Phoenix Bryan
@kdbryan.bsky.social
He/Him. The brains behind Brazen Inky Diva Games, freelance writer of RPGs. Improv comedian in Bachelor Improvadise at Chaos Bloom Theater every 3rd Friday night! BLM, science is real, and trans rights are human rights!
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This story is people telling their stories in their own words and it's really great. I finally took the time to read the whole thing late last night and had a good cry. Anyway. No paywall on it today. Read it if you want to know what things are like here through the eyes of people living it. ❤️
Hey, the excellent Minneapolis arts and culture magazine Racket took down their paywall for the day, so you can go read their coverage of the occupation unhindered. Start here: racketmn.com/voices-of-th...
January 23, 2026 at 5:52 PM
This story is people telling their stories in their own words and it's really great. I finally took the time to read the whole thing late last night and had a good cry. Anyway. No paywall on it today. Read it if you want to know what things are like here through the eyes of people living it. ❤️
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My favorite Bob Kane story:
!["Bob had gotten to the point where he never drew anything. Never drew anything on the Batman comics, anyway. [Sheldon] Moldoff was ghosting them all and when he didn't, someone else did.
The only thing I think Bob ever drew was when we'd be out somewhere, in a restaurant or someplace, and a pretty girl would come over to him and say, 'Are you really the man who draws Batman?' Then he could whip out a little sketch for her, a big sketch if she was wearing something low-cut and would bend over to watch him draw.
One day I'm over at his house to discuss this newspaper strip idea we had and he's talking about who we might get to draw it. I was going to write it and we were going to get someone else to draw it. I'm not sure what Bob was going to do on it except sign his name. I said to him, 'Bob, isn't it disappointing to you that you don't draw any more? You were once such a great artist.' He wasn't but you had to talk to Bob that way.
He said, 'Oh, no. Let me show you something.' He took me into a little room in his house. It was his studio. I didn't even know he still had a studio. It was all set up with easels and things and there were paintings, paintings of clowns. You know the](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3ricjjbkac4mh4l7vf5fejga/bafkreibm4sxgmur2w543cazx4vtxy35b5vfujsniihsjt75nqgng7pwcfa@jpeg)
January 24, 2026 at 12:58 AM
My favorite Bob Kane story:
This sleek look would be even better with ear protection and a piercing whistle.
January 24, 2026 at 4:21 AM
This sleek look would be even better with ear protection and a piercing whistle.
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Power strips are not powerful enough to handle the energy demands of a space heater, so you're risking a fire. Plug them into the wall.
DO NOT PLUG SPACE HEATERS INTO POWER STRIPS
DO NOT PLUG SPACE HEATERS INTO POWER STRIPS
DO NOT PLUG SPACE HEATERS INTO ANYTHING BUT A GROUNDED, WALL SOCKET
DO NOT PLUG SPACE HEATERS INTO POWER STRIPS
DO NOT PLUG SPACE HEATERS INTO ANYTHING BUT A GROUNDED, WALL SOCKET
January 23, 2026 at 2:58 AM
Power strips are not powerful enough to handle the energy demands of a space heater, so you're risking a fire. Plug them into the wall.
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sure, when you put it that way (or literally any other way) it sounds bad!
a heavily armed paramilitary force with legal immunity is occupying a city and going door to door kidnapping non-white adults and children in furtherance of an explicitly white nationalist political project
January 22, 2026 at 3:08 AM
sure, when you put it that way (or literally any other way) it sounds bad!
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This guy went to work today, put a mask on, kidnapped a 5 year old child, and then used him as bait so both he and his father could be sent behind bars
January 22, 2026 at 2:13 AM
This guy went to work today, put a mask on, kidnapped a 5 year old child, and then used him as bait so both he and his father could be sent behind bars
Boy, sure would be a shame if people brought loud AF whistles to where ICE was doing their horrible bullshit. I'm certainly not linking how to make them with a 3D printer or to a post with more resources in the comments.
