L.S.Zwarenstein
@liannez.bsky.social
Creator of comics including Geist!, now completed (http://geistcomic.com). Mostly posting about comics, art, kids' and YA books, disability/chronic illness, geekery and the fantastical. She/her. Tumblr: http://EverydayImaginary.tumblr.com
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chef: who wants dirt soup
everyone: what? no thank you, just regular soup
chef: bad news we had to get rid of the soup to provide the dirt
everyone: but we hate dirt
chef: (mouthful of dirt) who wants dirt
everyone: what? no thank you, just regular soup
chef: bad news we had to get rid of the soup to provide the dirt
everyone: but we hate dirt
chef: (mouthful of dirt) who wants dirt
February 18, 2026 at 12:41 PM
chef: who wants dirt soup
everyone: what? no thank you, just regular soup
chef: bad news we had to get rid of the soup to provide the dirt
everyone: but we hate dirt
chef: (mouthful of dirt) who wants dirt
everyone: what? no thank you, just regular soup
chef: bad news we had to get rid of the soup to provide the dirt
everyone: but we hate dirt
chef: (mouthful of dirt) who wants dirt
I'm not usually that into deckbuilders, but this looks really cool!
🚨 HUGE NEWS! 🚨
All Will Rise is now LIVE on Kickstarter! Fundraising has begun to bring our revenge fantasy against the powerful to life.
Want to try before you fund? All Will Rise currently has a demo on Steam too!
Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/spe...
#IndieGame #GameDev #IndieDev
All Will Rise is now LIVE on Kickstarter! Fundraising has begun to bring our revenge fantasy against the powerful to life.
Want to try before you fund? All Will Rise currently has a demo on Steam too!
Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/spe...
#IndieGame #GameDev #IndieDev
February 18, 2026 at 8:38 PM
I'm not usually that into deckbuilders, but this looks really cool!
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Roses are red
Nuns live in convents
Nuns live in convents
February 14, 2026 at 8:22 PM
Roses are red
Nuns live in convents
Nuns live in convents
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Every word of this excellent piece of independent journalism is disturbing. www.donotpanic.news/p/apple-just...
Apple Just Bought A Sinister ‘Pre-Speech’ Tech Company Implicated In Genocide
Apple has paid nearly $2 billion for a ‘pre-speech’ tech company whose employees helped Israel commit genocide in Gaza.
www.donotpanic.news
February 15, 2026 at 5:43 PM
Every word of this excellent piece of independent journalism is disturbing. www.donotpanic.news/p/apple-just...
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"Concentration Camps Are A Process"
A must-read by @andreapitzer.bsky.social
degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/what-count...
A must-read by @andreapitzer.bsky.social
degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/what-count...
February 14, 2026 at 12:07 PM
"Concentration Camps Are A Process"
A must-read by @andreapitzer.bsky.social
degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/what-count...
A must-read by @andreapitzer.bsky.social
degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/what-count...
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Concept arts by Yun Ling for "Blue Eye Samurai" (Season 1).
www.lingy000.com
www.lingy000.com
February 11, 2026 at 5:32 PM
Concept arts by Yun Ling for "Blue Eye Samurai" (Season 1).
www.lingy000.com
www.lingy000.com
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This is starting to get like universal basic income where every single objective study shows the same result but the people who don't like that result go "uh, well there's just really no way to know"
HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: “.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.”
hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
February 10, 2026 at 3:06 PM
This is starting to get like universal basic income where every single objective study shows the same result but the people who don't like that result go "uh, well there's just really no way to know"
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NEW: Ring has introduced "Search Party", a horrifyingly dystopian feature nominally designed to turn all of the Ring cameras in a neighborhood into a dragnet that uses AI to look for, in their commercial, a cute lost dog.
With Ring, US consumers are actually building a surveillance dragnet.
With Ring, US consumers are actually building a surveillance dragnet.
With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet
Ring's 'Search Party' is dystopian surveillance accelerationism.
www.404media.co
February 10, 2026 at 3:18 PM
NEW: Ring has introduced "Search Party", a horrifyingly dystopian feature nominally designed to turn all of the Ring cameras in a neighborhood into a dragnet that uses AI to look for, in their commercial, a cute lost dog.
With Ring, US consumers are actually building a surveillance dragnet.
With Ring, US consumers are actually building a surveillance dragnet.
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ICE is currently holding around 80,000 detainees. Nazi Germany didn't reach this number in its formal camp system until 1942, nine years after seizing power and three years into the war.
February 10, 2026 at 3:42 AM
ICE is currently holding around 80,000 detainees. Nazi Germany didn't reach this number in its formal camp system until 1942, nine years after seizing power and three years into the war.
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There are other ways to prove age. They are choosing this one because it’s not about proving age.
February 9, 2026 at 4:22 PM
There are other ways to prove age. They are choosing this one because it’s not about proving age.
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Air pollution from burning fossil fuels causes 100,000 to 200,000 avoidable American deaths per year. At the EPA's statistical value of life of $10 million, these deaths cost America $1 to $2 trillion per year, every year. These costs far outweigh the costs of transitioning off of fossil fuels.
