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Getting back in the swing of things means protesting with my daughter every day. Because, I was sick we had to take a break. Today, you could tell something had changed in our absence. First of all, the people that live around the intersection, we frequent, missed us. We were warmly greeted and provided cold water and snacks. People pulled over to talk to us. A person in a full face mask tried to hit us with his bicycle but a bystander told him to move on and he did. Lots of hand gestures were directed at us. Most were positive. Clearly people are worked up. What a difference a few weeks made. Tomorrow we will see if this is the new normal.
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What better format for a biography of Ernie Bushmiller, creator of the daily *Nancy* strip, than a graphic novel? And who better to write and draw it than Bill Griffith, creator of Zippy the Pinhead, a long-running and famously surreal daily strip?
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From Bill Griffith, the acclaimed creator of Zippy the Pinhead, comes a history of comics as told through the life story of Ernie Bushmiller and his iconic comic strip Nancy. Winner, Eisner Award for Best Reality Based Work.
*Three Rocks: The Story of Ernie Bushmiller, the Man Who Created Nancy* is more than a biography, though. Griffith is carrying on the work of Scott McCloud, whose definitive *Understanding Comics* used the graphic novel form to explain the significance and method of sequential art, singling out *Nancy* for special praise:
For Griffith - and a legion of comics legends who worship Bushmiller - the story of Bushmiller's life and the story of *Nancy* and its groundbreaking methodology are inseparable. We watch as Bushmiller starts out as a teenaged dropout copy-boy in the bullpen at a giant news syndicate, running errands for the paper's publisher and, eventually, its cartoonists. Bushmiller burns to get into the funnies, and he's got a good head for gags, but his draftsmanship needs work.
He secretly enrolls in a life-drawing class, which does him little good, but he applies himself and applies himself, and eventually is given his big break: taking over Fritzi Ritz, a daily cartoon serial about a sexy flapper.
Bushmiller's run on Fritzi Ritz outlasts flappers, and, as he struggles to keep the character relevant amidst changing times, he eventually hits on a "Cousin Oliver" gambit: adding in a sassy niece named Nancy:
Cousin Oliver is that inexplicable kid added to the show's roster, usually in an attempt to liven up an aging cast with a character the younger demographics can (supposedly) relate to. However, such a character is likely to upset the dynamic of โฆ
Cousin Oliverae are rarely successful, but Nancy turned out to be the exception that proved the rule. Nancy took over the strip, and "Aunt Fritzi" receded in importance, taking a backstage to Nancy and her pal Sluggo.
As Nancy comes into her own, so did Bushmiller. Bushmiller combined an impeccable sense of the gag (he started with his punchline panel - "the snapper" - and worked backwards) with a visual style that he refined to something so pure and refined that it inspired generations of comics creators.
Bushmiller was the master of simplifying, and then simplifying more, and then simplifying even more.
Visually, his characters and his furniture (especially the iconic "three rocks" of the title) are refined to something so iconic they're practically ideograms. While some accused Bushmiller of re-using a small set of drawings, Griffith makes the convincing case that Bushmiller *perfected* a small number of icons, and repeated them as *motifs*.
Indeed, these characters are so perfect and finely tuned that when Griffith inserts Nancy, Sluggo and other characters from Bushmillerville into his graphic novel, he doesn't re-draw them - rather, Griffith carefully crops these characters out and collages them into his own panels. Every image of Nancy in this book was drawn by Ernie Bushmiller.
This pared-down, severely restricted graphic style provides the perfect toolkit for the Bushmiller gag, which, at its best, is profoundly surrealistic, often playing on the form of the comic itself (for example, when Nancy asks Sluggo to give her a push on a bicycle, Sluggo obliges by stepping out of the comic and tipping the final panel at 45 degrees, sending Nancy rolling "downhill").
These meta-humorous gags give rise to Griffith's key insight: that Nancy isn't a comic about what it's like to be a kid - it's a comic about what it's like to be a *cartoon character.*
This is *such* a good organizing principle for understanding Nancy's staying power and influence. Other cartoons like Peanuts are nominally about being a kid, but are actually about being a small adult.
