Detective Comics #660
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scans_dailyWriter: Chuck Dixon
Pencils: Jim Balent
Inks: Scott Hanna
Knightfall.
Robin is snooping on Bane's goons when he gets caught in the middle of a confrontation between Bane and Killer Croc.
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NS: Predator Badlands trailer
Jul. 21st, 2025 05:49 pmshakalooloo in scans_dailyMaybe not directly comics-related, but I posted scans of a Predator comic only a few days ago, so I reckon it counts. This movie looks pretty fun to me, so far!
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London library forced to briefly close after fox made itself comfortable
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metafilter_feedLondon library forced to briefly close after fox made itself comfortable inside. Foxes are a regular part of London life and the mischievous creatures have been spotted on Downing Street and even in the water fountains in Trafalgar Square. In 2011, a fox was even discovered to be living at the top of the UK's tallest skyscraper, the Shard.
Psycho History: Who gets to decide how to 'get to Denmark'?
Jul. 21st, 2025 01:11 pmmetafilter_feedThe three-way battle for the Democratic Party [ungated] - "It's the left vs. the establishment vs. Abundance. Here's your guide to what's happening."
while the framing is unnecessarily provocative (imo!) -- their areas of agreement[1] overlap far more than they conflict -- the narcissism of small difference[2,3] and (perceived) indivisibility of stakes[4,5] can make 'getting to denmark' (or finland) seem fraught :P also btw... This Sci-Fi Dictator Explains Our Political Crisis: "how the future-predicting science of psychohistory is similar to something we have in our world - economics."[6]
while the framing is unnecessarily provocative (imo!) -- their areas of agreement[1] overlap far more than they conflict -- the narcissism of small difference[2,3] and (perceived) indivisibility of stakes[4,5] can make 'getting to denmark' (or finland) seem fraught :P also btw... This Sci-Fi Dictator Explains Our Political Crisis: "how the future-predicting science of psychohistory is similar to something we have in our world - economics."[6]
Amazing Spider-Man #105
Jul. 21st, 2025 02:31 pmiamrman in scans_dailyWriter: Stan Lee
Pencils: Gil Kane
Inks: Frank Giacoia
Spider-Man stops Jonah from getting in to a fight with protesters and his natural response is to unleash a new Spider Slayer.
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Uncanny X-Men #224
Jul. 21st, 2025 12:29 pmiamrman in scans_dailyWriter: Chris Claremont
Pencils: Marc Silvestri
Inks: Bob Wiacek
Storm's search for Forge continues.
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Phoebe and Her Unicorn - 2025-07-21
Jul. 21st, 2025 12:00 amphoebeandherunicorn_feedComic strip for 2025/07/21
X-Force #59
Jul. 21st, 2025 10:29 amiamrman in scans_dailyWriter: Jeph Loeb
Pencils: Anthony Castrillo
Inks: Bud Larosa
X-Force tries to help Shatterstar out with his identity crisis.
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A newish kind of literary territory: the novel that sounds like TV
Jul. 21st, 2025 07:06 ammetafilter_feedAn essential divide between the vast wasteland of television and the fertile biomes of literature persisted from TV's formal maturation in the 1950s roughly through the beginning of the millennium, when television became "quality" and people stopped writing novels about how watching too much of it can amuse you to death. Suddenly, it turned out, watching TV wasn't bad for you after all — in fact it was good for you, pretty much as good as reading. from New TV Novels [N+1; ungated]
Tilburg girl finds live scorpion in backpack ordered from Shein
Jul. 21st, 2025 03:58 ammetafilter_feedTilburg girl finds live scorpion in backpack ordered from Shein. A 9-year-old girl in Tilburg (the Netherlands) got a terrifying surprise this week when she discovered a live scorpion inside a new backpack ordered from the Chinese webshop Shein, Omroep Brabant reports. The venomous animal had survived the trip from China and was only removed from the family's home after a series of frantic efforts by the mother, Jacqueline van Rooij.
This follows an incident from October 2024 when a student in Bristol, Britain found a scorpion crawling inside a Shein parcel. Sofia Alonso-Mossinger found the creature in a bag of boots which she had ordered online.
This follows an incident from October 2024 when a student in Bristol, Britain found a scorpion crawling inside a Shein parcel. Sofia Alonso-Mossinger found the creature in a bag of boots which she had ordered online.
Black power in the chaotic year of 2025
Jul. 20th, 2025 09:47 pmmetafilter_feedBlack mayors in Baltimore, Birmingham, and across the United States, are driving historic drops in crime within their cities. Here's how Baltimore is doing it and what some credit to Birmingham's drop in homicides.
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- mittens: Vera Tobin on The Art of the Plot Twist. Ursula LeGuin's Review of The Buried Giant. Andrew Fisher On Strangeness
- JoeZydeco on AI-generated video of an alternate-reality German moonbase, DDRMondbasis (Youtube, AI content)
- My own link to the archives of earlyweb comedy phenomenon WWWF Grudge Match
- jenfullmoon: Luigi: The Musical and people leaving Duolingo as the company embraces AI (Reddit)
- mittens again, The Failure of Warren Buffett
- Glinn, Paul F. Tompkins sings Vampire (Youtube) Glinn then turned it into a post of its own.
- jenfullmoon, Sesame Street goes to Netflix (Verge)
- Me again, Shapecatcher, a visual search engine for Unicode characters. Turns out it's a double, but from way back inb 2011
- SunSnork, Watching AI drive Microsoft employees insane (Reddit)
- And jenfullmoon, Valerie (the dachshund) has been found (NPR) Related post