Illustrator. Former art director. Shorter in person. john@johnwtomac.com johnwtomac.com
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Day four of the @armadillostock.bsky.social Kickstarter campaign. I’ll keep this short: Armadillo is a new human centered illustration licensing platform NO AI accepted 100% fees to artists Artist driven Artist supported www.kickstarter.com/projects/dia...
The guy who issued that statement tried to run for city council two years ago. He had some issues with the integrity of his ballot petitions www.cityandstateny.com/politics/202...
This guy tied to run for City Council in my neighborhood and had to drop out for forging the sitting Republican State Assembly-members signature on his ballot petitions. www.cityandstateny.com/politics/202...
Big Pelf was treated to a massive offensive outburst in his first start, iirc
One should aspire for something greater. The world probably has enough of me
Halfway to taking my money! (please blow past the modest funding goal and take my money)
I still the worst. I did a years worth of PT for an Achilles injury and it did very little until I went for shockwave therapy.
Sounds about right for the guy who’s gonna be the Chief Slop Officer of the U.S.
I recently joined the dev team for Armadillo Stock and it's a been a really fun project with a great group of people! Help us get it off the ground!
Just backed this! Grateful for people who have the drive and bandwidth to put legs on good ideas. I’m excited to see Armadillo Stock get started.
This is a great venture, run by some really good people, that’s worthy of your support, especially if you’re an illustrator.
For 2 years now I've been using my "spare time" to do UX consults on a new platform for artists - @armadillostock.bsky.social ! Today they've launched their Kickstarter to get the website v1 up and running: www.kickstarter.com/projects/dia... Please spread the word, contribute if you can, etc 💕
Donald Trump and Dr. Oz are using A.I. to screw people in Arizona, New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas and Washington State out of their Medicare benefits. The tech companies get a cut of the “savings” from rejected claims, so they’re going to deny a lot of them. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/h...
"The Meta AI chatbot built into Instagram and Facebook can coach teen accounts on suicide, self-harm and eating disorders, a new safety study [by Common Sense Media] finds. In one test chat, the bot planned joint suicide — and then kept bringing it back up in later conversations."
There is a scenario where getting the same 28% of the vote as 4 years ago is enough to win a crowded 4- or 5-way race. Fortunately, the collapse in support for Adams and Cuomo makes that a lot less likely
He’s probably going to get ~25% of the vote just because he’s on the Republican ballot line. Most outerboro GOP voters aren’t going to vote for Cuomo or Adams under any circumstance. They hate both of them. It wouldn’t be shocking to see him finish second ahead of Cuomo
I have hematological malignancies and I’m willing to share.
listen up gang, next summer we’re eating hot soup all season, ok? promise me (good story from @abebeame.bsky.social)
Fine, I’ll eat ramen in July and August to save my country.
Thankfully only the latter is terminal
I need people to stop feeling bad for me because I’m a cancer patient and instead feel bad for me because I’m a Jets fan.
They’re giving 0% of their hats to me when I leave the oncologist. Big fail.
We can’t put bike lanes on the highway if there is no highway. Better tear it down now to prevent this nightmare from coming to fruition.
New work for The Wall Street Journal’s Off Duty section. The shrubs and hedges you think are flattering your house are actually destroying it.
New work for The Wall Street Journal’s Off Duty section. The shrubs and hedges you think are flattering your house are actually destroying it.
Let’s go Mets #LGM
Did the microphone also prevent Bohm from fielding the ball in the previous inning?
The horrific air quality really did make everything on film look great
It’ll be interesting to see if they make any attempt to create or improve pedestrian and transit connections to the neighborhoods around the mall. Car-dependent apartments surrounded by parking lots and Routes 4 and 17 doesn’t seem like it would a great place to live
Did you get a card and prize for finding everything?
I hope they paused 10 seconds for station identification while he was there.
I went to Copenhagen
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
My department at Hunter College, which combines studio art & art history, has just posted a job listing for an assistant professor of ceramics. Please share widely, thanks! cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...
I saw him hit a ball off the front of the LF upper deck in Citi Field in one at bat, then just miss hitting it again the next at bat. Two of the hardest hit balls I’ve ever seen in person.
im gonna say this crime rates are never an excuse for fascist takeovers CRIME RATES ARE NEVER AN EXCUSE FOR FASCIST TAKEOVERS yes, they are low! yes, hes a fucking liar! but people on both sides promoting crime waves and criminalizing shit helped lay the groundwork to get here!
It’s a good way to make sure un- and underemployed 20-somethings with rich parents and trust funds get rent stabilized apartments
Andrew Cuomo wants to evict every city employee who makes “too much” overtime one year and cause housing instability for every freelancer who has a good year financially.
An entire team of journalists, outside a hospital in a tent for journalists, killed by Israel. www.bbc.com/news/article...
BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
252 #LFGM
Summer evening bike rides are back! More details + RSVP for ride updates: bikesbk.org/events/
Rent-stabilized dweller here: It is one of the main reasons that I can have any shred of stability(and even that feels like a storm might blow in and eradicate it) 2-year leases + controlled % increase + stable rate = able to have something resembling a life
I don’t think housing instability should be a reward for a freelancer has a good year financially.
He’s a bigger moron than I thought if he believes throwing nurses, teachers and other city workers out of their apartments because they made too much overtime one year is a winning argument
I guess that’s the reason there are cop cars parked in every bus lane bus lane around the city
Buttigieg hired Lis Smith to run his 2020 primary campaign after she lost her job helping Andrew Cuomo prop up an artificial Republican majority in the State Senate. That’s the company he keeps. That’s who he is.
