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Zach Rabiroff

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Writer for the Comics Journal, Flaming Hydra, Polygon, io9, etc. www.zachrabiroff.com

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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 1m

I'm going to disrupt this industry by introducing my own product that consists of only crusts. Ultracrustables. Deal with it, kids.

Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 13m

Mine kicked in with literally my first haircut after graduating from college, which felt appropriate. Anyway, I shaved my head that afternoon and never looked back.

Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 15m

I started going bald at 21, and decided I would rather not spend the rest of my life fighting a rear-guard action against my own hereditary condition.

Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 19m

We nominate these people. We (still) have open elections to do it. And if our candidates aren't good enough to represent us, the solution is, and always was, in our hands.

Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 2h

Accidental rope-a-dope

Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 6h

Great news! We have built the Blackmail Machine from the classic sci-fi short story, "Help, The Blackmail Machine Is Selling My Sex Dreams to Stephen Miller"

The Verge @theverge.com · 11h

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 6h

The Passion of the Cat

Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 9h

The Andrew Cuomo recipe for success.

Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 11h

The very same.

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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 11h

Jack Kirby: "I was raised in an area where you had a lot of gangsters. I know what gangsters do. Hitler's gonna want war. You start jumpin' around and giving him what he wants, he's gonna feed on your weakness."

MARK: So the capacity for great good and evil is inherent in everyone?
JACK: Of course. I was dating my wife at the time Hitler was coming on, and I did this editorial cartoon which showed Neville Chamberlain patting a boa con-strictor, and the boa had a bulge called Czechoslovakia. Chamberlain had just given Czechoslovakia to Hitler, okay.
And the boa had Hitler's mustache. I showed it to my boss at the syndicate and he says, "How dare a 19-year-old like you do a cartoon like that? What do you know?" I says "Well, I was raised in an area where you had a lot of gangsters. I know what gangsters do. Hitler's gonna want war. You start jumpin' around and giving him what he wants, he's gonna feed on your weakness." And Hitler wanted more and more until there was a face-off.

Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 11h

Jack Kirby: "I was raised in an area where you had a lot of gangsters. I know what gangsters do. Hitler's gonna want war. You start jumpin' around and giving him what he wants, he's gonna feed on your weakness."

MARK: So the capacity for great good and evil is inherent in everyone?
JACK: Of course. I was dating my wife at the time Hitler was coming on, and I did this editorial cartoon which showed Neville Chamberlain patting a boa con-strictor, and the boa had a bulge called Czechoslovakia. Chamberlain had just given Czechoslovakia to Hitler, okay.
And the boa had Hitler's mustache. I showed it to my boss at the syndicate and he says, "How dare a 19-year-old like you do a cartoon like that? What do you know?" I says "Well, I was raised in an area where you had a lot of gangsters. I know what gangsters do. Hitler's gonna want war. You start jumpin' around and giving him what he wants, he's gonna feed on your weakness." And Hitler wanted more and more until there was a face-off.

Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 11h

The new Pentagon rules imply that Fox News *would* do reporting if given the opportunity, and Lachlan Murdoch finds this very offensive

Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 11h

I shout this all the time when Satan violates our unholy pact

Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 13h

I think the lower you go in the ranks, the more he becomes the guy who hates the boss you also hate

Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 13h

Mamdani and Brad Lander are both hot for the same reason. Discuss.

Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 14h

You love to see it from your, uh, top military official

Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 14h

The Washington Generals are never going to win a game, but that doesn't stop the Globetrotters from bringing them out every night.

Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 14h

Mamdani pushing to loosen zoning restrictions in the outer boroughs really is the local left version of Nixon going to China

Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 14h

Just Jack Kirby in 1939, reminding us not to make deals with Nazis

Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 22h

I've heard worse explanations for the last election results

Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 22h

If it's any consolation, when I moved cross-country to New York, it was because I had been offered a job that, the week I arrived, the guy who offered it to me admitted he hadn't actually been authorized to do, and I was unemployed after all

Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 22h

I posit once again that the goal of this regime is to cosplay as the villains in a low-budget sci-fi movie

Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 22h

It's a little nice to know that everything can make him miserable somehow

Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 23h

If I misidentified the "M" in TIME Magazine for a tiny crown on my head, I would delete my social media account and find all new friends who didn't know me, and this guy is just going to go back to being president tomorrow

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 23h

Trump doesn’t like the photo lol

Trump: Time Magazine wrote a relatively good story about me, but the picture may be the Worst of All Time. They "disappeared" my hair, and then had something floating on top of my head that looked like a floating crown, but an extremely small one.
Really weird! I never liked taking pictures from underneath angles, but this is a super bad picture, and deserves to be called out. What are they doing, and why?
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10/13/25, 10:36 PM

Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 23h

Oh my god