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Luke Landherr (aka Dante Shepherd)

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Northeastern ChemE professor. My research is educational comics. I used to make Surviving The World. I believe the plural should be "chemicals engineer". http://sciencetheworld.com

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Luke Landherr (aka Dante Shepherd) @danteshepherd.bsky.social · Nov 14

Hello! I'm Luke Landherr, sometimes known as Dante Shepherd. I teach chemical engineering and I make comics. Sometimes the comics are educational; sometimes definitely not.

Educational comics are here: sciencetheworld.com
Non-educational are here: survivingtheworld.net

Also very queer. Anyway, hi!

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Luke Landherr (aka Dante Shepherd) @danteshepherd.bsky.social · 1d

That was an utterly blaseball double play

Luke Landherr (aka Dante Shepherd) @danteshepherd.bsky.social · 1d

I read this whole garbage op-ed and had two thoughts:
1) I cannot possibly conclude this professor liked teaching students and interacting with them
2) leopards are certainly trying to eat his face now but he's trying to talk himself into it

Luke Landherr (aka Dante Shepherd) @danteshepherd.bsky.social · 1d

The current Washington Post op-ed that argues the current attacks on academia will likely have better long-term impacts than the "woke-era" attacks honestly sounds like the whining of a professor who was bad at teaching and got upset when any students questioned his reasoning.

This is a screenshot from a garbage op-ed.

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Luke Landherr (aka Dante Shepherd) @danteshepherd.bsky.social · 1d

The cover itself, implying the weight of the collision between peoples and the long-term crushing impact, is solid, although I'm sure most kids aged 5-10 didn't get that meaning at the time.

Luke Landherr (aka Dante Shepherd) @danteshepherd.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Indigenous Peoples' Day.

This Ninja Turtles comic from 1992 went more truthful and harder at Columbus than any American K-12 school at the time, and I still appreciate its blunt honesty.

Columbus did not discover anything. There were millions of people in 1492 who knew about te new world, the Americas, because they lived there. Native Americans lived here for about fifteen thousand years before the arrival of Europeans. Native Amaerican like the Arawaks, like those who greeted you when you awoke on the beach earlier.

Yes, but Columbus' time, it's still the age of discovery.

To some, it is also the age of collision, of great and irreversible change. You see, the Europeans unwittingly brought diseases such as smallpox, measles and typhus with them, disease which the natives had no defense against, epidemics wiped out entire tribes. In addition, the triangular route pioneered by Columbus, Europe - Africa - Caribbean - back to Europe, was the route then adopted by slavers.

Why slavery?

Gold. Many Europeans of the time were obsessed with gold. The Caribbean natives who survived the epidemics were taken as slaves and forced to labor for gold on their home islands, this virtually extinguished the Arawaks. As European expansion spread, slavery became a big business. In the years that followed, over ten million Africans were forcibly relocated, families shattered and spread across the globe. It was a pattern to be repeated elsewhere in the Americas over the next 300 years, of Indians being replaced by slaves...

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Luke Landherr (aka Dante Shepherd) @danteshepherd.bsky.social · 4d

If the Mariners ever win the World Series, Seattle fans are going to be loud enough to accidentally set off the Cascadia fault zone

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Luke Landherr (aka Dante Shepherd) @danteshepherd.bsky.social · 4d

If I had won that ridiculous Powerball, besides becoming a Renaissance-era patron for basically every comics person I know and don't know, priority number 10 on my list was to buy like 100 Bafflers

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Jeffrey Rowland @wigu.org · 4d

When God closes a door He opens a window. This drives me NUTS. Terrible roommate. The electric bill is outrageous. There's a bird's nest in the bathroom

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Luke Landherr (aka Dante Shepherd) @danteshepherd.bsky.social · 6d

Goodbye Yankees, at least something is good and just in the world

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Luke Landherr (aka Dante Shepherd) @danteshepherd.bsky.social · 7d

FRIEND: I'm starting to get my son into reading through graphic novels. You know comics.
ME: That's great! Yeah, I've a ton of suggestions!
FRIEND: He's hyperfocused on specific interests right now though.
ME: That's fine.
FRIEND: Know any about trains?
ME: ... I shouldn't say "Snowpiercer", right?