Nancy, meanwhile, shares a lineage with, say, Animaniacs and Bugs Bunny and Groucho (who, we learn, wore out his welcome with Bushmiller and his wife by relentlessly hitting on the latter at celebrity dinners at the Brown Derby). It's no wonder that Scott McCloud, the prophet-explainer of sequential art, loves Nancy: she practically invented stepping outside the frame and making us think about how these pictures and words worked, and why, and she made us laugh the whole time.
Bushmiller had a unique mind. He was a workaholic, turning out a 7-day/week strip for decades, even as he shouldered a variety of side-projects and other strips. Once he started making money, he moved to the Connecticut suburbs where he could have a work-room big enough to accommodate four drafting boards, so he could work on four strips at once. He would sometimes get a *year* ahead of schedule with his publishers.
It was only very late in his life that Bushmiller took on any kind of assistants, and even then, he obsessively supervised them, counting the spikes in every depiction of Nancy's hair to ensure that they fell within the regulation 69-107 spikes.
Despite his massive following among artists, hipsters and intellectuals, Bushmiller insisted that the secret to his success was in his devotion to simplicity and the universality it brought.
Bushmiller's editorial process seems to have consisted almost entirely of his removing words, images and lines from his panels, paring them down further and further until they became, essentially, narrated pictograms - almost funny Ikea assembly instructions.
Griffith - a daily cartoonist workaholic who has been turning out *Zippy* strips since 1971 - bursts with admiration for Bushmiller, and this biography saves a lot of space for Bushmiller himself, with long sections given over to reproductions of some of Nancy's best outings.
Griffith has had more than half a century to think about what makes surreal comic-strips tick, and, like McCloud, he pours these out on the page, but largely confines himself to illustrating his insights with Bushmiller strips and panels. The result is a heady volume: a great biography *and* a great book of literary criticism and comic arts theory.
Nancy is still around, written and drawn by the amazing Olivia Jaimes, whose first collection of new Nancy comics I called "incredibly, fantastically, impossibly great":
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The light that the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope collected to create this image reached the telescope after a journey of 250 million years. Its source was the spiral galaxy UGC 11397, which resides in the constellation Lyra (The Lyre). At first glance, UGC 11397 appears to be an average spiral galaxy: it sports two graceful spiral arms that are [โฆ]
Yeah, these days you gotta leave the phone at home if you're going abroad really. Not only if you're going to America. If you're crossing a border at all.
You can always buy or borrow a cheap burner phone at your destination and log in from that.
It's the invasion of privacy. Just because people have 'nothing to hide' it's none of anyone's business. And who knows what they're stealing/copying/downloading/uploading from/to the phone once it's out of your sight!?
Agreed, but the "we" who are subject to these rules have no vote and no influence over politics or law enforcement. My way of not accepting all this is to refuse to travel to the US until it becomes a functioning liberal democracy. If that doesn't happen during my lifetime then, well, I'll never see the Grand Canyon. There are worse fates.
I have many times been to countries that have questionable regimes, even now I just returned from China. Nobody has ever asked for my phone or it's contents. It's the new USA that's doing this and it's frightening. People should not normalize it, and keep reporting it when it happens.
Vimes didn't like the phrase 'The innocent have nothing to fear', believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like 'The innocent have nothing to fear'
should I have to to go the US in the next couple of years, I'd only use a burner phone ... my social media accounts are "anonymous" for a reason (yeah I know they're not if anyone tries hard enough, but anyway)
totally unrelated, is user name "NoneOfYourFuckingBusiness" still available on mstdn.social? ๐
everything is fine until it isn't so someone may be fine now saying they have nothing to hide but 6 months, weeks, hours later when an irrational administration decide they don't like something, that all changes & legacy activity will be used against people
At this point, the world needs to treat the US as a pariah & carry on without them as much as possible including heavy travel restrictions on the country
All empires fall, what makes america think that their empire won't also fall?
Where governmentโs concerned, Iโd say that the biggest delusion isnโt believing that one has nothing to hide, but rather that one gets to decide whether one has anything to hide. What was once no threat can easily become one when the rules change, which is something that most people have no meaningful control over. For instance, the MAHA influencers squealing about RFK Jr promoting wearables didnโt bat an eyelid at his proposal for autism registry.
