JESUS CHRIST (ninth hour): Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? GOOFY (present at the crucifixion): Gawrsh

Toad was spinning in the dark. “Come back, Frog,” he shouted. “I will be lonely!”

Some good queer people involved with this...

Back when I saw THE NORTHMAN, something that stuck with me was how much the final minutes of that movie succeeded at dehumanizing a man into a prowling beast through framing and body language. This comic has a panel that makes me feel exactly like that with just a single, haunting-ass image.

From: When the Day Breaks (1999), dir. Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis, National Film Board of Canada

It impossible to overstate just how good all Linnea Sterte books are www.tcj.com/an-interview...

a break from my Read Around The World challenge to read Godhusk by Plastiboo. This book is so extremely my shit. Plastiboo is so good at not only evoking the feeling of playing an obscure horror game, but also interrogating this extremely niche format: ephemera about nonexistent media.

all-timer book, I love this one so very much

Can recommend this book! Really informative- I should reread it soon!

2026 comics reading thread, as I will otherwise forget! Such a strong start with Ex. Mag vol 6, focussed on space exploration. I love this book! Highlights includes work from Lando, Hannah K and Linnea Sterte but the whole thing is amazing. @peow.bsky.social forever!

Look, I'm not a royal watcher but I am confused why people are acting like Andrew's arrest is about standing up for rule of law and not an increasingly unpopular monarchy trying to save face by throwing him under the bus natcen.ac.uk/news/public-...

the Black Panthers were right

‘It’s often hard to tell whether or to what degree bodies were decomposed before they were acted on, and harder still to deduce much about the beliefs that prompted the intervention.’ @mikejay.bsky.social on vampires, revenants and killing the dead. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

TCJ has had some great articles lately. www.tcj.com/mort-walker-...

@kierongillen.bsky.social apologies if this is how you’re learning this - but spotted this and verified it’s true - hopefully an easy fix with Google!

You ever just remember that 5 second window wherein capeshit losers were pretending they had principles and would actually stop reading and boycott their slop after DC fired a trans woman. Then they went right back to screaming about how Desolute Donkeyman was turbo-woke and leftist or whatever.

I wrote about why we should understand the metaverse hype cycle as a dress rehearsal for the generative AI hype cycle www.fastcompany.com/91467599/met...

‘The response is a beautiful thing’: how Glasgow is squaring up to Reform

Nancy Jr!

Counterpoint: It’s deeply irresponsible for any administration to tacitly encourage the people it serves to be active on an unregulated, surveilled platform, run by an erratic, capricious individual . Find better ways to reach people

Full decriminalisation scotlandfordecrim.netlify.app/act/decrimnow

So begins the Shigeru Mizuki Thread! I read through all of Showa before the end of the year but didn’t have time to write up my thoughts… and have been dragging my heels on reading Hitler for obvious reasons lol… 🧵

Holy shit I didn’t think it was possible A Milo Manara I LIKE 😂

A hacker known as Martha Root broke in and deleted three white supremacists websites at the end of a talk during the annual hacker conference Chaos Communication Congress in Germany.

There's a new English release of Mushishi, lettered by Phil Christie (@kernedout.bsky.social). I adore how Urushibara-sensei utilizes texture in her art, and how the sound effects inherit that texture. Phil does an amazing job replicating that with subtitled SFX. Notes in alt text!

From: A Town Called Panic (2009), dir. Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar, La Parti Productions

& am continually impressed w you guys' commitment to being like the xerox parc of nerd media. saying this w love

Little Nemo in Slumberland by Winsor McCay from December 24, 1905.

Ok. Now had a chance to check and, well, at least some docs do appear to be straight up classic redaction fail. And there are some *interesting* bits here. www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...

Matt Reads Comics has done conversations on every issue of TPF. They're normally RIGHT before a new issue, so this is 13, and all about a lovely chat between friends. mattreadscomics.com/2025/12/16/t...

I so adore #RecipeOfTheDay, it’s hard not to sound unattractively boastful when I talk about it. But truly, this Luscious Vegan Gingerbread does have something miraculous about it. It’s dark, sumptuous, squidgy and simply divine – I named it luscious for a reason! www.nigella.com/recipes/lusc...

Really thrilled to learn that due to a huge outpouring of public support, Argonaut Books in the Edinburgh area will not have to compete with a Waterstones planned for around the corner. Kudos to Waterstones for listening and everyone on insta for being vocal. One of my very favorite UK bookstores.

NVIDIA, whose stock is now a "load-bearing entity in the US stock market," "is dependent not on its customers, but on its customers’ credit ratings and financial backers." And it gets worse from there! A fantastic, very long, highly-meandering-but-the-meandering-is-necessary @edzitron.com piece:

Most discussions about “misinformation” treat the problem as if people simply don’t have good enough critical-thinking skills. It sounds intuitive, but it’s not entirely accurate. The problem isn’t just individual ignorance, it’s the structure of the information environment people are placed into.

I have a sleeping child on my chest and can’t move, so will start a list of the best comics I’ve read this year to stay awake! Legend of Kamui by Sanpei Shirato! Holy moly, this is a revelation! So elegant and ambitious that reading it comes with a sense of discovery that I’ve not had in years!

The Guardian’s investigation into the Free Birth Society is a clear example of a closed, high-risk counterpublic. It can be examined directly through the lens of disordered discourse described in my work. demos.co.uk/research/ver...

We need your help. @waterstones.bsky.social, without any direct communication with us, will be opening their 6th Edinburgh branch less than 100 metres from our front door at the Foot of the Walk in Leith. Please read on for more information www.heraldscotland.com/news/2562908... (1/2)

At least Reform and the Conservatives don't try and pretend that attacking some of the most vulnerable and marginalised groups in society is "progressive", yet Labour does. The hypocrisy of Labour and those defending its policies is rage inducing and deserving of nothing but contempt. 3/

This was fun to do, but, really, don't read before issue 1. Keep it saved until then.

Another discussion of The Power Fantasy! Have a read before tomorrow’s new issue comes out and see if you can pinpoint the moment in the conversation where my new child was born and my mind disintegrates mattreadscomics.com/2025/11/11/t...

USING BULLETS TO CURE DEATH

Many in politics and media are trapped on X/Twitter, a latter-day Plato's cave, mistaking projected shadows for reality. No social media platform can be perfect - the 'social' bit ensures that - as people are also not perfect. But some platforms are better than others.

94. Yokai Monsters: Spook Warfare (1968) - Restored Japanese creature feature with some of the strangest creatures you'll find anywhere. There's a one-legged cyclops umbrella with a giant tongue, a Howard the Duck, and a lady with a snake neck battling an evil Babylonian vampire. Fun and silly.

it is Done. too many comics

The latest by Steve Salaita is, as ever, excellent: stevesalaita.com/palestine-an...

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In the mood for even more creepy cartoon viewings for Halloween? Here's my rundown on 24 animated shorts from the Fleischer studio. I have an immense love for the cartoons of Betty Boop, Bimbo and Koko, and ramble on for nearly 5000 words about it here.

‘The contrast of Roman portraiture and Egyptian mummification gives rise to a trickier question: were the subjects and makers of funerary portraits Egyptians, Greeks or Romans?’ Elisabeth R. O’Connell on the Fayum mummy portraits. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

I finished my write-up blog-gallery on Stardust the Super Wizard! www.paultobin.net/public-domai...

Always make sure to read the Letters to the Editor in @lrb.co.uk