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Reinder Dijkhuis@reinderdijkhuis.bsky.social |
36 followers 93 following 385 posts
Ex-ex-translator, also artist, writer, songwriter. Currently looking for work in my field.
Current iteration of my blog: blog.reinderdijkhuis.com
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Alicia
@agbutteriss.bsky.social
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Also, like. I know the UK system is radically different, but, a couple years ago, the Conservative Party had a big multi-stage televised spectacle to decide the new leader/PM. The end result was Liz Truss. The Dems can probably do better than _that_, but "better than Biden" is not a sure bet.
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Andrew Hickey
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Plus, Patreon was there when I was a nobody, while these other places are only interested now I've built something without them. All else being equal, better to be part of the ecosystem that allows small creators to flourish than to pull the ladder up
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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this was one of my points in my conversation with ezra on his podcast: there is a large delta separating what people think american political parties are and what american political parties actually are
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off-brandon
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whenever i start to have faith that a particular piece of awful misinfo will fade away i remember that people still think MSG is bad for you because of a racist disinfo campaign from 50 fucking years ago and they didn't even have facebook groups and "citizen journalists" back then
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rahaeli
@rahaeli.bsky.social
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Because when -- not if -- the garbage machine completely hallucinates your total tax obligation, you will be the one liable for any penalties the IRS levies on you unless you shell out even more money over and above TurboTax's already high fees.
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rahaeli
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Keep in mind when reading this story: "I relied upon the software to do my taxes for me and it calculated them incorrectly" is not automatically a defense to an IRS investigation and you will be liable for any penalties... unless you pay for TurboTax's "audit protection" service
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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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The Party of Limited Government
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Stephen Wolf
@stephenwolf.bsky.social
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A reminder that if Trump wins & purges the civil service to replace it with loyalists as planned, all sorts of govt data will become totally untrustworthy. The House GOP is already trying to rig the census to screw Democrats in redistricting after Trump's first-term attempt failed
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L O L G O P
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Maybe this is the only poll people should be talking about today.
jessica.substack.com/p/most-ameri...
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Joe Katz
@joekatz45.bsky.social
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A lot of important work is necessary down ballot
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Shepherd
@neolithicsheep.bsky.social
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Good post focused on the presidential election. If you want to help my beloved, beleaguered south fight back against gerrymandering and anti-democratic capture, here's a few orgs that can help:
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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One of conservatives top priorities is denying kids the message that they have control over their own bodies and their own sexuality because that makes it harder for pedocons like Trump to get away with raping them
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CJ đłïžâđđ€
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Once this whole thing is done with, we all need to have a very serious talk amongst ourselves about ageism because some of the folks on here who've REALY been into the discourse who would absolutely not survive a meeting with h.r. if they said these things about an elderly coworker.
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Reinder Dijkhuis
@reinderdijkhuis.bsky.social
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This is why groceries are always a squareish bag with a leek sticking out.
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Claire Willett
@clairewillett.bsky.social
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âTrump's Project 2025 wants to take money out of your wallet and give it to your bossâ is like verbatim what we should be putting on billboards for undecided voters in swing states
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Reinder Dijkhuis
@reinderdijkhuis.bsky.social
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Doing this frees up vital financial resources for you to give to the charity or campaign of your choiceâŠÂ or to spend on hookers and blow. This is also a better way to spend your money than continuing to prop up the NYT.
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Reinder Dijkhuis
@reinderdijkhuis.bsky.social
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If you're a New York Times subscriber, you may have forgotten to cancel. No problem! I forget important stuff all the time. Just put a note in your calendar to cancel your subscription at the earliest possible opportunity.
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Melissa Gira Grant
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Project 2025 includes the call to âoutlawâ porn. If you want to understand what they mean by that? Look to what these groups are already fighting âporn,â and their connections to anti-gender movements outside the US. I start that analysis here:
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@napoleon-the-pig.bsky.social
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For years now the so called centrists are the ones who act like babies and are quick to stick a knife in the back of the ability of the party to function, with the left being the adults able to act strategically, all contrary to what many may think.
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Nicholas Grossman
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Reps. Ilhan Omar, Cori Bush and AOC have all put out "Biden is the nominee, support him" statements. The left-most part of the Democratic Party fighting to keep him while the right-most partâcentrists, swing district Reps, NeverTrumpers, etc.âpush for him to drop out was not on many Bingo cards.
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Navigator Research
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đš NEW POLL: Opposition to Project 2025 grows as people learn more about the plan. After reading 19 proposed policies for Project 2025, opposition grows from 49% to 63% (net +14) while support for the plan declines from 31% to 24% (net -7%).
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Greg Pak
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This is it. I used to say this about Paul Ryanâs unceasing efforts to kill Obamacare without any replacement. He just wanted poor and sick people to die.
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Greg Pak
@gregpak.bsky.social
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Trumpâs Project 2025 seems to expect poor people with health problems to simply stop having health problems.
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Tom Ewing
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One of the things about cutting out a load of sugar from your diet is you sometimes encounter a thing you used to eat a lot and not really think of as particularly sweet and think fuck me whatâs in this thing (âEat Naturalâ bars I am looking at you)
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John Bull
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Right-To-Buy is the PERFECT example of Thatcherism eating itself. Selling council houses creates Tory voters. But they also blocked councils building more. So rather than creating a permanent production line of Tory voters, they created a finite source and then depleted it, creating social harm.
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Lupita Nihongo
@otsumamiboy.bsky.social
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I got an iPad thatâs like 14 years old or something that I use just to watch Disenchantment in my bedroom as I try to sleep and Netflix sent me SNAIL MAIL to tell me that they are going to stop supporting that iPad and I think they would have sent me a telegram if they could have.
