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Gene Ha creator of 2026 IL Reads pick MAE The Definitive Edition @geneha.com · 13d
My GN MAE: The Definitive Edition got picked as a 2026 Illinois Reads book for teens! I'll more library and school talks in the coming year. First up, I'll be at the Vigo County Public Library (IN) for their free comic con this Saturday.

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Announcement image for MAE: The Definitive Edition being chosen as a 2026 Illinois Reads title for teens. Screenshot of the IL Reads teen titles page, with the listing for Mae: The Definitive Edition. Webpage for the Vigo County Public Library's Con At The Crossroads event this weekend. My announced schedule for next year, from my website: Appearances November 15, 2025 Con at the Crossroads 11am - 5pm FREE library comic con Vigo County Public Library, Main Branch, Terre Haute, IN Fri December 5, 2025 Illinois Reads Sneak Peek 6 - 8pm, Anderson's Bookshops, Downers Grove, IL MAE is an official 2026 Illinois Reads book for grades 9-12! Thu December 18, 2025 Draw Yourself As a Superhero 5:30 - 7pm Museum youth art program for the Alex Ross art exhibit. $15 residents, $18 nonresidents Bess Bower Dunn Museum, Libertyville, IL March 12-13, 2026 Illinois Reading Council Annual Conference BOS Center, Springfield, IL MAE: The Definitive Edition is a 2026 Illinois Reads teen title! Sat April 25, 2026 Illinois Reads Book Festival 10am - 2pm National Teachers Academy, Chicago, IL MAE: The Definitive Edition is a 2026 Illinois Reads teen title! May 22 - 24, 2026 Cherry Capital Comic Con aka C4 Grand Traverse Resort, MI … More 2025 and 2026 appearances as they’re announced!
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“This is how Enron did its accounting (seriously)”
re: OpenAI, Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social lawyer & former FBI Special Agent

FBI: "Enron executives reaped millions by using a web of partnerships to generate false profits and hiding Enron’s true debt..." www.fbi.gov/history/famo...
Screenshot of the posts that Asha Rangappa commented upon: Nicholas Grossman ‪@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social‬ On one side of the ledger, we have half a trillion dollars in operating losses expected over the next 5 years. On the other side of the ledger, we have all the money we'll hypothetically make when the hypothetical technology we imagine comes into existence mostly on its own. So it's net positive. ‪Scott Horton‬ ‪@robertscotthorton.bsky.social‬ · 32m HSBC forecasts that OpenAI is going to have nearly a half trillion in operating losses until 2030 [Graphic of "OpenAI estimated P&L 2029" profit & loss, showing a loss of $180.42bn and even that assumes them figuring out revenue sources that we have NO reason to believe anyone will give them.] FBI >History> Famous Cases and Criminals Enron The collapse of the energy company Enron in December 2001 precipitated what would become the most complex white-collar crime investigation in the FBI’s history. Top officials at the Houston-based company cheated investors and enriched themselves through complex accounting gimmicks like overvaluing assets to boost cash flow and earnings statements, which made the company even more appealing to investors. The Investigation When Enron declared bankruptcy in December 2001 and took with it the nest eggs of thousands of employees and stockholders, the FBI Houston Field Office assigned two agents to investigate. Within weeks, the number of agents and support staff assigned to the case grew to 45, many hand-picked from field offices around the country for their expertise in traversing even the most circuitous paper trails. The sheer magnitude of the case prompted the creation of the multi-agency Enron Task Force, a unique blend of investigators and analysts from the FBI, the Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation Division, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and prosecutors from the Department of Justice. In January 2002, agents executed a consent search of Enron’s 50-story corporate headquarters building. The search lasted nine days as investigators unearthed critical documents and emerged with more than 400 boxes of evidence. At the same time, agents conducted more than 100 interviews that helped identify fresh leads for investigators. In February 2002, Enron’s board of directors issued findings from its own internal investigation—the Powers Report, named for William Powers Jr., head of the special investigation committee that wrote it—that said Enron executives reaped millions by using a web of partnerships to generate false profits and hiding Enron’s true debt. The Powers Report “was a gold mine,” said retired Supervisory Special Agent Michael E. Anderson, who led the Enron Task Force in Houston. [Phot…
November 27, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Ana Marie Cox on indigenous pop culture for Thanksgiving and Indigenous People's Month.

