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fsherman.bsky.social @fsherman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Like Christian misogynists they’ve taken what they think is the rightful order of society — them on top — and convinced themselves that’s obviously what the Bible says."
frasersherman.com
“Jesus is not front and center with these guys”
That’s the conclusion of Bob Smietana looking at Joel Webbon, Dale Partridge and other “Jim Crow theobros” who preach various forms of white male supremacy: pro-slavery, pro-Jim C…
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fsherman.bsky.social @fsherman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
My friend Lucy Adams gave me some chestnuts after her tree divested itself of them. Here they are roasted and popping out of their skin. Next step, soup.
Chestnuts popping out of their skins after roasting.
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fsherman.bsky.social @fsherman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Thank god someone's finally thinking about this!
popsci.com
What kind of animal is Gonzo? What kind of animal is Gonzo? The Muppets won't say, so we asked biologists.
Gonzo’s most distinct feature is also his most baffling: his beak. (Or is it a nose?)
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fsherman.bsky.social @fsherman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"Just as it was obvious nothing but direct action would change segregation, it was obvious a year ago what a nightmare the Toddler was creating. "
frasersherman.com
What we’re seeing now was completely predictable
As I wrote Monday, the chainsaw RFK Jr. has taken to America’s medical and health systems was completely predictable before his confirmation. That’s also true of everything else the Tod…
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fsherman.bsky.social @fsherman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Cool.
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fsherman.bsky.social @fsherman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"Rather than help people they’d sooner see the poor and uninsured die and decrease the surplus population. After all, they have money and world-class healthcare — they’ll never have to worry about being part of the surplus. "
frasersherman.com
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., bringer of plague and death
“Make America healthy again you say? So open up thousands more hospitals around the country especially in rural areas or towns where private equity is buying them up and stripping them f…
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fsherman.bsky.social @fsherman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Wow. That's how to sell with sex.
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Cadbury's Flake - Bath (1992, UK)
YouTube video by The Hall of Advertising
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fsherman.bsky.social @fsherman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"The Toddler is much more worried about the Ukraine hitting Russian targets than the aggressor in the war attacking the Ukraine."
frasersherman.com
Anyone who says the Toddler has made the world respect us is repeating a lie
Maybe they believe it, maybe not, but a lie it is. Take for example, Jared Kushner. It’s bad enough the president sends his son-in-law, with zero diplomatic skills, to negotiate in the Middle…
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Handgun Yoga 🇺🇦🇬🇱🇩🇰🇺🇸 @handgunyoga.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The next day, Trinidad police arrested a supporter of Combs for misdemeanor disorderly conduct after he displayed a “fuck bad cops” placard outside city hall. That charge was also later dropped.
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fsherman.bsky.social @fsherman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"They mean the fantasy ideal of “family” in their heads: husband working, wife at home with lots of (white) kids, girls growing up carefully groomed to be submissive handmaids, preferably not doing anything Manly like playing competitive sports. And nobody ever gets abortion or birth control."
frasersherman.com
Undead sexist cliche: Republicans support the family
Republicans and right-wingers have been presenting themselves as advocates for “family friendly” policies since the 1980s. Or I supposed the 1970s, when they presented women’s lib…
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fsherman.bsky.social @fsherman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"The assumption women are driven not by rational argument but by things like “social status, popular consensus” is an Undead Sexist Cliche, a variation of the cliche that women are too emotional to think rationally."
frasersherman.com
Undead sexist cliche: women are sheeple
This is an idea that I’ve seen in multiple different forms, most recently here. This is kind of funny, given the Toddler in the White House devotes endless posts on Truth Social to proclaimin…
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fsherman.bsky.social @fsherman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Newsflash: not every "classic" villain deserves a revival.
