J. Gray Dingler

J. Gray Dingler

@jgraydingler.bsky.social

You don't care. None of you care.

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Don't donate money to the Internet Archive/@archive.org. My account was locked without notification and thousands of scans of out of print media were taken down entirely on what appears to be a frivolous takedown request from the owners of the Tintin IP, which entered US public domain on Jan. 2025.

J. Gray Dingler@jgraydingler.bsky.social

Well I scanned every Mario Quiz Card I could find. If you got a relative who worked at Atlas Editions, Newfield Publications or just around Durham and Middletown Connecticut in the 90's and find these in your attic or something, let me know. Be nice to get the unreleased ones to make an even 1800.

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I know I'm being pissy but I care about media preservation. When I bought this old book and saw Wikipedia BARELY has a stub on its creators, I took the time to scan it because it felt like I was one of only a few people who would even have the opportunity. That got taken down with my account...

Don't donate money to the Internet Archive/@archive.org. My account was locked without notification and thousands of scans of out of print media were taken down entirely on what appears to be a frivolous takedown request from the owners of the Tintin IP, which entered US public domain on Jan. 2025.

J. Gray Dingler@jgraydingler.bsky.social

Well I scanned every Mario Quiz Card I could find. If you got a relative who worked at Atlas Editions, Newfield Publications or just around Durham and Middletown Connecticut in the 90's and find these in your attic or something, let me know. Be nice to get the unreleased ones to make an even 1800.

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Between this and how @archiveofourown.org treated me I'm done giving money to online "archives". They're just businesses with a different model. They don't sell ads but they market themselves as "archives" to solicit donations while using a YouTube style banhammer in response to frivolous takedowns.

Also learned NOT to credit copyrighted works online. Don't claim they're your own, but don't actually bother crediting them either. You're just narcing on yourself when these "orgs" want to pretend they give a shit about honoring every bullshiit takedown request. Just don't mention who made it. =P

Don't donate money to the Internet Archive/@archive.org. My account was locked without notification and thousands of scans of out of print media were taken down entirely on what appears to be a frivolous takedown request from the owners of the Tintin IP, which entered US public domain on Jan. 2025.

J. Gray Dingler@jgraydingler.bsky.social

Well I scanned every Mario Quiz Card I could find. If you got a relative who worked at Atlas Editions, Newfield Publications or just around Durham and Middletown Connecticut in the 90's and find these in your attic or something, let me know. Be nice to get the unreleased ones to make an even 1800.

Beyond Hergé's estate being infamous for this, his "creator" page on @archive.org now only has FOUR works, all forgetting the accent on é. There's TONS of untagged Tintin stuff still up including a blu-ray rip of the 2014 movie! Not my scan of a 1930 copy of The Ritual Woodmen of the World though.

Forgot the alt-text : It's a screenshot of Hergé's (the guy who made Tintin's) creator page on the Internet Archive with "creator:(hergé)" in the search bar. Only four works are listed under him. Three are for someone else named "Henry J Herge" and the last one just forgot the accent on the é.

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😡😡😡 “Meta employees acknowledged in internal communications that the Instagram accounts of Brazilian ​President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva were hindered by ‌restrictions during [Brazil’s] election” & that Meta “recommended the profile ​of challenger…Flavio Bolsonaro” & “his ​WhatsApp channel…” 1/

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I am hair-on-fire alarmed. Particularly as a Jew. We’ve been in that place…

Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social

I’m alarmed that more people aren’t alarmed by Trump targeting Somali Americans and labeling them “garbage” and “crooks” who “contribute nothing.” Most of them are U.S. citizens, yet Trump says, “I don’t want them in our country.” If you know history, you know the horror this can lead to.

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Moreover, I find it outrageous that supporters of the rogue Israeli state use antisemitism as a cudgel to silence their opposition. Antisemitism is real and it’s everywhere. But it’s overwhelmingly on the right—the side most aligned with Israel.

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I’ve never liked the term “settlers.” They’re not settling anything. They’re robbing and pillaging, evicting people from their homes. Colonizers seems more fitting. Really, they’re fascists, fueled by avarice and delusional, genocidal ideology. And Israeli society lets it happen.

