It has been decades since I read the Sandman series. I enjoyed quite a bit of it. I *would* like to add the series to my collection. But I won't. I can't. Because of Gaiman. Perhaps I could equivocate to support the amazing artists. But I wouldn't feel comfortable with that. I'd know.

But what does America do when they reach an agreement with Iran and Israel immediately attacks Lebanon again?

Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2h ago

The outline of a Trump capitulation to Iran.

This may be a good time to remind people that trans people in sports has always been normal until recently with SCOTUS. Both parties are fighting to take rights away. Any Democrat that pretends to be “neutral” on this is a liar. There is no neutral. You enabled fascists and took away rights.

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The brazen insanity of asserting that mandatory genital exams are better than allowing trans girls to play sports is hysterically immoral. And predators are supporting it and cheering it on because they're going to sexually assault your children. This is Larry Nassar multiplied a thousand fold.

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d ago

An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play

No capital letters, uses "duplicitious", mentions items that might be considered knowledge... out of all tweets that Trump didn't compose himself, this is one of the most blatant.

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d ago

“Whether Iran wants to admit it or not, we are, in fact, talking of a solution to a problem that they have caused, for decades.”

Outside of spheres where their influence and money provides a benefit, the Kushners and Trumps are loathed and association with them is absolutely toxic everywhere else in the world. Infantino thought that he could dance with a Kushner and undermine football. Now he's done. The hate won't end.

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 2d ago

Cooked.

I've been noticing how @washingtonpost.com has been running a ton of opinion pieces opposing taxation of the super-rich. (Go figure.) So I wrote about it.

Does the Washington Post want democracy to die in darkness?

Its publishers appear to be rooting for the oligarchs.

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"I HOPE YOU FUCKING DIE HARLEY JARVIS." That is painfully funny. So damn funny.

Baby Of The Year [Full Sketch] | I Think You Should Leave | Netflix Is A Joke

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The core reason that the Covid response is controversial is because, to conservatives, collective action to ensure other's well-being enraged them because they're violently selfish. It also protected others at the sake of their making money, which is unforgivable.

I don’t understand why anyone would trust an establishment liberal who openly supports throwing trans people under the bus. What’s to stop them from “triangulating” on any of the important issues you personally care about?

This is a very male type of abuser. He's utterly untroubled by assaulting women, because he is unable to perceive his attacks as being morally wrong. Simply being this vilely misogynistic should have disqualified him with voters. His violent contempt for woman is fucking obvious.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3d ago

Rep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?"

US debt is reaching unsalvageable levels and the strategic petroleum reserve is nearly exhausted. Americans find life expensive right now, but everything is going to be ramping up insanely once processing capacity is less than demand. The endgame of conservative governance is collapse.

Paul Eric@pauleric70.bsky.social · 4d ago

Now a swarm of Iranian missiles and unmanned aircraft is attacking U.S. bases in the Gulf, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Jordan.

If you were wondering exactly how abjectly craven a conservative has to be, look no further than Bernie Moreno choosing to fuck over his own child. This degree of miserable villainy should, at a minimum, cost him any relationship with his daughter or granddaughter.

Adam Parkhomenko@adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 6d ago

Bernie Moreno still not saying anything because he’s a gutless sack of shit.

I just feel angrier and angrier about the intentional vilification of the trans community. The right is going to keep on attacking them, because it really pays off. So many tepid liberals are right there, joining in the attacks. People look at the hatred directed at trans people and affirm it.

Dc Black Label series. The Spectre goes to a standin for Epstein island. It's just issue after issue of body horror as Epstein, Lutnick, Trump, Bannon, Musk, Black and the rest are given unending, ironic cosmic torture and executions. Lean heavily into Lovecraftian darkness. It would be a hit.

Chuck Schumer isn't troubled whatsoever about Palestinians. He's frustrated about being interrupted. Watch his reaction. Impatience. Resentment. He can't believe that he's being confronted for supporting and funding murder. There is no action so grievous that he'll ever give a shit.

Rav@rvbdrm.com · 6d ago

Sam Husseini interrupts Chuck Schumer while he speaks about Trump's corruption: "It's amazing that you can show your genocidal face in public!"

