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Bill reads and sometimes writes, and also watches a lot of movies.
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Now reading: Friday vol. 3 (Image) by Ed Brubaker, Marcos Martín, and Muntsa Vicente. Martín is one of comics' finest cartoonists. He and Vicente have some particularly arresting images in here, like the snowstorm and more hallucinatory sequences. (Also, this book smells great.)

Friday vol. 3 paperback, cover by Marcos Martín and Muntsa Vicente. Friday runs from a big bird monster guy.
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made it

A man is walking forward: "Just gotta make it through today..."
Now he is middle-aged: "Just gotta make it through today..."
Now he is a senior: "Just gotta make it through today..."
Now he is in front of the grim reaper who says "You made it!"
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Sarah Kendzior is the best writer in America. No foolin’. sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-red-wh...

Google, once a wellspring of information sorted by chronology and preserved in caches, is an unusable cesspool. Photos taken by real people of real places have been replaced with AI fakes. Niche online hobby forums were sold to corporations and became unusable due to spam and bots.

The early excitement of reconnecting with old friends on Facebook was replaced by the relentless push of automatons. You reach out for connection, but the algorithm ties your hands. You follow friends but are instead shown influencers. Where did everyone go, and who are these made-up strangers in their place?

On YouTube and Tik-Tok, people transform their lives into infomercials, often to make cash in the gig economy that politicians deny exists. On Twitter, people become indistinguishable from the bots and paid operatives of political groups. Mobs spout vicious mantras in service of a cause or candidate that onlookers are told merits the cruelty inflicted on the last real human beings.
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"Storms are getting wetter as the climate change... A basic law of physics says the air holds nearly 4% more moisture for every degree Fahrenheit warmer (7% for every degree Celsius) and the world has warmed more than 2 degrees (1.2 degrees Celsius) since pre-industrial times."

Helene and other storms dumped 40 trillion gallons of rain on the South
Helene and other storms dumped 40 trillion gallons of rain on the South

Meteorologists calculate that more than 40 trillion gallons of rain drenched the Southeast United States in the last week from Hurricane Helene and a run-of-the-mill rainstorm that sloshed in ahead of...

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Month of Monsters Returns! Hybrid, created by Bill Mantlo and Sal Buscema (1981).

Drawing of Hybrid, the result of human/dire wraith relations.
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You hate it, trust

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More women and children have been killed in Gaza by the Israeli military over the past year than in any year of all other conflicts over the last two decades, Oxfam says www.oxfam.org/en/press-rel...

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To celebrate the commencement of ADHD awareness month, I have achieved absolutely fucking nothing — while being an anxious mess about all the nothing I am doing - all day.

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Happy Spooky Season Everybody!

The world is a conveyor belt. It spans in all directions... except for one. It's been easy to put distance between myself and the edge of the cliff. I've used that time to explore the expanse. But it just foes on forever and it all leads to the same place. I have become intimately familiar with the touch of the conveyor. Which is how I know it's getting faster. Day by day, incrementally, infinitessimally so... but still it gets faster... and every day I get a little weaker.
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Bill Reed
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Bill reads and sometimes writes, and also watches a lot of movies.
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