I've never seen a greater illustration of the difference between a Producer an actual creator. This man can't even wrap his head around the idea that a brilliant artist like Bill Watterson cares more about preserving the integrity of his work than about getting rich through licensing agreements.

Alternate headline: "Americans aren't eager to waste their money and generate even more e-waste just to enrich billionaires who want to force-feed them gizmos crammed with unwanted AI garbage."

A movie that takes place where you’re from

Just once I want someone to remind Trump that he WAS one of those Democrats for most of his long friendship with Epstein and regularly buddied around with the other Democratic Epstein associates he's accusing.

Didn’t take long to vindicate my “don’t bother praising MTG for her new criticism of Trump, she’s still a thoroughly vile human being” stance.

We are probably only weeks away from Trump confidently proclaiming that no one knows where the sun goes at night.

Because individuals bargaining with giant corporate entities famously experience better outcomes than collective bargaining efforts against giant corporate entities.

American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.

@padilla.senate.gov please tell us that you aren’t considering voting in favor of any deal to reopen the government that doesn’t include an iron-clad guarantee of continued funding for the ACA.

@schiff.senate.gov I hope very much that the rumors you are currently in negotiation to reopen the government in exchange for “a promise of a vote” on the ACA are false. Democrats need to hold the line on protecting the ACA. We will remember what our leaders did during this moment in history.

For the life of me I don't understand how Tesla thinks keeping Elon around is a net benefit at all, let alone a benefit worth more than the entire Gross Domestic Product of Switzerland.

One of the reasons this is such a funny cover from the New York Post is that they've been simultaneously trying to frame Mamdani as both a "Jihadi" and a Soviet-style communist even though those groups were mortal enemies (and neither was known to march in Pride parades).

The big downside of tonight's elections is that having a progressive mayor running New York City is going to mean that none of the storylines in the second season of "Daredevil: Born Again" are going to make sense anymore. Did you even CONSIDER the harm that your votes might do to MCU continuity?

My kiddo went all in with her Halloween costume this year: Vi from “Arcane: League of Legends.” (I may have helped a bit with the jacket and gauntlets) #Arcane #Vi #Cosplay

Someone watched the 2008 sci-fi dystopian film "Sleep Dealer" and said to themselves "exploiting poor people to remotely operate robots? BRILLIANT!" ("I wrote the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale," etc…)

“The Imperial Senate will no longer be of any concern to us. I have just received word that the Emperor has dissolved the council permanently. The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.” —Tarkin, in a line letting the audience know that the galaxy is ruled by an evil emperor

Republicans get livid when we suggest that all jobs should pay a living wage and then act surprised to learn that many American workers are living in poverty.

Uh-oh, if Canada runs any more ads using Reagan's words to embarrass Trump they might hurt their chance to become the 51st state!

Keeping a human being alive outside of the biosphere we evolved to exist in is kind of like keeping an organ alive outside of the body. You can do it for a little while, but unless it’s going back where it came from or transplanted into a compatible recipient it’s not going to last long.

Work in progress: Atlas power gauntlets as worn by Vi in “Arcane: League of Legends” for my daughter’s Halloween costume. #Arcane #Cosplay

With the AWS outage, now‘s as good a time as any to post this old strip.

The Amazon Web Services outage means that my institution's entire learning platform is offline today (amongst countless other sites and services worldwide). Starting to think that letting a single company control so much of the basic infrastructure the internet depends on might have been a mistake.

Healthcare in the USA remains so bad compared to the rest of the developed world that it's easy for some to imagine the ACA was a failure, but that completely ignores how much *worse* it was before. Yes, let's continue the reform (I'd love single payer) but the ACA was a *major* step forward.

Pretty sure “we’ll have no more paychecks!” wasn’t the takeaway from that Schoolhouse Rock song about “No More Kings.”

This is good. I actually subscribed to the Atlantic specifically because they DID publish that story about Hegseth accidentally including them in that Signal chat. If they abided by this new Pentagon directive they wouldn't be worthy of being called "journalists."