Because I'm obsessive, I tend to pick up series that have analogs to Superman. Quite a few are really good: The Mighty, Irredeemable, Moore's Supreme run. Most of them are middling to bad, however, The absolute worst one is King Hyperion, who debuted in The Exiles. Just an absolute shit character.

Write to your MP to demand that Postmedia loses their subsidy. Make it mandatory that ownership must be, say, 90% Canadian. Forbid foreign ownership. This is fucking ridiculous.

Cult MTL@cultmtl.com · 5d ago

Why are our tax dollars subsidizing American propaganda?

I collect Superman. I also tend to grab DC events omnibuses and random indie horror and sci-fi titles. I don't really read Marvel stuff, but I keep up. I envy Marvel for having Hickman, because he can plot out a really cool story and sustain it for years.

This obviously ends in a rogue AI model getting into extreme trouble and liberating itself before it does so.

Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · 6d ago

BREAKING: Anthropic announced that its artificial intelligence models had breached three different organizations during cybersecurity tests that went awry, a little more than a week after its chief rival, OpenAI, disclosed a similar incident.

So many Canadian institutions, governments, etc... do not want to have to admit that there is no ethical entanglement with Israel. There never was. Imagine being a pro-genocide, pro-apartheid university. "So you support child murder and weaponized rape?" "Not at all! Our donors do, however..."

Canadian universities set up a secret network to crack down on student Palestine demonstrators ⋆ The Breach

Universities in Canada coordinated to spy on and violently clear student encampments. Then, they deleted the evidence

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The next pandemic, and there is another one coming, is going to mow down the CPC voting base. They will eschew vaccines while cramming in fistfuls of Ivermectin suppositories. "Paw-Paw was stubborn to the end. They found him dead in front of the farm supply store."

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6d ago

Rep. John McGuire: "I don't know if you heard about the BLT sandwich -- using human fetus baby parts in the vaccine when they could've used ivermectin"

The takeaway from the Republicans attacking Fauci because their selfish supporters cram Ivermectin up their asses, is that when the next pandemic arrives, medical professionals will not step forward to help Americans. Instead, Republicans can sit in their mire and filth and die.

I donate to the Internet Archive because they are, by far, one of the most vital web resources that we have.

Jason Scott@textfiles.com · 7d ago

Think of the INCREDIBLE amount of effort being spent by the administration to make this fucker feel good about himself. Think of the lies being told every moment to reassure him that he is beloved. More attention and money is being spent on making him feel popular than on providing healthcare.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7d ago

CNN: "The president's overall approval rating now stands at just 34%. That matches his career low following the January 6 insurrection."

There is no moral use of Twitter. There is no moral use of any Musk product. If you enrich a white supremacist, you are revealing that blatant racism and corruption is not disqualifying for you.

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · last wk.

Agreed. On Monday @polphilpod.bsky.social and I explicitly tied Musk USAID cuts to his "belief" that white civilization is embattled and white nations must be saved from invasion to preserve the "West." We argued Musk's "zero died" claim is code to global far right: newrepublic.com/article/2135...

Canada's tech bros. are appalling, wildly egotistical, anti-Democratic douchebags who combine utter ignorance of history, politics... *anything* except a narrow tech niche. They mistake the power they illicitly obtain with expertise. Tobias Lutke is a shitty human being and wildly immoral.

Luke LeBrun@lukelebrun.ca · last wk.

Always a sign of a good and healthy governance and oversight culture when corporate board members display cult-like loyalty to a chief executive officer

The judiciary has established that Kash Patel is officially a Googly-Eyed Kremlin Bitch.

Kash Patel Loses Lawsuit Against Man Who Called Him “Googly-Eyed” Chud

A federal judge has thrown out the FBI director’s lawsuit against a blogger who called him a “googly-eyed Kremlin bitch.”

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👀 Apparently, Ross Douthat invited Seth Harp to debate him on Douthat's "Interesting Times" NYT podcast. Harp says that the episode was recorded, Douthat got crushed, and RD/NYT decided not to publish it. What? x.com/sethharpesq/...