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This guy is also the Trump administration btw

10.03.2026 13:01 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

[guy who has never heard of the Strait of Hormuz before late last week] that’s not how I would handle military strategy in the Strait of Hormuz

10.03.2026 12:49 👍 19 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
A campaign poster with large text reading "Mayor Mamdani" and a message urging to fund NYC public libraries at 0.5% of the city budget. Two photos of a man in a suit (Zohran Mamdani are shown, with a website link for more information.

A campaign poster with large text reading "Mayor Mamdani" and a message urging to fund NYC public libraries at 0.5% of the city budget. Two photos of a man in a suit (Zohran Mamdani are shown, with a website link for more information.

You can let the Mayor know what you think about him breaking his promise. www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...

10.03.2026 01:40 👍 682 🔁 261 💬 8 📌 0
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Avengers Academy Wins GLAAD Award, Fantagraphics Picks Up R.E. Burke’s ICE Graphic Novel, Dungeons & Dragons Forms Monster Party | Comic Book Club News For March 10, 2026 Avengers Academy wins GLAAD Award. Fantagraphics has picked up R.E. Burke's graphic novel Visiting America: 19 Days in an I.C.E. Facility. Dark Horse releases Dungeons and Dragons book featuring monster party.

Avengers Academy wins GLAAD Award. Fantagraphics has picked up R.E. Burke's graphic novel Visiting America: 19 Days in an I.C.E. Facility. Dark Horse releases Dungeons and Dragons book featuring monster party.

10.03.2026 10:01 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

It’s actually about ethics in game journalism

09.03.2026 17:03 👍 18 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Scientists Taught a Petri Dish of Brain Cells to Play 'Doom'—They’re Getting Better How many brain cells does it take to play a game of DOOM?

Hey look, they wrote an article about you www.inc.com/maria-jose-g...

09.03.2026 17:01 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1

Read this wrong and I thought you were like "hey stop joking about crabs and shrimp, this is serious" (I figured it out)

09.03.2026 15:46 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Dungeness Crab & Dragon Shrimps

09.03.2026 15:12 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Okay now I want to commission Maleev to do the Norman Rockwell guy standing up meme painting, but with a Ninja Turtle.

09.03.2026 14:55 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If an official commits an impeachable offense and nobody acts to impeach, it is no longer an impeachable offense.

People who oppose impeachment as “pointless” because it seems unlikely to result in removal do not understand this very simple point and seem unwilling to even try to understand it.

09.03.2026 12:36 👍 6853 🔁 2018 💬 88 📌 69
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37 million pounds of food sold at retailers nationwide recalled because it could contain glass Oregon food manufacturer Ajinomoto expands an earlier recall of frozen and ready-to-eat products over glass contamination.

Sure there’s a nonsensical, horrific war, the environment is destroyed, jobs are in shambles, and secret police are disappearing people on the streets while any semblance of democratic leadership has abdicated responsibility, but at least there isn’t glass in our foo— www.cbsnews.com/news/frozen-...

09.03.2026 12:42 👍 58 🔁 33 💬 6 📌 1
"Hoppers" features zanier cartoon comedy and less tear-inducing pathos than audiences may expect from the studio behind "Up." During production, the filmmakers toned down its pro-environmentalism story in an effort to make it more balanced. "It felt like a message movie," Morris said.

"Hoppers" features zanier cartoon comedy and less tear-inducing pathos than audiences may expect from the studio behind "Up." During production, the filmmakers toned down its pro-environmentalism story in an effort to make it more balanced. "It felt like a message movie," Morris said.

"If we're going to just crank crap out, let's shut the doors," he said. "I'd rather die trying to make something that we genuinely believe in."

"If we're going to just crank crap out, let's shut the doors," he said. "I'd rather die trying to make something that we genuinely believe in."

Pixar toned down the pro-environmentalism story in Hoppers because "it felt like a message movie," but also don't want to "crank crap out" and make movies "we genuinely believe in."

...what?

www.wsj.com/business/med...

08.03.2026 16:15 👍 48 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 1
Two new directors made a slew of changes, including excising elements that suggested Elio was gay. Earlier versions included a pink bicycle and a scene in which he imagined raising a child with his male crush, according to people who worked on the movie.

The changes disappointed some at Pixar, which has gender-neutral bathrooms and a history of supporting LGBT employees. They were further discouraged by the removal of references to a character being transgender in a Disney+ series called "Win or Lose."