Guess you're not traveling to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, China, Japan, South Korea, Brazil, Argentina, Israel, India, Pakistan, Myanmar, South Africa, Nigeria, Tanzania, Morocco, and many other countries on the planet. Customs in just about every Country reserves the rigth to inspect a foreign travelers' phone upon entry.
Just looked out the back window and the orioles are still coming around for jelly. The grosbeaks are still coming around too, which is unlike them this late in the year. Hopefully that means theyโre going to hang around.
@scottdhansen same with is for the grosbeaks. We usually see them for about 2-3 weeks a year as they migrate. Weโre still seeing them so hopefully that means theyโve decided to nest nearby.
BREAKING: Fascists on Supreme Court rule against nationwide injunctions, say Trump's move to end birthright citizenship in some states may proceed in 30 days temporarily
It would seem that these so-called judges believe that we have no rights the law is bound to respect. Otherwise why say "oh, your citizenship can be taken away until we have time to review it tehe too bad"? Compliance with the law is not optional, even if you are named Donald J. Trump. That is the entire idea of having "laws".
Upgraded my #Windows 11 #VM and decided to see if #CoPilot has gotten any better. And... holy crap it has. It took a nuanced and decidedly pro-Palestinian approach when I asked it about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and called out politician bullshit for what it is when I asked it about why the attacks on LGBTQ youth are getting so much worse.
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That orgasm was so satisfying, to my future wifey to be I would have taken more pleasure in filling you up instead my little cum-sponge, I'll be waiting ever so patiently for you.
2008 and the release of Facebook messenger on iPhone was a disaster for the internet. The retards should never have interacted with the internet in the first place.
Does anyone know where the first image of the hacker wearing a black hoodie over their head came about? (It's not Wargames or Hackers I checked!) #hacker #hacking #askfedi
โThey show up without uniforms. They show up completely masked. They refuse to give ID...Who are these people...the vests look like they ordered them from Amazon. Are they bounty hunters? Are they vigilantes? If theyโre federal officials, why is it that they do not identify themselves?โ
Having been vilified and spied on when he was an active politician, Tony Benn was patronizingly dismissed in his later years. A new collection of Bennโs writings shows why his democratic socialist vision was such a powerful threat to the status quo.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday requested a two-week break in the court proceedings against him on corruption charges, citing pressing regional challenges and the need to focus on critical national issues, including the Gaza conโฆ
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We are in the process of making an offer on a house in Nampa, ID. I never wanted to move again. Wanted to die in this house. But the idiots in Olympia have made Washington intolerable.
We already have friends there - people from my husband's old gaming group - and another couple will move when we do to be nearby.
WTF are these agents destroying #immigrants homes for as soon as they show up! American teens were handcuffed as they watch their parents be taken away by Alleged #ICE agents! They allegedly came for his father because he had a #DUI in 2023 which he paid & then took their mom too!๐คฌ
The Supreme Court struck down a lower court injunction blocking the Trump administrationโs executive order on birthright citizenship, laying out clear rules for courts utilizing universal injunctions going forward.
The case, Trump v. CASA, concerns universal injunctions that lower court judges have ordered pausing President Donald Trumpโs order interpreting the 14th Amendment as not guaranteeing what is known as โbirthright citizenship.โ
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Today they teach nothing in school except how to report parents who discipline their kids. The schools also collect data on the kids & their parents for the government, wanna bet? Ask about federal education centers that blanket the USA.
In the 1980's, I filed a FOIA directed to the , TX Regional Education Center in Plano, TX requesting info & other data on what info they housed at that huge data center. I & 2 others were given an appointment regarding my FOIA. Without going into detail, we were told that by law they were to provide the info in my letter. He then said "I assure you that you do NOT want that info." When we left & went out to the cars, I asked the 2 others with me ...
I have many stories about what I went thru for over 8 yrs when I tried to warn parents, nationwide, about what was going on in the public schools, colleges, universities, & private schools. Nowhere was safe from the government brainwashing & propaganda ongoing thru today; 45+ yrs worth.
