Sam Benc 🐟
@nonvieta.bsky.social
Cartoonist. Adult Teenage Dirtbag 🌱 Friend of shrimp 🦐
She/her 🏳️🌈
Philadelphia
Making a GN, LAST SHIP TO MARS (Henry Holt, 2026)
💌 Samantha.benc@gmail.com
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She/her 🏳️🌈
Philadelphia
Making a GN, LAST SHIP TO MARS (Henry Holt, 2026)
💌 Samantha.benc@gmail.com
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Sam Benc 🐟
@nonvieta.bsky.social
· Nov 26
I feel like I forget to talk about it but here's a reminder that I have a comic coming next year called Last Ship to Mars 🚀 that is not even a little concerned about Mars and is instead a love letter to the Earth and the huge importance of staying and doing the work. It's also gay. ✨
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I'm still waiting for a Blu-ray release of "Coo of the Far Seas" (1993).
There is an HD master, but it's only broadcast on television in Japan occasionally.
There is an HD master, but it's only broadcast on television in Japan occasionally.
November 26, 2025 at 7:26 PM
I'm still waiting for a Blu-ray release of "Coo of the Far Seas" (1993).
There is an HD master, but it's only broadcast on television in Japan occasionally.
There is an HD master, but it's only broadcast on television in Japan occasionally.
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I will not hand it to the Pope.
I will not hand it to the Pope.
I will not hand it to the Pope.
I will not hand it to the Pope.
I will not hand it to the Pope.
I will not hand it to the Pope.
I will not hand it to the Pope.
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:25 PM
I will not hand it to the Pope.
I will not hand it to the Pope.
I will not hand it to the Pope.
I will not hand it to the Pope.
I will not hand it to the Pope.
I will not hand it to the Pope.
I will not hand it to the Pope.
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Every year around Thanksgiving, I see tons of grad students post heartbreaking messages on social media about how their loved ones don’t understand or support their decision to study what seems like something pointless or silly.
Perhaps my American Scientist essay can help!
🧪🌎🦑 #SciComm
Perhaps my American Scientist essay can help!
🧪🌎🦑 #SciComm
“Why Are We Funding This?”
Long-standing myths about “silly science” have contributed to the reckless slashing of government-supported research.
www.americanscientist.org
November 25, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Every year around Thanksgiving, I see tons of grad students post heartbreaking messages on social media about how their loved ones don’t understand or support their decision to study what seems like something pointless or silly.
Perhaps my American Scientist essay can help!
🧪🌎🦑 #SciComm
Perhaps my American Scientist essay can help!
🧪🌎🦑 #SciComm
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Writing about people donating trash is — and I kid you not — the only thing (so far) to almost get me fired. White people were LIVID. And organized to get my university fired for it.
This is the holy grail of whiteness, patriarchy, and capitalism in some surprising ways.
Bless that prof!
This is the holy grail of whiteness, patriarchy, and capitalism in some surprising ways.
Bless that prof!
I had a womens studies professor try to coax a class to understand that it’s not ’wrong’ for an alcoholic homeless person to take your change you tossed and spend it on alcohol. People were livid lol. It really changed my perspective on giving. its freeing to give without expectation.
November 26, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Writing about people donating trash is — and I kid you not — the only thing (so far) to almost get me fired. White people were LIVID. And organized to get my university fired for it.
This is the holy grail of whiteness, patriarchy, and capitalism in some surprising ways.
Bless that prof!
This is the holy grail of whiteness, patriarchy, and capitalism in some surprising ways.
Bless that prof!
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Hey @bsky.app @safety.bsky.app @support.bsky.team please unsuspend Goran immediately.
Goran is a great person, a great artist, and the whole anti-Palestine thing youre on is one of those "Ford funding Hitler" disasters you remember being shocked and dismayed by when you learned of in middle school.
Goran is a great person, a great artist, and the whole anti-Palestine thing youre on is one of those "Ford funding Hitler" disasters you remember being shocked and dismayed by when you learned of in middle school.
