It's so funny to me that the MCU has followed the inner workings of the comics so exactly that now they are awkwardly retconning old stuff to connect it to new stuff

Sometimes life just gives you something wonderful

State of local emergency declared in Ruapehu District amid possible ‘life-threatening’ flooding Civil Defence made the declaration at 4.43am after heavy rain caused slips and flooding overnight.

Over the past ten years NZ has averaged 55.9 days annually under a State of Emergency each year, and 66.6 days over the last five. In the 10 years prior to this, NZ averaged only 13.4 days per year.

Consider the implications of central government continuing to refuse to believe in climate change.

Google Starts Scanning All Your Photos As New Update Goes Live Google wants its AI to see all the photos of "you and your loved ones." Billions of users must now decide.

“Take a moment to think before you dive in. That’s the best advice for Google Photos users, as the company confirms its latest update can scan all your photos to “use actual images of you and your loved ones” in AI image generation.”

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I think the Claremont run being so huge and serialized, and the amount of writers who just recycled his ideas afterwards meant that people got this impression from X-Men comics, but the best later ones are those that are easy to jump into

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I can imagine a way this could be really funny, but it's a coin toss whether the film's writers also saw it that way

I drive a Transit for work (professional gardener) and 9/10 people in my area drive cars with the same size wheel base as my van, and in residential areas the streets are often not wide enough for two of these vehicles to pass (accounting for all the similar size cars parked either side)

Setting aside JK Rowling's politics I was thinking about a world where a black actor playing Snape would lead to a really interesting dynamic, and Harry having to examine both his and his father's inherent racism, but I somewhat doubt the people doing the new show actively thought about that

Trump doesn't understand nuance so is just actively destroying all the soft power the US has built up in the past century. I'd be impressed if he wasn't so horrifying.

Would love to see a Kitty costumes cover from you

I'm sure this will be the launchpad for her career just like the role was for January Jones. At least they are keeping up the Marvel alliterative names tradition

Understandable

Ironically Marquez is one of the classics I didn't find a slog. Umpteen others however...

You would think! But no they're very unserious in similar but slightly different ways 😅

Yeah my previous experience is of the UK which also has pretty strict rules about what can and can't be labelled medicine, it's very different

The French are crazy into homeopathy (the guy who invented it was basically banned from Germany and moved to France), and it's pretty similar here in Luxembourg, so I go a bit cross eyed whenever I go into a pharmacy cos barely anything looks legit

Apparently the dirtbag left means never once mentioning who does the artwork for your comic book

What immediately jumped out at me comparing these two is that whoever did this has erased the ass of the black horse so now it's proportions are all wrong

Come on guys there are about 1000 Ian Rankin books that fit this bill already

I can get behind most of these, but then you get to the absolute psychopath who avoids using his turn signal to save on car bulbs. How much is that car crash going to save you buddy?

Oh god it happened again

Why is Elmer the only one sad in this image?

I think it was incredibly short sighted of Wireless to hedge their entire financial future on Kanye in the first place

Once so much infrastructure is based on American capital and so much of their military is around the world to protect allies, it only takes the election of one madman to upend the system that you have relied on and trusted

There's a certain inevitability that people should account for and not assign too much blame in hindsight. 80 years ago much of the developed world was completely devastated apart from the US, and the US was the only way to fund redevelopment, and it's terribly difficult to redivest after the fact

For me, even if I plan and list, I won't do the list in order, I'll forget things, I often forget a thing I need to take with me for the errand so it doesn't get done, and so on and so on

#TodayInQueerHistory
April 7 (2023)
Sci fi writer, comics creator, poet, essayist and tarot expert Rachel Pollack died #OTD.
Rachel wrote DCs Doom Patrol, and introduced Coagula, the first trans superhero. Her work won World Fantasy Awards, Arthur C Clarke Awards and was nominated for a Nebula.

I can only imagine the insane amount of money Wireless paid to Ye in advance and will probably not see back. Hedging your entire festival success around one controversial headliner is an insane business decision

The idea that in any country you can get a 'walk in' ADHD (or any other mental health) diagnosis is just magical fairyland business. Maybe you thought you were being helpful but literally no doctor will just give you Ritalin on first visit. Here in Luxembourg my prescription isn't even covered by SS