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Michael Weiss (not that one) @profmweiss.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Trump posting an image of penguins in Greenland is straight out of @theonion.com's article about the death of Encyclopedia Brown

Because of the long-standing mutual enmity between Meany and Brown, Meany was named among the suspects in The Case Of Encyclopedia Brown’s Mangled Corpse. Meany denied the allegations.

“It’s true that Detective Brown and I didn’t see eye to eye, but I would never do something so downright dirty rotten as murder him,” Meany said. “Besides, it’s a matter of public record that, at the time the crime was committed, I was at the North Pole watching the penguins.”

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Michael Weiss (not that one) @profmweiss.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

David Colton is a perfectly fine and interesting character, but I don't really care about him. MM was compelling because he was an ordinary schlub who discovered in middle-age that he used to be a SOUP-arrearo and that discovery first shattered his marriage and then the entire world

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Michael Weiss (not that one) @profmweiss.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

MURDER BY DEATH features Peter Sellers reprising his racist Chinese character stereotype from BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S which is... not good. But it also has Peter Falk playing a Humphrey Bogart-type, which is *amazingly* good

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Michael Weiss (not that one) @profmweiss.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

If you begin with the premise that there is a vast conspiracy of satanists who force children to have sex with animals, then it OF COURSE makes sense to eliminate the bestiality exclusion from FBI recruits. Honestly, everyone should really read @swordsjew.bsky.social's book WILD FAITH

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Michael Weiss (not that one) @profmweiss.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

speaking only for myself, I would prefer not to have 3 billion birds in my yard

An Ad: "3 Billion Birds Are Gone. This Small Change Brings Them Back to Your Yard"

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Michael Weiss (not that one) @profmweiss.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

And let us not forget his greatest character

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Michael Weiss (not that one) @profmweiss.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

@doktorzoom.bsky.social I hate to be a math pedant, but then again it is literally my job to be one, so: The issue here is not that they "didn't change the denominator". They *did* change the denominator (from 827 to 127). The problem is that did not also change the *numerator* at the same time

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Michael Weiss (not that one) @profmweiss.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

More or less the same plot in "Answer This!" (2011). Grad student gets offered a tenure track job in his own department before he even finishes his dissertation because his dad is a big-shot professor who's retiring and wants to hand down "his job" to his son.

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Michael Weiss (not that one) @profmweiss.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Abdul el-Sayad: I love all my Jewish brothers and sisters, and my criticism of AIPAC and Israel doesn't change that Abdul el-Sayad supporter: Actually there are too many Jewish voices in Michigan politics

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Michael Weiss (not that one) @profmweiss.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Hey friends, if you can take a minute and block / report this antisemite it would be a service to all of Bluesky

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Michael Weiss (not that one) @profmweiss.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Update on "the wisdom of crowds". Those sudden jumps up and down -- those are basically caused by one person placing a relatively large bet in a relatively small market, right?

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Michael Weiss (not that one) @profmweiss.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Behold the wisdom of crowds (this is from Kalshi, for the Ann Arbor Mayoral primary, by the way)

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Michael Weiss (not that one) @profmweiss.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I'm getting a new laptop at the end of this week which means my old one (shown below) is going away. Going to need some new stickers. @maximumfun.org @radiotopia.bsky.social got any old freebies in a desk drawer somewhere?

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Michael Weiss (not that one) @profmweiss.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

...Steelgrip Starkey? Is... is that *you*? (first image is from a panel in Marvel Zero #1, out this week)

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Michael Weiss (not that one) @profmweiss.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Well, if she's a DC character, and not a superhero, she's got to be one of these three...

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Michael Weiss (not that one) @profmweiss.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I regret to inform you that the entire state of Michigan has been consumed by an orange Smoke Monster

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Michael Weiss (not that one) @profmweiss.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Genuinely curious: do you think that *any* of the sentences in the image below mean the same thing as "Platner should drop out"? If so, which ones do, and what is the difference between the ones that do and the ones that don't?

A. “Platner should not be on the ballot.”
B. “An accused rapist should not be on the ballot.”
C. “Voters should not have to choose between an accused rapist and a corporate shill.”
D. “Voters in Maine deserve a choice for US Senate that doesn’t force them to make a moral compromise between sexual violence or corporate servitude.”

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Michael Weiss (not that one) @profmweiss.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I see people posting "Infantino this" and "Infantino that" and all I know is, the guy who drew this is A-OK in my book

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Michael Weiss (not that one) @profmweiss.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Between "puny military", "Bah", and stilted grammar, this reads a little bit like Putin-as-Incredible-Hulk. (source: @glegum.bsky.social via @wonkettemedia.bsky.social) www.wonkette.com/p/i-vladimir...

