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VA State Senator Louise Lucas: “I have the utmost respect for Senator Kaine and Senator Warner but we do not need “coaching” on redistricting coming from a cuck chair in the corner. How about you all stay focused on the fascist in the White House and let us handle redistricting in Virginia. 10-1” The guy who loves making labyrinths from Oglaf, and his face is all excitement Roast Beef after using some marajuana and he is just *joyful* Shaggy, Daphne, Velma and her sister all celebrating with glee
January 16, 2026 at 11:59 PM
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Oh god they made Wapol handsome
Wapol from One Piece
January 16, 2026 at 4:56 AM
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I’ll be honest the first time I saw this today I legit thought it was an old photo of Natalie Croft from the old official promos
From Tomb of Ash, three 1990s photoshoot shots of Natalie Cook modeling as Lara Croft for the original Tomb Raider
January 16, 2026 at 2:27 AM
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MS, small Asteroid clusters, ships, you name it, you *can* trick the computer into registering that thing as real as it tries to figure out "wait a second..."
the Re-GZ in Char's Counterattack accelerating through near earth orbit, with a cluster of Re-GZ-shaped dummy balloons floating in front of it, drifting along, as cover
January 12, 2026 at 11:44 AM
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Thunderbolt fantasy screencap: Shang Bu Huan holds something in his hands, possibly a doll of some kind, and asks “What the hell is this cursed-looking thing?” An edit of some interview with Yoshikazu Yasuhiko; a joke caption of “what the fuck did you just bring upon this cursed land” is placed over it
January 12, 2026 at 12:32 AM
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“Show me a comic you loved when you were 13, that’s all I need to know about you” - Brad Meltzer

So with the Caveats these are more 14/15 years old at the time, and it's not a *specific* issue, but well...
A collection of Viz's Ranma 1/2 chapters, sold in the late 90s/early 2000s as individual comic singles.
January 11, 2026 at 9:41 PM
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Minneapolis folks fans of Ultra?
A screencap of Ultraseven Kaiju Dino-Tank, from episode 28. It’s… well, a dinosaur merged with a tank. Like all the parts of a rubber dinosaur suit but the legs, fused with all the parts of a tank but the turret. It’s tail sticks up in the air at a fortyfive degree angle, and the hindquarter of the dinosaur portion appears to have ablative armor either attached or as scales Apocryphally, it’s said Ultraman designer Tohl Narita quit over this kaiju (as a final straw, after previously having to design a kaiju that was a fusion with the battleship Yamato), feeling it was too ridiculous and marked a tone in the series that clashed with his sensibilities
January 10, 2026 at 12:26 AM
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Mario Maker, coins spell out "POLICE STATE"
January 8, 2026 at 12:31 AM
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The last few, two variants based on Ikeda returning to the franchise to play Durandal, and then one that I am… *pretty* sure was just me straight up losing it by this point in the show and grasping for anything I could to keep slogging through while taking as much piss out of it as I could.
Panel 1: Durandal stands in front from of Shinn, Athrun and Meer-as-Lacus; “But being frustrated with the situation, I’ve started something crazy… Amuro…”

Panel 2: Athrun getting up in Durandal’s face as he looks off camera, smirking. 


Athrun: Chairman, who is Amuro? Chairman?!

Durandal (internal monologue): “If you’re nearby, feel my presence…” Panel 1: Durandal stands in front from of Shinn, Athrun and Meer-as-Lacus; “But being frustrated with the situation, I’ve started something crazy… Amuro…”

Panel 2: Shot from Char’s Counterattack. Amuro is driving a jeep-like car, with Hathaway visible in the back seat. 

