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And the campaign is live!

And the campaign is live!

A 100+ travelogue of my time in Athens, Santorini, and Crete.

You can find it here.

And reminder of how it started:

Guess what returns to shelves next week? BLACK CLOAK Issue #7 will be in stores August 21st! Written…

Guess what returns to shelves next week? BLACK CLOAK Issue #7 will be in stores August 21st! Written by @1979semifinalist, Art by me, letters by Becca Carey, and design by Rian Hughes.

(This is a promo image. Not the cover)

(The cover for Issue #7 looks like this:)

Anyways.

Check it out. I drew real pretty, I promise.

totallynotagentphilcoulson:jenroses:dragons-and-gays:teaboot:teaboot:Went to the Aboriginal...

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Went to the Aboriginal artifact exhibit in Chicago. And it’s interesting. How many blankets and masks and totem poles say ‘unknown source’, because every five seconds my mom would stop and point to something and say. “Pauline’s grandmother made that,” or, “That belongs to Mike’s family, I should call him” because. It’s all stolen

“These artifacts were excavated by archaeologists from a burial site in the 1970’s. The remains were returned for reinterment” Okay cool, cool cool. So you just, like. Dug up the grave of a respected family member, stripped them naked, mailed their body back to their family and kept everything they were lovingly put to rest in. Like a graverobbing bastard

Reminds me of the time when of the elders from my hometown started touching a totem pole in the Museum of Anthropology out at UBC and got yelled at by the staff, only to tell him that the pole had been stolen off of the front of her bighouse when she was ten years old.

Museum collectors did the equivalent of kidnapping a family member when they were away fishing.

The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act requires all institutions that receive federal funding to repatriate remains and artifacts so if you can identify the source of something on display absolutely get a hold of that institute’s repatriation office

I haven’t had a chance to draw anything for myself in a couple weeks. And this has been in my head…

I haven’t had a chance to draw anything for myself in a couple weeks. And this has been in my head like a vindictive earworm.

Description: An illustration of Toga and Uraraka from My Hero Academia. Uraraka is bent over, her hair covering her face, a hand clutched to her face in grief. Toga is braced over her, holding her close and smiling beneath her hair.

Hey! I’ve got a kickstarter launching tomorrow! Short notice, I know. (Sorry.)

Hey! I’ve got a kickstarter launching tomorrow! Short notice, I know. (Sorry.)

It’s a travelogue detailing my time in Greece in 2022. About 100+ pages of me learning about the history, culture, and food from a lovely part of the world. If you think you’ll be interested, watch this space. I should have the link for you tomorrow.

Please don’t use the Patreon app on any iPhone. Apple is charging Patreon users an additional 30%…

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Please don’t use the Patreon app on any iPhone. Apple is charging Patreon users an additional 30% fee.

Patreon is the main source of income for many creators and not everyone can afford an extra 30% on top of what they’re already paying.

This is 100% corporate greed and it hurts all of us. If you can avoid using the iPhone Patreon please do so.

Hank Green made a video about this kind of thing! But yes, the TL;DW is subscribe to stuff using a browser if at all possible! Otherwise either you or the creator/company you’re subscribing to is getting screwed over.

hey what the fuck

Please don’t make me cry.

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You know how canaries were historically brought into coal mines, because if the mine was full of carbon monoxide the canary would die first and the miners would be able to escape before they died too?

I just found the greatest thing.

This is a canary resuscitator.

When the miners notice the canary getting sick with carbon monoxide poisoning, they can close that circular hatch so no more gas gets into the canary cage, and open the valve on that oxygen tank to keep the canary breathing. In other words, they made a spacesuit for birds.

By immediately giving the canary access to clean air, the miners can save it from the poison. The bird lives. To be clear, this is not for economic purposes, this was specifically created because the miners felt bad and wanted to save the bird.

Isn’t that just the perfect demonstration of what humans are like? We started sacrificing small creatures to save ourselves, and then felt bad and spent our valuable resources on saving the critters too. Because yeah the canary was the only way to test for CO, but it’s a living creature too, dammit!

Union watches out for its members.

Please don’t make me cry.

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