Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Smoking Polemicist

@glopdemon.bsky.social

400 followers 370 following 1.4K posts

That’s a big 10-4, good buddy

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

Smoking Polemicist @glopdemon.bsky.social · Aug 15

Just got in the car, turned on the radio and immediately hear EAS tones which, given the weather right now was not surprising, but instead of following up with a weather alert it just starts playing Raining Blood by Slayer

1 4

Smoking Polemicist @glopdemon.bsky.social · 32m

Huge Achewood fan since forever. Dan Clowes, Chris Ware, Jeff Smith, Craig Thompson all come to mind. I really liked Lars Brown’s Northworld. Goofy, offbeat slice of life stuff or sort of non-traditional fantasy are probably my favorite genre.

Smoking Polemicist @glopdemon.bsky.social · 38m

You hate to see it

Smoking Polemicist @glopdemon.bsky.social · 42m

I was just thinking (like literally a couple minutes ago) that I have fallen out of the loop with comics in the last few years. Who are some recent books and authors I should know about?

1 2

Reposted by Smoking Polemicist

jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 3h

it's kind of wild that a guy died a little while ago and the government swore we would reap the whirlwind and that his widow would lead a howling army of valkyries across the galaxy and then the most you heard about it since was the secretary of domestic war saying they arrested the wife of antifa

27 130 980

Reposted by Smoking Polemicist

Saoirse ☀️ @scratchcarddust.bsky.social · 14h

If you know basic kabbalah it's actually not too hard to make a golem out of a labubu. Don't recommend it though. They have a pre-existing body-dharma. As soon as they wake they run straight for the sea. V hard to counter. Lost the first one. No idea what it's doing out there. Moved like lightning.

21 500 1.8K

Reposted by Smoking Polemicist

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

270 6.7K 21K

Smoking Polemicist @glopdemon.bsky.social · 9h

There’s a lot of late capitalism/informatjon age bullshit that’s to blame for the decline of newspapers but also at some point they need to take a look at their own sins

Reposted by Smoking Polemicist

The Pumpkin Dipshit @pumpkinpal.bsky.social · 9h

People in newspapers will write anything. "Johnny Cash seems deeply uncool" no he didn't. That isn't true.

bendwalsh.bsky.social @bendwalsh.bsky.social · 11h

wtaf are you talking about

8 37 120

Reposted by Smoking Polemicist

labor dave☭🔻🇵🇸 @sorryaboutearlier.bsky.social · 14h

the american dream is for other americans to leave you the fuck alone

1 1 3

Reposted by Smoking Polemicist

svenning🌲 @svenning.io · 17h

Another horrible date picker submitted to the Bad UX World Cup! 😁

Join the fun, submit your worst date picker here: badux.lol

The best/worst date pickers will to through to the final in late October!

#baduxworldcup

2 25 84

Reposted by Smoking Polemicist

Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 15h

When the Supreme Court struck down Biden's policies, it was tempting to think: "At least these limits on executive authority will bind Trump if he comes back into office." But no—the court's skepticism of executive power vanished on Jan. 20, 2025. This dynamic is obvious to anyone paying attention!

17 350 2.1K

Reposted by Smoking Polemicist

Carl Beijer @carlbeijer.bsky.social · 13h

These guys really think that "socialists have principles and don't just reflexively defend politicians" is some kind of brutal own

6 16 120

Smoking Polemicist @glopdemon.bsky.social · 14h

*Jerry Seinfeld if he wasn’t a Zionist POS voice* you got the fire right, but you don’t seem to understand the ceasing. And that’s really the important part of a ceasefire, the ceasing.

kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 1d

every fucking time

1 2

Reposted by Smoking Polemicist

Joad The Wet Sprocket @joadsprocket.bsky.social · 15h

they're gonna be so mad we have a better frog

escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 1d

WWII "Friend" poster series from the Allied Forces, originally demonstrating the various Allied forces (British, Australian, Chinese, French, Dutch, etc.) and their appearances

