Mark Paglia
@markpaglia.bsky.social
I'm just here for the occasional bon mot.
https://linktr.ee/markpaglia
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"Clankers"? Please, I'm a grown-up, I call AI "Lie Bot."
![Achewood cartoon of Philippe and Lie Bot in front of a bathroom door.
Philippe: Excuse me Lie Bot, I have to use the bathroom.
Lie Bot: Oh, here's a quarter then.
P: What?
LB: A quarter! Take it!
P: [stares silently]
LB: Haven't you heard? If you flush a quarter down the toilet each time you use it, the city collects it and puts it in your retirement fund!
P: Oh, I see!](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:a45ckefm6b2f6hprykrca4lk/bafkreie4beq2sklqfeqn3vfe224c5xeoafcqottvzmq53tuqkxnptumaqm@jpeg)
November 19, 2025 at 11:37 PM
"Clankers"? Please, I'm a grown-up, I call AI "Lie Bot."
The Air Bud sequels should have had them making a rule that dogs can't play basketball, so instead a succession of other basketball-playing animals get through loopholes. Air Bud can come back as the coach.
November 19, 2025 at 11:07 PM
The Air Bud sequels should have had them making a rule that dogs can't play basketball, so instead a succession of other basketball-playing animals get through loopholes. Air Bud can come back as the coach.
Starting to suspect that the mint didn't think through how to phase out pennies.
November 19, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Starting to suspect that the mint didn't think through how to phase out pennies.
There is a more than decent chance that when the administration doctors the Epstein files, they use ChatGPT and it winds up inventing even more crimes for the pedophile-in-chief.
November 19, 2025 at 2:43 PM
There is a more than decent chance that when the administration doctors the Epstein files, they use ChatGPT and it winds up inventing even more crimes for the pedophile-in-chief.
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NEW: I spent a week in Connecticut’s only immigration court, where thousands of people each year learn if they can stay in the United States.
The court doesn’t allow photography, so I took an illustrator.
My latest for @ctinsider.bsky.social —
www.ctinsider.com/news/article... #nutmegsky
The court doesn’t allow photography, so I took an illustrator.
My latest for @ctinsider.bsky.social —
www.ctinsider.com/news/article... #nutmegsky
A week inside the opaque court where CT immigrants learn their fate
The courtroom often resembles an assembly line, with many cases taking less than five minutes.
www.ctinsider.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:27 PM
NEW: I spent a week in Connecticut’s only immigration court, where thousands of people each year learn if they can stay in the United States.
The court doesn’t allow photography, so I took an illustrator.
My latest for @ctinsider.bsky.social —
www.ctinsider.com/news/article... #nutmegsky
The court doesn’t allow photography, so I took an illustrator.
My latest for @ctinsider.bsky.social —
www.ctinsider.com/news/article... #nutmegsky
Reposted by Mark Paglia
Those clowns at the ice cream factory
November 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Those clowns at the ice cream factory
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40 years ago today the world was introduced to a small boy and his best friend. Happy birthday Calvin & Hobbes.
November 18, 2025 at 6:37 AM
40 years ago today the world was introduced to a small boy and his best friend. Happy birthday Calvin & Hobbes.
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My favorite film by one of my favorite directors.
Jerry Lewis and Martin Scorsese during the filming of THE KING OF COMEDY (1982)
Scorsese was BOTD in 1942
Scorsese was BOTD in 1942
November 18, 2025 at 2:46 AM
My favorite film by one of my favorite directors.
Someone needs to tell the Dems that "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" is a statement about tactics, not a statement about the magic of friendship.
Raskin: We are a big tent. We must be a huge, vast tent. I say this is a party that’s got room for Marjorie Taylor Greene if she wants to come over.
November 17, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Someone needs to tell the Dems that "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" is a statement about tactics, not a statement about the magic of friendship.
