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bakoon @bakoon.bsky.social · 1d

the dude who made zeiram made this kamen rider type show. one of these but for adults who grew up on that stuff, shown at night. with violence, naked ladies and scary monsters

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 1d

you're already seeing & will see more stories about how various attempts at reducing energy use "aren't working," etc -- those are propaganda. this is fantastic

Jonathan @renewableenergy.bsky.social · 1d

Huge historic turning point — Renewables surpassed coal as the world’s leading electricity source for the first half of 2025!

#greensky #energysky #renewableenergy

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S E Case @secase.bsky.social · 10h

did you know when you grab a copy of Rigsby WI book 2 thru the kickstarter you can get a special Book 2-style commission as an add-on? There are 9 of these commissions left — this style is only available through the kickstarter, so snag one before they’re gone!!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/iro...

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insomniac @phillyinsomniac.bsky.social · 1h

yeah man this "throw trans people to the wolves to appeal to moderate Republicans who surely, SURELY exist outside of the hearts and minds of Dem strategists who've been chasing that November 1992 high for over 30 years" plan sure worked great in 2024 we'd better stick to it

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S E Case @secase.bsky.social · 1d

frank hates that you're making him do this

www.kickstarter.com/projects/iro...

Frank: (wearing a sleeveless crop top that says "support Rigsby on kickstarter") Look at this slutty shirt they're making me wear
Anna: Yikes

Frank: So demeaning
Anna: (bending over) Wait a minute

Anna: What are all these fabric scraps
Frank: (holding scissors) just shameless

Support Rigsby WI on Kickstarter
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ironspike/rigsby-wi-volume-2-burn-it-down-by-se-case?ref=d40qwl

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Lesbian Death Bed: The Bed that Eats Pussy @bitterkarella.bsky.social · 3h

Gonna laminate this skeet and send it to all my friends 🖤🖤🖤🥰 Put "the horniest thing I've ever read - The Evan Dorkin" on my tombstone!!!

Evan Dorkin @evandorkin.bsky.social · 3h

So, MOONFLOW by @bitterkarella.bsky.social was fucking wild: a sopping wet nightmare, a psychadelic psilocybin trip, a folk horror splatterfest spurting blood and other bodily fluids. Funny, sad, creepy and crazy. A contact high on nearly every page and probably the horniest thing I've ever read.(1)

A complimentary copy of the new book Moonflow by author Bitter Karella that I was sent. I finished the book last night, it's an extremely wild and trippy horror fantasy that I enjoyed very much.

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insomniac @phillyinsomniac.bsky.social · 3h

I don't approve of it as a whole but I do appreciate that the premise of Robocop 2 is that the soulless corporation is so pleased by the success of Robocop that they're gonna do another one, even when it immediately becomes obvious that the first Robocop was a anomaly that never should have worked

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Brian Michael Bendis @brianmbendis.bsky.social · 22h

Back in ye ol' Tumblr days, I was posting Art Adams art like it was my job. Eventually, he heard about it and he and Joyce started sending me commissions and other pieces he thought I might enjoy posting. I just found the folder. wow.

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insomniac @phillyinsomniac.bsky.social · 9h

a soldier saluting the rainbow pride flag

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SPOOKY Mistress Usili (Sage) 🏳️‍⚧️ @usili.bsky.social · 11h

As a fun reminder, the paper to come out with the first hard evidence that an asteroid killed the dinosaurs didn't come until 1980 *and* the Chicxulub crater wasn't officially identified as the source until 1990 (despite its discovery in 1978).

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insomniac @phillyinsomniac.bsky.social · 10h

and Mister Birchum of course

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insomniac @phillyinsomniac.bsky.social · 11h

hell, even some leftists will default to treating white farmers as the real proletariat because truck (never mind whether they're millionaires even if the farm isn't a tax shelter for their real job) while retail workers and waiters are suspicious at best

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insomniac @phillyinsomniac.bsky.social · 11h

the left getting football in the national divorce is still so weird

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insomniac @phillyinsomniac.bsky.social · 11h

the assumption that conservative white people are the default is a pretty deeply entrenched one, even in several left-liberal circles

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insomniac @phillyinsomniac.bsky.social · 11h

they don't think of women as wanting a robot, they think women want a status symbol who will buy them stuff

see the list; it's a whole worldview that assumes women won't date them because they fail to meet this ideal standard

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Iron Circus Comics @ironcircuscomics.bsky.social · 11h

Do you remember those times you thought were 'better'? Do you have priorities set trying to get back to them? 🏡

Eisner-and-Ignatz-nominated Rigsby WI Vol. 2: Burn it Down is a ❤️PROJECT WE LOVE❤️ on Kickstarter!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/iro...

