D.C. Comics take place in an alternate universe in which wealthy men have any possibility at all of going to prison.

This is true: my fifth-grade teacher was a petty tyrant, and two of my classmates hated her so much they climbed a pair of trees and tried to pee on her. Thinking about how they might have succeeded if they had these wearable rotors.

Damian Wayne was never born in this continuity. Batman’s Aunt Agatha made him put on a rubber.

Gordon, you’re a metropolitan police commissioner. You have subordinates who DO murder three times.

If someone told me they’d strike when I least expect it, I would simply keep a log of how much I expect it. Then I’d expect it when I least expect it.

Trying to invade both Greenland and Minnesota in the dead of winter. Somewhere in Hell, Napoleon and Hitler are screaming.

The Joker never talks about his British brother Wayne.

@singing-kitsune.bsky.social quick, call a medic, he's krebsing!

I can’t understand the way my students talk. It’s all, “I see you interviewing your brains, your cap & gownship, but like, can the lip and focus your audio. This platter’s like, endsville, daddy-o. This chick is like, everything plus. I’m in orbit. Her bit, like, throws babies off the balcony, dig?”

I didn’t think Dobie Gillis and his brother looked anything alike, then I looked them up. Turns out the actors were brothers in real life.

The discourse around the loneliness epidemic troubles me. I hear leftists say lonely men have only themselves to blame. I’m not saying that’s wrong. I’m certainly not saying “hashtag-NotAllMen.“ But blaming people for their own misfortunes sounds like what I grew up hearing from conservatives.

Think about the kind of people writing contracts to give ICE brownshirts $50,000 to sign and $60,000 in student loan forgiveness. In a couple decades you’ll see documentary footage of those same Nazis crying because they got fired one day early and now owe the government $110,000 with 200% interest.

I should not be awake this late but I really like this newest problem on kamelink.com. I stayed up so I can translate it.

Even most other despots and their propagandists would think racketeering the length of a press conference was beneath them.

College admins’ emails be like, “I hope your term is off to a good start,” and then straight into telling you do the most onerous shit ever.

Who the fuck decided the narrator for every modern ad should sound like Didi Hill?

This is my partner speaking. If anything happens to him, the world will witness what happens when I rain down fire.

OK, weird question: if you look up Teiuda in your App Store, does it advertise Korean, Japanese, and Spanish? I ask because those are the specific three languages I’m studying. Is Big Data mining on me again? Do those just happen to be Teuida’s three languages of choice? Looks cool, at least.

Renee Good could have been me. You. All of us. ICE could kill me any time. You already know what they’d say if they murdered an openly-mentally-ill alone-living Arab academic.

I have known on some level all my life that they really are this evil. Every white mild liberal treated me like I was delusional or overreacting. I’m angry about so much, but one nontrivial item on the list: they made me doubt my own eyes and ears.

Nothing that could possibly happen this November will unfuck this country. You can and should vote and maintain hope. But it’s not enough.

Anything they say today about her is what they’ll say when it’s you bleeding to death in a car.

I am going to kindly share, as a Black person used to dodging these types of things, if you have your settings set to autoplay video, today is a great day to turn them off. You can be very informed without having to witness murder.

Thanks to @talkingpointsmemo.com for the terrific suite of articles on what Jan. 6 really was. Here's the report Greg Downs and I wrote for the J6 committee, in which we cast that day's events -- and the response to them -- as part of a very long struggle over democracy in the United States

Yeah, I have an LLM: Large LigMa.

Even in context, Batman just cockblocks Man-Bat with no provocation. Starting to think a billionaire who beats the shit out of neurodivergent petty criminals isn’t the good guy.

Mara is “moaning” because her leg is in the same position as Batman’s, but she’s a lot happier.

“Try That in a Small Town” is amusing AF if you actually live in a small town. Even Seattleites are more likely to piss on you when you’re on fire than rural good ol’ boys who think Jesus could’ve solved everything by being born rich.

I don’t know how to write laws to stop this private equity shit, and I know they have no chance of passing soon. But holy fuck, even the vultures have to know this shit isn’t sustainable.

Nobody told me I’d regularly think, “Wow, that dude’s old,” and his rugose ass was born nine months after me.

Not super interested to get back into Stranger Things. Killing off the coolest character in the third episode of the entire series was… a move.

In this issue, Batgirl is investigating a poacher of bulls in Madrid. So Babs Gordon thinks everyone will see a svelte redhead with an American accent visit Spain at the same time as Batgirl and just be done a bamboozle?

It’s absolutely wild that billionaires try so hard to cultivate this social Darwinist manosphere mentality. The entire economy grows out of their fear. Fear of living like we live. Everything is getting price-gouged, enshittified, and private-equity’ed because of billionaire fear.

Why the fuck do they even want Greenland? I don’t think they know about Camp Century: a decommissioned nuclear facility that might eventually release into the ocean millions of gallons of nuclear waste, diesel, and human shit. Nobody is preventing this. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Ce...

It’s weird having clear memories of the 90s and watching folks younger than me reflect, having filtered out the more silly or cheesy media. Like this song “In the House of Stone and Light”: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIa9...

Is there a meme for when you get a notification and you’re like, “Aw, someone thought of me for once,” so you scroll and scroll but it turns out some yo-yo just typed @𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚢𝚘𝚗𝚎?

I’ll be the first to admit I don’t know enough to have a solid opinion, but I find it… interesting… that Democrats still play by the old rules of resigning in shame for being in the same state as childcare fraud. Republicans do that shit as part of pledging.

How does nobody ever connect that Bruce Wayne is the superhero he continually name-drops?

Whoever wrote this copy should work on their priorities.

Batman solemnly vowed never to use a gun… except to shoot exploding dolphins in international waters.

Batman is not your friend. Here he is impressed by a shipping billionaire. Who forced his employees to get subcutaneous implants. In the wrong spot.

One of my pet peeves is that I can’t remember ever seeing “Ra’s al-Ghūl” pronounced correctly on screen. It’s not RAY SHALL GHOUL. I know very little Arabic myself, so here… Ra’s: forvo.com/word/%D8%B1%... Al-Ghūl: forvo.com/search/%D8%A...

Harry Belafonte warned us.

Now that these works have entered the public domain, put them to good use in our annual Public Domain Film Remix Contest: blog.archive.org/2025/12/01/2... Submit your short film by 11:59pm PST on January 7.

Nami is the only creature telling the truth when she says, “Some of my best friends are genetically inferior.”

Had it up to here with Democrats fantasizing about blue waves. Maybe in 2026, rank-and-file Democrats will finally figure it out. No scenario exists in which today’s G.O.P. will hold fair elections, take an electoral L with grace, and peacefully transfer power.

I have the same look on my face as Batman and Robin when Bat-Mite shows up.

I thought I’d watch some old TV to cheer myself up when…