...what?

I post between major life emergencies

[thats-what-sidhe-said]

BRUCE: I’ve created jobs by keeping Wayne Enterprises in Gotham. I’ve provided scholarships to every employee of my company and I offer them to others as well. I’ve built orphanages and hospitals, including mental health facilities. I’ve provided jobs to ex-felons right out of prison so they can rebuild their lives. I’ve supported pro-reform political candidates and the few honest cops in Gotham City.

BRUCE: It’s going to take time to reform the system and lift this city out of poverty and corruption, so I think I’ll spend my evenings protecting the people who live here. Tonight, I’m going after the criminals preying on the sex workers struggling to make a living in Crime Alley.

BRUCE: And once I’ve kicked some ass, I’ll offer their victims jobs at Wayne Enterprises so they can get off the streets and have stable, safe, legal employment. I’ll pay for any education or training they might need.

ALFRED: Don’t forget your cape, sir.

[juggernautglitch]

Alfred, old friend, I'm going to level with you...there is a high chance this city might actually have a portal to hell built into it's architecture that turns regular mentally ill people into hogh-power murderbastards, and there is no amount of social service that will keep the orphans from being eaten by a giant venus flytrap.

[herestoyoumsholly]

You gotta love the "Well, they brought everyone back who DIED, didn't they" reaction to subpar event comics when we all know 90% of the time that isn't case.

Is Bill Foster back? Is Pantha and Wildebeast back? Is Danny Chase? Will they stop having Dr. Light (Kimiyo Hoshi) only cameo just to comment on her name and then go back to the Bus Void?

[juggernautglitch]

Don't even joke about Danny Chase coming back. FUCK that kid.

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

I remember when Guy Gardner was dead

I miss those days. Having his guts ripped out by Impierix really is the only good thing the braindead little cunt ever did

And oh look what a surprise, some fucking cishet whose part of the lime green space pigs hates the idea of a queer trans woman having power that her and the rest of the evil smurfs little errand boys can't control

We really need Emerald Twillight II to happen

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

#someone get Fire&Ice in here with a muzzle and leash... their dog has escaped his crate and is Doing Stuff again.

Guy Gardner reminds me of that Onion News Network sketch where the supreme court decides that free speech does not apply to a specific man "Because the only other option when dealing with him would be for all nine of us to collectively beat him to death with our hammers"

[juggernautglitch]

He can't be queerphoboc, his girlfriend is bi. Going off the Major Glory thing, he might be, too.

Every alien super hero is going to have a story at one point or another about whether they can be trusted. You could fill an IKEA bookshelf just with Superman stories of that type. I don't see why Galaxy should be exempt just because she's trans.

Anyway, did Guy misgender her at any point? Is he being intolerant or is he being Guy god damn Gardner?

[90skid-com]

[juggernautglitch]

Man, that dog didn't ever know what was happening.

[annotated-dc]

The Deadman #1 - A Reintroduction to Boston Brand

I really really liked this first issue. :) Followed a thin line between genuine horror and DC superhero wackiness with a fun sense of humour, looking forward to where the rest of the series goes!

Also bonus page, because of what month it is.

[juggernautglitch]

One of those equations is going to turn out to be Anti-Life before this is through, huh? Not to disparage the creative team, they're already doing leagues more with Boston than anybody since Adams himself, I just feel like it's a perfectly set-up gut punch waiting to happen.

[elierlick]

Yet another new study debunked the basis for the anti-trans sports bans. It was never about sports but for creating legal avenues for exclusion and abjection. This is one of the largest analyses ever conducted, involving 52 studies and 6,485 trans people. Read the study here.

[lucieslucidity]

post so nice had to reblog it twice and force it down everyone's throats

[fleshengine]

At minimum about 4.5 thousand people liked this without reblogging it.

We gotta fix that.

[dancinbutterfly]

Progress.

Onwards!

[onthedriftinthetardis]

I can't access the full paper, but their conclusion is right there in the abstract:

While transgender women exhibited higher lean mass than cisgender women, their physical fitness was comparable. Current evidence is mostly low certainty and has heterogenous quality but does not support theories of inherent athletic advantages for transgender women over cisgender.

[0hellifiknow0]

Which of these Black DC characters would you most like to see get an ongoing comic run? (Fem Edition)

Tiffany Fox (Batgirl)

Karen Beecher (Bumblebee)

Anita Fite (Empress)

Marilyn Moonlight

Queen Nubia of Themyscira (Nubia)

Onyx Adams (Onyx)

Raquel Ervin (Rocket)

Natasha Irons (Starlight)

Anissa & Jennifer Pierce (Thunder & Lightning)

Mari McCabe (Vixen)

Other (leave in tags)

See Results

Remaining time: 4 days 2 hours

As of today, it's been 1203 days (approximately 3 years and 3 1/2 months) since DC published an ongoing comic book centering a Black character in its mainline continuity. I'm using this poll to bring awareness to some Black characters who I think could use some love. Masc edition.

