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Andrew Power

@scarymask.bsky.social

Trying out the carousel with #gamechanger friends.

June 9, 2026 at 12:15 AM

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Sarah Andersen

@sarahseeandersen.bsky.social

The image is of a four panel comic.
The title for the first two panels is "Young Me".
In panel one we see a young version of Sarah, the protagonist. She says, "I want to achieve great things".
In panel two we zoom in a little on young Sarah's face. She continues, "An astounding career! An amazing house! World peace!"
The title for the last two panels is "Adult Me".
In panel three we see adult Sarah, looking down.
In panel four we zoom out and see she is in front of a basil plant. She simply says "I want to grow a basil plant".

September 12, 2026 at 6:44 PM

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mattie lubchansky

@mattielubchansky.com

bad news everyone. i wrote a program in qbasic that was just

10 KILL ALL HUMANS
20 GOTO 10

which means we are all going to die. does anyone want to give me 7 billion dollars

September 11, 2026 at 5:27 PM

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toonholechris

@toonholechris.bsky.social

Magic trick

September 9, 2026 at 4:42 PM

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jamelle

@jamellebouie.net

and what makes them less qualified? well, don’t you see that they are black people and women (and sometimes black women!)?

Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 15d

Generational damage being done right now

September 2, 2026 at 9:07 AM

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Sarah Andersen

@sarahseeandersen.bsky.social

The image is of a four panel comic.
The title above the first two panels reads, "Dog Toys".
The first panel shows Sarah, the protagonist, holding a bone shaped dog toy. She says, "Look!"
The second panel shows a dog wagging its tail. There is a speech bubble leading back to Sarah saying "It squeaks!"
The title above the last two panels reads, "Cat Toys".
In panel three we see Sarah again. She says "Come, child."
Panel four shows a cat raising its paws in glee. We see Sarah's hands holding cat nip. We see a speech bubble leading back to Sarah saying "It is time to do drugs".

August 26, 2026 at 3:26 PM

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🥖Kekeflipnote🥖

@kekeflipnote.bsky.social

Roundest friends

August 21, 2026 at 10:50 PM

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Patrick Monahan

@pattymo.com

The Songwriter from UNDER THE SILVER LAKE has joined the MCU.

The Songwriter from UNDER THE SILVER LAKE. An old guy at a piano. One of the most memorable scenes/concepts in a movie in recent years, to me

August 16, 2026 at 2:46 AM

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Adrienne

@adrienneleigh.bsky.social

My modest proposal continues to be that if any artwork gets written off for tax purposes, that artwork immediately becomes public domain. The public bought it; we own it now.

William Bibbiani @williambibbiani.bsky.social · Aug 12

I'm not comfortable with folks saying COYOTE VS. ACME was "worth the wait."

I'd argue the opposite. It was worth NOT waiting for.

Warner Bros. shelving a whole film as a tax write-off, potentially forever, doesn't become forgivable if it's good.

That's what the word "unforgivable" is for.

William Bibbiani @williambibbiani.bsky.social · Aug 12

Dave Green's shrewd, hilarious, inspiring COYOTE VS ACME embraces the myth of Sisyphus, making the convincing argument that we must never stop fighting monopolistic corporations, even - and especially - if it's hopeless.

My review of a film that predicted/documented its own future, at @thewrap.com.

August 13, 2026 at 4:47 AM

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Luke Ontario

@coolhand.bsky.social

For me, this is one of the most powerful Calvin and Hobbes strips.

A four panel Calvin and Hobbes strip. Calvin arrives with a butterfly in a jar and says look i caught a butterfly. Hobbes says if people could put rainbows in zoos, they would. Calvin looks thoughtful and releases it

August 10, 2026 at 8:26 AM

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kc green

@kcg.bsky.social

A strip done in collaboration with the @humanartistry.bsky.social , starring Question Hound as he gets some unwanted help for a comic he’s working on:

July 30, 2026 at 7:15 PM

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Alasdair Beckett-King

@misterabk.bsky.social

Guy who went on holiday to Toontown and made it his whole personality:

July 31, 2026 at 8:58 AM

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Dr Neil & Mr Price

@drneil.bsky.social

It’s really starting to grind me down

The Barney/Moe’s Tavern meme

“Default AI features” Barney being kicked out
“Finding how to turn it all off in the settings” -satisfied Moe

Third panel Barney coming in behind “software update”

July 30, 2026 at 5:27 AM

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Chuck Wendig

@chuckwendig.bsky.social

MAKE THE SEQUEL YOU MONSTERS

IGN @ign.com · Jul 25

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves co-director Jonathan Goldstein says the script for a sequel already exists, but he's not expecting it to see the light of day any time soon. https://bit.ly/4bIsrNA

#SDCC

July 26, 2026 at 12:42 PM

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Leiracal

@leiracal.bsky.social

This concept was introduced to me as "run the dishwasher twice" and was an important part of my executive functioning recovery as well as my path to self-acceptance.

