Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Reposted by stillticksaway

mattie lubchansky

@mattielubchansky.com

what did she call us | patreon.com/lubchansky

PANEL 1: MATTIE and one other person are handcuffed on a platform over a big cylindrical vat full of glowing liquid. Behind them, TWO ARMED TROOPERS stand. One is shouting, next to a big lever.
TROOPER: You have all been charged with sexual deviance under the new statutes!
TROOPER: You are hereby sentenced…

PANEL 2: Closer in on MATTIE and the person next to her.
TROOPER (VO): …To being dropped into a big vat of acid, thus dissolving your perverted bodies!
MATTIE: I sure did prefer life before we were overrun by fascist stormtroopers.

PANEL 3: The TROOPERS look at each other.
TROOPER 2: Sorry…What did she-he call us?
TROOPER 1: NOT Cool…

PANEL 4: The other TROOPER from panel 3. He's crying, and pulls the lever. Some acid splashes into the frame.
TROOPER: STOP BULLYING ME!
SFX: CLUNK
SFX: SPLASH

October 13, 2025 at 2:07 PM

Reposted by stillticksaway

The Unexplored Places

@unexploredcast.bsky.social

if you've missed our recent Cryptmaster streams, this is the gold you're missing out on:

March 13, 2025 at 4:02 AM

Reposted by stillticksaway

god's coldest hole

@obol.bsky.social

Greek Anarchists Give AnCap A Reality Check is always worth reading. "Then they were all like "noooo" again" is where I lose it every time

mr pussy @mrpussy.xyz · Apr 7

the anarcho-capitalist getting beat up by real anarchists from greece is still the funniest post that has ever been made on reddit

I was beat up by left anarchists in Greece

I don't usually use forums or Reddit, I usually just post comments on Ancap blogs like Molyneux or Cantwell's blog, but they didn't seem appropriate places to post my story. So here goes, I just wanted to share this with all of you.

Nov 3 I flew to Europe for a Eurotrip type tour. Not a guide or packaged deal, just going around by myself. I paid for half of the trip with the wages I earned over the last two years, my dad paid for the other half. I am 19, I guess that is normal starting college and all. (Before that I worked for my dad's company part time, so I guess you could say he paid for all of it, lol).

I did France and then Italy and then Greece next. I am an Ancap so I wanted to see anarchists in these places. Yes, I know they are different kinds of "anarchists" and not really full anarchists like us. I went to an anarchist book store in Italy and it had a lot of English books, but no Rothbard or Ancap. Like I said, I expected that, not a surprise.

I went to Greece, which everyone knows is famous for its revolutionary anarchism, its economic crisis and everything going on right now. Here I found directions for a local anarchist center. I went and didn't see anybody, but it was covered in graffiti, mostly in Greek so I couldn't read it. Whatever, I started taking pictures. Then some people came out and confronted me.

This should have been my first warning sign something was not right, because photography is not a crime. They were not violent, but they were not friendly, like asking who I was, what I wanted. They all spoke good English actually. Not uncommon in Greece. I said I was a tourist and an anarchist and I just wanted to take pictures. Then they got friendly and told me I should have asked first (but pictures are no NAP violation so I don't know why, but I didn't say anything) and they invited me inside.

Anarcho-capitalists are the anarchists who support capitalism. I had a fanny pack (yeah, lame I know) for my camera and in that I had this yellow and black bowtie (also super lame, it was a joke but I wasnt wearing it). And I said look, these are the Ancap colors, yellow and black, like versus the communist red and black. Well, these guys had a lot of red and black in the building already so I thought they would get it.

I think that is when it started to get a really bad vibe, really tense in the air. The free market thing was funny, we disagreed but I think they thought I was just confused. Everyone was uncomfortable now. Then someone said markets wont work with democracy. And I said exactly, that's it, democracy is against anarchism. And they kind of agreed, and said yes, we don't have real democracy, just governments, and we needed more democracy. I said no, we need less democracy, democracy is the enemy. And we need to end democracy to have anarchy. Then they were all like "noooo" again. You know that thing people do in groups when everyone all says "nooo" or expresses some disapproval at the same time.

And one of them said "but we do want to stop democracy" and then they kind of spoke back and forth in Greek. I didn't really understand it. And they asked me what I meant.

So I said okay, I had the floor, I was going to tell them about ancapism. And I tried to explain to them some Rothbard and Hoppe. I said the natural order in anarchy is that the best rise to the top, the market picks who is the best. They compete and are peaceful. They said what do we want instead of anarchy. I said we want private owners to own their own land and businesses, and to employ people. They said that is what we have now. I said no, it would be even better. One of the guys said it was like feudalism. And I said it is not feudalism.

Eventually one of the guys spoke up and I thought he was Greek, but he spoke English perfectly so he may have not been. He said he knew what anarcho-capitalism was and that we were basically fascists. He asked me if I thought everything should be private. And I said yes. And he asked me if I thought people were unequal. And I told him yes. And that not everyone would have equal rights. I said everyone has the right to own property and not be done aggression against. But that not everyone had to be treated equally by the owners. He said what about immigrants and racism. And I said that would not happen in a free market, but yes property owners could be racist if they wanted to. They had to respect property.

Then he called me a fascist again, and someone else said I was a fascist. And then they basically all started shouting fascist at me, and one of them grabbed me by the wrists. They pulled me out the door, it was up three floors, and basically drug me down the stairs on my back. It hurt really bad and I remember yelling "you're breaking the NAP" and things like that. "Stop initiating force against me." Then they kicked me around on the ground in the hallway, before they took my camera and threw me outside. I was crying and stuff, I just sat there. I was in shock because it was so sudden. Looking back there were warning signs though.

I think they felt bad for me and gave the camera back, but when I looked later they stole the memory card with all of my Greek photos.

So they initiated force and theft. They broke the NAP. I knew the left anarchists were not real anarchists, but I never knew they would do something that bad.

I wasnt seriously hurt, just kicked around a little, lots of bruises and little cuts. I am fine guys so don't worry. Just needed to share

April 7, 2025 at 10:56 PM

Reposted by stillticksaway

Ro Salarian

@rosalarian.bsky.social

Today is the PUBLIC debut of Magical Women, my comic series about a group of magical girls who failed to save the world 20 years ago but now they're trying again as they all approach 40.

Read it FOR FREE every Wednesday at magicalwomencomic.com

April 2, 2025 at 7:14 PM

Reposted by stillticksaway

Paul Bronks

@slendersherbet.bsky.social

I try to stay away from politics but this crab eating a grape is very important.

March 29, 2025 at 9:21 PM

Reposted by stillticksaway

Demily Pyro 🥐🎀 Vtuber

@demilypyro.bsky.social

Ok but has anyone talked about the thematic similarities between the dueling arena from Utena and the polyhedron from Pathologic and how they both exemplify the chasing of an unreachable ideal by depicting impossible architecture that's doomed to eventually collapse

March 21, 2025 at 2:27 PM

Reposted by stillticksaway

Rebecca Marie Wilks

@rebeccamarie.bsky.social

Getting a little better at tracking down these beauts*. Just absolutely cute as a button, it's mental that they live among us

(*Long-Tailed Tits)

March 22, 2025 at 12:19 PM

Reposted by stillticksaway

Louise Seamster

@louiseseamster.bsky.social

OH MY GOD

John Bull @garius.bsky.social · Mar 17

“If she wants to know something specific, but doesn’t want people to notice her asking questions, she should simply make incorrect statements while in the company of experts. Her companions will correct her, especially if they're men.”

- Advice for female agents in WW2, provided during SOE training

March 17, 2025 at 12:06 PM

Reposted by stillticksaway

Chris Lay

@chrislay.bsky.social

This is an extremely important point. When Bill Gibson wrote "she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human", he was not making a figure of speech.

Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · Mar 16

The sheer scale of wealth that buffers billionaires is hard to visualize.

Their perspective is literally inhuman, their lives totally divorced from the average person's. It's impossible for them to not be absolute monsters.

