fsherman.bsky.social

Seen on an FB page, a photo of dog, with text: "I started with $0, now I own a house, eat great food and have a domestic staff devoted to my needs." Sounds about right.

"The first version I read was that men attempt to build/create/make money to compensate for their lack of the ability to bear children. If women do all those things, plus bearing children, men will feel so emasculated they’ll just curl up and die." More stupid at the link.

Gary Friedrich's run on Captain America was ... not good.

Some alternate fictional settings shed a new light on the characters. Some are just cool.

"The guy who lost all his money betting on the ponies used to be a staple of thrillers and mystery fiction, and had its template in real life. [The ease of online gambling] will create more of those losers."

I'm in the anthology. I can vouch for Maggie's story being fun.

Looking at a couple of late 1971 comic book stories

A comic-book ad from the early 1970s.

Photographed while I was waiting for my VW dealer to change the oil. I've no idea why the geese thought the parking lot was such a happening place.

"I’m sure from the White House’s perspective (and probably Republicans), having Putin recreate the old Soviet sphere of control as he wants to do would work out great."

"While medical science can certainly be wrong, I'm inclined to trust the expert NPR interviewed over someone with no scientific credentials whose own organization sells Vaccine Detox Herbal Extract "

The Bronze Age brought back a lot of C-list supervillains. It did the same with heroes.

“If there’s no boundary on the right, inevitably you spiral down to a state of Nazi allyship"

"In one example cited by prosecutors, Taylor Swift‘s entire catalog received 9.3 million family-plan streams on YouTube Music in April 2023, while Smith‘s bot accounts used family plans to stream his AI-generated music 80.9 million times in the same month."

Megyn Kelly was sexually harassed at Fox News, so the leopards already ate her face. Yet here she is.

"That is an impressively bad opening because I have no idea why this is important news. 'Major bill' means nothing. 'Overhaul college athletics' could mean anything."

I think this is the definition of a niche nonfiction book.

Dudley is the very goodest dog.

"Republicans would sooner have more abortions than approve of women enjoying sex."

"Like Christian misogynists they’ve taken what they think is the rightful order of society — them on top — and convinced themselves that’s obviously what the Bible says."

My friend Lucy Adams gave me some chestnuts after her tree divested itself of them. Here they are roasted and popping out of their skin. Next step, soup.

Thank god someone's finally thinking about this!

"Just as it was obvious nothing but direct action would change segregation, it was obvious a year ago what a nightmare the Toddler was creating. "

Cool.

"Rather than help people they’d sooner see the poor and uninsured die and decrease the surplus population. After all, they have money and world-class healthcare — they’ll never have to worry about being part of the surplus. "

Wow. That's how to sell with sex.

"The Toddler is much more worried about the Ukraine hitting Russian targets than the aggressor in the war attacking the Ukraine."

The next day, Trinidad police arrested a supporter of Combs for misdemeanor disorderly conduct after he displayed a “fuck bad cops” placard outside city hall. That charge was also later dropped.

"They mean the fantasy ideal of “family” in their heads: husband working, wife at home with lots of (white) kids, girls growing up carefully groomed to be submissive handmaids, preferably not doing anything Manly like playing competitive sports. And nobody ever gets abortion or birth control."

"The assumption women are driven not by rational argument but by things like “social status, popular consensus” is an Undead Sexist Cliche, a variation of the cliche that women are too emotional to think rationally."

Newsflash: not every "classic" villain deserves a revival.

"We’re in a war and we’re losing. The economy is starting to reel from the effects of the Toddler’s tariffs. There are wildfires all over the country. But the ballroom is what’s important to him. Well, that and posting non-stop memes online. "

"As I’ve said before, contemplating the reality of sexual abuse and assault is like living in a Lovecraftian horror — accepting the true nature of reality feels insane. "

I couldn't have told Steve Ditko was an objectivist from most of his Silver Age work. This one, though ...

Case in point: a while back, Mamdani announced the creation of a tech office to improve government services. For people who cover govt and tech, this was a legitimately big story. Mamdani even held a press conference and made staffers available for comment. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/mamdani-in...

"we have to keep talking about these rapes over and over and over because otherwise we accept the implicit framing that it’s somehow okay or that there’s some kind of non-legal statute of limitations on holding someone accountable for rape. In other words we normalize it. We normalize rape."

Theocrat Doug Wilson, Confederacy sympathizer and professional misogynist, thinks America is both a "creedal nation" based on belief and one where your ancestry determines your Americanness. As described at the link, Mamdani's worldview is closer to the ideals of the American creed than Wilson's.

Wilson insists that he'd have fought for the Confederacy but totally not for slavery. Dude, there's no difference. But I'm sure he knows that.

In Republicans' fantasy world, "the uneducated man sees the simple common-sense truth that blacks are inferior, women belong in the kitchen, rape is an attack on men; the elites are out to deny all that with their … facts."

The Phantom Stranger, new and improved!

Yep. Good thread.

" Months after filing her sexual assault lawsuit, she and her legal counsel were gobsmacked to find out that the Department of Labor (DOL) determined post-investigation that the rape occurred within her job duties and had to be pursued as a worker’s comp claim " Hulk want to smash now.

Imaginary Republicans "know how to manage the economy, believe in a strong defense and a tough-but-fair legal system. They’re battle-experienced veterans who support the military, unlike the Democrats who all protested the Vietnam War and spat on the troops." And too many voters think they're real

"Who divides work, who assigns authority? Who wields power, and to what ends? What check is there on that power, besides a self-avowed commitment to ‘virtue’ and ‘self-restraint’ —terms that are much more slippery in practice than in theory?” — quoted from Kristin Kobes DuMez

Sharing, as I'm one of the authors. Two stories of mine, "Obolos" and "Backstage With the Hypothetical Dead."

As Carney said, US promises are now written in pencil. Even if they agreed to everything, it wouldn't gain them any good will.

Speculation about Homo sapiens magi, DC's magic-using branch of the human race.