in my talk today, as an example of the strange things you can do in comics given their sequential but also spatial/simultaneous nature, I included this gonzo panel from 1950s Batman, which I just love in all its weirdness! Yes, I have more intentionally clever examples, but something about this...
Transport politics is so good because all of it is basically "it is a stupidly inefficient use of space and fuel to let every city dweller have a personal tank" versus "no it isn't"
Everyone loves the trendy Tokyo district of Pond Sack
Richard J@preachypreach.bsky.social · 24h agoTeaching myself kanji to learn that the capital of Japan is “Eastern Capital” (formerly Inlet Entrance); a vital part of its metropolis is “By The Beach” its historic capital is “Capital City” and its second city is “Big Slope” is deorientalising in its own right
explaining to cam skattebo that he won’t be able to play with jaxson anymore using the same hand signals they used to tell koko the gorilla her cat died
The first episode of WORZEL GUMMIDGE (1979) sees the loveable scarecrow come alive for the first time, and it's directed like a scene from an Italian zombie film. Lucio Fulci would approve!
monogamy d. luffy, you’ve done well to take down three of my wife’s boyfriends. but tell me, what will you do when your extremely thin premise reaches the second half of this post
at a dinner in 1994, translator Trish Ledoux asked the legend Rumiko Takahashi the maybe intentionally annoying question if the protagonist of Ranma 1/2 could become pregnant in his feminine state. she responded, "I don't care to think about that and you shouldn't either"
Dreamboat Branny 🦢@bransonreese.bsky.social · 2d ago
“Transport Scotland posted on X” should be an unimaginable sentence. What do you mean, a public body had to share time-sensitive information with the public, and chose the social media channel of one of the world’s most famous far right activists, which requires you to have an account to read it?
And here, of course, is Palestinian poet Marwan Makhoul: In order for me to write poetry that isn't political I must listen to the birds And in order to hear the birds The warplanes must be silent
I'd never seen this Roy Lichtenstein painting before, but it's incredible how he manages unfailingly to make his copies worse than the original comics he's ripping off.
When you hear a fantastical story about AI, you should ask yourself, "How does this serve the political project of AI?" Because, as others have pointed out, that's what AI really amounts to: a political project.
Batman Day isn't fun for everybody. Please check on your superstitious and cowardly loved ones today.
I hope this is making sense. this is the reason why, as much as I hate AI, the "it's over... this is just it, now, this is the future... it's going to be like this forever, we better just cope..." just isn't grounded in reality and is very clearly informed by techbro propaganda. Don't buy it
every day of my life I think about the people using “she” to describe this computer program who still need to be convinced to use it for trans women
Forbes@forbes.com · 6d agoTilly Norwood, a controversial AI “actor,” abruptly switched languages during an interview with Piers Morgan, though the company behind the AI creation denied she malfunctioned.
sure yeah, can't even make a stick figure without fucking up and no one at the company gives enough of a shit to even give it another pass but go ahead and take my money so i can use this lazy shit technology every day too
It’s very simple and it’s been said over and over but I guess it needs saying continuously: if you deem one group too small to have equal rights you are enabling fascism, not fighting it. The people saying Dems are GREAT on trans rights are not paying attention and/or saying stuff like this.
Travis is me when I talk with my friends who actually know movies
