Show me how you do that trick

A thread about pain stars, the little shapes used to visualize pain/impacts in comics. When I started looking at early modern cartoons across countries, I was struck by how universal these were. At the time (2010s), the story was still that ("Western") comics and manga were two different traditions.

Ignored, or was that part of his appeal?

Beta is Betta

Lot of comments here with reggae tracks

been thinking lately about the differences between music genres defined by a specific rhythm and music genres defined by vibes and how a lot of music discourse is fans of the latter not really getting how the former work.

Just a quick note that the Hallmark birding movie has a cedar waxwing in the opening 20 seconds.

now the children upon their lawns will wake up and wonder where i've gone and the flies will buzz around where i now be they're all gonna have to get along without me they'll say wheres the little dinosaur wheres the little dinosaur he must have gone away please don’t go away youtu.be/GyW4QM6ClSI

There is a libs of tiktok fan page that critiques liberal readings of Transformers canon!!! Truly the everything app

easy way to nip this in the bud is for someone to invite farrakhan or dr. umar

RIP youtu.be/tcHC3uVJ8yQ?...

An article I wrote for @wfmu.bsky.social 's Beware the Blog almost 20 years ago. It directly led to George Schlatter befriending me. He wanted to use it as the basis for a documentary he was producing with Whoopi Goldberg. blog.wfmu.org/freeform/200... Thanks, Beware the Blog.

Jeanine Pirro is currently speaking at MPD 3D. A questioner in the live audience asked her if she was trying to get our billion dollars back. She had no idea what they were talking about.

for example

Waifu pistol grips thread!

Comedy Central Presents Mitch Hedberg (1999)

Opening a consultancy and getting rich just by explaining to politicians that the single phoniest and most repellant thihg you can do is claim to love both teams while everyone will respect it if you accurately say you were raised to believe their team is an instrument of Satan.

Intersection of interests in scams, Thailand, comics journalism (and scrolling storytelling). www.reuters.com/graphics/SOU...

A lot in this. The promise of poptimism I always thought was idea that we’d take assembly line music seriously & take the process that builds it seriously. never happened. instead critics did the rockiest thing of treating frontmen/women as auteur creators through force of personalities

Are the Log Cabin Republicans just easily on call for this kind of thing? Which soldiers do you activate for which jobs (where the job is harassment)? www.washingtonian.com/2025/09/23/l...

Sound battle

Killing me. Crypto Investor Art celebrating Trump indistinguishable from protest art

Once again, the joy of PWI 5500 is not to look at top 10 but to discover guys in 430s. And to appreciate the sonic pleasures of pun and alliterative naming. Puns have slowly been disappearing from the King of Sports and sadly there is very little alliteration this year.

Valek recently become pretty obsessed with AI and as depressing as the bulk of AI slop out there, something really depressing about seeing an artist you enjoy getting distracted from producing their actual art.

The Russian Brute reads to elementary school kids!!! youtu.be/zPBppEZTMGI

I just heard it‘s tomorrow!!!

[RIP Elaine Merk, 94. A munchkin in THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939), she also appeared in a few Our Gang pictures. Yet surviving Munchkin/Rascals include Valerie Lee and Priscilla Montgomery.]

anyway, I give you stephen miller's internal dialogue with himself: bsky.app/profile/rach...

Funeral procession

this entire metro station is an ad for Claude ai with the tagline “keep thinking” 🤔 🙄

Congrats to Biden, the rest of the Democrats who supported the TikTok ban last year, and this guy specifically—they got what they wanted. Draconian censorship was necessary because the kids were pro-Palestine and struggling in Biden’s economy. And now—an even more concentrated media environment.

New dance goals

I’m always more interested in FOAT (favorite of all time) lists than GOAT ones. Canon-building is for institutions and corporations. Desire is for us.

Holy shit! We are firing you because we live in fear of right wing vigilantism!! Embarassing

A producer told me once she has to warn young crewmembers to avoid being alone with Aykroyd. "Not because he's a creep, he's a gentleman. But if you let him strike up a conversation the next thing we know all the PAs will be huddled in his dressing room learning how humans evolved from dolphins."

THEY DEFORMED ME, COOP. REDUCED ME DOWN TO ONLY MY MOST RECOGNIZABLE CHARACTERISTICS. I’M A CUTESY SHELL OF MY FORMER SELF. THE BOYS AT QUANTICO ARE CALLING ME A “CHEE-BEE.” I’M SEVEN CENTIMETERS TALL, COOP. 150 GRAMS OF VINYL PLASTIC.

Never want to be more than an intensive heavy dose of dynamite, pure dynamite

her name couldn’t really be WILL OBEY