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RicG @alienoutpost.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

That's the problem buying clothes from internet. There's a little more guessing the true colours & fit than eyeballing in person.

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RicG @alienoutpost.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

t-shirt arrived. A little more bubblegum pink than hoped but good fit. Now need a Quislet to fill out my menangerie.

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RicG @alienoutpost.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

finally placed what Saturn Girl's new costume reminds me of. Pure Ian Gibson energy!

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RicG @alienoutpost.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Well damn. Truely unbridle imagination in his work. Tracking down music mentioned in his comics formed a lot of my tastes today.

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RicG @alienoutpost.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

As an experiment it's probably worth finding out.

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RicG @alienoutpost.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

@pi8you.bsky.social oh god, watched Click You All Over. Sob.

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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

An old man has spent years caring for this ray ever since she was little. He feeds and nurtures her, and she treats him like her human grandpa, approaching him affectionately like a massive ocean companion. Original post

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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I mentioned the other day that for the Mesopotamian rpg I was writing up Plato's Allegory of the Cave (from REPUBLIC) as if it had been written by the Iron Age predecessor of Lovecrafts' Abd al-Hazred. I did. Here it is, in a four-part post. Notes: Rúgúzid is the Iron Age al-Hazred;

2282. Near the end of this year, Rugúzid finished what he believed would be his last and greatest work. He had spent the previous fourteen months in deep thought, usually writing only a sentence or two every day and always following up by double- and triple-checking everything in the sentence or sentences, including the placement and appropriateness of the punctuation marks. When he had at last completed the essay and was satisfied that it said everything it needed to say as clearly as possible and in just the right words, he leaves his apartment, walks across Babilim to the headquarters of the Nam Abgal, and orders the scribes working there to make copies of the essay—dozens of them, on papyrus and linen scrolls, on clay and stone tablets, on wax writing boards, on moving stone tablets, and on every other material and item which the other Nam Abgal members preferred to read from. When the scribes have finished, Rugúzid paid the Nam Abgal couriers to bring one copy of the essay to each member of the Nam Abgal with haste, no matter how far away their homes were.
What he had written bore the title On Shadows, Forms, and Perfect Forms. For a few years, it was the most powerful thing Rugúzid had ever written. It had the effect of a thunderbolt, or shower of thunderbolts, on the members of the Nam Abgal, who were variously nonplussed, disconcerted, amazed, bewildered, or deeply, deeply impressed—but none doubted the truth of what he had written.
The most important passage of On Shadows was the

following:

Imagine a group of mortals—humans and other intelligent folk, like anthrōpotauroi and kéntauroi and brazen folk—living in an underground cave-like dwelling, with an entrance a long way up, which is both open to the light and as wide as the cave itself. They’ve been there since childhood, fixed in the same place, with their necks and legs fettered, able to see only in front of them, because their bonds prevent them from turning their heads around. Light is provided by a fire burning far above and behind them. Also behind them, but on higher ground, there is a path stretching between them and the fire. Imagine that along this path a low wall has been built, like the screen in front of puppeteers above which they show their puppets.

Then also imagine that there are some other group of mortals along the wall, carrying all kinds of artifacts that project above it—statues of various intelligent folk and of various animals, made of stone, wood, iron, and every other material. And, as you’d expect, some of the carriers are talking, and some are silent.

Would the prisoners see anything of themselves and each other besides the shadows that the fire casts on the wall in front of them?

No, they couldn’t—their heads are motionless because of their bonds. Likewise with the things being carried along the wall.

If they could talk to each other, they would all believe that the words they use to name the shadows were correctly applied to those shadows. And if the cave had echoes from the wall in front of the prisoners, the prisoners would believe that it was the shadows passing in front of them that were talking.

In all, the prisoners would believe that the shadows they were seeing were the entirety of those beings—that the truth lay in those shadows.

Now, imagine how the prisoners would feel if they were rescued, released from their bonds and cured of their ignorance by being shown the figures and things casting the shadows. When one of the prisoners was suddenly rescued and stood up, walked forward, and turned his head so that he could see the source of the light—his reaction to seeing the things whose shadows he’d previously been seeing would not be relief. He would be dazzled, yes, but also dizzied, discomforted, unstable, uncertain, and painfully vulnerable.

What do you think that prisoner would say if they were told that everything they’d seen while bound and fettered, all of the shadows that he believed were the reality, were all

inconsequential? What would the prisoner feel, what would they say, if they were told that they saw only falsities before, but now they are seeing correctly—now they are seeing the truth? If we pointed in the direction of each of the figures passing by and asked the prisoner what each of them were, and to name each of them, what would the prisoner say?

The prisoner would be puzzled and disoriented and at a loss and would eventually say that the shadows they had spent their life seeing were the truth and the reality, and the figures passing by were just lies and illusions. And if the prisoner were made to look at the firelight itself, its light would hurt their eyes, and they would flee from those who freed them and run toward the shadows, believing that they are the truth and that they will save them.

And if the prisoner were grabbed by their rescuers and dragged out of the cave, up the rough, stone path and into the open air and the sunlight, how would the prisoner react? They would be angry at having been grabbed and dragged against their will, they would be nearly blinded by the light of the sun, they would be dizzied by the wind and the many new smells they were experiencing—and they would not be able to recognize that everything they were seeing and experiencing were real and true.