For those who don't want to believe me, I offer the evidence in our streets today, , uneducated, trouble-making, young & old adults, who are brainwashed by design & on purpose.
Since the UK helped set up a body which defends peopleโs right to question fossil fuel industries, successive governments have cracked down on climate protest.
On a fateful day, I and Koishi Komeiji went on a date. It's our first date together after I confessed to her. We are walking in the park when all of a sudden Koishi startled me by asking a simple question.
"Nee onii-chan, have you ever get your cock sucked?"
I can barely say anything when she pinned me down and started unzipping my pants. She grabbed my already hard cock and started jacking me off with her soft mouth. The inside of her mouth is really warm, after some time I sprayed my white fluid inside and she gulped it all down while being smug.
"Onii-chan I'm still hungry you know, if you can't satisfy me I'm going to eat you alive"
Nothing crossed my mind apart from the lust that I now have. Without even thinking, I stripped her clothes and then ramming my cock to her inside. That's when I realize blood is dripping from my right ear. Part of my right ear is in her mouth, chewing it down like it's a gum.
"I told you onii-chan, I'm going to devour you whole if you can't satisfy me soon enough"
As if a bull is chasing me, instead of freaking out I took her challenge with fear and anger. Without cumming once in her delicate pussy, I only think of how to search for her weak side, that's when I found that Koishi's weak point is really just her womb, it's as if she wants to have a child. So I keep ramming with that in mind, Koishi might have a small body but I know she can withstand it. For hours I ram her inside with my cock, multiple times she came but I kept going, until I reached my limit after 4 hours of pumping semen into her womb.
I collapsed to the ground while Koishi is struggling to get up. It seems that she's still exhausted, with cum everywhere on her body, though I can sort of see a faint smile on her.
"You're the only person who could satisfy me this much onii-chan, that's why I will reward you by keeping the child in my womb and then raising them as my child. But this requires one sacrifice, for my body is exhausted and I will only endanger this unborn child"
As she finish speaking, I feel a great pain on my leg. In a split second it teleported into her mouth, rather than chewing it like a gum, she eats it like a bear who's starving. Slowly she mutilated me, from the bottom to my head, smiling gleefully as she's doing it. The last thing I heard is how she's going to preserve my cock for dinner.
We do not have years, even months to END THIS FUCKING MALIGNANCY.
"A sampling of the more than 65,000 people arrested by ICE since Trump reentered office in January reveals people including a beloved resident of a staunchly pro-Trump town, a decorated combat veteran, a child with cancer, anti-genocide protesters, and a woman with an American husband and child who's lived in the U.S. for nearly 50 years." commondreams.org/news/jayapal-โฆ
"ICE isn't going after the 'worst of the worst' like Trump promised," the progressive congresswoman said. "They're disappearing asylum-seekers, families, and relatives of citizensโmany with no criminal record."
Congratulations, sailor. Despite the Jews returning to Fedi, the anti-bullying rules, and more gay ops we haven't even found yet, you made it to Friday
Last month I figured out I have five issues that are individually causing me high levels of stress. Having all five at once is doing horrible things to my mental and physical health.
Managed to get #1 knocked down to a nuisance. Good start.
Did all I could for #2. If it breaks my way, it takes care of #3 and #4. Been waiting weeks to see if my efforts pan out.
#5 needs to be resolved by the end of July, for better or worse.
Nestled among the mossy rocks of an unnamed moorland, this peculiar geological formation seems almost aliveโan uncanny eye carved by time, water, and weather. Though naturally formed, the stone bears a striking resemblance to a reptilian or amphibian eye, complete with a dark central pupil and a ring of mineral-stained coloration radiating outward. The basin, likely shaped by centuries of rain collecting in a shallow depression, becomes a reflective pool that enhances its illusion of sight.
The mineral patterns are likely the result of iron oxidation, lichen growth, and seasonal sediment buildup, but the effect is startlingโlike the Earth itself is watching. Thereโs a primal stillness to the scene, a sense that this "eye" holds ancient knowledge or has silently witnessed the comings and goings of civilizations long faded.
