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Greg Baldino @gregbaldino.bsky.social · 4h

He might be more divorced than Elon but with less externalized harm.

Greg Baldino @gregbaldino.bsky.social · 4h

Peak hubris might've been when he boasted about how the scientific community was flat out refusing to engage with his cosmological thesis that he developed from reading a couple books from the Kitchener Public Library and published in his funny animal comic.

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Greg Baldino @gregbaldino.bsky.social · 4h

According to his own accounts of the origins of Cerebus without Deni in his life he'd still be working in the downstairs of a used book shop and never get the chance to resolve the unified field theory by ripping off Marvel's best 2 non cape books of the '70s.

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Greg Baldino @gregbaldino.bsky.social · 14h

Please buy Moonflower by Bitter Karella to support this amazing artist who I someone think makes incredibly niche literary humor just for me.

The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 14h

Hailey Piper: Submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the tale of the game in yellow
Piper: what if there was a book that, if you read it, it made you go insane but also it made you super horny
Piper: would you take that chance?
Barker: i don't know why you're even asking lol

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Greg Baldino @gregbaldino.bsky.social · 14h

True, but you're right in that any contract needs to be treated seriously and thoroughly understood before you sign. In both of these cases there were sneaky little clauses with big negative impact for the creators

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 14h

The regime assumes all the people on benefits are Black

Charlie Thomas @cthomasjamh.bsky.social · 15h

I really don’t get the play here honestly. Just throwing SNAP to the wolves for no reason at the same time the ACA premiums skyrocket?

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 15h

Six years ago, high school students pushed the Chicago History Museum for more Latino representation. Their dream has been realized with “Aquí en Chicago,” which opened Saturday.

Inspired by a student protest, Chicago History Museum debuts exhibition about Latino history

In 2019, Instituto Justice and Leadership Academy students saw a need for more Latino representation at the museum. Their dream has been realized with “Aquí en Chicago," which opened Saturday.

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Greg Baldino @gregbaldino.bsky.social · 15h

Not reading contracts is how Alan Moore and David Lloyd lost ownership of V for Vendetta.

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Art by Emily K @museum.of.emilyk.art · 1d

"Tzefardea Tzedek" (Frog of Righteousness)

As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)

Hebrew calligraphy in dark green stretches in lines across the image. Negative space makes room for a simple representation of an inflatable frog costume with a blue bandana. That shape consists of the English translation of the Hebrew, in a lighter green, and in much smaller text.
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Famously, the Egyptian tyrant causes Egypt to be overrun with frogs because he refuses to free the Hebrew people, but there are additional details that make this a fun one to ponder. For one, the Hebrew says "the frog came up" - ONE frog - even though the rest of the time it says "frogs." So there are a few explanations rabbis have come up with to explain this. One is that a single frog multiplied to create swarms. A more creative explanation is that there was a singular giant frog who traveled and brought destruction. Jewish social media was sharing videos of the Portland Frog protester with the caption, "One Big Frog! One Big Frog!" Of course the frog protesters did multiply, and many were seen in crowds all over the world on "No Kings" Day. This calligraphic work takes the verses addressing the frog plague and combines them to form a simple rendering of the Portland Frog protester. The frog figure itself is made up of the English translations of the Hebrew around it. At the bottom left my signature is in the shape of a lily pad.

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Greg Baldino @gregbaldino.bsky.social · 1d

You cannot serve God and Mammon both

Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 3d

"Chicago-area companies have made millions in lucrative contracts supporting Operation Midway Blitz."

"[W]eapons manufacturer United Tactical Systems was paid nearly $1.5 million [..] to supply federal agents with pepper balls and air-powered guns."
#Illinois #USA #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

Chicago-Area Companies Raked In Millions From Feds As Operation Midway Blitz Intensified

One Chicago-based company was awarded more than $7 million to relocate ICE employees while a suburban weapons manufacturer was paid nearly $1.5 million in two weeks to supply pepper balls and…

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Greg Baldino @gregbaldino.bsky.social · 1d

There's no point in Krakoa where you go "I literally have no idea who the perceived audience for this is anymore."

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Greg Baldino @gregbaldino.bsky.social · 1d

See also, that time I almost started a fist fight at the Poetry Foundation because someone insinuated I couldn't fully understand the works of Hart Crane.

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Greg Baldino @gregbaldino.bsky.social · 1d

It's not that I have bad impulse control, it's that my impulses are doing nonsense like this instead of getting a Chumbawamba tattoo

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Greg Baldino @gregbaldino.bsky.social · 1d

This is the part where I admit I went back into that well because Tom Ewing was doing a whole reread and critique of Cerebus and I didn't feel good about letting him do it alone.

I'm doing the same with you and Krakoa but it's way more fun and psychologically manageable

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FairLibraryJobs @fairlibraryjobs.bsky.social · 1d

British Library staff are out on strike from Monday 27 October until Sunday 9 November over pay: please do not undermine their action by attending this exhibition (or any other events at the BL) during that time. www.museumsassociation.org/museums-jour...

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Greg Baldino @gregbaldino.bsky.social · 2d

A Few Good Men but Wallace Shawn in the Jack Nicholson role

Greg Baldino @gregbaldino.bsky.social · 4d

3 could be interesting. Did you have a time period in mind?

Greg Baldino @gregbaldino.bsky.social · 4d

We've got to stop making elected officials into heroes. And pretending they're our relatives. And whatever the hell people were doing with Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

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Greg Baldino @gregbaldino.bsky.social · 4d

In which case this might have not been her first encounter with an anthropomorphic lifeform from another dimension/new galaxy.

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Greg Baldino @gregbaldino.bsky.social · 4d

Everyone makes fun of that illustration of Lex Luthor stealing 40 pies (which is as many as 4 tens) but you look at the men in power and...

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Greg Baldino @gregbaldino.bsky.social · 4d

There's a Grant Morrison line I think about once a week at least:

"We're soldiers; we're in the business of creating a context for our own existence."

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 4d

We would have to be incredibly honest about war being America's biggest export

Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 4d

We need some long and hard conversations about extremism in the military and guns, and this country is nowhere near being an iota ready to have them.

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Greg Baldino @gregbaldino.bsky.social · 4d

I think about Spider-verse Aunt May a lot!

Greg Baldino @gregbaldino.bsky.social · 4d

The alternate Spider-heroes started appearing in Miles' universe after the disaster where May's nephew was killed. And we don't know who was the first to seek her out. So, in the immediacy of her grief for the nephew she raised and loved as a son, was her first encounter with Spider-Ham?

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Greg Baldino @gregbaldino.bsky.social · 4d

That said, two things I've noticed that I do wonder about.

When May see's Doc Ock she recognizes her AND knows her by name, and it's contextually implied that Dr, Liz Octavius is not a publicly know villain, so did they go out at one point? They were engaged in the comics, Lilly Tomlin is gay....

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