National Post helpfully providing epilogues for the 9/11 attackers like the end of an 80s coming of age comedy
Nick Wright
@nickthewright.com
I make the webcomic Treading Ground (a raunchy romcom about broke people), videos, games, and burritos. I talk about Star Trek, lefty stuff, and old anime. he/they Comic! - https://treadingground.com NSFW! - https://patreon.com/treadingground
Yes, permanent DST is not as good as permanent Standard Time. It's like getting the fish when you ordered the chicken. But the alternative is to continue eating the same shit sandwich year after year.
Sometimes as a creator, you just find timeless lightning in a bottle.. and Zorphbert & Fred was one of those #comics for me! So for the 20th anniversary, I'm bringing them back in a best-of color collection! With a brand new story! Can you help me fund this project? http://ko-fi.com/dgr...
If you see this, post an anime you love.
a man and a woman are standing on a balcony looking out over a dark city
Alt: A scene from the anime Kimagure Orange Road featuring Kyosuke and Madoka standing on a balcony looking out over a dark city as cars pass beneath them.
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Malk Kohn Tehnt@malkkohntehnt.bsky.social · 4mo agoIf you see this, post an anime you love.
it took me too long to realize that this was "horseshit" censored and not new slang i didn't know about yet where "horses" meant bad
Dean of Clown College Says Clowns Are Not "Comedic Actors"
The Associated Press@apnews.com · 5mo agoChief Justice John Roberts says Supreme Court justices are not “political actors.”
found a whole operation of unmanned youtube channels making completely unchecked long form slop videos where the ai voice simulacra regularly trips up & does this for a full ten minutes every time. all the very legit comments are like "NO! THATS NOT TRUE! YOU LIE HE DID NOT" & never acknowledge it.
@wackomedia.bsky.social Do you typically drive in ECO mode or B, or just normal Drive? I've been giving them all a shot and I don't see too much of a difference in range, but regular Drive is the most enjoyable.
People like trump should be the last ones out the door when we abolish prisons in favour of real justice systems; housing for all is actually much easier when you remove profit motive from the equation; university education should and could be free for all; nothing you need to live should cost money
Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢@taliabhatt.itch.io · 11mo ago"my least woke opinion is---" That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania. Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
Did not expect to find great bicycle infrastructure in a tiny town in South Carolina, but kudos to Edisto Beach. The whole town is easily accessible by bike, almost entirely through dedicated paths and bike lanes. Even where there's only a dirt road for cars!
My read on it is that Star Trek shows us the future we could have, and Star Wars shows us how we'll have to fight to get there. But a lot of people somehow completely miss the strong antifascist overtones of Star Wars, and stop either at "lasersword battle cool" or worse, "government bad".
This has to be some kind of human resources violation, right? Chapter 2 | Page 12: Imagine 📱Mobile View: www.treadingground.com/comic/chapte...
I'm at Con Nooga this weekend in Chattanooga, TN! In addition to several panels I do know what I am talking about for, I'm about to host a panel I know nothing about (Glitch Studios and the Rise of Indie Animation). Come see me choke! connooga.com
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My first exposure to hourly comic day was when @nickthewright.com did a 24-page one shot AU story for his webcomic. So it's taken many years for my brain to accept most people don't do a fiction story, they do diary strips.
The retail employee trauma bond is stronger than time. Chapter 2 | Page 11: Imply 📱Mobile View: www.treadingground.com/comic/chapte...
Don't fuck with these kids, they have all received Active Shooter training
KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘@kojamf.bsky.social · 8mo agoMAGA Adult Male assaults Texas High School students protesting ICE
Please read this extremely thoughtful & careful post on Tim Walz, Anne Frank, & the US Holocaust Memorial Museum from Martin Shuster, philosopher, Isaac Swift Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies, former Holocaust Memorial Museum Fellow, & scholar of genocide, the Holocaust, & authoritarianism:
![Not unrelatedly, I am noticing that a lot of--oftentimes even well-intentioned--people are spending time trying to delineate exactly which historical referent best captures what's going on now, as if we have to pick only one. There is the now well-circulated meme that says: no, ICE isn't the Gestapo, it's actually American--it's slave catchers. But this is a kind of odd distinction: the Nazis were themselves influenced by the Americans (if you're curious read the excellent book by James Whitman, _Hitler's American Model_). Nazis came here and studied American legal systems and statutes ... and remarkably a group of "liberal" Nazis decided that they couldn't make German laws as *extreme* as American ones (and this "liberal" group in fact won the day; German laws weren't as extreme as many of ours). Equally, Nazi jurists and theorists like Carl Schmitt were deeply influenced by American notions of manifest destiny. So the Nazi and American contexts were already fused. The idea of foreign/domestic is already quite complex in this context. (And this is before we even speak of the many actual Nazis that existed here and the many people who materially supported Hitler and the regime).