It blurs the line between coincidence and intention, nature and design. Was it purely erosion and mineral chemistry that created this illusion, or did ancient peoples once recognize and revere this uncanny gaze? What would it mean to be seen by the land itself?
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The US and China have reached an agreement on export controls during their trade talks. China will review and approve export applications for controlled items, while the US will lift some restrictions.
The announcement follows high-level negotiations in London and comes amid intensifying competition over strategic technologies.
The answer is simple: They don't want people to take care of their communities; to them that tax money should be going to billionaires and corporations (and, by extension, themselves). The actions of the DNC make a lot more sense if you assume they don't stand for any of the things they claim to stand for.
Same reason they picked Harris: they're drinking their own kool-aid on identity politics. Just like how because Harris is a black woman they tried to sell her as a progressive feminist and not the bootlicking prosecutor she actually is, they assumed that because Walz was an old white guy he was only pretending to use progressive rhetoric and shat their pants when they realized he was genuine about it.
Demonstrators marched against the arms trade on the final days of the 55th edition of the major aerospace exhibition. The protests called for a boycott of Israel and an end to the arms trade.
In Viktor Orbรกnโs Hungary, queerness isnโt just marginalized but transformed into a public enemy. Through legal restrictions, moral panics and media messaging, LGBTQ+ people have become the rhetorical stand-in for everything the government deems threโฆ
What might not be mentioned anywhere is that Pride is not a registered demonstration (because the police didn't accept it), but the counter protests by various far-right groups are registered with the police. Also, the police may or may not try to keep the 2 sides separated, so exercise caution.
Remembering Christopher Newsom and Channon Christian
On January 6, 2007, a young White couple, Christopher Newsom and his girlfriend Channon Christian, went to visit a friend in Knoxville, TN. They never made it. They were kidnapped by five blacks (4 males and 1 female), who took them to a house where Christopher was repeatedly sodomized with a foreign object; after which he was bound, gagged and blindfolded, shot in the back . . . stormfront.org/forum/blogs/u15โฆ
Sarah J. Frick, Deborah Fletcher, Austin C. Smith, Pirate and chill: The effect of netflix on illegal streaming, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Volume 209, 2023, Pages 334-347, ISSN 0167-2681, doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2023.03โฆ (sciencedirect.com/science/artiโฆ) Abstract: Over 188 million people in the United States use a subscription video streaming service, yet digital piracy remains prevalent and costs the U.S. economy an estimated $29.2 billion annually. This paper investigates the relationship between a movie's availability on Netflix, the largest video subscription service, and intent to illegally stream the movie. We leverage a contract dispute that caused Epix (a cable network company) to move all its movies from Netflix to Hulu, representing a substantial decrease in the legal streaming availability of these movies. Using a difference-in-differences design, we find that reducing legal streaming access via the removal of Epix movies from Netflix results in a 20% increase in piracy intent relative to movies that remained on Netflix, as measured by Google search volume. This study contributes to the understanding of the substitution between legal streaming services and movie piracy and has implications for content owners deciding what platform to offer their movie on. Keywords: Piracy; Online streaming; Digital goods; Netflix; Google searches
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Same. I've never been much of a tv/movie person in general, but netflix in its prime was fantastic. But nowadays there are like 30 different streaming services, every single one is egregiously priced, and everything has their own exclusive libraries. Hell I'm surprised they're not streaming genAI slop "movies" yet at the rate they're all going (or maybe they already are, who knows). Fuck all of that noise.
Spotify did the same thing for me years ago. Went from a hand-maintained local library to Spotify, held on to that for like 10 years, ditched them at the start of this year when they were overwhelmingly supporting fascists with political donations. Switched to Tidal for a bit since it has higher quality and better artist payouts, but today I'm right back to hosting a local library (which is better than ever these days), buying what I can directly from artists to support them rather than subscription fees.
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in reply to Norcal Gma 2 • • •Yesterday I did an experiment, making my sign as uncontroversial as possible.
"Tired of dodging potholes? Then stop giving tax breaks to billionaires."
Even without reading the sign, I got thumbs down. MAGA are against the 1st Amendment no matter what the message is.
But one lady did stop to ask when I was going to be starting today, since she wants to join me. So that was encouraging.