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I'm proud I don't have Andrew Cuomo's record of corruption, scandal and disgrace. And the name is M-A-M-D-A-N-I.

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I told you we’d be back

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Ah yes, the traditional summer flavour of strawberries and cream... ... and pork-derived gelatine.

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Over on our Substack today, the inestimable @jarredmcginnis.bsky.social picks the books that inspire his own writing, books that push the form of nonfiction and memoir - from Hong Kingston to Harry Crews. hinterlandnonfiction.substack.com/p/the-non-fi...

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‘You Would Not Survive if There Wasn’t Humor’: The Kate Beaton Interview - The Comics Journal #311 Preview

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Google and Meta search both report that Cape Breton Island has its own time zone 12 minutes ahead of mainland Nova Scotia time because they are both drawing that information from a Beaverton article I wrote in 2024

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Y'know when your favorite pop-culture continuity doesn't "feel right" to you? Some new twist in a story about Luke or Peter or Bruce or James or other Bruce or Old Ben or The Doctor or whoever? This is one of the keys to understanding it: "collaborative"

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The reason generative AI is so popular with wannabe creatives is best illustrated by something every pro writer has encountered: getting pitched an idea by someone saying "You write it and we'll split the profits!" because they think the idea is what has value, not the writing. The opposite is true.

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Nancy's fears here are kinda... serious given the era. In 1930s USA (during the Great Depression), it wasn't unusual for parents in hard circumstances to put kids into 'care' institutions, like orphanages... 1/n

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Listening to Discover Weekly and realize last 4 songs were all aggressively, crappily bland. Check playlist and see: Nonsensical 2-word band names ✔️ No text in bios? ✔️ No photos at all? ✔️ 10+ releases each in 2025 alone? ✔️ Spotify just served me 5 consecutive AI-slop songs and I hate it here.

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Brazil: universal health care, hospital room has a clown button USA: privatized health care, no clown button

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Shall I be plain? I wish the bastards dead

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For values of "America" that are generally white and christian, this is super accurate.

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'Women in late medieval fencing manuals.' wiktenauer.com/wiki/Main_Page

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Momentarily stepping aside from the Ewok party, Luke looked to the forest where he saw three ghosts, that of his two teachers in the way of the Force, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Master Yoda, as well as the ghost of a third young man he did not recognize. Luke smiled, happy to learn that ghosts were real.

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I've seen enough anime where a tea cup breaks in someone's hand to recognize what this means for me. (Either a forgotten foe with an unstoppable technique is coming for revenge, or I just need to be more careful about putting cold water in glasses out of a hot dishwasher.)

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The word around town is that the next big thing is Artisanal Imagery, hand-made visuals that you simply have to own if you don't want to be left behind

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The household damp struggle is R E A L.

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Just talking to my comrades and realise they don't actually have an Eisner ballot, as they're not registered. So, I'm lobbing this in public - anyone in comics (creators, retailers, librarians, educators, editors, whoever) can apply here and vote before June 5th. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

submitted 24 days ago • 6 comments

most places burying the lead but BACK ON PBS running day and date!!!

submitted 27 days ago • 19 comments

Futudama

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Hot corvid news, the Tower of London has new raven bebes. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.

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Oh wrestling is fake? Then explain this

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There's no celebration like a Piccolo Day celebration, because celebrating Piccolo Day is mandatory

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