November 26, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Hey @bsky.app @safety.bsky.app @support.bsky.team please unsuspend Goran immediately.
Goran is a great person, a great artist, and the whole anti-Palestine thing youre on is one of those "Ford funding Hitler" disasters you remember being shocked and dismayed by when you learned of in middle school.
Goran is a great person, a great artist, and the whole anti-Palestine thing youre on is one of those "Ford funding Hitler" disasters you remember being shocked and dismayed by when you learned of in middle school.
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Bluesky not addictive to teens but definitely a crutch for elder millennials who know too much about the Bajoran war.
Meta, YouTube, TikTok and Snapchat know how addictive their platforms can be to teens.
Those are allegations a group of school districts is making against the social media giants, according to a newly unsealed legal filing that quotes the companies’ own internal documents. https://cnn.it/3Xjq5x5
Those are allegations a group of school districts is making against the social media giants, according to a newly unsealed legal filing that quotes the companies’ own internal documents. https://cnn.it/3Xjq5x5
November 26, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Bluesky not addictive to teens but definitely a crutch for elder millennials who know too much about the Bajoran war.
I feel like the frequent banning of people for completely bullshit, misguided reasons on a website populated by adult tech-weary lefties is a great way to drive down engagement and I wish they would stop because I don’t really want to feed my art directly into the woodchipper that is instagram
November 26, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I feel like the frequent banning of people for completely bullshit, misguided reasons on a website populated by adult tech-weary lefties is a great way to drive down engagement and I wish they would stop because I don’t really want to feed my art directly into the woodchipper that is instagram
I have things I want to buy on itchio but they ONLY take PayPal these days it seems and I don’t have a PayPal anymore and I have zero interest in setting up a new PayPal account in 2025. I just want to support the arts!!!
November 26, 2025 at 2:55 PM
I have things I want to buy on itchio but they ONLY take PayPal these days it seems and I don’t have a PayPal anymore and I have zero interest in setting up a new PayPal account in 2025. I just want to support the arts!!!
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Landmark move: New York City's comptroller @bradlander.bsky.social, with hundreds of billions under his control, recommends dropping investment giant Blackrock because they won't reckon with climate change.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
NYC’s Lander Recommends Dropping $42 Billion BlackRock Mandate
New York City Comptroller Brad Lander is urging three of the city’s pension funds to drop BlackRock Inc. because of “inadequate” climate plans, the latest move to penalize investment firms for failing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Landmark move: New York City's comptroller @bradlander.bsky.social, with hundreds of billions under his control, recommends dropping investment giant Blackrock because they won't reckon with climate change.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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glitter trigger (1/3)
January 2, 2025 at 6:44 PM
glitter trigger (1/3)
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A lot of folks I know (& formerly myself) follow the IG account mentioned in quoted post thread below.
Margaux also offers some additional points on spotting scraped art accounts.
Margaux also offers some additional points on spotting scraped art accounts.
Finding another "AI" artist on Instagram (who is lying), with more than 80k followers.
How to verify this is AI?
- post every day and sometimes the same illustration with three propositions (midjourney)
- incoherences in the background
- differents art style in the past
- account created after 2022
How to verify this is AI?
- post every day and sometimes the same illustration with three propositions (midjourney)
- incoherences in the background
- differents art style in the past
- account created after 2022
November 25, 2025 at 5:29 PM
A lot of folks I know (& formerly myself) follow the IG account mentioned in quoted post thread below.
Margaux also offers some additional points on spotting scraped art accounts.
Margaux also offers some additional points on spotting scraped art accounts.
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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
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stupid young people, stop buying a new phone every year if you don't want to be broke. wait no, not like that.
November 25, 2025 at 5:51 PM
stupid young people, stop buying a new phone every year if you don't want to be broke. wait no, not like that.
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Hey, if you used to have Harry Potter soundtrack music on your holiday playlist because it fits that vibe so well, but now it makes you feel mighty icky, might I suggest grabbing some tracks from Williams' similar soundtrack for HOOK, especially "The Never-Feast"?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3W7Y...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3W7Y...
