Daryl Surat

"I hope your beeper doesn't go off."

A year ago today, a racist tried to make a 'joke' about me being killed by Israel. It was the 1st time I've ever walked off of live TV. That night CNN said they'd ban the racist from their air. But in the year since, I myself haven't been invited back on CNN.

Lex McMenamin smiles at someone off camera in front of blue backdrop

Lex McMenamin smiles at camera seated in front of blue backdrop

hello 29k followers, time for my periodic reintro to find lefty friends etc!

i'm the 1-person politics section at @teenvogue.com (feat. TV pics 😎) where I cover and edit coverage of youth organizing, abolition, LGBTQ rights + healthcare, student debt, climate, education, electoral politics + more 🫡

Special Rescue Exceedraft!

A new group of Metal Heroes arrives for the final chapter of the Rescue Hero trilogy!

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The original Far Side Cow Tools Cartoon by Gary Larson. A cow stands on its hind legs behind a table, staring blankly at the viewer from behind its heavy brow ridge. On the table are four crudely made tools: a lump, a lump with an offset crooked handle, a long stick with hooked prongs at the end, and a crude handsaw with irregular teeth. In the background a barn sits on a hill. Caption reads, "Cow tools."

43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.

Ms Rachel via Instagram: I've eaten rice the way Zohran Mamdani does. A friend made me a meal years ago & showed me that way of eating rice. I thought it was cool. Teachers in NYC teach students to be kind & respectful toward other students' cultures. It's one of our learning standards to help children feel proud of who they are. It's disappointing that some adults can't model the same decency & kindness that students in NYC show every day. They would rather model something none of our religions teach us - racism and attacking our neighbors instead of loving them.

Ms Rachel just called Andrew Cuomo a raggedy old racist bitch

Excited to announce Japan’s world-famous Wonder Festival is making its US debut inside #MomoCon2026!

See exclusive figures, models & art toys from Japan and beyond all included with your MomoCon badge!

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#WonderFestUS #Kaiyodo #Figures #Collectibles #Anime

YouTube video by The Daily Show Zohran Mamdani - Reimagining NYC Through Safety and Affordability | The Daily Show

Here's my full interview with Jon Stewart on @thedailyshow.com.

No wonder the GOP is trying to fuck the ACA, it’s 14 years old

Yes, the Grink *was* there. He was there for *me*, Bryan, in ways you haven’t been. And, you know, it’s just so fucking *you* to keep bringing him up like it’s some kind of gotcha. This was never about me or my mistakes, it’s about your insecurity and I’m sick of it. At least the Grink was *there*

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP.

Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.

The people who need help are not the problem.

It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

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We're back with a beefy episode of MokkoriPlay, our City Hunter podcast!

Today, we're discussing the TV OVA movie "Bay City Wars". Great action, and even a decent enough English dub from ADV.

When firing nuclear missiles, don't forget to punch in the "lunch code"!

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And I would like to challenge this person to get a real job

people like Palmer Luckey understand, either explicitly or implicitly, that retro tech and retro games are an accessible pathway to right wing radicalization. the politics of "remember the past when things were simpler and better?" are only a few steps removed from MAGA, unless you're very careful

It's a lot easier to stomach this guy when you read everything he tweets in Philomena Cunk's voice

My Marvel Rivals title card indicating that I have the title "Queenslayer," which is only awarded from successful completion of the limited-time Marvel Zombies event at the highest difficulty, Nightmare IV.

Damn, just call me Anna Jay except I actually won. The logic governing what you have to do in order to win/not die at Nightmare IV is entirely different from all the other Marvel Zombies difficulty levels in Marvel Rivals. It's also really time consuming; 3 times I got to the 20th wave just to lose.

“if you think you see someone stealing food no you didn’t” bold of you to think I’d be paying enough attention to notice other shoppers other than if they’re in the way

And seriously, even if you don't want to flip through old anime magazines there's a lot of great stuff Gerald's been organizing and scanning for the Internet Archive. Worth browsing through if you're curious at all about early anime fandom.

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On the Precipice of Professional Anime Magazines: Animag In 1987 fans from the Bay Area published what was, for its time, the closest thing to a professional anime magazine in English.

Thanks to the efforts of @geraldawo.bsky.social the full run of Animag magazine can now be seen on the Internet Archive. I wrote a bit about the magazine's history and the time and place it was published: bit.ly/animag2

not to "um actually" because it doesn't matter but the entire story of halo is about how destroying the flood at the cost of killing everyone in the universe is not worth it, also they team up with the aliens to defeat the flood in a different way that requires setting aside differences

Whenever I see someone try to rehab Sadako's reputation, I think to myself, I'll be surprised if she comes out of this well

I pointed this out to a group of literary SF convention people and the reaction was that I "just don't understand," which is true, I guess. I don't understand why anyone takes the name "Worldcon" seriously

The antipathy towards Japanese games or anything Japanese really still runs deep in a lot of Gen X/Xillenial nerds. I still remember that day on Twitter when a lot 40-something comicbook people lost their shit when someone said Monkey D. Luffy was more iconic than any DC Comics character.

Neo-Nazi “Rope Culture” Web Server Reveals the Structure and Culture of a Far-Right Network Part I: The exposed web server of Rope Culture, a neo-Nazi online magazine, contains a trove of data for understanding the transnational far-right

We found the exposed web server of Rope Culture, a neo-Nazi online magazine from the same Nazis behind the notorious Iron March forum. It contains hundreds of email addresses of the site’s commenters, emails sent to & from their mail server & the IP address of every visit to the site.

YouTube video by ANIME KICK BACK Is Anime Dying

Is Anime Dying? Let's discuss.

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Cat's Eye is an incredible series for a hundred reasons most of which are just "Rui Kisugi" written over and over again on the inside of my Trapper Keeper

Very grateful for the opportunity to be writing at ANN and to the legendary Tsukasa Hōjō for taking the time to answer a few questions about his work.

That is indeed my favorite wrestler Kenta Kobashi chopping a jet plane. The 1st time I saw any of the much-vaunted 1990s AJPW was when I selected a Kenta Kobashi compilation VHS tape offered by Brian Socha or someone like that on account of it containing several of the matches I heard so much about

SuratD - Twitch The original idea was to have random short injections of oddity compiled across decades of media, occasionally Japanese or Asian-originated. But that's not allowed and neither is wrestling. So, videog...

It's been about a year and a half since I streamed anything on Twitch. But I *think* my Comcast packet loss woes are resolved, and I *think* I've figured out how to play a game on a 4K HDR monitor and have it broadcast to Twitch in 1080p SDR. Let's try some Once Upon a Katamari! www.twitch.tv/suratd

I'm a firm believer in "toggleable minimap that defaults to 'off.'"

Cool, now how much did either of those films pay their voice actors