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Antonieta Muñoz Estrada @mariadrawss.bsky.social · 1d

If you disable this on Pinterest, all AI content will not appear when you search. 😉✨️ #kidlit

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 12h

“Israeli” ceasefires only ever apply to the other party. They’ll continue to kill whomever they want, whenever they want until they are stopped. They see themselves as occupying an altogether different moral plane than their enemies, like any colonizer.

Tweet from Quds News Network @QudsNen
BREAKING: Three Palestinians were killed after Israeli quadcopter drones opened fire on residents inspecting their homes in the Shujaiyya neighborhood, east of Gaza City.

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JD, you can’t eat comics. @lostcity.bsky.social · 16h

…So my recast would be to replace Tom Waits’ character with an Indigenous actor. I know everyone loves what Tom Waits did with the part, but too bad. You need a character who is progagonisty enough (with slim pickings, it’s a movie full of doomed figures), non-stereotypical, and a juicy part.

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JD, you can’t eat comics. @lostcity.bsky.social · 16h

Pick a movie that could have been great. Recast ONE role to fix it.

Another Cohen Bros movie: THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS.

Indigenous people were done dirty by this movie. Mostly, IMO, by omission. You don’t write a movie set in Weimar Germany and have no Jewish characters with speaking parts.

Chris Schweizer @ NYCC A-28 @schweizercomics.bsky.social · 17h

Pick a movie that could have been great. Recast ONE role to fix it.

TRUE GRIT (2010)
Recast: John Goodman as Rooster Cogburn

Bridges did a good job, but frequent Coens collaborator Goodman was born to play the "one-eyed fat man." With his comedic timing, the role would've had a bit more humor.

Kimber Johnson @kimberjohnson.bsky.social · 1d

Pick a movie that could have been great. Recast ONE role to fix it.

The Snowman (2017)
Recast: Detective Harry Hole with Michael Shannon
How it's fixed: Shannon’s unhinged intensity turns this icy mess into a psychological horror. You feel the frostbite and existential dread.

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june 🧛‍♀️ @juneever.green · 1d

Marisa Tomei as Mona Lisa Vito in My Cousin Vinny (1992).

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Megan Kearney @spookymeggie.bsky.social · 23h

Some yokai thoughts from my Japan trip this summer

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🪦"Pushing Up" Daisy 🥀 @daisyfm.net · 19h

What if corporations talked about other things we don't want the same way they talk about AI?

"Poisonous mushrooms are here to stay, so here's 10 delicious poisonous mushroom recipes!"

"Mosquitoes are here to stay, so our new line of laptops are filled with live mosquitoes!"

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JD, you can’t eat comics. @lostcity.bsky.social · 21h

Any nation or region in history that either didn’t have slavery, or had it rarely (which, to be fair, currently includes the US, where prisoners can be forced to work), got that way because some people decided “we’re not doing that.” Because the “I want to exploit others” people exist everywhere.

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JD, you can’t eat comics. @lostcity.bsky.social · 21h

I finished colouring my Animorphs covers and I like them a lot. I probably won’t finish running them through Photoshop today, though.

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JD, you can’t eat comics. @lostcity.bsky.social · 21h

Some Indigenous regions had slavery, others found it anathema. I think (?) California and the Plains/Prairies never allowed it. There must be other examples. But for some reason the people who don’t write about Haitian history are also not writing books about abolition in other parts of the world.

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JD, you can’t eat comics. @lostcity.bsky.social · 21h

In Han Dynasty China, one of the emperors outlawed slavery. It didn’t stick, slavery had to be outlawed in China several more times, including in the 20th century, but China never became the kind of slave-dependant states you found in other parts of Eurasia because people fought against it.

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JD, you can’t eat comics. @lostcity.bsky.social · 21h

Not quote tweeting the original because yes, Haitians ABSOLUTELY deserve the credit for being the first and most important domino in the abolition of slavery in the modern world. BUT ALSO, there have been people trying to ban slavery for as long as there’s been slavery, and sometimes they succeeded.

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The Erinaceous Ghost 🦔 👻 @erinaceousphd.bsky.social · 22h

*Haiti enters the chat*

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Europeans were the first group to ban slavery. Fact. Prove me wrong.

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Sam Logan @samandfuzzy.com · 1d

Was trying to do some inking when Hilde grabbed the pen

Photo of a black and white illustration on a sheet of paper, sitting on a wood desk.

