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Why am i doing here? why i'm a guy who's going to enjoy reblog and post awesome/funny/crap stuff. Oh and this is contains mature images, not for -18's! Pronouns: im/him

[dd-the-man-without-fear]

🎵Do you remember?🎶 🎶The twenty-first night of Batman Day?🎵

[dd-the-man-without-fear]

I can not find the words to express how much i FUCKING love East of West by Jonathan Hickman and Nick Dragotta from Image Comics.

This was my top ten favorite comic books of 2010s.

I was heavenly inspired by the amazing indie comic book blog @maxsindiecomics and my long-time homie @theartofthecover who recommended me to pick up this indie comic, everything about this series is bat-shit-insane and beautiful journey.

For those who don't know, allow me to elaborate.

East of West is about an alternative American history proposes to the end of civil war where the meteor hits into the Midwest to stabilizing the nation to the point that it splits into seven independent countries:

Armistice, a land of strange pilgrims.

The Union.

The Confederacy.

The Kingdom, a nation of black freemen.

The Endless Nation, a nation of the united native peoples.

The Republic of Texas.

The PRA of Mao, a nation of Chinese immigrants.

It's also the catalytic event of the judeo-christian Armageddon, the Three Horsemen of Apocalypse (those bastards on the panel i posted) woke up and bring chaos, death and destruction.

But the one missing member is our protagonist Clint Eastwood-y Death who falls in love with the Chinese immigrant wife and his quest to search for their son, which according to the prophecy (or the Message, as they call), he's being interpreted as the Beast of Apocalypse.

Despite the storyline being slow due to Hickman being super busy working for Marvel, it is a masterfully written and excellent action comic book series that makes Westworld looked like it's made for Kids' WB.

Highly, HIGHLY recommended if you're a sucker for both cyberpunk and post-apocalyptic genre.

[dd-the-man-without-fear]

Currently reading comedy comic book series from the Big Two, i love Matt Fraction's Hawkeye and GPC's Power Girl

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😭😭😭

[your-dewey-decimal-number-is]

793.85

card tricks

[kaida427]

what's the dewey decimal number for foreskin. coward

[your-dewey-decimal-number-is]

611.642

the prepuce (aka foreskin)

is a simple "please" too much to ask?

[kaida427]

prostrating myself at your feet for my lack of composure thank you for your wisdom

[your-dewey-decimal-number-is]

179.92

forgiveness

[powerarmor]

this guy created mcafee antivirus and then went completely off the rails. like absolute chaos. he got super rich, moved to Belize, was suspected of murdering his neighbor, fled Belize, had his location accidentally leaked by a Vice journalist who was with him lmfao, was apprehended in Guatemala, faked not one but two heart attacks while in custody to buy time for his lawyer, was deported back to the US, and then ran for president as a libertarian

[gorps]

hes so unintentionally funny

[gorps]

HOW could I forget this classic

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

always some new bullshit in the ocean

[local-demon-in-your-area]

Why is it always orcas or dolphins

Why can't a salmon do some bullshit for once

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

worry not ☝️ they're doing coke

[draculasdaughter]

This is about Sci-Hub. yeah we get it.. gatekeep knowledge and protect the interests of capital…

[three-blogs-in-a-trenchcoat]

Listen, this is serious.

Do not use the website called Sci-Hub!

It lets people access scientific articles for free. This is dangerous. It helps the free flow of knowledge and reduces the competitive edge of all the people who worked really hard to have been born into a wealth.

Like, it’s literally a website where you can type in the DOI of an article and read it, without ever having to pay the publisher who exploited the author.

So, again, do not, under any circumstance, use Sci-Hub. I mean, can you imagine a world where knowledge is free and easily accessible to everyone? Even, y'know, poor people?

[whateverthebeeswant]

Libgen also has many books online, including textbooks, searchable by name, author, and ISBN. Can you imagine textbook companies not getting their hard-earned income from poor college students? Here is the link just so you make sure that you never accidentally stumble across this horrible, unethical website.

[three-blogs-in-a-trenchcoat]

Oh, and while we’re talking about books, if you’ve managed to stay clear from Libgen, definitely don’t go to zlibrary, where you can also find a lot of textbooks, but unfortunately they’re completely free.

[teachingtales]

Reblogging so you know which sites to totally avoid

[professionalwritingnerd]

[irockasingranite]

Another inside tip from academia: Those papers in really expensive journals that are effectively inaccessible to anyone not in a university network? Depending on the discipline it’s very likely that same paper is on a “preprint” server somewhere, with no access restrictions.

Like if you want to read basically any physics, math, or CS paper, arXiv.org will have you covered, because everyone uploads their papers there before submitting to a journal (and generally updates it after peer review). I know all of my papers are on there. This is such common practice that journals have it baked into their licensing agreements that authors retain the right to upload their work to these places.

So the next time you get hit with that paywall, you may not even need sci-hub, just click the arxiv link on google scholar instead.

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if for some reason none of this works, the old “send a email nicely asking for the paper to the author” is always a good trick. remember most scientists hate the commercialisation of scientific knowledge

[afoxwithpenguins]

Don’t mind me, just gotta share this with my bf so that he knows what websites to avoid

[astudyinpanda]

Many authors of papers are on ResearchGate! You can ask for papers there, if they don’t just post a copy to download. If they’re associated with a college, you can usually find their email addresses in the department directory, also.

[cepn-archive]

it’s too early for this

[budaiproli]

oks

[dukeofedinburgh]

[budaiproli]

me and the boys, felsírtam

[sztupy]

tegnapról

[edgar-allan-possum]

Flags Mashup Bot is really out here trying to start World War III

[mccoppinscrapyard]

UPDATES

[pancoleon]

My fav part is that it is genuinely just a bot. All it does is take two countries, puts the 2nd country's colours on the 1st country's flag and mixes their names together.

Literally the only other thing behind it is that the bot weights picking the second country based on how close they are to the first, and basic geography + history means that's also where you're going to get the most aggressive relations. This isn't some guy trolling by making things specifically to piss people off, it's some guy who likes flags going "wouldn't it be fun to mix flags together, let's write a bot for that" and accidentally creating a whole meme culture of "days since flag mashup bot last tried to start WW3 = 0" and the like.

[theartofthecover]

Rest in peace Brian Holguin, a talented writer and a long-time collaborator of Todd McFarlane who was best known for his work on Spawn when he took over the main Spawn comic book series as the co-writer from issues #71 to #150 and #185 to #190, he was also worked on multiple Spawn spin-offs, Cyberforce, KISS, Savior, Mr. Majestic and more.

He was the co-creator of Aria.

- 1st cover: Spawn #71 (1998) by Greg Capullo [pencils] and Danny Miki [inks] - 2nd cover: Aria #1 (1999) by Jay Anacleto - 3rd cover: Elektra/Cyblade (one-shot) (1997) by David Finch [pencils], Joe Weems [inks] and Tyson Wengler [colors] - 4th cover: CyberForce Vol. 1 #31 (1997) by David Finch [pencils], Joe Weems [inks] and Steve Firchow [colors] - 5th cover: Mr. Majestic Vol. 1 #1 (1999) by Ed McGuinness - 6th cover: Savior #1 (2015) by Clayton Crain - 7th cover: Spawn: The Dark Ages #1 (1999) by Glenn Fabry and Liam Sharp - 8th cover: Spawn: Godslayer #1 (2007) by Jay Anacleto (pencils) and Matt Milla (colors)

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