Doubting Derek
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May The Vibes Be Ever In Your Favor!
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for World AIDS Day, a 1988 cartoon from the Advocate's Gerald Donelan
December 1, 2025 at 4:20 PM
for World AIDS Day, a 1988 cartoon from the Advocate's Gerald Donelan
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Kevin Conroy, the greatest voice of Batman there ever will be, would have turned 70 today.
a cartoon of batman standing on top of a building with a lightning bolt in the background
ALT: a cartoon of batman standing on top of a building with a lightning bolt in the background
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November 30, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Kevin Conroy, the greatest voice of Batman there ever will be, would have turned 70 today.
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One of the best worldbuilding guides you can read is Tolkien's notes on translation, where he talks about the fact that *everything* you write is in practice being translated into English; is is no more anachronistic to use the word "September" than it is use the word "sword" or "house" or "hello".
Not sure how I feel when a book tells me that instead of "12 months" they have "10 arcs," which are each 40 days long, and they all have names like Blossomarc, Flamearc Snowarc,.... I appreciate the world building, but couldnt we have just kept the calendar the same?
November 30, 2025 at 4:20 AM
One of the best worldbuilding guides you can read is Tolkien's notes on translation, where he talks about the fact that *everything* you write is in practice being translated into English; is is no more anachronistic to use the word "September" than it is use the word "sword" or "house" or "hello".
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The trouble is that people, Americans, have no idea what immigration takes. "Granny did it right." Sure. She came to Ellis Island, they gave her a train ticket. It's effectively impossible to come here legally now. You can't do Ellis Island again but there has to be mutually beneficial ways.
November 28, 2025 at 2:51 PM
The trouble is that people, Americans, have no idea what immigration takes. "Granny did it right." Sure. She came to Ellis Island, they gave her a train ticket. It's effectively impossible to come here legally now. You can't do Ellis Island again but there has to be mutually beneficial ways.
Post something random or you’ll have an awful December
November 27, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Post something random or you’ll have an awful December
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Lincoln’s original proclamation of Thanksgiving Day from 1863 doesn’t really go into colonist-native relations, but it does recommend “humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience.” www.battlefields.org/learn/primar...
November 27, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Lincoln’s original proclamation of Thanksgiving Day from 1863 doesn’t really go into colonist-native relations, but it does recommend “humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience.” www.battlefields.org/learn/primar...
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This is just absolutely horrible, the worst disaster Hong Kong has experienced in our thirteen years of living here.
HK is going to need to pull together and help the survivors, a lot of whom will not be able to return to their homes.
www.scmp.com/news/hong-ko...
HK is going to need to pull together and help the survivors, a lot of whom will not be able to return to their homes.
www.scmp.com/news/hong-ko...
44 dead, 279 missing in huge Hong Kong fire; 3 arrested for alleged manslaughter
Among scores hospitalised, 45 are in serious condition; four of the 7 blocks now under control, with search for survivors starting on lower floors.
www.scmp.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:00 PM
This is just absolutely horrible, the worst disaster Hong Kong has experienced in our thirteen years of living here.
HK is going to need to pull together and help the survivors, a lot of whom will not be able to return to their homes.
www.scmp.com/news/hong-ko...
HK is going to need to pull together and help the survivors, a lot of whom will not be able to return to their homes.
www.scmp.com/news/hong-ko...
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I have said for years that they’re all up to the same tricks. You didn’t want to hear it. Now it comes out a member of the sainted Beltway press bugged the once and future President of the United States to help a political opponent she was screwing.
November 26, 2025 at 11:11 PM
I have said for years that they’re all up to the same tricks. You didn’t want to hear it. Now it comes out a member of the sainted Beltway press bugged the once and future President of the United States to help a political opponent she was screwing.
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God this is so depressing given the political response to it
"the economic response to the pandemic really worked. Indeed, there is a good case that it was the most successful example of countercyclical policy in US history." jwmason.org/slackwire/at...
At Groundwork: Lessons from the September Jobs Report – J. W. Mason
jwmason.org
November 26, 2025 at 9:34 PM
God this is so depressing given the political response to it
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
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broke: Children of Men was a vision of the UK's bleak future
woke: Hot Fuzz was a documentary
woke: Hot Fuzz was a documentary
In other words, imagine the Neighbourhood Watch from Hot Fuzz running the justice system.
November 25, 2025 at 10:37 PM
broke: Children of Men was a vision of the UK's bleak future
woke: Hot Fuzz was a documentary
woke: Hot Fuzz was a documentary
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Do you ever think how bleak things are in the UK that our best head of government since the millennium was Obama and theirs was Gordon Brown? And that our second best was Biden and theirs was Theresa fucking May?
