Post Office Toivola, MI

Olivetti Divisumma advertising poster. 1953.

Things that have contributed to "ruining the arts": Ideological funding cuts Austerity Gen AI "art" theft-tech Commodification Social media toxicity Things that haven't: "Woke"

I have REALLY good news for the whippersnappers who liked the guy who sang Somewhere Over the Rainbow at Mamdani’s inauguration: open.spotify.com/album/39reYi...

It's my favorite time for year where every single company 'updates their policies' in order to put you back on an email list you unsubscribed from seven months ago. capitalist hell from a million tiny cuts.

Torrenting darude_sandstorm_remix.mp4 only to discover that the file is a bootleg episode of 60 Minutes.

Realized it’s been a while since I posted my Bronze Age Fellowship of the Ring so here the lads are again

Would you like to know how to make a zine? Here's easy step-by-step instructions on how to make your own without the use of a computer by @thorazos.bsky.social

Lovely evening field trip to Game Guru board game cafe for the Game Cultures research cluster! We played Feed the Kraken, me and co-pirate @harriresearches.bsky.social scored a victory against @doktornick.bsky.social @andrewbell.bsky.social @eugeniotriana.bsky.social (+ Will & Mark, non-bskyers) 🐙🏴‍☠️

Cannot wait!

New Yorkers BLOCK ICE from leaving their parking garage ahead of a flopped mass raid attempt on Canal Street

Original drawings for They might Be Giants album Long Tall Weekend, on sale at low prices on my shop michaelkupperman.com/shop?categor...

I post a new version of this every other year or so, and every year comic book page rates stay the same. Five years ago, people were getting paid $240 in '25 dollars; today they are getting the same $150 a page.

We saw it with big tobacco, we saw it with the fossil fuels industry. When their own internal research showed the harm from their product, the defunded the research and attacked independent researchers coming to the very same conclusions. #ScienceUnderSiege

#3157 A helpful tutorial

C'est moi

For some reason the media is not mentioning that the reason GTA6 is being delayed is they fired 40 staff over threats of unionization and now the rest of their staff are revolting

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

Our story PLEASE is part of WITCHING SEASON funding NOW… The anthology is a glorious brew of talent so get backing ASAP! www.kickstarter.com/projects/phi...

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and let me know if you have any questions! 🤗

I saw a guy arguing that he would gladly pay $100 for gta6, but why? Because the producers keep forcing people at the studio to make and remake assets because they're desperate to beat fortnite? Why is it the consumer's job to carry the weight of management's clusterfuck?

In our non-DEI meritocracy, Larry Ellison's son bought CBS so that Bari Weiss could then put her sister on air.

I have been making changes on my patreon. I am determined to make good and funny work & it's pretty clear I can only do that working for myself... so I'm starting a monthly zine & a monthly print. Putting together the first zine now!

I always, always remember this line when I hear those awful tech people speak

Indie director Barbara Marques has been kidnapped by ICE. She is legally married to a U.S. citizen & was at a green card mtg when she was abducted and prevented from seeing her lawyer. Her husband Tucker May does not know where she is. Please spread the word so he can find her /1

Gutted at the news that Kaleb Horton is gone. Kaleb was a brilliant writer, of course, but he was also a gifted photographer. Years ago I encouraged him to sell his pieces. His work was so good, I told him, and people should see it. Here are some of his beautiful shots.

If you have an extra $10 a month to spare, here's a list of worker-owned cooperative news sites you might want to support: • 404 Media • Defector • The Flytrap • Flaming Hydra • The Appeal • Aftermath • Racket • Hell Gate • The 51st • The Colorado Sun • Range Media • Discourse Blog • Pop Heist

The outpouring of support from readers & colleagues is overwhelming. I can't imagine them coming together like this for a "problematic" trans woman even five years ago. If you want to help me make up the lost income from comics work, you can subscribe to my Patreon. www.patreon.com/c/scumbeliev...

Our medieval curator Alison Ray introduces Rawlinson Bodleian Library MS. Rawl. D. 252...a 15th Century necromancer's journal. This manuscript contains spells written in Latin and Middle English, and would have served as a reference for a professional sorcerer. #MedievalMonday

"Step right up Everyone′s a winner Bargains galore" #tomwaits #smallchange

It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Using someone's death to whitewash their horrible politics is the actual heinous reaction to all this

I think @carlaspeedmcneil.bsky.social is a genius, Finder fundamentally changed the way I view comics, and her return to the world of dense, beautiful, fantasy comics - or any comics - is worthy of many a hoot and holler.

the way calling for the deportation of any visible non-white person is rapidly becoming normalized is a huge cause for concern.

🚀 BCMCR 2025 Conference: "Transgressive Identities and Subjectivities"🎭 📅 Dates: 17–18 June 2025 📍 Venue: Birmingham City University (& online) 🎟 Fees: £15 online; £15/£30 in-person (incl. lunch). 📌 Register at eventbrite.co.uk/e/transgress... @mybcu.bsky.social @bcmcr.bsky.social

This guy was such a G for telling his evil wizard cyborg boss that his religion is bullshit during a work meeting.

Aha! Jim Medway proving himself to be not just a fantastic cartoonist but also a fantastic human being. medicalaidforpalestinians.enthuse.com/pf/jim-medway

I am at this thing ALL AFTERNOON SATURDAY. 831 Nostrand. I will have free comics, books and prints for sale cheap, please come by and say hi!!

The sheer number of times someone has told me "AI doesn't work for my field because of [specialized knowledge], but I can see how it's useful in other fields."

Register now for British DiGRA! Tues 20 & Wed 21 May, 9am-5.30pm BST. Full programme available on the website here: bdigra.co.uk/what-is-brit... Tickets £10 for online attendance, and £50 for in-person attendance (limited £10 in-person tickets for PGRs/unwaged) #GameStudies @doktornick.bsky.social

Be amazing if £1.5m could be invested in the UK comics scene, wouldn’t it? Someone’d need to build a fully-costed, well-reasoned argument to DCMS for such a thing first, I guess… WELL, NOW. Come see what your friends at CCIC have done! www.thecomicsculturalimpactcollective.org/CCIC%20DCMS%...

When I left the Washington Post in 2023, my colleagues and I were worried AI would hoover up our work and enable "zombies" to churn out stories based on our reporting and writing styles. Today WaPo announced a partnership with OpenAI. And here it is: Zombie Gillian Brockell. I DID NOT WRITE THIS.

Again, there are no Toilet Police. There will never be any Toilet Police. There will only ever be people choosing to be accepting, or deliberately, aggressively, hurtful.

11 DAYS UNTIL FREE COMIC BOOK DAY!!! As part of our celebrations on Saturday 3rd May, we're running a series of kids workshops with some exceptional cartoonists. Bring along your children aged 6-12 to sit down with our guest artists and also grab some free comics!

For whoever needs to hear it? These are transferable skills.

You never think you’re going to see your first Sims 2 build make it to real life

This isn't anti-DEI - it's retelling history as a story with only white men in it. The tale of the Navajo Code Talkers is essential to understanding the Allies' victory in WWII. Removing it because the people involved were non-white is segregationism.