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i don’t grow out of my interests they simply become absorbed into me as i get older like tree rings

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I had to wait a whole year to post this 😂

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Sometimes I draw comics where the characters are just nice to each other.

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I had a dream that I visited Iowa and saw the naked lady statue. Milk was shooting out of her nipples like a fountain. Thank you for that

I'm petitioning to either have this installed or lasers that fire out of her nipples

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The horn of Helm Hammerhand shall sound in the deep one last time.

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pls reblog for sample size etc.

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We’ve been hearing report after report of antisemitism at encampment protests, video after video, photo after photo, documenting people being physically assaulted, threatened, having antisemitic vitriol yelled at them.

And then people have the audacity to say that we’re accusing people of antisemitism for “criticizing israel.” What an absolute barrel of horse shit

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I Am Not Your Asian American Doll: a comic for AAPI Heritage Month 2023

I usually spend a lot of time editing and fine-tuning my comics so that they come across as polite and inoffensive. But honestly, I’m really tired of the way Asian cultures and countries are treated / talked about while Asian people themselves are excluded, and thought it was about time I really let my rage out lol.

id in alt

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AO3 IS IN TROUBLE IF CALIFORNIAN AGE VERIFICATION LAW PASSES

An upcoming Age verification bill centered in California will be voted on Monday-- And as always,instead of actually protecting kids, it will lead to more online censorship and privacy risks, as it will force websites hosting to verify their users age by sending their ID, your browser history would be linked to it. if you live California, call your reps and tell them to oppose the bill AB3080 as it highly unconstitutional.

They also deem LGBT content harmful to minors, as well as mentions of weapons and tobacco, putting them on the same level as NSFW content.

Since AO3 headquarters reside in California, much like Reddit, Twitter,Discord and Youtube (and others) who knows how bad the effects would be. Instead of just effecting Californians (even then its concerning.) the effects would be US or even worldwide. VPNs wont help.

Please take actions here (a script is included to help you) https://www.defendonlineprivacy.com/ca/action.php

Find your rep here https://findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov/

You can also send faxes using this https://faxzero.com/

If you don't live in California, please talk about this,tag your friends and urge others to take actions, make posts and tweets using the hashtags AB3080 and NoOnAB3080

More info HERE

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Hell Neil,

I wanted to ask why in particular Maggie's vinyl shop in London delivers singles to The Resurrectionist in Edinburgh? (In my opinion it would make more sense for the The Resurrectionist to buy them from a local record store)

It would indeed. But Maggie's father had a side business supplying Juke Boxes around the country with Juke Box singles, and The Resurrectionist still get their singles from Maggie.

(I don't know about the US, but in the UK many of the surviving jukeboxes get serviced and get the singles from dedicated outlets, which specialize in that kind of thing.)

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Yom HaShoah will start at sundown this evening Sunday May 5th and go until sundown of Monday May 6th 2024 {28 Nisan 5784}

Yom HaShoah is dedicated to and in honor of the memory of all the Jewish victims, resistance, and survivors.

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Happy birthday, Janusz Korczak- you would have been 134 today. 

For anyone who does not know who he is, please keep reading. He is by far my favorite historical figure, and perhaps one of my favorite people ever to have existed. Few great people are also good, but he was. 

There is no one in the world I admire more. Before World War II, he was known in Poland as a doctor-turned-teacher who was the first to advocate the belief that children were worthy of respect, their feelings were as valid as the feelings of adults, that they deserved to be talked to instead of being talked down to.  He spent his life radically changing  and modernizing the Polish education system, teaching at almost every level, and writing children’s books and books of educational theory (the latter he mostly denounced, saying that you shouldn’t ‘try to become teachers overnight with educational theory in your head and psychological bookkeeping in your heart’).  He was quirky and awkward around adults - there are many hilarious  accounts of his dealings with most people- but no one understood kids better.  In his old age, he opened orphanages and implemented his ideas there. 

When World War II started, as a Jew, he was no longer allowed to work in Gentile orphanages. So instead he ran a Jewish one in Warsaw. At the beginning of the war, he practiced active resistance,  running down streets with giant flags of Polish and Jewish pride at eighty years old, and refusing to wear the Star of David. Only out of concern for what his children would do without him, did he stop. Once he and the orphanage were forced into the Warsaw ghetto, he resisted by making the orphanage the happiest place in the ghetto, full of life and theater and love, as he tried to make life as normal as possible- and at the same time, try to prepare the children for the worst.

When the worst came and the children were to be rounded up to be killed, despite many attempts by the Jewish Underground to rescue him, and despite not having to go himself as an adult, he went with them to their deaths, giving up his life so that he could give them a few last moments of comfort before they died. Observers say that the children were calm and even happy as they walked, because of Korczak.

You are my hero, Janusz Korczak. Rest in peace.

“One does not leave a sick child at night, and one does not leave children at a time like this.” - Janusz Korczak

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Went to a gathering at a synagogue this afternoon to mark Yom HaShoah, the Jewish Holocaust Remembrance Day. A survivor, his name was Martin, told the audience about how his family snuck under some broken wire to escape their Polish ghetto. They lived in the forest on whatever they could find for months. Later, they found out that not long after they escaped, the Jews in their ghetto were marched to a local church, forced to dig their own graves, and shot en masse.

At the end of his speech, he thanked us for listening, as if we had done him some great kindness. Then he looked out over this audience of Jews and said:

Have long lives.

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