Reposted by Mike "ComicsDC" RhodeBernadette Foley @fivefingers.bsky.social · 17/09/2026See also: www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfe...aljazeera.comSyrian man uncovers library hidden behind wall for 15 yearsAbu Bilal built a secret wall in his home to protect his books from Syria’s former Assad regime. 819293
Mike "ComicsDC" Rhode @mrhode.bsky.social · 05/09/2026theconversation.com/the-legacy-o...theconversation.comThe legacy of Gloria Steinem: A woman who matteredFeminist scholar Rebecca Sullivan says meeting Gloria Steinem was a highlight of her career. Here, she reflects on everything she gave us, but also how she may have overshadowed other feminists. 000
Mike "ComicsDC" Rhode @mrhode.bsky.social · 29/08/2026www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/s...nytimes.comNarwhals Have Stunning Spiraled Tusks. That’s Not the Only Twist. (Gift Article)X-rays revealed that the tusks have an internal opposing twist, which may help explain how they grow so straight — the only tusks like them in nature. 000
Reposted by Mike "ComicsDC" RhodeMarc Singer @theothermarcsinger.bsky.social · 23/08/2026If you need a pick me up, just remember that right now, somewhere in Minneapolis, a newspaper editor is shouting "bring me pictures of Spider-Man!" into his telephone handset. 08433
Mike "ComicsDC" Rhode @mrhode.bsky.social · 21/08/2026www.nytimes.com/2026/08/20/s...nytimes.comThis Skeleton is the First Confirmed Death by Trebuchet (Gift Article)Researchers believe a young man buried inside a Scottish castle was a victim of the long-feared siege weapon, more powerful than a typical catapult. 000
Mike "ComicsDC" Rhode @mrhode.bsky.social · 14/08/2026www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/b...nytimes.comJohn Crowley, Author of Reality-Blurring Fantasy Novels Like ‘Little, Big,‘ Dies at 83 (Gift Article)The eminent critic Harold Bloom called his 1981 book “Little, Big” a “neglected masterpiece” and one of the best novels of the 20th century. 000
Mike "ComicsDC" Rhode @mrhode.bsky.social · 14/08/2026www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/t...nytimes.comI Tested a Popular A.I. Slop Detector. It Felt Empowering. (Gift Article)Pangram excels at distinguishing chatbot-generated words from human writing. But it’s not reliable for spotting artificial images. 010
Mike "ComicsDC" Rhode @mrhode.bsky.social · 13/08/2026www.nytimes.com/2026/08/12/a...nytimes.comEven With Space Cops and Magic Rings, ‘Lanterns’ Keeps It Real (Gift Article)HBO’s next big bet in the DC Universe is more like a buddy-cop drama than the usual comic-book adaptation. Fans are in for a few surprises. 000
Reposted by Mike "ComicsDC" RhodeSequential Scholars @sequentialscholars.bsky.social · 11/08/2026This is anecdotal, but perhaps useful to any/all comics scholars doing archival research, and since it comes from Bart Beaty, a figure whose work in/with comics archives is legendary in comics studies, I thought it might be worth sharing: don’t read in the archives; only photograph. #comics 1/10 2205
Mike "ComicsDC" Rhode @mrhode.bsky.social · 31/07/2026www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/s...nytimes.com‘This Is Very Strange’: Ancient Smallpox May Have Been Less Deadly (Gift Article)Scientists have found smallpox viruses in the remains of people in Chile from around 500 years ago, revealing how the virus may have evolved into a global killer. 000
Mike "ComicsDC" Rhode @mrhode.bsky.social · 26/07/2026www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/s...nytimes.com‘OnlyMarms’: Marmots Are on OnlyFans to Raise Money for ResearchA team of scientists uploaded videos of the squirrel-like rodents in the wild on the adult-content site OnlyFans to raise money amid government budget cuts. 000
Mike "ComicsDC" Rhode @mrhode.bsky.social · 09/07/2026www.nytimes.com/2026/07/08/t...nytimes.comHow to Prevent Meta From Using Your Instagram Images in A.I. 010
Mike "ComicsDC" Rhode @mrhode.bsky.social · 28/06/2026www.nytimes.com/2026/06/27/s... Fascinatingnytimes.comThis Trap Wants Ants to Take a Bite 011
Mike "ComicsDC" Rhode @mrhode.bsky.social · 24/06/2026www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/a...nytimes.comRare Books on Sex Have Spiced Things Up at a Library Franklin Founded 000
