The Rapture actually happened, it’s just that nobody was Saved.

Take the Fall is an autobiographical comic book about artist Tess Fowler Gutierrez. What happens when you find yourself trapped in your body with blooming cancer tumors and ghosts from the past who want you dead? You make a comic about it. tessfowlerart.bigcartel.com/product/take...

Buy this book!!!

if you just happen to be looking for a streaming service 🔗 lapl.org/emedia

There's a very good reason why it's a very bad idea to let anyone own 38 stations on the same network.

Also, bluntly, take the opportunity. Cut the cord. Shut down your cable TV. Stop watching broadcast. You’ll be much happier with a good internet connection and a nice streaming box like an Apple TV.

Labour must finally stand up firmly against a Reform policy. Call it out for the obscenity it is. Starmer has recently finally spoken out against populism and division. What could be more populist and divisive than this? Nor for heaven's sake, don't dodge it, or excuse it. Challenge it.

Note how we’ve moved from concerns about people arriving irregularly in small boats to wrecking the lives of people who are by definition here entirely lawfully

What movie do you consider "perfect"?

Just so we're all clear on this, what percentage of Renaissance painting does @bsky.app intend to ban due to the nonconsentual nature of what's depicted?

Link to cancel help.disneyplus.com/article/disn...

Wonder Women clocked it

Trump posts on Truth Social that he’s ordered another strike on what he claims is a drug trafficking boat. He’s presented no evidence that his victims in the three previous strikes were running drugs. Drug trafficking is also not a capital crime. Trump is murdering people in international waters.

All reading is ergodic.

This neatly illustrates the folly and unworkable nature of the new Bluesky art policy.

So, with pangs of envy I recently watched a fellow second hand book fan pick up two books I wished I had gotten to first. Then, inexplicably, today I located both books in the same second-hand store. Could they have been the same books redonated?

I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".

cancelling Disney+ and Hulu is well and good but it’s not a huge hit on an individual level but Disney adults? people who spend real money at the parks? you guys can make a dent, call ‘em up and tell them your vacation is postponed until they pull their heads out of their asses

These are precedented times and the precedent is a loud ass warning www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...

good morning

"Trump is using the full power of his office to punish people and organisations who criticise him. There's a word for that - authoritarian." If you think this is just about Jimmy Kimmel, you are missing the point. @maitlis.bsky.social | @lewisgoodall.com www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/if-y...

“You used to be able to say anything” comedians never been more quiet in their lives

I will never, ever vote for Gavin Newsom. Ever, under any circumstances. I don't care if he becomes the Dem nominee, he's still not getting my vote.

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

Every major talent that works for ABC and Disney should refuse to show up for work until Jimmy Kimmel is reinstated. Marvel movies need to shutdown. Ditto the sitcoms. Collective boycott. Corporations love money more than anything,& this will harm them and force them to do the right thing.

Looks like the end of the Doctor Who Disney+ deal might not be so bad after all

@keezyyoung.bsky.social here is that Urusawa on Domu interview with Otomo

One thing I'll say about DC not only canceling Red Hood, but recalling the first issue and refunding stores for buying it, is that you can still get Neil Gaiman's work through them. They still work with Otto Schmidt. Eddie Berganza worked there for years AFTER the formation of a policy that no women

Solidarity with TfL and London Underground workers in @RMTUnion facing deportation after their jobs were reclassified as “unskilled”. There’s no such thing as unskilled work, just low-paid work. What a disgraceful way to treat migrant workers who keep London running.

The BBC’s failure as a news gathering organization www.bbc.com/news/article...

The folks in charge of what gets a BBC live feed really are clueless as to what the public actually wants.

I love London so much. So much. Did you know that London has the lowest level of ethnic violence of any city of comparable size in the world? Multiculturalism has in fact worked here. They just don’t want it to be true because we happen to have a Muslim mayor.

You know who would use some royalties today? Gretchen Felker Martin. Read this fine review (from @eruditorumpress.com) and buy her new book. www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/review-...

Are you London based (or near enough?) and ever wanted to learn stage combat? Two of the most chivalrous knights and talented actors I know, (@wanderingknightfight on insta) are starting up classes! Beginner friendly, and welcoming to all. Register using the form below! tinyurl.com/594352ep

Niche things that make me happy - an ongoing series. This time it is a brief interview with Jo Duffy and Cynthia Martin on their run on the Star Wars comic.

18 comics Vonnegut’s Player Piano and a copy of Foreign Affairs for $5

What a joke @postopinions.bsky.social has become under Bezos’ ownership.

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

I know a lot of people are being doxxed by the far right because they were too honest in public about how they felt about the Kirk assassination. I wrote a quick guide about the first things you should do if this is happening to you. (Not paywalled) www.patreon.com/posts/85220523

DC Comics just canceled a hot new series and fired the writer for their provocative comments.

New at @comicsjournal.bsky.social: Gretchen Felker-Martin speaks out about DC Comics cancelling Red Hood, and her comments on the shooting of Charlie Kirk: "I had no regrets." www.tcj.com/horror-it-gi...

I picked up a second hand copy of Pictionary the other day and it took a while to realize the egg timer doesn’t actually work, it just has sand trapped in both ends. This strikes me as an important absurdist addition to the game.

Ok bit of an exuberant round of book buying today. Joe Orton’s diaries, Molly Crabapple, clive james and haruki Murakami memoirs. Essay collections from Jeanette Winterson and Antonin Artaud. Atul Gwande’s book on mortality, Mary Beard’s book on roman emperors All for $2 apiece

Meant to share this link to help Gretchen and the lost revenue from losing her book.

Now available online in english: Naoki Urasawa interviewing Katsuhiro Otomo about his work and his manga "Domu" during one hour. "Manben" is such a great TV program. >> www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/...

I have written and deleted a lot of posts but I keep thinking about how the brutal assassination of Minnesota State senator Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark, and their beloved dog Gilbert in June did not prompt this same level of calls for empathy, sympathy, and flags at half-mast.

My hotel tv has YouTube! That means I can watch Tarkovsky’s Stalker in my hotel room!

It really is a very good piece and you should read it

Gretchen Felker-Martin on Charlie Kirk and violence in a public post on her Patreon an hour ago, link in replies: