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Hey there, I'm Adam P., a comic creator and podcaster. You can check out my work at www.phantasmictales.com and my Patreon, www.patreon.com/phantasmicta... . Works include Dash Platypus, Nightbeach, and New Junk City, plus my podcast What Mad Universe?!?: what-mad-universe.pinecast.co
If your whole thing is following a flag of a fandom into battle you risk becoming cannon fodder, or sweeping bad actors into power. I guess any revolution needs footsoldiers but wouldn't it be better if we're all somewhat educated on the subject
January 8, 2026 at 7:42 PM
If your whole thing is following a flag of a fandom into battle you risk becoming cannon fodder, or sweeping bad actors into power. I guess any revolution needs footsoldiers but wouldn't it be better if we're all somewhat educated on the subject
If Naruto or V For Vendetta or whatever is acting as a symbol for people, great, but that's superficial, emotional stuff. You do eventually have to sit down and learn history and politics to move on to step two
January 8, 2026 at 7:40 PM
If Naruto or V For Vendetta or whatever is acting as a symbol for people, great, but that's superficial, emotional stuff. You do eventually have to sit down and learn history and politics to move on to step two
I don't deny Star Wars or Hunger Games or whatever nerd shit can play a huge role in firing up people's imaginations when it comes to aspirational politics--hell, that might be one of the biggest ways fiction can impact reality--but that stuff isn't a playbook for actual useful action
January 8, 2026 at 7:38 PM
I don't deny Star Wars or Hunger Games or whatever nerd shit can play a huge role in firing up people's imaginations when it comes to aspirational politics--hell, that might be one of the biggest ways fiction can impact reality--but that stuff isn't a playbook for actual useful action
I mean hopefully they won't take over every country, we'll keep fighting them. People have to turn out though
January 8, 2026 at 7:33 PM
I mean hopefully they won't take over every country, we'll keep fighting them. People have to turn out though
It's a global problem and they're all coordinating unfortunately. Canada is actually a pretty big exporter of white supremacy (Gavin Innes, Stefan Molyneux, The Post Millennial) even if our institutions are holding SLIGHTLY better for now
January 8, 2026 at 7:28 PM
It's a global problem and they're all coordinating unfortunately. Canada is actually a pretty big exporter of white supremacy (Gavin Innes, Stefan Molyneux, The Post Millennial) even if our institutions are holding SLIGHTLY better for now
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here's this vintage jeopardy clip with ken jennings
January 7, 2026 at 9:25 PM
here's this vintage jeopardy clip with ken jennings
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Ubisoft closed its Halifax, NS studio a few weeks after the employees unionized. I have a couple of good friends who worked there, one had been a part of the studio for nearly 20 years. Miserable. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Video game giant Ubisoft closes Halifax studio, cutting 71 jobs | CBC News
Staff formed company's first North American union in late December but Ubisoft says unionization did not influence closure.
www.cbc.ca
January 8, 2026 at 4:34 PM
Ubisoft closed its Halifax, NS studio a few weeks after the employees unionized. I have a couple of good friends who worked there, one had been a part of the studio for nearly 20 years. Miserable. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Real power move from the White House: Get the whiniest loser we know to get up there and whine like a loser.
January 8, 2026 at 6:55 PM
Real power move from the White House: Get the whiniest loser we know to get up there and whine like a loser.
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years ago I made a tweet that was like "the thing they don't tell you about comics is how many god damn doorframes you have to draw" and i'm here to say: it continues. people opening doors. knocking on doors. stepping through doorframes. i'm still fucking drawing all of it. it never ends
January 8, 2026 at 4:45 AM
years ago I made a tweet that was like "the thing they don't tell you about comics is how many god damn doorframes you have to draw" and i'm here to say: it continues. people opening doors. knocking on doors. stepping through doorframes. i'm still fucking drawing all of it. it never ends
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Please boost this if you're in the Toronto area, we need as many bodies as possible to show up to this to counter the fash and keep things safe
January 8, 2026 at 7:06 PM
Please boost this if you're in the Toronto area, we need as many bodies as possible to show up to this to counter the fash and keep things safe
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We're back for 2026! An all-new episode about the kid's book Sir MacHinery, the tale of a robot who gets mistaken for a knight in armour, the tension between magic and science, and a lot of bad Scottish accents: what-mad-universe.pinecast.co/episode/467c...
S5E132 -Chapter One Hundred and Thirty-Five: The Well-Made Knight!
On SIR MACHINERY, by Tom McGowen
what-mad-universe.pinecast.co
January 7, 2026 at 8:01 PM
We're back for 2026! An all-new episode about the kid's book Sir MacHinery, the tale of a robot who gets mistaken for a knight in armour, the tension between magic and science, and a lot of bad Scottish accents: what-mad-universe.pinecast.co/episode/467c...
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Last RS: there might actually be something of value in a network news anchor actually traveling around the country in a bus or by commercial air to really see how the country lives but none of these guys would last five hours on a terminal floor at O’Hare
January 8, 2026 at 4:05 PM
Last RS: there might actually be something of value in a network news anchor actually traveling around the country in a bus or by commercial air to really see how the country lives but none of these guys would last five hours on a terminal floor at O’Hare
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After ICE ads showed up on AEW programming on HBO and TBS, the Men's World Champion posted this. Fans cancelled memberships and wrote complaints every time they saw them. And guess what happened—the ads went away. Do this for everything.
fuck ice airing commercials during dynamite, let em know:
help.hbomax.com/us/Feedback/
tbsnetwork.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/req...
help.hbomax.com/us/Feedback/
tbsnetwork.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/req...
