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[wilwheaton]

I’m an atheist. I despise evangelical christians. That said, if more christians were like this guy, I imagine there would be a lot less misery in the world.

[fantomfox]

Imagine when a lukewarm take is so wrong that the author rightfully, publicly drags it....

"Say you've never read Sandman without saying you've never read Sandman."

[neil-gaiman]

It's definitely been a week. How did it get so normal and sensible on Tumblr, while the grumpy shouty people are off on Twitter? So odd...

[freshmoviequotes]

[iraffiruse]

[drubtwopointoh-blog-deactivated]

This is why Mr. Fry will always have a seat at my table.

[lj-lovegood]

Amen.

[adamndisgrace]

I was having a conversation about religion with this guy and he asked me what I would do if I got into heaven and had to sit next to God. I told him I wouldn’t take the seat.

[misa-nthropy]

[victoriousflappage]

Currently listening to Mr Fry reading Mythos. Utter legend.

And I completely agree 🖤

[parkers-silver-tongue-deactivat]

Stephen Fry, Archdeacon of common sense and critical thinking. Don’t believe everything you’re told just because it’s accepted by the majority.

[weirdlandtv]

Hammer Film posters.

[berniesrevolution]

The Good War: How America’s infatuation with World War II has eroded our conscience

by Mike Dawson and Chris Hayes

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[mystery-ink]

I think what’s also important to note is that WWII was not fought on US shores, allowing it to be romanticised. The war isn’t glamourised in Europe the way it is in the States. Pearl Harbor isn’t viewed as a huge tragedy, but rather one of the final acts of a far more brutal conflict. And, with the exception of the UK joining in the “war on terror”, Europe by and large hasn’t had another major war, so shaken were we by WWII.

[f1rstperson]

When I was in 6th grade I had a teacher who would play the “Proud to be an American” song and video every day after the pledge and make us all sing it and do a little dance to it. Every. Single. Day. 

[remoteoutposts]

“45 years ago today, the Chicago Police Department and the FBI murdered Chicago Black Panther Chairman Fred Hampton while he slept in bed. The assassination was both the goal and endpoint of an illegal nighttime raid that saw agents and officers spray more than ninety bullets into the apartment where he, his pregnant fiance, and others slept.  Prior to his death, Hampton had been the leader of a citywide interracial organizing effort, laboring to bring blacks, Puerto Ricans, and poor whites into a functioning alliance – what he called a “Rainbow Coalition.” Among his other core initiatives were the negotiation of a truce between Chicago’s gangs to curb street violence, establishment of a free health care clinic for the urban poor, and implementation of one of the most successful Free Breakfast for Children programs that the Panthers ever ran. He was 21 years old when they murdered him. No one was ever convicted in his death. The City of Chicago later settled a civil case for nearly two million dollars.“

-via Simon Balto

[horrorsoflife]

Artist Arthur K. Miller

[mikedawwwson]

The Underdog Myth

Americans hate a loser.

From Rules for Dating My Daughter

[travisellisor]

[travisellisor]

the cover to Mandrake the Magician (1966) #1 by Don Heck and Mike Peppe

[mikedawwwson]

NEW AT THE NIB

Can Climate Science Be Rendered Conservative-Friendly?

How to pitch environmentalism to climate change deniers.

By Mike Dawson and David Roberts

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[chadmaupin]

Commissions are OPEN! Bust style as shown here $85 and single figure as shown $100. Other options available upon request. Email me at [email protected]

[patsywalkerbondagecover]

Strange Tales 134, Vista Publications, Inc. (Marvel Comics), July 1965. Cover art by Jack Kirby and Frank Giacoia. “The Challenge of the Watcher!” by Stan Lee, Bob Powell and Wally Wood. “Earth Be My Battleground” by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko. This issue marks the last Human Torch feature in Strange Tales and classic early appearances by The Watcher, Kang, Clea, Dormammu and the Mindless Ones.

[colsmi]

Four panels from 1961′s R.C.M.P - Tales Of The Royal Canadian Mounted Police TV tie-in with art by Ron Embleton.

[mikedawwwson]

Red Bank Sanctuary City

[chucksuffel]

Damn well said.

[flowerais-deactivated20211031]

the sad thing is, everyone thinks they’re so forgettable, or they don’t mean anything to anyone. but you don’t see your high school friend, smiling to themselves, when they think about your quirks or how dramatic you used to be whenever you got a crush. you don’t see the person who saw you around a lot but was always too shy to talk to you. you don’t remember the person you helped, and maybe you didn’t do much for them, but you didn’t know that they were having a shitty month and you sparked their first real smile in weeks. you don’t see the person that secretly loved you too, who never forgot the soft words that you said, or the way you smiled whenever you saw them, or how you reminded them of sunshine and flowers; and how the thought of you pops into their mind more than you will ever know and in the randomest of places. you will never know that a soft song or strawberries or a sunset will remind someone of you. they will go to the beach and think of you for some reason, until they remember that the last time they saw a color as beautiful and as profound as the ocean was when they looked in your eyes. no one knows their impact on people, or their worth. no one thinks they will be missed when they leave, but they don’t know that once you go into someone’s life, even for a fleeting moment, you stay forever, and you take up a soft place that no one else could ever replace.

[chadmaupin]

Working on illustration and design for my new comic zine Death Ray.