When I was at one of my lowest (mental) points in life, I couldn't get out of bed some days. I had no energy or motivation and was barely getting by.

I had therapy once per week, and on this particular week I didn't have much to 'bring' to the session. He asked how my week was and I really had nothing to say.

'What are you struggling with?' he asked.

I gestured around me and said 'I dunno man. Life.'

Not satisfied with my answer, he said 'No, what exactly are you worried about right now? What feels overwhelming? When you go home after this session, what issue will be staring at you?'

I knew the answer, but it was so ridiculous that I didn't want to say it. I wanted to have something more substantial.
Something more profound.

But I didn't.

So I told him, 'Honestly? The dishes. It's stupid, I know, but the more I look at them the more I CAN'T do them because I'll have to scrub them before I put them in the dishwasher, because the dishwasher sucks, and I just can't stand and scrub the dishes.'

I felt like an idiot even saying it.

What kind of grown ass woman is undone by a stack of dishes? There are people out there with *actual* problems, and I'm whining to my therapist about dishes?

But he nodded in understanding and then said:

'RUN THE DISHWASHER TWICE.'

I began to tell him that you're not supposed to, but he stopped me.

'Why the hell aren't you supposed to? If you don't want to scrub the dishes and your dishwasher sucks, run it twice. Run it three times, who cares?! Rules do not exist.'

It blew my mind in a way that I don't think I can properly express.

That day, I went home and tossed my smelly dishes haphazardly into the dishwasher and ran it three times.

I felt like I had conquered a dragon.

The next day, I took a shower lying down.

A few days later. I folded my laundry and put them wherever the fuck they fit.

There were no longer arbitrary rules I had to follow, and it gave me the freedom to make accomplishments again.

Now that I'm in a healthier place, I rinse off my dishes and put them in the dishwasher properly. I shower standing up. I sort my laundry.

But at a time when living was a struggle instead of a blessing, I learned an incredibly important lesson:

THERE ARE NO RULES. RUN THE DISHWASHER TWICE!!!"

August 18, 2025 at 3:46 AM

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Emilie Kelly :-)

@viewfindercomics.bsky.social

sippy sippy #projecthailmary #fanart

July 16, 2026 at 3:23 PM

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PBF Comics

@pbfcomics.bsky.social

“What a beautiful universe, hon" says a telescope as gazes upon an aurora borealis. “It really is”, responds the telescope's partner, who it turns out is not a telescope, but a microscope. Hands full of algae, she wades waist deep in a disgusting swamp, amazed by the heavenly microscopic life all around them.

July 20, 2026 at 5:00 PM

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Alasdair Beckett-King

@misterabk.bsky.social

The great thing about Britain is you're free to think whatever you want to think and say whatever J. K. Rowling's lawyers permit you to say.

July 13, 2026 at 10:26 PM

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Twonks

@twonks.bsky.social

Great job 👏

July 13, 2026 at 11:37 AM

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PBF Comics

@pbfcomics.bsky.social

A determined humpback whale coursing through the ocean is actually the imagination of a goldfish in a bowl.

The imagination continues: The humpback whale breaches the ocean surface gloriously! We realize lastly that the goldfish has jumped out of it’s bowl, flopped on the ground.

June 30, 2026 at 4:19 PM

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Taniel

@taniel.bsky.social

The way you keep inputting a password you know is correct, and some website tells you it's not, & then you give up and agree to reset it and put the same password, AND THEN IT TELLS YOU THAT YOU CANNOT USE YOUR MOST RECENT PASSWORD.

why is this so frequent, & is there anything more infuriating?

June 25, 2026 at 5:26 PM

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Heather Hogan

@heatherhogan.bsky.social

Older lady peeped the rainbow flag on my bike, asked in a thick Russian accent “It’s your Pride?” She told me her youngest grandchild is “not she berry or he berry but no berry.” I said “Nonbinary?” She got so excited. Yes! Yes! And “Is a secret, but they are my“ *looks around, whispers* “favorite.”

June 24, 2026 at 6:27 PM