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ferdifz · 2 days
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My latest cartoon for New Scientist
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ferdifz · 6 days
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Was the TikTok Ban part of the bill designed to hide the fact that the US just approved sending some long-range ballistic missiles to Ukraine?
Anyways I continue hoping Putin & his Kremlin gets decommisioned as quickly as possible.
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ferdifz · 6 days
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Shitposting is fun n' all but y'know what I think is most important?
It's being able to think outloud and hear yourself think.
And also being able to trust that any & all feedback you receive is in good faith & not trying to brainfuck you just for shits n' giggles.
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ferdifz · 7 days
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throwback: "Old Man yells at Cloud"
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[knowyourmeme.com]
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ferdifz · 7 days
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AOC responding to: "I just can't ever vote for Biden again because of Gaza"
TikTok link to a clip from Mehdi Hasan's Zeteo, April 2024
Mehdi Hasan:
"What do you say to a young progressive or an Arab-American who says to you, 'I just can't vote for Biden again after what he's enabled in Gaza.'? Listen to a detailed, thoughtful, & important answer to my question from AOC at the Zeteo launch in DC. (Do try & actually listen to what she says & not just assume!)
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Like AOC, I'm not here at this moment on Tumblr or on the Internet to lecture anyone.
Especially since I'm not even a voting citizen of the United States. So listen to her or not, about what she has to say to those who say they are a US progressive yet they cannot ever vote for Biden again over what he has helped enable in Gaza. Your choice.
Some of you following me here are US voters who loudly feel this way. But still though. Not my circus, not my monkeys.
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Also, fair disclosure: I don't have TikTok but I do have Google Search, hehee... 😝✌ I first saw this clip as posted on Mehdi Hasan's Threads account a couple of days ago. Mehdi probably shared this on Twitter aka. X, too but I haven't checked yet.
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ferdifz · 8 days
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Putusan MK telah turun, hari Rabu lusa (24 April) KPU akan tetapkan Prabowo-Gibran presiden & wapres terpilih.
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ferdifz · 9 days
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There is so much obvious aesthetic & artistic paralel between this Giger concept for Jodorowsky's unfinished Dune movie, and Giger's works for Alien (1979) and Aliens (1986).
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H.R. Giger’s concept art for Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Dune, 1975
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ferdifz · 10 days
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Bookmarking...
I've seen Michael's call for posts previously on Instagram and Threads (Michael is also here on Tumblr and on Bluesky)...
Basically what he's asking for is for anyone reading this to send him physical mail or a postcard to the aforementioned P.O. Box mailing address (P.O. Box 198, Scottdale, GA 30079), and said mail/postcard should contain a prediction that you would like to tell Michael and/or tell the World in general. Michael is accepting submissions from within the USA and from international participants.
As per the attached picture, documentation & more details are to follow & to be published at michaelorr.org.
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I've made a list of predictions myself over at my Threads; haven't decided yet which one to send by snail-mail to Michael...:
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I predict Humanity / the human race will still exist for another 200, 300 years at least.
1,000 years, if I'm feeling a bit more extra-confident.
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I predict no human will yet physically go beyond the solar system in 100 years.
(I think I'd like to be proven wrong on this one.)
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I predict that Elon Musk will be wrong about generative AI (as he Xitted last week), and in fact no human-level artificial-general-intelligence system / computer will emerge within the next 50 years.
100 years even, maybe.
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I predict that World War III will not happen within the next 50 years, despite all the (implicit and explicit) saber-rattlings from Putin's Kremlin, from Iran, from the Chinese Communist Party, and from North Korea.
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I predict Triple-A videogaming on Linux will continue to grow albeit slowly, and do so for the next 10 years at least.
And despite that the Steam Deck will be the only economically "solvent"/"break-even" Linux-based gaming platform for that same 10 years.
(I'd love to be proven wrong by either the Epic Games store, GoG dot Com, or even by Google should they dare try to resurrect Stadia...) (maybe in cooperation with GPDwin, Lenovo, Asus-ROG, or some other Taiwanese/non-Taiwanese hardware player...)
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ferdifz · 10 days
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Rebel Moon part II: The Scargiver (a "mini-review")
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I am so, so glad that I personally enjoyed "Rebel Moon part II: The Scargiver" a whole lot more than some of the pre-release reviewers would believe (or even perhaps wish) me to. I found myself moved, frankly, by the story. No it's no Tolstoy "War & Peace", but it's no knock-off "Flash Gordon" either.
...And yes you do have to have a "supportive" viewing attitude going in; you need suspension of disbelief (and, perhaps moreso, "suspension of disapproval"). There are premises that are so, so easy to sarcastically criticize in Rebel Moon, but doing so will rob yourself as certainly as going into a Superman movie telling yourself, "humans don't fly & aliens aren't bulletproof".
You get out of it what you put into it. You want to hate Rebel Moon and call it dumb, go ahead hate it. It is a free world. I myself choose not to hate it.
If you ask me (and if you're not asking me then why are you even reading this?), you should go into Rebel Moon telling yourself, "I am going to try, just ever so slightly, not to hate this as I'm going in". I would say there is a good chance you might enjoy it, if you want to, like I did.
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The pushback against Rebel Moon feels very similar to the pushback against Star Wars episodes I through III (the Star Wars prequel trilogy), to me.
...And no I will not be accepting any debates on this topic at this time.
[/continues wallowing in blissful ignorance]
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ferdifz · 10 days
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Lost in the Pages
Between Two Tomes
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ferdifz · 11 days
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ferdifz · 11 days
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Today I learn this +12-year-old comic has a Know Your Meme entry associated with it... [+]
To quote Yoel Roth at Bluesky from a few days ago: [+]
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do you ever just
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ferdifz · 12 days
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Yes the Palestine Ministry of Health reports 40,000 dead, but death rate in Susan is at 10.000 per day and it's been ongoing for almost a year (since April 23, 2023).
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ferdifz · 12 days
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Secret Panel HERE 📜 tapas.io/episode/3150022
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ferdifz · 12 days
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Lucy of Fallout: "Okey Dokey"
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Lol :)) To quote:
The Fallout TV series season 1 in a nutshell
For the record I personally love it. The show, the franchise, and this cartoon as well.
Cartoon by Kaitlin aka. @spooky.daggers [ ig / threads ]
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ferdifz · 13 days
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To The Cashier Who Asked How I Am Today - Jordan Bolton
My first book ‘Blue Sky Through the Window of a Moving Car’ is now available to pre-order! Get it here - https://smarturl.it/BlueSky
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ferdifz · 13 days
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