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Phil Wrede@pizzarat· 13h

this for 28 hours and counting stretched over 4 years (so far)

matt smith as daemon targaryan in house of the dragon holding a piece of paper, with the meme text "nobody trusts anybody now and we're all very tired" (a quote from john carpenter's the thing) overlaid on it

Phil Wrede@pizzarat· 4d

Back the adventures of Frank Castle, Rachel Summers, Piotr Rasputin (and a surprise guest star), as they continue to fight the good fight against the mutant-hunting Sentinels! www.pizzarat.net/2026/08/12/p...

Walking down a dark hallway, Rachel Summers says, "That's halfway to an answer." Then, she asks the Punisher, "What about you, Castle?"

Frank Castle turns over his shoulder and replies, "Huh?"

Rachel Summers restates her question to the Punisher: "Why are you here?"

The Punisher smacks a fist into his open hand and declares, "I hate #&%/ing Sentinels."

Phil Wrede@pizzarat· 4d

The description of the NCLA in the second paragraph pretty well covers their Russ Vought-esque objectives, but in case there's any doubt, they make it crystal fucking clear on their own website

"Civil Liberties for All"
"NCLA views the Administrative State as an especially serious threat to constitutional freedoms."

Phil Wrede@pizzarat· 4d

coloradosun.com/2026/08/12/c...

"Another trade group is suing Colorado to stop a statewide recycling expansion based on a fee charged to consumer packaging companies, saying the law gives them no voice in how the fees are used and violates their First Amendment rights to show consumers the costs.

"The National Association of Wholesaler Distributors is asking a federal judge to stop the launch of the Producer Responsibility Program in U.S. District Court in Denver, following a similar lawsuit filed this spring by the Independent Lubricant Manufacturers Association. The latest challenge is being handled by the nonprofit New Civil Liberties Alliance, which provides free representation to fight what it calls administrative overreach by federal and state agencies."

Phil Wrede@pizzarat· 8d

these tamashii effects boxes are so huge, it's kind of hilarious (operation monster force vampire-adjacent secret service guy included for scale)

the boxes for tamashii nations action figure effect display pieces - water, energy, lightning - stacked against a wall and rather dwarfing the 6" tall action figure standing in front of them

Phil Wrede@pizzarat· 21d

exactly

I asked Joshua Erlich, a civil rights lawyer and an excellent Bluesky poster, whether that kind of blatantly corrupt pardon party would hold up in court.
"So, if you straight up sell a pardon, is that a real one? Technically yes but it’s never been tested," Erlich told me. "Theoretically though, the pardon is literally a royal power derived from monarchy, so the basis for restricting them is pretty tenuous, at least if we’re going by history."
"To my mind, the path to resolving this questions for Trump is to treat his presidency itself as a legal nullity," Elrich continued. "He was never constitutionally elected because he wasn't eligible to run under the 14th Amendment. So the question is less about whether the pardons are legal and more about whether the person giving them is legally president in the first place."

Phil Wrede@pizzarat· 24d

"AI is, at its core, an evil product that’s been engineered to wean human beings off needing, not to mention loving, one another. Its implantation is the ultimate consolidation effort by a tech class that means to horde everything — every dollar you’ve saved, every minute of your time, every idea inside your head — for itself."

Phil Wrede@pizzarat· 29d

"While challenging the judiciary is commonly associated with Andrew Jackson, the two best presidents in history, Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt, had no choice but to directly confront the Court in order to advance justice. If America does not follow their lead, presidential powers will evaporate along with those of Congress and the freedom of the American people."

Phil Wrede@pizzarat· Jul 9

Back to the Stargate in this month's toy comic, live and ready to read as of yesterday (sorry, it's been a busy week) www.pizzarat.net/2026/07/08/s...

Billionaire asshole Alexander Weir poses before the Stargate in the Cheyenne Mountain facility, boldly declaring, "ONCE WE TRANSFER THE GATE TO WEIR WORLDWIDE HEADQUARTERS, WE CAN START TO SEND SURVEYING PARTIES IMMEDIATELY!"

