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Elijah Brubaker, 1975-2025 - The Comics Journal

Klint Finley @klintron.com · 13d

Here’s the interview I did with Elijah on Reich back in 2008: technoccult.net/2013/01/17/t...

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Klint Finley @klintron.com · 13d

RIP Elijah Brubaker, artist behind the incredible Wilhelm Reich comic, among other things. www.tcj.com/elijah-bruba...

Austin English collects remembrances from the friends and colleagues of the Reich and Story of Jezebel author, who died on Aug. 28 at the age of 50.

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Klint Finley @klintron.com · 20d

The future of late night is right wing AI slop.

Jokes about Paul Pelosi aren’t just in bad taste. They normalize political violence | Arwa Mahdawi

Klint Finley @klintron.com · 20d

In case anyone else is looking for a contemporaneous source for the response to the attack on the Pelosis www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Rightwingers are laughing about an attack that left an 82-year-old in hospital. It’s a watershed moment in politics

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Klint Finley @klintron.com · 27d

TIL That Charlie Kirk and Kirk Cameron were not the same same person.

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Klint Finley @klintron.com · 28d

Have you learned more about whether the various journalist, for alt weeklys etc, were deliberately laundering Rice et al’s reputations? or have more thoughts on that?

Klint Finley @klintron.com · 29d

Yay!

If the AI Bubble Pops, It Won’t Be the End

Klint Finley @klintron.com · Sep 7

“The risk of buying into the idea that the AI bubble is bursting is that it risks lulling us into a false sense of comfort… The task now is not to wait for collapse, but to organize for control.“ jacobin.com/2025/09/arti...

Like past waves of automation, AI isn’t going away. Boom or bust, the fight is over whose interests it will serve.

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Klint Finley @klintron.com · Sep 6

I was planning to get one today, but the Rx requirement is already in place, so I’ll have to wait. Feels ridiculous.

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Klint Finley @klintron.com · Sep 3

That said, there have been a number of “longform” creator owned series, mostly from Image, that don’t rival something like One Piece but can’t be dismissed as fly by night movie pitches, like Saga, Monstress, Chew, Kieran Gillan’s books… Something is Killing the Children is getting up there too.

Klint Finley @klintron.com · Sep 3

… And when, say, someone as obscure as Peacemaker can be repurposed in new ways.

I kinda see it as more of an issue for what Heidi calls the “big lie” companies that are just throwing ideas over the fence to see what sticks and then moving on, never building anything with staying power.

Klint Finley @klintron.com · Sep 3

I think what @comixace.bsky.social is getting at is from a biz perspective, the Jump model is eating the big two’s lunch in terms of generating net new IP. I guess the question is if it really matters when legacy IP has the staying power it does…

Zow: A Temporal anomoly mission for FIST by klintron

Klint Finley @klintron.com · Sep 3

The way I’d put it: Manga and North American comics are not in competition with each other as art forms, but Marvel and DC are surely in competition with manga publishers for consumer dollars, shelf-space, and exploitable IP.

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Klint Finley @klintron.com · Aug 31

Just published my submission to the #FISTrpg Anniversary Jam: A short mission about stopping a powdered citrus beverage company from destroying time and causality: klintron.itch.io/zow-fist-mis...

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Klint Finley @klintron.com · Aug 28

I know it’s a deep cut.

Klint Finley @klintron.com · Aug 28

@unknown.garden Do you still have that drawing you did of Gideon the Ninth in the style of Johnny Bravo?

Masonic (Live in Detroit)

Klint Finley @klintron.com · Aug 15

Morning listening www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiwY...

YouTube video by Ectomorph - Topic

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · Aug 15

A thread on fear of cities. I grew up in 70s & 80s in a mostly working class white town I didn’t know at the time was segregated from the small, Blacker city across the river. My mom was a rare lefty who loved cities, but I absorbed attitudes at school: “cities are scary.” 1/

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Klint Finley @klintron.com · Aug 15

Plus it's not like big state governors, Democrat or Republican, want to demote themselves to being governors of smaller states.

Klint Finley @klintron.com · Aug 15

I don't think it's nearly as feasible as the author made it out to be. It sounds to me like Democrats have much more to gain from this arrangement than Republicans. Republicans benefit from the status quo, so it would be hard to get anything remotely like bipartisan support to make things more fair.

Opinion | America Needs to Break Up Its Biggest States (Published 2021)

Klint Finley @klintron.com · Aug 15

All the talk about redistricting Texas and California reminds me of this article on how we should split big states into smaller ones to improve representation. I agree that it's a simpler and more feasible solution than a new proportional representation scheme but... www.nytimes.com/2021/07/07/o...

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