inkshark is a scandalously queer illustrator, author, and editor who lives in the rainy wilds of the Pacific Northwest. He enjoys exploring with his dogs, writing impossible things, and painting what he shouldn’t. When his current meatshell begins to decay, he’d like science to put his brain into a giant killer octopus body with which he promises to be responsible and not even slightly shipwrecky. Pinky swear.

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Photo of me and my partner in front of the Columbia River. Handwritten text with an arrow points at him which says "Just told a dad joke" and at me that says "trying not to laugh and encourage his misbehavior"

Stuff that’s important to me:

  • Decentralized media combats enshittification
  • Cooperatives are to business what democracy is to government
  • Open Source doesn’t mean “free stuff,” it means “freedom”
  • Animals are better than people
  • Negotiation > assumption
  • I will always chip in for your bail if you punched a Nazi

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one time…

…I allowed a feral raccoon to move into my bedroom, and he liked it so much he brought his girlfriend.

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