Weir continues, "INFINITE RESOURCES ARE OUT THERE, TO BE TAKEN!" while one of the soldiers carrying out his commands asks, "WON'T UNLIMITED GOLD CRASH THE PRICE OF GOLD?"

Incensed at the less-than-enthusiastic reception his men are giving his words, Weir threatens, "IF YOU WON'T MOVE IT, I'LL FIND SOMEONE WHO WILL, AND YOU'LL BE DISHONORABLY DISCHARGED!"

One of the soldiers replies, "THAT'S NOT HOW THAT WORKS, SIR," and Weir claps back, "DON'T TELL ME HOW THINGS WORK! THE PRESIDENT SAID I HAVE TOTAL AUTHORITY!"

In the loading gate at the rear of Stargate Command, Weir tells the Stargate veterans opposing him, "THE GOVERNMENT'S
FULL OF PEOPLE WHO WANT TO SEE SGC BURN! YOU HAVE SO MANY ENEMIES!"

Phil Wrede@pizzarat· Jul 1

a hundred thousand times, yes

"But I worry that having just put up a big new building, no one will have the stomach to take it down. We must tear them down. If it were up to me, I’d take his name off every hotel and club in America, too. After all, Trump has already blurred the line between private and public property by treating our federal monuments as his private domain. So turnabout is fair play. Money with his face on it needs to be recalled and then, after a certain time, no longer treated as legal tender."

Phil Wrede@pizzarat· Jun 21

I thought this Young Count Dooku looked as much like Nic Cage as Christopher Lee in the photos from Hasbro, but in person, he's pure, uncut Lee

Young Count Dooku brandishing his stylish as hell curved handle lightsaber

Young Count Dooku looking into your soul

Phil Wrede@pizzarat· Jun 18

ballsandstrikes.substack.com/p/clarence-t...

"As law students, Thomas and Sotomayor dealt with the same basic, bigoted assumption: that racial preferences put an asterisk on their accomplishments. But Thomas and Sotomayor learned very different lessons: In My Beloved World, Sotomayor said she felt “no need to apologize” for affirmative action, because its purpose was just to “create the conditions whereby students from disadvantaged backgrounds could be brought to the starting line of a race many were unaware was even being run.” Although she had “more ground than most to make up” when she started at Princeton and Yale, she said, once she got her foot in the door, her achievements were “as real as those of anyone around me.”

Phil Wrede@pizzarat· Jun 18

"If you’re looking for human-like traits, you will tend to find them. De Wynter’s argument is that it’s possible to build a basic LLM within Age of Empires II that has many of the same internal traits of the chatbots people use everyday. The difference is the interface. When a person interacts with an LLM through the medium of AoEII and not a chat window the perception of human-like traits in the LLM vanishes even though the underlying tech is the same."

Phil Wrede@pizzarat· Jun 16

www.wired.com/story/a-cour...

"However, the German court held that this safeguard no longer applies when search engines incorporate generative AI systems. According to its reasoning, this technology is capable of producing nonexistent claims based on multiple sources and, consequently, the companies responsible for operating it must assume liability for the resulting content."

Phil Wrede@pizzarat· Jun 14

NFT No Fucking Thanks

a teaser for hideously stupid fucking esquire article called "the rock's big question for chat gpt"

Phil Wrede@pizzarat· Jun 11

Just another reminder that you can now read the first issue of Punisher, Colossus, and Rachel Summers' fighting the good fight against the anti-mutant fascist occupation of NYC at Pizzarat.net. Enjoy! www.pizzarat.net/2026/06/10/p...

Crossbones looks across a burning city street, Rachel Summers captive at his feet, and grumbles, "This is Castle's handiwork."

A nervous cop looks up at Crossbones, and asks, "...The Punisher??"

