Greg Pak

Greg Pak

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Rhymes with "rock." Comics writer, filmmaker, photojournalist. THUNDERCATS, PLANET HULK. He/him. steering committee @comixaction.com @standupforyale.bsky.social @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social (@gregpak.com for work only) Buy my stuff at gregpakshop.com!

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Jody Houser ✒️🗯️🎲
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As someone who was hospitalized for five days after a cold turned into an inner ear infection and caused SEVERE vertigo, you can be perfectly healthy and still have major complications from "just a cold". It's 2.5 years later and I'm STILL using a cane and doing PT in the hopes of fully recovering.

talia jane@taliajane.bsky.social

Regular reminder that when you go to things while sick, you are giving those germs to people with autoimmune disorders, you’re passing them to someone’s newborn, to someone’s elderly parents. It’s “just a cold” to you but it can and does severely impact countless people.

Greg Pak
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MANY people came to my table at the NYCC and thanked me for making noise and organizing around political issues. I thanked them back and said I'm just constitutionally incapable of keeping my mouth shut, which is true! But the real sauce: I'm part of multiple communities that make me braver.

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Greg Pak
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Join up. Find your organizing home. Get yourself some comrades who have your back, and have theirs. Everything starts getting better right about then. And then we change the world. ❤️💪

Greg Pak
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Really important thread. Not pleasant. But very important.

talia jane@taliajane.bsky.social

Regular reminder that when you go to things while sick, you are giving those germs to people with autoimmune disorders, you’re passing them to someone’s newborn, to someone’s elderly parents. It’s “just a cold” to you but it can and does severely impact countless people.

Greg Pak
@gregpak.net

MANY people came to my table at the NYCC and thanked me for making noise and organizing around political issues. I thanked them back and said I'm just constitutionally incapable of keeping my mouth shut, which is true! But the real sauce: I'm part of multiple communities that make me braver.

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Greg Pak
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You don't have to be a solo hero when you're surrounded by comrades who give a damn and do the right thing. You're just part of your community, and that's glorious and liberating. If you're scared to say what you think you should? Poke around and find your organizing home. Find your TRUE community.

Greg Pak
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Just for inspiration, here are a bunch of the groups I organize with and support. All doing amazing things every damn day. All giving me energy and courage every damn day. go.bsky.app/C2Np9n6

Greg Pak
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MANY people came to my table at the NYCC and thanked me for making noise and organizing around political issues. I thanked them back and said I'm just constitutionally incapable of keeping my mouth shut, which is true! But the real sauce: I'm part of multiple communities that make me braver.

Greg Pak
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This is very good advice!

Johanna T 🔜 LBX@johannamation.bsky.social

I am b e g g i n g people to mask up at major cons, *especially* ones with 5-digit crowd sizes!! Lightbox this weekend was absolutely ravaged; I’m hearing of SO many attendees and exhibitors who got sick from doing the show this year!! Please stay safe out there! 🙏 🙏

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Marisa Kabas
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i am inviting anyone from a legacy media organization to explain to me why the house judiciary dems report on trump’s epstein’s ties and multiple allegations of rape isn’t worthy of extensively reporting on. i’m serious. i want to understand.

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Chris Conroy
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Suffice it to say that RFK Jr should live the rest of his life penniless, shunned, and outcast from common society for the shit I just saw him say, and that’s just for what he said on Monday of this week, not the balance of his entire preposterous and destructive career

Greg Pak
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bots filing lawsuits would result in a tsunami of absolutely frivolous bullshit that would destroy thousands of small businesses and ruin millions of lives. Fuck "A.i."

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Greg Pak
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dear scammy "a.i." bots: if you make fake accounts for elon musk and follow me here, i will IMMEDIATELY add you to my main blocklist and you will instantly vanish for thousands of people will k thx bye

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I interviewed @mikedecillis.bsky.social in Bay Ridge a few days ago - hear him make his very good pitch in his own words! bsky.app/profile/greg...

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I interviewed @mikedecillis.bsky.social in Bay Ridge yesterday, and here's why you support him as he runs to flip NY-11 from red to blue! tl,dr: This is our chance to knock out the only Republican US rep in NYC!!!

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@mikedecillis.bsky.social is running for Congress in NY-11 against the reprehensible MAGA tool Malliotakis. I've met him and heard him speak several times, and the dude hates fascism! He could knock out NYC's only R Congressperson! Let's help him!!! www.decillisforcongress.com

decillisforcongress.comDeCillis For Congress| NY-11 (Staten Island & South Brooklyn)Mike DeCillis is a Democrat running for Congress in NY-11. He is a fourth-generation Staten Islander, third-generation union member with 35 years of public service experience.

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I photographed @ginafortexas.bsky.social last month in NYC! She's awesome! Full disclosure: I worked on the Ann Richards campaign with her husband back in 1990! They're good people! bsky.app/profile/greg...