March 16, 2025 at 11:09 AM

Reposted by stillticksaway

Claudia Friedlander

@voiceteachernyc.bsky.social

Tesla Model 3 crushed by an Olmec statue
By Mexican sculptor @chavismarmol.bsky.social

A blue Tesla Model 3 has been crushed by an Olmec statue. A man with long black braids leans against the hood of the car with his arms crossed, staring down the camera.

March 14, 2025 at 2:36 PM

Reposted by stillticksaway

mattie lubchansky

@mattielubchansky.com

this is the 700th (!) "please listen to me" comic fyi. i took a couple months off in like 2018 but that's a lot of weeks of doing the same thing huh

mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · Mar 10

dungeons and dgenders | patreon.com/lubchansky

panel 1: a group of people playing a tabletop game. SOME GUY WHO LOOKS SUSPICIOUSLY LIKE MATTIE BUT A LONG TIME AGO sits next to the DM.
SGWLSLMBALTA: Okaaaay, so! The new character I rolled out is a 6'3" half-orc sorceress. Excited to get playing!
DM: Playing a girl again, huh.
SGWLSLMBALTA: Yeah, why?

PANEL 2: two other players.
PLAYER 2: Can you just come out already? We're supportive.
PLAYER 3: Waiting for you to transition is taking forever.

PANEL 3: SGWLSLMBALTA looks off to the side. Shot over the DM's shoulder.
SGWLSLMBALTA: Hmm? I don't understand what you are all possibly talking about! "Come out." Good one.

PANEL 4: The DM and the two other players contemplate death while SGWLSLMBALTA speaks off-panel.
SGWLSLMBALTA: Anyway...She was actually born a PRINCE! of the realm, but was CURSED by a WIZARD to be a girl...

March 10, 2025 at 5:05 PM

Reposted by stillticksaway

Faith Erin Hicks

@faitherinhicks.bsky.social

Old fanart for the Ancillary Justice series by Ann Leckie. Sphene, Tisarwat, Zayiat & Breq. Yes, I forgot the gloves! :p

March 3, 2025 at 5:55 PM

Reposted by stillticksaway

Tade Thompson

@tadethompson.bsky.social

Getting (trad) published is a function of hard work and luck, mixed in proportions that you do not control.

You can control how you work and how you learn craft, but please don't obsess over that which you can't change.

I'll leave you with my father's maxim: "May luck find you working."

March 3, 2025 at 11:21 PM

Reposted by stillticksaway

Scott Mendelson

@scottmendelson.bsky.social

The real Best Picture winner in our hearts...

March 3, 2025 at 3:47 AM

Reposted by stillticksaway

U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission

@cpsc.gov

The Snow Queen of The Hinterlands.

A snow queen of epic beauty. She is covered in ice crystals. They grow out of her blue skin and form a dress and crown that wrap around her. Her all-white eyes stare into the distance. She is holding a very normal-looking carbon monoxide alarm. The text reads: Carbon monoxide deaths spike in winter. The Snow Queen of the Hinterlands reminds you to make sure you have a working carbon monoxide alarm on every level of your home.

February 19, 2025 at 5:12 PM

Reposted by stillticksaway

Els Herten

@elsherten.bsky.social

After 49 years incarcerated for a crime he did not commit, today Native American political prisoner Leonard Peltier is finally going home to the Turtle Mountain Reservation. He never lost hope and kept his spirits high.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekHforHeroes
#portrait #LeonardPeltier

Native American political prisoner Leonard Peltier showing the clemency paper signed by President Joe Biden, allowing him to go home after 49 years of unjust incarceration.

February 18, 2025 at 1:42 PM

Reposted by stillticksaway

Stacy Cay 🏳️‍⚧️

@stacycay.bsky.social

What really bothers me about these anti trans laws isn’t what’s happening to me specifically but what’s happening to all the more vulnerable people like me. Particularly young people in red states. I was them once, and I hoped the new generation would come into a better world.

February 12, 2025 at 3:03 AM