Heated Rivalry S2

NEW: Read Trump's "settlement" with the Trump admin to create a nearly $2 billion slush fund that Trump ultimately controls. Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward and Frank Bisignano, the chief executive officer of the I.R.S., signed Monday's “settlement agreement.” Tonight, at Law Dork:

Scrappy Doo designed the cybertruck.

As an avid supporter of comic artists and the medium, I signed this petition to disqualify all comics using generative AI from future Eisner award consideration.

Green: “Profoundly autistic” would misleadingly refer to ppl who actually have profound impairments that are not autism specific, while not nec. having any particularly extreme autistic characteristics. #ProfoundAutism is thus defined not by autistic features but by ID or language disability.” 40/

The following is a compliment. Much like The Fast and the Furious, that show looks like a multicultural soap opera full of pretty people for men who would never watch a soap opera if you called it that.

White dudes are the all time reigning champs at intellectualizing the belief that they're the rational and objective ones and everyone else is hysterical Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

I am finally old for real. There are online things I do not know

My bachelor’s degree in a nutshell. 😆

Recently, FamilySearch digitized and uploaded tons of microfilmed records, including many from 18th-century Massachsuetts. They're using some sort of AI to transcribe/summarize the handwritten documents. I've noticed that the AI strips out references to race and enslavement in 18thc documents.

when i say i fight for the freedom of black people, some take that to mean that i'm anti-white the reality is that black liberation has always been the first step towards equality for all and many recognize that future, but want to stop it. don't let them.

now, for the love of G-d, SOMEBODY ASK THE PRESIDENT IF OUR TAX DOLLARS ARE PAYING NATALIE TO WRITE HIS TRUTH SOCIAL POSTS it's not like he doesn't do 1934782457 other illegal things per day I realize BUT THIS ONE ALSO MATTERS it is HIS OWN COMPANY are our tax dollars PAYING HIS CONTENT TEAM?

sorry, i work at a university in a red state, and it’s illegal for the women & gender studies faculty to spend research money to attend their conferences. what in the fuck are they talking about

sometimes you're not fighting to win. you're fighting to show that we CAN fight

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

This piece amplifies the politicized language of the critics of “cancel culture.” What kinds of courses should focus on cultivating “perspectives different from their own”? Engineering? Math? Biology? Should students in business, the country’s most popular major, be exposed to Marxist perspectives?

What “distressing” ideas? How are they “cocooned”? It’s amazing how much publicity one can get by reinforcing cliches that accord so little with the experiences of so many of us who actually teach college students.

Personally I think Jonathan Haidt should be exposed to the challenging perspective that Jonathan Haidt sucks

Superheroes “accidentally” drawing their fights with supervillains to data centers, causing untold damage that simple couldn’t be avoided, such a shame, such a tragedy

Ahmad's mother's eye condition is getting critically worse & they need help to save her sight. This family also needs to eat. Boost & donate for our friends!

Broadband, water, energy - it's going up and up, and they're controlled by private companies who take your money and deliver a shit service and when they really screw you, no one cares. So what are you paying taxes for? Isn't it so the government can make sure you're treated fairly?

Wine collar crime is when I am criming while drunk and spilling booze on myself.

My endometriosis is hurting me. Please say "poor baby" to me. Thank you for your attention to this matter

it's aapi month so let me tell you about this book that is a very, very funny look at growing up as a first gen Indian American kid through the lens of a 2000s teen rom com www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/690564...

Thanks to Katie Carr on Threads, I just learned: in 1996, the cast of the newly-launched “Star Trek: Voyager” got together to do a feature for Parade magazine about the power of late-’90s technology. Behold its fabulously unhinged glory. 1/

Back in early 2024 when Trump shut off FEMA for the Palisades fire I suggested CA needed figure out a way to put fed taxes from local companies/workers in an escrow account that only be released when the government makes good on its deal with the union and everyone said GOTTA PAY THE KING lol

Been thinking about how these voting rights/redistricting/etc moves seem to not care how absurdly racist and anti-democratic they are. My guess is that GOP has realized that the info/media system is so thoroughly poisoned that not enough people will hear about and accept the reality of those moves.

where is john roberts to tell us that this is just one of those apolitical, unpopular decisions the court has to make sometimes?

Lmao conservatives are just All Balls All the Time these days

eternal childhood is how we domesticate animals

You cannot rewoke once you've unwoked. Do not make the fatal first mistake.

So weird that women are always coming down with a case of the hysteria

I don't think I ever posted one of my most viral Sailor Moon comics here

Oh hey, guess what else real scientists (as opposed to Man Scientists who tried to block this research because menstrual blood is too “messy and hard to collect”) discovered (thread): - 84 unique proteins that only show up in menstrual fluid which can: - reduce inflammation - repair cells

i will simply incant "do NOT corrupt me. make NO mistakes" before wielding the One Ring

It is infuriating that prose writers can put the most explicit content in their books but comic writers are once again punished for doing the exact same thing. WE ARE ADULTS. EVERYONE CONSUMES THIS STUFF. WHY ARE WE PRETENDING THAT WE DON'T?

While I reserve the right to change my mind, this should *currently* be more alarming to the American public than Andes hantavirus.

There are so many insane wildly misleading stories coming out about data centers almost every day now that I'm mostly having to give up on commenting on them to focus on actually getting blog posts out, but it feels like a tsunami. This is one of them. Will go into it in a thread below.

Happy WNBA season to all who observe!!!

"Female hysteria" for decades was an excuse for docs to ignore women* Now its clear PTSD ,CPTSD arent just mental illness The stellate Ganglion , adrenal glands become abnormally active . this is great for short term survival terrible for long term health *it was far worse for women of color

i am fine spending my tax dollars on schools and roads and medicine and the like. i would prefer not to spend my tax dollars on a new stadium while my teacher friends go on furlough. Oregon is in financial crisis. $200 million for a nicer stadium is idiotic.

There's plenty of people in America and parts of American culture I like but the way the country was born from a faustian bargain of profound evil and continuously produces grotesque monsters means I am always at odds with it. Which is also Batman's relationship to Gotham if you think about it.

I love Mothers day. Ppl are so nice to you just cuz you got nutted in that one time. 🥰

I have metastasized breast cancer that resulted in two brain tumors, since removed. I've lost vision and get chronic migraines. All my books are written solely by me, with 10 fingers and 85% of a brain. No AI needed. The answer to disability isn't AI, it's community.

It’s a hard line in the ground: killing innocent people is bad. There are not exceptions

Won't someone please make space for the fear of white people? Come now, let's create a safe space for them to be fraidy cats who don't want a single discomfort to ever touch them while we endure the threat of death of every turn. It's their feelings first. You know me, we prioritize white feelings.

Because I know it's not just me because I don't see Black folks wailing how scared we are. And we're the ones in danger. We're just moving & doing what we have to do. Don't insult us expecting us to put up with your fear. Who cares? You don't even have shit to be afraid of & you're pissing yourself.