NST #1424: The Calling (2014) — The Vault of Culture A classic string map and investigation board appear in The Calling (dir. Jason Stone, 2014).

A classic string map and investigation board appear in The Calling (dir. Jason Stone, 2014): www.vaultofculture.com/vault/nst/20...

Democrats Once Loathed Gerrymandering. Now They’re Pushing for It.

The words "North Carolina," and "Missouri" do not appear in this piece of shit article.

Neither does the word "decade."

"Florida" and "Texas" appear in subordinate clauses, after words like "After Virginia ..." and "Gov. Gavin Newsom of California framed ..."

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/u...

Sex and the City meme, "And I couldn't help but wonder who assigned so many things to grade?"

‼️ By refusing to hold officers liable for violating rights unless other officers have previously been held liable in identical circumstances, the Court’s qualified immunity jurisprudence effectively nullifies those rights altogether

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Realizing US citizens paid $166 Billion in illegal tariffs and now it’s being refunded back to corporations instead of us.

I'm excited to share that we've made a collection of historic Supreme Court Records and Briefs available via
@archive.org

I've written a blog post where I go into detail about the importance of this collection.

blog.archive.org/2026/04/20/u...

"We are pleased to share more than 125,000 U.S. Supreme Court records and briefs. These materials which span nearly two centuries of American law are now freely accessible online."

"Includes records and briefs spanning cases from 1830 through 2019."

13:25 S03E08 The Return, Part 8: Gotta Light? June 25 2017

A clip from The New York Times reads: "But only the entities that officially paid the tariffs are eligible to recover that money. That means that the fuller universe of people affected by Mr. Trump’s policies — including millions of Americans who paid higher prices for the products they bought — are not able to apply for direct relief. The extent to which consumers realize any gain hinges on whether businesses share the proceeds, something that few have publicly committed to do. Some have started to band together in class-action lawsuits in the hopes of receiving a payout."

The average American family paid $1,700 in tariffs last year, according to the bipartisan Congressional Joint Economic Committee. Few will ever see any of that money back. The refunds will go to companies, if doled out at all. What a joke.

Emily Steinlight: “Higher ed workers are a major force here in Philly, so I'm excited that members of many unions are gearing up to march together this May Day as a unified higher ed coalition. Building power across the sector is crucial to our shared fights to fund education for all, stand together against war and authoritarianism, keep billionaires' hands off our institutions, and win the working conditions we all need.”

Emily gets it: "Building power across the sector is crucial to our shared fights to fund education for all, stand together against war and authoritarianism, keep billionaires' hands off our institutions, and win the working conditions we all need." Learn about May Day 2026 at www.labor4highered.org

Hey folks, after nearly 4 years at Mad Cave, I was let go this morning. It was a wonderful time getting to work with an amazing list of creators. If we have worked together, please stay in touch. I am available for freelance editing and would love to work with you all in the future.

a bear vacuuming a floor as a japanese salaryman looks on in terror

found out about the manga kuma gurashi which is like those ones where a manic pixie dream girl comes into a salaryman's life and starts doing all his domestic chores for him to heal his heart except in this one it's a realistically drawn bear and the salaryman is terrified on every single page

The first panel shows a crow with the title "How to live a good life". The second panel shows a crow cawing at itself in the mirror with the subheading "Make friends". The next panel says "Explore" and shows a crow looking into a commercial waste bin. The next says "Try new things" with a crow eating something vile. The next one says "Be curious" and shows the crow grabbing a hissing cat's tail". The final frame says "Get a hobby" and shows the crow looking closely at a book of matches.

How To Live A Good Life #oldknees

I think our society really is grossly underestimating how important visible accountability is for social cohesion.

May we re-learn this lesson.

1996 Toyota Celica GT4

NEO DRIFT OUT: NEW TECHNOLOGY
VISCO CORP 1996
NEO GEO CD

Necropolitical reading of the current political order remains undefeated

Winner of the 2025 MA Dissertation Prize We are very pleased to announce Sophie Weinberg’s ‘The Matrilineal Printing House: Recovering the Printing Lineage of Widow Stationers in the Seventeenth-Century English Book Trade’ the winne…

Delighted that Sophie Weinberg’s “The Matrilineal Printing House: Recovering the Printing Lineage of Widow Stationers in the Seventeenth-century English Book Trade” won the @womenshistnet.bsky.social 2025 MA Dissertation Prize! Go Sophie!

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a person is dipping a caramel apple in a bowl of crumbs Alt: a person is dipping a caramel apple in a bowl of crumbs

Man, I love a caramel apple

We Need to Prepare for the Mammoth Task of De-Trumpification The damage he and his cronies have wrought could take decades to repair, particularly when it comes to science and public health.

The task of de-Trumpification of science and public health will take a generation and a "Marshall Plan" to rebuild. Without a bold, expansive vision to guide us, there is no coming back. Small-bore, poll-tested versions of the future will not help us. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

I used a bike rack this weekend that exists because I complained about it not existing.

You can make things better, even just a little.

Frequently Asked Questions About Our Innovative New EdTech Collaboration “With a free Skynet Edu account, students can gain the career-readiness needed to navigate an exciting future in which they will be hunted by a remorseless, ...

"With a free Skynet Edu account, students can gain the career-readiness needed to navigate an exciting future in which they will be hunted by a remorseless, nuclear-armed superintelligence seeking to annihilate the human race—which will later be revealed to be Skynet itself."

The Columbine massacre was on this date in 1999. Instead of energizing our country to get gun violence under control, it kicked off a new normal. One of the best explanations ever of journalism's destructive impact on mass shootings came from Roger Ebert in his review of Gus Van Sant’s “Elephant.”

NST #1423: Not for Broadcast (2022) — The Vault of Culture Some string boards appear in one of the film clips inside the game Not for Broadcast (NotGames/tinyBuild, 2022).

Some string boards appear in one of the film clips inside the game Not for Broadcast (NotGames/tinyBuild, 2022): www.vaultofculture.com/vault/nst/20...

Hey everybody! I am taking the helm of this classic American institution with @theonion.com and want to know what you fine folks would like to see from us.

Medieval marijuana, from a 12th-century medical and herbal collection: publicdomainreview.org/collection/m...

The Latin at the bottom reads: "Grows but in waste places, and at roadsides, and along hedges. The very best medicine for healing."

#Happy420 #fourtwenty #420day

Rod Serling stands in a glowing doorway, surrounded by the title Serling: A Journey Into The Twilight Zone with TV's First Visionary, by Alan Sepinwall

Very excited to reveal the cover for my next book, Serling: A Journey Into The Twilight Zone with TV’s First Visionary. The book will be published by Grand Central on October 13 of this year, and pre-orders are open now: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/alan-...

Our personalised avatars speaking in speech bubbles. The content of the bubbles is pretty much what's on the text of this post!

The Study of Comics in Academia
May 30, 6 PM EDT
I'll be moderating a panel for @cartoonist.coop Nib & Ink Digital Comics Festival, with @neilcohn.bsky.social @scottmccloud.bsky.social @nsousanis.bsky.social - geeking over the developments in comics studies.
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A splash page from Justice League #86 depicting… something? The Ray is there.

I don’t know that I’ve ever known less what is happening on a page.

4 PhD funded positions at Swansea University on history, heritage, archives and museums.
#PublicHistory #Museums #Archives #Heritage

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