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Major Crime Turned Microbusiness: Missouri’s cannabis microbusiness program allows Jimi Poe to capitalize off of his previous conviction www.thepitchkc.com/major-crime-...

Cover of Jiji Manga (12 October 1925) by Kitazawa Rakuten, in the OSU Billy Ireland collection, and the first thing that came to mind. 😎 Brought to my attention by Andrea Horbinski’s recent Manga’s First Century (2025).

HOW DID I MISS THIS?! I’ve been waiting for more Urasawa translations!

Let’s watch: Carrie! Fun fact: I first saw this movie when they played it on a television at a Buffalo Wild Wings when I was a kid… I was traumatized by the fucking ending of this goddamn movie.

Two new stories by yours truly, plus a special Halloween framing story. Watercolor art by @patricbates.bsky.social. Numbered first print run of 50 copies, so they will go fast! www.etsy.com/listing/4376...

So back in middle school, my health teacher showed us this documentary about the Ebola outbreak in the 90s. It was a harrowing watch nonetheless because we were hearing and seeing how much it fucks up a persons body. Needless to say I am afraid for these people and I am afraid of it spreading.

Yesterday, Meta unveiled a new "feed" on its platforms that will exclusively feature AI-generated videos. This overshadowed another big announcement... On Tuesday, Meta launched a super new PAC geared towards electing politicians that will block any AI regulation. Hello?

Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE. If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease! Donate at blinkingguy.com

Day13 M2 Hakuōhō 6-6 (L) M6 Ōnokatsu 5-7 (R) I zoned out for a few minutes before this bout started I could have sworn I was watching Tamawashi battling Hakuōhō here. 😅 #akibasho2025

Essential reading www.wired.com/story/oral-h...

Day13 M1 Tamawashi 5-7 (L) M4 Hiradoumi 6-6 (R) Then I see the real Tamawashi belt and it looks a bit the same. 🤗 #akibasho2025

So, I was looking for something entirely unrelated when I found this, which is apparently an ad for a Halloween horror marathon from 1961. That's plenty great on its own, but for my fellow Kansas City peeps, look at what the participating theaters are...

Thanks for the shoutout m(_ _)m I also trace the development and spread of what's now considered "the manga face" in my new book and wrote a summary here:

PHANTOM!

In the debut of new, potentially recurring column, I wrote about the glory of Hoopla, the reasons it's my favorite digital comics app, and the why having a library card is essential for comic fans (and newcomers).

Student + early career journalists in Appalachia (or young folks who want to write): pitch 100 Days! Looking for stories w/ angles on young people, related to education & what's happening on campuses, politics, life & identity, & more. Rates start at $150 for opinion, $200-$400 for reporting.

Chaosium is making playing a lot easier by adding all the key items you need to run a CALL OF CTHULHU game directly to your Foundry VTT....for a price at least.

"the menswear guy isn't fair and balanced." do you even hear yourself? "fork lady is eroding public confidence." "ladder baby is undermining the credibility of the field." "lemon raccoon is acting without transparency or accountability." that's what you sound like.

Never forget that Norman Rockwell, debatably the most famous American artist to ever put brush to canvas, was not afraid to show the ugliness along with the good. Having his work/reputation sanitized and trimmed into marketable nostalgia is about American as it gets.

I've posted this one before but it's about the children of Gaza and he adds a new verse every day on his Instagram

I really hate having a guy whose whole business is podcasting in charge of an agency like the FBI. That’s an insult to podcasters thought because I know some who could probably do a much better job

I am low key obsessed with the covers of Monthly Halloween. I did a whole little article about them and Ito few years back www.ghoulsmagazine.com/articles/jun...

Excuse me what??

As she reflects on her career in a second memoir, Sally Mann warns of a "new era of culture wars" after police pulled several photographs she took of her children decades ago off the walls of a museum.

The white supremacist conceit that everyone in antiquity was living under some kind of global jim crow segregation is just complete bullshit news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

Speaking of voices under attack…can we be just as loud about Black journalists and comedians who are silenced, even by our so-called liberal outlets. • Joy Reid • Don Lemon • Melissa Harris-Perry • Tiffany Cross • Jemele Hill • Marc Lamont Hill • Karen Attiah • Amber Ruffin

It feels like this is becoming a more common mass shooter profile: Someone who's interested in politics but not as a vehicle to express clear values or a coherent viewpoint. He just wants to mock anyone who takes it seriously.

There’s something odd about how this administration has filled a lot of these roles with people who are legit trying to twist themselves into pretzel knots to justify cracking down on the groups to their political left even if evidence is 100% not on their side.

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these kids aren't Alex Jones or Steve Bannon. the dude who fired at an ICE van and shot himself was not engaged in a cunning long term political gambit. The term "non-political" here means their motivation was not in furtherance of some sort of cohesive partisan project. they did it for the lulz.

Day12 M8 Ura 7-4 (L) M15 Tobizaru 7-4 (R) The prestidigitator vs pink magic. Always a good show. #akibasho2025

I haven’t seen a lot of cis people I usually see pushing for calls, etc. doing so about these rules provisions, which would devastate trans people nationally. Calls need to be made to all electeds and a firm stance taken ASAP, with ten times the fervor of the Kimmel/D+ event

Yep, this is exactly what I'd have expected. Great article from Ken.

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Ryan Adams has always felt like autumn to me. Heartbreaker especially feels like the early chill in the air and a car ride past changing trees.

Well damn. Applied to renew my passport two weeks ago and it just came in the mail today! Here’s either to 10 more years of potential travel or hopes that I will not have to use it to escape from this fucking country…

Reading "sex is better with bear" in a thick Russian accent

Thinking about this for no particular reason today

For my Burns Notice newsletter, I wrote about what it was like being a trans person and see the entire right wing try to incite pogrom on us over the last several weeks. burns-notice.ghost.io/what-am-i-su...

God he’s really laying the Thank Yous on thick because of JD Vance’s temper tantrum a few months ago just to spite him and cover his bases

Did I tell y’all that I interviewed Leonardo DiCaprio and Benicio del Toro for ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER? Because I did. 😎

It's time for our annual horror movie suggestions! We've got some fun categories this year starting with Great Ghosts!! These are just a few of the hauntings we like and that we think you'll like! We'll also be re-running last year's list in case you missed any! Help us out with a share!

Remember that new study? Yeah we been knowing. 96% of BLM protests were peaceful; same for 99% of the pro-Palestine protests… And while I saw lots of reports on the study, I can’t say the same for the bigger news: That Trump scraped the study from all government websites — like it never existed!

Today I learned: - how to measure how much to read in ostriches - Johnny Cash was nearly killed by an ostrich

Happy to announce that my poem "Perish and Live Forever," which first appeared in MEXICANS ON THE MOON, has just won the @sfpoetry.bsky.social 's Dwarf Star Award for poetry. This award is for best micro poem of 10 lines or less. Many thanks to members who voted. It is a big honor. Much love!

American sumo star Kellyann Ball was impressed by a major Japanese tournament for women held this past weekend. Now she's working on creating a similar future in the United States.

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