Amuro: I sense something crazy being started… could it be?! Catapault and bridge section of the Minerva. At this angle it looks like… well, it looks like a cyclopean robot duck laughing. Caption: “IMMA SHIP! QUACK QUACK!”
January 8, 2026 at 12:12 AM
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Some *probably* were a bit undercooked:
Gilbert Durandal announcing the initiation of the destiny plan, at which point the rest of the panels are a riff on the Simpsons “DENTAL PLAN! Lisa needs braces” bit from the Simpsons; the repeating riff reads “Destiny Plan! humans need freedom!” After Shin destroys the Freedom Gundam, a parody of the end of the Anakin Obi-Wan fight: 

Athrun: “You were the Ace, Shinn! You were supposed to help end the war, not kill my friends!

Bring peace to the Naturals and Coordinators, not kill the director’s favorite!”

Shinn: “I HATE YOU!” Athrun: “You were my squad mate Shinn! I vaguely considered you a sort of friend!” Panel 1: Long shot of Durandal in his Star Wars ass operations bridge at the end of Seed Destiny Panel 2: Palpatine in his VERY SIMILAR Death Star throne room. “Ah Chairman… I see you were able to get ahold of the designer I recommended.”
January 8, 2026 at 12:00 AM
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What’s his name from Destiny getting crushed by a falling mobile suit across three panels, with the fourth panel being the Eric Andre “we’ll be right back” bit
January 7, 2026 at 11:54 PM
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Edit of the classic dril tweet: “the wise man bowed his head solemnly and spoke: "theres actually zero difference between good & bad things. you imbecile. you fucking moron" But it’s Fukuda of Sunrise instead of dril
January 7, 2026 at 6:29 PM
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Meme of Shinn and Lunamaria watch as some giant genocidal space laser crashes into an unoccupied part of the lunar landscape. Lubamaria looks distraught but Shinn looks like he’s straight up going to collapse into tears over it Subtitle: “No… not both of our horrifying, genocidal super weapons…”
January 7, 2026 at 5:47 PM
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Making *really dumb memes* was how I kept myself sane during Destiny:
Rey from Gundam seed looks determined for two panels saying: “I don’t k or what their intentions were, but if our nation says they’re enemies… they are.” The third panel is The Boss from MGS3: Snake Eater, in a field of white flowers. It’s set after she gives her speech about the way the changing geopolitics post WWII turned allies against each other, forcing loyal battlefield comrades to now fight and kill as bitter enemies. The edited subtitle reads in response to Rey: “Oh you smug little bastard.” A scene from Gundam Seed Destiny. A car overlooks a port, water stretching far to the horizon and lit by the moon looming large in the sky. Subtitles read: “T/N Note: Cat for ‘The Earth is a very wonderful place! Everyone, hurry up and come back!’ Mroow meoooow! Mreooow meoow!” Two panels of a fleet of Destroy Gundams being deployed, greatly resembling a fleet of Big Zam. The third panel is Gihren and Dozel from Gundam the Origin, with Dozel looking like the giddiest man to ever live and Gihren looking annoyed and losing his patience. Two panels from the end of Seed Destiny episode 1. Panel 1: Gilbert Durandal looks at a monitor ostensibly supposed to be a camera feed of the base, but it is clearly just reusing the Hero Shot of the Impulse Gundam from the end of the last scene in place of a more diegetically appropriate shot Panel 2: close up on Durandal. Subtitle “I’m so glad I got those Obari-view cameras installed all over the base… this is so cool…”
January 7, 2026 at 5:43 PM
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An edit of the bridge confrontation in Gundam Unicorn. Mineva stands before Full Frontal, who is wearing a Gundam Seed logo as a mask. “Now that I watch it, it all seems so shallow. 


You’ll remake the original Gundam and Zeta, but with sensibility for drama, and only lip service to the causes of your conflicts….

That is far removed from Tomino, who dreamed of critiquing the forces of war and understanding the soldier. 

And worlds apart from the madness, the passion, of Wing, which sought to take melodrama and ideology to their extremes.

