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A bird with black head and wings but red-orange body is slightly annoyed to be touched by a human hand, beak semi-open in protest, as if about to complain. In the background is a lush forest scene. Hooded Pitohui (Pitohui dichrous) YUS Conservation area on the Huon Peninsula, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea. CREDIT: Ben Freeman. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hooded_Pitohui_3.jpg

Touching this bird can result in numbness & tingling in extremities. Eating it can result in paralysis or death ☠️.

Let's talk about neurotoxic birds 🐦.

(📷: Ben G Freeman, benjamingfreeman.com)

Just Jack Kirby in 1939, reminding us not to make deals with Nazis

Fred Flentstone stands, hands on his hips, looking incredulously at Barney Rubble, who is at the corner of the panel barely visible. He appears to wearing tiny sunglasses. "C'mon Barn, what's with the getup? and what is that on your head?" Fred asks. "oh this, Fred?" We now see Barney is also wearing a black trench coat and smoking a cigarette. A small bird is taped to the side of his head. "Just the latest in cybernetic enhancement technology- wired right into my brain." The background dissolves and Barney stands next to a free floating diagram of a human body with several small birds going into it and says "we're entering a new age, Fred- the synthesis of man and machine as one flesh. This is the future. It's hack or be hacked." Fred looks incredulous. The bird pecks Barney. Barney puts his hands on his head and screams "the machines are turning against us! We have built God only for him to destroy us!" as the bird continues to peck at him.

rise of the machines

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Like many, we have Diamond troubles and you can still help us.

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As conservative PJ O'Rourke said: “Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work & then they get elected and prove it.”

The GOP exists solely to benefit the 1%. They don't care if our government shuts down and millions lose healthcare. But 18 million stayed home

#DonaldTrumpsShutdown

For there to be more "range" in the English manga market publishers have to take the risk & decide to release titles more for the sake of playing the long game, i.e. giving readers the opportunity to educate themselves on older classics or simply expanding their horizons with "new" genres.

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First2Pages from a favorite comic.
H.P.'s Rock City.

To be clear:

1. We’ve taken in roughly $150 billion in tariffs - nowhere near a single trillion, much less trillions.

2. Tariffs single-handedly saving our military — which has been the strongest in the world for decades — is the dumbest shit I’ve read today.

Chicago keeping art alive:

This video by Alex Pearlman does a really good job explaining why branding changes like his aren't "woke" they're just another chapter in the big book of "Capitalism and the adventure of endless growth for the shareholders".

Cartoonists for Gaza - Solidarity in Ink with Palestine from the Comics Community, Including Work by Bryan Talbot, Annassi Mehdi, Martin Rowson, The Rickard Sisters and Darryl Cunningham – Broken Fron... Cartoonists for Gaza bring us powerful cartoons and comics detailing the humanitarian crisis as the genocide in Gaza continues.

Cartoonists for Gaza – Solidarity in Ink with Palestine from the Comics Community, Including Work by Bryan Talbot, Annassi Mehdi, Martin Rowson, The Rickard Sisters and Darryl Cunningham.

Check out this amazing gallery of work here:
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Kinda stressing out a bit, so if you could share this around, that would be great.

Animag Cover featuring Gundam

Area 88 Feature

Iczer One Feature

Laputa feature

After some work we've got most all of American anime fan's first steps in to professional publishing with the first issue of Animag. Featuring Area 88, Fight! Iczer One (by Carl Horn), Zeta Gundam, Gundam Movie Trilogy and Laputa: Castle in the Sky. archive.org/details/anim... #otakuarchive

🧵I keep seeing/hearing mention of QAnon's "Satanic sex-trafficking pedophiles" conspiracy & hand to God it makes me feel like I'm taking crazy pills that NO ONE MENTIONS THE ANTISEMITISM.

They are talking about Jews.
They are talking about Jews.
They are talking about Jews.

HERE LET ME HELP:

A perfect comic.

Promotional graphic for upcoming Booklist workshop GETTING TO KNOW GRAPHIC NOVELS happening Wednesday, July 23 at 11 a.m. PT/2p.m. ET

While the comics industry continues to expand, training for library staff charged with filling shelves or creating programs around these titles has not. Join Booklist 7/23 for its first virtual workshop introducing library workers to the world of comics! Registration is FREE: bit.ly/44ct1P3

A vitally important story, memorialized in Norman Rockwell's "Murder in Mississippi."

amongussexgif ... Instead of being in settings its in the google app. Also, google, not chrome. Icon is a G, not the circle thing. Click on your pfp to open a menu From there, go Settings > Gemini > Digital Assistants > Switch to Google Assistant. This disables Gemini, google's Al assistant, and switches you back to the old one. We aren't done yet. Go back to Settings. From there, we go Settings > Google Assistant > scroll to find General > Google Assitant on/off > turn it off They really tried their best to make it a pain, but you can eventually disable it. Holding the power button on your phone still pulls up a menu and asks you to turn it back on, but this is the least intrusive you can make it. Applies to all non-apple phones afaik. For sure Samsungs and Pixels but idrk about others Edit: thank you my friend @/teeth-kid for confirming that this also works on Motorola

Here's how you remove Google AI from your mobile devices.

When an American Town Massacred Its Chinese Immigrants In 1885, white rioters murdered dozens of their Asian neighbors in Rock Springs, Wyoming. A hundred and forty years later, the story of the atrocity is still being unearthed.

In 1885, white rioters murdered dozens of Chinese residents of Rock Springs, Wyoming. The story of the atrocity is still being unearthed 140 years later.

Based on popular demand (not one but TWO people), I'm going to do a little thread (🧵!) based on the presentation I recently gave as part of my Prange Collection research award, about manga (comics) books published between 1946 and 1949.

Why Machine Translating Japanese Media is a BAD Idea Machine translating Japanese Media is a very, very bad idea and I wouldn't trust companies that push MT on their translators.

Once again reminding people why machines can't translate creative Japanese well.
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We found the government “waste, fraud, and abuse”.

Everyone should watch this. Then share it with anyone who thinks these tariffs are a good idea and won’t crush small businesses.

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Cover of A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein

Banned Book of the Day:
A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein

Why banned? Parents objected to poems like “How Not to Have to Dry the Dishes,” claiming it encouraged disobedience and messiness, and “Little Abigail and the Beautiful Pony,” which some criticized for being too morbid for children.

A Black woman in a floral dress and white cardigan wears a mask as she looks to a bookshelf on her right.

It's #NationalLibraryWeek and it's a grim time to be a librarian in the U.S.
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