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Very opinionated; gregarious, ungovernable loner. Native NYCer, Indonesian father, Filipino mother. Multi-geek. (If I seek your autograph, I will have a card with me so you can personalize it.)
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If I was to write a monthly newsletter, on either Patreon or Buttondown or some other platform, what do you think I should write about?

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Since the only phone game I play is Chess Club, I often get hints (which I don't redeem) in exchange for ads for games such as Gossip Harbor. Gossip Harbor is basically what the affluent want everyone else to do, freeze, starve and beg.

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Does he also pray with his slack-jawed mouth hanging open

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

It's getting lost in the chaos, but the Trump administration is attempting to end LEGAL immigration. Many of us sounded this warning years ago.

submitted 17 days ago • 3 comments

Vancouver is grieving, the Filipino community is shattered. Here are resources "for the families enduring unimaginable pain, for the survivors healing from visible and invisible wounds, and for a community that now bears an even heavier burden of grief." docs.google.com/document/u/2...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Speaking of due process…they really don’t want this man to have it

submitted 3 days ago • 19 comments

"This is not public safety. This is violence disguised as law."

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How Vaccines Work 🧬🧫🧪🔬💉🥽

submitted 5 days ago • 56 comments

Why did 47 fall asleep at the Pope's funeral? To demonstrate he was anti-woke.

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is remembering artist George Tuska on his birthday.

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Oh look, kids being racist as fuck. www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/n...

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Stephen Miller wrote this piece for the Duke student newspaper TWENTY YEARS AGO. You won't find a single talking point in here that a) wasn't already a stale Limbaugh-esque talking point in 2005 and b) isn't also the cutting edge of GOP messaging about universities today.

submitted 4 days ago • 44 comments

FUCK THIS AND FUCK ANYONE WHO SUPPORTS THIS

submitted 5 days ago • 18 comments

Generational trauma requires ignorance, denial, & fear to thrive & penetrate into subsequent generations. It is absolutely allergic to survivors w/ the courage & tools to see what we see & know what we know without shame. We're not just working our recovery for ourselves.

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The Naval Academy cancelled a freakin' Ken Burns documentary showing, not because of the content, but because Burns had been critical of Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...

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Today is the 95th birthday of the pastor whose evil words were the final straw that drove me to leave Christianity and revert to Islam.

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The banjo’s African - American history is American history. www.npr.org/2025/04/25/n...

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Drumpf names Lebanese White Nationalist, twisted conspiracy theorist and noted moron (not to mention amateur cook) Michael Anton to lead technical talks with Iran - POLITICO www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

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In the wake of what Judge Dugan did (100% legal), now is a good time for everyone to know what she knows: An immigration or administrative warrant is *not* a judicial warrant. You are not obliged to obey it. Indeed, you can let the person out the back door. docs.google.com/presentation...

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D³ Interior Department to Fast-Track Oil, Gas and Mining Projects. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/c...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Nixon, the president who resigned for having gotten caught lying, highlighted the importance of the environment, whereas the Trump regime threatens to deport citizens who engage in free speech protesting the their rampant violations of human rights, due process, &/or environmental laws & treaties.

submitted 8 days ago • 9 comments

Please share

submitted 8 days ago • 22 comments

They angry when we win. They angry when we're magnanimous. They angry when we Tulsa. Prepare to keep being angry, buttercup.

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If Wallner needs it, it would be amazing if the book and comics community came together to raise funds for her defense against Gaiman.

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New — FDIC to cut more than 1,200 jobs in the agency

submitted 9 days ago • 33 comments

If you missed me at @c2e2 or found me after I sold of of The Pedestrian Vol. 1 or Geiger #13 I ship sighed books thought my webshop:

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

In 1969 my dad came home from the library with Jules Feiffer‘s The Great Comic Book Heroes (1965). “This book changed my life” is well-worn hyperbole but here there can be no doubt.

submitted 99 days ago • 8 comments

Over the past month I have developed an addiction to The Goldberg Variations and need recommendations of new (to me) performances. Piano only, please. Here are the ones I know best and have been wearing out: The Goulds (duh) Rosalyn Tureck Simone Dinnerstein Beatrice Rana (🔥) All wonderful.

submitted 93 days ago • 22 comments

Like Asimov’s “Nightfall,” but every two years instead of every two thousand. www.bbc.com/newsround/ar...

submitted 91 days ago • 1 comment

“With a worldwide disaster looming just a few years ahead, it is a time of unrestrained corporate greed, false religiosity, moronic fecklessness, and evil intent in high places. No reference to the present day is intended or should be inferred.” From the Pynchon-penned flap copy of *Against the Day*

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Trump’s corruption is without limit. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

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So it turns out the whole “shithole countries” thing was *aspirational*.

submitted 12 days ago • 17 comments

World’s Finest Comics #34 (May-June 1948). Win Mortimer cover art.

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

Luis Dominguez covered Unexpected 202 (1980). Have fun hiding those eggs tonight, Bronze Age bunnies!

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

Fixed it: --> last year, the U.S. sold more educational services to the rest of the world than it sold in natural gas and coal **combined** --> every $1 of research funded by NIH generates $2.56 in economic activity 🧵

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If Dem politicians had really believed he was a fascist, why didn't they have a plan in place after inauguration that wasn't lay down & play dead? ALSO you all were alive when they were LEAKING to the press that Indivisible, Move On, and the *groups* could kick rocks. www.axios.com/2025/02/12/d...

submitted 11 days ago • 52 comments

Gorgeous cover. Really love the palette. Seeing this on the rack would definitely get my attention.

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If you need a news break, I profiled Kim Yun Shin, the Korean painter and sculptor still carving wood and stone with a chainsaw at the age of 90, finally getting the attention she deserves: www.artnews.com/art-news/art...

submitted 13 days ago • 7 comments

Fumbled the black bag. I was a Target die-hard before. Have not been there since December.

submitted 12 days ago • 33 comments