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Hideko Mizuno's sci fi manga シラ Scylla

I did not read it, but character design is 🤩

Cambridge professor of sociology Jason Arday is accused of plagiarism by another academic

the accuser is a "race realist" who believes that in a true meritocracy all university professors would be white. this is somehow not acknowledged much during the entire ordeal

this leads to several days of media coverage demanding an investigation, or that Arday is expelled from his post immediately

somehow this accusation that has no effect on the lives of 99.99% of the population becomes FRONT PAGE NEWS in all the newspapers for multiple days, above anything else happening in the UK or the world at large

following intense media scrutiny, Arday resigns his post as a Cambridge professor

today, august 14th, days after resigning, Arday is found dead at his home in Battersea

This article by professor Kehinde Andrews clarifies more about the story of racist harassment Arday has been suffering since he fucking got a teaching job at Cambridge in the first place, in 2023, as the FIRST Black professor in that fucking stupid institution, who sure is taking it's sweet time defending their worker, despite already fucking checking his work for plagiarism and saying he didn't do it:

https://www.voice-online.co.uk/opinion/comment/2026/08/07/ardays-resignation/

* The little German boy

* The girlboss

* The overdressed antebellum Southern gentleman

* The chad and the incel

* The empath and the sociopath

* Jesse Pinkman and Walter White

* Drake

* Grimes

* Ea-Nasir

* Stray Cat J

* Apollo (unseen; depicted only as a dodgeball thrown onto the stage to briefly strike another archetype with the Gift of Prophecy)

* Shinzo Abe

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