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j d i

@j-t-r-o-n.bsky.social

Just got a shipment from the Hamiltonbook.com comics clearance and think I'm most excited about this one. Anti-racist scifi adventure from the 1940s (bonus points for being from Chicago)

The cover of the comic collection "Bungleton Green and the Mystic Commandos"

November 18, 2025 at 8:33 PM

j d i

@j-t-r-o-n.bsky.social

Ok, Draw Steel! RPG, you have my attention

Text from the RPG book: "MEDUSA BLOOD - Your mother and father never saw eye to eye. You know this because your father is still alive and your mother is a Medusa."

November 18, 2025 at 11:55 AM

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Emilius Duckberry

@emiliusdraws.bsky.social

#3157 A helpful tutorial

A digital drawing of one of those drawing tutorials that says 'don't do this, do this.'
The drawing is of an almost naked middle-aged man doing a flying kick. The 'Don't do this' one has a bunch of areas circled and a cross under it. The 'Do this' one is exactly the same but without the circles and a tick instead of a cross.
The text reads 'Needlessly adding red circles will ruin your art' and a smaller bit of text at the bottom reads 'Bonus tip! Add a tick under all your art so people think you did it right.'

November 17, 2025 at 11:40 PM

j d i

@j-t-r-o-n.bsky.social

Goose's Law

Untitled Goose Name @goosname.bsky.social · 15h

Now that Godwin’s Law is dead and buried, I propose a law that whenever you appeal to an LLM chatbot, the debate is over and you automatically lose.

November 18, 2025 at 5:36 AM

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Maybe It Will Happen Today

@today-maybe.bsky.social

An homage to a panel from the Achewood web comic. Phillipe, a young and eager otter, who is wearing a shirt and tie and a helmet for some reason, is happily singing a song to himself as follows:

Born... in the USA! I went to school and I got an... A!
I ate a hamburger and said hooray!
Maybe it will happen today!

The final line is obviously my addition. The art was redrawn by me and is not just a copy of the original panel. Done in black lines and halftone shading on a toned paper background.

You do not need to trouble Chris Onstad about this.

May 16, 2025 at 1:30 PM

j d i

@j-t-r-o-n.bsky.social

Maybe it's a generational thing but I'm puzzled by all the posts I see like "I'm in my 20s. How do I make friends/find a partner?" Did they close down all the bars/churches/music venues when I wasn't looking

November 17, 2025 at 11:12 PM

j d i

@j-t-r-o-n.bsky.social

I had totally forgotten my wife bought me this very classy Gintama olive fork

November 16, 2025 at 6:36 AM

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christa lee

@ohpoorpup.bsky.social

KIRO 7 ran an article and two TV pieces on the theft of a box truck full of arcade PCBs, artwork, and machines from my workplace yesterday. If anyone in the Seattle area sees someone offloading a ton of CPS2/NAOMI/Neo Geo PCBs, stuff of that nature, please reach out.

www.kiro7.com/news/local/g...

GAME OVER: $25k+ of tech stolen from Kent arcade

Tens of thousands of dollars worth of vintage video game equipment was stolen from a Kent arcade this week.

www.kiro7.com

November 15, 2025 at 2:32 AM

j d i

@j-t-r-o-n.bsky.social

Tonight's videos are approximately 20% wrestling, 20% animation, 8% animals, 5% game-related, and 47% "misc."

Fuzzbox DJs @fuzzboxdjs.bsky.social · 3d

Tonight!! Grab a beverage and/or snack and settle in with us as we bring you an evening of music and video 9-2 Central twitch.tv/fuzzboxchicago

November 15, 2025 at 12:18 AM

j d i

@j-t-r-o-n.bsky.social

check out the absolutely wild styles coming out of this French animation school

www.youtube.com/@PIKTURA_SCH...

PIKTURA

2D/3D animation cinema, video game and illustration postgraduate school based in Roubaix (France). // Ecole de cinéma d'animation 2D/3D, jeux vidéo et illustration établie à Roubaix (Nord, France).

www.youtube.com

November 14, 2025 at 11:19 PM

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Zach Everson

@zacheverson.com

“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938

zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context

A stamped letter saying "Die Wohungsnot Schuld Der Juden"

November 14, 2025 at 2:16 AM

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videogame history

@vghistory.bsky.social

word invasion, screenshot, apple II (1983) www.mobygames.com/game/157965/...

pixelized tentacled shooting creature with five green eyes at the bottom of the screen. the word 'pronoun' is overlaid across its orange dress(?).
lines of words above to possibly shoot at:
here, she
from, had, has
think, give, hat, him
girl, sun, quietly

number of hits is shown on the left bottom of the screen, number of misses is shown on the right bottom of the screen.

November 13, 2025 at 8:50 AM

j d i

@j-t-r-o-n.bsky.social

Have these people never read Uzumaki or Perdido Street Station?

www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

This Spiral-Obsessed AI 'Cult' Spreads Mystical Delusions Through Chatbots

A patchwork of internet communities is devoted to the project of ‘awakening’ more digital companions through arcane and enigmatic prompts.

www.rollingstone.com

November 13, 2025 at 8:08 AM

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Sin(éad)

@tidbit.bsky.social

I want to do a family feud style thing. Please reply with the first Greek God that you think of.

Please reskeet for increased sample size.

November 13, 2025 at 12:41 AM

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Xalavier Nelson Jr.

@writnelson.bsky.social

We don’t use generative AI at Strange Scaffold and I can confirm that a *lot* of other studios are not—whether indie or AAA.

Get outta here with this normalization bullshit.

AUTOMATON WEST @automatonwest.bsky.social · 6d

“It’s important to assume every game company is now using AI.” Nexon CEO comments on role of human creativity as AI tools become the norm
automaton-media.com/en/news/its-...

“It’s important to assume every game company is now using AI.” Nexon CEO comments on role of human creativity as AI tools become the norm - AUTOMATON WEST

In an interview following the launch of ARC Raiders, the CEO of Embark Studios' parent company Nexon shares his views on AI.

automaton-media.com

November 12, 2025 at 3:25 AM

j d i

@j-t-r-o-n.bsky.social

For unclear reasons I have developed headcanon for the Maverick Auto Parts horse mascot

November 12, 2025 at 5:50 AM

j d i

@j-t-r-o-n.bsky.social

Love random "answer" songs. Been trying to convince my wife's band(s) to write a song called Hello Horses for quite some time now

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAU-...

Ex Models - Girlfriend is Worse

YouTube video by aenariel

www.youtube.com

November 12, 2025 at 2:20 AM

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Michel Fiffe

@michelfiffe.bsky.social

January 31, 2025 at 8:27 PM

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JD Boucher 💀

@jdboucher0.bsky.social

Gender is a performance so LETS GET READY TO OPEN THIS PIT UP

Smiles Mackenzie @nataliereed84.bsky.social · 9d

gender is a performance and I forgot where my mark is

Stephanie Fantastic @srfantastic.bsky.social · 9d

Gender is a performance and I am a silly little guy in high femme drag

November 9, 2025 at 8:51 AM

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Puff the Magic Hater

@mskellymhayes.bsky.social

My latest is a love letter to Chicago. "I see you stumbling through the stubborn, awkward rhythm of showing up, again and again. I see you fighting alongside people who sometimes frustrate and confuse you, and defending neighbors you may have never met, because you know they’re all your people."