You can show up at any 5k road race and pretty quickly you’ll realize it’s just a mass of people out for a run and there not a ton of difference between the men and women
It’s also built around the idea that the only reason people participate in any athletic event is to win. It’s poor sportsmanship and preemptive sore loserdom
To argument that they’re protecting women’s sports requires ignoring and insulting the skill and athleticism of assigned female at birth athletes. It’s grievance politics for people who are mad their kid wasn’t good enough for the HS team or didn’t get an athletic scholarship offer.
If you’re calling to strengthen the police state to crack down on mass protests, then you’re just trying to make it harder to oppose Trump’s authoritarianism. No Democrat should support that.
Bombshell report from The New York Times reveals that President Donald Trump spoke directly to Andrew Cuomo about how to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming NYC mayor. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/n...
I believe one of the new mRNA vaccines was expected to treat colon cancer, and another had the potential to keep pancreatic cancer from recurring. That’s what they’re taking away.
Stopping vaccine development is another example of "eugenics is everywhere." Expecting survival of the fittest when one gets infectious disease and cancer is eugenics.
I am in the process of getting all my childhood vaccines again because cancer treatment reset my immune system to zero. I’m genuinely worried these ghouls are going to make it impossible to finish that process, which will take another year to finish.
Hey illustrators! Did you know there's a contact form on my website just for you? When beginning new projects I routinely check the spreadsheet for new submissions and search/sort my notes on previous submissions. >>> www.brianlarossa.com 💙❤️ #kidlit #kidlitart #illustrator #artsearch #art #artist
Mets World Series
Baseball is stupid
Should’ve sent Taylor
Never been so happy to have organs that have been ruined by cancer, chemo and radiation
Coma (1978)
I got diver down (on cassette) at a yard sale for 25¢ sometime around 1994. It was great
Palm Sunday goes long, but it’s also like being in the school play, so it evens out.
It's not 100% perfect but it's helped a bit when searching for reference images on the fly. That said, I recommend artists build a set of bookmarked photo sites for specific subjects like early internet days.
The Jell-O shots were a reminder we are not
@guster.bsky.social and @themountaingoats.bsky.social make a mean Boz Scaggs tribute band
Mom and dad pretend they’re still in college.
The opposition to new construction on Fourth Ave. never makes any sense. Every time a fast food parking lot, gas station or cab stand disappears it’s a win. Hopefully Zohran ushers in a wave of DSA guys who want to upzone Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights.
Was that the Dunkin Donuts at 25th St.?
I’ve been painting around my town this summer. I can feel myself getting better at painting, it’s been awesome
I’m gonna tell my grandkids that’s Yorvit Torrealba
dad joke incoming. this is a great opportunity and people are dying to get in.
Jawn
I think it’s safe to assume things are going poorly when this qualifies as a Mets highlight in the MLB app
They were busy wrongfully arresting two people outside the building who had nothing to do with the shooting
This house is two blocks from the 77th St. Subway station. We can’t build apartments here because of the 1978 Special Housing District and 2005 Bloomberg downzoning, so instead a dentist who got rich doing insurance fraud built a mini Versailles. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/r...
LeGuin wrote about the desire for 'unassailable safety' as one of the deep roots of evil, and I think about that a lot.
I'm using this now and it's super easy to use, so I'm sending it again.
Trump hates wind turbines. Here's a rejected New Yorker cover idea from the first term when he was railing against them.
If the bus goes fast, I won’t have enough time to charge my phone with the broken and obsolete USB ports Cuomo gave us as governor.
Stat cast is good. I enjoy the insights like “he’s the Tim Teufel of Kevin McReynoldses”
In a car people are obstacles to avoid and get around in a way they are not even on the most crowded sidewalk or train. It’s an anti-social machine
No respect
Watching the Mets while the Wilpons used the team to cover their Ponzi scheme losses had a similar effect. It’s a lot more fun when the owners are actually trying to put the best possible team on the field
Hopefully no one gets hurt here, but when someone does it’s going to cost the city a lot of money. But I guess it’s hard to put a price on getting the mayor 10% of the vote in his reelection campaign
How many miles of bike lanes, bus lanes and car free streets will Mayor Mamdani create now that he no longer has to waste time with community board input?
He hired a bunch of Cuomo’s people to run his previous presidential campaign. That’s all I needed to see to know he’s full of shit.
Pete Buttigieg hired Andrew Cuomo’s people to run his 2020 presidential campaign. Lis Smith was available because she lost her previous job working for the IDC, the Cuomo-backed Democrats in the State Senate who were caucusing with Republicans, after they were voted out of office
They could do this every weekend from April-November and there’d still be demand for more.
Hate to hand it to Bruce here, but get his ass Bruce
The only actual, bona fide, non-evil genius Harvard University ever gave a diploma to RIP to a very, very real one I will miss him dearly 💔
When I was in college (early aughts) there were always guys trying to start proto-grubhub delivery business. After about a month they all realized they couldn’t make money doing that.
We're going to ride bikes to the beach, but [glances at weather forecast] yeah but maybe just not today. Hope you can still make it next Sunday! Deets and full event info: www.bikesbk.org/event/july-2...
All the dire implications notwithstanding it is hilarious how evil this technology is. Billions of dollars spent on this greasy lying stupid thing that was literally built to replace people, and everyone that uses it gets weaker, lazier, dumber, and sadder for having done so. Well done all around.
When I was a lad we called them a pump and dump scheme
My latest piece @thenation.com is the loving, heartfelt tribute you've been waiting for: "Real American Scumbag: Hulk Hogan Was a Racist, Liar, and Scab" www.thenation.com/article/soci...
