Hellboy - The Devil You Know Omnibus by Mike Mignola

Conservatism is a world view. A mindset. It is baked into the brain, making one uncurious, unreceptive, unable to even enjoy obvious and real beauty. They believe the world should just be customer service to them, an annihilating flatness of experience all they desire.

Honestly, this hospital kills me because the wheelchair drop-off is clearly marked and next to a narrow lane EVERY VEHICLE MUST drive through and with a barrow sidewalk that JUST fits the ramp and us wheelchair drivers go out if the way to squeeze into a spot to get 3 vans in but EVERY delivery guy

It's weird that nobody can just straight out say that he's a deeply stupid man and that is now being compounded by clear mental deterioration. Like we all see it. We know what it is.

Now seems an appropriate time to note that I coined the term “The Snapture” in re Thanos’ disappearing half of the universe’s occupants and yet Marvel decided that it would instead have characters refer to the event in question as “The Blip,” which is terrible and dumb and lacks any goddamn poetry.

I get that food delivery is important and sometimes there is a lot to carry and yes you will just be in and out but dude... this is a HOSPITAL and this is the wheelchair/mobility challenged dropoff point. Not to mention parking RIGHT IN THE FUCKING MIDDLE so we can't park there at all.

The one thing relatively in our favor with the current late stage capitalist monsters, is that attacking the money is their personal glowing weak point in the boss fight.

prohibition era speakeasy but it's just a bunch of people sitting quietly together taking tylenol for their headaches and fevers.

We found G’Nort’s license plate

Reminder to my fellow bisexuals: do not do crimes today. You are briefly visible. Wait til tomorrow when you can no longer be perceived.

It's only Tuesday. You'll need this.

Sorry that adherence to the thin veneer of social norms was the real strength behind your beloved constitution, but welcome back to the reality of dominion systems most of non-tribal humanity has lived under for the majority of the last 5000 odd years.

Hey, incredulous online liberals: we have simply got to move past “is this legal? Can they just DO that?” No it isn’t. Yes they can. It has always been about power, not the law.

These clowns are definitely coming for SSRIs soon.

Our work is not done… 📌 Sinclair Broadcast Group is still refusing to air Jimmy Kimmel Live! on its ABC affiliates nationwide. Folks, you know what to do. Google Sinclair-owned networks and channels in your city and act accordingly.

Conservatives love to darkly say stuff like “you aren’t prepared for what’s next, we’re not going to be moderate anymore, you have no idea what you’ve unleashed” and then cry like babies when you call them fascists

Wait, I just realized ... They're remembering the Cronenberg movie Scanners, right? It was the painkiller prescribed to pregnant women that made the kids telepathic. Which was a very thinly veiled reference to Thalidomide at the time. I swear half of this is just misremembered old movies.

Get it for the astute analysis of gender violence in late ancient Christianity, but as a bonus you get a curated, engaging lit review of the work that Barry's book---and all feminist work in the field---builds on

Anyone can believe that a modest monk wandering around with just a robe and stick, healing the sick and feeding the poor is a holy man. It requires faith to believe that someone living in a gold palace is more righteous.

"People these days are making money from activities at home like streaming or music recording, and that because this would not be possible without the rental property, the landlord should receive recognition" WHAT?! This is why people call them landleeches.

Demon batman, inks and paint

Whether they're blaming vaccines and Tylenol, or selling dubious "remedies," what they're really doing is promoting the perception that families (and especially mothers) can prevent and treat Autism. And thus also the perception that people with Autism and their families don't need social support.

Happy Autumn 🍂

So they shitcanned the dude who organized the military parade and was in charge of the 250th celebrations. They say it was because it was he was running hustles for his own benefit. He says it was because he loved the dead guy TOO MUCH and was punished for it. This is gonna be Apple of Eris 2.0.

Also the folks at MSNBC who had big mouth for Kimmel but were quiet about Joy Reid and Symone Sanders …. Yeah

Maybe it was a bad idea to let two corporations own all of the local TV affiliates.

so many of the small indignities of daily life come from us being denied the ability to tell a rich man in a tech company to fuck off. minesweeper has microtransactions. paid services have ads. the opt out says maybe later. the drive thru is a broken chatbot. your car is an ipad. fuck off! fuck off!

all this and don't even get me started on working for these fuckheads late due to weather? late back from break? want to schedule a vacation? fuck you, you're fired, you can never eat again

once upon a time

I love it when comics do the simplist things like making one wide panel into two smaller panels to show distance and/or time. Great example of the medium

my armchair psychological diagnosis is that the drive to accumulate as much wealth as possible eats away at the drive for self-improvement or the internal desire to cultivate any skills or tastes. these people build huge mounds of treasure and then essentially just sit around looking at it, empty.

As an exvangelical, I am terrified that I'll still get raptured and stuck with all the worst people forever because "once saved, always saved".

I doubt any adherent to the sect claiming the Rapture will be tomorrow is reading this, but remember adherents, when it doesn't happen tomorrow*, you have an obligation to stone your false prophets to death. *No historical Christians believe in a "Rapture." It's a 19th century dream-vision.

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google has been trying for months to build a new data center not far from my house. tonight was the final city council meeting and they officially withdrew their proposal! the data center isn’t moving forward! public outrage works!!!

one of the crazier things you see people say out loud is "you made me this way" -- really man? you're just going to admit to being that weak minded?

Autistic people speak for their own community. Non-autistic parents of autistic kids are adjacent to the community, but they're not *the* community. Interviewing a disabled parent of disabled kids is always a good perspective, though.

imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off

there’s an astronomical amount of christian money that goes into propagandizing towards Jewish people to either convert us, or get us to move to Israel for this shit. being openly jewish while living in the South was an… experience, i’ll just leave it at that

I hope this happens someday, if only for the joy of watching Kansas' Republican majority rage-poop at the word "Transas."

The solution is basically for people to bombard the local advertisers of their Sinclair affiliate station and tell them to pull their advertising money.

I was about to say that, now with Disney taking the L and bringing back Jimmy Kimmel, we should set our focus taking down Sinclair and Nexstar, but boycotting them is actually very easy, since all you have to do is just stop watching cable television :P

I really hate how Marvel kinda threw away Quicksilver once he stopped being Magnetos son

I think a lot about the tension in making art that is often deeply criticizing the very structure/company that is making its existence possible. Something like Andor being produced by media's Evil Empire is a very loud example, but even in publishing, it's pretty common!

A lot of people outside of publishing don't seem to know that Rupert Murdoch owns HarperCollins, which publishes a TON of amazing books that are elegantly brutal in shredding the very idea of a company like News Corp, and yet!

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as silly as Jimmy Kimmel of all people getting some folks to dip their toes into direct action, this is an opportunity we can take advantage of. have some family you want to reach re: censorship online, and you see them responding positively to the kimmel situation? Use this as an opening!

Disney caves. Press calls Trump on utter bullshit statement. This is a good equinox. I expect tomorrow will find a lot of very foolish zealots very disappointed to remain on Earth.