The Mad Wizard David

unserious. embarrassing. unrelatedly did you know how high the uk child poverty rate is

that 40p a week is going to make all the difference

You can do the same thing, buying a house and borrowing against it—ha ha, just kidding, normal people get taxed annually on their wealth via property taxes, the "you can't tax wealth, the economy will collapse!" rule applies solely to the super-rich.

Just saw this amazing image of Tetsuya Chiba holding omnibus 4 of Kodansha USA's English release of Ashita no Joe. I can't help but see his face & imagine he's thinking "Took you Americans THIS long to finally release my manga in English, huh? Well, better late than never." RIP

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Today’s my birthday! It’s been a hellish year but I’m hanging in there. I’d love if people checked out my podcasts for my birthday, or maybe shared some of their favorites with their own followers. I have bunches!

Look, I know all the reasons we got here, but we really need to start seriously thinking about what we do in a world where The Markets punish whole countries for voting for decency, compassion, and fairness. We must stop pretending the capitalist machine is an objective, value neutral force.

Flávio, these are all really good ideas

Dilbert needs to shut the fuck up and get his own house in order before throwing rocks though the walls of his glass house

Tetsuya Chiba, the legendary creator of the boxing manga Ashita no Joe, has died at 87:

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GIVE THE ANIMAL CROSSING ANIMALS PETIT MOBILE SUITS

guy who says he is 'as left as they come' but is actually a reactionary conservative for the 90s instead of the 50s

tapping the sign

The Ramaswamy ad has pushed the largest newspaper in Ohio, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, to reverse its position on endorsements. "A candidate who uses childhood sexual abuse as a weapon against the person who endured it has crossed a line that Ohioans should defend, whatever their party."

Over 2,000 alumni from Vivek’s all-boys catholic high school in Cincinnati have signed and circulated a petition demanding that he pull the ad and issue a public apology for “ignoring the moral responsibilities” of his Jesuit education. I think he’s pretty cooked.

Roughly 1/4 of its workforce. $MSFT

In the last few weeks i've been bombarded with emails from people who have minor tech support problems. ChatGPT is telling them to email me, writing their emails, and compiling "evidence packets" after convincing them they have stumbled on a major story: www.404media.co/chatgpt-keep...

A while back tried to figure out a tank mode a counterpart Megatron to Legacy G1 Optimus could have I think it could work!

League beseiged by gambling controversies signs another deal with gambling services

NEW: "Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s," per new House Judiciary Dem report. Report has new allegation that Trump raped a 24-year-old and then promised the victim a visa & NYU admission, demanding she stay quiet.

I’ll be honest, I don’t think I *can* see everything… but I might have the capacity to see everything.

during the 2023 WGA strike. a real one.

Wuthering Heights (Kate Bush, 1978)

Trans people are fighting to keep rights they had ten years ago—in 2016. It is not the same as fighting for rights in the first instance. So please I beg of you, knock it off with this “purity test” horseshit.

Run, don't walk, to go see You Can See Everything in theaters. It benefits so much from a packed house reacting to the events unfolding in real time.

None of us should forget this. Meta should be subjected to corporate death penalty and permanently broken up into small pieces.

Lula winning is great for the planet, great for Brazil, and great for people who aren't revanchist assholes everywhere in the world, but let's not forget that it's also going to make some of the worst people on Earth extremely sad and mad. We should enjoy that, as a little treat.

This means that freelancers like me who read the website would lose the right to sue the company if (when) we got stiffed. #consenttheater #bindingarbitration #dickovers

Well this is eleventy-million kinds of Fucked Up. @latimes.com (who once contracted with me as a freelance reviewer and whom I struggled to get paid by) asserts that *merely reading its website* constitutes a permanent waiver of your right to sue it under *any circumstances*.

Who’s on first #MelArt

So when I convert video files in Handbrake, my "conversion complete" sound is the Tekken 3 announcer. I'm sitting here watching Tree House of Horror when suddenly the conversion ended with perfect timing

Something seems wrong with a process where you can get fewer votes than you got in the previous election, get a minority of votes, and be rewarded with something close enough to absolute power my friends are wondering if they'll continue to get healthcare

i think people seriously overcomplicate chili. it really only involves three ingredients: water, beans and msg. if there are any foods you’re allergic to, throw some of that in for some added zing. don’t heat the pot. don’t be performative

Startling stat — a police officer in a small Texas town handed arrested and handed over immigrants to ICE at such volume that the total number is the equivalent of 10% of his town's population. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/m...

ABBOTT: Japanese developers today have unique names, like FromSoftware COSTELLO: From what ABBOTT: FromSoftware COSTELLO: I thought you said it was from Japan ABBOTT: It is COSTELLO: But what's the name of the developer ABBOTT: FromSoftware COSTELLO: The Software's From Japan, though ABBOTT: Yes