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Posts by Ben Applegate
Sauna culture; safe bet
I made a little Instagram reel about this image because itโs just so frickinโ cool
bluesky is dying and the only thing that will save it is more charts
Newspaper copyediting is dead
has anyone done an animorph book cover version of franz kafka turning into a bug? i would pay several dollars for a print of that
Given that means-testing ends up costing more than not means-testing because of the required means-testing apparatus, the desire to means-test everything really can only be explained by the desire to be able to cut services and call the poors leeches, independent of policy outcomes.
Friends, again with respect because this is a complex issue: children born to citizens of tribal governments do not have constitutional birthright citizenship under many, if not most forms of constitutional argument and authority (incl. Supreme Court precedent relied upon in this case)./1
What I don't understand is, how is the solicitor general not embarrassed by his lack of basic knowledge of the historical context of the 14th Amendment? Then again, if he acknowledged there's a clear answer to this q, he'd have to acknowledge some other obvious truths that he's carefully overlooking
So, why is gold down and the dollar up?
๐ For NY people interested in working with manga:
My friend TJ (@ferenteeny.bsky.social) of Kodansha and their colleagues, Claire Kerker & Tomoko Nagano, will be speaking at an in-person event below! ๐
"Comic Creator Chat: More Than One Way to Break Into Manga":
www.nypl.org/events/progr...
...is it possible there are just *more* new girls entering fandom so they seem overrepresented percentage-wise? There was a time from 2005-2015 where male manga readers represented a larger and larger percentage, eventually overtaking women and girls. Could be just pendulum swings
Justice Jackson is the only person left on the court conducting legal interpretation the way it's been done for almost America's entire history.
And to be clear, I'm not saying they are stupid *people,* I'm saying the methodology of legal interpretation they have adopted requires them to *act* as if they were stupid. Which is, when you think about it, even stupider
I don't believe that of Sotomayor and Elena "We Are All Textualists Now" Kagan, at least.
I really do think it comes down to hearing the term "talk therapy" and thinking that = "speech." Textualism makes justice into an idiot.
Is that a lion in your pocket, or... Oh. It is a lion. Ok.
obvi, Iโm not famous so I canโt know the experience
But it strikes me exactly as a brain wiring issue. 500 people yelling at you FEELS like an inquisition, because for most of human history that would be most of your community angry
But online, it might be 0.1% of the people who read your piece
That's terrible, man. I'm sorry. Hope for a quick and complete recovery.
Ok but how do I buy it
They're not serious adults
โฆwhich is of course the entire point.
The word "ARE" is doing so much work in that headline
These ๐ people ๐ are ๐ all ๐ nitwits
After suffering a series of strokes, fantasy artist Frank Frazetta began losing control of his right hand fully losing it in 1996. Instead of giving up his passion, Frazetta was determined to teach himself how to use his left hand with sketches and full paintings.
He never lost a step.
HAHAHAHA
Do we think this came down to therapy involving the physical act of talking, so the court assumes it must be "speech"? God textualism is idiotic.
Like, fucking...no duh??? Kagan and Sotomayor are useful but deep down, Jackson is the one remaining actual Supreme Court justice
Shigeru Mizuki lost an arm in the war. Steve Sack lost the use of his drawing hand to cancer and retrained himself with his other hand so he could keep drawing. So many other artists deal with all kinds of disabilities. This argument is such offensive horseshit. www.minnpost.com/community-vo...
This you? Get real. bsky.app/profile/butt...