Bruce Freeby
@brucefreeby.bsky.social
I make comics that aren’t funny and jokes that aren’t much better.
@davebazan.bsky.social just laying in bed crying to “Trouble With Boys,” “L/S,” and “Lost My Shape” and wanted to say thank you for doing what you do.
November 18, 2025 at 8:07 AM
@davebazan.bsky.social just laying in bed crying to “Trouble With Boys,” “L/S,” and “Lost My Shape” and wanted to say thank you for doing what you do.
If anyone else, like me, got hooked on podcasts via the first season of Serial, you owe it to yourself to check out the newest season of In the Dark. It's SO GOOD.
November 11, 2025 at 8:03 PM
If anyone else, like me, got hooked on podcasts via the first season of Serial, you owe it to yourself to check out the newest season of In the Dark. It's SO GOOD.
There was a time that I did these little daily drawings in the month of October and they gained me a bit of momentum with some new folks getting interested in my art. Now I just stare into the abyss of the algorithm and it stares right back.
October 10, 2025 at 4:43 AM
There was a time that I did these little daily drawings in the month of October and they gained me a bit of momentum with some new folks getting interested in my art. Now I just stare into the abyss of the algorithm and it stares right back.
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It's not knee-jerk. It's an environmentally-destructive technology designed to fetishize idea over effort and excise artists from art in order to make techlords richer by plagiarizing pre-existing material made by *actual* creative people and not quote-unquote "prompt engineers."
I get the knee-jerk reaction against generative AI, especially with how much of it gets wrapped up in the whole Silicon Valley tech-bro culture.
But I fear we’re seriously missing the mark in writing it off entirely like this. There’s a ton of creativity happening with advanced prompt engineering.
But I fear we’re seriously missing the mark in writing it off entirely like this. There’s a ton of creativity happening with advanced prompt engineering.
I get why techbros and their ilk like gen-AI: artists and writers to them are just an obstacle to be bypassed. But I'll never get an author/artist/musician who uses it. "I want to be a writer." No you don't. You fetishize ideas but hate the work. You don't respect the craft or its practitioners.
March 27, 2025 at 2:31 PM
It's not knee-jerk. It's an environmentally-destructive technology designed to fetishize idea over effort and excise artists from art in order to make techlords richer by plagiarizing pre-existing material made by *actual* creative people and not quote-unquote "prompt engineers."
So excited to go see @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social tonight on his #everythingistuberculosis book tour!
March 27, 2025 at 1:11 PM
So excited to go see @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social tonight on his #everythingistuberculosis book tour!
March 14, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Showing some art at Preservation Coffee & Tea this month!
February 2, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Showing some art at Preservation Coffee & Tea this month!
Trying desperately to come up with a better response than the fetal position. So far the effort has been futile.
January 31, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Trying desperately to come up with a better response than the fetal position. So far the effort has been futile.
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Calls and text messages have flooded me in the last 72 hours from friends and colleagues in Sierra Leone and elsewhere: Are my meds going to be cut off? Am I going to die? I don't know what to tell them. I don't know what to tell anyone. Hope is my whole jam, but I feel very distant from it.
January 29, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Calls and text messages have flooded me in the last 72 hours from friends and colleagues in Sierra Leone and elsewhere: Are my meds going to be cut off? Am I going to die? I don't know what to tell them. I don't know what to tell anyone. Hope is my whole jam, but I feel very distant from it.
All Hanks have far too much energy for how I feel.
Just a few more days until the premiere of Ask Hank Anything on January 29th at youtube.com/complexly.
Which Hank are you feeling like today?
@hankgreen.bsky.social
Which Hank are you feeling like today?
@hankgreen.bsky.social
January 28, 2025 at 3:46 PM
All Hanks have far too much energy for how I feel.
Just now, decades later, realizing Stroke 9 and Eve 6 are two different bands
January 1, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Just now, decades later, realizing Stroke 9 and Eve 6 are two different bands
Here’s some art I made this past year. There’s (a little bit) more where that came from on my Instagram, if you’re so inclined.
December 24, 2024 at 7:47 AM
Here’s some art I made this past year. There’s (a little bit) more where that came from on my Instagram, if you’re so inclined.
Time has come today! My twenty-third annual Christmas mix!
Download: spaces.hightail.com/receive/NfBE...
Stream (minus a couple songs): open.spotify.com/playlist/5Xs...
Download: spaces.hightail.com/receive/NfBE...
Stream (minus a couple songs): open.spotify.com/playlist/5Xs...
November 29, 2024 at 5:11 PM
Time has come today! My twenty-third annual Christmas mix!
Download: spaces.hightail.com/receive/NfBE...
Stream (minus a couple songs): open.spotify.com/playlist/5Xs...
Download: spaces.hightail.com/receive/NfBE...
Stream (minus a couple songs): open.spotify.com/playlist/5Xs...
My son’s friend told him “Your dad looks like a wizard, I want to look like that when I’m super old”
November 28, 2024 at 6:24 PM
My son’s friend told him “Your dad looks like a wizard, I want to look like that when I’m super old”
How has Dwight Yoakam never had an album called “Darn Near Killed ‘Em”?
November 16, 2024 at 3:50 PM
How has Dwight Yoakam never had an album called “Darn Near Killed ‘Em”?