Robin Hermann

The beginning

Choose your top 25 favorite female characters in comics. One per day for 25 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews.

Days 19 and 20: Maggie and Hopey

Winter Reindeer Girl on white Reindeer.

Winter Reindeer

Appropriately artificial.

HOW DO YOU ASSESS WHAT A SPOILER IS, AMAZON

An LLM, and I cannot emphasize this enough, cannot discern what a "SPOILER" is

Visualizing the executions of British queens in early modern Europe Abstract. The executions of British queens between 1536 and 1587 were sensational news events, both in the British Isles and on the Continent, and were vis

My article, ‘Visualizing the executions of British queens in early modern Europe‘, has been published in “Historical Research” and can be read here: academic.oup.com/histres/adva...

Aged about ten years Martha Edlin embroidered this little box c. 1670. ( V&A Museum, London)

*major comics sites! Jesus. My kingdom for an edit button.

11 Dec 1571: Wiliam Fitzwilliam is promoted from Lord Justice to Lord Deputy of #Ireland #otd - a role he characterised as ‘a disease which grievously eateth inwardly' He #hatedit. He would later supervise the execution of Mary Queen of Scots

Unsurprisingly, it's this:

*Stranger Things, not Strangers Things! Dang Mounjaro anorexia is real.

The Hit Hollywood Didn’t Want - The American Prospect Ryan Coogler’s bloodsucker blockbuster is all about Black creative freedom. No wonder the industry saw it as a threat.

Despite the pessimism of the press, Ryan Coogler’s Sinners was a box office success. It’s a rare hit that isn’t a sequel or a remake at a time when the industry needs new ideas. From A.A. Dowd: trib.al/RwvPPYg

a man with white hair is saying i feel like i 'm taking crazy pills ALT: a man with white hair is saying i feel like i 'm taking crazy pills

I just saw a review of Strangers Things S5 Episode 3 on one of the major comics site that referred to the ending of that episode as "anticlimactic."

Once again I am forced to reconsider what words mean.

lol wut. dropping from 42 percent approval to 36 percent approval seems pretty significant. apnews.com/article/trum...

🎄1⃣1⃣ DECEMBER🎄
(25 days of books from Prince Rupert's library)
'Playes written by the thrice noble, illustrious and excellent princess, the Lady Marchioness of Newcastle' printed in 1662.
It was dedicated to those that 'do delight in Scenes and wit'.

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Time is owned by Marc Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce, which is currently trying to sell its AI tool to ICE in order to triple their recruitment. just a thing I think about sometimes while I’m at work, implementing his product for nonprofits.

Choose your top 25 favorite female characters in comics. One per day for 25 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews.

Day 18: Kagome Higurashi

I am deeply suspicious of narratives that have the Beatles peaking with REVOLVER.

When Schulz recycled this line from his November 18, 1961 strip for 1965's "A Charlie Brown Christmas," he transferred the key dialogue in panel two from Linus to Sally.

"I'm not in denial about [AI]. I'm in open rebellion."

Amen.

The way tech companies constantly do stuff that nobody asked for really tells you a lot about their bigger ideology. They tell themselves that you will like it over time. What they mean is you’ll learn to endure it, or you’ll give up. quality of UI is not actually anywhere on their radar

Wow: Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named for Holocaust survivor Raphael Lemkin, who coined term "genocide") calls Clinton's remarks "genocide denial."

"Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."

Wow!

You will be visited by 3 spirits.

Choose your top 25 favorite female characters in comics. One per day for 25 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews.

Day 17: Rin Asano

i dont want to live in a world that values gambling apps and ai i want to live in a world that celebrates mustard and puppets

Same headline.

Seven years apart. 🤡

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