@gipperfish
Teaching Assistant Professor at UIUC, Editor of the @vaultofculture.bsky.social (https://www.vaultofculture.com/), Executive Secretary of the Comics Studies Society, NTFC Local #6546 steward, comics scholar, and a ton of other stuff. Views own.
Very happy with the AYN Thor and you can get most things set up with one of the walkthrough videos people have made. But it is still a somewhat finicky emulation device, so all kinds of little problems crop up, requiring fixes. Feel free to DM if you want any specifics. ๐ฎ๐น๏ธ๐
I raise
Star Wars somehow Palpatine returned meme, but with neocons instead of the Star Wars emperor.
I maintain that simply arresting Elon musk and making a real example of him is the quickest way to global stability
Oh no, I can't believe all those slurs forced themselves into that defenseless group chat!
Harper to the judge: "Your driver's license doesn't list your height and weight at birth. It doesn't list where you used to live. It identifies who you are now."
H.R. 7661 would harm so many publishers, authors, and readers. Only the smallest sliver of human experience would make it onto shelves. If you think kids deserve the world, you are against this bill - please read this article and call your reps.
(Beartato and Reginald, in a museum, gaze upon the Mona Lisa) BEARTATO: There it is. The Mona Lisa. The most famous painting in history. REGINALD: Wow! What's it do? BEARTATO: It... what? REGINALD: Why's it famous? What's it do? (Beartato thinks.) BEARTATO: I don't know. REGINALD (to nearly museum employee): Excuse me! Sir? What's it do? EMPLOYEE: You're the first person to ask! Watch this! (The employee yanks a pull-string. Mona Lisa's eyes spin around and her mouth opens like a puppet) MONA LISA: Honk honk! Honk honk! (Everyone is delighted. This is true art.)
True Art
Locutus safety tip: To prevent identity theft, avoid having your own identity.
Why comics creators must fight the proposed censorship of H.R. 7661
An all-time favorite con sketch: @jeffparker.bsky.socialโs opening spread for a monkey-themed sketchbook. Jeff Parker is at Emerald City Comicon this weekend, table E-27!
Rich guys in a limo pass by homeless folks. "Strange how some people choose to live like that instead of choosing to be rich like us."
Herbert Block, from 1984.
"An English professor at Dartmouth was appointed as the special advisor to the Provost on AI, and drafted a report last year on the adoption of the technology." I can almost hear the NotebookLM hosts saying "wild stuff" when reading that line. Seriously, though, more reporting on AI at Dartmouth.
The 1973 oil crisis is seen by some scholars as a big historical moment that allowed neoliberalism to take hold. โThe result was an intellectual revolution: a shift to neo-liberalism with a stress on individualism and incentives rather than collectivism and equality, and greater power for finance.โ
Digital painting of Ringo Tsuga, a little apple sprite wearing a white cloak. They have big, chibi eyes and a little stem with a leaf on top of their head
Just a lil apple guy ๐ @ringotsuga.bsky.social ๐
ใ #art #apple #ringotsuga ใ
Still not clear on why the insider trading company targeting kids with gambling ads is permitted to legally operate, but then again I feel that way about a lot of tech companies that would have been broken up and forced to close as flagrantly criminal enterprises even 20 years ago.
Really happy to say that my article on Pynchon and Star Wars is out now in Studies in American Fiction. I'm grateful to SAF for supporting a long and idiosyncratic piece. Honestly, it's kind of my life's work thus far! (2025 date is presumably because of a backlog.)
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:
I too remember the earlier, woke wars. tons of spent microaggression munitions strewn about everywhere, friends crying out for God as they were slowly cancelled...look, if you weren't there, you'll never understand
gustavitos โผ๏ธ (ahora acaba2)
Golden Age Superman stands head to thigh alone in a panel black at the top and red on the bottom where Superman stands pointing at the reader as he says, "Be wary of unscrupulous operators of gambling games--they are always on the look out for unsuspecting victims."
The Ghost of Greystone Grange
by A.A. Beckett (1878)
๐จB. Frost #PhantomsFriday
From Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse Vol. 3: Race for Riches Horace pours a little pouch of what looks like large peanuts into Mickey's hands. Mickey: Gosh! Pure gold! Horace: I can hardly b'lieve m' eyes!
Two gothic / sentimental steel engravings with โMinutes of the Committee of the Court of Sessions & Boston Selectmen about building new prison & c in Bostonโ handwritten above it.
Two gothic / sentimental steel engravings with โMinutes of the Committee of the Court of Sessions & Boston Selectmen about building new prison & c in Bostonโ handwritten above it.
When Boston set out to build a new prison in 1820, the prison committeeโs manuscript minutes were bound in scrap paper that featured engravings from what appears to be a gothic novel, and I simply cannot get over how cool this is ๐๏ธ
A brown penguin chick of some kind. It looks very much like a man in a suit. It is bedraggled and miserable
Made it to Friday but at what cost
Dan Dare, pilot of the future... Kickstarter coming 9/3/26
www.kickstarter.com/projects/798...
