The title is from a live blog entry on The Guardian website on the 10th of June. The post quoted Trump spreading a conspiracy theory that the Governor of California and the Mayor of LA had paid protestors to cause trouble. The not-so-subtle phrasing makes it quite clear what the ...

"... the president said without reference to reality."
Gunwallace at 12:00AM, June 12, 2025How Long is a Piece of String?
Gunwallace at 12:00AM, Jan. 30, 2025
Banes is taking a short break for the Thursday post, so I'll be filling in for a some unspecified number of posts. How many exactly? Well, how long is a piece of string? How long is the coastline of Britain? That was an academic paper ('How Long Is the ...
The Hawk and Flo Adventures Twistverse Has an Official Discord; The KAMics Hits 2200 Milestone; Buy Jazzy a Ko-Fi to Publish Carl and The Lost Shadow!!!
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Jan. 13, 2025
Photo: “HawkandFloAdventures Twistverse Has Official Discord”. HawkandFloAdventures creator of Hawk and Flo Adventures.
HawkandFloAdventures writes:
“Hi!
I've just made an official discord server for my comics!
Twistverse Discord: https://discord.gg/FXCh92J9
Twistverse Discord Invite: https://discord.com/invite/FXCh92J9
I'm still new to it all and figuring ...
FEATURED COMIC --> Cometman
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Feb. 21, 2024
Cometman - The Pilot: Deux Coeurs, Un Hèros (Two Souls, One Hero)
Christine La Blanc has just been taken prisoner on board pirate trader Osareeus’ spaceship. Upon contact, small and strangely dressed Christine was mistaken for a terragin, but is actually from planet Earth. Osareeus wishes to converse with Christine, who ...
Your formative inspiration as a comic creator
Emma_Clare at 12:00AM, June 4, 2021
I was on a livestream earlier today and the topic of Tim Burton came up when discussing my favourite movies. I went on to describe how influential his movies were for me, even going so far as to inspire quite the phase particularly when it came to creating comics. My ...
Captain America Civil War
Banes at 12:00AM, Feb. 18, 2021
I've compared “Avengers Infinity War” to the classic movie cliffhanger in The Empire Strikes Back.
But the Marvel Cinematic Universe actually pulled off an almost-“Empire”-level story a couple years before that, in Captain America: Civil War.
The MCU started off with multiple movies setting up Iron Man ...
The Empire Strikes Back is 40 - and More Baffling Silliness from Disney Lucasfilm?
Banes at 12:00AM, Dec. 31, 2020Spoilers for recent Star Wars, eg the Mandalorian.
It went unspoken in my year of Newsposts, but 2020 is the 40th Anniversary the release of The Empire Strikes Back.
that's not true! That's impossible!
No, man! Search your feelings! you know it's true! Forty damn years!
Though ...
All is Lost
Banes at 12:00AM, April 30, 2020
I've talked many times about story structure. Even with a structural approach, there are a lot of questions to be answered, struggles to be had, and hard thinking to be done to make a story work.
One big moment that I like thinking about early in the writing is ...
QUACKCAST 412 - Hiatusssss D:
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Feb. 5, 2019 LISTEN on our new player!
Listen on Stitcher - https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/drunkduck-quackcast
Or TuneinRadio - https://tunein.com/podcasts/Books–Literature/Drunkduck-Quackcast-p1150194/
A huge thank you to the fantastic Amelius, creator of Charby the Vampirate! We mined her great newspost on the topic of the comic hiatus for this ...
Quackcast 372 - Marvel heroes and an infinity war against greyness
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, May 1, 2018 LISTEN!
In this Quackcast we use the movie Avengers: Infinity War as an excuse to chat about grey characters and how that applies in the Marvel universe. In truth we don't touch much on that movie but we do chat about a few of the other marvel superhero movies ...