The Punisher looks down at a pair of Sentinels, as the street behind him burns. The Sentinels are reaching up to him, their eyes glowing in fury, and the Punisher starts to say, "I think I'm about -"

The Punisher ducks underneath the edge of the rooftop on which he's standing as the Sentinels below attack him with their laser blasts. An ominous ZRACK! cuts the air overhead. The Punisher finishes his earlier statement, "- to know what a housefly feels like!"

Phil Wrede@pizzarat· Jun 10

A break from my Stargate toy comics this month, and a long-awaited (maybe?) return to the Phil Wrede Marvel Action Figure Comic Universe today, with the first issue of The 'Punisher and The Phoenix'! Mutants! Mutant-hunting robots! Fascists! Opposers of fascists! www.pizzarat.net/2026/06/10/p...

Two gigantic mutant-hunting Sentinels crouch near a burning building, while the sadistic Nazi fetishizer Crossbones laughs in the foreground. "Come out..." the Sentinels start to say.

"...with your hands up!" the Sentinels shout, as they take an enormous thooming stomp towards their target.

A red gloved hand rises from behind smoke, and its owner uses her telekinetic powers to lift debris from the floor in the dark around her. "I'll raise my hands..." she begins to say.

"...but you won't like what comes with 'em!" Rachel Summers declares, as more debris swirls into the air around her, and her eyes glow brightly as her Phoenix-related gifts come to her aid.

Phil Wrede@pizzarat· Jun 8

yes, the giant hulk hands are dumb, but they charm the heck out of me

a deadpool action figure with huge oversized green hulk fists

Phil Wrede@pizzarat· Jun 3

Jurists who are even partially faithful to the U.S. Constitution take one look at the unreality-based legal cases brought by the president's personal vengeance machine (DOJ) and say, what the fuck is this. The judges usually chastise the vengeance machines lawyers and throw the case out. Sometimes these cases then snake their way to the Supreme Court, which has a conservative majority that winks and nods at the right wing's unreality – all in bad faith, naturally.

Phil Wrede@pizzarat· May 22

talkingpointsmemo.com/news/their-l...

This post-Callais period however, Kousser emphasized, is in some ways “much more grave” than what happened during the Redemption period. Unlike the Redemption era, Kousser noted, there is now a single, reactionary, national leader — President Donald Trump — at the helm of the effort to curtail Black electoral power.

During the Redemption period, “one state copied another state, but there was no national leader,” he said. “The only comparable president would be Woodrow Wilson, who segregated the federal government workforce, and fired a lot of Black workers — but that was much later.”

Phil Wrede@pizzarat· May 20

Bothsidesism is so easily weaponized in this way. Within a couple weeks of January 6, there was a Democratic version of the insurrection (real) and a Republican version (unreal). Jammed into the social media algorithms controlled by Trump allies, these versions of January 6 were treated by most big media outlets as equal and opposite, the way Democratic Party and GOP tax policies might be treated. For a while the Democratic (real) version was the nation's reality, and the small business owners who tried and failed to overthrow the government were prosecuted and thrown into prison. Their lives were rightfully ruined. Justice was delivered in a piecemeal way until, of course, the right's version of the insurrection (unreal) pushed its way into the country's consciousness.

Phil Wrede@pizzarat· May 15

Polis really thought he could pull off his own one of these by lumping Peters' commutation in with all the others, didn't he?

the title card for the West Wing episode 'Take Out The Trash Day'

Phil Wrede@pizzarat· May 15

the Mesa County DA's apparentlt been on the right side of this the whole time, unlike generational coward Jared Polis www.kjct8.com/2025/12/13/m...

“None of the crimes that Ms. Peters committed were necessary for her to protect election records. She could have made a before and after image of the computer without lying to state officials, without lying to county officials, without stealing the identity of the local individual, the local computer science worker that they were going to hire or claim they were going to hire in order for him to get credentials. So really none of these offenses have really anything to do with her required duties as a county elected official,” he said.

