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Feral cartoonist. Freelance illustrator. Social justice bard. Community Manager at Work In Progress. He/His.

Syracuse, NY
Joined December 2010
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๐Ÿ• Help me leave this hellscape ๐Ÿ• Follow me anywhere but here so I can delete this account. ๐ŸŽจ ๐Ÿ’ฌ ๐Ÿ’ธ ๐Ÿ“ท โ˜•๏ธ
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POV: You've just priced your commissions at $50
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Within the next few years, Funko will run out of characters to make figures out of and will begin picking random, normal people. Like, you'll walk into a Gamestop and see a Funko Pop of you. Then 7 days later, you die.
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I saw this last night and haven't been able to stop thinking about it. The adventures that toy must have had
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Lucy Huber
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I like this because it means before cars existed little kids were still obsessed with cars they just were like โ€œimagine if a cow had wheels and went vroomโ€
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Ian Miles Cheong almost got another man killed. Again. This is a regular thing for him.
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Jasmyne Cannick
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Compton man speaks out after being falsely accused in ambush of two Los Angeles sheriffโ€™s deputies. Tells Black men beware, that it could happen to them.
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Miyazaki drawing a few lines, saying "fuck it", and taking a nap is the most relatable content I have ever seen.
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Dressing like a hand puppet to own the libs
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My two moods
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I did a lot of work for free in the beginning, and it literally never paid off.
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On 8/6 and 8/9, 1945, America dropped nuclear bombs on two Japanese cities and you're hard pressed to ever hear a single peep about it.
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Hidesaburo Ueno's dog, Hachiko, would wait at the train station for him to come home. One day Ueno died while giving a lecture, and Hachiko continued to go to the station and wait every day for ten years. Fuck you I'm not crying.
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James Barr
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Name a statue that actually enhances its surroundings.
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Here's 5 weird tricks to "attract and retain" millennials: 1. Pay them 2. Pay them 3. Pay them 4. Pay them 5. Pay them
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Am I out of touch? 1/2
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This is why I am constantly banging on a drum about ignoring "contests". They are all predatory marketing scams whether they have a reward or not. Do not give corporations anything. Your ideas, your art, anything. They are not your friend and they will screw you for a buck.
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In 2017 Oreo had a contest for a new flavor. 50k grand prize. They sent a mock up of the flavor I submitted. I didn't win. Got no money. But they launched the churro flavor in 2019 ๐Ÿ™„
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Stop asking billionaires to help. Just make them pay taxes.
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@LouisatheLast Wife told me kids are referring to the 90s as โ€œthe late 1900sโ€ and I took 20 points of psychic damage
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@quesador @KingBach Yusuf Abdul-Qadir. He's the director of the Central NY chapter of the NYCLU.
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@ShawnTarloff @KingBach Thatโ€™s the mayor of Syracuse. Upstate NY is gorgeous, but the cities have long been hollowed out to the benefit of the suburbs
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To all the asshole conservative lawmakers suddenly pouring out their hearts for the LGBT community: We see you.
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@JoeConniff @_Zeets Snow plow said ACAB
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Nazis/KKK are so scared shitless that they spend all their money on guns and surround themselves with obnoxious pickup truck armor in order to attack unarmed protesters marching for justice. Look at the streets. They're not the majority. And they know it.
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Dude doesn't even live in this country, just grifting for clicks from gullible, trigger happy white supremacy.
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Somebody is getting 5 stars for their response time
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@Papapishu Truly a great time to be alive if you did not want to be perceived because apparently nobody knew what anybody else looked like
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@letsgoayo I'm going to be 38 and had to move far away from a major city to buy my first house right before a global pandemic and the water heater is old, the roof is old, and I have one client right now so I will yell "heckin chonker" at the top of my lungs at every groundhog I see.
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I don't know why we're posting Far Side cartoons (I hope Gary is ok). But my favorite brand of Far Side was always "Gary is out of ideas" Far Side
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Extremely same
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If the nazi getting punched really was (as some say) a publicity stunt to gain support, go for it. Get punched every day.
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@Imperator_Rex3 @CNN lol you're mad at fried chicken
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My new favorite Gundam character is this goat that walks through the frame and into the composite mask
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Women: "There's a sexism problem" Men every time: "No there isn't. I know lots of women. It happens to men too. I'm a feminist. Fuck you."
