Laurenn McCubbin
@laurennmcc.bsky.social
Comics grandma. Tiny installer. Onibaba.
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THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS
Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Blow for OpenAI in Germany as court rules song lyrics used illegally
A German court ruled on Tuesday that OpenAI violated copyright on nine popular songs in a lawsuit that marked another attempt to prevent the free use of artists' content online. The Munich Regional Co...
www.yahoo.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:23 PM
THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS
There is a new Animal Crossing update coming out. I have no social life & am very depressed, so this is literally THE BEST THING THAT HAS EVER HAPPENED.
October 30, 2025 at 8:07 PM
There is a new Animal Crossing update coming out. I have no social life & am very depressed, so this is literally THE BEST THING THAT HAS EVER HAPPENED.
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Read a preview of FML #6 from Dark Horse Comics, written by Kelly Sue DeConnick with art by David López.
Dark Horse Preview: FML #6
Read a preview of FML #6 from Dark Horse Comics, written by Kelly Sue DeConnick with art by David López.
comicbookclublive.com
August 29, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Read a preview of FML #6 from Dark Horse Comics, written by Kelly Sue DeConnick with art by David López.
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This is Row and Mr Jingles. They look a little different and don't have much in common. But like all good friends, still find a way to see eye to eye. 13/10 for both #SeniorPupSaturday (courtesy Martin Critchlow)
August 9, 2025 at 4:35 PM
This is Row and Mr Jingles. They look a little different and don't have much in common. But like all good friends, still find a way to see eye to eye. 13/10 for both #SeniorPupSaturday (courtesy Martin Critchlow)
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CXC’s first ever full manga track brings together creators from literally around the globe—Japan, France, and here in the U.S.—for four days of programming, events, and workshops that showcase not just Japanese cartooning, but also the vast influence of manga worldwide.
July 17, 2025 at 11:08 PM
CXC’s first ever full manga track brings together creators from literally around the globe—Japan, France, and here in the U.S.—for four days of programming, events, and workshops that showcase not just Japanese cartooning, but also the vast influence of manga worldwide.
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The women around terrible men aren’t secretly heroes of the revolution. They are collaborators.
July 9, 2025 at 5:59 PM
The women around terrible men aren’t secretly heroes of the revolution. They are collaborators.
What movie did you see way too young?
Day of the Locust. I was 7. I have no idea what the fuck my parents were thinking.
This scene STILL traumatizes me. Like, I think about it TO THIS DAY.
youtu.be/wjgA-ToMdvQ?...
Day of the Locust. I was 7. I have no idea what the fuck my parents were thinking.
This scene STILL traumatizes me. Like, I think about it TO THIS DAY.
youtu.be/wjgA-ToMdvQ?...
July 7, 2025 at 5:01 AM
What movie did you see way too young?
Day of the Locust. I was 7. I have no idea what the fuck my parents were thinking.
This scene STILL traumatizes me. Like, I think about it TO THIS DAY.
youtu.be/wjgA-ToMdvQ?...
Day of the Locust. I was 7. I have no idea what the fuck my parents were thinking.
This scene STILL traumatizes me. Like, I think about it TO THIS DAY.
youtu.be/wjgA-ToMdvQ?...
ARGH I wish I had some D&D friends to geek out with about D&D news!
June 16, 2025 at 5:41 PM
ARGH I wish I had some D&D friends to geek out with about D&D news!
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Last weekend CBS Sunday Morning featured a segment on Barbara Shermund, one of the first women cartoonists for The New Yorker and other major magazines from the 1920s to the 1960s.
Truly, it is quite a story, well worth a watch:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlCr...
Truly, it is quite a story, well worth a watch:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlCr...
The trailblazing cartoon art of Barbara Shermund
YouTube video by CBS Sunday Morning
www.youtube.com
May 30, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Last weekend CBS Sunday Morning featured a segment on Barbara Shermund, one of the first women cartoonists for The New Yorker and other major magazines from the 1920s to the 1960s.
Truly, it is quite a story, well worth a watch:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlCr...
Truly, it is quite a story, well worth a watch:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlCr...
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Just talking to my comrades and realise they don't actually have an Eisner ballot, as they're not registered.
So, I'm lobbing this in public - anyone in comics (creators, retailers, librarians, educators, editors, whoever) can apply here and vote before June 5th.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
So, I'm lobbing this in public - anyone in comics (creators, retailers, librarians, educators, editors, whoever) can apply here and vote before June 5th.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
2025 Eisner Awards Ballot Application
Please fill out this form completely if you wish to be considered as a voter in the 2025 Eisner Awards.
docs.google.com
May 22, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Just talking to my comrades and realise they don't actually have an Eisner ballot, as they're not registered.
So, I'm lobbing this in public - anyone in comics (creators, retailers, librarians, educators, editors, whoever) can apply here and vote before June 5th.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
So, I'm lobbing this in public - anyone in comics (creators, retailers, librarians, educators, editors, whoever) can apply here and vote before June 5th.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
I don’t think I’ve ever hated anyone in the way that I hate the incel running the current White House social media account.
April 18, 2025 at 8:33 PM
I don’t think I’ve ever hated anyone in the way that I hate the incel running the current White House social media account.
