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Director of publishing, editor, translator. Manga, democracy, civil rights, foster kittens, sci-fi, beer. Another world is possible. IDIC 🖖 He/him. Portfolio etc.: benapplegate.com (pfp: Marume Goshika)
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🚨Cover Reveal 🚨

Witch Hat Atelier: Grimoire Edition
By Kamome Shirahama

A premium hardcover collecting Witch Hat Atelier Vols. 1–3, featuring gold-foil covers, extra-large pages, and exclusive bonus content.

Available May 5th, 2026

https://ow.ly/nYOQ50Xw58S
November 24, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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euthyphro.bsky.social
I haven’t seen this get covered in English yet so let me translate.

Grok is saying that the crematories at Auschwitz’s were conceived as disinfectant chambers, not mass execution and that the law has made it taboo to acknowledge that this is what they were

X is a Nazi site. Get off the Nazi site.
ldh.fr LDH France @ldh.fr · 6d
La #LDH porte plainte contre la publication de #Grok, l’intelligence artificielle du réseau social X, pour contestation de crimes contre l’humanité.
November 19, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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smoothdunk2.bsky.social
your dead AI mother loves you so much ❤️
4 panel comic Panel 1: An AI generated version of Purple Guy’s dead mother is speaking to him on his phone. She says “Look, darling. With AI we can be together forever” Panel 2: Purple Guy looking very upset. He asks “Do you love me, mum?” Panel 3: The disgusting AI fake mum replies “I do. Almost as much…” Panel 4: AI mum turns into an advert for online gambling. She yells: “…As I love getting 10 free spins when I sign up to pocket casino.com”
November 15, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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From: La Peau de Chagrin (1960), dir. Ivo Vrbanić and Vlado Kristl, Zagreb Film
November 19, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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Where does one go these days for used old manga magazines (other than Yahoo and Mercari)
November 18, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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God damn the other site has really gotten bad weird in my absence
juliet-turner.bsky.social Juliet Turner @juliet-turner.bsky.social · 8d
POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
November 18, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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#3157 A helpful tutorial
A digital drawing of one of those drawing tutorials that says 'don't do this, do this.' The drawing is of an almost naked middle-aged man doing a flying kick. The 'Don't do this' one has a bunch of areas circled and a cross under it. The 'Do this' one is exactly the same but without the circles and a tick instead of a cross. The text reads 'Needlessly adding red circles will ruin your art' and a smaller bit of text at the bottom reads 'Bonus tip! Add a tick under all your art so people think you did it right.'
November 17, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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Just reading through Shugo Chara! Jewel Joker and…Juri? Is that you??
Teacher at Arcana Academy from Shugo Chara! Jewel Joker, a manga by Peach-Pit Juri Arisugawa from Revolutionary Girl Utena
November 17, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Have you pre-ordered our newest upcoming Deluxe Edition manga? Details: https://bit.ly/4nPkCcg

We have more *exciting* Deluxe Edition manga in the works, so please stay tuned… 👀

#DHManga
Image of Lone Wolf & Cub Deluxe Edition & Oldboy Deluxe Edition Volume 1
November 17, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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bakaari.bsky.social
teaching a short excerpt from rob nixon’s ‘slow violence’ this morning. this is how nixon starts the book, reminding you that the global south has always known larry summers for the moral degenerate that he is.
November 17, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Looks sweet
catsuka.bsky.social Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · Dec 21
New trailer of "False Memory" chinese animated series by Flint Sugar & Studio Tumble (based on a 2020 indie short film).
Coming in 2025 on BiliBili.
Full trailer >> www.catsuka.com/news/2024-12...
November 15, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Peter Thiel every morning, probably
Scrooge McDuck thinking, "Me—I'm different! Everybody hates me, and I hate everybody!"
November 14, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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WOMEN ARE MY FAVOURITE GUY 🗣️🗣️🗣️

#jetsetradio #segadreamcast #fanart #planetofthebass #kylegordon #parodyart #digitalart
Square drawing that parodies the cover of the North American release of Jet Set Radio for Sega Dreamcast. Instead of the side banner that says 'Dreamcast', because the orange swirl it says 'DJ Crazy Times' which references the alias that comedian Kyle Gordon uses for his song 'Planet of the Bass'. Drawing has swapped out Beat for DJ Crazy Times, and Gum for Biljana Electronica. The background has been edited to show a giant outline of a globe, and instead of the teams logos, there is a hand doing a peace sign, a rocketship, cluster of stars and a ufo. It is rated 'P' for world peace. There is added text on the bottom in white that says 'Life it never die. Women are my favourite guy.'
November 13, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Ok
An image for an advertorial supplement in the Japan Times called THE EXPANSIVE WORLD OF JAPANESE SOY SAUCE
November 14, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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Hahahaha no way, no way
jeffjarvis.bsky.social Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 12d
I assumed that when The Change comes this weekend, MSNBC.com would become MSNOW.com. But when I go there, this is what I see now. Anybody know what it will be?
November 13, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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#DelaneyHall this Sunday November 16 at 2 pm
Weekly prayer service with Pax Christi New Jersey and the Kenyan choir from St. Patrick's & Assumption/All Saints Church in Jersey City.
#DelaneyHall this Sunday November 16 at 2 pm 451 Doremus Ave, Newark. Weekly prayer service with Pax Christi New Jersey and the Kenyan choir from St. Patrick's & Assumption/All Saints Church in Jersey City.
November 13, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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Mooore Yoko Nogiri
November 12, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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All I'll say is thank God Angus wasn't around when my grandpa was "standing up" to Hitler
November 10, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Some BETTER LETTERER for you. And before the inevitable "that's not how I do it" replies, keep in mind that, by and large, this is how it's done in pro American comics (Marvel, DC, etc.) I've worked for all of them. More tips: blambot.com/pages/letter...
November 6, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Pluribus is good. Glad I didn't watch any trailers.
November 10, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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As much as I hate every single Republican to an almost pathological degree and as much as I find many, many Democrats pathetic and patently not up to the task they are charged with, I am most bitter towards and disdainful of the careless, unserious, bored people who are the American electorate.
November 10, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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Yes, this is a key part of the classic fascist playbook, which doesn't make it any less infuriating
benrosen.bsky.social Ben Rosen @benrosen.bsky.social · 16d
you can see why fascism is so popular when the other option is The Loser Party That Loves Losing
November 10, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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NJ, leave a voicemail for Booker: (202) 224-3224
indivisible.org Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 16d
🚨 We’re hearing that Senate Democrats are on the verge of caving to Trump in another “Schumer Surrender.”

That means your Democratic senators need to hear from you right now.

Call: indivisible.org/resource/cal...

Email: act.indivisible.org/sign/funding...
Ezra Levin on Bluesky: “I'm hearing the same thing. Dems are nearing a surrender. I'm shocked. Largest protest in history + best election night in years + polling showing we're kicking their ass in public opinion. And now Dems may cave. It ain't over til it's over, so please do call if you've got a Dem senator.”
November 9, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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COL. LOCKJAW [masturbating in his truck]:
sharonk.bsky.social Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 16d
inventing a zohran's wife to be mad at
I do actually think she's kind of pretty in a way, but I can just tell she's absolutely miserable to live with
November 9, 2025 at 8:19 PM