Patrick O'Duffy

The cover of Daredevil 181, a comic published in 1981, with Bullseye and Elektra fighting in the foreground and Daredevil large in the background.

My 2026 project is reading every Daredevil comic, and after a couple of months of Silver and Bronze Age stories that range from awful to middling to surprisingly good, I've hit the 1980s and Frank Miller's run.

Hey, you know what comic still blows your socks off, 40+ years after it was published?

If you're wondering why there's so many anti-trans articles written by cis people while so few positive ones written by actual trans people it's because they're intentionally being silenced

In the present context, however, of an investigation into allegations of corrupt conduct, we are not so much concerned with Diceyan theory of ministerial accountability and Cabinet solidarity as with personal obligations of honesty and good faith. Thus, although Mr Morrison may have been responsible to Cabinet for the failings of DSS – in particular for DSS’ failings in not preventing the shortcomings of the NPP and checklist – it by no means necessarily follows that Mr Morrison was personally at fault for not detecting the failings of DSS or that he set out to act dishonestly or in bad faith. The question of any personal shortcoming requires consideration of the system and circumstances of ERC’s operation at the time of its adoption of the NPP.

The passages clearing Morrison of fault are extraordinary

NACC says Morrison is technically "responsible" as cabinet Minister, but not "personally at fault"

If responsibility exists without consequence...then what does "ministerial accountability" even mean anymore?

i thought not having the entire world tremble from the ravings of a mad king was the whole fucking promise of liberal democracy

The only consistent thing Labour seems capable of doing is punishing people who have done absolutely nothing

VOID 1680 AM by Bannerless Games A solo playlist building game about being a lone voice in the dark.

Hey, friends. Three years ago today I released VOID 1680 AM, the response to which legitimately changed my life.

I've added 100 community copies free to download. Become the late-night radio DJ of your dreams and build a playlist tied to your history with music here: bannerless.games/voidam

"I think the LLM is conscious" makes a lot more sense when you realize a lot of people don't grasp the interiority of other people.

If you view other people as a series of inputs and utilities, it makes a lot of sense that you would see inert code awaiting your prompt as conscious.

A newspaper headline from over a century ago, reading: WOMEN ANARCHISTS HAVE BECOME THE TERROR OF WORLDS POLICE Their Daring Crimes Are Said to Have Out- stripped the Deeds of Brothers of the Red Search for the Woman is Becoming a Safe Rule in Crimes Proceeding From Anarchistic Violence—The Guardians of the World Nearly Always Finda Woman Implicated When a Ruler is Stricken Down—Emotional Women Lose Sense of Fear.

Happy International Women's Day. 🏴

Everything MY preferred group does? It actually has an unlimited amount of context and you have to sympathize with it no matter what. The other side? Actually they're orcs.

MYTH: These strikes could lead to a long war. FACT: It depends how many decades you consider “long.”

Trump’s War On Iran: Myth Vs. Fact https://theonion.com/trumps-war-on-iran-myth-vs-fact/

Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:

Every bsky staff member keeps talking about how the goal is Nice Social Media but then the second they're even remotely pushed back against for something shitty, and they immediately crash out for multiple days crying about their subhuman userbase.

How to Reverse Declining History Major Enrollment Numbers, Which Are All the Faculty’s Fault How to Reverse Declining History Major Enrollment Numbers, Which Are All the Faculty's Fault

"A strategic plan from the Vice Chancellor of Student Enrollment and Faculty Shaming."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/how...

Two things can be true about Mike Richardson:

-He was responsible for some major genre hits
AND
-He did not protect staff if they were not a white man and is responsible for a generation of queer and female editors leaving comics rather than continue in a toxic environment

It’s important to remember that billionaires are parasites with a vested interest in persuading you they are predators.

we went through over a decade of people claiming the iraq war issue was complicated, all to avoid the very simple response that should have been offered. no, the war was bad, we should end it, and it shouldnt be funded. period.

and all of that is the same with iran. its not a tough one.

1 Inquiry for New York Times Good afternoon, My name is [REDACTED] and l am a reporter for the New York Times. I am researching how much money the Palestinian diaspora community has sent to support Gazan families since the war in Gaza began. Does your team track this figure? I really appreciate it. With gratitude, [REDACTED]

Palestine Diaspora Movement Hello [REDACTED] We do not collaborate with The New York Times. Your email asks about money sent to Gazan families "since the war in Gaza began." Let us first correct the premise. This is not a war. It is a genocide. Calling it a war is part of the problem. It obscures the reality of a colonized people being massacred by a military machine backed by the United States and defended, sanitized, and rhetorically softened by institutions like yours. The New York Times has spent far too long parroting Zionist propaganda and laundering Israeli state narratives while Palestinians bury their dead. That kind of coverage does not merely misinform. It helps create the political climate in which Palestinian slaughter becomes explainable, defensible, and forgettable. So no, we will not be sharing any figures, internal data, or community information with a paper that has so thoroughly damaged its credibility on Palestine. Quite frankly, we would rather chew jeans than help The New York Times extract from our community while continuing to fail it. Do not contact us again for this purpose, The Palestine Diaspora Movement Team

“Quite frankly, we would rather chew jeans than help The New York Times extract from our community while continuing to fail it”

lmaooo GET EM

‘(not original Pliers’)

goddamnit lads I was DRIVING

nearly plowed into a tram

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

A billion dollars is the socio-economic equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work to prevent the acquisition of the former with the same urgency and ruthlessness we use to prevent the acquisition of the latter.

Ol' Dirty Bastard - Fuck Y'all - Osirus YouTube video by Ol' Dirty Bastard

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Adelaide University cancels literary festival event with UN Gaza investigator Francesca Albanese Festival organisers criticise the university for last-minute booking cancellation of event headlined by special rapporteur for Palestinian territories

Zionist really are just universally shitty people.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

i keep seeing writers who want both:
* to be bold iconoclasts going against the pretenses and trends of the day and
* to have a perfect 5.0 review score on goodreads

and like, I'm sorry. those things don't go together.

hate living in the time of "the worst people do an evil thing incompetently"

Because Bluesky shows me your first post whenever you add something, it's been interesting to see how the colour palette and design of each new cover has slowly changed over time from that of issue 1.

...I can't honestly say it's for the better.

Omerta

Story on The Australian front page: Israel’s deadliest day: Nine die in public shelter in Beit Shemesh struck by Iranian missile Volunteer medic Ronit Elimelech rushed her elderly mother and three children to the shelter as sirens wailed, instinctively grabbing her vest and the medical equipment she’d used to save countless lives. It wasn’t enough to save her own.

All civilian deaths are tragic, but we're getting a real sense of whose lives are valued more.

If The Australian had run this story for Gaza it would have had to do it more than 8,000 times.

Never mind one for the around 150 children killed in a Tehran school just this week...