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Rather than a bridge to the future it promised to be, the Biden administration served as a refueling station for an even more nihilistic, authoritarian, and destructive Trump administration. Democrats need to have learned the lesson by 2028.

Sarkis Zaroukian@sarkisz.bsky.social

I know a lot of people won't want to hear this but the Biden admin opened an investigation on her that the Trump admin is piggybacking on. Your vote for Joe Biden has a clear correlation to her potential deporation www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/u...

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Massive outbreaks and death aren't the only fallout from anti-vaxxers' rhetoric. Now they're going after the doctors who treat measles patients, reporting them to the state medical board. Thrilled to team up with @walkerbragman.bsky.social on this one! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

theguardian.comAnti-vaxxers target Texas measles doctors to cast doubt on deaths amid outbreakChildren’s Health Defense and RFK Jr publicly dispute recent measles deaths to ‘distract’ from damage caused and question vaccines, experts say

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This is a fascist nightmare. Politicized law enforcement and deliberate targeting of an elected official who has been critical of the regime. Everyone involved needs to be identified and prosecuted. Trump needs to be impeached and removed from office and put on trial for his various crimes.

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The entire Republican Party and broader conservative movement need to be smashed to bits. Donor networks gotta be exposed and disrupted. All the outside machinery needs to be dismantled. And electorally it must lose over and over and over and over. We need a truth and reconciliation commission.

Brendan Nyhan@brendannyhan.bsky.social

The news just since I left work: -A planned livestream of an execution by firing squad -Trump basically trying to incite a pogrom against Somalis Nothing mysterious or complicated about what's happening.

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Also do the honest work of eliminating any trace of plagiarism in your beloved product. How? Not my fucking problem! If you can’t run your business / technology without stealing other people’s work, it deserves to die. Personally I’m happy to see it die, so don’t try to make it my responsibility.

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The BEST thing that true believers in AI could do is stop evangelizing to people, like me, who think it sucks. Do the hard, years-long work of detaching your beloved technology from the worst people in the world right now: shameless fascists driven by greed and domination. They’re YOUR partners.

For the second time in my life, a creator whose work I love suffers burnout and put out a REALLY bad installment that is the first of three remaining installments in the magnum opus they started over a decade ago. First was George Lucas & The Phantom Menace. Now it's Toby Fox & Deltarune Chapter 5.

grayjayblog.wordpress.comReassembling Deltarune’s Dismembered PlotHow Deltarune’s fifth chapter exposes the seams of major rewrites across the entire story and casts doubt on its creator’s ability to conclude their saga’s many mysteries.

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People aren’t faking their disabilities, they’re faking being well. We know society hates us. We know we will be judged for using assistive devices. Many of us take years to get the courage to lean in to accommodations. Stop judging. Help us build a more inclusive world.

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Brazil should ban X. In fact, every country would be better without it.

Dean Baker@deanbaker13.bsky.social

Elon Musk is shutting down the Catholic Bishops in Brazil account on X to help the right-wing win the election there paydayreport.com/x-blocks-acc...

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As they exist today, the Democratic Party is not an opposition party. We not only need to impeach Trump, we need a truth and reconciliation commission.

Nicole Marie@nicolemarie.bsky.social

What have we been telling you? Dems aren’t going to do anything. www.c-span.org/clip/public-...

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The conservative movement is a national death cult and it’s time to say so. It has destabilized and weakened America. We have mass shootings, medical bankruptcy, historic wealth inequality, a crumbling democracy, and out of control climate change—and a government unwilling to do anything about it.

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Gorillaz frontman Damon Albarn waves a Palestinian flag on stage while urging fans to speak out for Gaza: “Don’t forget this—ever. Stand your position. Don’t ever be neutral.”

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fuck me dude I was looking forward to the second game. ah well. eat shit lazy bear games.

IggyMaid@iggymaid.northsky.social

Co-founder of Graveyard Keeper dev Lazy Bear Games regularly posts AI art & asks for help with AI gen code Going as far as feeding his own games art into the slop machine The game itself is from 2018 so it predates the stuff, but they announced a sequel & I expect it to be full of AI-gen slop