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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

“America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, 'It ain’t no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.' It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by the American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters. The meanest eating or drinking establishment, owned by a man who is himself poor, is very likely to have a sign on its wall asking this cruel question: 'if you’re so smart, why ain’t you rich?' There will also be an American flag no larger than a child’s hand – glued to a lollipop stick and flying from the cash register. Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves. This inward blame has been a treasure for the rich and powerful, who have had to do less for their poor, publicly and privately, than any other ruling class since, say Napoleonic times. Many novelties have come from America. The most startling of these, a thing without precedent, is a mass of undignified poor. They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.”

reading slaughterhouse 5 for the first time and i was absolutely knocked senseless by this passage, which is so true and relevant that it feels like it was pulled from a history book

Sara Whitmer • • • 1h • 8 I'm sure many of you have heard by now that earlier this week, IU k*lled the print edition of its student paper, the IDS. The issue that was supposed to print this week contained criticism of the Whitten regime and IUs further slide into scist control, and they couldn't allow that to happen during Homecoming, when all the rich alumni are in town. Enter Purdue! The Purdue student paper, The Exponent, owns its own presses. Yesterday, in an act of tremendous solidarity with their biggest rival school, they printed the forbidden issue of the IDS. They then drove it to Bloomington overnight and stocked all of the IDS boxes on campus, just in time for Homecoming. Solidarity is what makes us stronger, and solidarity will be what ultimately allows us to triumph, if we can ever truly get it together. I hope everyone has a fun, safe day if they're going out today, and I hope we can think about what acts of solidarity we can begin taking to really make this movement MOVE - beyond a permitted expression of upset into more active resistance. 75 12 comments

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

Every A.I. CEO is like “We invented a robot that can fuck your wife so you have more free time to mow the lawn!”

I helped curate another set of Vintage decks for players to try out FOR FREE on Magic Online. Check in next week and try out Vintage, no expensive cards required!

A comics landmark. 40 years ago, Love and Rockets #13 was released. It includes Daniel Clowes’s first comic to be published by Fantagraphics. I couldn’t verify the precise on-sale date, but it has an August 1985 first printing date, another poster seems confident it was out this week 40 yrs ago.

Donate to Help the Foglios Through Unexpected Challenges, organized by Phil Foglio We are Kaja & Phil Foglio, creators of the Girl Genius webcomic and owners … Phil Foglio needs your support for Help the Foglios Through Unexpected Challenges

#girlgenius Hated to do it, but we started a GoFundMe. These are chaotic times, and no mistake, and all of a sudden we realized they were chaosing all over us. (www.gofundme.com/f/help-the-f...) Any help would be greatly appreciated.

"I shall choose to ignore that!" from the sizzle reel Jim Henson made for La Choy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQNg...

“There Isn’t A Word of Truth In Any of That”- A Conversation With The Elusive & Prolific Clair Noto on Hollywood, Marvel, and Her Erasure from Red Sonja Who is Clair Noto? Clair Noto is a footnote in the history of Marvel Comics. Superciliously deigned as a co-writer (which she denies), lazily written off (if written about at all) by supposed fans …

The first long interview with the mysterious Clair Noto, one of the 1st women comics writers, who wrote the cult fave Red Sonja series in the late 1970s, and about whom little is known.

She tees off on Roy Thomas, who she accuses of stealing credit, & Frank Thorne, who she detested. Juicy stuff!

Wizwar

Kurt Vonnegut, Frazetta and Bernie Wrightson.

Yet Luigi launched a thousand hand-wringing op-eds from the chattering class. Makes you think

1996 World Championships The 1996 World Championships' for Magic: The Gathering were held between August 14 and 18, 1996 at the Wizards of the Coast headquarters in Seattle, USA[1][2][3][4]. It...

Ok, so I think I’ve done as much as I reasonably can at the moment with the 1996 World page on mtg.wiki. If you look at the old fandom page you should notice quite a difference. (But don’t do that as they don’t need the traffic) Thanks to @bdm.bsky.social and a reddit user for getting me some info!

Giving someone an economic incentive to remove another person’s liberty is abhorrent no matter what lens you view it through. Absolutely incompatible with a free society. The fucking concept is so sickening to me. There is no right way to do it.

I put them in comic bags and boards

The new Criminal book The Knives is finished, apart from a few colour corrections from @thatjacobphillips.bsky.social 200 page hardcover out in August. This is probably my favourite face I’ve drawn in the whole book…

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Scene from The Princess Bride where Vizzinni says "You're trying to kidnap what I've rightfully stolen"

OpenAI right now

I had one done with little problem. Unfortunately the ability to unlock it with a fingerprint didn’t work after, but otherwise no issue

That first panel is so good!

Phyrexian mana makes 5 color harder. Maybe just banning it outright could work though.

We used them to teach new players at Pax Unplugged. They seemed to work well and I heard positive feedback from new players.

Power Fantasy has been interesting so far.

What is your 10/10 album?

I will be judging and hopefully will at least bump into you at some point. Enjoy the show!

I will be there for the first time. Looking forward to a new experience.

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