@nwale

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“Queen Latifa, give me strength!” — Gene Belcher

Fiction: https://fiction.nwale.id.au/

Websitehttps://nwale.id.au/
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@mhoye
For anyone unaware (including myself):
https://history.howstuffworks.com/american-history/killdozer.htm

This guy was a psychopath. Lucky no one was killed.

The Strange Story of 'Killdozer' and the Man Behind It

The 2004 incident in Granby, Colorado, left half the town destroyed. Now 17 years later, Marvin Heemeyer, the man who piloted the tank that crushed the library and town hall, has become a hero to antigovernment extremists.

HowStuffWorks
@ComicContext
Could’ve been a werebat
@mhoye
“Git” good?
@ComicContext
How much soup do you have to eat before they start calling you Soup McConell?
@PeterLudemann @pete
When I visited Japan my friend kept having to pull me aside because bikes wanted to pass. By the end of my three weeks, I was stepping aside automatically

When Soviet Youth Bootlegged Western Rock Music on Discarded X‑Rays: Hear Original Audio Samples

https://www.openculture.com/2026/03/when-soviet-youth-bootlegged-western-rock-music-on-discarded-x-rays.html

When Soviet Youth Bootlegged Western Rock Music on Discarded X‑Rays: Hear Original Audio Samples

A catchy tribute to mid-century Soviet hipsters popped up a few years back in a song called “Stilyagi” by lo-fi L.A. hipsters Puro Instinct. The lyrics tell of a charismatic dude who impresses “all the girls in the neighborhood” with his “magnitizdat” and guitar. Wait, his what?

Open Culture

#comics #australia

Was watching Youtube Matttt's video about Western influences on manga (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U676rFdMUVc), when I heard him mention that influential manga artist Kitazawa Rakuten (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitazawa_Rakuten) was mentored by Aussie Frank Nankivell!
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_A._Nankivell)

He was from Castlemaine in Vic.

Unfortunately, there's not a lot of info on his Wikipedia page

The big lie about the origin of manga

YouTube

@BrentToderian a great example of this is the infamous "15-Minute Cities" conspiracy, which was started by an anti-climate change group:

https://www.desmog.com/2023/02/16/revealed-the-science-denial-network-behind-oxfords-climate-lockdown-backlash/

They spread lots of disinformation about supposed "climate lockdowns" that were coming and the 15-Minute City was just the one that stuck.

Their goals had nothing to do with cities; good urbanism was just collateral damage.

Revealed: The Science Denial Network Behind Oxford’s ‘Climate Lockdown’ Backlash

The “grassroots” backlash to a traffic reduction scheme in Oxfordshire is being boosted by an international network of established climate and Covid science deniers and amplified by right-wing media, DeSmog can report.  The group ‘Not Our Future’ made headlines last month by putting leaflets through Oxfordshire residents’ letterboxes calling them “guinea pigs” in the UK’s […]

DeSmog

#fiction #shortstory

First short story for the new year!

Lawn Story: https://fiction.nwale.id.au/stories/lawn-story/

As a matter of spite, Stephanie Pedilla refuses to cut her lawn ever again!

About 3921 words.

Includes poison frogs, carnivorous pseudo-dandelions, and crayon wasps!

Lawn Story — Wild Anomalies