After some time, the former prisoner would still see shadows, but they would have adjusted to their new circumstances

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Roger Langridge @hotelfred.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's the Lakes International Comic Art Festival this weekend! I will be there with comics, art, sketches and my new self-published FEZ PAPERS, which collects my old Fez strips, most of them in full colour for the first time.

Cover to "The Fez Papers", showing The Fez (an ambulatory empty suit wearing a fez and a monocle) holding a flaming torch. Behind him a huge, toad-like monster with horns is lurking menacingly.

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RicG @alienoutpost.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Good haul for a public holiday.

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Wren @satanicwren.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Drexel University in Philadelphia is trying to shut down the oldest Natural History Museum in the western hemisphere, privatizing its vast collection. If you care about natural history PLEASE watch this video that tells you how you can help. youtu.be/nxyfBfCrbDw?...

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The Plan To Destroy Americas Oldest Natural History Museum

YouTube video by Miniminuteman

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RicG @alienoutpost.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Quietly furious at the nurse suing the union over a 'trans row' with another member of staff. That she is upset SHE wasn't the one supported is the blind arrogance of the terf movement & hope she loses big, with costs, rather than bleed the union for her precious hurt ego.

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ukjarry.bsky.social @ukjarry.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Have you seen the original artist Russ Heath's comic strip reply to Lichtenstein:

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Long Live the Legion Podcast! @longlivethelegion.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

NEW FROM THE LONG LIVE THE LEGION PODCAST - Episode 42 - Spotlight on Supergirl with Case Aiken and Keith Lehtinen! longlivethelegion2025.podbean.com/e/episode-42...

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RicG @alienoutpost.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This folds nicely into some Legion fanfic stuff where I'm exploring the food on Bismoll. A Bismollian dish can be literally anything so rather than that concentrating on how they eat such as ritual culture. Currently trying to figure out how taste occurs to them.

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RicG @alienoutpost.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Trump must really love piss. Because he's now started pissing matches with most of the known world and it will drown him.

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RicG @alienoutpost.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

@waitingforthetrade.bsky.social seen Japan's pokeball hotel room? Can't book, have to win in raffle.

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RicG @alienoutpost.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Just from Reckless Ben case & the Lake Ontario stunt it's obvious that any community activist or organizer using apple or google products will see everything handed to the cops without pushback. This doesn't mean to trust other tech products. It means it's time to relearn the old tradecraft, kids.

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RicG @alienoutpost.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

aw goddamn. This show man.

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RicG @alienoutpost.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Honestly don't understand why other people can't do this.

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RicG @alienoutpost.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

That thing when you fall asleep during dinner & wake up 9 hours later at 3am, completely refreshed. Thankfully oven turned off but tomorrows gonna be fucked.

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ceej @ceej.online · 03/09/2026

I do think “every rich person went insane during covid because it was the first time they’ve been inconvenienced in decades” felt a little reductive at first but damn if isn’t more and more compelling as the years drag on

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W. Kamau Bell @wkamaubell.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Who hurt you, Google?

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RicG @alienoutpost.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

@comicfoil.bsky.social have you been getting Simonson's Ragnorak series?

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RicG @alienoutpost.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Catching up with the farnakeling scores.

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RicG @alienoutpost.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

See apple have bought in to the lake america horseshit, if you want to know where they'll stand when the pogroms begin.

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Ross Reelachart @rossreelachart.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

“In other adaptations, Scrooge is kind of an asshole, and then the rest of the characters are benevolent, perfect people. And it was really our goal to try to balance that out to say that there’s much more of a gray area in the story,” Oh my god. They're "both sides-ing" A CHRISTMAS CAROL.

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The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Linehan: so my EX friend ron johnson says that i've gone kookoo bananas over trans people Linehan: but let me ask you this Linehan: could an irrational man make this? Rowling: whats that Linehan: it's a chatGPT log where i fantasize about touching blind lesbian sword barbarians Rowling:

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 31/08/2026

Name me a medical treatment that doesn't 'defy biology'

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RicG @alienoutpost.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Apart from the small fact both parties involved in this are stains on humanity it is objectively funny.

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RicG @alienoutpost.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

C'mon Canada! You burnt down the White House once, nothing wrong with going for the sequel.

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RicG @alienoutpost.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Stayed off torn muscle a couple of days & no pain in leg. Maybe it's better? [Me taking a few steps]: Fuck. Fuck. FUCK. Ow fuck. Fuckity-fuck. Motha-

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Micah @rincewind.run · 21/08/2026

the post-covid revolt of the bosses is the biggest factor in the absolute collapse of public support for tech we had a brief window of genuine worker power and they hated it and their primary goal with AI has been to break the workforce so they never have to deal with it again

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RicG @alienoutpost.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

This week has been a lot.

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Fantagraphics @fantagraphics.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

SCAM ALERT: Do not order from www.fantagraphics-us.com, it is not a legitimate website! They have cloned our real website and are stealing people’s credit card information. If you want to order directly from us, please do so at www.fantagraphics.com.

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