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krisis (also, see @CrushingComics!)
@krisis.bsky.social
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Probably writing @ https://crushingkrisis.com/ right now (and since 2000).

Songwriter & musician. Software & Marketing doer and leader. Major fan of music, comics, drag, & TTRPGs. Parent. Non-binary. Immigrant from Philly in NZ. Often AKA "CrushingComics"
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thank youuuuu, I was so happy with it
November 9, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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Trying to give classic horror host crossed with Robert Smith for today's Near Mint Condition stream.
Krisis with some truly massive hair in their office surrounded by comic book collected editions.
October 30, 2025 at 10:21 PM
krisis.bsky.social
Garbage is coming to New Zealand in December.

I'm not sure how I could swing a mid-week trip to Auckland, but... this might be my only chance to take Kid Krisis to see my all-time favorite band (and also my last chance to seen them again).
GARBAGE [to the left of this headline, a composite photo of the four members of the band Garbage performing live on stage - typically they don't stand so close together] Australia & New Zealand 2025 Wednesday 3 December ​Auckland Town Hall | Auckland, NZ Thursday 11 December ​Palais Theatre | Melbourne, VIC Friday 12 December ​Thebarton Theatre | Adelaide, SA Thursday 11 December ​Sydney Opera House Concert Hall | Sydney, NSW FrontierTouring.com Presale: Tue 21 Oct Tickets on Sale: Wed 22 Oct FRONTIER | Garbage.com
October 15, 2025 at 1:17 AM
krisis.bsky.social
This is real.

We have a US executive order (pre-)criminalizing dissent with whatever are defined as "traditional American views."

Even if some or all of this is struck down by courts, it is the essential machinery to investigate & persecute anyone for virtually any liberal or progressive opinion.
The Trump administration isn’t only targeting organizations or groups but even individuals and “entities” whom NSPM-7 says can be identified by any of the following “indicia” (indicators) of violence: anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, anti-Christianity, support for the overthrow of the United States Government, extremism on migration, extremism on race, extremism on gender hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family, hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on religion, and hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on morality.
September 30, 2025 at 9:52 PM
krisis.bsky.social
I've had MANY people recommend GIDEON THE NINTH in the past few years. It's scifi/fantasy by a NZ author with the theme "Lesbian Necromancers."

Couldn't be any more up my alley, right?

I don't know if I've ever despised the style of prose in a book more. I want to take a red pen to every sentence.
the cover of Gideon the Ninth, a novel by Tamsyn Muir. It features a woman dressed in black holding a sword in one hand with skeletal face paint, standing in front of cloud of skeletons locked in combat with each other.
September 25, 2025 at 3:27 AM
krisis.bsky.social
I have found my personal peanut butter jesus.

(it has coconut sugar added, so I cut it with some straight-up NZ peanut powder that tastes like crushed up aspirin so I don't peanut butter rapture myself)
A large 850g clear plastic jar of Organic PBfit Peanut Butter Powder with an orange lid.
September 24, 2025 at 12:57 AM
krisis.bsky.social
"free speech warrior" or "serial dehumanizer"?
It’s this that makes it particularly galling to see him cast by some as a free-speech warrior. He created a professor watchlist explicitly designed to get academics fired who dared talk about the right’s usual assortment of verboten topics—anything to do with race or gender, in particular. He also offered the standard right-wing plaint about left-wing indoctrination in American universities even as he went on campus tours trying to indoctrinate young people into his hard-right Christian nationalist worldview. When we decline to speak ill of the dead, it’s because we have compassion for the living. In this respect, I am sorry for Kirk’s children. I don’t know if Kirk was a good father, but if he was, that does little to mitigate the damage he did to other people’s children. I can only hope for the sake of his kids that they have role models who will teach them that it is wrong to profit off the dehumanization of people because of who they are.
September 13, 2025 at 5:16 AM
krisis.bsky.social
this obit-of-sorts saying it loudly for the people trying to both-sides the behavior of a bigot, confirmed many times over
Many of the facile defenses of Kirk and his legacy are predicated on the idea that it’s acceptable to spread hateful ideas advocating for the persecution of perceived enemies as long you dress them up in a posture of debate. This is just class privilege. The man who said, “Black women do not have brain processing power to be taken seriously. You have to go steal a white person’s slot” said it while wearing a nice shirt and a tie on a podcast instead of tattered overalls in the parking lot of a rural Walmart. That does not make it any less racist. It’s true that we cannot know what was in Charlie Kirk’s heart because we are not telepathic. But we can make reasonable inferences based on the things he said and did publicly because we are also not colossally stupid. He built a large following, and acquired real political power saying these things—to young people, to the president and his minions, to deep-pocket right-wing donors—and there are far too many people who have been ready to suggest that he was able to do this through a combination of natural charisma and good old-fashioned hard work.
September 13, 2025 at 5:16 AM
krisis.bsky.social
now there's an obit I can get behind

www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Charles James Kirk, 31, died on Wednesday from a gunshot to the neck at a Utah Valley University campus event just as he was trying to deflect a question about mass shootings by suggesting they were largely a function of gang violence. He died with a net worth of $12 million, which he made by espousing horrific and bigoted views in the name of advancing Christian nationalism. The foundation of his empire was the group he cofounded and led, Turning Point USA, which is a key youth-recruitment arm of the MAGA movement. Kirk was able to launch Turning Point at the age of 18 because he received money from Tea Party member Bill Montgomery, right-wing donor Foster Feiss, and his own father, also a prolific right-wing donor. He was an unrepentant racist, transphobe, homophobe, and misogynist who often wrapped his bigotry in Bible verses because there was no other way to pretend that it was morally correct. He had children, as do many vile people.
September 13, 2025 at 5:10 AM
krisis.bsky.social
Sometimes the best solution is a tool that simplifies your routine in exactly the way you needed it simplified.

