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Katie Pryde
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Professional nerd, queer mom, hangs out with cats and snakes, likes singing and instruments with strings. )’( 🩷💙💜 (she/her)
Here, have this cat-and-kid video.
April 22, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Episode #490 of Off Panel is now up, and it's a real treat, as the always wonderful @omgkatiep.bsky.social joins me to talk comics retail, ComicsPRO, and comics being GREAT! Listen up!
This week on Off Panel, retailer Katie Pryde @omgkatiep.bsky.social from the Eisner winning comic shop @bkswpicspdx.bsky.social joins the podcast to talk about the ComicsPRO experience, the upcoming 10th anniversary of Books with Pictures, how things are at the shop, managing the moment, and more.
Off Panel #490: Comics Are Great! with Katie Pryde - SKTCHD
Retailer Katie Pryde joins the show to discuss the recent annual meeting for ComicsPRO and what’s happening at her comic shop in Portland, Oregon, Books with Pictures. Pryde discusses this moment in t...
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March 10, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Do you remember that time Pence tried to see Hamilton and the cast called him out.

Or when McConnell was chased out of a resraurant and not allowed a peaceful meal.

Or when Cruz abandoned Texas during the deep freeze and we shamed him into going home.

That.

Do that.
February 14, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Wheels up for Burbank.

LA friends & family, my schedule is busy but I’d love to make time for a bite or a drink.

ComicsPro pals, I can’t wait to see your faces. My body is cranky but my heart is yours.
February 18, 2025 at 2:57 AM
My parents got together as teenagers: here, it is 1972, Nixon was still in office. My dad was scorned for his “long hair,” my mom is wearing a shirt that says “vote” even though she wouldn’t be able to for another two years.
February 17, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Impulse hair chop!
February 11, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Every drawing I see from Maria, even a pencil sketch like this, is a window on a world I wish I lived in.
February 3, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Today I was laid off from Dark Horse Comics. While devastating news, I'm so proud of what I helped make there and am grateful to have worked alongside such amazing coworkers and creators.

I'm not quitting comics yet, so if you or someone you know needs a savvy editor please reach out.
February 4, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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Today in relatable science: Gulls making a mysterious daily trip that turned out to be to a potato chip factory
November 15, 2024 at 8:15 PM
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it'll be sort of important to show each other some grace if we're cringe or say some stupid shit over the next little while
February 3, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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I have rarely tittered so much and so consistently at the joy of creativity and ingenuity and teamwork and just dogged perseverance as I did tonight in the cinema at @hundredsofbeavers.bsky.social

It’s going to be talked about in film courses forever. The amount of inspiring it will do
a black and white photo of a man holding a skeleton and a fish .
Alt: a black and white gif of a man tearing the costume body of a beaver off a human skeleton in one motion from the slapstick comedy film Hundreds Of Beavers
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February 3, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Elon Musk is a terrible president.
February 3, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Oh hey it’s the year of the snake! Here’s a drawing of a snake I made.
February 3, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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There's also the classic "What's funny about it?" when they say that something awful was just a joke.
Cis men truly need to understand the power of saying “that’s fucked up bro why would you say that” to another cis man
The responsibility for resisting and correcting this behavior shouldn’t fall solely on a specific gender. If you’re a man of conscience and you see another man mimicking Nick Fuentes, fuck him up on sight before the women even get a chance. I mean that.
February 1, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Well. I did it. I submitted my book on the history of how the US government has removed Indigenous children from their families. From colonization to removal to boarding schools to today. For middle schoolers.

I think it's the first book of its kind. I can't believe I got to do it.
January 31, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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In children per year, the US birth rate is at an all-time low, but in Miles’ per hour it’s at an all time high.
February 1, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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Normalizing spelling out what people actually mean when they cite DEI rather than letting them hide behind the safe cover of a euphemism that's been sapped of meaning
January 30, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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When the Patriot Act was passed, libraries got requests for patrons’ borrowing history. We were prohibited from disclosing those requests.

We deleted and shredded those records and stopped tracking reading history for that reason.

ALSO.
January 29, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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I mean, literally, the answer to this is "I am federally prohibited from telling you anything about my students without a subpoena or judicial warrant; if you have a subpoena or judicial warrant, please submit it to [Legal Officer/Office] to ensure it is in compliance with all relevant federal laws"
If you have students who are trans no you don’t. If you have students of color who may be affected by ICE no you don’t. If anyone asks you gender or racial the makeup of your class you don’t have to tell them.

Protect your class and protect your students by not complying in advance. They trust you.
1. Breaking News: Donald Trump has signed an executive order targeting trans youth and teachers in schools who teach for them.

It goes after "social transition" and threatens arrests.

I will go through line by line, as I have the last 3 nights.

Find the EO here:
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
January 30, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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This issue was great fun, if you never read ICM, do so now with these one-page horror stories.
January 30, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent.

Opportunities are everywhere.

Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
January 30, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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January 30, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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One of the best things you can do right now is read books. Buy them. Borrow them from the library. Gift them.

Read history. Read fiction. Read science writing. Read anything that shows you the world is bigger than what fascists say it is.

Read to remember why your resistance matters. 📚💙
January 26, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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why did nobody tell me that reading is actually very calming and relaxing compared to infinitely doomscrolling? there's something to this whole "books" thing. people should read more
love to remember what life was like before the internet because my wifi is out and damn i can just Read. they should advertise books like this
January 29, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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Tom Scioli's "Godzilla's Monsterpiece Theatre" has been giving me lots of delight over the last few months, but I actually did a spit-take at this bit:
January 30, 2025 at 5:43 AM