Phil Wrede@pizzarat· May 15

this would be a great "last word" on the product we've been forced to call AI, before we make it close up shop and everybody who pushed it slink off in shame it won't be, but it would it would be great if it was www.wired.com/story/meet-t...

A TIKTOK MEME has been making the rounds recently: young women at their laptops or doing their makeup, captioned something like, "Working so hard so my man can work on his AI startup that loses $30K a month." The comments section stands in solidarity: "I'm ded." "Yas queen." "Just so he can have 'founder' in his bio."

Phil Wrede@pizzarat· May 15

Just another reminder that the latest issue of my Stargate toy comic is live and available to read, right now, at Pizzarat.net! www.pizzarat.net/2026/05/13/s... #stargate #comics

Ronon Dex fires a mighty blast of energy from his laser gun as Richard Woolsey stands nearby. Ronon's gunfire causes the soldiers trying to advance upon them to reconsider their decision. In narrative caption boxes, General Samantha Carter says, "YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA INFANTRY DOESN'T STAND A CHANCE. RONON DOESN'T GO ON THE INTERNET."

Striding down a hallway in Stargate Command, General Jack O'Neal asks, "DOES THIS RESISTANCE SEEM... LIGHT?" With characteristic directness, Ronon Dex replies, "EVERYTHING ON THIS PLANET IS LIGHT." Richard Woolsey elects not to join in the conversation.

Standing before Woolsey and Ronon, General Carter says, "GOOD THING WOOLSEY MAKES TIME FOR HIS FRIENDS." Proudly, Woolsey declares, "I AM THE ATLANTIS TEXT CHAIN ADMIN!"

Billionaire asshole Alexander Weir shoots General Carter in the back with his custom-made zat gun, shouting, "TAKE A BREAK, GENERAL!"

Phil Wrede@pizzarat· May 14

Since we're talking about American Hero Robert Smalls, there's a great NOAA report about the relationship between Smalls and the Planter itself, and the work done to identify the location of its remains: permanent.fdlp.gov/gpo67230/pla...

Smalls continued to command Planter past the end of the war, and the presence of both Captain Smalls and his ship were much noted during the grand ceremony of raising Fort Sumter's flag on April 14, 1865. Smalls captained a full ship of black passengers to witness the symbolic event, and one of them wrote, "Almost central in interest, the 'Planter, crowded almost to suffocation upon her three decks, with Gen. Saxton's freedmen, revealed her splashing paddles through the broken wheelhouse." Upon the top of the wheelhouse stood Robert Smalls, " ...a prince among them,
self-possessed, prompt and proud, giving his orders to the helmsman in ringing tones of command" (French 1865 43-44).

Phil Wrede@pizzarat· May 14

I can't believe I forgot to share the news that the sixth issue of my Stargate toy comic went up yesterday! It's been a busy week already www.pizzarat.net/2026/05/13/s...

Advancing on Dr. Randall Stryker, bearing her two enormous space pistols, Nemesis tells him, "ON EVERY WORLD, MEN LOVE THEIR WIT. IT IS YOUR NEED TO COMPENSATE." Slightly aghast, the only thing Randall can say in response is, "I RESEMBLE THAT REMARK!"

Anthony Cage tries to bargain with Nemesis, saying, "WE COULD BE ALLIES, RATHER THAN SLAVES."

Nonplussed, Nemesis says, "ALLIES ARE USEFUL. SLAVES ARE EXPENDABLE."

Nemsis continues deriding then: "YOUR VITAL FORCE IS SPENT. YOUR MAGIC IS USELESS. WHY WOULD I ALLY WITH AN IMPOTENT MAGICIAN?"

Phil Wrede@pizzarat· May 14

www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-ban...

"The real, unsettling mechanism of
Fallon's banal horror is its insistence on a radical non-engagement with reality: a position that, in our current political climate, is itself an aggressively political act."

Phil Wrede@pizzarat· May 14