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Harvey & Joyce's adopted daughter Danielle is trying to raise funds to deal with Pekar's raw archive; basically four storage lockers full of notes, outlines, ideas, etc. Note this is not Pekar's comics per se. Those rights have been tied up in court for years. Long, ugly story. Worth backing.

His Name was Harvey Pekar

Saving the legacy of Harvey Pekar:Urgent mission to rescue four full storage units of American Splendor history before its lost forever

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There's that Very Online fear when you see the name of someone you really admire in the Trending and you are suddenly anxious why everyone is suddenly talking about them, maybe they died? And then there's Donald Trump... a letdown every time.

This was fun. Made mine currently living directors: PTA CoenBros Scorsese Kelly Reichardt Claire Denis Villeneuve Yorgos Lanthimos Bong Joon Ho Robert Eggers Cuarón Jane Campion Todd Haynes Jonathan Glazer Miyazaki Lynne Ramsey Soderberg Céline Sciamma Jane Schoenbrun WesAnderson Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Alan Elrod@aselrod.bsky.social · 5d ago

Ok I decided to make a T20 directors list. Peter Weir Wes Anderson Paolo Sorrentino Spielberg Coen Brothers Fincher Todd Haynes Sofia Coppola Linklater Villeneuve Nolan Tarantino Francis Ford Coppola Paul Thomas Anderson Rob Reiner Kubrick Soderbergh Scorsese Spike Lee John Hughes

It continues to fuck me up that we stay thinking about 9/11 but want to memory hole Covid so bad we're destroying the entire concept of public health in the US.

In the United States, there have been 103,436,829[3] confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 1,238,563[3] confirmed deaths, the most of any country, and the 17th highest per capita worldwide.[43] The COVID-19 pandemic ranks as the deadliest disaster in the country's history.[44] It was the third-leading cause of death in the U.S. in 2020, behind heart disease and cancer.[45] From 2019 to 2020, U.S. life expectancy dropped by three years for Hispanic and Latino Americans, 2.9 years for African Americans, and 1.2 years for White Americans.[46] In 2021, U.S. deaths due to COVID-19 rose,[47] and life expectancy fell.[48]

If I mangle any lyrics as I quote them it's because I am constitutionally opposed to looking up the official words. I pre-date the internet and am fond of my mis-heard lyrics ok

There are only three possible futures: a) everyone in the Trump admin goes to jail, rule of law partially restored; b) Dems retaliate in full, and maybe that's a deterrent; c) neither (a) nor (b), so lawless authoritarianism wins again, and when Republicans regain power they ramp it up even more.

Murshed Zaheed@murshedz.bsky.social · 7d ago

“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Trump has denied most disaster requests from Democratic-led states

A graph  showing Presidential approval rates for disaster requests from Democratic-led states and Republican-led states

Source: POLITICO's E&E News analysis of FEMA records

The ongoing #EventsDearBoy project has been one of the best reasons to log into Bluesky this year. As a pretty casual comics fan, been an absolute delight to get such witty, insightful and succinct, overviews of the big shakeups in the worlds of Marvel, DC, et al. Can't believe we're at the top 10!

Tom Ewing@tomewing.bsky.social · last wk.

#EventsDearBoy 10. THE INFINITY GAUNTLET (1991, Marvel) *very Emily Wilson voice* your film neglects the themes of the text! Guy kills half the Universe to impress a woman who still thinks he's a weird creep; Jim Starlin's cosmic parable of male vanity and insecurity carries Lessons For Our Time

the food safety stuff is another reminder that a large, huge, gigantic part of being a republican is going “lmao why are we spending money to prevent horrifying disasters from happening if they never happen 🤪”

DAVID BYRNE: Same as it ever was LIL JON: What? DAVID BYRNE: Same as it ever was LIL JON: Unh! DAVID BYRNE: Same as it ever was LIL JON: Yeah! DAVID BYRNE: Same as it ever was LIL JON: Okay!

Can’t sleep? Simple methods that work: • study hurricane forecast • who hates me • what did i forget • relive supreme humiliation • win 12-yr-old argument • buried alive? could happen • what i did vs should have done • dead people i miss • what if i’m bad • why do i say stuff • what’s my fuckin deal