Put @gilduran.com on your summer reading list.

"… hinting at the presence of a giant planet about ten times as massive as Jupiter." I think I'm going to trust Randy and say this is still a Dyson Sphere: "Every thousand years / This metal sphere / Ten times the size of Jupiter / Floats just a few yards past the Earth." (Built to Spill)

Declan Rice should have gotten a red and Mexico was denied at least two clear penalties. I don’t know how anyone can feel good about that.

With @darkhorse.com selling out and reprinting @evandorkin.bsky.social's Nerd Inferno (and don't forget last year's Beasts of Burden omnibus!), people should hunt down Hectic Planet. I put together a guide of sorts to help folks wade through the publication history. denmchenry.com/posts/hectic...

The problem with being a person who is good at something like content operations, is that if I do my job well, everything runs smoothly and my work is invisible. I'm not particularly career-minded, and just like things to be good, but I wish for this type of impact was more valued.

Neville Southall, affectionately known as Big Nev, played for Everton Football Club from 1981 to 1998, and is widely regarded as their greatest ever goalkeeper, and arguably the greatest goalkeeper of his era. Tools: Tombow Fudenosuke WS-BH brush pen, Copic N2 and N4 markers.

I drew Phil Elverum and he didn’t seem happy to have to stand still in my imagination for a whole 10 minutes. Sorry, Phil. denmchenry.com/drawings/phil/

Correction: Everton's landlord tried to start another club called Everton in retaliation when they moved over high rent. He wasn't permitted to use the name and settled on Liverpool. #ifYouknowYourHistory #efc #evertonFc #everton

Shaking off the rust with a quick 3-minute ink sketch of the greatest ever striker, the original number 9, the inimitable William Ralph "Dixie" Dean of the the Famous #EFC. We need the new owners to know their history and bring #Everton back to glory.

I added a listing for @evandorkin.bsky.social's Nerd Inferno to the Open Library. Read it, love it, review it! openlibrary.org/books/OL6208...

friends, i think i'm losing it "He drove us all night to find my favorite constellation. You can only see it a few times a year and there are really only a few places you can see it." 🔭🧪 have i been wrong about how THE SKY works this whole time?!

another way to put this: if somebody says something, you don't directly engage with what they said Instead you turn to everybody else and say "ok let me tell you why they're saying this" instead of replying you're annotating

The newest edition of What Have Friends Wrought, featuring appearances by @kilagreene.myatproto.social, @kjy1066.bsky.social, @bugsybanana.bsky.social, @denm.ch, and, uh, me! More than usual, anyway. More: buttondown.com/nsmckinnon/a...

for all you classical AI haters, I am pleased to announce that I Am An AI Hater is now available in *Latin* thank you to the newest member of the international ai haters union, @denm.ch

I decided to translate I am an AI Hater by @anthonymoser.com into Latin. This is something else a machine couldn't do (as attested by many terrible tattoos). denmchenry.com/posts/i-am-a...

We dont “receive and process information” from the environment. We experience and perceive the world because the way we function is through the transformation and exchange of physical material with the environment, an ability completely out of scope for computers and MATH.

I got all dressed up for the occasion. First we got Nerd Inferno from @evandorkin.bsky.social and now here comes the Land of Nod collection from @jstephenscomics.bsky.social and I couldn’t be happier.

It's launch day for Jay Stephen's The Land of Nod collection! Reprinting the entire Land of Nod saga in gorgeous red and black duotones, with the Sinister Horde, Jumbohead, Badman and Coxwell the Badly Drawn Ghost in full colour. Available in both hardcover and paperback at go.blackeye.ca/nod

I came up with the term Inclusive Front to mean the band of people who care about the web's inclusivity. It's a play on words; we largely work on the front end, but I feel at times we're also like a political 'popular front' against a poorly built web that excludes people. I've had stickers made!

Happy Superman Day!

@haymarketbooks.org Someone put the admin link in the sale banner at the top of the site so the link to the AFSC sale post doesn't work. www.haymarketbooks.org/admin/blog_p... should be www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/543-af... There's also a mistaken second link that goes to one book only.