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Michael Weiss (not that one) @profmweiss.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I really wanted this riff to just keep going on and on, in the style of the Dozens

Specifically, the water is more or less the color of a sour apple Jolly Rancher now. It looks like they're brewing Yodas in there. It is so uncannily green and visibly slimy that it feels inevitable that video will soon surface of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. splashing around in it with jeans on. It looks like the aftermath of Boston Tea Party-style political action involving matcha. Parks service employees have been busy dredging and raking algae from the bottom; on Tuesday, they were seen dumping jugs of 12 percent hydrogen peroxide solution into the pool. Per a coworker who was at the reflecting pool earlier today, the water still remains the color of Slimer, from Ghostbusters. In a statement, the White House blamed "residual algae" in the pipes for the fact that the reflecting pool is currently the color of lime Jell-O, adding "President Donald J. Trump is an expert builder who has fixed the Reflecting Pool for good unlike the failed and extremely costly attempt by Obama and Biden."

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Michael Weiss (not that one) @profmweiss.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

This is awesome, but what the world is really waiting for is a Space Ghost / Superfriends crossover

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Michael Weiss (not that one) @profmweiss.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

POV: Chris Taylor and his team, the day after the August primary

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Michael Weiss (not that one) @profmweiss.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Which of these is a picture of an asshole?

The "They're the same picture" meme from The Office

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Michael Weiss (not that one) @profmweiss.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Just like how Phil Hartman would have killed it as this guy

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Michael Weiss (not that one) @profmweiss.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Why does this @thenewrepublic.bsky.social review of Michael Tomasky's new novel carry the byline "By Michael Tomasky"???

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Michael Weiss (not that one) @profmweiss.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Name a TV show you’re positive no one remembers but you.

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Michael Weiss (not that one) @profmweiss.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Did DC Comics's "Countdown" (later retitled "Countdown to Final Crisis") cause people to have fewer children? A provocative new working paper explores the persistent drop in birth rates since the 12-issue series launched in 2007

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Michael Weiss (not that one) @profmweiss.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

@evanhurst.substack.com I'm a big fan but can I maybe suggest you try to learn a little bit about intra-Jewish distinctions before you write bullshit like this? "Orthodox Jews" are a very heterogeneous group, both in the US and Israel, & the far right has plenty of non-religious useful idiots too

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Michael Weiss (not that one) @profmweiss.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I cannot wrap my head around the fact that this came out 20 years ago

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Michael Weiss (not that one) @profmweiss.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Coda to this panel on Jews in comics: here's a page of Kryptonians marking what,to me, is unmistakably their version of Tisha b'Av

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Michael Weiss (not that one) @profmweiss.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Eisner was incredibly generous with his time and had a *lot* to say, not only about the Jewish roots of the superhero concept, but also about how the superhero's secret identity reflected the creator's experience of "passing".

"The superhero has his origins in the folk hero. He represents an attempt to deal with forces that are considered otherwise undefeatable, and that ties in somehow with the n'shama of the Jewish people. Although we may have thought we were creating Aryan characters, with non-Jewish names like Bruce Wayne, Clark Kent and my own Denny Colt, I think we were responding to an inner n'shama that responds to forces around us - just like the story of the golem in Jewish lore."

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Michael Weiss (not that one) @profmweiss.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Here is Will Eisner on Joe and Jack's creation:

"If you think about it," Eisner says, "all of Jewish cultural history has been based around Jewish cultural fighters, like Samson and David. In the 1940s, we were facing the Nazis, an apparently unstoppable force. And what better way to deal with a supervillain like Hitler than with a superhero?"

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Michael Weiss (not that one) @profmweiss.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

And here's Jack Kirby on Captain America:

"Captain America was me, and I was Captain America. I saw him as part of me, and he always will be. In the fight scenes, when Cap used to take on seven men at once and five bodies would fly around the room while he punched two in the jaw -- that's how I remember the street fights from my childhood."

"Jewish kids then were raised with a belief in moral values. In the movies, good always triumphed over evil. Underneath all of the sophistication of modern comics, all the twists and psychological drama, good triumphs over evail. Those are the things I learned from my parents and from the Bible. It's part of my Jewish heritage," Kirby says.

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Michael Weiss (not that one) @profmweiss.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Somewhere in the basement of the Pentagon, Pete Hegseth is storing a costume that he hasn't worn in years, saving it for the right time

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Michael Weiss (not that one) @profmweiss.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I just realized who Hegseth reminds me of

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Michael Weiss (not that one) @profmweiss.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Everybody's talking about GOP Rep. Virginia Foxx and her mean-spirited letter to a 10-year-old. Maybe I should ask my 17-year-old daughter to tell everyone about her in-person interaction with Rep. Foxx when she went to DC to lobby legislators with the Ruchot Social Action at the Capitol trip

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Michael Weiss (not that one) @profmweiss.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Platforms may come and go, generations will rise and fall, but some things will never, ever change

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