The Never-Feast
YouTube video by John Williams - Topic
www.youtube.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Hey, if you used to have Harry Potter soundtrack music on your holiday playlist because it fits that vibe so well, but now it makes you feel mighty icky, might I suggest grabbing some tracks from Williams' similar soundtrack for HOOK, especially "The Never-Feast"?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3W7Y...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3W7Y...
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I put this up for sale early cause I came back to like a zillion notifications and I have no job right now, buy my comic! It's made by a human who loves making comics out of spite, this is the second in my unofficial spite series. The first was a comic about learning to write HTML to spite one guy.
If you would like to read the rest of this 40-page comic, BRAINS, you can snag it from itch for $10, I just put it up in my shop. It will also be available in print at MICE (micexpo.org) in December, where each one will have a hand-drawn custom illustration at the back of the book on the last page.
BRAINS by Alexandra Gallant-Lee
A love letter to the brain and a giant middle finger to AI
alexandragallant.itch.io
November 25, 2025 at 8:02 PM
I put this up for sale early cause I came back to like a zillion notifications and I have no job right now, buy my comic! It's made by a human who loves making comics out of spite, this is the second in my unofficial spite series. The first was a comic about learning to write HTML to spite one guy.
Watched the new Defunctland yesterday and there’s a bit where they going into the robotics and interactive AI research being done in universities and it strikes me how much an actually very interesting and valuable field has been thoroughly poisoned by tech bros with no scientific curiosity
November 25, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Watched the new Defunctland yesterday and there’s a bit where they going into the robotics and interactive AI research being done in universities and it strikes me how much an actually very interesting and valuable field has been thoroughly poisoned by tech bros with no scientific curiosity
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Still one of the things I'm proudest of writing.
Forget your stereotypes about medieval peasants, y'all. The truth is so, so much more interesting.
Forget your stereotypes about medieval peasants, y'all. The truth is so, so much more interesting.
Hello #medievalsky here's my novella-length look at how peasants facing feudalism organized and fought.
Ambushes, secret societies, communal pacts, innovative weaponry, ingenious battle tactics and a whole heap of dead nobles:
www.patreon.com/posts/pact-a...
Ambushes, secret societies, communal pacts, innovative weaponry, ingenious battle tactics and a whole heap of dead nobles:
www.patreon.com/posts/pact-a...
November 25, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Still one of the things I'm proudest of writing.
Forget your stereotypes about medieval peasants, y'all. The truth is so, so much more interesting.
Forget your stereotypes about medieval peasants, y'all. The truth is so, so much more interesting.
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when you finally find your soulmate despite being set upon by space cowgirls
November 25, 2025 at 5:04 AM
when you finally find your soulmate despite being set upon by space cowgirls
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Children are not therapy
Wives are not therapy
Marriage is not therapy
only therapy is therapy
Wives are not therapy
Marriage is not therapy
only therapy is therapy
November 24, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Children are not therapy
Wives are not therapy
Marriage is not therapy
only therapy is therapy
Wives are not therapy
Marriage is not therapy
only therapy is therapy
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ok just finished the end of the book! it's up next monday; you can read it FOR FREE; thank you for reading 3rd voice webcomic. i am going to go for enormous walk now
November 24, 2025 at 6:29 PM
ok just finished the end of the book! it's up next monday; you can read it FOR FREE; thank you for reading 3rd voice webcomic. i am going to go for enormous walk now
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walking my fish
November 23, 2025 at 10:33 PM
walking my fish
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Special agent Dana Scully ✨
November 22, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Special agent Dana Scully ✨
This is so cool, and undeniably powerful. I'm sure it gets talked about a lot among organizers, but it seems like creatively finding ways to use the tools of capitalism more directly against them has a lot of potential. It's so easy for them to ignore or weather a classic protest or boycott.
In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.
November 24, 2025 at 12:52 AM
This is so cool, and undeniably powerful. I'm sure it gets talked about a lot among organizers, but it seems like creatively finding ways to use the tools of capitalism more directly against them has a lot of potential. It's so easy for them to ignore or weather a classic protest or boycott.