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✨Rip(ley)✨@artistic-menace.bsky.social |
37 followers 56 following 178 posts
21 | they/them | 🇺🇸 | 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
• illustrator, worldbuilder, author
• giant nerd
• feral trail runner
artistic-menace.com/
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✨Rip(ley)✨
@artistic-menace.bsky.social
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Ope, I think you’re mixing up the words “consolidate” and “monopolize” there buddy. Dude doesn’t want to do “what needs to be done for the company.” He wants full control of as many media outlets as possible to control media and earn a higher profit.
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Have You Seen This?
@hystpod.bsky.social
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Zaslav is loathsome even for a media CEO
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Saucy Rick Havoc
@rickhavoc.bsky.social
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Time for an economics lesson.
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Ian Boudreau
@iboudreau.bsky.social
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I saw that they announced Shrek 5 today and that it's coming in July 2026, and it just seemed like the most bizarre thing to me. Like who can even imagine what July 2026 is going to be like and whether the people alive then will be in a place where they want to see Shrek again
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✨Rip(ley)✨
@artistic-menace.bsky.social
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Anyway. I might delete the entire Facebook acc + page I had to create (why are those 2 different things? I get it and it could be nice but also why) by the end of next week, but we’ll give it a go. Stay tuned for more of this Gen Z/late millennial trying to decode 2024 Facebook.
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✨Rip(ley)✨
@artistic-menace.bsky.social
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Fucking TUMBLR!!
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✨Rip(ley)✨
@artistic-menace.bsky.social
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Why make the entire UI so user UNfriendly? Cara, Bluesky, Artfol, and even Tumblr (TUMBLR!!) are fully functional sites with many of the same goals as the two major Meta apps. Tumblr, which I believe has been around for as long or longer, is more visibly navigable and user-friendly!
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✨Rip(ley)✨
@artistic-menace.bsky.social
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The point is that I thought Instagram’s menu/acc manager/settings area was a mess just because. Turns out it’s a mess because that’s what Meta’s other app looks like.
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✨Rip(ley)✨
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It’s awful. I mean, the business suite is clearly intended to be sued by people who were trained to use it (so social media marketing people like my friend who recommended this whole idea to me). I know and accept a lot of my struggle here is due to newness and user error. But still.
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✨Rip(ley)✨
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Have you LOOKED at the atrocious, unnavigable disaster that is the Facebook settings/menu/everything sidebar? The insanity of the account management center? The hell of Meta Business Suite?
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✨Rip(ley)✨
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Ok listen, I love my friends/coworkers, but I just created a Facebook account and a Meta Business Suite thing for the express purpose of extending my reach, marketing my art and story universe more, and scheduling redirection posts to here, Bluesky, and my website… Fuck, I hate Meta.
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Kelly Turnbull
@coelasquid.bsky.social
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If you are thinking about making a comic, consider that you can print 50 issues of a 24 page greyscale A4 comic on 50lb uncoated paper with a colour cover and staple binding for $165
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Wyatt Sinclair
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I asked someone what the difference between the Black Eyed Peas and chick peas is. After several incorrect guesses, I had to tell them that while the Black Eyed Peas could sing us a song, chick peas could only hummus one.
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✨Rip(ley)✨
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Hey (again) #portfolioday!
My other post contains all the good links and info about what I do, but here's a snapshot:
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✨Rip(ley)✨
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I'm also writing and drawing a webcomic called "The Lycanthra Syndicate," which is part of a greater project called "Broken Dimensions!"
You can find more about them on my project website: brokendimensions.wixsite.com/brokendimens...
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✨Rip(ley)✨
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Hey #portfolioday!
I'm Ripley (they/them), a digital illustrator, comic artist and writer. I work on environments, character designs, and story development when I have time to work on art and my official portfolio after work.
You can visit my whole portfolio here: artistic-menace.com
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✨Rip(ley)✨
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saving this thread for later
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Marie Enger
@soengery.bsky.social
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Cartoonists absolutely wish publishers knew this trick! If you paid us a monthly salary and gave us health insurance it would not take us 5 years and countless side projects to make a graphic novel.
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Meandering M🌿
@pathwaymoments.bsky.social
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Not even a whisper could be heard 📷🕊️ …
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✨Rip(ley)✨
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Here’s an update on Blue and his great majesty (he was outside and then got fed directly before this. He’s very proud of himself for catching all the crickets).
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Lyall C. Storandt
@ls24hrgrind.bsky.social
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Damn. Imagine voting strategically to prevent the worst possible outcomes…
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✨Rip(ley)✨
@artistic-menace.bsky.social
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The fic is “Dominoes” by meridianpony on AO3 if anyone is interested in time travel fix-it AUs featuring everybody’s favorite TCW squad (Domino squad, yes the whole gang this time around). It’s really good!! The author also has plans to continue it now which makes me super happy.
