In 2023, Governor JB Pritzker was joined by Lieutenant Governor Juliana Stratton, Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias, advocates, and lawmakers at the Harold Washington Library to sign legislation outlawing book bans in Illinois.

Illinois made history as the first state to outlaw book bans once and for all.

Marginalizing people, ideas, or facts has no place in our state — and they have no place in a democracy.

This National Library Week, we continue our commitment to free thought and free speech.

Why is this a thing that exists?!!!?! )I know the answer is data gathering for profit, but fuuuuuuuuck)

With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars.

We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director.

Please stand by for more.

What's your Spring look?

1. pollen zombie
2. pale sea witch
3. frazzled garden gnome
4. feral forest Muppet

I forgot about this and laughed out loud at Hamham once again. Thanks.

Fake Massachusetts Towns april 19 2021 April 17 2022 4/17/23 4/14/24 4/21/25

Tomorrow is Patriots' Day in Massachusetts, which means it's a good time to roll out this all-timer from our archives.

Very prepress morning, despite that not really being my current job. Much loading, much resizing, much pinched fingers, much cursing.

dr strange floating and looking backwards

Tony Stark holding a festival mask of iron man while iron man is displayed on a screen

Doreen Green and Tippy Toe the Squirrel flexing biceps

Cloak and Dagger holding hands kind of like that one bit in the titanic

so kamome shirahara, artist of witch hat atelier, has a backlog of marvel comics variant covers

BAFTA pulling a trailer for an autobiographical game about surviving sexual assault only hours before it was said to be a part of a showcase is an exceptionally bad look.

Exactly one year ago today:

twitter fail whale, but it is butterflies and a grub

American Archive of Public Broadcasting A collaboration between GBH and the Library of Congress with a long-term vision to preserve and make accessible significant historical content created by public media.

This is great!

The American Archive of Public Broadcasting, to their eternal glory, have digitized more than 7,000 public radio and television programs from 1940 to the present.

It's a treasure trove of historic newsreels, interviews, speeches, and more.

americanarchive.org

Next on the review front today, @sonicbug.bsky.social has checked out the latest installment of this spring anime series.

"Someone tried to strangle Sneako", "Clavicular just had a drug overdose", I refuse to believe that understanding any of these headlines is better for me than chain-smoking

A first look at the Hard Sci-Fi, Soft Slice-Of-Life and Very Queer Indeed graphic novel Runaway To The Stars by Jay Eaton from Iron Circus on Kickstarter #graphicnovel First look at Hard Sci-Fi, Soft Slice-Of-Life, Very-Queer-Indeed graphic novel Runaway To The Stars by Jay Eaton from Iron Circus

A first look at the Hard Sci-Fi, Soft Slice-Of-Life and Very Queer Indeed graphic novel Runaway To The Stars by Jay Eaton from Iron Circus on Kickstarter #graphicnovel

Ahhhhh. He’s back on his bullshit again!

The “Calvin’s dad explains two types” meme, inspired by a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon. Clockwise from top left: 1) Calvin’s dad walks into frame to find Calvin trying to operate a record player. The dad says: “There are only two industries left in America: gambling, and fraud.” 2) The dad shows where the record goes, and how to turn on the player, while Calvin watches. Dad says “Derivatives? Gambling. AI? Fraud. Video games? Gambling. Social media? Fraud.” Calvin says “yeah”. 3) With one hand open palm up, Calvin’s dad cheerfully explains to Calvin out of frame below him, “The stock market looks like gambling, but it’s actually fraud.” 4) In bed in a dark room, Calvin clutches at his pillow, eyes wide in existential terror. There is no text in the panel.

“Beard grows through table” I’m sorry… what?

Runaway to the Stars Alien, trans-species foster Talita has enough to deal with on the scrapworld of Dirtball. And the sly, crimey A.I. Bip isn't helping!

NOW LIVE ON KICKSTARTER: @jayeatonart.bsky.social's incomparable RUNAWAY TO THE STARS!

GET IN, LOSERS. WE'RE STEALING A SPACESHIP.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/iro...

Back IN THE FIRST HOUR to get in on the VERY LAST TIME Iron Circus will offer discount international and FREE domestic shipping!!!

And kicking off today's review coverage, we get @sonicbug.bsky.social taking a look at this anime series from @crunchyroll.com with its first two episodes!

The last time I went in a Dave & Busters my skin crawled in a way that it only had once before when at a casino. People (including me) used to laugh at Marshfield for having made arcades illegal… they knew.

guy who's only watched Chernobyl: Witch Hat Atelier has real Chernobyl vibes

Witch Hat Atelier is about having hope in an insane world: aftermath.site/witch-hat-atel...

The Developers Behind 1000xResist Are Back And Tackling AI 1000xResist tried to capture a truth about the early days of COVID-19. Now, its creators are turning their attention to artificial intelligence. And CAPCHAs.

1000xResist was/is one of my favorite games of the past few years. It spoke powerfully to the personal and societal traumas from the early days of COVID-19. Now, they're making a game about AI? Of *course* I had to talk to them about it for @remapradio.bsky.social remapradio.com/articles/the...

An AI dares to dream that she is human. You’ve been hired to put her in her place.

We’re sunset visitor 斜陽過客, the creators of 1000xRESIST, and this is our next game: Prove You’re Human.

Published by our friends at @blacktabbygames.com.

s.team/a/4533950

Kermit as a tarot card

Pause from scrolling for 5 mins and self reflect on what the rainbow connection means to you

A WHOLE CIVILIZATION WILL DIE TONIGHT My son needs lunch, and I have to put his backpack together, but a whole civilization will die tonight, so I'm wondering if they've closed their schools. Like, a snow day, maybe, except instead of snow it's "keep your children home so if you die, you die together" — instead of "well open back up once the plows have cleared" it's "we don't know if we'll be here tomorrow, hold your babies tight." It's just "talk" I'm told, which I've been told before. "It's how the president makes his deals." But I've never heard anyone talk about other human beings this way, and I'm not certain I can look my son in the eyes if we all agree to stomach it one more time. A civilization will die tonight, but as I zip up his backpack and kiss him off to school I think: if this is what we call leadership then I'm not entirely sure ours isn't already dead. @michaelfdubois Mukad A QuBoy @michacifdubois

Brutal.

Given how often we see giant NA publishers buy up home video rights and sit on them forever, the industry REALLY needs to start mandating "use it or lose it" clauses for HV rights in negotiations.

Like, if CR or Netflix won't put out a BD, fine - let Discotek, Media Blasters, or AnimEigo do it.

Panel 1 A delivery bot on a suburban path says “You don’t always end up where you expect” Panel 2 “It’s silly but I saw myself beside an astronaut rolling across a strange new world” it says as it continues down the path. An alert reads “50m to destination” Panel 3 A had has opened the lid of the bot and taken out a paper bag. “I like to feel useful. Nobody likes a cold hamburger” Panel 4 It continues “So I give every mission my all” The alert says “mission complete” Panel 5 The sun is setting. The bot looks tired. The alert says it’s power is 3% Panel 6 Night. Stars twinkle. The bot is parked in a lot with three others, it has its eyes closed and says “in my dock I dream of space”

My latest for @newscientist.com

Pull on that first banner that they give you with Noelle on it. use only the standards you get for free on the standard banner. The current banner is… underwhelming. Chasca’s a weird playing character and I know nothing about the new girl. The 4 stars on it are trash.