The illustration is formatted like a four panel comic, two rows of two. Dipper the corgi is in the top left, looking down at Hilde the wizard cat in the bottom right. The top right panel features Poppy, and the bottom left features a pile of bones. Hilde has grabbed the actual real life pen that is sitting on top of the piece of paper they are drawn on, and is using it to draw a closed panel border around Dipper.

Dipper is brandishing his sword as he glares at Hilde. The sword extends outside of the panel he is in, and into the neighbouring panel, in which Poppy the dog leans to the side to avoid the sword tip.

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JD, you can’t eat comics. @lostcity.bsky.social · 1d

Yes they did. Even the other racist, pro-slavery crusader-types were writing letters to the crown complaining about how Columbus was taking his racism and slavery too far.

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JD, you can’t eat comics. @lostcity.bsky.social · 1d

“WhY are CanAdIans BeinG so MEAN and Not TrAvELling to the US to sPenD thEiR MONEY”

Anna Mehler Paperny @mehlerpaperny.bsky.social · 1d

Canadian authorities have been warning Canadians for the past few months to have papers on them when in the US.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

Wow, wow, wow. This has always been legally possible but the law has virtually never been enforced — and now this is the SECOND case I've heard of in the last month (first involving a person with a green card) of a noncitizen being charged for failure to carry their papers.

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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 1d

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C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 1d

What The Hell Is Going On, a thread:

I’ve seen some thinkpieces and posts about Portland protests that fail to understand the long-term hyperspecificity of Portland culture/humor, and frame it as a sort of shitposting meme-pilled ironic thing. Which is wrong.

So I’m gonna give you my breakdown.

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JD, you can’t eat comics. @lostcity.bsky.social · 1d

People spent centuries conflating explorers with colonizers, & I think it’s worthwhile disentangling them. Astronauts who walked on the moon should NOT be on lists with Columbus or Cortes. They were not doing the same work. Marco Polo, not a colonizer, & not his fault he’s been associated with them.

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JD, you can’t eat comics. @lostcity.bsky.social · 1d

Marco Polo is well known & appreciated, in no small part because he never colonized anybody on the way. People in China still name things after Marco Polo, because even though he was so insignificant at the time as to not be recorded in Chinese history, he’s now a symbol of peaceful exchange.

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JD, you can’t eat comics. @lostcity.bsky.social · 1d

My most serious candidates are Marco Polo and Brutus. Brutus wasn’t the anti-imperial hero he gets made out to be, but he killed a tyrant, and it seems extremely American, to me, to pick a tyrant-killer to celebrate. Make the Ides of March a holiday, and today can stay Indigenous People’s Day.

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JD, you can’t eat comics. @lostcity.bsky.social · 1d

Michelangelo. Leonardo DaVinci. Giuseppe Garibaldi. Guglielmo Marconi. Enrico Fermi. Marcus Junius Brutus! Ovid. Dante. Marco Polo (the only good European explorer!) Heck, build statues of Ariana Grande if you need to. Or Nancy Pelosi. Columbus sets the bar so low, almost everyone crosses it.

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

name an italian more worthy of an american holiday than columbus

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JD, you can’t eat comics. @lostcity.bsky.social · 1d

New Tradewaiters! We read "Home by the Rotting Sea" by Otava Heikkilä. www.tumblr.com/tradewaiters...

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💬 0 🔁 0 ❤️ 0 · The TradeWaiters - eps. 124: "Home by the Rotting Sea" by Otava Heikkilä This week we read Home by the Rotting Sea by Finnish cartoonist Otava Heikkilä, a short but emotional jour…

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JD, you can’t eat comics. @lostcity.bsky.social · 1d

* A “radical” is a piece of a Chinese character that both gives a clue to meaning, in this case what category or concept it fits into, and can be used to look up unfamiliar words in a dictionary. When used as a radical they sometimes get simplified, like 水 being turned into 3 dots in 溴.

JD, you can’t eat comics. @lostcity.bsky.social · 1d

So, 氣 for gasses, 金 for metals, 水 for liquids (at room temperature), or 石 (stone) for nonmetallic solids. Some of these words predate modern chemistry, of course, but I guess the pattern was already pre-existing, and it was easy to add new words and lock the pattern down.

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JD, you can’t eat comics. @lostcity.bsky.social · 1d

Okay THIS is actually rad, and something I hadn’t known. The words for elements on the periodic table in Chinese are highly systematic! youtu.be/8ol7DsPnHcE?... The video goes into more detail, but you can see it in the title card. Every word contains a radical* for what type of element it is.

The Chinese periodic table goes hard

YouTube video by ElitPonkots

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