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Physics Professor, Transformers enthusiast, comics reader and reviewer, etc. He/him.
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· Jan 19
People who know me from elsewhere who are part of a new migration wave, please don't be offended if I don't follow back. My feed is about as active as I can manage following right now.
The Wizard of Oz, except when she puts on the silver/ruby slippers it turns out they're the Red Shoes, their curse held in abeyance by the witch's own magic. Cue the dance numbers!
February 12, 2026 at 4:01 AM
The Wizard of Oz, except when she puts on the silver/ruby slippers it turns out they're the Red Shoes, their curse held in abeyance by the witch's own magic. Cue the dance numbers!
I like Target's store brand fruit snacks, but the packaging is insanely irregular. Sometimes a packet will have two dozen fruit snacks in it, sometimes FOUR. Can you imaging trying to give these to kids? Utter nightmare.
February 12, 2026 at 12:53 AM
I like Target's store brand fruit snacks, but the packaging is insanely irregular. Sometimes a packet will have two dozen fruit snacks in it, sometimes FOUR. Can you imaging trying to give these to kids? Utter nightmare.
I think the What If? cartoon burned me out on What If? stories having a multiversal arc. Just let them be standalone counterfictionals, okay? I don't need the Watcher to have a plotline, or for there to be a Big Bad who's invading the stories.
February 11, 2026 at 10:23 PM
I think the What If? cartoon burned me out on What If? stories having a multiversal arc. Just let them be standalone counterfictionals, okay? I don't need the Watcher to have a plotline, or for there to be a Big Bad who's invading the stories.
The difference between me and James vanderBeek is that my cancer was caught in time (mostly by sheer luck) and his wasn't.
Okay, not the ONLY difference.
Okay, not the ONLY difference.
February 11, 2026 at 9:24 PM
The difference between me and James vanderBeek is that my cancer was caught in time (mostly by sheer luck) and his wasn't.
Okay, not the ONLY difference.
Okay, not the ONLY difference.
Insert the Homer Simpson "...so FAR" meme.
I’ve watched a lot of congressional hearings over the last 40 years. This performance by Bondi is the single most unprofessional, non-responsive, reprehensible and obnoxious I have ever seen from any witness who has testified before any committee of either chamber.
February 11, 2026 at 6:44 PM
Insert the Homer Simpson "...so FAR" meme.
Time for a mash up of "Old El Paso" and "99 Red Balloons," I guess?
February 11, 2026 at 6:13 PM
Time for a mash up of "Old El Paso" and "99 Red Balloons," I guess?
I wonder if Ciudad Juarez has air raid sirens.
February 11, 2026 at 1:52 PM
I wonder if Ciudad Juarez has air raid sirens.
"I'm not going to comment on an ongoing investigation" is the corrupt cop version of pleading the fifth. They can't actually plead the fifth because they aren't personally incriminated legally, they'll just get fired if they say anything, be it truth or not.
February 10, 2026 at 6:25 PM
"I'm not going to comment on an ongoing investigation" is the corrupt cop version of pleading the fifth. They can't actually plead the fifth because they aren't personally incriminated legally, they'll just get fired if they say anything, be it truth or not.
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have never seen popular public opinion shift so fast about a surveillance product than the fallout from ring's super bowl "search party" ad. they'll teach this in advertising courses one day. chef's kiss baby www.404media.co/with-ring-am...
With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet
Ring's 'Search Party' is dystopian surveillance accelerationism.
www.404media.co
February 10, 2026 at 3:14 PM
have never seen popular public opinion shift so fast about a surveillance product than the fallout from ring's super bowl "search party" ad. they'll teach this in advertising courses one day. chef's kiss baby www.404media.co/with-ring-am...
Age verification? Do not cite the deep magics to me, witch.
Age verification? Since before your sun burned hot in space, and before your race was born, I have awaited a question.
Age verification? My first anime was "Space Cruiser Yamato"
February 10, 2026 at 3:21 PM
Age verification? Do not cite the deep magics to me, witch.
Age verification? When I got into comics, I bought them from a drugstore newsstand and convenience store spinner racks. I was collecting for years before I entered my first direct market comic shop.
Age verification? My first roller skates had steel wheels, and you had to use a key to adjust them.
Age verification? The color of television tuned to a dead channel was glitchy gray, not blue.
February 10, 2026 at 3:58 AM
Age verification? When I got into comics, I bought them from a drugstore newsstand and convenience store spinner racks. I was collecting for years before I entered my first direct market comic shop.
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Looks like the anti-voting bots are in full force. You'd have to be an utter idiot to fall for posts like these.
January 28, 2026 at 3:06 AM
Looks like the anti-voting bots are in full force. You'd have to be an utter idiot to fall for posts like these.
At least I had no respect for Mike Tyson to lose.
February 9, 2026 at 1:53 AM
At least I had no respect for Mike Tyson to lose.
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@rin-moon.myatproto.social They apparently showed a prototype of a BeastBox capybara with a baby capy at WonderFest.
February 8, 2026 at 6:48 PM
@rin-moon.myatproto.social They apparently showed a prototype of a BeastBox capybara with a baby capy at WonderFest.
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Omg so true
February 8, 2026 at 10:40 PM
Omg so true
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Forgive me
February 7, 2026 at 4:17 AM
Forgive me
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Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries.
One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.