It reads:

"This man is your FRIEND

He fights for FREEDOM"

The image is a sepia/black and white toned image of the Portland Frog protester, simply labelled FROG

6 120 760

Reposted by Smoking Polemicist

Maze Rat @mazerat.bsky.social · 1d

Call your girlfriend
It's time you had the talk
'Bout antifa
Say it's not her fault

1 2

Reposted by Smoking Polemicist

freesia @freesiavacadoo.bsky.social · 1d

1 240 560

Reposted by Smoking Polemicist

Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 1d

Be the sort of person where even the rumor of your demise sparks a global depressive spiral and not the Ewok celebration from Return of the Jedi

PBS News @pbsnews.org · 1d

“There are just a lot of rumors flying around. But I figured if you heard it from me, you’d know that I was okay,” Dolly Parton said in a new two-minute video posted on Instagram. “I’m not ready to die yet. I don’t think God is through with me. And I ain’t done working.” https://to.pbs.org/4hc1DXB

'I'm not dying': Dolly Parton responds to concerns about her health

Late last month Parton postponed her first Las Vegas residency in 32 years, citing “health challenges.”

www.pbs.org

8 140 420

Smoking Polemicist @glopdemon.bsky.social · 1d

Not jumping ship yet but if anyone has any good mastodon instances for fun posts and goofing off online, please do share

Reposted by Smoking Polemicist

Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 1d

this is how I, a resident of LA, found out that the Palisades fire was arson, that they caught the guy, and that he used gen AI to work his way up to doing the crime

niki grayson @nikigrayson.com · 1d

the city of los angeles burned in january in part because of a man who couldn’t stop generating images of burning cities on ChatGPT, and then after he lit the fire he asked if the fire he started was his fault

920 2.1K

Smoking Polemicist @glopdemon.bsky.social · 1d

You hate to say it, but you powered through and did it anyway

Reposted by Smoking Polemicist

Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 1d

Trans rights are civil rights. If you aren't willing to die on the hill of trans rights, then you aren't willing to die on the hill of Black rights. Of Jewish rights. Of disabled rights. Of gay rights. Of anyone's rights. Human rights.

the tallest stone @talleststone.bsky.social · 1d

I hate to say it but the majority of the country is not going to die on the hill of trans rights. We can’t protect ANY groups if we can’t win a national election, so purity tests only serve to make specific groups feel triumphant. That’s not “erasing” them; it’s long-horizon strategy.

26 550 1.8K

Reposted by Smoking Polemicist

phil @philjamesson.com · 1d

you take the blue pill, and you'll become drowsy, then wake up in your bed. in addition to relieving your headache, fever, and cough.

you take the red pill, you experience relief for those same symptoms. but you won't get sleepy

6 29 200

Reposted by Smoking Polemicist

josh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social · 2d

I'm the guy who steps on the back of your shoe on purpose. You convinced yourself that i don't exist. "It was probably just an accident." It's not. I do it on purpose

12 38 330

Reposted by Smoking Polemicist

dr mo 🇵🇸 @redactedquirk.bsky.social · 2d

Wow....... a fascist scheme that wants to separate autism into useful people and impaired people..... this sounds familiar with some reason..................

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 8d

Azeen Ghorayshi at the NYT has moved on from going after trans people and is now pushing the leasing question that autism diagnoses are too common because of its expansion of it to a spectrum.

archive.ph/Whji1

Alt text: A screenshot of a New York Times article titled “Should the Autism Spectrum Be Split Apart?” The image shows a woman with dark hair tied back with an orange patterned ribbon, smiling and leaning forward near a window with sunlight coming in. She is wearing a light orange top with thin straps.

4 9 40

Reposted by Smoking Polemicist

drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · Nov 6

if you're concerned about information security, you should know Signal isn't actually secure. instead, try Mastodon, which is a website where you can be guaranteed no one will ever see what you post

12 350 2.6K