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TFW companies don't pay a living wage
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@arahir @am_anatiala My headcanon is that all anonymous posts are written by the same person
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@NuclearAnthro Japan was a fascist, nazi-allied state at the time and committed its own share of atrocities. Nobody is denying or excusing that. It still doesn't excuse the things America did to Japanese civilians both home and abroad.
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. @realDonaldTrump ๐Ÿ’ฅ๐Ÿ’ฅ HAHA reading this while sipping frm my DONALD TRUMP TEARS mug ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚ GET ONE HERE ->
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What part of the last 3 months makes anybody look at indoor dining and more cops and say "Let's do both!" ???????
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Zach Williams
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NEW: Cuomo says indoor dining *might* happen *if* NYC allocates a certain number of NYPD police to a taskforce to enforce social distancing "Put together a task force of NYPD Speaker Johnson and say they're going to be 4k police who are going to be doing restaurant compliance"
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All day I've been laughing to myself that there are actual people out there who are like, "Light is both a wave and a particle. But BIOLOGY... that's immutable"
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If you're ever confused which side is the right side, it's the side that's creating and contributing. Not attacking and destroying.
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I never expected to be art-jealous of Oscar Isaac, but here we are.
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OC (original cado) DO NOT STEAL
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omfg
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Art folks: Contests and other forms of spec work are bad for you and the industry. Just say no.
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@L0ST_VEGAS @seanonolennon Wait... art that you can buy... and physically own?? Sounds fake.
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Nov 7: Trump is racist and terrible! Nov 9: You won't believe what Trump favorite color is!
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@thorcult @FilmFatale_NYC Very excited that all these clowns are returning for the next one
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@BeansJellySpace All the behind the scenes photos from this show are gold. I love it
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GOP: You say you're "poor" but I see you with your sandwich with two slices of bread
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@YourJesta You're never going to beat ai in a race to the bottom. People who actually appreciate art and artists will not only pay appropriately for it, but they'll spread the word too
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@clhubes It's delightful thinking about these kids imagining the family ox getting sick air off of ramps
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I feel like Miyazaki and his poor son, Goro, are characters in an anime plot of their own making
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2020 has been a hell of a thing. But the one bright spot has always been the wonderful @nicolablack and the life weโ€™ve been building together, so we decided to level up to โ€œfiancรฉโ€ ๐Ÿ˜
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My sister-in-law had to crowdfund to get her and the other nurses in her unit proper PPE, but sure, tell me about The Rook.
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Jada E. Williams
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HAPPENING NOW: @TallyPD is asking for new handguns plus approval of a new vehicle called The Rook. Hereโ€™s what the one Apacheโ€™s County uses looks like.
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@JackPosobiec You spent all that time on Bumble and didn't talk to anybody who could have told you how a vaccine worked?
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Miyazaki walking out an hour into his son's first film
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@hitRECordJoe @watchdogsgame @HITRECORD Are you really doing this again? This is still spec work, and itโ€™s insulting to creatives
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It's tax season ๐Ÿ’ธ๐Ÿ’ธ๐Ÿ’ธ
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Opponents beware Opponents beware
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Nick Kapur
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And here is George Washington straight-up punching a tiger. 7/
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I'll live tweet the other episodes as I get around to watching them, but you can watch the series here:
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@replouiegohmert That's... that's not what we're laughing at you about.
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At least Jimmy Fallon had the guts to normalize racism before Nov 8
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I'm a 1, and knew that some people who are 5. But 3 and 4 are fascinating to me.
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Time is a flat circle and there was always somebody asking โ€œhow would a chicken wear pants?โ€
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Chicken in trousers, drawn in 1783
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@Curtis_Cook @wtflanksteak You're not the only one!
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@adashtra I've seen videos of this a couple times before and I love how they always run away like "Wtf?!" I can't help but feel it must not be pleasant having something like that pop off your skull
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Working off the clock doesn't make you a hard worker. It makes you a sucker.
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@SaddestRobots @BrandyLJensen Yes! Midjourney's faces are always so samey. Like it has three or four archetypes to choose from and pastes them in
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I worked a job where I made myself available at all hours, any day of the week, and it was the stupidest thing I've ever done. I left that job with the same title as when I started. Your boss doesn't give a shit.