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Jarrod Baker
@jarrodbaker.bsky.social
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unfortunately we only treat art as having a financial value when itâs enriching someone other than artists
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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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Reinder Dijkhuis
@reinderdijkhuis.bsky.social
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And the longer I go on, the more scared I get of actually committing to anything and challenging myself. It's not sustainable this way. I am open to advice in this case, by the way.
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Reinder Dijkhuis
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* And I guess dog walks instead of running. My meds work and don't destroy my bones like prednisolone would. I can run again. I don't. All of these are work that needs to be done! But they're turning my days into goo.
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Reinder Dijkhuis
@reinderdijkhuis.bsky.social
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Easy, repetitive work includes: * Data entry in WordPress to bring my old webcomic back into a self-hosted setup. * Character art, essentially standing figures that show what a character looks like. * Endless listening/speech review in Duolingo instead of progressing.âŠ
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Reinder Dijkhuis
@reinderdijkhuis.bsky.social
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But I do need to go back to where I was 16 months ago, drawing one acceptable page of Tess Durban every other day or so. Sometimes faster. They weren't always brilliant but they were as good as I could make them, and kept the story going.
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Reinder Dijkhuis
@reinderdijkhuis.bsky.social
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Whether the cause is long Covid, inflammation from arthritis, the meds I take against arthritis, or something else, I got brain fog and it's not getting any better. Which is why I have done so much easy, repetitive work lately, over more challenging, engaging activities in all areas of my life.
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Reinder Dijkhuis
@reinderdijkhuis.bsky.social
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I don't know what is a good way to get myself back on the horse of drawing what needs to be drawn, as well as I'm able, in reasonable time, with focus. Focus has been a problem for over a year now. This thread is about as long as I can sustain any argument or train of thought already.
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Reinder Dijkhuis
@reinderdijkhuis.bsky.social
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âŠbut the mechanism is the same. You're swapping out challenging and temporarily frustrating for simple but ultimately boring. And that's what I did and it made the harder stuff to draw only more frustrating ( I get stuck all the time now ).
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Reinder Dijkhuis
@reinderdijkhuis.bsky.social
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And this is one of many ways a webcomic can die. You are bored, your comic has become boring so readers are bored. And at the end of that process, you're still falling behind. I've seen it happen. I've had it happen. Doing simple illustrations is an atypical version of that processâŠ
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Reinder Dijkhuis
@reinderdijkhuis.bsky.social
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As a side-note: simplicity is great! Often. If its goal is to make the comic work better, or keep it readable at small sizes, or eliminate distractions. But if you're simplifying to stay on track, that's not what's happening. Anyway, rinse, lather repeat.
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Reinder Dijkhuis
@reinderdijkhuis.bsky.social
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In addition, you're bored. You're drawing the same damn thing every day. Your attention wavers and that plus the complex scene you've just half-assed in twice the time causes you to fall behind. So, to get back on schedule, you simplify *more*.
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Reinder Dijkhuis
@reinderdijkhuis.bsky.social
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You're not being challenged; your practice at drawing more complex scenes falls off, so the next time you absolutely need to get the complex idea out, you're not sure you can do it. Or maybe you can no longer do it for real, or it takes much longer.
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Reinder Dijkhuis
@reinderdijkhuis.bsky.social
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You have a webcomic, but keeping up the schedule is hard. You decide to make your next episode simpler and that works. Suddenly, you're on time again! For a while! But what you're drawing is less interesting and doesn't work quite as well.
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Reinder Dijkhuis
@reinderdijkhuis.bsky.social
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This may honestly be where I've gone wrong in the past six months or so: falling into a version of the 'I'll do something easy just to get something out without too much frustration or delay' trap. And I knew about the trap! Here's how the typical version works: (continues)
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Prisonculture
@prisonculture.bsky.social
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I believe them that they will do this almost immediately upon taking office again. I have lots of questions about what we do on Left(s) about this. Who is working on this now? [I'm sure some groups must be]
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Joshua Erlich
@joshuaerlich.bsky.social
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the implication of âunelected bureaucratsâ is that theyâre boring technocrats who arenât politically accountable. thatâs ⊠exactly who you want handling regulation. judges are not disinterested, not experts, and not politically accountable. thatâs obviously worse!
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE
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tbf this is pretty much exactly what i think we are doing and if biden wins he should bury the hatchet deep in the back of every congress dem who tried to shiv him
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ryan cooper
@ryanlcooper.com
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median second term Trump staffer
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Amy Jo Cousins
@ajcousins.bsky.social
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Project 2025 deportations will require violence. Period. The agencies involved are staffed w/people who will either 1) enthusiastically do so, or 2) go along w/no protest. We know this bc when told to take kids from parents & deport mom/dad w/no way to find kids--horrific--they executed seamlessly.
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Kelly Turnbull
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Banging the âjust do your comic in black and white if youâre only colouring it for the sake of having a colour comicâ drum some more, but this was the quality jump in my stuff when I stopped worrying about planning everything out like a colouring book to paint later.
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Tze Ming Mok è«ćżæ
@tzemingdynasty.bsky.social
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As my friend Dougal McNeill put it: "What is an author? Or, one for the "enshittification" files of late capitalism."
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Tze Ming Mok è«ćżæ
@tzemingdynasty.bsky.social
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Ah haha oh god, VUW English Department is closing its Facebook page because Meta AI is automatically responding to comments there like it is the actual English Department. I don't actually know how this is not illegal.
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Jed Hartman
@elysdir.bsky.social
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âA Beloved Tech Blog Is Now Publishing AI Articles Under the Names of Its Old Human Staffâ
âTUAW⊠was sold to ⊠a company in Hong Kong, and has now stolen its old workers' identities and is running their old work through AI summarizers.â
www.404media.co/a-beloved-te...
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