Batgirl

Bumblebee

Empress

Marilyn Moonlight

Nubia

Onyx

Rocket

Starlight/Steel

Thunder & Lightning

Vixen

[diamondnokouzai]

under no circumstances do you gotta hand it to the pope

[juggernautglitch]

You don't have to praise him for anything, you don't need to give financial or material support to the church, you don't even gotta post about him, but there's nothing in the world keeping you from seeing that a figure in power is giving Trump a hard time and privately, in your innermost heart, doing a little fist pump and saying "Yeah, take that you sloppy fuck, now all the Catholics hate you too."

[siryapsa]

Supergirl: Survive Preview

Let’s talk about it

Honestly this is amazing. A great start and I’m obsessed. I’m shocked it took DC this long to give us a story with this concept

I love us getting to see some of Kara’s time at school and on Krypton and even her first time meeting Kal-El as a baby

This is one of the comics I’m most excited for and it looks great

[juggernautglitch]

Promising, but way to Earth-y. For god's sake, they have Arabic numerals on jerseys indistinguishable from what middleschool basketball players wear. Everybody got all pissy and John Byrne's Krypton being a sci-facist sterile hellworld, but at least he made an effort to show an alien culture that wasn't identical to the American suburbs.

[penpaladinjules]

“Commander Arcturus reporting back from Earth, sir.”

“Yes, Commander? Do you recommend initiating contact with them?”

“To be honest, I am torn on the issue.”

“Do explain.”

“As you know, they are mortal flesh containing a consciousness. But sir … their consciousnesses don’t pass on to a different flesh when the flesh dies.”

“Mmm, they return to one great consciousness, do they?”

“Nnnnnno, sir. There is no one great consciousness. They just *die*. They’re just gone.”

“BUH — WHA — well that’s preposterous, where do they get the new consciousness from?”

“They make a new one. A brand new one. Every time a new human is conceived, they build a new consciousness, and every time a human dies, that consciousness is gone forever. … … … Sir?”

“How do they have any kind of body of knowledge, then? … … … Well that seems incredibly inefficient, it would take years for one of them to learn enough to be able to do anything! But if you say this is how they do it … My stars, man, that means they would be *aware* that they had an expiration date! It means they would know the *new consciousnesses they made* would inevitably die!”

“Yes sir. Mortality weighs heavily upon them.”

“To think such a time-limited species could become intelligent and not any of the normal ones on this planet.”

“Ummmmm. All life on that planet is the same way.”

“… … … I am tempted to simply mark it down as the saddest goddamn thing in the entire universe and move on.”

“Thank you, sir, yes, I agree.”

“Why the thank you?”

“Frankly, I don’t think I could stand to go back. I … made a friend, you see.”

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

<3 I DEMAND MORE STORIES FEATURING THE SWORD LESBIAN SPACE WIVES <3

[juggernautglitch]

Remember when Heather was a literal dragon for some reason?

[coto524]

as a welsh person i want you all to accept that W is a vowel because honestly it makes pronouncing acronyms so much easier. wlw becomes ‘ooloo’, wjec becomes ‘oojeck’, love yourselves and stop giving us shit when we tell you welsh has 7 vowels. english actually has 15 vowel sounds but because y’all only use 5 letters you have to rely on a spelling system devised by satan

[saethwr-blog]

and please, enough with the “keyboard smashing” jokes. not original, not funny.

[coto524]

“ #okay but can any of y'all even pronounce your own town names tho? #bye”

yeah, we can actually because the spelling is phonetic. meanwhile english folks have placenames like bicester or keighley or beaulieu, which you have to learn the pronunciation for individually because the rules are so inconsistent. i mean people can’t even agree how to pronounce marylebone but sure welsh place names are the weird ones

[coto524]

“#But are you aware your language literally looks like a potato rolled across a keyboard”

fun fact: for decades children were beaten for speaking welsh in school, even in areas where english was barely spoken, because the government decided in 1847 that the language made people lazy and immoral

fun fact: welsh orthography is actually easy to read if you take your head out of your arse for one minute and learn our alphabet - just like french, or spanish, or korean, because surprise! languages use different spelling systems that are not based on english. novel, i know - and in the 18th century, travelling schools were able to teach people to read and write welsh in a matter of months, so that wales enjoyed a literate majority, a rare thing in europe at the time

fun fact: the english have been taking the piss out of welsh for years, just like they’ve been doing for irish, and scots gaelic, and cornish, and british sign language, and a hundred and one other languages, because evidently the fact that the whole world isn’t anglophone and monocultured and Still Part Of The Empire is a problem, and something that needs to be corrected

[juggernautglitch]

I've looked into it a bit myself, but could you give a speaker's perspective on why the language has so many syllables per word? More than the spelling, I'm always a bit perplexed that town names and such can take up to 45 seconds for even a native to say. Do you know what the cultural background of that is?