Luke Landherr (aka Dante Shepherd) @danteshepherd.bsky.social · 9d

I like how years of hating the Yankees has trained my mind that it was still nervous when the Blue Jays were only beating the Yankees 9-0, but once it became 11-0 it could finally relax

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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 11d

#Solar becomes main source of electricity in the #EU for first time. More than half of the EU’s #electricity in the second quarter of 2025 came from #RenewableEnergy
www.independent.co.uk/tech/solar-p...

Solar becomes main source of electricity in the EU for first time

More than half of the EU’s electricity in the second quarter of 2025 came from renewable energy

www.independent.co.uk

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Luke Landherr (aka Dante Shepherd) @danteshepherd.bsky.social · 11d

AI art wouldn't be as much of a thing if more people made photocomics, and if more people treated photocomics as actual comics

Liam McGuire @liammcguire.bsky.social · 12d

Anyone have a particularly hot comic take?

Luke Landherr (aka Dante Shepherd) @danteshepherd.bsky.social · 11d

Getting the fan to turn extra slow is a really easy trick - we have 'variable transformers' in the lab our students use with experiments, and you just turn a dial to reduce the amount of power the fan receives - just enough it can run, but not enough for the fan to really do anything.

Luke Landherr (aka Dante Shepherd) @danteshepherd.bsky.social · 11d

I wonder if the ribbon trick is having the fan blow in the opposite direction?

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Luke Landherr (aka Dante Shepherd) @danteshepherd.bsky.social · 12d

Honestly don't care if the Red Sox lose. They never should have gotten rid of Mookie, Xander, and Devers, and the easiest way to stop being bitter about it is to not care about them anymore.

Luke Landherr (aka Dante Shepherd) @danteshepherd.bsky.social · 12d

Roman Catholicism has always been opposed to death penalty, and care for immigrants is practically in the Beatitudes

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Luke Landherr (aka Dante Shepherd) @danteshepherd.bsky.social · 12d

I can easily see my high school freshman theology teacher doing this, as well as the evil nun who was the principal

worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 13d

really enjoying all the people trying to explain the bible to the pope today

Pope Leo XIV
Today, more than ever, we must return to the heart, the center of feeling and emotion, the locus of freedom. Though it includes reason, the heart transcends and transforms it. Only by returning to the heart can we undergo a true ecological conversion that transforms our personal

Austin
I reject this whole heartedly. What you fail to see Mr Pope, the Bible says

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Luke Landherr (aka Dante Shepherd) @danteshepherd.bsky.social · 13d

Feeling for all my former colleagues at NIST today.

Luke Landherr (aka Dante Shepherd) @danteshepherd.bsky.social · 14d

yes, that's the joke

Luke Landherr (aka Dante Shepherd) @danteshepherd.bsky.social · 14d

You're an economist, you should know, there's always money in the banana trees.

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Luke Landherr (aka Dante Shepherd) @danteshepherd.bsky.social · 14d

Who is Mormon Standish?

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 14d

I just got a VERY interesting email that allies in congress were upset that so many of my readers were calling about the anti-trans provisions. I'm here to say: good. I won't let them throw our rights under the bus by cover of night.

All's that to say, keep up the calls. They're hearing you.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 14d

1. It's shutdown day, and anti-trans provisions are on the line... either today, or in a few more weeks if a clean continuing resolution passes.

Trump posted a video this morning blaming a shutdown on trans people and immigrants.

Here is your shutdown guide.

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Shutdown Day Guide For LGBTQ+ People: "Continuing Resolutions" And New Anti-Trans Posts From The White House

Shutdown day is here, and there has been a lot of competing coverage on Republican priorities, Democrat's demands, and what shutdown politics means for LGBTQ+ people in America.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Luke Landherr (aka Dante Shepherd) @danteshepherd.bsky.social · 14d

ME: You should be able to pitch this well in your grant application, the educational comics research you're doing in our group is pretty novel

GRAD STUDENT: I might even say it's... graphic novel

ME:

GRAD STUDENT: I'll see myself out

Luke Landherr (aka Dante Shepherd) @danteshepherd.bsky.social · 14d

STW would probably have been more popular if presented by a priest, to be honest