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Glenn Fleishman

glennf@zeppelin.flights

<p>Glenn is a person who drops many names. He spent most of his career as a technology journalist, but over the last decade, has moved more into printing and comics history. His Eisner Award-nominated book, How Comics Are Made, is available in bookstores worldwide. Glenn somehow won two episodes of Jeopardy! His recent books include Flong Time, No See (upcoming, fall 2026), Six Centuries of Type &amp; Printing (2nd ed, 2025), and London Kerning. He also edits books and consults on Kickstarter campaign</p>

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    Has anyone ever sent you a poll in Apple Messages?

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    Jen Farrell is a generational talent in letterpress craft printing. You can get one of her most remarkable prints right now at a steal: $100 for 1 of 85 of “The City is My Religion.” Just incredible work for a Chicago lover. https://www.starshaped.com/chicago/cityismyreligion2026 @Starshapedpress

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    I’ve had a recurring problem with gnats in the basement bathroom drain. Yesterday I said, where are my spiders! Today I see a spider having captured all the gnats. I said, thank you, ma’am.

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    I have been telling people about the far-right owners of ULINE for a while and suggesting you use EcoEnclose as an alternative. I have used a 1,000+ of their boxes + packing material. I didn’t realize I could give you a $20 coupon (off $50+)! http://refs.ecoenclose.com/0MRBz37h (Disclosure: I also get $20. I will use it wisely.)

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    Hell can never be too full to exclude one more hypocrite.

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    What’s a Matter, you? I sort out a long-running Apple Home issue with a garage-door sensor and now understand much more about Thread. @sixcolors https://sixcolors.com/post/2026/07/pulling-the-thread-to-know-if-my-garage-door-is-closed/

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    Via @sixcolors@zeppelin.flights, news of WhatCable, the answer to all Mac owners’ prayers about figuring ports and cable capabilities! At last! https://sixcolors.com/post/2026/07/whatcable-gives-you-the-download-on-your-usb-cables/ Both a free and pro tier: https://www.whatcable.uk/

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    RE: https://mastodon.social/@TWiT/116885424357171230 I was a guest this week subbing for @film_girl@mastodon.social! I did not pick up the Swift slack.

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    “Trans people are fleeing red states for Seattle. The city can&#39;t keep up.” Donate to Traction! On the ground help for trans people coming to my fair city! https://givebutter.com/traction2026 They have desperate need of funding to keep this help going! I gave—please consider helping these vulnerable human beings. https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/trans-people-are-fleeing-red-states-for-seattle-the-city-cant-keep-up/

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    A crow came up to me with a look in its eye while I was walking. I paused. “Can I help you?” It hopped off, not far off. I cross the street. It flew over, not hostile. “What’s up? Do you want something?” It cocked its head. I checked my pockets. I found a key ring and removed the keys.

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    A mailing list has 10 to 20 times the impact per subscriber/follower than social media. That said, I have 20 times more followers than subscribers so the impact is often similar!

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    I took a walk yesterday at what must have been baby o’clock: every single baby and toddler was out with their parents. Must have been the end of Uniform Nap Time, which we observe in the Socialist State of Seattle.

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    I have tried to not make my feed an infinite scroll of this, but here is a reminder: That One Matt Bors Comic is an anthology of Matt, writers and cartoonists, and randos from the internet who are/have riffed on “we should improve society somewhat.” https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/glennf/that-one-matt-bors-comic

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    If you’re in the Columbus, Ohio, area, make a trip to the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library &amp;amp; Museum on May 23 for its grand gallery re-opening! Chris Ware headlines, plus a new permanent exhibition on—surprise!—the Story of Comics. Yours truly has a video in this that runs perpetually. https://library.osu.edu/site/cartoons/2026/04/28/billy-ireland-cartoon-library-museum-reopens-may-23/

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    All the Bluesky bubble people showing their whole ass, as their comments reveal the paucity of who they follow. The bubble is inside yourself. Also, grow up; it is just a fancy CB radio, not the future of humanity. Unless you’re on X, which is a network of Nazi walkie-talkies.

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    Join @mattbors on Wednesday at 10 am PT/1 pm ET for an AMA about Toxic Avenger, The Nib, being a tiny publisher, comics journalism, and our upcoming That One Matt Bors Comic book. Click through to get a Reddit reminder. https://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/1tlok0t/matt_bors_toxic_avenger_justice_warriors_improve/

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    I’m unfollowing everyone who is trying to create Internet Main Characters. It isn’t healthy (unless they are politicians or people with political power and even then not rally), and I pledge to stop doing it to avoid being a hypocrite.

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    The Pope wrote “fly from AI, you fools.”

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    Join @mattbors May 27 at 10 am PT/1pm ET on Reddit to Ask Matt Anything about cartooning, running the Nib, writing Toxic Avenger, the decline of alt-weeklies, what’s it like to have a meme take over your cartoon, etc. https://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/1tlok0t/matt_bors_toxic_avenger_justice_warriors_improve/

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    I just discovered a new* way of adding emoji to Messages on an iPhone or iPad! And wrote that up plus many other ways to incorporate the tiny stories that are those symbols. @sixcolors https://sixcolors.com/post/2026/05/orange-you-glad-i-didnt-say-emoji/ *Apple introduced 10 years ago in iOS 10

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    A Gadwall

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    Every extreme religious leader in every denomination and sect gathers power to hide scrutiny of their physical abuse of others. https://apple.news/A2MP__9dbSOe0wc7wdUV-9w

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    I forgot that I forgot about RSS, which has once again become part of my daily life. https://sixcolors.com/post/2026/05/how-i-restarted-using-rss-and-actually-noticed/

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    Have you ever heard “we should improve society somewhat” used as a conversation stopper? Or as an ironic rejoinder to someone claiming we must be perfect to achieve any change? Have I got a book for you: That One Matt Bors Comic, now on Kickstarter! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/glennf/that-one-matt-bors-comic?ref=3glvj0 Why do a book about a single comic—nay, a single panel of a single comic? To examine how a phrase becomes a meme, how artists aren’t paid when that happens, how memes an...

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    For those those who get a baffling “joke” in their Christmas cracker about vampires: https://glennf.medium.com/dont-coffin-me-it-s-crackers-8dd43faa42d1

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    Mister Plimsoll, my Mac disk-approaching-full monitoring app (free, in beta), now supports Pushover notifications. https://misterplimsoll.app

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    I had a wonderful, terrible, magnificent idea, and @mattbors was up for it. We launch That One Matt Bors Comic on Kickstarter on May 12. Sign up at Kickstarter for an alert! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/glennf/that-one-matt-bors-comic?ref=7bn16k (Media, see https://thatonemattborscomic.com/press.html)

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    RE: https://mastodon.social/@campuscodi/116506790225207872 Jeeves has retired to the Junior Ganymede Club.

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    I am gingerly posting my first Mac app—it&amp;#39;s a simple gap-filling (and free) app still in beta that just alerts you via floating window, email, or iMessage (or all three) when a monitored drive (internal or external) exceeds a percentage full you set. I couldn&amp;#39;t find any utility that did more than a pop-up alert. https://www.misterplimsoll.app

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    RE: https://mastodon.social/@gregpak/116462715392847141 Join us for CANCEL TOWN