IMHO, Reservation Dogs is BRILLIANT. Also the way it mixes in mystical/supernatural elements is inspiring to this Scif/Fantasy/Superhero creator: character based, dramatic conflict, and oh so much humor.
anamariecox.bsky.social Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 8h
We're lucky enough to see a boom in indigenous pop culture. So you could watch:
Reservation Dogs (You've heard of this one)
Dark Winds (Native noir, so good)
Molly of Denali (You know, for kids!)
Rutherford Falls (New England indigenous rep!)
Spirit Rangers (Kids!)

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Pow!
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November 27, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Reminder: the first Raimi SPIDER-MAN is a Thanksgiving movie.
Screencap from SPIDER-MAN (2002) featuring Willem Defoe as Norman Osborne with the Thanksgiving turkey
November 26, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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I’m guessing you are both fans and friends with each other? @mouseguard.bsky.social !
November 27, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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nachosoloco.bsky.social
Everything I know about Olivia Nuzzi, I've learned against my will.
November 26, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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mimamound.bsky.social
Charges dropped against U.S. Air Force veteran arrested during protest outside Broadview ICE facility - CBS Chicago share.google/36UtmqGwOqBz...
Charges dropped against U.S. Air Force veteran arrested during protest outside Broadview ICE facility
The United States Attorney decided to drop all of the charges against Dana Briggs with prejudice, meaning this is a final ruling and the same charges can never be brought again.
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November 26, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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@thehill.com: US House "Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-Fla.) backed U.S. military intervention in Venezuela on Monday, arguing President Nicolás Maduro knows the U.S. is about to 'go in,' resulting in a 'field day' for American oil companies." thehill.com/homenews/hou...
November 26, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Thanksgiving 2025, I'm grateful to everyone standing up for immigrant human rights. I love the change!

