23 de Abril - Dia Mundial do Livro

The only mainstream journalists speaking truth to power these days are cartoonists.
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Don’t judge a book by its review count.

I met a fellow indie crime author who exchanged books with me. He only had 1 review. Started reading & it’s damn good!

Review count doesn’t = quality.

Sometimes great books just haven’t been discovered yet.

Give indie books a chance.

#AuthorSky #BookSky

A female reporter loses a job and a NFL coach gets counseling. Speaks volumes on the inequity of how males and females are treated in this country.

Also so fake. The bucket was bottomless yet bounced to splash water🧐

They let her die of her wounds

They didn’t just double tap. They hunted her like an animal. First they sent her death threats. They struck her, then followed her to where she tried to take shelter & struck her there. They struck the rescue workers who came for her & only after hours, after she died, did they allow retrieval

The next DLC likely won't include either of Makoto or Sean if the leaked info is true. A pity, but the current roster is still pretty cool.

This is an impossible conversation because OF COURSE most games "use AI", games have been using AI since they were invented. Nobody has a problem with machine learning or artificial intelligence in and of itself. What we hate is slop. It serves Google/OpenAI etc to conflate and flatten these things

Yes, Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky coined the term “dark matter” which is impressive, but he also coined the term “spherical bastard” to describe people who are bastards no matter which way you look at them, and I think that should be celebrated more.

The world once held so much promise...

'Your life is over, bitch' MLB decided against suspending a former baseball star accused of choking his ex-fiancée. She says the league's choice enabled his continued abuse

THREAD:
for [eyeblack], here are five (5) domestic violence accusations against a former MLB star that league investigators allegedly reviewed before allowing him to play without any discipline. www.readeyeblack.com/p/your-life-...

Prince - With This Tear YouTube video by princevevo

10 years gone but not forgotten. And here's an unreleased track that's just seen the light of day. youtu.be/OVvEfey2bmg?...

I have had this theme stuck in my head for YEARS and this is the first time I knew its title 🤯

A black and white photo of Shearer working at his drawing table.

Promotional art for Quincy showing him and other kids from the strip.

Two daily Quincy strips.

A cartoon image of Billy Jo Jive and his partner Smart Susie Sunset.

Thaddeus "Ted" Shearer (Nov. 1, 1919–Dec. 26, 1992) was a cartoonist, advertising art director, veteran of WWII, & creator of the comic strip Quincy. He also illustrated the book series about young detective Billy Jo Jive, which became an animated segment on Sesame Street. #BlackHistoryMonth

Classic Sesame Street - Billy Jo Jive: Missing Key YouTube video by sawing14s

I think the artist of Quincy is the same who did the character Billy Joe Jive on Sesame Street: youtu.be/Mb5a2cCxcb0?...

A Quincy comic book from 1973. Based on the comic strip created by Ted Shearer. The cover shows Quincy and two of his friends playing instruments next to a sign that says "Aspirin for Sale." There is also an image on the bottom right of the comic character Henry, who is also featured.

One more comic before bed.

So she's really a humble 11 🤔

This is how you talk to someone about what LEGO collecting is:

Burchett is right: the most DC thing ever *is* a member of Congress blaming the city for something he and his colleagues did themselves.

Confederate Heritage? What fucking heritage, may I ask? The Confederacy didn't even last 4 years as far as I know. That's like me celebrating the heritage of a top I got from Forever 21 until it got too ragged for my whole life.

Many politicians spend more time worrying about where their next campaign contributions are coming from than actually doing the right things.

This is hilariously stupid of them.

I miss Roger. He died at 70 and took so much wisdom with him. Meanwhile, the worst person this country has ever vomited up lives on, with no end in sight.

Screenshot of a data visualization titled “The Cost of American Exceptionalism,” subtitled “What would change if the U.S. matched the OECD average?” The page explains that each card shows how outcomes would change if the U.S. matched the average of 31 peer democracies. Below, a section labeled “Economy & Inequality” displays eight cards comparing U.S. figures to OECD averages. Highlights include: +$19K per household per year in redistributed income and +$96K in redistributed wealth if the top 1% matched OECD shares; a 71% lower CEO-to-worker pay ratio (from 354× to 101×); 50 million more workers with union coverage; 26 million more people with health insurance; $2.1 trillion saved annually in healthcare spending; $691 less per person per year in prescription drug costs; and intergenerational economic mobility being twice as high. Each card shows the U.S. value alongside the OECD average.

If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this:

America's problems are solved problems. Just not here.

What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵

"They went door-to-door to tell their neighbors what the city had not told them: The data center would use twice as much electricity as all of Monterey Park."

The city’s notification in English reached only 40 people living within 500 feet. Activists worked in English, Chinese, Spanish & more!

Panel 1: Bob sits on an armchair and asks, "Bob, are you ready?" Panel 2: The other Bob, wearing a red dress and sporting a moustache, enters the room and says, "I'm ready." Panel 3: The first Bob says, "You can't go out like that." Panel 4: The first Bob stands up, combs the other Bob's moustache, and says, "Your moustache is unkempt."

🤷🏼

Instead of a conspiracy lets talk about the black neighborhoods that got blown up for a highway.

Exactly. Real security teams would have smothered the client who was targeted so the shooter doesn't get a clear shot, not let them pause for a photo-op😅