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Cheney croaked, Zohran won, and sandwich guy is free. All time great week imo.
🚨🚨🚨 The jury has reached a verdict. Sean Dunn, aka the DC Sandwich Guy, has been found NOT GUILTY of assault.
November 6, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Cheney croaked, Zohran won, and sandwich guy is free. All time great week imo.
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YOUR SETTINGS HAVE CHANGED
CHANGE THEM BACK
Settings > Accessibility > require alt text
CHANGE THEM BACK
Settings > Accessibility > require alt text
Sure enough, one of the recent app updates turned off require alt text in everyone’s settings
November 6, 2025 at 8:31 PM
YOUR SETTINGS HAVE CHANGED
CHANGE THEM BACK
Settings > Accessibility > require alt text
CHANGE THEM BACK
Settings > Accessibility > require alt text
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Making my own post on this. I’m disabled. I was going to apply for SNAP and then I lost my insurance today (Medicaid). So I really need some help. I can’t open commissions as my plate is already full. You can help by donating or buying a print/coloring pages from me.
🌱 ko-fi.com/missalppy
🌱 ko-fi.com/missalppy
Support missalppy ❤️
Become a supporter of missalppy today!
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November 4, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Making my own post on this. I’m disabled. I was going to apply for SNAP and then I lost my insurance today (Medicaid). So I really need some help. I can’t open commissions as my plate is already full. You can help by donating or buying a print/coloring pages from me.
🌱 ko-fi.com/missalppy
🌱 ko-fi.com/missalppy
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I have enough to last us a couple weeks, please post your links if you are also a SNAP recipient who needs help paying for food this month! 🥪🙏 Food banks aren't going to be able to serve everyone simply because of the huge load of new people in need!
With SNAP not being funded next month, husband and I are going to need help keeping the kitchen stocked. Food banks in the area are going to be busy and there's no guarantee they can serve everyone, so if you can help it would be massively appreciated!
ko-fi.com/eskiworks
ko-fi.com/eskiworks
November 5, 2025 at 12:11 AM
I have enough to last us a couple weeks, please post your links if you are also a SNAP recipient who needs help paying for food this month! 🥪🙏 Food banks aren't going to be able to serve everyone simply because of the huge load of new people in need!
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Quote post your favorite reaction gif of all time.
October 30, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Quote post your favorite reaction gif of all time.
Today in cyberpunk...
Working my way through The Big Book of Cyberpunk and it's a bummer that we have all the bad stuff (surveillance, exploitation, degrading material conditions, police state, corporations run everything, trying to bring back slavery etc.) and none of the cool good stuff, or even the cool bad stuff.
October 30, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Today in cyberpunk...
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Tell you what: for the next week, if you DM me a receipt that shows me you donated $10 (or more) to your local food bank in the US, I'll mail you an artist trading card.
important reminder: food banks usually prefer money to direct food donations because they can buy at discounted rates
check with your local food bank to be sure but now is the time to help out
check with your local food bank to be sure but now is the time to help out
Americans brace for food stamps to run out: ‘the greatest hunger catastrophe since the Great Depression’
October 27, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Tell you what: for the next week, if you DM me a receipt that shows me you donated $10 (or more) to your local food bank in the US, I'll mail you an artist trading card.
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Did you know that Girls Scouts can earn a Cadette Comic Artist Badge for creating their own comic? If your troop's looking for some assist, we're here for you: CAM offers private group workshops that can help creators of all skill levels reach their goal. More info at cartoonart.org/education-index
October 8, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Did you know that Girls Scouts can earn a Cadette Comic Artist Badge for creating their own comic? If your troop's looking for some assist, we're here for you: CAM offers private group workshops that can help creators of all skill levels reach their goal. More info at cartoonart.org/education-index
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It costs ~$70 to produce a year’s supply of insulin.
Yet, the average annual cost of insulin went from $2,864 in 2012 to $5,705 in 2016 to $18,000 in 2025. A 25,714% markup. That isn’t inflation or supply chain—It’s corporate greed.
Now—California will sell insulin for $11. Make this nationwide!
Yet, the average annual cost of insulin went from $2,864 in 2012 to $5,705 in 2016 to $18,000 in 2025. A 25,714% markup. That isn’t inflation or supply chain—It’s corporate greed.
Now—California will sell insulin for $11. Make this nationwide!
October 17, 2025 at 3:43 AM
It costs ~$70 to produce a year’s supply of insulin.
Yet, the average annual cost of insulin went from $2,864 in 2012 to $5,705 in 2016 to $18,000 in 2025. A 25,714% markup. That isn’t inflation or supply chain—It’s corporate greed.
Now—California will sell insulin for $11. Make this nationwide!
Yet, the average annual cost of insulin went from $2,864 in 2012 to $5,705 in 2016 to $18,000 in 2025. A 25,714% markup. That isn’t inflation or supply chain—It’s corporate greed.
Now—California will sell insulin for $11. Make this nationwide!
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Today for @theverge.com, I talk about transfem narratives: the epistemic lockout from mainstream publishing, the advantages and pitfalls of the self-pub model, and what a global transmisogynistic panic implies for our ability to make our voices heard and represent our own lives and worlds.
Trans women are building their own publishing world, and it’s under threat
Online communities are stepping in where traditional publishing stops.
www.theverge.com
October 16, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Today for @theverge.com, I talk about transfem narratives: the epistemic lockout from mainstream publishing, the advantages and pitfalls of the self-pub model, and what a global transmisogynistic panic implies for our ability to make our voices heard and represent our own lives and worlds.
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We're already over $1k with so much more to go, please help us keep climbing. I truly didn't understand how expensive and fucked up the court system is in this country until I heard what my friend is experiencing. Anything helps.
I am fundraising for an anonymous friend, who is a trans sex worker and POC. They are at risk of losing custody of their children. Please, please donate. This is a situation that is painful and scary beyond description.
PLEASE SHARE GRAPHICS WIDELY
🫂 www.gofundme.com/f/help-keep-... 🫂
PLEASE SHARE GRAPHICS WIDELY
🫂 www.gofundme.com/f/help-keep-... 🫂
October 13, 2025 at 6:49 AM
We're already over $1k with so much more to go, please help us keep climbing. I truly didn't understand how expensive and fucked up the court system is in this country until I heard what my friend is experiencing. Anything helps.
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I am quite frankly desperate to make ends meet this month. We are $900 short on rent alone despite everything, and could really use any help we can get. I'm taking autumn YCH commissions and accepting any other help I can get to make sure the check clear in just a few days here.
ko-fi.com/eskiworks
ko-fi.com/eskiworks
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Become a supporter of Eskiworks today!
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October 11, 2025 at 6:27 AM
I am quite frankly desperate to make ends meet this month. We are $900 short on rent alone despite everything, and could really use any help we can get. I'm taking autumn YCH commissions and accepting any other help I can get to make sure the check clear in just a few days here.
ko-fi.com/eskiworks
ko-fi.com/eskiworks
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Rebecca Sugar (Steven Universe) to direct a "Moomins" animated feature film.
variety.com/2025/film/ne...
variety.com/2025/film/ne...
October 6, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Rebecca Sugar (Steven Universe) to direct a "Moomins" animated feature film.
variety.com/2025/film/ne...
variety.com/2025/film/ne...