Jamie McKelvie

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I make comics. My new book ONE FOR SORROW starts in June 2024, from DSTLRY. I also drew The Wicked & The Divine, wrote Captain Carter, designed Captain Marvel and Ms Marvel, amongst others. I have ADHD if you're wondering why I'm like this.

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Tade Thompson

She was at Glastonbury recently.

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Parker

There is still some joy in the world

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multiple protesters and a journalist were shot

Nationwide protests and general strike called in Kenya today.

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“Israel struck with overwhelming force, hitting it with *eight* 2,000-pound bombs… Scores of Palestinians in the area around the compound—which was home to a market, a water source and a soup kitchen serving displaced civilians—were killed and hundreds wounded.”

To Target a Top Militant, Israel Rained Down Eight Tons of Bombsapple.news Huge deployment of firepower, after years of failed attempts to kill Hamas military commander Mohammed Deif, exacted a heavy civilian toll

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Stacy King

nooooo

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Don't miss DSTLRY's return to SDCC 2024 🎉 Join us for all the action July 24-28! Signings, Panels, Live Drawing! Stay tuned for more announcements 😈

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48 Hours to go for THE WICKED + THE DIVINE: THE COVERS VERSION kickstarter. A 200% funded celebration of the 10 years anniversary of hot mess gods. Hurrah! www.kickstarter.com/projects/kat...

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An asshole with twenty dollars is his own problem. An asshole with a billion dollars is everyone's problem.

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braak

100%. I've blocked for the safety of an annoying person rather than expose them to followers by replying etc. Even just leaving it in the replies of a post that goes big can start something.

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The idea that being blocked is an aggressive act or "social violence" or whatever is maybe the single most ridiculous thing about social media I block all the time. Vibes are bad? One too many posts about kinks I really don't wanna see? It's literally just a curation tool for your account.

this is just my personal opinion and you may disagree with me. but i would also be cautious about ascribing too much meaning behind being blocked by someone with a lot of followers who gets a lot of replies all the time. or being blocked by anyone at all!

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Asking publicly for accountability shouldn’t be considered inherently threatening. Working towards justice doesn’t have to be this merciless, hardening, damning slog. All of us fuck up. All of us deserve a chance to make amends, to do the collective work of repair.

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CHOAM Nomsky 💭

Different political systems, sure, but even the exit polls here were pretty off this year.

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Sarah K

I love the FAM Easter eggs in the Expanse.

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The real shock for me was learning how they do a heart with their hands

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c______z

Yep. My point is just that you need it on the moon whereas you don't here thanks to atmosphere and as you say, the magnetic field.

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Steve Jeffery 🍸😷📚

This is what always kills me. If you've got the tech to make Mars habitable, you've got the tech to fix Earth you pricks.

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Ted & Ro

Lunar base is mostly underground too, iirc.

(there's a scene in For All Mankind where an unexpected solar flare has all the astronauts who are too far from base on the Moon's surface racing for caves, for that reason.)

If you're wondering what use a cave on the moon would have for humans, as far as I understand the main one is rock/regolith is a decent barrier to solar and cosmic radiation. Without the protection of an atmosphere and magnetic field like on Earth, risks to humans are much higher on the surface.

It's surprising (or was to me, at least) how quickly radiation levels drop off as the depth of regolith protection increases. It's been floated as an idea for space stations too.

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Robin Kimball

I mean, this is a side benefit.

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party of grifters, from top to bottom. same dudes who pump crypto and AI are now pumping Trumpism: the image of a robust, dynamic, businessman lifestyle, without producing or doing anything of actual value to anyone

Very similar opinions on being able to do what they want to do without other people disagreeing with them

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Robin Kimball

Radiation!! It's bad up there

Yeah. It is very much a big deal that AI is being trained on people's work without consent.

Knowing something is possible, or even likely, is different than knowing it happened. And consent matters. YouTubers have long worried their work was being taken to train AI - but no one had proved it until we did.

To cede that part of the argument because it's already happened is a bad idea.

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Same goes for "contests." Much cheaper for a company to pay $1000 to one of a thousand contestants than to pay $5k for one commissioned artist.

Cannot emphasize enough, never do work for “exposure.” Not only is your time worth something, but if the company is making money, you should be making money, too.

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Oh my god

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Trump just named as his #2 a guy who called for insurrection charges against a journalist for writing an op-ed & wants to censor academics and seize the assets of nonprofits he opposes. The "free speech" brigades haven't said a goddamn thing. And their benefactor just pledged $150m to elect him.