J.L. Switzer
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Surrounded by comics they never have time enough to read. Always tired. Writing nonsense about Robotech on the internet since the late '90s.
"An extremely loose adaptation of a Peter Milligan X-Men story about Gambit, Rogue, and Apocalypse where half the team are wearing their Morrison & Quitely New X-Men uniforms" would have been nowhere on my X-Men '97 bingo card when the show was announced years ago, but I'm so glad we got here.
stating that women and girls need to be protected from trans people is absolutely hate
Razzball@razzball.bsky.social · yesterdayDid we ever find out if the A is for Asshole?
Fuck AI slop, I want my sense of wonder back...
Spider-Man, in his particularly fetching black costume, chasing down the Hobgoblin, by Charles Vess, 1992.
RIP Katsushi Murakami (1942-2026). A legendary designer for many tokusatsu & anime series (Gavan, Bioman, Giraya Ninja, Ulysse 31, Space Adventure Cobra, Gatchaman...), and toys. x.com/Alien_anvil/...
I am several episodes behind on X-Men '97, a show about which I was saying, "I hope this painful medical nonsense I'm dealing with doesn't kill me before the new season starts!" back in the spring, because I know they'll be waiting for me on Disney+ when I can get to them later. There is no urgency.
It’s important to understand that when 1.2 million Americans are dying from a disease, any government action is excessive and tyrannical, but if a dozen trans women want to play soccer no government action can go far enough
Here we go again -- got some anime discs newly added to the ol' eBay shop plus a couple new DC Comics figure auctions and a couple of He-Man Masterverse figures I'm OK parting with, including one that apparently got hard to find when I wasn't looking (Blade, from the '87 movie). Take a look, plz!
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It's absolutely insane we've somehow let the Covid recriminations debate become like "why didn't we reopen in person schools before there was a vaccine" and not "why did none of the trump guys go to jail for stealing PPE from New York hospitals in March 2020"
Isekai as a genre is exploding in popularity because it appeals to a universal desire to get hit by a truck rather than live in the 21st century.
Y'know, I was just talking the other day about Marvel Legends doing a lot of odd and lesser-known '90s costumes in the Avengers space lately -- what about the X-Men? Give us THIS Storm with the purple outfit and short hair with two long locks and bandanna & bone claws Wolverine, Hasbro!
Stefan Tosheff@stefantosheff.bsky.social · 5d agogotta love 90’s X-Men
I got two: Trump is ineligible to be president under the 14th amendment thus all his pardons and executive orders are null and void. also, it cannot possibly be the case that the Founders intended the pardon power to be a viable criminal conspiracy tool. pardons in service of crime are void as well
karl rove knausgård@uhactually.bsky.social · 5d agoThis is why the number one thing liberal con law people should be working on is arguments that Trump’s pardons are not valid. Obviously none of this can happen without court packing but once the new liberal court is in place, there need to be arguments ready to hand them.
The Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929, which froze the House of Representatives at 435, using the 1910 census because of racism, sexism, and hatred of cities (which eclipsed rural areas for the first time in US history in the 1920 census). I must see it dead before its hundredth birthday.
Sanjay Srivastava@sanjaysrivastava.com · 6d agoWhat is an extremely nerdy/obscure/specific thing you hate with a white-hot wrath?
Got a good job down at the Data Center. I work on the line, and it's hard work but it's honest and the wage is fair; my family and I are grateful for it. I rivet the word "absolutely" onto the little apologies that chatbots do when they misunderstand a prompt.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d agoHassett: "Data centers are very good for towns bc they create so many jobs & bring people in with high incomes that can buy houses & stuff like that. So if you take a sleepy town that hasn't seen much in the last 30 years & put a data center there, there are gonna be a bunch of happy residents."
Please note that the U.S. Agent costume in the thumbnail got an action figure *this year* for some godforsaken reason.
Marvel Legends U.S. Agent (Force Works) Action Figure (Marvel's Box BAF)
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Matt Singer@mattsinger.bsky.social · 6d agoI probably had too much fun putting together this list of the ugliest Marvel costumes.
And the all-too-logical extension of the theme (if you’re the writer of that book): *”Your* value has migrated.” 🫤
Shiro Sirius@shirosiri.us · last wk.I don’t want to be too sensationalist about this but also I’m the least violent person in the world and I think if someone said this to my face I’d hit them
The thing that always makes me crazy about this one is the fact that if they DID have a leg to stand on here, there's be at least one victim of an evil cross-dresser attacking women in the ladies room who'd be paraded around to thank lawmakers for bathroom bills to shore up their side.
Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 6d agoBathrooms: "Gee we should be making sure predators aren't pretending to be trans to get into women's bathrooms and attacking them," realizing this is essentially an urban legend and then dropping it.
Any time any Democrat mentions the word "bipartisan" as a laudable goal it makes me want to throw them out of office and replace them with someone who will tell people the truth: that Republicans are a deranged militant conspiracy cult treating half of America like an occupied territory
A hundred years ago my granddads were six and seven years old, respectively -- but in their primes, one was a (VERY) small town bank president and the other worked in the Pentagon, neither of which is a job I should be anywhere near.
Revan@revan.eurosky.social · last wk.Enough “what would you do on the commune questions” If you got sent back 100 years and were given your grandparent’s job, what are you doing?
