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Writer and ex-podcaster specializing in anime, comics and film; currently in education for the money, such as it is. Barnacle on the hull of the publishing industry (proofing, editing, etc.). He/him/bi. ADHD. Banner art from MAWS
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at least he didn't do something truly reckless like try to forgive student loans

ICYMI: I wrote about Hank Hill and the beautiful impermanence of life.

tragic about Brian Wilson, but i think we can agree he used his one wish very unwisely. the girls immediately overwhelmed California's infrastructure

Mortifying experience at Pulp last night but taking comfort that I’m not the worst person Jarvis Cocker has ever impersonated

Every so often I like to remind people of Abe Rosenthal, the guy who ran the NYT during the aids crisis and kept coverage of it out of the paper. This is his gravestone.

“I’m an eleven, but continue.”

these guys have flooded our streets with gestapo and soldiers to roust our neighbors and demand papers over completely fabricated emergencies. one notable terrorist act on US soil with these freaks in charge and i cannot imagine there will be any limits to their savagery

AOC: “It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.”

the administration don’t think the budget bill or the iran bombing will be popular. they don’t really have a plan for becoming popular again. it might not be possible. this is just them doing the things they wanted to do, while they can

Me noticing that Amy Poehler and Will Arnett are playing a married couple in this Ghibli dub: Ah, so they must have recorded this between 2003-2016 😏 Hayao Miyazaki: Your obsession with celebrity disgusts me

fucked up. preemptively: don’t do the “fuck Mississippi” thing plz thx. Fuck the ruling class that does this to Mississippi to keep its people down

On every level all they have to do is say brown people have weapons & they can just do anything to us

at least toby keith is dead this time

Read my latest:

Cartoonist Maia Kobabe's Gender Queer is one of the most frequently banned books in the US, a fact that is now fueling a fundraising campaign called "Fight Censorship, Read Comics."

illegal war started by a man constitutionally ineligible to be president

slowly realising there are people under the age of 30 who may not know who the dixie chicks are

The entire field of 19th century studies is about how wrong this summation is #19c

Yet Luigi launched a thousand hand-wringing op-eds from the chattering class. Makes you think

A vitally important story, memorialized in Norman Rockwell's "Murder in Mississippi."

At my first actual wrestling show for an indie promotion LFG BOYS

Unironically the thing I love about this point, is that it's a great basis to start talking to y'all about the fact that most of the people in jail in the US are just as innocent as Khalil. Many are Black folk that have been arrested with *absolutely no basis*, but wait *over a year* to see a judge.

you guys they might be vampires

this used to be the home of alex jones productions and now it is a place where dogs go to learn manners, in case you're worried that progress isn't possible

comics take a long time to draw. no, but really. if artists were paid an hourly rate it would explode the brains of most people both out AND in/adjacent to the field

Once you realize that most anti-[popular thing x] sentiment can be boiled down to “what girls like is stupid” SO much starts falling into place

Dragged my semi tired butt to yoga which I sorely needed!

My child will die. My child will leave me. I don't have much time. I need an operation as soon as possible. I beg you, I beg you. Save my child. I am poor. I don't have the money to save my child. I beg you. Donate to save my child's life🙏🏻👇🏻👇🏻 gofund.me/adc2affa 🙏🏻

The Democratic Party is in open warfare against its own relevance and yet every day we're fed a stream of columns and podcasts about how it's really the fault of trans people and immigrants

Got the cubs game on while doing school stuff and I’m dying at this. It’s true; that IS a quality baby!

don't just act there, dramatically get yourself over to Stupid Comics and find out just why and how this poor, love-addled girl gets the hirsute, histrionic shock of her life! misterkitty.net/extras/stupi...

They're arresting people for being Irish in Boston.

When I think about how when I was young I was able to walk family members all the way to their gate at the airport to say goodbye until I was 15 years old & then suddenly the advisory system kicked in & we never "won" the war on terror, & now I'm 39 & it's still like this, I get so fucking mad.

At some point, we need to grapple with the fact that anti-vaxx conspiracies, crunchy mom propaganda, and the crusade against trans kids are all related. People who don't think you should be put any "chemicals" in your body are basically a circle with the anti-trans people. Crunchy leads to alt right

NYC folks: It's supposed to be grotesquely hot on election day -- 100 degrees -- so try to vote early if possible. Check your early voting location, it might not be the same as on election day. And don't rank Cuomo, he's a monster fucking heel scumbag who doesn't give a single shit about NYC.

Don’t use AI to identify whether or not a plant is edible. Don’t use AI to generate a trail route. Don’t use AI to create a recipe. Don’t use AI for creative work (it turns your brain into mush!). Maybe, like, don’t use AI!!

Please consider giving to my Palestinian refugee friends, who are very desperate right now 💔

the destruction of chattel slavery is one of the great accomplishments in our nation's history and the reason conservatives hate celebrating it is because doing so legitimizes the black counter-narrative of the united states

Me and @zachrabiroff.com have discovered that a gay, disabled, pill-popping Yale Drama grad likely ghostwrote many of Stan Lee's most famous comics Marvel Comics and Disney don't want you to know about Ron Whyte New from @flaminghydra.com below "Face it tiger ... you just hit the jackpot!"