And we're at the end of the nostalgia boxes for Packs & Facts! Worry not, we've got more ready and raring to go, but if you'd like to suggest TCG for me to open, please suggest things to my Throne wishlist! :D - throne.com/kdinjenzen Oh! And today's fact is about ME again~ <3

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From: The Kidnapping of the Sun and Moon (1968), dir. Sándor Reisenbüchler, Pannonia Film Studio Note: flashing images

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I really liked this discussion of prediction markets trying to position themselves as news, and the gaping holes in that argument. bsky.app/profile/thev...

A different betting-on-murder app, Kalshi, just partnered (read: gave money to) with the Associated Press, which absolutely should know better than to give their golden goose (industry-standard election results) to a gambling site, but apparently they are run by fucking morons now.

Polymarket is trying VERY HARD to wheedle their way into a more socially acceptable space, where instead of being FanDuel for bombings, they are thought of as An Important Dataset. They just partnered (read: gave money to) Substack for this reason. Do not accept the premise. It is bullshit.

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This has nothing to do with the specific content here, but Polymarket adopting the language of news, here with BREAKING, and with Texas election results earlier this week, is BAD. Polymarket is not and will never be a news org or break news. It's a betting app. It's Draft Kings for sociopaths.

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News I missed! Recently, Korea banned ticket reselling. If you try to resell a concert/play/game/event ticket for more than you paid, the fine is 50X what you tried to charge. Anyone can turn you in and collect 10%. So long, scalpers. (Apparently BTS tickets were up to 11k until this passed)

(The screencaps are from this 2020 Daily Beast story I wrote about the absolutely endemic sexual harrassment in the comics industry, back when mainstream outlets briefly cared about that sort of thing)

Dark Horse Comics founder Mark Richardson has been fired from the company after 40 years. The news has occasioned a lot of tributes. Feels important not to forget, however, that for years he enabled — if not actively protected — Scott Allie, a really hideous sexual harrasser.

I think I have 3 stories I probably use the most to show people outside of comics of how ridiculous this industry is. Akira Yoshida. CBLDF being run by a notable predator for years and people not thinking that was monstrous(w/ Gaiman on the board as well, yikes). Scott Allie biting people at cons.

You know what? It works

Speaking at a news conference in Whitehorse, Deputy Auditor General Andrew Hayes called the findings concerning. Story by Sara Connors.

I feel a lot of younger artists nowadays are in the path of permanent wrist damage and burnout with the amount of stuff they feel almost obligated to make in order to feel like they are still relevant and present on peoples timelines. I was like that with comms, and all I got was damage on my body.

I think the biggest damage to the art community was the obsolescence of gallery sites (y!, deviantart, etc) and the rise of scroll-by social media, like twitter and even tumblr. Art is not ''content'', you shouldnt need to post art every day (or every month!) to be relevant. This mindset sucks.

Mary Shelley: i consent Percy Shelley: i consent Lord Byron: i consent Gravestone of Mary Wollstonecraft: isn't there someone you forgot to ask?

Simmons: once again, the woke mob is forcing PC politics into our classic monsters! Simmons: what's next? Simmons: DEI dracula? Simmons: the wolf they/them? Simmons: a mummy that likes italians? Lovecraft: oh no!

Gyllenhaal: you know, you really can't talk about the bride of frankenstein Gyllenhaal: [sitting backwards in chair] without talking about consent Dan Simmons: UGH i can't believe frankenstein went woke! Mary Shelley: shut the fuck up loser Shelley: let her cook

Maggie Gyllenhaal: Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society, I call this the tale of the bride! Gyllenhaal: the exclamation point denotes excitement Gyllenhaal: please clap

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This. We’re in a crucible, and I suppose it’s helpful to see some of you drop the masks, but it’s depressing to see anyone left of Trump doing Nazi apologia. I thought that was the easiest moral test imaginable.

Like not to be all RETVRN because fuck that white supremacist meme but I *do* actually wish we could return to an era when webcomics had their own sites and were funded thru project wonderful, when deviantart was booming, when flash games were everywhere, where social media wasnt about discourse

i get that Nostalgia Is A Liar (and often rooted in reactionary bullshit) but its hard to not fall into these days when everything sucks so much and it seems *specifically* targeted toward the people and things that I love

the US stole Venezuela's oil and instead of putting the money from the sale of that oil into the treasury, Trump put it into an offshore account in his name. he is absolutely stealing money from the country.

To robbery, slaughter, plunder, they give the lying name of empire; they make a desolation and call it peace.

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there's a thing I like to call "load-bearing assumptions", that you don't notice until they're suddenly gone (e.g the air you breath has oxygen in it). the post-ww2 order is a load-bearing assumption for basically the entirety of american life. trump took a sledgehammer to it in the last 90 days.

like i said this when the US attacked venezuela. we are hurdling back into an extremely violent world, one which hasn't really existed since the 1700s and which nobody since hitler has really tried to enact. and it's entirely on trump's hands

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Anglo-saxons: Heroes are fragile things. The constant urge for glory and war will lead to nothing but a dead, buried heap of old metal. Celtic epic: Rage and hypervigilance are a path to the doom of all around you. The land has its own rules; do not ignore them. Be very careful what you promise.

It's always funny what gets left out of "tradition" and "the West" Mesopotamia: Reams of poetry written by a trans woman, epic about trauma, grief and failure. Greece: Queer loss and the futile brutality of war, societies brought to ruin by aristocratic pride. Also everything Sappho wrote.

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Firefly take: people should have been confused why Mal has issues with sex workers. It's totally accepted and professionalized in this universe, right? So Mal being salty shouldn't be a source of mild annoyance, it should be WEIRD like someone having a horny grudge against physical therapists.

"I don't mind havin' Inara aboard, but I just can't reckon with, well, her business." "What? She's a Companion! Why would you have a problem with that?" "Because, she and her clients, y'know..." "I literally do not know." "I mean they have sex, 他妈的!" "And? I still don't understand."

I was just contemplating that

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INTERVIEWER: What do you see on this chart? MAGA VOTER: I see lots of sad, light blue bars going down on the left, and huge, big, beautiful, dark blue bars stretching to the sky on the right.

Thank you Jeff! 75/3120

Stock market tanking again today and oil *way* up. What's crazy is Trump could've just rode out the current regression to the mean on inflation, combined with an apparent productivity boom. Instead, did the opposite of econ 101: kicked out workers, reduced immigration, started wars of choice.

Like he could've just come out of the White House every morning like a cuckoo clock, said something outrageous to make his base happy, then went to golf. And people would call him an economic genius because he grew gdp and tamed inflation. But here we are.

A while back we were joking here about how a little over a year ago, some economist must've looked at a monkey's paw and said "I wish regular people appreciated textbook economics more."

im growing increasingly concerned that government issued girlfriends and mcmansions weren’t as realistic of an expectation for trumps presidency as i had been led to believe

3/3 Michelangelo's grocery list. Because even great artists have to eat! Especially on their birthday, and his is today.