November 26, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Do you ever think how bleak things are in the UK that our best head of government since the millennium was Obama and theirs was Gordon Brown? And that our second best was Biden and theirs was Theresa fucking May?
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Oh cool a new red flag
November 23, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Oh cool a new red flag
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This reminds me of the old NAACP lynching signs.
November 23, 2025 at 9:43 PM
This reminds me of the old NAACP lynching signs.
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A huge amount of "suffering from inflation" was people mad that the economic expansion was slowing down due to higher interest rates. They weren't mad about the disease they were being hurt by the medicine.
It's clear now that what we really meant by "Recession" & "Suffering From Inflation" in 2022-24 was "folks liked the large income spike in 2020-21 & wanted more stimulus checks & welfare spending like what came with the ARP, perhaps permanently," but we are clearly not ready for <that> discussion.
November 23, 2025 at 9:00 PM
A huge amount of "suffering from inflation" was people mad that the economic expansion was slowing down due to higher interest rates. They weren't mad about the disease they were being hurt by the medicine.
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Olivia fucking Nuzzi was doing fucking catch-and-kill ops to keep RFK Jr's political career alive. If she just fucked off and did anything fucking else there's a good chance Trump would've lost without RFK Jr to help prop him up.
So goddamn many godawful ppl made this mess we're suffering through.
So goddamn many godawful ppl made this mess we're suffering through.
November 22, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Olivia fucking Nuzzi was doing fucking catch-and-kill ops to keep RFK Jr's political career alive. If she just fucked off and did anything fucking else there's a good chance Trump would've lost without RFK Jr to help prop him up.
So goddamn many godawful ppl made this mess we're suffering through.
So goddamn many godawful ppl made this mess we're suffering through.
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Just remembering how one of the most important and widely read and dropped-with-maximally-damaging-timing "Biden is old and senile" pieces was reported by Nuzzi. It makes you think!
well, I read it, and the salient, non-gross part is Lizza alleging, midsentence and without elaboration, that Nuzzi ran numerous “catch-and-kill operations” on RFK’s behalf, which would give her a role in both his appointment and the untold preventable deaths he has abetted in office. Cool.
November 22, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Just remembering how one of the most important and widely read and dropped-with-maximally-damaging-timing "Biden is old and senile" pieces was reported by Nuzzi. It makes you think!
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Poetry Comics Month, Day 22
November 22, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Poetry Comics Month, Day 22
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IANAL but this guy is and he has an excellent explainer up on how to behave if an undocumented person flees immigration enforcement into your home or business.
November 22, 2025 at 1:12 AM
IANAL but this guy is and he has an excellent explainer up on how to behave if an undocumented person flees immigration enforcement into your home or business.
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In an era filled with tech dipshits who never developed emotionally past the age of 13 & use their wealth to become odious monsters ...
... listen to Steve Wozniak.
... listen to Steve Wozniak.
November 21, 2025 at 7:41 PM
In an era filled with tech dipshits who never developed emotionally past the age of 13 & use their wealth to become odious monsters ...
... listen to Steve Wozniak.
... listen to Steve Wozniak.
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I hate this sort of meme.
“The only difference between the parties is whether the power to destroy human civilization rests in the hands of leaders who think gays, women, and black people should have their rights acknowledged.”
Even if true, how is Rainbow B-52 not infinitely preferable?
“The only difference between the parties is whether the power to destroy human civilization rests in the hands of leaders who think gays, women, and black people should have their rights acknowledged.”
Even if true, how is Rainbow B-52 not infinitely preferable?
November 20, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I hate this sort of meme.
“The only difference between the parties is whether the power to destroy human civilization rests in the hands of leaders who think gays, women, and black people should have their rights acknowledged.”
Even if true, how is Rainbow B-52 not infinitely preferable?
“The only difference between the parties is whether the power to destroy human civilization rests in the hands of leaders who think gays, women, and black people should have their rights acknowledged.”
Even if true, how is Rainbow B-52 not infinitely preferable?
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You had a good run. An anonymous fear submitted to deepdarkfears.com/submit - thanks!
Want to pick up some original artwork or a signed book? I'll be at Comic Arts Los Angeles this December 13-14th #cala2025
#comics #deepdarkfears
Want to pick up some original artwork or a signed book? I'll be at Comic Arts Los Angeles this December 13-14th #cala2025
#comics #deepdarkfears
November 21, 2025 at 12:15 AM
You had a good run. An anonymous fear submitted to deepdarkfears.com/submit - thanks!
Want to pick up some original artwork or a signed book? I'll be at Comic Arts Los Angeles this December 13-14th #cala2025
#comics #deepdarkfears
Want to pick up some original artwork or a signed book? I'll be at Comic Arts Los Angeles this December 13-14th #cala2025
#comics #deepdarkfears
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