TRUTH. Let me tell you the story of the woman who had my mom be her housekeeper for free, in exchange for “sharing her energy.”
Speaking as someone who’s lived and moved in hippy-adjacent spaces for most of my life: the hard truth that you should not trust most new age people as far as you can throw them
How New Age Women Turned Right
For some, the pursuit of inner truth is a dead end.
nymag.com
April 9, 2025 at 10:05 PM
TRUTH. Let me tell you the story of the woman who had my mom be her housekeeper for free, in exchange for “sharing her energy.”
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openai’s new ghibli “generator” is explicitly an intentional attempt at humiliation of a prominent objector
openai is culturally fascist as well as functionally fascist
it’s not an accident
openai is culturally fascist as well as functionally fascist
it’s not an accident
March 27, 2025 at 7:39 PM
openai’s new ghibli “generator” is explicitly an intentional attempt at humiliation of a prominent objector
openai is culturally fascist as well as functionally fascist
it’s not an accident
openai is culturally fascist as well as functionally fascist
it’s not an accident
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MEASLES
📣Reminder! If you're 40+, you should talk to your healthcare provider about getting a titer test &/or MMR booster!
I wanted to be tested before getting a booster I might not need, & learned my measles immunity is 👍 Phew!
If you're Gen X & or elder millennial - PLEASE CHECK‼️
📣Reminder! If you're 40+, you should talk to your healthcare provider about getting a titer test &/or MMR booster!
I wanted to be tested before getting a booster I might not need, & learned my measles immunity is 👍 Phew!
If you're Gen X & or elder millennial - PLEASE CHECK‼️
"Some predicted the loss of as much as 90 percent of staff from some infectious disease teams."
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/h...
Trump Administration Abruptly Cuts Billions From State Health Services
States have been told that they can no longer use grants that were funding infectious disease management and addiction services.
www.nytimes.com
March 27, 2025 at 1:55 AM
MEASLES
📣Reminder! If you're 40+, you should talk to your healthcare provider about getting a titer test &/or MMR booster!
I wanted to be tested before getting a booster I might not need, & learned my measles immunity is 👍 Phew!
If you're Gen X & or elder millennial - PLEASE CHECK‼️
📣Reminder! If you're 40+, you should talk to your healthcare provider about getting a titer test &/or MMR booster!
I wanted to be tested before getting a booster I might not need, & learned my measles immunity is 👍 Phew!
If you're Gen X & or elder millennial - PLEASE CHECK‼️
The epitome of Spring Break in Ohio.
March 8, 2025 at 4:40 AM
The epitome of Spring Break in Ohio.
A speaker just asked my freshmen comics students if any of them knew who Frank Miller was and only one of them raised their hand.
Oy.
Oy.
March 4, 2025 at 9:24 PM
A speaker just asked my freshmen comics students if any of them knew who Frank Miller was and only one of them raised their hand.
Oy.
Oy.
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Please please please watch this
March 2, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Please please please watch this
I just discovered that there is a lake in Palau that is full of jellyfish who have NO STINGERS. They have no predators in the lake, so they just bloop around eating algae. I WANT TO PLAY BUMPER CARS WITH FRIENDLY JELLIES.
February 26, 2025 at 2:09 AM
I just discovered that there is a lake in Palau that is full of jellyfish who have NO STINGERS. They have no predators in the lake, so they just bloop around eating algae. I WANT TO PLAY BUMPER CARS WITH FRIENDLY JELLIES.
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go.bsky.app/DK4k38y
resharing this again, in case anyone would like to be added, there's still around 30 spots left!
resharing this again, in case anyone would like to be added, there's still around 30 spots left!
February 13, 2025 at 9:32 PM
go.bsky.app/DK4k38y
resharing this again, in case anyone would like to be added, there's still around 30 spots left!
resharing this again, in case anyone would like to be added, there's still around 30 spots left!
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Hey team - I am the founder of the Make More Comics Arts Grant and each year we give away a cash award to assist a creator or project in physical publishing. The due date for submissions is March 31st. Please consider applying today!
100comics996889703.wordpress.com/make-more-co...
100comics996889703.wordpress.com/make-more-co...
MMC Arts Grant
Submission Guidelines: The MMC Arts Grant assists comic book creators with small grants to assist in the costs in self-publishing their work. It is not the grants intention to fully support an arti…
100comics996889703.wordpress.com
February 10, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Hey team - I am the founder of the Make More Comics Arts Grant and each year we give away a cash award to assist a creator or project in physical publishing. The due date for submissions is March 31st. Please consider applying today!
100comics996889703.wordpress.com/make-more-co...
100comics996889703.wordpress.com/make-more-co...
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🎯
attempting to describe the vibes of the moment. have yet to do better than: "imagine watching a documentary reenacting the burning of the Library of Alexandria set to the soundtrack of 'Yakety Sax'"
February 6, 2025 at 4:05 AM
🎯
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Happy #coloristappreciationday!!! Here's a TON of AMAZING colorists here on Bluesky for you to follow! bsky.app/starter-pack...
January 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Happy #coloristappreciationday!!! Here's a TON of AMAZING colorists here on Bluesky for you to follow! bsky.app/starter-pack...
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Comics - an undefeated art form, tbh
January 24, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Comics - an undefeated art form, tbh