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Artist and Instructor in the SF Bay Area.
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The Washington Post's avatar The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com
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Former president Donald Trump sought Friday to distance himself from a conservative think tank’s plan, known as Project 2025, for the next Republican presidency, as Democrats work to make it a political vulnerability for Trump in the November election.

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Brian Kolm's avatar Brian Kolm @briankolm.bsky.social
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The art is wonderful, really great!

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skutch's avatar skutch @skutchdraws.bsky.social
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Lindsay Ellis has finally uploaded her essay about Yoko Ono and the Beatles to youtube and I was asked to draw the thumbnail illustration. Please check out Lindsay's video! It's some of her best work and I am honored to have been allowed to contribute a small part to it!

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Don Moynihan's avatar Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social
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There was no GOP party platform in 2020, and Trump wants to shrink the proposed 2024 one. He opposes providing detail on how radical his second term will be because he knows its unpopular. Make no mistake: Project 2025 was written by Trump appointees & loyalists. Its their shared agenda.

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L O L G O P's avatar L O L G O P @lolgop.bsky.social
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The press wasn't even sure how to cover it before he denied it. It is now officially "a story."

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Faine Greenwood's avatar Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social
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The fact that Trump is actually weakly attempting to pretend he doesn’t back Project 2025 = EXACTLY why you need to be telling everyone you know about their evil, violent plans.

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Iron Spike's avatar Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social
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In a purely bloodless, bottom-line sense, nuking the Iron Circus Twitter of +20k followers would make no appreciable difference to our results. Zero! How the fuck did it all rot away this quickly? ...I mean, I know the partial answer, we all do. But still.

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Iron Spike's avatar Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social
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When you run a store or a BackerKit, you can see all the analytics. Where people come from. It can get really granular. We launched the Lackadaisy store rebuild a few hours ago, and sales are humming along, and. Twitter isn't even in the top 5 referrers. Unthinkable, 5 years ago.

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Comics in the Golden Age's avatar Comics in the Golden Age @comicsinthega.bsky.social
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My #TopShelfFriday entry this week is a comic fanzine from 1970, The Rocket’s Blast Special #8. It has a cover by Don Newton and includes a two-page retelling of Captain Marvel's origin also drawn by Newton. #Shazam!

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Mr. Tyler Crook 's avatar Mr. Tyler Crook @mrtylercrook.bsky.social
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This month’s art drop features covers and pages I did for Marvel and DC, including a short story that I worked on with R.L. Stein!

Drop by www.mistercrook.com/... to see all the rare and interesting pieces in this batch!

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Matt Sheridan's avatar Matt Sheridan @mattsheridan.bsky.social
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It’s official: “Real life” is now a valid link in a game of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon.

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Bethany Doolin 's avatar Bethany Doolin @bethanydoolin.bsky.social
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Trump is trying to claim Project 2025 has nothing to do with him. It is to going to be an albatross for the GOP.

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Paul Tobin's avatar Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social
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Phantasmo came out at around the same time. Maybe earlier? But Mighty Man predates them both. There may be someone earlier, but this is just off the top of my head.

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Kurt Busiek's avatar Kurt Busiek @kurtbusiek.bsky.social
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Colossal Boy predates Rita. But before them, there's always this guy.

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Phil McAndrew's avatar Phil McAndrew @philmcandrew.bsky.social
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Hey!!! If you work in comics in the US, please spend a few minutes filling out this survey! IT'S IMPORTANT!!!!!!

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Z Gosck's avatar Z Gosck @zigmenthotep.bsky.social
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"I guess I'll try Cara, I mean it can't be as bad as Instagram, right?"

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Stephen Blackmoore's avatar Stephen Blackmoore @sblackmoore.bsky.social
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It's just getting started, folks.

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Paul Crider's avatar Paul Crider @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com
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Just called Anna Eshoo. My script was just a bit too long to fit in a skeet, so attaching it as an image.

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Greg Pak's avatar Greg Pak @gregpak.bsky.social
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These bigots are coming for all of us, whether we live in their states or not. Call your US reps and tell them to support AOC's call to impeach corrupt SCOTUS justices. Call your US senators and tell them to tell Durbin to haul Alito and Thomas before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

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Memento Rori's avatar Memento Rori @roricomics.bsky.social
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It's understandable that ppl don't know what to do, we've been shunted into this idea that a narrow version of electoral politics is the ONLY path to change. We DO have to vote, but there is SO MUCH MORE. Places you can start: mutual aid groups (www.mutualaidhub.org)
community action groups
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Thomas Zimmer's avatar Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social
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Kevin Roberts believes he’s a noble defender of “real America” against a totalitarian “woke,” “globalist” assault from without and within.

“Project 2025” is his declaration of war on multiracial pluralism.

