Jim’s talking about a career in comics here, but the whole thread up and down applies to pretty much every career. Particularly the bit about luck. In Hollywood in particular luck is such a major factor that if we really stopped and thought about, our sanity would snap.
I liked the Great Brain but am I going to write about turn-of-the-century Utah? Unlikely.
But there’s always the Melendy family. The Mad Scientists’ Club. Secret Agents Four. The McGurk Organization. The Three Investigators. The Swallows and Amazons (and Scarabs). Rupert Piper. Bruno and Boots.
Clifford B Hicks’s Alvin Fernald stories.
The *Pole Position* cartoon.
Atari Force.
The Ackroyd & Creighton detective agency from the Wild Cards novels.
It did!
👏 Canada 👏 Post 👏 is 👏 a 👏 public 👏 service 👏
Nothing proves how capitalism has brain rotted everyone than thinking the post office, hospitals, public transit, libraries, etc. need to turn a profit to be worthwhile.
I'm old enough to remember that after two kids wearing black raincoats shot up a school there were actually calls to stringently regulate... black raincoats.
There are two and only two positive things to have come out of the hell that is the covid pandemic -- the understanding that most diseases are airborne and can be prevented with masks and filtration, and the first mRNA vaccines getting used.
So of course those are the things being destroyed now.
Canadian doctors obeying a U.S. executive order that doesn’t even apply to Canada is deeply offensive to both trans people and to Canadian legal sovereignty.
There’s a fifth? I missed that! Thanks.
His real name is Sam Axe.
MY FRIEND WROTE A JUSTICE LEAGUE
Well don’t be embarrassed! I think you should be proud of reading comics
A lot of people are embarrassed to like comic books
Thread from @davidmaccdn.bsky.social on his most recent analysis for @policyalternatives.ca: "The federal government now plans to cut Canada’s ratio of development assistance to Gross National Income (GNI) to its lowest level since 1964, setting development goals back by 6 decades."
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the risk extends to “dementia-level decline”, sometimes months or even years after the initial infection
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my main life goal is to be a wizard
He wouldn't be my first choice to play Robin, but he's a great actor; let's wait and see how he does.
Why are you, a person with a limited number of days allotted to you, not reading PG Wodehouse right now? Why am I?
Set in England, and anyway I think they’re all cool. One is a retired union leader.
30 Days of Favourite Teams
Day 30: The Legion of Super-Heroes
this is the radical, anti-establishment, and correct take. it's useful to the current sociopolitical elite if we believe that everyone is inherently terrible. we'll lower our expectations, we'll separate ourselves, we'll become selfish and hopeless.
it's not true. you'll see it as soon as you look.
the Ds (mostly) refusing to abandon multi-racial politics during the trump backlash is pretty much as principled on race as any US political party has ever been.
The cruelest people are good at seizing power and getting non-cruel people to do terrible things.
Since it's 2026 and Godwin's Law has been defenestrated it's worth noting that the Nazis didn't start with the gas chambers. They started with mass shootings, but it fucked up the gunmen.
The only way we unfuck our country is through a puritanical anti-corruption drive. We need to rip out a vast substrate of corrupt elites and marginalize an even larger contingent of mere incompetents and cowards.
Ppl need to be terrified of the white-collar criminal laws of the United States again.
I’ll take “Please Let Me Go Round Again” (Swamp Dogg & John Prine). I’m agender.
Since the country finds itself a lot in the global news, here is some geography trivia to show just how big Saudi Arabia is: Northern Saudi Arabia is closer to Ukraine than to Southern Saudi Arabia! Source: buff.ly/kaEJdAO
I think it's wild to see people so passionately boycotting Target but still shopping at ✨Walmart✨
Let me know if you find any; that sounds good.
