someone on tumblr said it better than i could

Is The Highlander a good tv show? I don’t know. But it is a tv show where Peter DeLuise is in episode two and Dustin Nguyen (actor, not comics artist) is in episode three and as long as Jonny Depp doesn’t show up I can think fond thoughts of 21 Jump Street. Two-for-one nostalgia!

It’s not hyperbole that part of what kept the queer liberation movement going in the Reagan era was the partying part of the “bury your friends in the morning, protest in the afternoon, and dance at night” schedule. Without joy there is no air left to fight

It's a good thing Argus isn't a dog, @alexiarose1972.bsky.social, or you wouldn't have been able to bring him to HeroesCon with you. And he completes the Galaxy look!

The Bengali Knicks poet and the Sikh dholi guys combined forces for a follow-up! Now we just need the sewing machine guy and the ride a bike with stuff on his head guy to meet.

You cannot be anti-authoritarian government and pro-cop when cops are the enforcers of the first part. There are plenty of heroic cops out there... if you overlook the second part only. And that's the shitty choice they were forced to make. But they made it so.

Supergirl APPROVED.

Hey, the drummers are Fogo Azul, and it looks like they're here: @fogoazulny.bsky.social ! Give 'em a follow!

Thinking about how I was told, once, that the original myth of the zombie was rooted in fear of personhood being so stripped from enslaved people that even death wasn't an escape from servitude. Just a useful body without a soul, working for the benefit of an infinite greed.

Nithya Raman, a Democratic Socialist, made the general election for Los Angeles mayor and faces a wildly unpopular incumbent. Dodgers are looking to win third straight World Series and have second best record in baseball. They say three's a trend ...

Oh my! @planetx.bsky.social! @deuxdel.bsky.social! @ryehickman.bsky.social! Look who’s hanging out at Heroes Con!

Too hot to go outside, ordered Hawaiian delivery, am now eating Spam and cucumber musubi and thinking about Sarah Kuhn, who wrote a story for an anthology I edited, and talks about bringing it to school and having kids reject it. Those fools! It is delicious!

Absolute Batman!

sorry i know its fun to be conspiratorial about everything but let me tell you from decades of experience in labour, it's totally normal to put up a tarp for this kind of thing. Not everything has to be some grand, shady mystery.

Twelve days later I realize that the Tune-Yards soundtrack would almost certainly be streaming and now Qobuz is making delightful plunking noises at me. The gift that keeps on giving!

girls don't want boys, girls want tv shows about being fabulous and middle aged and going on a righteous international crime spree with your bfff

I love videos like this

Why can we speak with such clarity and conviction when talking about ICE in schools, but not when talking about cops in schools? The harm done by cops in schools is objectively, measurably, 3 orders of magnitude more extreme. Black kids have asked repeatedly for cops to be taken out of schools.

one of the problems with nominating a person who has been credibly accused of lying/abusive behavior by numerous women is that it creates powerful partisan incentives for people to denigrate and harass women who come forward.

manic pixie dreamgirl put on a corset before her boots

California mail-in voting flipping rules. They send you a ballot. You fill it out and put it in a dropbox. DONE. This should be the minimum nationwide. Anyone who wants to make it harder to vote hates America and does not deserve manners.

Here is my Jane Yolen story, which I suspect is a pretty common one, or at least a variation thereon. I grew up on her books. One of my earliest memories is my dad reading Commander Toad books to me at the South Bend public library. Then I grew up and got a job in comics publishing. (1/)

Ok but.

I am not a sports person but even I can tell it's a good day to wish futbol de Mexico the best luck...because Burbank is a SEA of team jerseys. Women outnumber the men wearing them, and my coffee shop girls had elaborate hairdos to coordinate. Very festive!

Cory Doctorow has a very apt piece on our current times & how it echoes The Dark Tower... It's a sad sort of joy to read this & you absolutely should. (It has broad story spoilers, but nothing that would ruin the reading of the saga, if you haven't yet) Ka is a wheel

My family left what is now Ukraine because of anti-Jewish pogroms -- and those who stayed behind were killed in the Holocaust -- and I am completely comfortable calling what is happening in Belfast a pogrom

Whenever bluesky announces a new feature, there's a bunch of people who instantly chime in saying they want an edit button, which is the worst idea imaginable

Every aspect of the manosphere is designed to keep men preoccupied and lonely. It's like the beauty and diet industry on steroids. Or fascism.

