Maki Scare-O [Comms Open]
The forever Halloween profile of feral cartoonist and graphic journalist Maki Naro. Work In Progress & Crucial Comix.
Formerly @sciencecomic on the bad site.
He/Him
Art feed: #makifeed
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- Reposted by Maki Scare-O [Comms Open]This is a typical Musk shitshow, but bigotry and white supremacy is baked into all AI chatbots, by virtue of who trains them and the culture they're trained with.
- Reposted by Maki Scare-O [Comms Open]The relentless pursuit of AI by the elites has nothing to do with efficiency or progress, and everything to do with the control of information and the manufacturing of consent. This is an existential threat to humanity.
- Oh man, Andor. No spoilers for people who haven't seen it but hooooo the deep breath I took seeing that familiar uniform.
- I'm sorry I missed it! Sounded like a great convo among some really cool people. Also check downthread for a video of Nicola telling one of my favorite stories from her childhood. It's so good 😁
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- Reposted by Maki Scare-O [Comms Open]NFT's were only a couple years ago some of you have really worrying short-term memory
- Editing a comic I'm really excited about for @crucialcomix.bsky.social during coworking today. Can't wait for you all to see it! We get so many cool pitches and I love getting more experience under my belt by editing as part of a duo 🙌
- Reposted by Maki Scare-O [Comms Open]On this day May 13th, 1985 the city of Philadelphia dropped a bomb on the Move Home at 6221 Osage Avenue killing 11 people including 5 children. collaborativehistory.gse.upenn.edu/stories/move...
- Reposted by Maki Scare-O [Comms Open]before asking "how's that project going??" to any creative, just assume it's going like this
- Reposted by Maki Scare-O [Comms Open]That look you get from generative AI imagery is 100% the new aesthetic of fascism
- Reposted by Maki Scare-O [Comms Open]THIS 1. When people lose their healthcare, the costs for people who still have healthcare go up 2. Many hospitals rely on patients with medicaid. Big cuts to medicaid close hospitals 3. Higher medical costs mean people have less money for other things, hurting/ruining UNRELATED small businesses
- Reposted by Maki Scare-O [Comms Open]Your periodic reminder that "fancy fonts" on places like Bluesky are unicode & are a nightmare for screen reader users. DON'T use for your name Not only that, good lucky having anyone search for you in the search bar by name. More examples in the original post on Masto: toot.cafe/@aardrian/11...
- Reposted by Maki Scare-O [Comms Open]happy mother's day
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- Reposted by Maki Scare-O [Comms Open]"She is herself, entirely. That is not a flaw. It’s a form of resistance." FUCK!!! YEAH!!
- “She’s not yours to pity. She’s mine to marvel at.” www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-...
- Reposted by Maki Scare-O [Comms Open]Giant Bomb lives! Fandom has sold the site to us and it is now fully independent and employee-owned. We'll see you all on Tuesday for the Giant Bombcast. For more info right now, head over to www.giantbomb.com/join
- Reposted by Maki Scare-O [Comms Open]Nearly all of Polygon was laid off last week after Vox sold the company. Donate if you can! www.gofundme.com/f/support-po...
- Reposted by Maki Scare-O [Comms Open]I block people without comment if they represent themselves as progressive, but I see that their timeline is filled with Gen AI imagery, which consumes resources and destroys the livelihood of creative people Keep that fascist boomer slop away from me, please
- Oh to be Shohreh Aghdashloo, dressed in fineries and walking around like you own the place all the time.
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- Damn, I've been pretty out of the loop lately for reasons I'll disclose eventually, but I can't believe I missed out on Woke Pope
- Reposted by Maki Scare-O [Comms Open]I would once again like to point out, if you are really truly afraid of fascist infiltration then you have to plan your exit in a way that guarantees fascism won’t be allowed to take hold. The pope stacked his conclave with the people he wanted to move power after his death. Joe Biden did not.
- Reposted by Maki Scare-O [Comms Open]I know a lot of artists are scared of upper the prices but believe me, you’ll have better clients that respect your artwork and willing to pay for it; it ups your value too So please stop charging 5 dollars for a full body and background 😭
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- Reposted by Maki Scare-O [Comms Open]As comics grasp for new ways to make money, I am struck by this innovative method: embezzling money from movie projects based on comics that never existed. He's going to jail—okay so simply avoid that part and it works. www.comicsbeat.com/former-idw-e...
- Also brilliantly rendered in The First Union by @skutchdraws.bsky.social and @hbomberguy.bsky.social One of the stories in Iron Circus Comics' Failure to Launch Anthology.
- Tom Humberstone's excellent comic about the Luddites' history. thenib.com/im-a-luddite/
- Reposted by Maki Scare-O [Comms Open]I am *begging* people to look up the actual history of the Luddite movement with it being bandied about everywhere. They weren't anti-tech, they were anti-exploitation, anti-Industrialist, pro-worker safety textile worker radicals who disabled factory machines that were maiming and killing workers.