Air pollution deaths attributable to fossil fuels: observational and modelling study
Objectives To estimate all cause and cause specific deaths that are attributable to fossil fuel related air pollution and to assess potential health benefits from policies that replace fossil fuels wi...
www.bmj.com
February 9, 2026 at 4:48 PM
Air pollution from burning fossil fuels causes 100,000 to 200,000 avoidable American deaths per year. At the EPA's statistical value of life of $10 million, these deaths cost America $1 to $2 trillion per year, every year. These costs far outweigh the costs of transitioning off of fossil fuels.
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Carved in Stone is a comprehensive setting guide for early medieval Pictish society, and as such my work on it was wide and varied and included illustrating real artifacts, speculative penannular brooch designs, and even the animals that would have inhabited their world.
November 13, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Carved in Stone is a comprehensive setting guide for early medieval Pictish society, and as such my work on it was wide and varied and included illustrating real artifacts, speculative penannular brooch designs, and even the animals that would have inhabited their world.
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I guess they fired the graphics team at the Washington Post, too. That first icon is freestyle snowboard, right? Then cross country-skiing while angry, and Star Trek transporter accident.
February 9, 2026 at 7:55 PM
I guess they fired the graphics team at the Washington Post, too. That first icon is freestyle snowboard, right? Then cross country-skiing while angry, and Star Trek transporter accident.
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Anytime I see Jeff Bezos mentioned I remember the time he flew to space with William Shatner and when a very emotoinal Shatner was trying to describe the experience Bezos interrupted by spraying champagne like an idiot child
February 8, 2026 at 2:58 PM
Anytime I see Jeff Bezos mentioned I remember the time he flew to space with William Shatner and when a very emotoinal Shatner was trying to describe the experience Bezos interrupted by spraying champagne like an idiot child
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I don't know what to tell you. You can't sit at a piano for the first time ever and play a sonata. You can't pick up a tennis racket for the first time and serve a 110MPH Ace.
You have to fuck up.
You have to be able to handle failing.
You have to love it enough to not get it right and keep on.
You have to fuck up.
You have to be able to handle failing.
You have to love it enough to not get it right and keep on.
February 7, 2026 at 5:10 AM
I don't know what to tell you. You can't sit at a piano for the first time ever and play a sonata. You can't pick up a tennis racket for the first time and serve a 110MPH Ace.
You have to fuck up.
You have to be able to handle failing.
You have to love it enough to not get it right and keep on.
You have to fuck up.
You have to be able to handle failing.
You have to love it enough to not get it right and keep on.
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worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead
February 4, 2026 at 4:44 PM
worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead
Wow, this is so beautiful!
February 3, 2026 at 8:22 PM
Wow, this is so beautiful!
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bad people can and often do make good art. attacking the art as retroactively subpar to free yourself of moral dilemma and give yourself permission to not care means you're innately equating quality of art as representative of moral virtue (it's not) which is how you get purity culture
February 3, 2026 at 6:54 PM
bad people can and often do make good art. attacking the art as retroactively subpar to free yourself of moral dilemma and give yourself permission to not care means you're innately equating quality of art as representative of moral virtue (it's not) which is how you get purity culture
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Nikolai Kochergin (1897-1974)
February 3, 2026 at 9:04 AM
Nikolai Kochergin (1897-1974)
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i know i've been pretty quiet but here's the result of my January: a totally handmade, fully-functional marionette created for a local winter-themed puppet show. she's called the Winter Maw & she'll eat you alive, just like real winter
February 2, 2026 at 9:37 PM
i know i've been pretty quiet but here's the result of my January: a totally handmade, fully-functional marionette created for a local winter-themed puppet show. she's called the Winter Maw & she'll eat you alive, just like real winter
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Professional athletes are being advised not to leave the hotel or go anywhere without their passports while visiting Minnesota.
This is not a country that can safely host international events like the World Cup.
Boycotting is not even a political question anymore. It is a basic issue of safety.
This is not a country that can safely host international events like the World Cup.
Boycotting is not even a political question anymore. It is a basic issue of safety.
The Montreal Canadiens are playing the Minnesota Wild in Minneapolis tonight. The players have been recommended to stay in/eat at the hotel, take the team bus to the arena, and carry passports.
Perhaps we shouldn't be hosting the World Cup and the Olympics...
Perhaps we shouldn't be hosting the World Cup and the Olympics...
Le voyagement est aussi affecté → www.danslescoulisses.com/ice-le-canad...
February 2, 2026 at 6:15 PM
Professional athletes are being advised not to leave the hotel or go anywhere without their passports while visiting Minnesota.
This is not a country that can safely host international events like the World Cup.
Boycotting is not even a political question anymore. It is a basic issue of safety.
This is not a country that can safely host international events like the World Cup.
Boycotting is not even a political question anymore. It is a basic issue of safety.
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It’s 2026. There is a measles outbreak in the prison for babies
February 2, 2026 at 7:15 AM
It’s 2026. There is a measles outbreak in the prison for babies
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AI Bubble
By me and guest artist Jamie Sale.
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By me and guest artist Jamie Sale.
Read more cartoons! --> #PoliCartoon
Support our cartoons! --> patreon.com/barry
February 2, 2026 at 7:53 PM
AI Bubble
By me and guest artist Jamie Sale.
Read more cartoons! --> #PoliCartoon
Support our cartoons! --> patreon.com/barry
By me and guest artist Jamie Sale.
Read more cartoons! --> #PoliCartoon
Support our cartoons! --> patreon.com/barry