atomicjunkshop.com
It's a crazy thought, but maybe some super-villains deserve oblivion ⋆ Atomic Junk Shop
A couple of months ago, I cited Flash #209 and Batman #234 as the beginning of what would become a Bronze Age trend — writers using supervillains again rather than “realistic” or …
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fsherman.bsky.social @fsherman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"We’re in a war and we’re losing. The economy is starting to reel from the effects of the Toddler’s tariffs. There are wildfires all over the country. But the ballroom is what’s important to him. Well, that and posting non-stop memes online. "
frasersherman.com
The deranged self-indulgent Toddler president
“Just as Trump so often comes across as a racist’s idea of a black man — lazy, stupid, hyper-sexualized — he also manifests as a misogynist’s idea of a woman, spending two hours a day on his …
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fsherman.bsky.social @fsherman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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Random political quotes for a Tuesday post
“It’s always odd when “you should expose yourself to more diverse ideas” always means a certain kind of conservatism instead of like, Indigenous art, new fusion foods, math …
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fsherman.bsky.social @fsherman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
"As I’ve said before, contemplating the reality of sexual abuse and assault is like living in a Lovecraftian horror — accepting the true nature of reality feels insane. "
frasersherman.com
“If my own country won’t protect me, who will?” — rape and institutional betrayal
Elsie Dominguez, a member of the Merchant Marine, says she was raped by a naval captain in 2021. When she told her superiors she was “discouraged from reporting, dissuaded from seeking medica…
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fsherman.bsky.social @fsherman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I couldn't have told Steve Ditko was an objectivist from most of his Silver Age work. This one, though ...
atomicjunkshop.com
Steve Ditko's final concept for Marvel: an armored objectivist hero called Iron Rand! ⋆ Atomic Junk Shop
Okay, I made that up. But I’m sure anyone nerdy enough to hang out here at Atomic Junk Shop knows Steve Ditko was a devout admirer of Ayn Rand’s Objectivist …
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Case in point: a while back, Mamdani announced the creation of a tech office to improve government services. For people who cover govt and tech, this was a legitimately big story. Mamdani even held a press conference and made staffers available for comment. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/mamdani-in...
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Mamdani invests in tech capacity to “solve real problems”
What PIT Crew says about how he is governing, and tech in government
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fsherman.bsky.social @fsherman.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
"we have to keep talking about these rapes over and over and over because otherwise we accept the implicit framing that it’s somehow okay or that there’s some kind of non-legal statute of limitations on holding someone accountable for rape. In other words we normalize it. We normalize rape."
lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com
The Trouble With Normal Is It Always Gets Worse - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Earlier today, Paul discussed this LOL Nothing Matters post by Kevin Drum, arguing it was OK that the media was substantially under-covering E. Jean Carroll’s credible rape allegations because nothing...
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fsherman.bsky.social @fsherman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Theocrat Doug Wilson, Confederacy sympathizer and professional misogynist, thinks America is both a "creedal nation" based on belief and one where your ancestry determines your Americanness. As described at the link, Mamdani's worldview is closer to the ideals of the American creed than Wilson's.
frasersherman.com
Zohram Mamdani is better for America than Doug Wilson
Doug Wilson is a slimy Christian theocrat who think women should lose the vote and that marital sex means men conquer, women submit. He thinks race relations in America were best under slavery and …
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fsherman.bsky.social @fsherman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Wilson insists that he'd have fought for the Confederacy but totally not for slavery. Dude, there's no difference. But I'm sure he knows that.
joemygod.com
Hegseth's Pastor Would Have Fought For Confederacy - Joe.My.God.
MEHDI HASAN: “You said recently to a local news channel that you would’ve fought for the South in the Civil War, for the Confederacy, which lest we forget had 3.5 million people enslaved, had a consti...
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fsherman.bsky.social @fsherman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
In Republicans' fantasy world, "the uneducated man sees the simple common-sense truth that blacks are inferior, women belong in the kitchen, rape is an attack on men; the elites are out to deny all that with their … facts."
frasersherman.com
The rottenness and folly of so many of the “elite”
Right-wingers have been sneering at elites for years. The “pointy-headed intellectuals” who had the ridiculous idea Jim Crow segregation wasn’t righteous. The conviction that smal…
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fsherman.bsky.social @fsherman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The Phantom Stranger, new and improved!
atomicjunkshop.com
Stranger in the mirror: the "definitive" Phantom Stranger arrives ⋆ Atomic Junk Shop
I put quotes around “derivative” in the title because as I’ve written about before, definitive is a subjective term. Someone like me who grew up with Silver Age Mort Weisinger …
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fsherman.bsky.social @fsherman.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Yep. Good thread.