Are you sure this is the story you wanted to tell?”
January 7, 2026 at 4:52 AM
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Nanami from Revolutionary Girl Utena is crying rivers of tears as Saionji holds up a bowl filled with eggs, the topmost is a delicately decorated one with geometric patterns in red ink or paint.
January 7, 2026 at 4:30 AM
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Quoting the Old Wisdom
Ultraman Ace’s Everlasting Wish: “Caring for the weak. Helping each other in your times of need. Becoming friends no matter where you’re from. Please don’t lose those feelings. Even if those feelings are betrayed hundreds of times.” 「明日のエースは君だ！」 “You Are the Ace of Tomorrow!”, March 30, 1973
January 6, 2026 at 9:52 PM
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The Sickos window panel, but instead of Kelly's Sickos guy, it's the Parrot and Cat from Mary Worth teaming up to make whats his name utterly miserable as the parrot caws "Yes.. Ha Ha Ha... Yes!!
January 4, 2026 at 10:10 PM
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January 3, 2026 at 8:31 PM
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NO SERIOUSLY CHECK IT OUT: founders.archives.gov/documents/Ma...
Relevant passage in the screen cap block: "There will be particularly the distinction of rich & poor. It was true as had been observd. (by Mr. Pinkney) we had not among us those hereditary distinctions, of rank which were a great source of the contests in the ancient Govts. as well as the modern States of Europe, nor those extremes of wealth or poverty which characterize the latter. We cannot however be regarded even at this time, as one homogeneous mass, in which every thing that affects a part will affect in the same manner the whole. In framing a system which we wish to last for ages, we shd. not lose sight of the changes which ages will produce. An increase of population will of necessity increase the proportion of those who will labour under all the hardships of life, & secretly sigh for a more equal distribution of its blessings. These may in time outnumber those who are placed above the feelings of indigence. According to the equal laws of suffrage, the power will slide into the hands of the former. No agrarian attempts have yet been made in this Country, but symtoms, of a leveling spirit, as we have understood, have sufficiently appeared in a certain quarters to give notice of the future danger. How is this danger to be guarded agst. on republican principles? How is the danger in all cases of interested coalitions to oppress the minority to be guarded agst.? Among other means by the establishment of a body in the Govt. sufficiently respectable for its wisdom & virtue, to aid on such emergences, the preponderance of justice by throwing its weight into that scale."
January 2, 2026 at 9:06 PM
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Weird I thought it was founded on a bunch of slave owning landed gentry getting pissed about having to tithe to the crown instead of being the top dogs of the colony and leading a revolution to be said top dogs and have the enterprise for themselves.
right winger Joe Walsh freaking out over Mayor Mamdani talking about replacing "the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism": "No. Hell no. This is a country founded upon rugged individualism/individual freedom. NOTHING should or will replace individualism. Not here. No MAGA authoritarianism in America, and no leftist collectivism in America. Yes, all of us should help those less fortunate, but hell no to this.👇"
January 2, 2026 at 9:06 PM
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The guy from that one Oglaf strip who keeps suggesting to the king they solve every problem by making a labyrinth to contain it. He is making the very excited face he makes when the royal physician charges into the court to announce the queen has given birth to a Minotaur (who will be placed into a labyrinth)
January 1, 2026 at 10:05 PM
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The other thing, if I'm not being *particularly generous* about this trend in Institutionalist Liberalism [and I do emphasize the institutionalist aspect of this ideological branch], is summarized, like many things, an old Dril quote:
Old dril quote from Old Twitter: "the wise man bowed his head solemnly and spoke: 'theres actually zero difference between good & bad things. you imbecile. you fucking moron'"
December 31, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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The Biden/Student debt example doesn’t work because we actually have arguments that *would* fall under the executive branch’s authority, and when Debt Collective FOIA’d the memo with the administrations lawyers on this very subject, the White House redacted the whole goddamn thing:
DoE legal memo regarding the authority for broad based debt cancellation collected via FOIA by Debt Collective. The entire body of the memo has been redacted by the Biden Admin
December 31, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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I keep hoping for OutLive for PSX to get one:
Cover of OutLive: Be Eliminate Yesterday for PSX, depicting a red and blue real-type Mecha against a dark and sunset sky
December 31, 2025 at 9:48 PM