Mark Paglia

can’t tell if my antidepressants aren’t working or if they just weren’t built for this. like, zoloft was introduced in the 90s it barely needed to work then. if you got sad you could just buy a house.

also! "don't speak ill of the dead" should be reserved for people without a body count!! if you killed millions of people and immiserated countless more it should be illegal NOT to speak ill of you!

"don't speak ill of the dead or w/e" listen i spoke plenty of ill of that mfer when he was alive and he will be damned if i'm going to stop now, dick cheney can drink piss in hell

This is the only comfort we have after missing out on the opportunity for truly desecrative Halloween costumes had he passed a few days earlier.

The flower gem

Venn diagram with stable services, low density, and low taxes. The area in the centre said “Does Not Exist.” And it’s correct.

My semi-regular reminder of a really important reality about cities, density, services and taxes.

Original graphic cleaned up by @kathrynmathias.bsky.social. #CityMakingMath

“Oh poor people can buy popsicles with food stamps” shut the fuck up the government gives perverts a trillion dollars in government money each year for pervert factories for billionaires the fucking popsicles are none of your fuckin business

A black and white photo of Ditko

Six samples of his art, including covers to Spider-Man, Blue Beetle, The Creeper, and Hawk & Dove, as well as a Dr. Strange pinup & a splash page for Mr. A.

Today is the birthday of artist Steve Ditko (Nov. 2, 1927-June 29, 2018). Cocreator or creator of Spider-Man, Dr. Strange, the Question, Blue Beetle (Ted Kord), Mr. A., Hawk & Dove, the Creeper, Captain Atom, Squirrel Girl, & more.

Introducing the latest generation of gaming, Pokémon Dark and Gritty. Wander a burned-out region ruled by the warring Rocket and Galactic clans, where Pokémarts are only for the rich and healthcare is rationed at Pokécenters.

"That's the way it is in this business. One day, the White House and the entire mainstream media are trying to make you a national martyr, the next you're just some nameless schmoe whose widow might be having an affair with the vice president."

Man they really used to like putting Nightcrawler in as skimpy of clothes as possible.

LUCASARTS PRESENTS
Columbo in:
SCUMM of the Earth
#pixelart

This is why the N train is the best train.

The "How are you?" is legitimately one of the funniest lines in cinema.

A massive anthropomorphized sheet metal press, forcing steel into shape under enormous, wrought hands

A white-hot metal billet being picked up by a hook-billed lift with threatening eyes. The covers for the heat sinks are flat, impassive salamanders with distorted, contented, human faces.

A huge, horse-like bucket with a rolling human eye and scowling mouth offloads sparking hot molten metal into a mold in a long line of other molds, all of which have cartoonish human faces and human feet. They appear afraid and pained in anticipation, and the mold being poured into cries out

Molten metal being poured down a human-shaped funnel’s back into a furnace with a gaping mouth human and staring eyes. The bucket pouring the metal is devised like a smiling man’s head, with hands gripping and twisting its ears to let the molten cargo pour down its nose.

Boris Artzybasheff, a Ukrainian illustrator who immigrated to the US in 1919, was known for florid, grotesque explorations of surrealistic anthropomorphism, combining human and machine into fearsome, laboring hulks of metal & flesh.

These illustrations are from “Machinalia.”

#historyofillustration

Issues 1-4 of both volumes of Nathaniel Dusk, from DC Comics

Latest dollar-bin find: both complete miniseries of Nathaniel Dusk by Don McGregor and Gene Colan.

The Klingon Bird-of-Prey spaceship from Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home in The Starry Night Over the Rhône by Vincent van Gogh.

My jaw literally dropped for the Men In Black one.

Shouldn't it be No No, No, Nanette November?

"A little party never killed nobody" is literally the opposite of what happens in The Great Gatsby.

I told my wife that kids online were daring each other “kind of like a Bloody Mary thing” to listen to this cursed song that a dead child molester recorded in the eighties and I asked her if she wanted to hear it and she wasn’t sure but she said yes

And she was so mad at me when it was “Thriller”

As someone who also dislikes all three...yeah, I'd probably rank him the worst.

"Imagine how much worse it would be if we hadn't sounded the alert over her emails."

Damn. Also great in one of my guilty pleasures, The Core.

LOGGING ON

There is a degree of patrician hauteur that not even a barn jacket can disguise. This high bar is known as the John Kerry Boundary.

A man stands with a vacant expression while a cherubic angel in a robe floats on his shoulder saying "you should find that wallet's owner, Nathan, surely they'll be ever so grateful. Doing a good deed is its own reward." A devil emerges from behind the man's other shoulder and says "yeah, but first take the dough out and fork it over t' me, I got all kinds'a goodies you can buy. Fresh. I got some real fun stuff. 100% totally untraceable ghost guns- Just lemme see th' cash." A cop emerges from behind the man's head, waving a billy club. "Selling contraband are we?" the cop says. "Officer, wait, listen to me." "you can tell them all about it at the station." the cop replies. As the cop handcuffs the devil to take him away, the devil says "I'm an undercover, you putz, you rube. I had him this close. Great, I've been working this case 10 months- and now my cover's blown. I ain't even seen my wife or kids since May. Do you got any idea what I sacrificed?"

Don't Do It Nathan

Halloween Haunted House

Never change, Worcester.

Star Trek The Next Generation scene. Tasha Yar, Riker, and Data stand outside with some greenery in the background, a questionably perfect blue sky backdrop, and lots of fog. Yar and Riker have a defensive posture holding phaser pistols, Data is staring at his phone. (It's a tricorder). Closed caption reads, "Spooky " 👻