Mike "ComicsDC" Rhode @mrhode.bsky.social · 22/06/2026www.nytimes.com/interactive/...nytimes.comThe Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and S.U.V.s (Gift Article)The vehicles on American roads have grown larger — and they are killing thousands more pedestrians, a Times investigation found. 000
Reposted by Mike "ComicsDC" RhodeMarc Singer @theothermarcsinger.bsky.social · 17/06/2026In the interest of thinking about anything other than (waves at everything), I'm going to be posting my rewatch of Superman: The Animated Series. Running from 1996 to 2000, the series remains one of the most faithful and forward-looking adaptations of Superman in any medium. Let's see why! 272
Mike "ComicsDC" Rhode @mrhode.bsky.social · 10/06/2026www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/b...nytimes.comBillionaires’ Billions Are Increasing Faster Than Ever 000
Mike "ComicsDC" Rhode @mrhode.bsky.social · 07/06/2026www.nytimes.com/2026/06/06/s... Archives!nytimes.comBruce Springsteen Opens His Music Center, With Guitars 000
Mike "ComicsDC" Rhode @mrhode.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...nytimes.comOpinion | ‘Easily the Worst President in U.S. History’ 000
Mike "ComicsDC" Rhode @mrhode.bsky.social · 22/04/2026www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Measles Took My Daughter. This Is What I Want Everyone to Know. 010
Mike "ComicsDC" Rhode @mrhode.bsky.social · 15/04/2026www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/s...nytimes.comGlobal Wildlife Trade Fuels Spread of Disease From Animals to People 000
Mike "ComicsDC" Rhode @mrhode.bsky.social · 07/04/2026www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/h...nytimes.comFederal Agency Unveils Three Potential Osteoarthritis Treatments 032
Mike "ComicsDC" Rhode @mrhode.bsky.social · 31/03/2026www.nytimes.com/interactive/...nytimes.comWhat to Know about NASA's Artemis II Moon Mission (Gift Article)Here's how NASA plans to send four astronauts on a trip around the moon, the first time that anyone would travel this far from Earth since the end of the Apollo program in 1972. 000
Mike "ComicsDC" Rhode @mrhode.bsky.social · 31/03/2026www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/s...nytimes.comAmericans Have Never Been All That Excited About Going to the Moon 000
Mike "ComicsDC" Rhode @mrhode.bsky.social · 30/03/2026wapo.st/4lVLfwIwapo.stTo make people smile when it rains, his sidewalk art appears only when wetThe Seattle artist said he created the technique as an answer to gloomy weather. 000
Mike "ComicsDC" Rhode @mrhode.bsky.social · 27/03/2026www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/m...nytimes.comSaving Hermit Crabs by Breeding Them in the Suburbs 000
Mike "ComicsDC" Rhode @mrhode.bsky.social · 24/03/2026www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/w...nytimes.comThese Lifelike Patients Bleed and Cry (but Never Die) 000
Mike "ComicsDC" Rhode @mrhode.bsky.social · 11/03/2026hyperallergic.com/epstein-and-...hyperallergic.comEpstein and Trump Portrayed as Titanic Lovers in New Anonymous ArtworkThe sculpture on the National Mall comes in the wake of the release of previously withheld documents detailing abuse allegations against Trump. 000
Mike "ComicsDC" Rhode @mrhode.bsky.social · 11/03/2026‘Titanic’ statue of Trump and Epstein on the Mall draws praise, scorn www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...washingtonpost.com‘Titanic’ statue of Trump and Epstein on the Mall draws praise, scornThe statue, depicting them embracing on a copy of the Titanic bow, is the third placed on the Mall by the artists depicting a connection between Trump and Epstein. 000
Mike "ComicsDC" Rhode @mrhode.bsky.social · 09/03/2026hyperallergic.com/jeffrey-epst...hyperallergic.com“Jeffrey Epstein Walk of Shame” Pops Up in DCThe guerrilla artwork includes “stars” for MoMA trustee Leon Black, arts patron Les Wexner, and over a dozen other individuals mentioned in the Epstein files. 010
Mike "ComicsDC" Rhode @mrhode.bsky.social · 08/03/2026www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/s...nytimes.comLemurs Love This Fruit That Is Choking Madagascar’s Forests 000
Mike "ComicsDC" Rhode @mrhode.bsky.social · 08/03/2026www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/a...nytimes.comTatjana Wood, Award-Winning Comic Book Colorist, Dies at 99 000
Mike "ComicsDC" Rhode @mrhode.bsky.social · 03/03/2026www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/s...nytimes.comYour Closest Forest Gets Lit Up by a Hidden Purple Glow 000