Abolish the billionaire class:
One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.
Abolish the billionaire class:
Donate to Support for Washington Post international employees, organized by Michelle Lee
Among the hundreds of journalists laid off by The Washington Post on … Michelle Lee needs your support for Support for Washington Post international employees
www.gofundme.com
February 8, 2026 at 4:37 AM
Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries.
One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.
Abolish the billionaire class:
One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.
Abolish the billionaire class:
Sumo wrestlers on ice, with broom-wielding Canadians behind them roughening the surface.
The only sports I care about are curling and sumo. Maybe I just enjoy heavy things being shoved out of circles.
February 8, 2026 at 4:15 AM
Sumo wrestlers on ice, with broom-wielding Canadians behind them roughening the surface.
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This is the future that (Texas) liberals want: taxpayer-funded goats clearing invasives from public parks & restoring the health of native prairie.
Dallas hires 300 goats to clean up White Rock Lake and yes, they’re very baaa-sy
As part of the Dallas Park and Recreation Department’s new eco-friendly vegetation management project, the city is using Fort Worth-Weatherford area goats and...
www.dallasnews.com
February 7, 2026 at 3:16 PM
This is the future that (Texas) liberals want: taxpayer-funded goats clearing invasives from public parks & restoring the health of native prairie.
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TWIN CITIES
Armed Citizens Against Tyranny is a HONEYPOT action.
No one in the Twin Cities, including the MN Gun Owners association, knows anyone supposedly in this group.
Local orgs are STRONGLY urging folks to STAY AWAY from their planned "protest."
acatusa.com
Armed Citizens Against Tyranny is a HONEYPOT action.
No one in the Twin Cities, including the MN Gun Owners association, knows anyone supposedly in this group.
Local orgs are STRONGLY urging folks to STAY AWAY from their planned "protest."
acatusa.com
Protest - acatusa.com
Volunteers Needed We are looking for volunteers to help check firearms and to help close off roads during the march, If you would like to help without needing to carry a firearm, contact us now by ema...
acatusa.com
February 6, 2026 at 11:12 PM
TWIN CITIES
Armed Citizens Against Tyranny is a HONEYPOT action.
No one in the Twin Cities, including the MN Gun Owners association, knows anyone supposedly in this group.
Local orgs are STRONGLY urging folks to STAY AWAY from their planned "protest."
acatusa.com
Armed Citizens Against Tyranny is a HONEYPOT action.
No one in the Twin Cities, including the MN Gun Owners association, knows anyone supposedly in this group.
Local orgs are STRONGLY urging folks to STAY AWAY from their planned "protest."
acatusa.com
That's one reason why he's now trying to strongarm Congress into renaming stuff after him in exchange for releasing funding for the NJ/NY tunnel. If Congress passes a law renaming things after him, Congress will have to pass a law undoing it, and he has hopes that the GOP won't go along with that.
Johnny Carson once said the fastest measurable unit of time is that which elapses between when a light turns green in NY and someone honks their horn. But the speed with which Trump's name will be torn off his monuments to himself when he's gone will be greater. open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...
Ask Not for Whom the Bell Tolls, Mr. President
Trump's mania to erect monuments to himself will soon, quickly (and gloriously) be undone
open.substack.com
February 6, 2026 at 8:46 PM
That's one reason why he's now trying to strongarm Congress into renaming stuff after him in exchange for releasing funding for the NJ/NY tunnel. If Congress passes a law renaming things after him, Congress will have to pass a law undoing it, and he has hopes that the GOP won't go along with that.
Even Arthur Nagan thinks Trump's a racist piece of shit, and Nagan's a supervillain.
February 6, 2026 at 8:14 PM
Even Arthur Nagan thinks Trump's a racist piece of shit, and Nagan's a supervillain.
AG Bondi gushed that she and DNI Gabbard are "inseparable."
So...toxic yuri?
(Definitely not checking for an AO3 tag.)
So...toxic yuri?
(Definitely not checking for an AO3 tag.)
February 6, 2026 at 3:38 PM
AG Bondi gushed that she and DNI Gabbard are "inseparable."
So...toxic yuri?
(Definitely not checking for an AO3 tag.)
So...toxic yuri?
(Definitely not checking for an AO3 tag.)
Is it important to know what the President is saying? Yes, because it may affect everyone.
Is it important to listen to him actually say it? No, it's mostly just demented MAGA Mad-Libs meant to make him sound decisive. Let people whose job it is decipher his mad ramblings.
Is it important to listen to him actually say it? No, it's mostly just demented MAGA Mad-Libs meant to make him sound decisive. Let people whose job it is decipher his mad ramblings.
February 5, 2026 at 11:47 PM
Is it important to know what the President is saying? Yes, because it may affect everyone.
Is it important to listen to him actually say it? No, it's mostly just demented MAGA Mad-Libs meant to make him sound decisive. Let people whose job it is decipher his mad ramblings.
Is it important to listen to him actually say it? No, it's mostly just demented MAGA Mad-Libs meant to make him sound decisive. Let people whose job it is decipher his mad ramblings.
"I've done more for religion than any other President."
Well, he certainly inspires people to pray.
Well, he certainly inspires people to pray.
February 5, 2026 at 6:31 PM
"I've done more for religion than any other President."
Well, he certainly inspires people to pray.
Well, he certainly inspires people to pray.