I wrote about his extremist worldview here:

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thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/project-20...

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Jeffrey Vagle's avatar Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me
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What is Heritage rebelling against?

- Civil rights
- Regulation of financial markets, environment, consumer goods, antitrust
- Marriage equality
- Fair immigration
- Anything that they see as discriminatory against white people and their brand of Christianity

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Comics in the Golden Age's avatar Comics in the Golden Age @comicsinthega.bsky.social
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And now I've gotten to Alex Toth's presentation art for Hanna-Barbera. Spectacular stuff.

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earlyworm's avatar earlyworm @theearlyworm.bsky.social
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CHIEF JUSTICE V. THE WOMEN OF THE UNITED STATES The MAGA majority wants to deliver Trump a government conscripted in an “effort to belittle and degrade women,” and GOP men would like women to stop being so “hysterical” about it, writes Dahlia Lithwick.

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Internet Archive's avatar Internet Archive @archive.org
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You want your MTV? ⬇️

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Katie Mack's avatar Katie Mack @astrokatie.com
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Part of a good thread that illustrates why I don’t hang out on Twitter/X anymore

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Not Writing Games's avatar Not Writing Games @notwritinggames.bsky.social
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Shhhhh another season of the best podcast about TTRPGs is coming shhhhh

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Ryan's avatar Ryan @snarfed.org
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Mainly just Bluesky => fediverse was affected, and it should be working again now. Didn't backfill everything, there's a window of missing bridged interactions. More debugging and cleanup to do, but hopefully we're out of the woods now.

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Ken Lowery's avatar Ken Lowery @kenlowery.bsky.social
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Did you see this real nice article

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Ayo 's avatar Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social
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This is one of the best comics of all time and Lynda put it on the back cover of her book. She really said “I’ll give you that one for free”

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luke the myoclonic jerk's avatar luke the myoclonic jerk @coolhand.bsky.social
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The direct quotes are pretty damning. Dude has no idea what he’s talking about

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Fidel Destro's avatar Fidel Destro @fideldestro.bsky.social
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And heck, you can see that in Geometry Nodes over the last year, as they've introduced the ability to make tools with UI inside of it. Blender is a development environment with its own visual programming languages. Pretty powerful!

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Brian Kolm's avatar Brian Kolm @briankolm.bsky.social
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Making a Blender-based app that's a fake Adobe After Effects, most of the power is there all ready. Just having a 2d scene that's more than grease pencil, matte video without going to a seperate window, nesting comps, able to drag things around by eye instead of sliders, etc. It would by amazing.

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Fidel Destro's avatar Fidel Destro @fideldestro.bsky.social
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So, the Blender Foundation 1) stops having to deal with add-ons and keeping track of their creators, 2) promotes a single centralized location for all free Blender tools, and 3) establishes the platform that will allow offering even more extreme Blender modifications. This is really huge for them.

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Fidel Destro's avatar Fidel Destro @fideldestro.bsky.social
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...but this also starts to solve a lot of the maintenance and discoverability issues that have hung around add-ons for their lifetime. Many people don't know they're there at all. People argue several should be standard parts of Blender (Node Wrangler, notably).

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Fidel Destro's avatar Fidel Destro @fideldestro.bsky.social
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Ton Roosendaal, Blender's creator, has been pushing for it to become more of a platform. His vision is for there to be an entire ecosystem of Blender-based apps with individual purposes and UIs, all developed on top of it, and I'm pretty sure the Extension Platform is the start of that.

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Fidel Destro's avatar Fidel Destro @fideldestro.bsky.social
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To summarize, Blender has traditionally included a huge number of add-ons, that are packaged with the main program, but aren't part of it, and aren't maintained by the Blender Foundation. Some are considered quite important. This version of Blender aims to change that fundamentally.

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C. Larsen's avatar C. Larsen @larsenproject.bsky.social
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None of those felt regal enough, but I did like a head shape from a scribbling session, so I worked that out into something.

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C. Larsen's avatar C. Larsen @larsenproject.bsky.social
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I went through a round of designs where I made him a bit younger. Tried to give him a Sesshomaru vibe (but in keeping with the design style of ORCS!, so more medieval European type hair).

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Brian Kolm's avatar Brian Kolm @briankolm.bsky.social
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In stead of a simplified version of the novel, how about a graphic novel adaption (checked out from the library?). It's probably more accurate then some simplified versions and some folks will find it engaging with beautiful art as part of it.

cloverpress.us/collections/...

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Lukasz Kowalczuk's avatar Lukasz Kowalczuk @elkowalczuk.bsky.social
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I did ttrpg character sheet comic strip. It's for HELLPOWER (written by Paweł Kicman). Find, follow and support this project when the time will come.

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