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Nintendo GameCube Dashboard
December 16, 2023 at 1:26 AM
Nintendo GameCube Dashboard
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Antisemitism is a lot like Qanon child abuse conspiracies in that there’s this real and bad phenomenon and, parallel to that, what can only be described as a large scale mass psychosis about a mostly fictional version of the same phenomenon
November 16, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Antisemitism is a lot like Qanon child abuse conspiracies in that there’s this real and bad phenomenon and, parallel to that, what can only be described as a large scale mass psychosis about a mostly fictional version of the same phenomenon
Top five film genres:
1. We need a hare-brained scheme to get a Macguffin from high-society twits.
2. Our hero won't be baited into fighting young upstarts.
3. People explode comically.
4. Generational saga of a family that has issues.
5. Our friend asked us to be in his bizarre movie.
1. We need a hare-brained scheme to get a Macguffin from high-society twits.
2. Our hero won't be baited into fighting young upstarts.
3. People explode comically.
4. Generational saga of a family that has issues.
5. Our friend asked us to be in his bizarre movie.
Top five film genres:
1. Loser's pyrrhic victory
2. There is a piece of art that makes you crazy
3. Everybody dies but it's kind of funny
4. Bad sex decisions
5. A collection of human weaknesses leads to catastrophe
1. Loser's pyrrhic victory
2. There is a piece of art that makes you crazy
3. Everybody dies but it's kind of funny
4. Bad sex decisions
5. A collection of human weaknesses leads to catastrophe
top five film genres:
lady journalist in depression era america is going to get to the bottom of this, man or no man
warriors learn magic, defeat master who killed their master
the camera moves!: an experiment
the folks in this building is a reflection of all america
immigration as a vibe
lady journalist in depression era america is going to get to the bottom of this, man or no man
warriors learn magic, defeat master who killed their master
the camera moves!: an experiment
the folks in this building is a reflection of all america
immigration as a vibe
November 16, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Top five film genres:
1. We need a hare-brained scheme to get a Macguffin from high-society twits.
2. Our hero won't be baited into fighting young upstarts.
3. People explode comically.
4. Generational saga of a family that has issues.
5. Our friend asked us to be in his bizarre movie.
1. We need a hare-brained scheme to get a Macguffin from high-society twits.
2. Our hero won't be baited into fighting young upstarts.
3. People explode comically.
4. Generational saga of a family that has issues.
5. Our friend asked us to be in his bizarre movie.
I make no secret of my love of weird, lesser-known comics characters, and this zine has me thoroughly stilt-pilled.
Now that I'm through my zine fair experience, the remaining STILT-ZINES are now up for sale! I only have a small amount of these left and I will NOT be ordering more, so if you want the world's greatest* zine about Stilt-Man, you should order it soon!
*only
*only
STILT-ZINE
It's time! The world's greatest Stilt-Man zine is finally here! Want STILT-ZINE? My latest creation? You can order it today. Who am I?...
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November 16, 2025 at 8:38 PM
I make no secret of my love of weird, lesser-known comics characters, and this zine has me thoroughly stilt-pilled.
I don't know if it would have turned out to be good, but George Lucas's pitch for a sequel trilogy was the New Republic besieged by gangsters, and that is sounding as prescient as Attack of the Clones preceding the invasion of Iraq.
First, let's back up.
Noem has starred in a sprawling ad campaign she’s said is a crucial tool to stem illegal immigration—so crucial that DHS bypassed the normal competitive bidding process, designed to prevent waste & corruption in federal contracts www.propublica.org/article/kris...
Noem has starred in a sprawling ad campaign she’s said is a crucial tool to stem illegal immigration—so crucial that DHS bypassed the normal competitive bidding process, designed to prevent waste & corruption in federal contracts www.propublica.org/article/kris...
Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts
The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rule...
www.propublica.org
November 16, 2025 at 2:38 PM
I don't know if it would have turned out to be good, but George Lucas's pitch for a sequel trilogy was the New Republic besieged by gangsters, and that is sounding as prescient as Attack of the Clones preceding the invasion of Iraq.