- Reposted by Maki Scare-O [Comms Open]I'll relieve everyone's stress これをこうしてこうですっ☆こうですっ☆こうですっ☆
- Reposted by Maki Scare-O [Comms Open]From paleoart to fine art, comics to medical illustration, bioart to space imagery, explore the rich SciArt ecosystem on Bluesky with the SciArt Starter Pack. 150 artists, plus the entire popular SciArt Feed 🐡. And no gen AI or NFTs.at://did:plc:4vjdrhro4bxoawbyjgixesij/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3kw5p6nous62f
- Reposted by Maki Scare-O [Comms Open]If it isn't clear, this includes using ChatGPT, character AI chatbots, any and all forms of generative slop. You are not welcome in my spaces.
- Reposted by Maki Scare-O [Comms Open]Hey are we talking about how relying on AI to do stuff for you is awful and making the world worse? Here's my column on why AI website builders are trash www.pcmag.com/opinions/i-r...
- Reposted by Maki Scare-O [Comms Open]Looking for an online community made for solo business owners with coworking & monthly events like Roundtable Discussions and Office-Hours? Check out Work In Progress! Hint: sign up for our emails (workinprogress.kit.com/5acc989b70) so you get first dibs on our special offer. It's a good one! 🤓
- ...a little birdie told me there will be an end of Spring promotion coming up. 🤫 Stay tuned! If you're on our email list, you'll be the first to know (plus subscribers get first dibs + exclusive offers). Sign up for those emails here: workinprogress.kit.com/5acc989b70
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- Reposted by Maki Scare-O [Comms Open]lmao the absolute fucking stones to run with this version of events. You forced her resignation from your paper by refusing to print her work critical of the current administration, you contemptable cowards. How dare you attempt to take any credit for Ann's win.
- The Pulitzer Prize for illustrated reporting and commentary goes to @anntelnaes.bsky.social, for various works that appeared in The Washington Post. This is her third Pulitzer recognition.
- Reposted by Maki Scare-O [Comms Open]...a little birdie told me there will be an end of Spring promotion coming up. 🤫 Stay tuned! If you're on our email list, you'll be the first to know (plus subscribers get first dibs + exclusive offers). Sign up for those emails here: workinprogress.kit.com/5acc989b70
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- Reposted by Maki Scare-O [Comms Open]It's final paper season.
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- Reposted by Maki Scare-O [Comms Open]I made a silent puppet film about Godzilla vs. Paul Bunyan. (thank you to @iamchubbybunny.bsky.social for Japanese translations and @okaywolf.ink for clanky piano!!)
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- Reposted by Maki Scare-O [Comms Open]A meme for May 4th
- This is the hardest I’ve laughed at a post in so long
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- Reposted by Maki Scare-O [Comms Open]It's Spoons' sweet fourteenth today!! I owe this cat so much... did you know the plush of Spoons is what gave us the funds we needed to make Scarlet Hollow episode 1? And now all these years later she is enjoying her retirement 🖤
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- Reposted by Maki Scare-O [Comms Open]I’m not at the Edgars — catching up on the livestream — but I’m genuinely surprised and disappointed at the use of AI-generated images when there are hundreds of writers in the room, some of whom are plaintiffs in ongoing litigation.
- Reposted by Maki Scare-O [Comms Open]Ari is truly one of the best editors working in comics and you should absolutely be looking to hire her for everything's she's made possible at Silver Sprocket! I feel lucky to have seen how much of Sprocket's infrastructure was able to work because of Ari. Any publisher would be so lucky.
- Reposted by Maki Scare-O [Comms Open]My first-ever op-ed for MSNBC has gone live:
- Reposted by Maki Scare-O [Comms Open]Huge news on Patreon! Because of the Apple v. Epic ruling, they are not only dropping the 30% Apple Store charge on the iOS app, they are also halting the move to subscription billing for all creators - which would have affected creators like me, who use a "per video" structure than monthly.
- Reposted by Maki Scare-O [Comms Open]A lot of us know Bianca in the comics community, pls help by sharing the donation link www.paypal.com/paypalme/bia...
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- Oh dang little bits are bubbling up from my memory but what lives in rent free in my head forever from Wrath is minor dungeon boss Bronjahm <Godfather of Souls> who is just James Brown, down to his little battle shouts and boss fight music. It was so funny and out of place with the rest of the game
- Reposted by Maki Scare-O [Comms Open]The lady who teaches people how to make filling meals from Dollar Tree does more to help the world than every person who ever typed “just grow your own food” combined
- Reposted by Maki Scare-O [Comms Open]Me, a Black Harvard alum: Harvard is full of shit Bluesky posters: no chanda you don’t understand Harvard is big time resisting Harvard student journalists: www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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- Reposted by Maki Scare-O [Comms Open]A calculator that costs 1 trillion dollars, but it’s also wrong