Mike "ComicsDC" Rhode @mrhode.bsky.social · 28/02/2026www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/b...nytimes.comTo Extract Hot Water From the Earth, a Plan to Pipe It In First 010
Mike "ComicsDC" Rhode @mrhode.bsky.social · 28/02/2026www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/u...nytimes.comHenrietta Lacks’s Family Settles Suit With Novartis Over Use of Her Cells 010
Reposted by Mike "ComicsDC" RhodeComic Tropes @comictropes.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Tatjana Wood has apparently passed away at age 99. Her father was Jewish so during WW2 her parents sent her to the Netherlands, then NY. She studied as a dressmaker, met/married Wallace Wood and began assisting him, then pivoted to becoming one of the best colorists in comics. 6926286
Mike "ComicsDC" Rhode @mrhode.bsky.social · 27/02/2026www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/s...nytimes.comWhat Your DNA Reveals About the Sex Life of Neanderthals 000
Mike "ComicsDC" Rhode @mrhode.bsky.social · 27/02/2026www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/c...nytimes.comBirds Aren’t Just Declining. They’re Declining Faster, a New Study Finds. 000
Mike "ComicsDC" Rhode @mrhode.bsky.social · 26/02/2026wapo.st/4swQBAT Archives!wapo.stA pilot who dropped the atomic bomb kept a journal. It’s now for sale.Capt. Robert A. Lewis, the co-pilot of the Enola Gay, scribbled thoughts in a notebook while the first atomic bomb was dropped on Japan. 010
Mike "ComicsDC" Rhode @mrhode.bsky.social · 25/02/2026www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/s...nytimes.comT. Rex Ran on Its Tiptoes ‘Like an 8-Ton Chicken’ 000
Mike "ComicsDC" Rhode @mrhode.bsky.social · 25/02/2026wapo.st/4kT0GVX Free to read. Museums! And a reason to keep paying for the WaPowapo.stA professor challenged the Smithsonian. Security shut the gallery.As President Donald Trump seeks to reshape museums and other cultural institutions, historian James Millward has been “guerrilla teaching” visitors about changes that have been made. 000
Mike "ComicsDC" Rhode @mrhode.bsky.social · 24/02/2026www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/b...nytimes.comA Wake for The Washington Post’s Books Section 000
Mike "ComicsDC" Rhode @mrhode.bsky.social · 22/02/2026www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/u... Free to read. Medical history.nytimes.comAmbulance EMTs Are Routine Today. These Black Medics Helped Pave the Way. 275
Mike "ComicsDC" Rhode @mrhode.bsky.social · 18/02/2026www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/u... this was quite interesting actuallynytimes.comTo Stay in Her Home, She Let In an A.I. Robot 000
Mike "ComicsDC" Rhode @mrhode.bsky.social · 16/02/2026www.nytimes.com/2026/02/15/n...nytimes.comIn the East Village, Hiding in Plain Sight: A Secret Passage to the Underground Railroad 000
Mike "ComicsDC" Rhode @mrhode.bsky.social · 10/02/2026Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Seven Pages of a Sealed Watergate File Sat Undiscovered. Until Now. 020
Mike "ComicsDC" Rhode @mrhode.bsky.social · 09/02/2026See how the Trump administration is using AI throughout the government - The Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...washingtonpost.comTrump set off a surge of AI in the federal government. See what happened.The Trump administration is accelerating AI adoption across government, embedding the technology in policing, health care, defense and science. 000
Reposted by Mike "ComicsDC" RhodeUncivilized @unciv.bsky.social · 31/01/20251/ Mike Rhode and Matt Madden discuss Matt's work and his approach to comics creation through constraints, which is the theme and content of his new gn, Six Treasures of the Spiral. @mrhode.bsky.social 1143
Reposted by Mike "ComicsDC" RhodeJohn Freeman @johnfreeman.bsky.social · 10/01/2026Thanks to Mike Rhode (@mrhode.bsky.social), I’ve added some more interview links with ”Calvin and Hobbes” creator Bill Watterson to this checklist downthetubes.net/bill-watters...downthetubes.netBill Watterson: The InterviewsA checklist of Calvin and Hobbes goodness! 0257
Mike "ComicsDC" Rhode @mrhode.bsky.social · 07/02/2026www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/b...nytimes.comSo Long to Cheap Books You Could Fit in Your Pocket 022