January 21, 2026 at 3:52 AM
Boy, sure would be a shame if people brought loud AF whistles to where ICE was doing their horrible bullshit. I'm certainly not linking how to make them with a 3D printer or to a post with more resources in the comments.
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We could have paid teachers at any time.
We could have simply offered a dignified wage to do any of the work we need done at any time.
San Fransisco could be clean right now.
It was always a matter of political will.
We could have simply offered a dignified wage to do any of the work we need done at any time.
San Fransisco could be clean right now.
It was always a matter of political will.
ICE AGENT: “I love my job. I can’t believe they pay me to do this. I’d do it for free. I only went to high school and I make $200,000.”
January 14, 2026 at 1:33 AM
We could have paid teachers at any time.
We could have simply offered a dignified wage to do any of the work we need done at any time.
San Fransisco could be clean right now.
It was always a matter of political will.
We could have simply offered a dignified wage to do any of the work we need done at any time.
San Fransisco could be clean right now.
It was always a matter of political will.
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This, by the way, is one of the places the political push for "public syllabi" goes: Even more people who literally do not understand what they're trying to evaluate almost certainly using LLM's to ask "is this stuff transgender or DEI" & then making administrative decisions based on that output.
1. Texas A&M has banned a philosophy teacher from teaching Plato because it has "gender ideology" in it.
The banning stems from excerpts from Plato’s Aristophanes’ Myth of the Split Humans and Diotima’s Ladder of Love.
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The banning stems from excerpts from Plato’s Aristophanes’ Myth of the Split Humans and Diotima’s Ladder of Love.
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Texas A&M Bans Philosophy Prof. From Teaching Plato Because of "Gender Ideology"
“Silencing 2,500-year-old ideas from one of the world’s most influential thinkers betrays the mission of higher education.”
www.erininthemorning.com
January 10, 2026 at 3:18 PM
This, by the way, is one of the places the political push for "public syllabi" goes: Even more people who literally do not understand what they're trying to evaluate almost certainly using LLM's to ask "is this stuff transgender or DEI" & then making administrative decisions based on that output.
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"Low-lift national targets are mostly public-facing companies with relatively small ICE contracts that are set to expire soon," such as Dell, UPS, FedEx, Motorola, Comcast, AT&T, LexisNexis, Home Depot and Lowe's. ✊💸
www.thenation.com/article/acti...
www.thenation.com/article/acti...
Want to Stop ICE? Go After Its Corporate Collaborators.
ICE can’t function without help from the private sector. So we should force the private sector to stop helping.
www.thenation.com
January 10, 2026 at 4:10 AM
"Low-lift national targets are mostly public-facing companies with relatively small ICE contracts that are set to expire soon," such as Dell, UPS, FedEx, Motorola, Comcast, AT&T, LexisNexis, Home Depot and Lowe's. ✊💸
www.thenation.com/article/acti...
www.thenation.com/article/acti...
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it is incredible that the entire high level legal apparatus of the United States is "anything that helps people is impossible, anything that kills people is permitted"
January 3, 2026 at 2:24 PM
it is incredible that the entire high level legal apparatus of the United States is "anything that helps people is impossible, anything that kills people is permitted"
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I see some people debating the logistics of the invasions. "This doesn't make much sense. The oil industry doesn't even want this oil." Logistical reality doesn't matter to the invaders. Consequences don't matter. Ethics certainly don't matter. They want to violate other counties. They enjoy it.
January 4, 2026 at 4:27 PM
I see some people debating the logistics of the invasions. "This doesn't make much sense. The oil industry doesn't even want this oil." Logistical reality doesn't matter to the invaders. Consequences don't matter. Ethics certainly don't matter. They want to violate other counties. They enjoy it.
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The Venezuelan invasion is primarily about the sadistic ecstasy our leaders experience as they invade, violate, steal, murder. That's at the core of all this. They're talking about invading more countries because they don't want these feelings to stop.