Because @ironspike.bsky.social quote post this with a great @evandorkin.bsky.social page, here's mine from @davidlapham.bsky.social. The last page of Stray Bullets: Sunshine & Roses #25, where Beth, Kretch and Spanish Scott finally get away to Santa Fe for some bonding time over peyote.

This is strange. Please check your Bluesky settings on alt text and update. Mine definitely worked two days ago and was unchecked when I looked just now. Requiring alt text should be the default. Normalize accessibility.

Is this a quirky copy of ex.mag 05 by @peow.bsky.social, or does this editorial note collide with this speech balloon in all copies? “Fix this page -red layer”

frame: anything goes if it's immigration enforcement negation: the government is not actually allowed to lie their way into a residence to kidnap people kirby: THEY'RE FASCISTS DOING FASCISM. laws are an expression of power, not the source of it

"All the languages of art have been developed as an attempt to transform the instantaneous into the permanent." — John Berger, The White Bird (1985)

experience 1983, today

I made a Mac word game: bergmayer.net/plaintextpanic

"There will be no graduation. There will be no trumpets blowing in the light that passes through me. With the sinking of the sun, I've come to greet you. Clean your hands and go to sleep." — Guided by Voices, Glad Girls There's so much poetry between the choruses.

In big personal news, I'm making time to read, and I owe it to a lucky moment of doomscrolling. denmchenry.com/posts/bradbu...

If anybody wants to stop producing videos for their YouTube channel, let me know and I’ll subscribe. That always seems to do the trick.

@nplusonemag.com Asking for a friend (me, an idiot), but is there any way to let someone know I mistyped my email address for the bookmatch donation? I emailed GiveLively.

I am not a "tech critic". I am an antifascist, a feminist, an anticapitalist, an engineer. My criticism of tech flows from my politics and values. Not from a desire to save or destroy tech. Tech is an expression of power and that's what the whole conversation is about.

News! @evandorkin.bsky.social's dairy duo, the worst fans that ever lived, and the rest of his absurdities conjoin in Nerd Inferno: The Essential Evan Dorkin, coming next April. Details: bit.ly/47QcST2 A new omnibus collecting Milk and Cheese, The Eltingville Club, and Dork for the first time

Now It Can Be Told.

I think Everton's Bluesky account is managed by the recruitment team. It's just as active.

Have you lost your bsky password, @evertonfc.com?

Someone who reaches out to see if I'm interested in leading the frontend team at their shitty AI company hasn't done their homework. Maybe a chatbot did it for them.

How many times does Senegal have to batter Dean Henderson before Thomas Tuchel realizes Pickford is far and away the better keeper?

Bluesky's UI makes it easy to inadvertently unfollow someone. If you try to click on their handle after their display name, it's one accidental click on the unfollow button and done.

A media company that sells ad tech by recycling and padding content already published elsewhere can reveal exclusively that they too have read what Paddy Boyland said hours ago about Everton's progress on signing Thierno Barry.

Anyone who's having trouble with Centurylink right now can get online again by changing your router's DNS (e.g., switch from Centurylink's DNS to a static IP like Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1) or else use a VPN.

@evandorkin.bsky.social Digital copy of Blackwood is currently #1 at Kobo Books in the deals section on graphics novels

“But the more I know about something, the less competent the AI seems to be.” 100%!

Sometimes I want to call people out for tracing photographs, but then Moebius did it all the time, and he's supposed to be a genius.

@forzafootballapp.bsky.social How do teams get their club badges added? We have two local teams with generic badges in the app: USL League 2’s Ballard FC and USL W League’s Salmon Bay FC. Thanks! www.goballardfc.com www.salmonbayfc.com

No kings except for King Shit & The Golden Boys

Way back in the 90s, I saw Eddie Mekka from TV’s Laverne and Shirley. I shouted to my sister and cousin, “Hey! It’s the Big Ragu!” He spun on his heel and speedwalked away.

We couldn't afford a computer until much later, but my cousin had an Atari 800XL in the mid-1980s, and we tried writing our own Zork-style text adventures in BASIC. I can't recall if that was before or after I would have used (probably) an Apple IIe ca. 1985 in a Philadelphia public schools program.