2017, in MY hometown, Trump's ICE deported Roberto Beristain. Beloved steakhouse owner. Married to a US American, w kids. It was a national story. In 2018, even locals forgot him. is.gd/V0Oa1O
Screenshot of the linked article: The Washington Post Democracy Dies in Darkness His American Dream died. His town got over it. The deportation of a restaurant owner caused a national furor, but his memory in Granger, Indiana, is fading Story by Robert Samuels Photos by Alyssa Schukar MARCH 11, 2018 GRANGER, Ind. The goofy red sign off State Road 23 still says “Eddie’s Steak Shed,” just as it always has. The thank-you plaques for sponsoring the county Little League are still in the front entrance, alongside 15 years’ worth of stickers honoring the steaks as the area’s best. But farther inside, most everything has changed in the year since the old owner was detained, then deported, as part of a crackdown on undocumented immigrants by a tough-talking new president. Roberto Beristain, a former dishwasher who worked until he could afford to buy the place, was gone. In his place were refurbished wood-paneled walls, a bar with a granite counter and a new pork chop entree. Even the name had been changed with something snappier, sleeker — Eddie’s was now simply, “The Shed.” “I love what you did to the place!” Heather Pepper, 47, exclaimed to the bartender on a recent night. “It looks so updated, and it still feels local.” Screenshot of the linked Washington Post article: “I love what you did to the place!” Heather Pepper, 47, exclaimed to the bartender on a recent night. “It looks so updated, and it still feels local.” As soon as he was detained, Beristain became a cause. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and immigration activists held him up as an example of what they said were exceedingly cruel new actions by President Trump. They said his aggressive efforts would ensnare good people, rip apart families and lead vengeful communities to exact their furor at the ballot box — the same points Democrats have used to argue against deporting hundreds of thousands of “dreamers” and other endangered immigrants. In Granger, though, there are few signs of lingering resentment. The calls threatening the restaurant stopped long ago, as did the ones in support of Beristain. A local businessman bought Eddie’s, gave it a new name and a new look. Beristain is now in Mexico, desperate to return.
November 26, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Angry Staff Officer: “…Thanksgiving as a national holiday has to do with the Civil War and not the Puritans or previously proclaimed days of Thanksgiving (of which there were hundreds) - so be sure… to give thanks for the victories brought by Union arms at Vicksburg & Gettysburg.”
pptsapper.bsky.social Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 1d
Here’s Ohio’s Thanksgiving proclamation
Thanksgiving Proclamation of the Governor of Ohio. In cheerful compliatice with the request of the General Assembly ot the State of Ohio, monifested by the lesolution of the 14th of April, A. D. 1863, and in harmony with the Proclamation of the President of the United States, I, David Tod, Governor of the State of Ohio, do hereby appoint the last Thursday (26tb) of November, as a day. of Thanksgiving and Praise to our Heavenly Father for his continued mercies and manifold blessings. Let us devoutly thank Him for the abundance afforded for our comfort and happiness; for the good and loyal spirit mauifested by the great body of our people; for the self- sacrificing heroism of our brothers and friends in arms; for the determined effort and well-founded hope that our Government shall still be preserv. ed in its unity and benificence; for the unway-ering determination that the enemies of our dear country, both at home and abroad, shall be discomfited; and for the joyous hope and prospect that our desolating civil war will soon give way to peace, prosperity and happiness throughout all the land, to bless all the inhabitants thereof. Amid our thanksgiving and praise, amidat our efforts and hopes, let us not forget that the greatstruggle in which we are engaged has filled our land with widows and orphans; out of our abundance let us comfort them for their great sacrifices; let us all diligently learn, and strive to perform our every duty, and thus atone for our manifold sins, humbly trusting to Him who wields the destinies of nations and peoples, that He will vouchsafe to us all the blessings of life and good government. In testimony whereof I have bereunto set my band and caused the Great Seal of the [SEAL. State of Ohio to be afixed, at Colum-bus, the 24th day of October, A.D. '63.-DAVID TOD, Governor. B. F. HOFFMAN, Private Secretary.
November 26, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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kendrawrites.com
God this is so motivating.
miamidsa.org Miami DSA @miamidsa.org · 1d
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:43 PM
geneha.com
Was Shakespeare actually Gail Simone?

The fact that Billy Shakspere wrote in the 16th century but famously made his tea in the modern British way, using a microwave, is absolute proof for many academics.
briancutter.bsky.social Cutter @briancutter.bsky.social · 1d
Some people say she's out there somewhere, microwaving tea.
November 25, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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Is Gail Simone a redheaded human comics writer? A redheaded brown bear comics writer? A post-human time traveller from Titan comics writer? A myth? Yes!

Gail Simone is a cryptid, and an unusually well-documented one. But like all cryptids, no one is able to prove Gail Simone exists in our timeline.
briancutter.bsky.social Cutter @briancutter.bsky.social · 2d
I only wish @gailsimone.bsky.social had come over here from Twitter.

Alas, she did not.
nameshiv.bsky.social Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 2d
I miss when Twitter was truly great like the time a guy got upset at someone calling out a cricket team and started explaining how bowling worked and at the end OP was like "thanks for explaining btw I hold the world record for most career outs in cricket history"
November 25, 2025 at 11:39 PM
geneha.com
This is the greatest and funniest statement about an actor's accent, from a native, since the British learned to love Austin Powers.
blipstress.bsky.social violet allen @blipstress.bsky.social · 2d
I have long posited that Daniel Craig's accent in Glass Onion is better than Knives Out because in Knives Out he is trying to do a real Southern accent and is bad at it but in Glass Onion he is just talking like Foghorn Leghorn, which is something a real gay Southern weirdo would do.
November 25, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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ironspike.bsky.social
If you're new to cooking or don't trust yourself to recognize a bad AI recipe, for the love on god, do not just use random recipes from random profiles. Find trustworthy sites and creators (Serious Eats, NYT Cooking, J. Kenji Lopez-Alt, Alton Brown) and search their archives for what you need.
davey.bsky.social Davey Alba @davey.bsky.social · 2d
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.

Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
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November 25, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Random Nightwing sketch!
November 25, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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(Finally, no animated films in the Top 100? Even leaving out shorts, The Emperor's New Groove, Shrek, Monsters Inc, and especially Who Framed Roger Rabbit? all are legit contenders here. EVEN MORE BOOS, VARIETY! I am replete with the boo-age!)
November 24, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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The movie listed at #1 is so incredibly misplaced that it calls into question the veracity of the entire list. It belongs on the list, yes, but SO MUCH further down. An absolute, credibility-wrecking flub. Boo, @variety.com! Boo!

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The 100 Best Comedy Movies of All Time
Variety's list of the 100 best comedy movies of all time includes 'Annie Hall,' 'Pretty Woman,' 'Waiting for Guffman' and 'Young Frankenstein.'
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November 24, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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cheryllynneaton.bsky.social
Always remember that Elon Musk isn't disliked because he's awkward and unfunny. Plenty of awkward and unfunny people have friends. Elon Musk is disliked because he is destructive and cruel.
wapplehouse.bsky.social Kristi Yamaguccimane @wapplehouse.bsky.social · 3d
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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lucyknisley.bsky.social
I found a big sign at the thrift shop with some live/laugh/love stuff on it, so I painted over that with my to-do list. Feel free to make it yours, too.
A painted pink, black and white sign that reads: To Do Build community Shop small and local Speak up and speak out Practice empathy Protect the vulnerable Give to good causes Care for the earth Be brave and loving Investigate Read and listen Abide no fascism
November 23, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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cheryllynneaton.bsky.social
This is really going off on a tangent, so I decided to make a new thread. The reason why I also like this timeline instead of others tying Wayne to Falcone is that it pulls Batman into the modern era and stops pinning crime on "the mob." Billionaires ARE the mob.
cheryllynneaton.bsky.social Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 3d
I don't really care if this is a popular or unpopular opinion. It's mine. Make this book canon. Martha Wayne getting got because she went back to her journo roots to try to take down a billionaire pedophile ring instead of spending her days being a trophy wife is what I need.
A photo of the book Batman: The Ultimate Evil by Andrew Vachss
November 24, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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danslott.bsky.social
Forget it, Charlie Brown. It's Chinatown.
zackdavisson.com Zack Davisson @zackdavisson.com · 3d
What do we say to the God of Death, Charlie Brown?
conroyforreal.bsky.social Chris Conroy @conroyforreal.bsky.social · 3d
And now, Charlie Brown, I give the watch to you.
November 24, 2025 at 2:28 AM
geneha.com
For an old comics geek, one of the most magical things ever on comic Bluesky: seeing Tom Brevoort and Kurt Busiek play "fantasy football" about how they would have fixed 1970s DC Comics's then hidebound editorial offices and comics line. SO MUCH INSIDER BASEBALL!!!
Screenshot of the thread I linked to, just click the link!
November 24, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That's the Charlie Brown way!
Scene from A Charlie Brown Christmas of Linus, on stage, explaining the meaning of Christmas.
November 24, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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gregpak.net
wtf
dominicervolina.com Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 4d
Instagram’s former head of safety and well-being Vaishnavi Jayakumar testified the company had a “17x” strike policy for accounts that engaged in the trafficking of humans for sex.

“You could incur 16 violations and upon the 17th violation, your account would be suspended"

time.com/7336204/meta...
7 Allegations Against Meta in Newly Unsealed Filings
Court filings allege Meta tolerated sex trafficking, hid harms to teens, and prioritized growth over user safety for years.
time.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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badtoss.bsky.social
The thing is, it's also the accounts you agree with that are foreign ops. The mission is chaos, noise, exhaustion. They divide to conquer or make you so disaffected you believe there's no truth anywhere so why participate in politics.

Read on this:
www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/peter...
November 23, 2025 at 2:03 PM