We can complicate this picture more by noting that Nazism itself, even apart from these American influences, wasn't something that sprouted up out of thin air: it, too, had a(n experimental) history. Many of its barbaric practices and aims were developed and tested on colonial and imperial victims (as I have written elsewhere: there is a direct line from Shark Island concentration camp [called frequently simply "Death Island" where the Germans committed genocide against the Herero and Nama people] to the entire Nazi camp system). Thinkers like Hannah Arendt and Aimé Césaire drew our attention to this already in the middle of the last century.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ybkylffhwhn2an2ic2lxh76k/bafkreifucubotcz54scclzmnpxlnv6x5olf2zb6ow5xufzdyqbflhuzcn4)
I looks to me like Rp Omar was about to throw hands on that guy herself. I don't know what else that could have been.
The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 8mo agoREP. OMAR after being attacked with liquid: “We will continue! These fucking assholes are not gonna get away with this! Here is the reality people like this ugly man don’t understand — we are Minnesota Strong. We’ll stay resilient in the face of whatever they might throw at us.”
Romance is not immune to analysis paralysis Chapter 2 | Page 10: Plenty 📱Mobile View: www.treadingground.com/comic/chapte...
I don't know how anyone can look at this and not realize these people are fucking evil.
Julia Carrie Wong@joolia.bsky.social · 9mo ago“Liam’s older brother, a middle schooler, came home 20 minutes later to find his father and brother missing”
Rose ponders her missed connection. Chapter 2 | Page 9: Benefits 📱Mobile View: www.treadingground.com/comic/chapte...
I somehow* missed the social posts for this comic last time, so I guess you get two this week. *The somehow is ADHD Chapter 2 | Page 8: Stuck 📱Mobile View: www.treadingground.com/comic/chapte...
Somebody please find these "we have to eat bugs" scientists and show them what a bean is
Eric Adams, former NYC mayor, launched a memecoin (cryptocurrency) today. He marketed it as an “NYC Token” and used media appearances and his social media to promote it. Within hours, Adams then drained its liquidity, apparently having scammed investors out of $3.4 million—a move called a rug pull.
Avatar: The Third One is in theaters, so it's time to bring out this gem again
![[Rose is reclining on a couch in a coffee shop, looking up and to the left, bored]
Rose: So anyway, the only difference is his kids all have four fingers, while the other Na'vi only have three.
Rose: I'm not, like, an Avatar geneticist. But I'd expect a Human-Na'Vi hybrid to be, I don't know, shorter? Less blue?
[Camera pans out to show Aya sitting next to Rose on the couch, looking at her hand.]
Aya: Ok, sure, but...
Aya: Why four fingers?
Rose: Uh, because that's the standard number of fingers for a person to have?
[Aya, skeptical, holding up three fingers and a thumb with her right hand]
Aya: FOUR fingers?
Rose (laughing, holding up her hand): No! Four fingers and a thumb.
Aya (dour): A thumb IS a finger.
Rose: I guess? But you wouldn't say that like, MICKEY MOUSE has four fingers.
Rose: He's got three fingers. The thumb is just assumed.
Aya: Why would we assume that?
Aya: Some people don't have THUMBS!](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rjaig2emvustaj2ulcwhgpxh/bafkreienrnb33mlo7c26kyinxvu2i53thfkknhurom7cqrhsdk4uhlpqja)
"we're gonna kill 80 people so we can kidnap you and your wife and take you to a special room where a 92-year-old will look at you sternly" This shit all falls apart when you think about it for half a second
Apparently I was talking in my sleep last night but the only word my spouse could make out was "BEANS" honestly, on brand