HBO Max | Feedback
help.hbomax.com
January 8, 2026 at 1:09 PM
After ICE ads showed up on AEW programming on HBO and TBS, the Men's World Champion posted this. Fans cancelled memberships and wrote complaints every time they saw them. And guess what happened—the ads went away. Do this for everything.
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Another cool thing to get onto.
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January 7, 2026 at 4:13 PM
Another cool thing to get onto.
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I owe you an apology, John Hamilton Mortimer. I wasn't really familiar with your game.
(Detail from Mortimer's “Sextus Pompeius consulting Erichtho before the Battle of Pharsalia”).
(He did this in 1776.)
(Detail from Mortimer's “Sextus Pompeius consulting Erichtho before the Battle of Pharsalia”).
(He did this in 1776.)
January 8, 2026 at 4:15 PM
I owe you an apology, John Hamilton Mortimer. I wasn't really familiar with your game.
(Detail from Mortimer's “Sextus Pompeius consulting Erichtho before the Battle of Pharsalia”).
(He did this in 1776.)
(Detail from Mortimer's “Sextus Pompeius consulting Erichtho before the Battle of Pharsalia”).
(He did this in 1776.)
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The cover of the most upsetting volume of Animorphs.
This “meat evolution” McDonald’s register topper sign certainly is an interesting way to sell a Quarter Pounder. (1977)
January 8, 2026 at 2:16 PM
The cover of the most upsetting volume of Animorphs.
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As someone who exercises regularly, six times a week, usually hour/2 hours those six days:
No it isn’t a wonder drug for depression. It never has been. If you have a brain juice imbalance, no it doesn’t help a ton.
It helps in the fact that it creates a routine you can effect. Which is kinda big.
No it isn’t a wonder drug for depression. It never has been. If you have a brain juice imbalance, no it doesn’t help a ton.
It helps in the fact that it creates a routine you can effect. Which is kinda big.
January 8, 2026 at 4:16 PM
As someone who exercises regularly, six times a week, usually hour/2 hours those six days:
No it isn’t a wonder drug for depression. It never has been. If you have a brain juice imbalance, no it doesn’t help a ton.
It helps in the fact that it creates a routine you can effect. Which is kinda big.
No it isn’t a wonder drug for depression. It never has been. If you have a brain juice imbalance, no it doesn’t help a ton.
It helps in the fact that it creates a routine you can effect. Which is kinda big.
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THIS. It's one of fascism's own myths about itself: that it is coherent, efficient, etc. No. History shows us that fascist regimes are contradictory, chaotic, etc. Fascism is not a coherent ideology but a ragbag of scraps held together with aesthetics. Fascist governments are gangs of cranks.
there is strange insistence — an implicit one — that fascism must be a coherent system
January 8, 2026 at 2:22 PM
THIS. It's one of fascism's own myths about itself: that it is coherent, efficient, etc. No. History shows us that fascist regimes are contradictory, chaotic, etc. Fascism is not a coherent ideology but a ragbag of scraps held together with aesthetics. Fascist governments are gangs of cranks.
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Time to consult the Declaration again
January 8, 2026 at 4:23 PM
Time to consult the Declaration again
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This is what we call discursive busy work where white people in media pick apart Elons tweets to hide the fact they have no one Black/ immigrant/ in Minneapolis etc etc
In any real close ties to talk to about this and that in the five years since George Floyd ain’t a damn thing changed
In any real close ties to talk to about this and that in the five years since George Floyd ain’t a damn thing changed
January 8, 2026 at 4:28 PM
This is what we call discursive busy work where white people in media pick apart Elons tweets to hide the fact they have no one Black/ immigrant/ in Minneapolis etc etc
In any real close ties to talk to about this and that in the five years since George Floyd ain’t a damn thing changed
In any real close ties to talk to about this and that in the five years since George Floyd ain’t a damn thing changed
Apparently he's always kinda been like this, and the 2024 election managed to get his good side, as it were. Reminiscent of how people loved Biden during the 2008 election because he acted as an attack dog against Paul Ryan and some other right-wingers
January 8, 2026 at 5:45 PM
Apparently he's always kinda been like this, and the 2024 election managed to get his good side, as it were. Reminiscent of how people loved Biden during the 2008 election because he acted as an attack dog against Paul Ryan and some other right-wingers
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A rather remarkable 1977 Polish movie poster by Andrzej Pagowski for “Close Encounters Of The Third Kind”.
January 8, 2026 at 4:30 PM
A rather remarkable 1977 Polish movie poster by Andrzej Pagowski for “Close Encounters Of The Third Kind”.
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timely reminder to everyone including myself to stop wasting time bloviating on here and go outside
You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism
Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.
www.404media.co
January 7, 2026 at 10:53 PM
timely reminder to everyone including myself to stop wasting time bloviating on here and go outside
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Man, it must suck to be a legitimate journalist right now. Like living in Bizarro World.
January 8, 2026 at 4:38 PM
Man, it must suck to be a legitimate journalist right now. Like living in Bizarro World.