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The universe's idea of a joke
this is very true. people extrapolate from a tiny number of cases that make national news. but most efforts at censorship don't. most censorship is successful and goes unreported. even if it is eventually overturned, the damage to the author's career is considerable.
Darcie Little Badger@littlebadger.bsky.social · 14h agoPosting this because there’s a misconception that being challenged/banned is good publicity that’ll boost sales. In my experience, the opposite is true.
Modern reprints are so frustrating - the reproduction of the linework is usually much better than the original newsprint edition, but the colours are so much cruder. Look at how the various colours subtly merge in the newsprint comic compared with the clumsy way they collide in the reprint.
That this bot, which posts random stills and clips from the thousands of hours of VHS transfers on archive.org, landed on *this specific frame* feels like finding the monkey at the typewriter that managed to write Hamlet.
VHS Vault@vhsvault.bsky.social · 22h agoFunland (VHS) : 4143s
"This is enshittification: surpluses are first directed to users; then, once they're locked in, surpluses go to suppliers; then once they're locked in, the surplus is handed to shareholders and the platform becomes a useless pile of shit."
This is basically what turned my opinion on gun control. Making every school into a fortress is a bridge too far for me
Who can forget this iconic scene from Mr. Robot?🤖💻
missed National Coming Out Day. but came across this screenshot of the mass email i sent 12 years ago!
one of my favorite things about tiny children is that it does not matter what their race, gender or culture is they all love Garbage Truck equally
danielle weisberg@danielleweisberg.bsky.social · 4mo agoI went to a two-year-old’s birthday party today and their parents booked an LA Waste Management trash truck to come park out front and the way these kids RAN to see this thing up close!!! The WM reps also had party favors and coloring books. Lowkey want to book it for my own birthday
Garbage trucks are basically the elephants of the urban Savannah
If you support this, you are an evil person. No tie of blood, friendship, history, or money will make me respect you. You have chosen to make yourself a moral outlaw.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoTrump: "The Republican Party, we believe that Somalia bandits, third-world gangs, and jihadist sympathizers do not belong in Ohio, they do not belong in America. We got to get them the hell out of here." More "De-port! De-port!" chants from the crowd.
Talbot's House - 1926 https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3104510
Apparently William Shatner went on Brent Spiner and Jonathan Frakes' podcast and talked about the 2025 gay romantic film PILLION. @imnotahrhitter.bsky.social @brendelbored.bsky.social
these companies need to be strangled to death with the full force of the regulatory state at the soonest opportunity
I wonder if AI-slop will breed a distaste for rosy cheeks in images, & a subsequent vogue for goth-makeup
"Stupid person's idea of a smart person" is perhaps overapplied, but boy if it doesn't fit Musk like a glove
Max Kennerly@maxkennerly.bsky.social · 4d agoLOL, sure, return to X, where the white nationalist owner is telling people to put their credit card numbers into Grok prompts.
Neon Genesis Evangelion Stage 12 Fumbling Towards Kindness
"SI" being used to refer to something other than metric prefixes is confusing enough, but using it as an alternative to "AI", but not as an acronym for "simulated intelligence", is even more so
Here is the imdb profile shot of Richard Summers-Calvert, the Biddy Blas voice actor
it’s ben@yotsuben.bsky.social · last wk.you know, the voice actor for Biddy Blas has gotta be having the time of their life lmao
![A comic-strip preview of the BIg Finish Doctor Who audio-play "Spare Parts".
PANEL 1
MONDASIAN POLICEMAN [riding a cyborg horse]: "IDENTIFY YOURSELF. CIVILIAN MOVEMENT IS FORBIDDEN DURING HOURS OF CURFEW."
FIFTH DOCTOR: "Remarkable! Unlike, but not unlike. No blank mask yet. Augmented limbs, but still recognizably human."
THOMAS DODD: "Don't antagonize him, Doctor!"
PANEL 2
[The cyber-policeman whips the Doctor]
POLICEMAN: "DEFIANCE IS UNACCEPTABLE. SURRENDER NOW!"
SFX: KKRAK!
DOCTOR: "AAAAARGHH!"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tgo4sgmvasbn4aomyp3klw3d/bafkreicrnwxgfjrdef5lxqdcf4b2kpbyt65etnpayma3pnnsn3b3qldbsa)