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scoutmoondiver.bsky.social @scoutmoondiver.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
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fsherman.bsky.social @fsherman.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
" Months after filing her sexual assault lawsuit, she and her legal counsel were gobsmacked to find out that the Department of Labor (DOL) determined post-investigation that the rape occurred within her job duties and had to be pursued as a worker’s comp claim " Hulk want to smash now.
military.com
Exclusive: Navy Sexual Assault Survivor Forced to File Workers' Comp Claim After Alleged Rape by Captain Exhausts Legal Options
Elsie Dominguez was allegedly raped by her captain while asleep on a ship. She told Military.com she's out of legal options after a multi-year battle.
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fsherman.bsky.social @fsherman.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Imaginary Republicans "know how to manage the economy, believe in a strong defense and a tough-but-fair legal system. They’re battle-experienced veterans who support the military, unlike the Democrats who all protested the Vietnam War and spat on the troops." And too many voters think they're real
frasersherman.com
We could use some imaginary Republicans right now
Back in 2004, writer John Rogers mentioned how much he missed Republicans: “Sober men in suits, pipes, who’d nod thoughtfully over their latest tract on market-driven fiscal conservatis…
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fsherman.bsky.social @fsherman.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
"Who divides work, who assigns authority? Who wields power, and to what ends? What check is there on that power, besides a self-avowed commitment to ‘virtue’ and ‘self-restraint’ —terms that are much more slippery in practice than in theory?” — quoted from Kristin Kobes DuMez
frasersherman.com
Organization and corruption, the role of women, Natalie Harpe and Very Serious People: it’s a mini-posts Monday
The Amateur Athletic Union was enmeshed in a child sex-abuse scandal 15 years ago. It pledged to put reforms in place but according to Pro Publica did jack shit. You will be shocked, shocked to lea…
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fsherman.bsky.social @fsherman.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Sharing, as I'm one of the authors. Two stories of mine, "Obolos" and "Backstage With the Hypothetical Dead."
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fsherman.bsky.social @fsherman.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
As Carney said, US promises are now written in pencil. Even if they agreed to everything, it wouldn't gain them any good will.
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fsherman.bsky.social @fsherman.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Speculation about Homo sapiens magi, DC's magic-using branch of the human race.
atomicjunkshop.com
My Secret, Entirely Head-Canon History of Homo Magi ⋆ Atomic Junk Shop
If you’re wondering how Homo magi, something Gerry Conway came up with in 1979, fits into my Silver Age reread — well, Superboy #175 (cover by Neal Adams) came out in …
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fsherman.bsky.social @fsherman.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
There's something to be said for having a consistent creative team on a comic book series.
atomicjunkshop.com
Continuity: it matters behind the scenes too ⋆ Atomic Junk Shop
There’s no question a lot of the Bronze Age was solid gold. Steve Englehart’s Avengers. Tomb of Dracula. Starlin’s Warlock and Captain Marvel. Plus less spectacular but solidly entertaining books such...
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fsherman.bsky.social @fsherman.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Damn, that was funny.
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fsherman.bsky.social @fsherman.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
"Which is the way it always works with the current president: he’s a double-crossing rat and even if you give him exactly what he wants — well, once he’s got what he wanted, he’ll want more."
frasersherman.com
Where the elite meet to grovel
In 2020 and 2021, Tina Peters was an election-denying Colorado election official. She broke the law by plotting to tamper with election machines. She was convicted, jailed, then recently pardoned b…
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fsherman.bsky.social @fsherman.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
What's that phrase, that sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from evil?
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fsherman.bsky.social @fsherman.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Now available for pre-order.
mcfarlandbooks.com
Watching Jekyll and Hyde - McFarland
Watching Jekyll and Hyde Adaptations and Derivatives for Cinema, Stage and Television Fraser A. Sherman 978-1-4766-9758-1 979-8-3686-0188-5
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fsherman.bsky.social @fsherman.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Wow, what a fascinating handsome chap this guy is. Everyone should buy his books!
buymeacoffee.com
Fraser Sherman Author Interview — Michael Parkes Author
Post by Michael Parkes Author
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fsherman.bsky.social @fsherman.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
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fsherman.bsky.social @fsherman.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
"As I’ve written before, patriarchy makes people stupid. It’s a lie that tells men they’re entitled to have a woman provide them with sex and clean up after them."
frasersherman.com
Mundus vult decipit: the world loves to be deceived
Mundus vult decipit was the motto of Manuel of Poictesme in James Branch Cabell’s Figures of Earth. It reflects that Cabell’s heroes are frequently liars and con artists, and Cabell&#82…
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fsherman.bsky.social @fsherman.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The early 1970s was the first golden age of reprints.
