Mark Sweeney 🇨🇦

Mark Sweeney 🇨🇦

@marksweeney.bsky.social

Comic Book Flatter, Developer, Deaf Advocate. He/Him. #Deaf Clip Studio Paint Tips & Tricks Feed: https://bsky.app/profile/marksweeney.bsky.social/feed/aaali6lbe4dkg

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This, from a bigot whose greatest accomplishment in life is snorting lines of cocaine off a public toilet seats.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

We're absolutely willing to give Trump the finger, and nothing else. 🖕🏽

Global News@globalnews.ca

Trump said the ongoing trade dispute between the two nations would be settled “pretty soon” and that Canada was “willing to give us anything at this moment.” globalnews.ca/news/1212115...

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Making Comics Monday: Step-by-step process for a page from this week’s chapter of THE AFTER SCHOOL VILLAIN SOCIETY! Layouts Roughs Inks Colors/Letters #ASVS #KidsComics #BehindTheScenes

Got one of these silicon microwave popcorn makers. It takes a bit to dial in the time and power settings for the microwave, but once you do it works really well. Not butter or oil required. Did burn the first batch before dialing back the power. For our microwave 3:15 @ 70% power does a great job.

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I just discovered the Magic Trackpad lets you move the canvas around in Clip Studio incredibly fast with macOS. Now I'm trying to figure out how to add a second, small drawer just for my Magic Trackpad. I have a large keyboard drawer, but it's always closed when I'm working.

This same guy - Lorne Doerskon , voted to repeal the BC Human Rights Commission. “Doerskon said his decision to vote to advance the bill was a routine one and not an indicator of his support for the bill’s content.” Why the hell would you vote for something if you don’t support it?

Jen St. Denis@jenstden.bsky.social

"Queer Momentum took to social media to warn that B.C. Conservatives could introduce anti-transgender legislation similar to that in Alberta or Saskatchewan." #bcpoli thetyee.ca/News/2026/10...

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Queer organizations SAGAH and @queermomentum.ca are warning voters about anti-trans rhetoric and voting history from the B.C. Conservatives. And, uh, they've compiled a pretty concerning list of things the party leader and members have been up to. Today for @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/10...

thetyee.caQueer Organizations Sound Alarm over Conservative Anti-Trans Rhetoric | The TyeeMLAs have tried to pass legislation that would strip away human rights and limit access to health care.

Nice interview with Emily Lowan on CTV this morning, but CTV went with the bullshit question, "What if all the rich people leave BC if a wealth tax is implemented?" Every country or state where a wealth tax has been implemented saw massive gains in tax revenue, while only a handful of people left.

CTV might as well have asked, "But what if Martians invade after a wealth tax is implemented?" If uber wealthy people choose to leave after a wealth tax is implemented? Tax the fuckers on their way out.

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Fellow WA voters, let's bury this. I can't imagine any parent wants to subject their child to this vile "examination."

Doctors and nurses are voicing their objections. I-638 would require EVERY girl who wants to participate in sports to go through biological sex verification. That means expensive, invasive, and utterly gross examinations. Protect our kids and let them play. Vote NO on I-638

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Excellent write up on cost/benefit for artists at increasingly-pricy shows. One of the reasons that I, and so many others, so esteem HeroesCon, is that they curate and comp tables for a LOT of artists, including "new" artists. My first "real" table was at Heroes... www.comicsbeat.com/is-artist-al...

comicsbeat.comIs Artist Alley even sustainable any more?It's more expensive than ever to set up in artist alley or at a comics show - and here are some of the numbers

Very late night of work last night. Have to go back over a page to try and remember how I did something. Figured out three things to make flatting comics slightly faster... and forgot one of them. 🤦🏽‍♂️ I do remember it was very niche, or specific.

The orange rings left around the new pool will make the Reflecting Pool at its worst look like distilled water in a sterile setting.

The New York Times@nytimes.com

President Trump has pushed to move briefings out of the White House press room. Aides say he wants an indoor swimming pool instead. nyti.ms/4eoW3AV

Yesterday: Cashed out a bunch of Aeroplan points for Apple e-gift certificates I can use toward the purchase of an Apple Watch. Today: email from Aeroplan offering 10% off e-gift certificates from Apple, starting today. 🤦🏽‍♂️

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Listen up. I am really good at what I do. I've got a stable of clients I've helped really improve their comics writing craft and I can do the same for yo and we need more good comics. Think: you're smart as hell, and your taste is fuckin killer. So why not do what you always wanted: make comics?

So apart from your computer and pen tablet, what other hardware do you find essential for working on comics pages? I've got foot switches mounted on a stand under my desk, an UIanzi Dial and Elgato Stream Deck on my desktop. #Comics #Hardware

Left & right pedals use Fill with Screen Mode / Multiply Mode to make objects or sides darker/lighter. I use the Ulanzi dial with PureRef for zooming in/out, and switching between reference images in PureRef (which sits on top of Clip Studio Paint).

Elgato Stream Deck holds a shit-ton of shortcuts for multiple apps so I don't have to remember keyboard shortcuts for them. One great thing about the Stream Deck is you can make complex shortcuts into one-button shortcuts. So "⌘⌥⇧^ ]" becomes a simple button on the Stream Deck.

I can't wait for the correction where it's changed to "unpaid internship," and that she was fired from that too.

Freedom Mobile Canada texts: "You can get iPhone 18 Pro!" "You can pre-order iPhone Duo!" Me: "What about Apple Watch 12?" Freedom Mobile Canada <Crickets> Me: "What about Apple Watch 12?" Freedom Mobile Canada: "We have Apple Watch.... Eleven."

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That should certainly be the trigger for all governments in Europe to eliminate their dependence on MS, and, indeed, ALL US tech companies, because Apple and Google have bent the knee in other ways.

And here's the kicker: Microsoft has terminated the M365 and Outlook access of international public officials whose official acts made Trump angry.

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Just a reminder that I have some art up for auction ending this Sunday. Also: included with every piece, I include my insanely detailed prelim art. It's basically two for the price of one.

Chris Weston@westonfront.bsky.social

Christmas is coming. The geese are getting fat. Good time to put some coin in Chris Weston's hat. I've got some choice pieces of art on ebay at the moment (and me old Mum's drink trolley, embarrassingly). Run like a lunatic and snap them up! www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?i...

Chuck Schumer continues being more useless than a boil on a donkey’s ass.

Truthout@truthout.org

Chuck Schumer — one of the most powerful Democrats in the country — has not issued statements to the press or through his social media channels about the administration’s attack on Ilhan Omar, which critics have described as a five alarm fire for the state of democracy in the U.S.