[demilypyro]

genuinely why the hell does anyone live in gotham

[juggernautglitch]

Same reason people live in New Jersey or Baltimore, I reckon. Lack of options, sunk cost fallacy, or plain stubbornness. And some New York-style "It's good that it's depressing and horrible, actually" cope.

[tieflingkisser]

[mtg-cards-hourly]

The Foretold Soldier

Artist: Fajareka Setiawan TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

[juggernautglitch]

"We surrender!"

"FUCK THAT, we cast Go For The Throat! There's been a reprint in literally all of these stupid crossovers! Meet Dr. Curt Conners, you raggedy bitch!"

[tiktoks-i-enjoyed]

[kawuli]

random PSA, I know a lot of people use duckduckgo as a Google alternative search engine, but it always kind of annoyed me when I was using it because it felt like No Name Brand Google

I have switched to using Startpage.com and vastly prefer it. for one thing, instead of displaying an "AI summary" at the top of the search results (unless you turn it off, yes I know), it displays the first paragraph of the Wikipedia article, with link, whenever it finds one that's relevant.

also a waaayyyyy better sense of design than duckduckgo

also private, European based, least annoying search I've used lately (RIP old "don't be evil" Google)

[yomikoreadsbooks]

Keeping a list of Google alternatives just in case…

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

i have one of those, scraped from multiple different rec posts:

Search Engines

Infinity Search is an alternative search engine with a special focus on privacy

DuckDuckGo is a popular search engine for those who value their privacy and are put off by the thought of their every query being tracked and logged. Uses bangs, ![site] for in-page search (sells your data to microsoft and draws from fucking bing)

WolframAlpha is a privately owned search engine that allows you to “compute expert-level answers using Wolfram’s breakthrough algorithms, knowledgebase, and AI technology.” A data search engine.

Boardreader is a search engine for forums and message boards. It allows you to search forums and then filter down results by date and language.

Based in France, Qwant is a privacy-based search engine that won’t record your searches or use your personal details for advertising. Uses “&” as a bang search.

Another privacy-based search engine is Search Encrypt, which uses local encryption to ensure that users’ identifiable information cannot be tracked. Metasearch across multiple engines. 

Offering unbiased results from several sources, SearX is a metasearch engine that aims to present a free, decentralized view of the internet. Can be self-hosted. 

Gibiru’s tagline is “Unfiltered private search” and that’s exactly what it offers. Requires AnonymoX Firefox add-on for privacy. 

Disconnect allows you to conduct anonymous searches through a search engine of your choice.

Swisscows provides fully encrypted searches to protect your privacy and security. Built-in violence/porn filter cannot be overridden. 

MetaGer offers “Privacy Protected Search & Find” through its anonymised search. A plugin will allow it to be made a default.

Gigablast is a private search engine that indexes millions of websites and servers real-time information without tracking your data, keeping you hidden from marketers and spammers. Variety of filtration and refinement options for searching. 

Oscobo is a search engine that protects your privacy while you search the web. By not using any third-party tools or scripts, your data is protected from hacking and misuse. Has a Chrome extension to allow use in toolbar. 

https://search.marginalia.nu/ an independent DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and attempts to show you sites you perhaps weren't aware of in favor of the sort of sites you probably already knew existed. Use old-school searching rather than query-based for the best results. 

https://www.mojeek.com/ 

https://wiby.me/ - It’s goal is to index as many personalized websites as possible, and NOT commercial sites. 

https://4get.ca/ it works a lot like SearX, but honestly better. It doesn’t have its own index, but pulls from many others. I think it’s the best for research, since it allows you to search for answers from different indexes, is easy to configure, add free, and avoids censorship as much as it can.

https://www.searchenginemap.com/ for more on how search engines relate to each other.

https://yep.com/ is a crawler

https://www.etools.ch/ retrieves from Google, Mojeek, Bing, and Yandex, like Searx

https://www.dogpile.com/ 

https://searxng.org/ (next gen Searx)

https://luxxle.com/ - possibly conservative?

https://presearch.com/ - good for academic?

https://kagi.com/smallweb - free/randomised Kagi.

Other Searchers

www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.

https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.

http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.

www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free.https://cosine.club/ is an electronic music similarity search engine