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@ginafortexas.bsky.social would absolutely be the best governor Texas has had since Ann Richards. If you're in Texas, I hope you'll vote for her - and then continue to push her on all the issues you care about, just as we have to push every one of our electeds as hard as we can.

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@ginafortexas.bsky.social is running for Texas Governor, and she has a real shot! Would head off R bullshit redistricting. Would change the entire trajectory of politics in that state. I worked for Ann Richards back in the day; Hinojosa would be just as groundbreaking. ginafortexas.com

ginafortexas.comGina Hinojosa for Texas Governor | Official Campaign WebsiteGina Hinojosa has spent her life advocating for Texas families and kids. From advocating for workers, challenging the status quo, to taking on corrupt politicians – Gina has always put Texas families ...

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@abdulelsayed.bsky.social is running for the US Senate in Michigan. Absolutely critical for flipping the Senate. Fighting for Medicare for All and all the good things. And he's not wavering on trans rights. Opposed by monstrous fucking racists. We gotta win this one. abdulforsenate.com

abdulforsenate.comAbdul El-Sayed – Michigan U.S. Senate Candidate 2026Abdul El-Sayed is running for US Senate in Michigan to get money out of politics, put money in your pocket, and pass Medicare for All.
Greg Pak
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holy cats, we've raised $850 in the last three days! who's gonna push this over $1000?

Greg Pak@gregpak.net

Okay, here's my final stretch fundraiser for some races I care about in the midterms! @abdulelsayed.bsky.social! @ginafortexas.bsky.social! @mikedecillis.bsky.social! @wewill2026.bsky.social! @maiforus.bsky.social! Please consider tossing in some bucks! secure.actblue.com/donate/pakpi...

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Greg Pak
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Don't ever, ever, ever vote for a Republican.

The Editorial Board@editorialboard.bsky.social

"The Committee presented at least one new allegation against Trump: a former Miss Switzerland who says she was raped by him at the Plaza Hotel in New York during a beauty pageant in 1993, leaving her bleeding and bruised." www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

miamiherald.comTrump-Epstein ties covered up, House Democrats allege; want special counselDonald Trump was “an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse of young women in the mid-to-late 1990s,” according to the report.
Greg Pak
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Get ready for all your Microsoft products to get even worse. We need to find ways to move off of all billionaire-owned internet services and software. A practical consumer issue as well as a critical political necessity.

ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com

60,000 workers. god damn www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

bloomberg.comMicrosoft to Offer Buyouts to 60,000 Workers in Latest Cost CutMicrosoft Corp. will offer buyouts to about 60,000 workers, part of the company’s efforts to trim costs and retool its workforce for the artificial intelligence era.
Greg Pak
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A tremendously good quote from @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social. I'll add that when someone becomes part of a movement COMMUNITY, it becomes so much easier to be BRAVE. If you have actual friends and comrades, you have the social support to ACT instead of COWER.

Elana Levin@levin.bsky.social

W alt text on this amazing passage

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Elana Levin
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W alt text on this amazing passage

Perry Bacon@perrybaconjr.bsky.social

"In order to change someone’s mind, you have to change their life. You have to change their network of friends and connections. You need to change the experiences they’ve had in the world," says @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social.

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Rodger Sherman
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big failure from the NBA to not get two of its teams to move one (1) regular season game. the NBA owns 42% of the WNBA (functionally more, since a lot of NBA owners own teams) and should be invested in wanting the league to grow, even at minor expense to its more popular product

Alexa Philippou@alexaphilippou.bsky.social

BREAKING: Game 6 of the WNBA Finals will be held Thursday at 12:30pm ET at Atlanta’s State Farm Arena, sources told ESPN’s Ramona Shelburne. It will be a double-header with the Atlanta Hawks’ game, which will be moved to 8pm.

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Greg Pak
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I've got enormous respect for her work and legacy, the same way I have enormous respect for the work and legacy of Scorsese, Alison Bechdel, and Art Spiegelman. But I also believe all of them have failed the rest of us in the creative community by using generative "A.i." in their work.

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Greg Pak
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'There are fuzzy lines here that I haven’t fully considered, I’m sure. Am I okay with using machine learning to remove powerlines and jet trails from video footage in period movies? I’m pretty sure! 'Am I okay with using generative “A.i.” to build entire scenes based on stolen footage? No!"'

Greg Pak
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The film industry is moving a LOT faster than the comics business to embrace "A.i." slop and displace actual creative professionals. Directors in particular seem to be embracing it, which saddens me, since that creates rifts between the different crafts. Seems bad all 'round!

Greg Pak
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She's only talking about the ethics of animation in documentary. She's not addressing the theft, labor, exploitation, and environmental issues of "A.i."