This is a pro-Deathstalker account.
thought Steven Kostanski's Deathstalker was a blast. like a Frank Frazetta fever dream seen through the lens of Sam Raimi. a super fun homage to (and spoof of) '80s & '90s fantasy - kinda like if The Sword and the Sorcerer had jokes and gags
November 16, 2025 at 2:11 PM
This is a pro-Deathstalker account.
Pretty fucked that this year's Pulitzer for photography will be a competition for who took the best picture of a priest being brutalized.
Rev. Michael Woolf, a faith leader and minister at Lake Street Church of Evanston, detained by Illinois State Police while protesting immigration policies outside the Broadview facility in Chicago.
Photo by Jim Vondruska/Reuters
Photo by Jim Vondruska/Reuters
November 16, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Pretty fucked that this year's Pulitzer for photography will be a competition for who took the best picture of a priest being brutalized.
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In "Peanuts," Lucy first yanked the football away from Charlie Brown on November 16, 1952. This wasn’t the first time the football had been yanked away from him—Violet holds that honor. But from this strip onward, Lucy was the culprit behind one of the strip’s most beloved recurring gags.
November 16, 2025 at 1:41 PM
In "Peanuts," Lucy first yanked the football away from Charlie Brown on November 16, 1952. This wasn’t the first time the football had been yanked away from him—Violet holds that honor. But from this strip onward, Lucy was the culprit behind one of the strip’s most beloved recurring gags.
Ever since high school, I've been a single-issue voter, and that single issue is installing a drinking fountain for soda.
November 15, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Ever since high school, I've been a single-issue voter, and that single issue is installing a drinking fountain for soda.
Don't get to say this often enough: some Shay's Rebellion news dropped.
gazettenet.com/2025/11/14/u...
gazettenet.com/2025/11/14/u...
Unearthing history: State archivists uncover rare 18th-century jail records in Northampton - Daily Hampshire Gazette
NORTHAMPTON — State archivists recently uncovered jailhouse records detailing the imprisonment of 35 participants in Shays’ Rebellion — a 1786-1787 armed uprising in western Massachusetts — hidden amo...
gazettenet.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Don't get to say this often enough: some Shay's Rebellion news dropped.
gazettenet.com/2025/11/14/u...
gazettenet.com/2025/11/14/u...
Holy shit, the author of the short story that inspired "They Live" also invented the propeller beanie. What a life.
November 15, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Holy shit, the author of the short story that inspired "They Live" also invented the propeller beanie. What a life.
Capping off this week the only way that seems appropriate, rewatching "They Live" yet again on Criterion Channel.
November 14, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Capping off this week the only way that seems appropriate, rewatching "They Live" yet again on Criterion Channel.
I did not foresee the AI use case of recreating the Arian heresy.
The app Text With Jesus uses artificial intelligence and chatbots to offer spiritual guidance to users who are looking to connect with a higher power: on.nbc10.com/7XM8xrf
People can text with Jesus on a controversial new app. How does it work?
Artificial intelligence app Text With Jesus lets users chat with biblical figures and it is raising debate over faith and technology.
on.nbc10.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:06 PM
I did not foresee the AI use case of recreating the Arian heresy.
If I ran DC Comics, I'd make a 12-issue crossover where every month is another total relaunch of continuity, just to take their strategy to its logical conclusion.
If I ran Marvel Comics, I'd beg Hideo Kojima to write a new Silver Sable and the Wild Pack series.
If I ran Marvel Comics, I'd beg Hideo Kojima to write a new Silver Sable and the Wild Pack series.
November 14, 2025 at 11:01 PM
If I ran DC Comics, I'd make a 12-issue crossover where every month is another total relaunch of continuity, just to take their strategy to its logical conclusion.
If I ran Marvel Comics, I'd beg Hideo Kojima to write a new Silver Sable and the Wild Pack series.
If I ran Marvel Comics, I'd beg Hideo Kojima to write a new Silver Sable and the Wild Pack series.