atomicjunkshop.com
In the Bronze Age, the past wasn't dead. It wasn't even past ⋆ Atomic Junk Shop
As I’ve mentioned before, the early Bronze Age was an age of reprints. By 1971 DC, in particular, was all in. For the comics cover-dated August 1971, they raised the …
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fsherman.bsky.social @fsherman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
"The choice me made says he doesn’t oppose abuse, even if he tells himself otherwise. 'Against abuse when it’s politically safe' is no better than 'honest when convenient.'"
frasersherman.com
If you don’t draw a line in the sand, the waves will wash you away
Rep. Max Miller, running for re-election in Ohio, is allegedly (not that I doubt the allegations) a slimy, abusive creep who withheld his daughter’s favorite plush toy, the one she can’…
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fsherman.bsky.social @fsherman.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
They're giving us war, plague, famine and death. A quick roundup.
frasersherman.com
Let’s kick off the week with the Republican horsemen of the apocalypse!
First War: we’re still engaged in one because the Toddler and his government have no idea how to end it. And the options for doing so are steadily getting worse. “We are asking small to…
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fsherman.bsky.social @fsherman.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Cover by Joe Chlodo. Never heard of this 1981 weird western series. Looks interesting though.
Cover of a 1981 weird western. Illustrated by Joe Chlodo.
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fsherman.bsky.social @fsherman.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
"This is the equivalent of looking at when the Ivy League didn’t accept women and pointing out that all the Harvard and Yale grads are men."
frasersherman.com
Undead Sexist Cliche: the achievements of “men” uplift the individual “man”
As I’ve written before, that so much of our society embraces a hierarchy of races, genders, religions, etc. is perhaps America’s greatest weakness (though it’s not unique to us). …
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Mindy Weisberger @laminda.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
If you're having a tough day, I highly recommend giving your brain a break with the @explore.org livestream of Sea Lion Beach in British Columbia, where you will currently see piled-up sea lions in a snoozy cuddle puddle www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uoo...
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fsherman.bsky.social @fsherman.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
"'The less safe the environment is for men, the more they will seek little pods of safety like the tech world.' I admire his chutzpah in making a multibillion dollar industry sound like a treehouse some boys erected in the backyard.
frasersherman.com
Undead Sexual Cliche: men can never feel safe if women are around
A Baptist News article about Men-Only Christian gyms got me thinking about how some men want a safe space, by which they mean a space free of women. Conservatives love to shit on the idea of safe s…
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fsherman.bsky.social @fsherman.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
"What it’s really about is right-wingers’ absolute horror at women becoming sexually active before marriage, let alone without any risk of pregnancy."
frasersherman.com
The “holocaust” of abortion upsets right-wingers less than girls not staying virgin
I’ve blogged multiple times about the misogynist horror of women having sex “without consequences.” Using birth control, in their eyes, is slutty and irresponsible. Having sex whi…
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fsherman.bsky.social @fsherman.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Dear god, even for today's right that is one stomach-turning piece of kiss-ass. Much as I loathed Graham, even he doesn't deserve this.
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fsherman.bsky.social @fsherman.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
In 1971, three Marvel stories presented a kinder, gentler Victor von Doom.
atomicjunkshop.com
May your doom be nice ⋆ Atomic Junk Shop
As y’all must know, Damage Control was a series by Dwayne McDuffie and Ernie Colon dealing with the company that cleans up after superhero battles, alien invasions, giant robot clashes, etc. …
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fsherman.bsky.social @fsherman.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
As I wrote back in December, “there’s nothing edgy or daring about supporting patriarchy or defending rape — it’s evil, but it’s trite evil."
frasersherman.com
Undead sexist cliche: being a misogynist jackhole is cool and edgy!
The point of the “undead sexist cliche” label is that sexist and misogynist beliefs shamble on, refusing to die no matter how often they’re disproved. Case in point, the idea that…
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fsherman.bsky.social @fsherman.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
DC in 1971 decided to mash up some genres, with mixed results.
atomicjunkshop.com
You got horror comics in my love comics! And my war comics! And my superhero books! ⋆ Atomic Junk Shop
As I blogged about last year, the Bronze Age horror-comics revival began in 1968 when DC rebooted House of Mystery into its definitive form, with Cain as caretaker, landlord to ill-fated …
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