Putin and his supporters don't want you to know this: 4 years into the full-scale invasion, Russia controls less Ukrainian territory today than it did 4 weeks in. A strategic failure. Map: @thestudyofwar.bsky.social

Did this person never see Miss Piggy reenacting the diner scene in When Harry Met Sally with Billy Crystal on Muppets Tonight?

hard to think of a better example of "you may not believe in class war, but billionaires know they're in one" than this

I only see these things when it's my own comic

This is good. I got a business travel friend to donate some of his miles. But we should be hounding delta non stop until they do it for free.

The text messages a Border Patrol agent sent to colleagues and family after he shot a Chicago woman five times can be released to the public, a federal judge rules. In messages previously released, the agent had bragged about his marksmanship.

ICE has grabbed so many people from their vehicles that there are abandoned cars across Minnesota. This tow truck driver returns the cars for free as a public service, and he’s been getting death threats. They hate the helpers. Which is why must keep helping.

For anyone who is unable to watch the clip of people at the Olympics booing Vance, I shall reenact it here for you: BOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Well butter my biscuits

Artists, quote with your women art.

When the Patriot Act came along, and they wanted records of what you checked out, we said…fine. We won’t keep those records. Now they can’t be used against you. Now we’re saying no, you can’t censor what we read or think. And we’ll fight the next battle too.

TWIN CITIES Armed Citizens Against Tyranny is a HONEYPOT action. No one in the Twin Cities, including the MN Gun Owners association, knows anyone supposedly in this group. Local orgs are STRONGLY urging folks to STAY AWAY from their planned "protest." acatusa.com

Have a good week, #scifichat

it’s genuinely reassuring to me that this is the most miserable and paranoid person in the entire world

The Murderbot Diaries #scifichat

The way you can tell this is true: where are all the skilled artists who have switched over to AI? Not “used it for an illustration on an essay” but replaced their own craft with AI? If AI’s elimination of labor were actually a boon then it wouldn’t just be lazy hacks that want to use it.

#scifichat My scifi this week. Watching: SFA. Rereading: Young Wizards, Murderbot, Discworld. Drawn: Doctor Who, Get Smart, SFA, Wakanda Forever!, DC ( tinyurl.com/3f4c3s/lates... ).

Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams

people who see a neutral drawing of medium-sized boobs in a bikini top and go "these degenerates will be the fall of the civilised west" and we're somehow meant to think that between them and the artist the latter is the misogynistic one

Why aren’t more people warning about the GOP’s SAVE Act, including its requirement that states launch new voter purge programs??? History shows that Rs “love* over-broad purges. Tellingly, SAVE proposes *no penalty* for faulty purges but potential *prison time* 4 a single faulty voter registration.

I read through hundreds of emails and scoured through years of correspondence and background information to write this 4600 word report. It confirms what we all have been saying about the anti-trans movement from the start. Read it from the top down, I can't even begin to summarize it all properly.

Abolish ICE and DHS. Shut it all down.

#scifichat A6. One says, "I'll have a Cliffhanger." The other says, "I'll have a Redemption Arc."

#scifichat A5. "I'm not pressing that button. Captain's orders."

ICE are the kind of men their grandfathers went to war in Europe against.

#scifichat A4. Starship guard.

Learning to draw really just takes lots of time and practice. But when you say that a bunch of people are like "if that was true, then I could do it!" And then you're like "yes" and then they're like "see? that's why you're lying!!" and then they continue to not practice because they don't like to

#scifichat A3. The first season of Star Trek 1966-67 really had a feel like there were four hundred interesting people on the ship, instead of eight, and Star Trek has never really gotten it back.

#scifichat A2. "Your father wanted you to have this when you were old enough."

#scifichat A1. Trip Tucker of Star Trek: Enterprise actually was made immortal by Dr. Phlox's treatment of his coolant contamination or whatever. Title of the series is Tucker Everlasting.

Hello, #scifichat. Checking in: Paul Gadzikowski, writer/artist The Hero Of Three Faces arthurkingoftimeandspace.com/3faces/aaaa.... Fanfiction, but it's comic strips with stick figures, but they're triangles. Formerly of Arthur King Of Time And Space arthurkingoftimeandspace.com (concluded).

the highest and best category of human, in my opinion, is “when stuck on a long flight behind a screaming baby, plays peek-a-boo and makes funny faces to entertain child rather than getting mad or blaming parents.” few elected officials belong in this category but I believe Zohran does

The public made noise for Liam Ramos and it got him released from Dilley. Now we must make noise for 7 year old Diana Crespo. Her parents were taking her for emergency medical care when ICE grabbed them, and she’s rotting in the camp sick and exposed to measles. Get them out!

I'm going to suggest that the DS9 stuff was fairly clearly not primarily for us white viewers. It was a love letter to Black Trek fans, both old and new. That's why it aired the first week of Black History Month here in the US.

this is the identification method that ICE says takes precedence over your actual ID documents if your passport says you are a citizen but their third-party app says you aren't, they will abduct and torture you

Good. "But DHS isn't just ICE, it's also..." nope, wrong. DHS no longer serves any useful functions, the whole thing has been reassigned to repression. FEMA isn't even paying out to states. All DHS does is shooting, teargassing, facial recognition, and administrative warrants. Shut it down.

@washingtonpost.com will survive in some degraded form. But this is literally the day in which a precious and storied institution, which among its thousands of accomplishments has served an indispensable historic role of holding power to account, was killed.

On Tumblr there's a post which gets shared around a lot advancing this photograph as evidence for a possible hypothesis why the creator of Westworld and Jurassic Park might have been biased against amusement parks

Nationalizing the Election in the states where he didn't win. Can Trump be any more transparently criminal than this. He won't have to demand a governor "find him 11,000 votes." He will just declare he has the votes he needs. It's time to REPLACE any Congress official who agrees. #VOTE #RESIST

Of course there's the plot device of "you broke the rules, gimme your badge and your gun," but now the story becomes "rogue cop continues to break rules because they don't apply now that rogue cop is just a citizen." My soapbox: "you can entertain me and still model good behavior. Don't be lazy."

today both the Bad Writer Man and one of the all-time worst anti-abortion movement leaders both were hyping their Substacks and I am not sure what else y'all need to know to get the fuck off that platform

crazy that basically every person complaining about "woke overreach" over the last 12 years is also in the epstein emails being like "thanks for the pussy, jeff ;)"

I can't believe we're gonna get to buy our Halloween costumes at the damn Kennedy Center.

What real heroism looks like is you drive past a school and it’s 7am and it’s -3 out and there are four dads posted at every door scanning every passing car to be sure it’s not someone coming to take the children. And you drive by at noon and they’re there. And you drive by at 3pm and they’re there

In 1946, cartoonist & illustrator Noel Sickles was sent by Life magazine to sketch the Nuremberg trials. Here is his sketch of the execution of Joachim Von Ribbentrop, who claimed at trial that his boss had made all of the important decisions, & that he was only following orders.

Employees of a system built on exploitation did not expect to be included in the exploitation. #leopardsatemyface #Politics #News

It would be more like 15% but then there's the Trump administration and ICE (joking) (I think)

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