In the pre-surveillance capitalism era, you just did not have to worry about if playing a Pokémon game on your GameBoy was actually supporting the development of deadly military tech psychologically, I don’t think it’s good you now absolutely do have to worry about this with most any tech device.

The Cubs winning the World Series knocked us into this cursed timeline, The Knicks winning will correct things.

Queers have it better today than we had things 20/30/40+ years ago, but we have it much worse than what we had only 5 years ago. Older queers are correct in saying young queers have a much easier time than we did. Younger queers are correct in saying they have it worse now than when they were kids.

Wanna talk about parental rights? Let's talk about the rights of Black parents disproportionately targeted by the family policing system. The rights of disabled parents. The rights of immigrant parents.

Tried a new (to me) lunch spot in Burbank. Can't claim to know anything about Armenian food, but my Adana was delicious! Grilled chicken with veggies and potatoes, nothing elaborate but I shall return. Tun Lahmajo! Next time I try the lahmajo!

No. You worry about the slippery slope when you aren't already at the bottom of the chasm. Now? An ideological Supreme Court is discarding settled precedent on a whim, bad reasoning and worse history, and stacking the deck further with unreasoned shadow docket fuckery. Fuck the slippery slope.

Don't fool yourself into being loyal to a company. Companies aren't people, they're entities. I'm not saying that you can't have a terrific relationship with the companies you work for, I’m just saying that you have to remember that the relationship isn't with a name or a brand: it's with PEOPLE.

khōréō is simply one of the best magazines in our industry. There are only 28 Backers. If you are somebody who says they support marginalized SFF creators and posted about your sadness over Fantasy & FIYAH closing, you have this opportunity to make sure khōréō continues publishing amazing things.

I check the ticket. Overnight to Krakow. Sleeper, private compartment for two. "Hurry up!" My fiancé leads the way. "Wait, the train station is the other-" "We're here." It used to be an empty plot. Now it's full of small houses. My fiancé grins and points to a sign: "Baba Yaga Travels"

There's something almost too on-point with the techbro alt-right embrace of stoicism ('broicism'), given stoicism is a formula for living happy in unfreedom, a philosophy for contentedness under tyranny. A philosophy of self-improvement for when social improvement is beyond recall.

And most leaders in politics, media, & business were pretty much ready to go along. If Americans had committed some pogroms, there would have been hand-wringing & denunciations, but ultimately immigration itself would have been blamed & we’d have been told we had to listen to the violent racists.

The violence in Belfast is a reminder of something I don’t want to take for granted: The fascists here hoped the response to the depredations of ICE would be similar, with people turning in or attacking their neighbors. That it was the very opposite is worth remembering in this season of despair

All we have to do is LIFT THE FREAKING CAP! Of all the problems facing the US, fixing Social Security is the easiest. They just won't do it because rich people would have to pay a little more. There's ways to make it fair. How about for all income over $200K we pay 2% instead of nothing?

A 40% pay increase, the right to walk off the job if federal agents (i.e. CBP/ICE) pose a threat to them *and* the contract expires in April 2028 so they can demand more ahead of the Olympics. Shoutout Local 11, shoutout unions.

I support non-violent means of change, but I am also acutely aware that the people with the tear gas, guns, tasers, zipties, pepper spray, and batons are defining violence to include "took a photo" and "asked a question."

genuinely: if 18 year old kids are allowed and encouraged to go into hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt, a 15 year old kid should be allowed to pick what puberty they want give trans kids hormones, actually

Preparing for a primary is a 2-3 year process and now is a good time for both the Maine Dems and the DSCC to experience some pressure over what kind of work they are putting into candidate development in Maine at all levels, especially for statewide offices and Congress.

For those who've missed the news: oh, damn.

Hey, 10 images in a post means you can now read the entire #WorstManOGN prologue in one go! If you like what you see, consider giving us a preorder? Books can live or die on them. titan-comics.com/comics/2401-...

It is, a bit. But whether you're an islander in JAWS is about whether the islanders think you're an islander, not whether you do. You can live in Maine for 60 years and still be from "away." But in New York City, it's a lot more about how you feel about it. There is no monoculture of New Yorkers...

I never liked the Great Man theory of history, because building things takes a community. In stark contrast, I find the Tremendous Asshole corollary to be very persuasive. Breaking things is so much easier than building. One tremendous asshole in the wrong place really can shape history.