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Happy New Year! It's time for a new manga thread! Same rules as the past three years: one post per volume, and I'll note if it's licensed in English or not. If it's licensed, that's the version I read. Last year's thread reached 512 posts. What will 2026 bring?

I love to be a pumpkin headed Irish piece of shit from the Inbred Cape Cod Family That Loves to Die and a junkie and a drunk and sound like that and hold the Josef Mengele Distinguished Professorship at The Island of Dr. Moreau University.

Milwaukee, my goodness.

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kind of crazy to me that my parents escaped vietnam during a war and arrived in north america, where they labored as a janitor and secretary so they could save enough money to send me to college, where i received a higher education, and now this is what i use my brain for

I think the lesson from Lula is not never talk about the opposition; it's articulate a positive vision that's basically, We Can Just Do Things. That's why Mamdani-ism is so popular - voters have an intrinsic sense that their electeds have agency they're not using

if you want to follow ANYTHING from what elected Lula here in brazil, this is the most important lesson and change of mindset that happened here just don't give them the attention they want. let them speak amongst themselves and let us win by silencing them with our voices

Not only an incredible talent, but a rare talent who also thought it was funny to just voice random memes every once in a while

I love author notes.

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.

I can't believe we're going to spend one of our set number of Sundays in our limited lives talking about the Cheesecake Factory.

Please, romance writers, you have to let the conflict you introduced actually hurt your characters or it just feels cheap. They have to suffer as they struggle to overcome it. That's what shows me that their HEA has passed QA and they're ready to work out future issues.

Dear campaign managers: I'm not clicking on a link in a text from someone I don't know, so quit sending them.

this is me again saying dems need to stop campaigning on policy and go full vibe/meme based because that's how you get this cohort and there's a lot of them

Published authors: when you're preparing your will (you should have a will), keep your literary estate in mind. And keep in mind that everyone else is going to die too, so maybe don't leave the rights to someone your own age, or remind them to similarly make preparations. I promise, this comes up!

I'm reading this new BL on Lezhin with a tennis player main character, and I know I'm not a tennis expert, but it's weird to see him and his coaches treating the Olympics as the main event to orient your career toward.

Is there even a AAA video games industry left in North America anymore?

you know you were thinking it

I'm at the romcom. I'm at the slasher flick. I'm at the combination romcom and slasher flick. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cRz...