MK Reed - 20201 @ ECCC

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My takeaway from reading this today is that the "talks most, says least" C-Suite bros are making technology to replace people, a resource that there's not actually a shortage of, and are poised to unleash hell on us for VC money. I hope they all go step on legos.

This excerpt from Laura Preston's n+1 piece is horrifying. It's awful enough that this happened. To boast about it as proof of technology is sociopathic.

An Age of Hyperabundance | Laura Prestonwww.nplusonemag.com Everyone at this conference kept invoking loneliness and claiming the antidote was conversation. That didn’t track with my own experience. My most desperate moments of loneliness have been in conversa...

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*drawing backgrounds* I regret setting this comic in a location

As much as I hate discourse participation: imagine a coworker came up to you while working and was like, "Hey, Monday was alright but Tuesday you were pretty shit. Let's suck less today, yeah?" You don't know this dude's name, what department he's in, or any specific thing he's even referring to.

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M5B with Joe Flood & the amazing @shing.bsky.social ✌️

THE EXHIBITORS PAGE IS LIVE AND READY FOR YOU TO FIND YOUR FAVORITES! www.smallpressexpo.com/exhibitors/

OH HELL YEAH EM CARROLL NOM IN THE NOT COMICS SPECIFIC AWARD!!!

Here are your 2024 World Fantasy Awards finalist, including @wtalabi.bsky.social, @marthawells.bsky.social, @kellylink.bsky.social, @amalelmohtar.com, and @ygoldst.bsky.social. A lotta wonderful books, stories, and people on this ballot!

Here are your 2024 World Fantasy Award finalistsastrolabe.aidanmoher.com Yael Goldstein-Love, Wole Talabi, Kelly Link, and Martha Wells headline the 2024 World Fantasy Awards ballot.

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lord, grant me the joy I felt at the Scholastic Book Fair

Sometimes you get a piece of packing material the day before a session and think "I'll make a fun side mission terrain with this" and then your players hyperfocus on the side piece for the whole session, and this is a feature not a bug. 💚

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For. Realz.

"The Price Of Zines Is Too Damn High" by riotmuffin archive.org/details/the-...

The Price Of Zines Is Too Damn High : riotmuffin : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archivearchive.org People really are out there charging $9, $10, $11, $12, $13, $15, TWENTY DOLLARS for zines in the year of our lorde 2024!! Wat in tarnation!This zine (do not...

This summer I've been doing a bunch of dyeing and this week I tried dying with elmer's glue as a resist (what prevents dye from reaching fabric) because it was what I had on hand and didn't want to buy the stuff people actually use for this for time reasons/ the internet told me it was acceptable.

RS came to SPX as a teen at the old hotel with her dad, with a minicomic named Pocky that was very good for her age, so I kept her name in my head. This is one of my favorite all time stand alone comics.

Oh my god, my Simpsons sappyposting reminded me to seek out a devastatingly beautiful webcomic I’d read like 15 years ago I found it and it turns out it was done by REBECCA SUGAR???? I don’t think I had any idea who Rebecca was, back when the comic dropped!!!! (TW: all the feels)

Don't Cry for Me, I'm Already Dead by Rebecca Sugarimgur.com Discover the magic of the internet at Imgur, a community powered entertainment destination. Lift your spirits with funny jokes, trending memes, entertaining gifs, inspiring stories, viral videos, and ...

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My favorite tried-and-true resistance tactic: Being Extremely Fucking Annoying.

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The purpose of the postmenopausal female is to defend Pigsty Alley from murderous gangs and guzheng assassins

The purpose of the postmenopausal female is to solve all your murders and write multiple bestselling novels

I was at what will probably be my last in person quilt guild meeting for the next year (because of school/ class days conflict) and it's one of the few spaces I've been able to use my real name without once hearing jokes, and I think that realization broke my brain a little.

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The world is a weird, weird place, but I've been cooking up something cool with @mkreed.bsky.social . Despite everything Lake says "hi" and hopes you're hydrating. Stay tuned.

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a post I made a couple years ago about corporate-made/purity driven art vs indie pulp expression www.tumblr.com/artofchira/7...

FTC antitrust intake form, if you perhaps are a bit miffed about certain news today. www.ftc.gov/advice-guida...

Antitrust Complaint Intakewww.ftc.gov The official website of the Federal Trade Commission, protecting America’s consumers for over 100 years.

I opened up my package in front of Pete and he immediately needed to know what it wasbso the search term is: Nursing Clipboard.

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We did a cool blog post over here about WHERE TO HOST YOUR WEBCOMIC if you want a dedicated site instead of a free place like Webtoon or something. Just gonna leave it here for folks who like exploring options! 🔥 www.screentonescast.com/view/114

Extremely correct, see SK's On Writing, which unfortunately does not go into how to smuggle multiple trucks of coke into Maine.

Youtuber: Here's how Stephen King wrote so much in his early career. Habit. Discipline of writing every day. Following his passion. That's the secret sauce to productivity. Stephen King: It was cocaine. Also alcohol, but mainly cocaine. There's an entire book I don't even remember writing.

Couchfucker needs to change his shorts more often too. You know this man does not wash his ass. -Signed, my mom left my sometimes violent dad and actually it was great for everyone involved even if it was sad sometimes, you fucking turnips.

setting aside for a moment how truly awful this is, worth noting this article is effective because the first 4 paragraphs are devoted almost entirely to quoting him verbatim.

Hank was totally fine with this guy walking by but Pete got hiccups when we got back home & Hank NOPEd out.

Parking lot dawg.

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My favorite part of a recent trip to Universal Studios was the Waterworld stunt show, which is based on a 30-year-old flop and still going strong. I wrote about this improbable success story, including insights from a cast member who spoke to me about being in the show for nearly three decades.

The ‘Waterworld’ Movie Was a Flop. The ‘Waterworld’ Stunt Show Is Still a Masterpiece.screencrush.com Somehow, a stunt show based on one of the biggest flops in history has become one of the longest-running live productions in history.

IE, Bread and Roses & Emma Goldman dance quotes, they yelled in American History Classes Intentionally Leave Out The Socialists.

💯💯💯 a left movement without mutual care, celebration when appropriate, and an open invitation to bring more people in is not a left movement that can have durable success

Thinking about this for the near future/ I just spent the weekend with a friend talking about career longevity and what that means and this is an entirely different thing but also the same conversation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoPz...

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Still taking pre-show commissions! I love when I get these because it gives me more luxurious time to work on them when I'm distracted by running a booth and sleep deprived.

PRE-SHOW COMMISSIONS ARE OPEN FOR ROSE CITY COMIC CON! Prices start at $250 for a 9x12 watercolor painting and can increase with complexity and negotiation. If you're interested you can DM me or email chalkyheart at gmail dot com.

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Creaky Acres took seven years to illustrate. I worked on this book through two moves, my father dying, the pandemic, and several meltdowns. It is 265 pages and CHOCK FULL of horses (also a reason it took seven years). PREORDER: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/558467... 🦊🐎

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Being an artist is swinging on the daily between feeling like an omnipotent god who can will their very ideas into creation and an absolute fraud who can barely hold a pencil.

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