Docter said Pixar found some parents didn't want entertainment to force them to have a conversation they weren't ready for with their children. "We're making a movie, not hundreds of millions of dollars of therapy," he said.

Two new directors made a slew of changes, including excising elements that suggested Elio was gay. Earlier versions included a pink bicycle and a scene in which he imagined raising a child with his male crush, according to people who worked on the movie. The changes disappointed some at Pixar, which has gender-neutral bathrooms and a history of supporting LGBT employees. They were further discouraged by the removal of references to a character being transgender in a Disney+ series called "Win or Lose." Docter said Pixar found some parents didn't want entertainment to force them to have a conversation they weren't ready for with their children. "We're making a movie, not hundreds of millions of dollars of therapy," he said.

The full WSJ article getting passed around is bewildering. They cut gay elements from Elio because "We're making a movie, not hundreds of millions of dollars of therapy," and it lost $100 million.

Inside Out 2, which is a movie about a teen girl's feelings, was their biggest hit at $1.7 billion.

08.03.2026 16:12 👍 118 🔁 16 💬 5 📌 9
Picture of Kirby

Picture of Kirby

I know this is definitely Jack:

08.03.2026 13:46 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A picture of Q*Bert

A picture of Q*Bert

A bit embarrassed to ask this but I was doing some research and I can't tell if this is a picture of Joe, Adam, or Andy:

08.03.2026 13:45 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

08.03.2026 00:29 👍 5924 🔁 3436 💬 285 📌 232

This is very frustrating news to hear, as a talent agent who only manages sexy, talking foxes.

07.03.2026 15:35 👍 32 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 0

Starting to suspect there's a portrait of Trump in the White House attic that is only getting more handsome by the day.

07.03.2026 14:33 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 4 📌 0

STYLE GUIDE

Instead of:

"The Economy Is Tanking"

Please use:

"Economy Debuts Revenge Bod"

07.03.2026 13:43 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

FRANK MILLER'S DRAGON BALL

06.03.2026 22:13 👍 13 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 2

Gonna be on @wgnradio.bsky.social shortly to chat about what TV to stream this weekend! Listen live: wgnradio.com/on-air/

06.03.2026 20:39 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
06.03.2026 17:12 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Image Comics logo followed by headline "RETAILERS’ ROAR FOR MORE TIGRESS ISLAND HEARD, DEBUT ISSUE RUSHED BACK TO PRINT AHEAD OF RELEASE"

Image Comics logo followed by headline "RETAILERS’ ROAR FOR MORE TIGRESS ISLAND HEARD, DEBUT ISSUE RUSHED BACK TO PRINT AHEAD OF RELEASE"

At the rate this is going, we're only a few short weeks away from Image announcing they're going back to print on a comic they haven't announced yet.

06.03.2026 17:06 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

[RFK Jr chewing on a pile of glass voice] have you tried feeding it psychedelics

06.03.2026 16:10 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Sonic The Blanket Hog

06.03.2026 14:32 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1

My main unifying theory about the issues we're currently facing as a society is that Donald Trump's brain curdled into a big block of American cheese some time around 1987.

06.03.2026 14:02 👍 14 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“ real living person is not a narrative device … When so many people watch a dramatization that uses a real name, real-life consequences follow. In the weeks since the series aired, I have received many hostile and even threatening messages from viewers who seem to believe the portrayal is factual”

06.03.2026 13:39 👍 24 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0

Glad she wrote this... The show is unfair in its depiction of her at an extremely uncomfortable level; real people are not rom-com-style bad girlfriends.

06.03.2026 13:42 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Dark Horse CEO Out After 40 Years, Another Vertigo Title Sells Out, Invincible Team-Up Covers Drive 500,000 In Sales, | Comic Book Club News For March 6, 2026 Dark Horse CEO Mike Richardson has been ousted from the company after 40 years. Peril of the Brutal Dark from Vertigo sells out. Image's Invincible Team-Up covers drive half a million in sales.

Dark Horse CEO Mike Richardson has been ousted from the company after 40 years. Peril of the Brutal Dark from Vertigo sells out. Image's Invincible Team-Up covers drive half a million in sales.

06.03.2026 11:01 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1

Wow, what a stressful day! Time to relax and watch an insanely stressful hour of hospital TV!

05.03.2026 23:48 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0