Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Another SpaceX Starship explosion







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Some new damaged-box toys added to Entertainment Earth

Voltes V Super Robot Spirits Figure by Bandai is $26 off, "Invisible" Frodo deluxe figure by Diamond Select is $8 off, and Star Wars Black Cassian Andor in Test Pilot Suit is $6 off.

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Michel Fiffe's full run of Copra, including the just-released final issue is up at Hoopla

COPRA 50 is coming out 6/18 in shops worldwide from Image. BUT ALSO: I’m publishing signed/numbered Copra Press versions! Limited quantities, secure a copy on Etsy* Last time I’ll look excitedly out the window, waiting for COPRA to be delivered, then shipped right back out the door by yours truly!

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— Michel Fiffe (@michelfiffe.bsky.social) May 12, 2025 at 8:04 AM



(It's a Suicide Squad homage, if you've never tried it.) (The one-on-one interactions in the last few issues are particularly good.) (His webstore)
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The California lawyer who was preying on inmates agreed to be disbarred

From 2023:

How a former McKinsey consultant "built a booming enterprise by fanning false hopes in some families" that he could help get their loved ones out of prison

Now:

With a filing in State Bar Court on Tuesday, Aaron [he] pleaded no contest to misconduct involving eight clients, all current or former California prisoners, and consented to the stripping of his law license.

The stipulation signed by [him], his lawyer and a bar prosecutor stated that [he] “promoted false hopes in his clients and their families that the clients’ sentences would be reduced when in fact that was highly unlikely.”

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drew on a stint as a McKinsey consultant to launch his high-volume firm in Los Angeles. He recognized a host of new criminal justice reform laws in 2019 could be big business and told The Times in 2023 that he drew on his time at the consulting company “analyzing how different companies could expand to be successful” to embrace new techniques in his law business.

Among his approaches were buying up Google search terms so families looking for information about criminal justice reform were directed to his website, using fill-in-the-blank templates for legal documents and outsourcing work to lawyers in developing countries who were paid about $10 an hour.

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New video game Humble Bundle featuring Trombone Champ and other music-centric games

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28 people have died at a California skydiving center

the best yelp page I ever saw with for a skydiving place in Lodi because majority of reviews were very positive and like "we had a GREAT time, check out these pics!" and then every third one would be like "this is the place that killed all those people."

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— William B. Fuckley (@opinionhaver.bsky.social) June 17, 2025 at 10:36 AM


SFGate from April 2024:

It’s impossible to calculate the fatality rate per jump at the [center], because no one keeps track of how many people jump out of planes there — or how many have died while doing so. In 2018, [the former owner] told Sacramento’s KXTV-TV even he wasn’t sure how many deaths had occurred at his business. 

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FAA communications manager ... told SFGATE the agency does investigate skydiving deaths, but not the cause of them, and its authority to regulate the sport is limited.

NYT in October 2024: 

A skydiving instructor who used someone else’s credentials to train people in tandem jumping at a troubled facility near Lodi, Calif., was sentenced this week to two years in prison.

Yelp.

Via.

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New Humble Bundle features Lilo and Stitch and other Disney comics

Hercules, Maleficent, and many ther characters. Starts at $1 for four comics starring different characters.
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