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Jordan Kong
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Unpopular opinion: the best thing young people can do early in their careers is to work on the weekends.
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The End. I'm cracking up writing this, but this scared the crap out of me as a kid!! Walking around a temple at night telling me stories about cursed-ass statues. Fuck! Did I ever try it? Hell no. Besides, the courtyard is locked up at night nowadays. So good luck with that!
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Omg they were right. We took the statues down and he forgot the Civil War
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I definitely knew a few of these guys in high school.
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Lots of folks yukking it up about the Tesla Starman actually being a dead body, but you won't be laughing so hard when in 2249, DNA reveals that the skeleton belongs to the real Elon Musk
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@Krau0388 @Richard65023082 @srslyberserk Yup. "Low skill" is just how they justify paying pennies for jobs that society could not function without
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There have been way more bad movies w/ male casts, yet hollywood keeps making them. It's almost as if there's something else at work #hmmmm
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Incredibly heartbreaking news. The Nib helped lift countless artists and fostered collaborations across all fields, artistic or otherwise. It is an oasis in the desert of cheap clickbait and constant media pivots to whatever the current techbro grift happens to be.
@thenib
The Nib โœ’๏ธ
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After ten years of publishing, The Nib is going to close down this summer. The new issue of our magazine, the Future issue, will be our last. Read the full statement from our editor here:
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If there are 2 bad cops and a 1000 good cops do nothing, I count 1002 bad cops.
@NYGovCuomo
Archive: Governor Andrew Cuomo
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It is in all of our interest to stop police abuse. Stopping police abuse vindicates the overwhelming majority of good police. It restores trust. It restores safety. For the sake of our communities, we must do this.
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@mtracey Big words from a guy who wouldn't shut up about being bumped by Maxine Waters
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I don't get why folks treat the original like some cinematic masterpiece. "That ghost beej was transcendent. Pure genius 5/5"
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That the cast of of Loki's community theater retelling of Thor is in this film bodes extremely well.
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@marvel_shots
Marvel Perfect Shots
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Chris Hemsworth Tessa Thompson Natalie Portman Christian Bale Chris Pratt Matt Damon Russell Crowe Karen Gillan Dave Bautista Jaimie Alexander Pom Klementieff Sam Neil Melissa McCarthy Luke Hemsworth Pom Klementief Vin Diesel as Groot Bradley Cooper as Rocket Taika Waititi -Korg
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I'm a firm believer that anybody can learn to draw. If you ever think aphantasia might be an obstacle, remember that famous portrait artist Chuck Close has face blindness.
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love to see it
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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Watch now: St. Louis man who pulled gun on protesters says 'life has been ruined'
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@nuclearban
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Today, the world remembers Nagasaki and the thousands of lives destroyed or forever changed by the nuclear weapon dropped on the city on August 9th, 1945 at 11:02am. Follow @Peace_boat & @HibakushaAppeal for updates from the Peace Ceremony. #Neveragain #NagasakiDay #nuclearban
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@hitRECordJoe @watchdogsgame @HITRECORD You would never act for free, and your union makes sure that youโ€™re fairly compensated. So why prey on other creatives for spec work?
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In the wake of a tragedy the real important thing is to make sure everybody doesn't forget how smart you are
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Within the span of a train ride to DC
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Definitely go look up the statues though, they're really cool-- minus the cursed dopplegangers.
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@GLFOP @PhillyPolice Fuck you. There's literally video of you yanking the kid's parent out of the car and beating them in the street
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@Western_Trad Dork-ass-loser energy
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Now come back to the temple during the day and find the statue with the warm head. That statue will look just. like. you.
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@hitRECordJoe My dude, this comes out to $4.27 a person.
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@Mike_Matei ok boomer
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The whole "This isn't for pros, it's just for fun/new artists" is a bullshit argument and I see it every time this topic comes up. We know who these contests are "for" and we see it for what it is: Exploiting a naive labor force.
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@kimpossiblefact @Chinchillazllla I had to check in on this and things are tracking pretty solidly
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I am very thankful for my supportive parents
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The narrator points out how similar Goro's work is to his fathers', and how clearly this is an issue of Miyazaki seeing himself in the mirror of his son, for whom he was rarely around.
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