The funniest part is that he decided to deliver this monologue to America’s highest ranking military leaders while standing in front of a giant American flag like he’s doing the opening scene from “Patton.”

I've always wondered: when the robots from the "Alien" universe blush, does that mean their faces go paler instead of turning red?

This is like if some 1930s Energy Secretary announced new programs to help the struggling whale oil industry. It’s not just an unsustainable business model that ravages our planet, it’s also not even profitable anymore!

Hot Take: #StarWars made more sense when only a translator like C-3PO or a text interface like the one in Luke's X-wing allowed humans to understand the bleeps and bloops of an astromech droid. Understanding unaided would be akin to being able to decode the whine of a fax machine or dial-up modem.

AMERICANS: It is horrific an unacceptable that guns continue to be the leading cause of death for American children. We need serious change! RFK JR.: I’m bringing back deadly childhood diseases! AMERICANS: No not like that

@kenwhite.bsky.social in your expert opinion does the Rule of Goats apply to Governor Newsom’s current antics?

When the United States ripped off a British army recruiting poster for WWI, they replaced the illustration of Lord Kitchener, Secretary of war with the now-famous character Uncle Sam because the artist Montgomery Flagg knew that Americans swear fealty to ideals, not individuals. Not so for MAGAs.

Just went with the fam to a protest today and some passing motorist got really angry at my wife's sign which just read "Good guys don't protect pedophiles." He screamed something about Biden and then sped off through a red light. As the saying goes, "a hit dog will holler." #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

Wait… is *this* the "subway crime" that conservatives are always going on about when they talk about the dangers of big cities?

When a person joins the National Guard, they swear an oath to “support and protect the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic.” They do NOT swear an oath to “common sense” and DEFINITELY not an oath of loyalty to the President.

Oh man this totally could have been one of those “I am Spartacus!” moments where a hundred different people step up simultaneously claiming that they were the one who threw the sandwich.

FUN FACT: one of the key distinctions between a “shelter” and a “prison” is whether or not you have a choice to be there. If you take away that choice it’s just more prisons.

If billionaires need to be coddled, prodded and begged to do the right thing with their enormous wealth and power then clearly we shouldn’t have policies that allow them to accrue so much wealth and power in the first place. It’s like saying “You want the king to help you? Build a fancier palace.”

Once again: the world’s most infamous rapist pedophile sex trafficker was publicly scandalized by his association with Donald Trump.

Have you ever been out on a nice quiet walk or having fun at the park or relaxing at the beach and experience the annoying, high-pitched sound of a hobby drone ruining your experience? That annoyance is about to become about 1000 worse and these dweebs are toting it as progress because capitalism.

One of the fun throwaway jokes in the new Fantastic Four movie is when Mr. Fantastic is leading a science lesson teaching kids about multiverse theory and everyone is bored out of their minds because ENOUGH WITH ALL THE MULTIVERSE PLOTS in superhero movies already.

This is why you never let the “Beer Hall Putsch” guys off with a slap on the wrist.

one thing grok didnt say when they trained it to be antisemitic was "free palestine"

It goes without saying that if speaking out against a sitting President was grounds for stripping a native-born American of their citizenship then Trump would have been kicked out of the country back in 2009.

Once I was at the dog beach and Adam Savage's dog sniffed my dog's butthole and it was the highlight of my whole week.

Mexicans? In El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles de Porciúncula*, of all places?? (*Fun fact: L.A. is the most abbreviated city name in the world)

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When recently appointed administration member Dr. Oz announced that it is Americans’ “Patriotic Duty” to be healthy, people who live with chronic illness or disability recognized the danger. Fascism has a long history of marginalizing and dehumanizing anyone who doesn’t match their physical ideals.

Call me a silly goose but if the conspiracy nuts somehow turn out to have been right all along about the origins of COVID-19, I will STILL hope the government supports vaccination efforts to reduce the number of people who get sick and/or die from the virus.

So I can’t be the only one who thinks K-2SO’s offhand comment about being in a big military parade to honor the Emperor was yet another subtle dig at the current administration, right? #Andor