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Every few months he trots this out hoping that this time the comics community isn't going to go ape****. And then the community drags him for a full 24 hours and he goes into hiding again.

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

My first, self-published book Tethered is available to purchase through our shop or that terrible site Order from us for some signatures and maybe a message or whatever www.tetheredcomic.com

Pichelli has since said this was taken out of context from an off-hand conversation she had at a busy con with someone who did not identify himself as a journalist and is twisting her words for click bait Which is extra fun since this is the post that took off and doesn't even include a source link

Remembering everyone's birthday. Childhood friends, distant relatives, my friend's kids, people I met just once...

what is even going on y'all

"According to NPR...diplomatic officials are instructed to turn down visa applications from anybody who worked on factchecking, content moderation 'or other activities the Trump administration considers ‘censorship’ of Americans’ speech'.

Artist alleys at comic cons bum me out sometimes because I’ll see artists who’ve inspired me my whole life grinding away hour by hour when they should all be comfortable as hell and doing whatever they want, making whatever they want. I want that for everybody!

Before I go on Etsy, are there any laid-off game artists in my follower/repost pool who would be available for a custom DnD party art commission? Four characters, a few special requests, preferably by Christmas? DM me! I have money!

Something something best films of the 21st century...

Forever a more legitimate award than the FIFA one

You might recognise our charming, talented @somengomen.bsky.social on the most recent episode of @junaebenne.bsky.social’s Gaming For The Culture podcast! They’re talking all things Narrative Development & Games Production, and it’s well worth a listen! youtu.be/M641x0WiscA?...

low-key freaking myself out over how fraught the upcoming Black History Months are going to be. Tremendous amounts of hate and mis/disinfo will be vomited at Black folk, super-galvanized by the Current Bullshit™ tenor.com/view/lie-mlk...

I’m just adding context gleaned from working in Japan for a Japanese company and working to open a studio there right now, mired with corporate lawyers and law; I wish people mentioned that Japan’s regulations make it VERY HARD for big companies to fire employees. 1/3

I literally use a version of photoshop from 2017 and would never upgrade it

Forty years ago, 90% of media outlets were spread across 50 companies. Now, just 5 companies control 90% of the media market. This consolidation hurts consumers and helps oligarchs. 🧵

NEW: I just got off the phone with a Warner Bros. Discovery spokesperson who confirmed Warner Bros. Games is included in the Netflix deal. I asked whether they would discuss plans for the division, but they refused to elaborate further at this point in time.

They need to invent a word for when a single company owns everything. Maybe something with a Greek prefix would suit?

Iconic

See also: Todd Haynes's Carol.

The Green Knight is that rare thing: a Christmas movie that fucks.

I took a break because I realized I was accidentally hitting a weekly pace, and want a more relaxed vibe than that. Sign up for my newsletter. I'm writing about Davids Brothers, Byrne, and Bowie for tomorrow. It will be a time that is beloved by all. 🤘🏾 essays.iamdavidbrothers.com

I had so much fun talking with Aysha (and Miles) about all things Sekiro on the All My Maidens podcast. Appreciate you having me on, and who knows? Maybe one day I'll finally play another FromSoft game... Or simply fight Genichiro again to relax. Give it a listen now. Because hesitation is defeat.

“When participants used ChatGPT to draft essays, brain scans revealed a 47% drop in neural connectivity across regions associated with memory, language, & critical reasoning. Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.”🧪

These people want legal clearance for murder at scale, and they can just say it out loud, in public. Meanwhile, in here, if we get a little colorful expressing our derision for these monsters, the ban-hammer finds us with a pointed quickness.

Marketplace asymmetry exists in every creative industry, for sure. Getting a movie or album into a big box store always meant it would move more units than if it was only carried by niche retailers. But asymmetry like *this* seems unique, and only makes the ongoing payment processor issues worse.

One of the many things worth thinking about re: Steam's ban on Horses is how it highlights is the centralization problem caused by having such a monolithic (and maybe mono-something-else) retail giant. Independent studios with even humble commercial aspirations are chained to Valve's whims.

this is bad

Everything is a goddamn scam.

If you're trying to ditch NYT Games, which you should be since their games singlehandedly prop up the entire dogshit rag financially, you should switch to Puzzmo. An annual sub is 50% off today for a crazy $19 and as a bonus doesn't enable the genocides of Palestinians and trans people

The next phase of the games industry is large-scale unionization actually

man it really is very demoralizing to be bowing and scraping for months to get a crumb of coverage of a book as criticism is basically sidelined in every publication just to see some shit like olivia nuzzi's crap get more and more and more and more and more oxygen lol

I mean this really isn't about grading rubrics or the quality of student thought or free speech at all. It's about systematically eliminating trans people from public life.

Sekiro until my fine motor skills and reaction times deteriorate. Then probably, perhaps appropriately, Grim Fandango.

This is what the medium of comics is for

Is this anything?

The purpose of a system of is what it does.

They want to pick every last scrap of meat clean off your bones, the brain from your skull… and then hope the Big Computer will continue marionetting your skeleton through an endless approximation of what they believe to be your value. They are useless and you are not - and that terrifies them.

So many layoffs simply kept companies that were already in profit… further into profit. So much money thrown after genAI that executives were told - by their workers - wasn’t worth it. Forget the games they have stolen from the future - what about the food stolen from their own worker’s mouths?

As I watch the desperate posts of talented, hardworking people losing their homes, begging for help to feed their kids, trying frantically to catch any work… I can’t help but feel that those who steered our industry into this storm need to face similar consequences to the Icelandic bankers of 2008.

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I have written this thread up into a blog post, it has more extensive links to sources & previous conversations about fake content & users on the internet. It's easier to share, if you want to make sure your friends don't get caught in that honeypot of a corporate blogpost aramzs.xyz/microblogs/d...

Look, if you're not an expert you wouldn't know, but this chart is bullshit. They could not possibly measure this as 1. How can you tell for sure? There's no reliable automated way. 2. You're not counting the many sites that are blocking crawlers now. But there's an even more important reason...

with all disrespect to the brands, 30% off is really not all that exciting in this economy

AI Data Centers are the new pollutant factories to put into black neighborhoods that they pretend wont kill us. Gotta love that old school environmental racism.

this is madness www.rte.ie/news/2025/11...

Trigger warning for SA and also this is heartbreaking