In UX Design we might call that a "desire path" - the direct route the user yearns to travel.

There are probably 100 triathlon training apps, but the first step of my path was a basket.
This shows a worn, unofficial footpath through grass in a park in Tunbridge Wells. This is referred to as a "desire path" - where users define their own most-direct route of travel. From the article https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/oct/05/desire-paths-the-illicit-trails-that-defy-the-urban-planners
September 2, 2025 at 9:33 PM
krisis.bsky.social
"lying cat" From the comic Saga drawn by Fiona Staples. She looks like she has noticed somebody lying
August 15, 2025 at 4:57 AM
krisis.bsky.social
Is anyone else looking this good while covering every new comic released every single week of the year?

If they are, I wanna see it!
Krisis in their home studio earlier this week recording their Top 60 Comics Series of 2025 (so far) stream. They are turned towards the camera in three quarter profile. They are wearing their hair long in curls in a black shirt with a purple paisley print. Behind them, shelves of books hold releases from Valiant, DC, and Marvel.
July 30, 2025 at 10:50 PM
krisis.bsky.social
I have some terrible news.
krisis in their home studio holding up a rare copy of Youngblood Bloodsport #2, by Mark Millar & Rob Liefeld
July 17, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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me repping my @pepperraccoon.com glassware (and an Easter Egg of their QUEER AF pin in the background on my shelf!) during today's stream
Krisis in their studio taking a break from a stream to show off their Pepper Raccoon glassware (and a pin, seen in the background on a shelf) The auto-caption reads "...give them the full endorsement: PepperRaccoon.com"
June 26, 2025 at 5:00 AM
krisis.bsky.social
There is a new Drag KINGS reality competition show called KING OF DRAG, and it is absolutely wonderful and free to watch in the US when you make a revry.com login

revry.com/details/seri...
The promotional image for "King of Drag," a reality competition show for Drag Kings. The logo is on the right, with cutout letters in the style of a collage or ransom note and a large illustrated moustache separating the words. The 10 drag king artists in the cast are pictured on the right in front of a large gold picture frame.
June 23, 2025 at 12:59 PM
krisis.bsky.social
getting non-gendered euphoria by they/them-ing super hard on streams recently
Krisis appearing in their studio during a stream. Their voluminous hair is swept over to one side. They are wearing a white shirt with orange flowers and playing their guitar.
June 23, 2025 at 7:34 AM
krisis.bsky.social
I do so much streaming these days that sometimes little clips of me pop up where I have NO RECOLLECTION of them happening but I'm like "yep, I'd definitely do that"
April 1, 2025 at 8:12 AM
krisis.bsky.social
best star trek crew wrong answers only
A photo of the four primary cast members of Season 1 of Odd Squad, with Ms. O standing in front with her arms crossed, looking stern.
March 21, 2025 at 3:37 AM
krisis.bsky.social
What I assume I look like after I get ready for a stream but before I see myself on camera:
Michelle Visage in a still frame from her appearance on the YouTube show Royal Court. She is seated in a large thronelike chair, looking down and to the left of the frame. Her makeup is impeccable.
March 14, 2025 at 9:53 PM
krisis.bsky.social
looked cute today in my little low-res Hollywood Square of the NMC stream
Krisis streaming from their studio with the "Near Mint Condition" logo overlaid on the top right of the frame.
March 7, 2025 at 10:45 AM
krisis.bsky.social
Every time I see a map like this I am reminded that growing up in a place where at least 1/3 of white people in any room are Italian is NOT the norm.

(Which helps contextualize jokes about disliking Italian people, which - as you can imagine - play very differently in Philly/NYC than anywhere else)
A color-coded map showing the most common ethnicity of White Americans by county. Red indicates Italians, which are almost solely located in the Philadelphia to NYC corridor of the East Coast.
March 7, 2025 at 4:50 AM
krisis.bsky.social
Disney is releasing Andor Season 2 in weekly movies, with a 3-ep arc out each week for four weeks.

Maybe I'm reading too much into this, but it seems motivated by fear to me. They took a beating on Acolyte AND Andor is VERY political.

Why else would you give up 8 add'l weeks of earned media?
The promotional poster for Andor Season 2 on Disney+
March 5, 2025 at 8:25 PM
krisis.bsky.social
NEW GARBAGE ALBUM

garbage.lnk.to/AllThatWeIma...
GARBAGE [Image of an octopus bathed in ruby-red light] LET ALL THAT WE IMAGINE BE THE LIGHT 30 MAY PRE-ORDER NOW
February 27, 2025 at 8:07 PM
krisis.bsky.social
How is this possible?

I have literally never heard a single person mention the Mario movie other than to mock Chris Pratt.

Meanwhile, I cannot go a single day without seeing at least 5 Sonic memes, even between the movies.

Were all the Mario tickets children and all the Sonic tickets influencers?
A chart comparing the box office earnings of the Super Mario Brothers Movie (1.38B) and all three Sonic The Hedgehog movies (1.19B, cumulatively).
February 9, 2025 at 3:44 AM
krisis.bsky.social
They have a NEWLY RE-SHOT art print of perhaps MY FAVORITE ILLUSTRATION OF ALL TIME that I have hanging in my kitchen 😭
A grid of nine images of both famous and obscure art nouveau posters, including some by Alphonse Mucha, with a tenth image presented as a card at the bottom. These are Century Guild Patronage prints, offered along with a Kickstarter of a new art book.
February 1, 2025 at 6:08 AM