Mark Paglia

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Occasional writer, periodic podcaster, unremitting dilettante. https://linktr.ee/markpaglia

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One injured, rushed to the hospital after activist involved shooting at trump rally

Just read the first issue of Zatanna: Bring Down the House, and while I picked it up because of the writer (only a fool ignores a new Mariko Tamaki book), those inks and colors by Javier Rodriguez...yowza!

You should be able to summon a really rad demon by drawing the cool S.

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Why is he knocking I gave him a key

The Star Wars sequel trilogy cribbed several elements from the Dark Empire comics, but they left out the best part (Palpatine's final death when Han finally gets tired of his shit and just shoots him in the back).

Fun to learn that for all their snootiness, the Boston Brahmin produced at least one extremely cool dude. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_...

Thomas Wentworth Higginson - Wikipediaen.m.wikipedia.org

This is heartbreaking for me, a guy who moved back to New England from Maryland in part because I never got used to the hot, humid weather.

"But if Boston’s weather becomes more like Baltimore’s, that will mean summers would be nearly 4 degrees hotter and 6.8 percent wetter." www.bostonglobe.com/2024/07/12/s...

If you think Boston’s hot now, get ready - The Boston Globewww.bostonglobe.com In the future, the city could feel more like Baltimore — or Memphis — depending on how we respond to the climate crisis.

When I was a kid, I used to wake up early and watch reruns of old shows like Gilligan's Island and Flipper. Today I put on the old Zorro show on Disney+, and seeing the opening titles gave me such a Proustian moment.

Mild #Xspoilers: The first McKay/Stegman issue is fairly staid for a relaunch, but I think that's necessary. The Krakoan age began and ended with huge shifts in the status quo, and rather than trying to top that, it makes sense to change up the narrative pacing.

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SomeBODY once sold me Some baby shoes and told me The little things had never been worn

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Tammi, yeah, that one. 2.0

I can't take the word 'jedi' seriously because it means 'eat ass' in Yoruba. [And 'jedijedi' means diarrhoea]

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The hardest any Marvel comic has ever gone: Micronauts 10

I'm sure plenty of cops take the job because they genuinely believe the copaganda, but you don't even have to be a sociopath to be drawn to a job that gives you power and the assurance that you will always be deemed correct.

I don't think every cop is a violent sadistic sociopath, but I do know if I were a violent sadistic sociopath who wanted to hurt people without suffering consequences, there's one career that I would be *extremely* drawn to

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There are a lot of reasons to hate the NYT but right now my top one is that they’ve convinced me to defend Joe Biden and that really sucks

I know gossip can be engrossing, but frankly those Bridgerton folks should be a bit more concerned about Napoleon.

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So wise

I listened to Greg Pak, and so can you! Turns out doing something material feels way better than posting about the election.

I just signed up to write postcards to get out the vote in swing states. You can, too! www.turnoutpac.org/postcards/

Postcards to Swing States - Progressive Turnout Projectwww.turnoutpac.org Voters who receive handwritten postcards are significantly more likely to vote. We proved it in 2020.

I used to think Yoda was such a quitter at the end of Episode III, but if I'd been the best at my job for almost a millennium and then fucked up so badly that my entire profession is wiped out, I'd probably go hide in a swamp too.

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When someone talks about whether you can separate someone from their work, I know the someone they’re talking about is a white man. Marginalized creators (including young women who are that man’s victims) are never allowed to have their work considered apart from their marginalization.

I see we've reached the "famous artist credibly accused of sexual assault wasn't actually a great artist and you're a chump for liking him" phase. Consider that pretending terrible people can't make great art helps terrible people who make great art whedon their way into vulnerable communities.

How it feels seeing any screenshot from the NYT.

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i wish people would stop politicising politics so much. elections are meant to be about playing fair & having fun with your friends, not polarisation and toxicity

Looney Tunes gave me very unrealistic expectations regarding the abundance of anvils in the world.

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If you tried to read Dante's The Inferno and found it difficult, just imagine trying to explain Kendrick Lamar's "Not Like Us" to someone 700 years from now because it's mostly just that

If you see this, you simply must post a picture from your device without explaining it.

If you see this, you have to post a picture from your device without explaining it (or don't, I'm a lowbie not a cop)

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This guy was such a G for telling his evil wizard cyborg boss that his religion is bullshit during a work meeting.

The Inside Out characters in my head.

The Inside Out characters in my head

Not pleased with the gigantic raven in the neighborhood that swooped over me, cawing loudly. This is not a year that needs ominous portents.

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We just commemorated the anniversary of the war fought to ensure I don't have to care about any of this

I like to think that the worm in RFK Jr's head is the failson of Mr Mind.

I often rewatch Lisa the Iconoclast on the 4th of July, and I may have to watch it twice today in honor of the late Donald Sutherland.