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Panel 1: Two swans, floating on a water, very swan-ily. P2: Same POV, but now the swans have raised their wings. P3: Again, same POV, but now the wings are fully up, and the swans' necks are lowered and extended. P4: GO! The swans shoot forward at speed, leaving trails of water in their wake. Their necks are fully extended, beaks open. P5: A side-on view of water against a green sky. P6: Same POV, but now the swans have burst into view. However, the only thing moving --at tremendous speed-- are their necks, stretching out impossibly. P7: We close in on a side-on view of the swans' heads, beaks closed in a look of swan-y determination. They are literally neck & neck. P8: The background begins to swirl as the swans pick up speed. They spiral towards the centre from the upper left & lower right corners. P9: A dramatic reveal of a Jack Kirby-like cosmic scene, with a blazing sun in the bottom right corner, and a "krackle" filled purple sky. The swans' necks spiral around each other
territorial dispute
Dear everyone,
As per the post from the Bodleian librarian below, AI bots and scrapers are putting just about every website under great pressure, British History Online included.
A lot of excellent tech staff are working hard to keep everything working, but outages and siruptions are inevitable.
Fun fact: less than six months ago, Trump pardoned Changpeng Zhao, the head of Binance, for money laundering as a part of the dirty deal for NVIDIA chips sent to the UAE that netted the Trump family $500 million.
Panels from the manga Akane-banashi, focused on Akane saying, "Be empty-headed. That's one of the teachings of my school! The shiguma school!" Above, flashback panels show her mentor giving advice.
The water slide is built, all that's left is to ride it down and make a big splash.
Oh hey that thing we were all afraid of happening. Well it fucking happened. If you haven’t already locked down your credit/identity, you should fucking do it now. I’ll put the thread I wrote on how to do that (ish, there are Reddit boards with a million more steps you can take) in the comments. 🤬🤬🤬
Successfully trimmed the slide count from 150 to 180 (that's right). Essential content only. Includes an extremely wholesome interaction from last night's anime club.
The book reopens: The Open Book's 2026 series starts next week at the University of South Carolina. Free and open to all! sc.edu/study/colleg...
Justifiers invade the ‘part of town they want’, calling the people they are capturing ‘swine’, and declaring that “the women and children are as hated as the men”. They drag people from their homes, declaring that they ‘waiting to do this for years’. Familiar.
The justifiers continue to drag people away, saying they are nothing but animals and declaring themselves justified in ridding the city of these people. As if the point wasn’t clear enough, a justifier then goes on to burning down a library, calling the books within ‘decadent’, and that “you need know no more than the PROPER thing”
Like it is uncomfortable in how real this is, and of course as a Jewish man and a WWII veteran, Kirby is able to recognise this behaviour, which was not absent in the years since but an ever-bubbling threat, and indeed *gestures to the world today*
By this time tomorrow:
-Attendees have a three-dimensional definition of "What is manga?"
-Everyone has demonstrated panel/dialog reading order across 3 progressively harder manga layouts
-Everyone has had a bathroom break before we discuss the "Akira slide"
It will be a #WeebWednesday to remember!
For librarians wondering, is this too outdated for today's teens, take heart, I've seen some very wholesome multiplayer afternoons take place with this game-of-games.
Someone else who enjoys Steel Scarlet / Jo Mi-gyeong, that's a follow
I have a lot of theories about why people don’t read Shelfdust, but ultimately people don’t read Shelfdust.
They should read Shelfdust.
www.shelfdust.com
What, then, does oat milk flag?
I followed the thread to see if Jemisin was already mentioned and, lo and behold, you are the classy poster
They shouldn't cede ground to Best Buy with the electronics, not while BB is on the ropes!
Yeah - the fun impulse buys helped even out how the groceries are always expensive. What do they want to focus on, drinks and pharmaceuticals? 50% margins or bust?
At the NCAA One Piece halftime shows, they advertise the "Read me!" site that offers the first twelve volumes of the manga for free in 26 languages. It went up in 2023 with the first season of the Netflix live action series and is still available: readme-onepiece.com
Is... this the year I binge OP?
Owner-operator truckers in shambles
ALSO TODAY: @zachrabiroff.com in conversation with Jenette Khan of DC comics. “I had to learn on the fly. I was 28 years old. I had no business background. And the industry—even though I loved comics, the industry was totally new to me.” flaminghydra.com/an-interview...
Cody: *pats the stairs, gazes at the crowd*
"You see those people cheering for the night of their lives? That's the only story that matters, and it never ends."
*gets flipped repeatedly*
Four panel fan comic in which Batgirl shows up out of nowhere to cover Supergirl with a hug to let her know how much she brightens each of her days. A rare sudden eclipse if you will, but a really nice one.
Be a friend this weekend! 💜☀️
on this particular day...
Box Garden Beetle by Kondoh Akino
Glacier Bay edition coming this spring.
Production: translation by Ryan Holmberg, lettering by Tim Sun, and editing by emuh ruh & Ryan Holmberg.
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![Tweet screenshot: SunDog @SUNDOG_TRX You never truly know who’s pulling the strings… 🤫 [AI-generated image of a corgi dog with a collar depicting the Tron logo, paws raised above the White House, with strings attached to the paws like a marionette] 2:30 AM Jul 24, 2025](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:exrxvyu6bpoym6mbnctke5tn/bafkreih2dve4dzbxc2tpcvssvkwkuxvlgooxnhwfz3fu6l4x7k4erberry)
Tweet screenshot: SunDog @SUNDOG_TRX You never truly know who’s pulling the strings… 🤫 [AI-generated image of a corgi dog with a collar depicting the Tron logo, paws raised above the White House, with strings attached to the paws like a marionette] 2:30 AM Jul 24, 2025
In July, shortly after Justin Sun announced his plan to purchase another $100 million of the $TRUMP memecoin, the Sun-involved and -themed SUNDOG memecoin posted a meme showing its corgi mascot holding puppet strings attached to the White House.
Baby Yoda (Grogu) on all fours looking at one of those fold-shut helper droids. Manga Amy Sedaris is sitting back behind them, smiling at Baby Yoda with one eye open.
Does Amy Sedaris know she exists in manga form? (From volume 3 of the manga adaptation of Star Wars: The Mandalorian by Yusuke Osawa)