This is one of the few full color pages of Burn It Down, and yet it is a memory of Anna's of coming home on her bike to the car windshield having a large hole like a rock jumped up from the road.

But the hood also has a huge dent. She opens the door to the house. "Mom? What happened to the car?" There's no answer. "Mom? ...Anthony? Are you home?" There's still no answer. She does however find her mother in the kitchen. Her mother's face is shielded from the last panel, but her hunched posture holding her arms gives away more than words need. "... Mom?"

Do you remember the world before social media? Yeah it still sucked in its own way. Burn It Down is more than 50% of the way funded! You can help bring this to goal and get the first volume as well in physical form for just $30! We're also almost to 300 backers so far!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ironspike/rigsby-wi-volume-2-burn-it-down-by-se-case?ref=2r89es

"Hey! Asshole!" Anna calls out to Frank, who surprisingly stops and listens with a furrowed brow as she makes demands. "You're doing this project with me and if you don't show your ass up to the library every day I will find out where you live and burn your house down." she says the last part with emphasis but Frank doesn't seem really affected.

"Ok, wow. Seems a little agressetory. You need a cig or something?" he's more surprised at her energy about it.

"Fuck you! I am not getting a C because of you!"

"A C?" He makes a fake concerned expression. "Oh no, how horrible!" Then he drops it as he turns to head out. "I got better things to do than sit in a fuckin' book prison all afternoon."

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insomniac @phillyinsomniac.bsky.social · 11h

@bretdevereaux.bsky.social has talked a few times about how consistently history students seem to identify with, even if not kings, knights and patricians and Spartiates rather with the slaves, serfs, or even modest freeholding farmers, even if their own ancestry is entirely working-class

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insomniac @phillyinsomniac.bsky.social · 11h

I've seen someone run through the estimates & while I can't remember the exact numbers the conclusion was that the majority of human beings who have ever lived - by a lot! - were farm workers

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insomniac @phillyinsomniac.bsky.social · 12h

I had appendicitis in... middle school? elementary? summer between the two?

point is I live in the remarkably short period of human history where that meant a routine surgery rather than my intestines exploding and leaking pus and feces into my abdomen until I succumb to infection

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insomniac @phillyinsomniac.bsky.social · 12h

also "the George W Bush treatment" should have been getting arrested but that's a whole other thing

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Chloé Stawski (Spooky Edition 🎃🦇) @chlowski.bsky.social · 1d

hades gals 💀🌸

fanart of Melinoe from Hades 2, wearing a modern outfit (dark jeans, orange top), she has a big tattoo on her right arm, and is about to tie her hair with a hair band (is this how it's called in english ?)
her eyes are closed, she has nice arm muscles and looks extremely lesbian

fanart of Nemesis from Hades 2, wearing a modern outfit (red jeans, black crop top with the Hades sigil as a pattern on it), moon shaped necklace, tattoos on her left arm and pecs, as she's about to tie her hair using a green hairband, her eyes closed
(green light on her right side cause she's standing next to Melinoe's glowing arm, off camera)

fanart of Eris, from Hades 2, she's sitting, right leg with her knee bent, in front of her
right hand on her right foot, left hand on her face, framing her left eye between two fingers
she's wearing big sneakers, micro shorts, some sort of sweater with stripes showing her shoulders
she has apple tree branch tattoos on her thigh and left shoulder

fanart of Medea from Hades 2, but wearing modern clothes (tiny leather shorts with double belt, red/purple leather crop top), a nose ring, necklaces, also big tattoo covering the entire left arm (a snake, a moon crescent, flowers and leaves)
She's sitting, resting on her left hand, her right hand next to her face, conjuring some plague magic that bathes her in green light

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 21h

war, war never changes.

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 23h

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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insomniac @phillyinsomniac.bsky.social · 1d

It is unlikely but not strictly impossible that a samurai sent a fax to Abraham Lincoln

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insomniac @phillyinsomniac.bsky.social · 1d

"Back in the day men were huge and could pick me up out of the back seat and carry me around on their shoulders. Now they're just about my height and sit next to me at work. Where did things go wrong?"

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insomniac @phillyinsomniac.bsky.social · 1d

you may not like it but this is what peak male performance looks like

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