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Lynd’s Ward’s GOD’S MAN (1929) was an important forerunner of the American Graphic Novel revolution; cited often by Will Eisner as a source of inspiration for his own graphic novels, starting with A CONTRACT WITH GOD half a century later later. h/t @timtoon.com

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Thread. ❤️ My mom talks about this a lot.

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Last week we go the go-ahead to tell our younger kids that our teenager's friend (whom they all love) is trans and is changing her name and pronouns. The elementary schooler wanted a refresher about what that all means, as we have other out trans friends, but he's mostly too young to... (1/3)

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what do you mean 'normal tools'?

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i think, unfortunately, that this may be my masterpiece

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I don't think stabbing is usually... okay, whatever whatever whatever.

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When the moon hits your eye and it looks like a guy... pareidolia

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i know this isnt exactly a "content account" but heres a comic for #terriblecomicday

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I did say the thing!

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Sometimes I don’t understand how Jim Henson ever sold his absolutely wild ideas to colleagues and gatekeepers alike, but then I look at a picture of him and am like “yes, I also would have done whatever he told me to do.”

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Sometimes you gotta please the inner child. #makeaterriblecomicday2025

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What actor's expression in a movie will stay with you for the rest of your life?

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esp if you are younger than me and weren't around for the first orchestration of this stuff, you should go over this timeline. it won't take but a minute and it's clear & not an op-ed: it's just an explainer. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/...

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yes, the establishment will respond very harshly to the threat. should Mamdani prevail everybody needs to double down on ranked choice and all the other things we actually want and like

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damn yes needed this today

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Oh, huh, look at that, we really are in the sixth month of a disastrous reign in the house of money.

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Lawmakers called called the action unconstitutional and warned that it could drag American forces into wider regional conflict.

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Tech companies know their customers don't want LLMs in everything, and instead of, y'know, not putting LLMs in everything, they try to make it impossible to take the LLMs out. What are we even doing here.

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To paraphrase the Fourth Doctor, this can be quite uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the “errors” which they feel the need to delete.

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Oil is violence against the earth and the violence of war and the brutal geopolitics in pursuit and defense of the dirty stuff. Climate activism is peace activism.

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Boosting these again. Do not give up on Palestinian people. Do not let the monsters exhaust us into breaking. Please give whatever you can to Yehya, Tamer, and their families. They need money for food, shelter, and medicine.

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what would have been possible, what could we each have made, and done, and been, if it hadn’t been taken from us by these wretched men

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Beach body ready, but it's the beach where Block plays chess against death in The Seventh Seal.

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I feel like way too many of you took the legitimate concepts of toxic positivity/parasocial behavior and just started using it to mean being nice is problematic

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Everybody was beautiful, and nobody was depressed.

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When you discover a year-old potato in the back of the pantry cupboard:

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Nature + Fiddle

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Harriet Tubman #quilt by my Mom, Vera P. Hall, who makes quilts celebrating Black people who fought for their own freedom. This seems to be the crowd favorite of the “We Didn’t Wait for Freedom” series. Happy #Juneteenth #quilting

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Today's Thimble Theater strip is one of my absotlute faves. Olive Oyl is hilariously badass. (Which really gets lost in all Popeye permutations post-Segar.) This Western arc is where the strip starts getting good again after the very mid "mystery house" bit.

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secrets of game UI designers they DON'T want you to know

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Please enjoy me reading from my story "Select All Bicyles" in Uncharted. www.instagram.com/reel/DKQDBDz...

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I'm having wicked dreams

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