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✨Rip(ley)✨
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I didn’t have an AO3 acc back then so when I finish this chapter tomorrow I’ll actually be able to comment like “oh my god this actually saved me back in 2022 but I never though it would update. Even tho it’s literally an Umbara chapter (sad, gives Fives PTSD flashbacks) THANK YOU [author]!!!!”
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✨Rip(ley)✨
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One of the fics that got me through my first year of college just updated after TWO YEARS of silence. Holy shit.
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Keezy Young 🌼
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i don't really care about millennial vs gen z sock length. the real question is: do I have any clean ones? the answer is no. welcome to real life. your choices are embarrassing or like really embarrassing
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Evan
@onwardandupward.bsky.social
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Blue Heron Farm
@blueheronfarm.bsky.social
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What if we all just decided not to today?
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wing is a pile of magpies
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Got to hang out with this majestic crime gremlin last week. (He was eating plastic just a minute before this photo was taken.)
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John Lipponen
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Citizen.Coping
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The Black Panther Party learned that sickle cell anemia was a neglected genetic disease affecting mostly people of African descent. Although disease had been known since 1910, it attracted little govt attention and even less funding.
So the Panthers set up a screening program. #BlackSky #Disability
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Shane Ross aka Mr. Snippy-snip
@comebackshane.bsky.social
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✨Rip(ley)✨
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Thank you! I was trying to make the connection but I’m thankfully pretty unfamiliar with neo-nazi symbology and slogans. This filled in some gaps - and the slogans presented are terrifyingly accurate to Project 2025’s motives and those of its supporters.
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Patrick S. Tomlinson
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If you're worried about brevity in your writing, don't. It took Project 2025 nine hundred pages to say fourteen words.
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✨Rip(ley)✨
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Well said.
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Amanda Smith
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This!! Start with “they want to end no fault divorce, sell national parks, and ban porn” end with tax structure.
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Amanda Smith
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“They want to eliminate national parks” is a very simple way to get just about anyone on the Stop Project 2025 train. Are there much more glaring and life-threatening goals of P25? Yes but even your most bigoted cousin does not want to see the parks system sold for parts.
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✨Rip(ley)✨
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For anyone who is obsessed with citations (haven’t double checked myself this is literally saved from elsewhere):
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✨Rip(ley)✨
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(sighs) what ISN’T anime?
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Arkancrow
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"I have no idea who is behind it" It's Kevin Roberts, the guy who invited you in 2022 for the annual meeting of HF. The guy you praised and said would play a very important role in the future. The meeting when you said you'd rather be a dictator than a dumb person.
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✨Rip(ley)✨
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He’s become very adept at manipulating the public’s perception of him, yes. He’s a horrible, horrible man but a skilled speaker and twister of words. It’s part of what makes him so popular, and so utterly terrifying.
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Tobias Harris
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Seems like "what parts of Project 2025 do you disagree with?" or "what parts of it are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal?" would be good questions for a reporter to ask the other elderly presidential candidate, but what do I know.
on.ft.com/4ePQH0e
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s.j. bagley
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making things is rad, make more things.
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✨Rip(ley)✨
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oh also: I am no longer a conservative borderline-fundie, if that wasn’t clear enough already. Classic “ran frantically in the other direction once I developed individual thought and sentience from my parents” situation.
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✨Rip(ley)✨
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Like I get it. I look queer. I am queer. Most Christian denominations are gonna be like “yep that one desperately needs a salvation pamphlet.” But this queer was raised conservative and in a strict borderline-fundie group. I can out-scripture you. I won’t agree w/ you in ANY way.
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✨Rip(ley)✨
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was sitting out watching the annual 4th of July parade the other day and 3 church organizations within 10 minutes of each other came out of the way, up into my friend’s yard to hand me a salvation notecard. I laughed at everyone of ‘em bc I look like this (pic below) but also: hey.
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✨Rip(ley)✨
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Fully agreed, but in a funny way I want to know: which Gen Z folks are saying ankle socks are weird? Bc it’s not the 20+ gang I’ll tell ya that lol. I’ve been lowkey trying to figure out if the rumor was started by Twitter and Reddit bot accs
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Trung Lê Capecchi-Nguyễn
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Also as we get older we’re not supposed to fit in with the kids! Leave them alone! It’s normal and fine for them to find things outside their own age cohort extremely cringe.
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Butt Praxis
@buttpraxis.bsky.social
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It’s so funny that AI is already a dire existential threat to humanity but only because of the carbon emissions necessary to run it
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Prisonculture
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I keep seeing references made to 'leftists' who 'want 45 to win.' Who are these leftists? Are they strangers on the internet? I just don't see this. No one I know on the Left(s) is pro-45. I know some reactionary *moderates* who are though.
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Toad Facts
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Our friend Melanophryniscus biancae is a redbelly toad from Brazil who is named after the Brazilian biologist Bianca Luiza Reinert! Like many redbelly toads, they like to lay their eggs in the water filled cavities of bromeliad plants! (photo by H. Garcia)
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