Heiko Ludwig

Talking Oglaf with Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne: 'We'd stay up all night drawing stuff to make each other laugh' - The Comics Journal Other than some time off every year for Christmas, Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne have delivered a new Oglaf comic, skewering fantasy tropes with absolutely not safe for work humor, every week since 2008...

A rare interview with the creators of the always-funny, always-brilliant, and *usually*-sexy—or occasionally anti-sexy—OGLAF!

Cooper has kept a low profile over the years, but is legitimately one of the very best artists in comics today. Read OGLAF if you're old enough to drive!

Ozzy Osbourne visited my magic shop. He said he'd like to buy some stink bombs. How many? All of them. I had to go through drawers finding every last one. He bought 900 of them. To sign the credit card slip I handed him a shock pen, which he thought was hilarious and bought that too. RIP

Folks, can we please get this funded! This is a VERY reasonable goal for a whole anthology of fantasy comics by Black women, and LOOK HOW COOL IT IS.

This is the best thing I’ve seen today and I need a source. Bluesky, please help. Credit to whoever this rad group is.

Dorothy in The Scream by Edvard Munch.

the golden girls in famous works of art: thread

Another cool thing:

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) makes magazine images searchable. But OCR software is designed for "high contrast, black on white" text (e.g. NOT gaming magazines)

So they developed their own OCR that handles this kind of nonsense

I've worked with OCR, and THIS IS AMAZING

This thread is a gift.

Thank you for this perspective.

as requested:

THE DILF MOTHMAN STEALING MY WIFE

Here is the full text of this 1 page RPG: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1I0cQhWiMHpk4PXwOD9386x8qmMQm_97asBN4M4ycqH4/edit?usp=sharing

I know I just dropped an entire actual full TTRPG yesterday, but I was feeling inspired...

Chair Stop-Motion 🪑💨 Made with 444 pictures taken over 10 days

If you are a TTRPG designer who can’t afford to pay an artist living wages it is 100% cool and good and AWESOME to use resources like this so you can create a world you’re proud of looks cool.

Kinderkrankheiten als Karma? Aufwachsen mit Schwurbel-Medizin - Skeptix Ein ‘Waldorfkind’ liegt mit einer gefährlichen Krankheit im Spital, gegen die es eine Impfung gegeben hätte, und wird auf der Intensivstation invasiv beatmet.

Kinderkrankheiten als Karma? In unserem Blog erzählt @veelana.bsky.social wie Kinder in der #Waldorfpädagogik mit esoterischen und pseudomedizinischen Überzeugungen aufwachsen und welche Folgen das haben kann.

Mehr erfahrt ihr hier: skeptix.org?p=1514
#Waldorf #Exwaldi #Anthroposophie

A one-panel comic by Glauco Villas Boas. A group of people stand against the corner of a wall. One reaches around the corner and uses a long stick to push open a door labeled 2025.

This comic gets shared every year with the date changed. It is by Brazilian cartoonist Glauco Villas Boas (1957-2010).

What's up? Trying to figure out what to do with this bushel of apples. Most of them are good, but there's a few bad ones in there. You should probably throw out the bad ones. I could put them on paid leave. Throw them out. Or maybe give them desk duty for a while. That's a bit on-the-nose, don't you think?

On this day in 2008, the Treelobsters #webcomic was born. You can find the archive here: www.treelobsters.com

To clear a misconception I often see from people who know about version control but don't want to use it:

Git ≠ GitHub ≠ open source

You can have a local Git repo and keep your change history only for yourself.

Two explorers visit some remotes temple ruins

Two explorers analysing a map in the temple ruins

Two explorers rest by a waterfall , talking

Two explorers fall asleep while studying a book

I just realised I never share any of the drawings of these two, here...

#art #queerart

Person concentrated in finishing the topping of a cake in a luminous kitchen

Cake 🍰

#art
#illustration

Importing the archive:

The New Scientist is the only source of band names you’ll ever need.

#newscientistbandnames

I hate the way articles about BSky keep framing choice to move here in terms of left/right and echo chambers. Fundamentally, the bigger issues for me are wanting to see links/current news, wanting to see posts that aren't rage-baiting/content farming, and wanting actually diverse conversations.

I’ve decided to take a break from mental health to focus on social media.

I'm worried Bluesky is becoming too much of an echo beach, far away in time

Re: Fountain pens - I see a lot of people saying they can't/won't use one because their handwriting is so bad

a) Have you considered that maybe your handwriting is bad because you DON'T use a fountain pen?

and

b) who cares? Stop denying yourself joy over whether you're 'good enough' to deserve it

Cartoon of mathematician Katherine Johnson who on a blackboard paves an astronaut a path to the Moon with chalk and mathematical formulas

Katherine Johnson paving astronauts' path to the Moon.

--thx @mathlady.bsky.social

The secret to managing email from non-profits and businesses is to have a filter on the word "unsubscribe" that automatically shunts any email with that word in it out of my inbox and into a specific side folder. Then they don't clutter up my inbox and I can deal with them at my leisure.

This is the next phase that Kiwi Farms members have stated they will do - constructing look-alike blocklists and then adding popular trans people to them after the fact, once the blocklist is seeded in the community. Make sure any block list you use says who runs it.

TIPS for MOVING FROM XITTER TO BSKY

hilfreich 😊

Some genuinely terrible people whining about the "block culture" here on Bluesky is how you know the block culture is working, keep blocking those genuinely terrible people, folks, soon the only people they'll be able to bother here is each other

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Hallo Welt! :)