January 4, 2026 at 4:25 PM
The Venezuelan invasion is primarily about the sadistic ecstasy our leaders experience as they invade, violate, steal, murder. That's at the core of all this. They're talking about invading more countries because they don't want these feelings to stop.
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Saying "X is a distraction from Y" is as effective as telling someone who's upset to "calm down." It's a message about the message, signaling I am trying to shape your views, which makes people recoil. (It's also often untrue - MAGA can multitask their evil.)
January 6, 2026 at 4:18 PM
Saying "X is a distraction from Y" is as effective as telling someone who's upset to "calm down." It's a message about the message, signaling I am trying to shape your views, which makes people recoil. (It's also often untrue - MAGA can multitask their evil.)
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In distraction news, my sister and I watched Wakanda Forever. It was good.
Funny thing, though, they gove the origin of Namor's name as Spanish for "no love"
He basically named himself "Involuntary Celibate."
Funny thing, though, they gove the origin of Namor's name as Spanish for "no love"
He basically named himself "Involuntary Celibate."
January 4, 2026 at 4:30 AM
In distraction news, my sister and I watched Wakanda Forever. It was good.
Funny thing, though, they gove the origin of Namor's name as Spanish for "no love"
He basically named himself "Involuntary Celibate."
Funny thing, though, they gove the origin of Namor's name as Spanish for "no love"
He basically named himself "Involuntary Celibate."
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If we can't stop them from being evil, we can at least stop them from being happy.
Ruin their day.
Ruin their day.
I call Tommy Tuberville every fucking week, multiple times a week, because he can be evil but I don't have to let him do it without pushback.
So I don't need to hear excuses. I call the dumbest senator in the country. 😂
So I don't need to hear excuses. I call the dumbest senator in the country. 😂
January 4, 2026 at 4:37 AM
If we can't stop them from being evil, we can at least stop them from being happy.
Ruin their day.
Ruin their day.
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This is the inspiration I needed today 💚
January 4, 2026 at 7:26 PM
This is the inspiration I needed today 💚
I haven't been as active on here as much as I used to be, but I hope that y'all are doing OK and have hope and joy going into the New Year.
They want to wear us down but remember - joy and self-care in the face of someone trying to tear you down is also resistance.
Sending y'all love and support!
They want to wear us down but remember - joy and self-care in the face of someone trying to tear you down is also resistance.
Sending y'all love and support!
January 1, 2026 at 12:26 AM
I haven't been as active on here as much as I used to be, but I hope that y'all are doing OK and have hope and joy going into the New Year.
They want to wear us down but remember - joy and self-care in the face of someone trying to tear you down is also resistance.
Sending y'all love and support!
They want to wear us down but remember - joy and self-care in the face of someone trying to tear you down is also resistance.
Sending y'all love and support!
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There are still great journalists working there, and great stories being published. But now we know that these stories will only be seen when the bosses allow it. And not all those bosses are working at CBS News.
The end of CBS News
Why corporate media won't come to save us.
www.motherjones.com
January 1, 2026 at 12:01 AM
There are still great journalists working there, and great stories being published. But now we know that these stories will only be seen when the bosses allow it. And not all those bosses are working at CBS News.
Now that Marvel and DC are doing crossovers, I really hope we get a @gailsimone.bsky.social story where the Secret Six meets the Thunderbolts!
(or one where Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn meet Mystique and Destiny #ISupportWomensWrongs )
(or one where Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn meet Mystique and Destiny #ISupportWomensWrongs )
January 1, 2026 at 12:23 AM
Now that Marvel and DC are doing crossovers, I really hope we get a @gailsimone.bsky.social story where the Secret Six meets the Thunderbolts!
(or one where Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn meet Mystique and Destiny #ISupportWomensWrongs )
(or one where Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn meet Mystique and Destiny #ISupportWomensWrongs )