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Tattooer, illustrator and former animator
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Jarrod Baker's avatar Jarrod Baker @jarrodbaker.bsky.social
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imagine how much great art could have been created if we took a fraction of the money spent on getting computers to make shitty art and gave it to actual artists

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nic tattoos's avatar nic tattoos @nicterhorst.bsky.social
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Oh oh! How about these ones: How many jobs do you have? How many jobs do your artists have? Did you pay enough to be a priority project? Do you think your artists WANT to be late??

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nic tattoos's avatar nic tattoos @nicterhorst.bsky.social
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I know this is a very controversial way to think, but I am also ready to ask questions like: Would YOU do work over Xmas if you weren't getting paid until end of Q1 next year? How many months rent does an average advance cover and why isn't the length of time it takes to make a book?

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nic tattoos's avatar nic tattoos @nicterhorst.bsky.social
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Offering some unsolicited advice to comics as an industry, but if you like... Paid people a living wage, artists wouldn't hand in pages late. Just food for thot

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WildGorillaMan's avatar WildGorillaMan @wildgorillaman.bsky.social
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Least sociopathic LinkedIn post ever Like infinite monkeys with typewriters eventually you get a LinkedIn post that makes sense

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Liz Thurmond's avatar Liz Thurmond @countmystars.bsky.social
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Pro tip: call the Project 2025 1-800 number and complain about it to them. The people answering the phones don’t seem to know what the plan even is.

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nic tattoos's avatar nic tattoos @nicterhorst.bsky.social
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If they didn't want a show called piglets they should stop being pigs

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Melissa Gira Grant's avatar Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com
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Project 2025 includes the call to “outlaw” porn. If you want to understand what they mean by that? Look to what these groups are already fighting “porn,” and their connections to anti-gender movements outside the US. I start that analysis here:

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Erin Biba's avatar Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social
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For a while now I have had this icky feeling that a lot of our use of AI is us just using it to find examples to show each other how bad AI is and TBH I think we should probably all stop doing that cause excessive energy consumption doesn't differentiate between real use and joke use. 😬

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Kelly Turnbull's avatar 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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Han✨'s avatar Han✨ @hannahtempler.com
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drew gooden put it succinctly in his video: that most AI-gen content is just sort of like something a human could do, but less good

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nic tattoos's avatar nic tattoos @nicterhorst.bsky.social
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Literally the last client I had last week was ALSO like an entire foot taller than me -- I attract the talls

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nic tattoos's avatar nic tattoos @nicterhorst.bsky.social
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This will be you n me when you're getting tattooed LOL (I'm 5'3")

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nic tattoos's avatar nic tattoos @nicterhorst.bsky.social
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Still reeling from hearing about friends in recovery from Surgery and Illness getting flowers with notes that basically said "do you think you'll get pages in this week?"

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Marie Enger's avatar 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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nic tattoos's avatar nic tattoos @nicterhorst.bsky.social
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I knowwww -- like we never stopped masking at the shop. Idk if we ever really will.

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Popehat's avatar Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social
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Fight against daunting odds, because it’s the right thing to do, and because sometimes you win.

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nic tattoos's avatar nic tattoos @nicterhorst.bsky.social
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Beyond helping engagement, nothing helps my BRAIN more than seeing the dumb little thing that made you happy about my art. I try to reply or at least ♥️ all the comments so people know I saw them and I appreciate them 🥹💖

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Kim Hu's avatar Kim Hu @kimhu.bsky.social
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Bluesky open talk, art gang chime in! For me, even 'silly' comments are very welcome! I might not reply every time, because what do I say to '💗' (and even then I will often leave an emoji in return, still). But I TREASURE them. It lets me know actual people perceived me, and they liked what I did.

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nic tattoos's avatar nic tattoos @nicterhorst.bsky.social
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"Again" is... Not the word we should be using here. It hasn't gone away. It hasn't become endemic/a 'normal' severity cold/flu. It still sucks to get, and it's picking up steam again. Keep getting boosters. Keep wearing masks in public spaces. Idk why folks... Stopped (barring mask bans 🫠)

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nic tattoos's avatar nic tattoos @nicterhorst.bsky.social
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Created a super simple dice pool system today to play an impromptu ttrpg with some kiddos at the cottage and 😭 damn if kids being into shit isn't the cutest thing ever

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nic tattoos's avatar nic tattoos @nicterhorst.bsky.social
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It's a million percent socmed deterioration and people not adjusting to checking on their favs yet 😞

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Ian Boudreau's avatar Ian Boudreau @iboudreau.bsky.social
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The thing that's obvious to everyone and that nobody can actually write in the press is that the American (and yes, I'm sure elsewhere too) right wing is led by bad people and the object is to make more people extremely bad in basically every respect. It's anti-society

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Pavel's avatar Pavel @spavel.bsky.social
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Well this is grim

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nic tattoos's avatar nic tattoos @nicterhorst.bsky.social
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Have some trans joy for the skyline. If you don't want to see nude (expressly) trans figures, please just scroll on by.

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nic tattoos's avatar nic tattoos @nicterhorst.bsky.social
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It's crazy. Even on instagram. I'm hanging on by a thread out here

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Iron Spike's avatar Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social
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One last bump. I dunno, I feel the need to talk about this because I feel like I'm especially suited to disclosing my analytics. Iron Circus is having the best years of its existence; there's no possibility the drop in social media promo efficacy is just People Hate Us, Now. No, we are doing GREAT.

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Ice💙's avatar Ice💙 @iceghost.bsky.social
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Finances are extremely rough right now but im already way loaded up with work for the moment so any little bit helps if anyone is feeling generous Ko-fi.com/iceghost

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Chloé Stawski 's avatar Chloé Stawski @chlowski.bsky.social
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(nsfw) I kinda wanna do more of these

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