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David Gerstein

@biryanifan.bsky.social
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Writer, film researcher, and foodie. Coauthor of two Disney history tomes with TASCHEN; ongoing comics editor/writer with Fantagraphics, Disney Publishing Worldwide, and others—maybe you! www.fantagraphics.com/collections/d…

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David Gerstein @biryanifan.bsky.social · 27m
Incredibly, Richard Williams' RAGGEDY ANN, the first movie I ever saw in a theatre. I was three—far too young for the ghostly camels, the Greedy, some of the more exuberant songs, or really anything rowdier than a dull mug of hot chocolate.
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David Gerstein @biryanifan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
People, our team likes localizing these as much as you like reading them. Preorder NOW and don’t miss a webfooted trick!
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David Gerstein @biryanifan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
And HERE: www.fantagraphics.com/collections/...
DONALD DUCK Legacy #392, Cover A by Jan-Roman Pikula

Wak! When Scrooge McDuck can’t find the world’s rarest cocoa beans, the Three Caballeros leap into action, with mostly fearless Donald, José Carioca, and Panchito Pistoles prowling Mexico’s dankest rainforests on Christmas Eve! But Pralina Trufflesniff, a wily warthog chocolate mogul, wants the super beans first... and she’s ready to roast a few ducks, chickens, and parrots if they get in her way! Then fan-favorite talents Stefan Petrucha (The X-Files) and Paco Rodriguez return for “Nibbling Gold”: when Donald and Scrooge go treasure-hunting in Germany, the mystic “Earring of the Nibblequack” transports them to a parallel world of magic and monsters!

Creators: Stefan Petrucha, Ralph du Mosch, Thad Komorowski, Francisco "Paco" Rodriguez Peinado, Carmen Perez, Tony Fernandez, Jan Roman PikulaUNCLE SCROOGE Legacy #468, Cover A by Andrea Freccero

“Curse me kilts!” When Scrooge activates an ancient spellbook called the Horrorkomikon, the McDuck Money Bin gets magically infested with dragons, banshees, and pirates! The only cure lies with long-lost horror novelist H.P. Hatequack… but only Professor Ludwig Von Drake can find him, and Scrooge’s ghostly evil twin is standing in the way! Join us for this feature-length thriller drawn by Giorgio Cavazzano—and then hang around for “Intern Affairs”: super-inventor Gyro Gearloose hires a new helper, but über-nerd Myron Orpington is not the best duck to mix with hi-tech!

Creators: Giulio Gualtieri, Marco Nucci, Lars Jensen, Joe Torcivia, Giorgio Cavazzano, Francisco "Paco" Rodriguez PeinadoDONALD DUCK Legacy #392, Cover B by Francisco "Paco" Rodriguez Peinado

Wak! When Scrooge McDuck can’t find the world’s rarest cocoa beans, the Three Caballeros leap into action, with mostly fearless Donald, José Carioca, and Panchito Pistoles prowling Mexico’s dankest rainforests on Christmas Eve! But Pralina Trufflesniff, a wily warthog chocolate mogul, wants the super beans first... and she’s ready to roast a few ducks, chickens, and parrots if they get in her way! Then fan-favorite talents Stefan Petrucha (The X-Files) and Paco Rodriguez return for “Nibbling Gold”: when Donald and Scrooge go treasure-hunting in Germany, the mystic “Earring of the Nibblequack” transports them to a parallel world of magic and monsters!

Creators: Stefan Petrucha, Ralph du Mosch, Thad Komorowski, Francisco "Paco" Rodriguez Peinado, Carmen Perez, Tony Fernandez, Jan Roman PikulaUNCLE SCROOGE Legacy #468, Cover B by Michel Nadorp

“Curse me kilts!” When Scrooge activates an ancient spellbook called the Horrorkomikon, the McDuck Money Bin gets magically infested with dragons, banshees, and pirates! The only cure lies with long-lost horror novelist H.P. Hatequack… but only Professor Ludwig Von Drake can find him, and Scrooge’s ghostly evil twin is standing in the way! Join us for this feature-length thriller drawn by Giorgio Cavazzano—and then hang around for “Intern Affairs”: super-inventor Gyro Gearloose hires a new helper, but über-nerd Myron Orpington is not the best duck to mix with hi-tech!

Creators: Giulio Gualtieri, Marco Nucci, Lars Jensen, Joe Torcivia, Giorgio Cavazzano, Francisco "Paco" Rodriguez Peinado
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David Gerstein @biryanifan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Yes—Fantagraphics' Disney Legacy Comic Books are back, starting in December! Check them out HERE (thank you, @richjohnston.bsky.social and @bleedingcool.com!)...
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Great chance to post my all-time favorite headline
The Radium Water Worked Fine Until His Jaw Came Off
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David Gerstein @biryanifan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
@ausir.bsky.social Check DMs! :)
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"The current level of political animosity is exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s citizens." There are not enough exclamation points to convey how I felt reading this paragraph
Screenshot of article which reads: From this perspective, the “both sides” frame falls apart. The prob-
lem is not that the parties are divided. The problem is the existential 
threat that a reempowered ethnonationalist strain poses to pluralistic 
U.S. democracy writ large. The current level of political animosity is 
exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted 
to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s 
citizens. The only way to re-oppress most of a country is to use anti-
democratic and authoritarian tactics. And the only way to oppose those 
tactics is to push back as a population and clearly reject them. This is 
the argument happening in the United States, and its pathology is not 
anger—it is the movement to undermine a generation of rights.
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David Gerstein @biryanifan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Why should this be a surprise to any Dem? Playing nice with bigots only gets you burned.
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BCG 🔜 Furpocalypse (B7) @bluecanarygallery.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Petal says, "Come say hi at Blue Canary Gallery (C4) at Carolina Furfare!"
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𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗡: 𝙰 𝙼𝙰𝙳 𝙼𝙰𝚇 𝚂𝙰𝙶𝙰 @outlawvern.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Every single thing is The Producers now. Nobody actually trying to do something, just trying to buy companies and ruin them as a stock market scam.
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Fantagraphics @fantagraphics.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Back by popular demand: our Disney Legacy comic book series! Donald Duck Legacy #392: The Three Caballeros' Christmas Quest by Ralph du Mosch, Stefan Petrucha, Thad Komorowski, Francisco Rodriguez Peinado, Carmen Perez, and Tony Fernandez is out 12/2! ow.ly/oHCF50ZTGVi
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David Gerstein @biryanifan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
People, our team likes localizing these as much as you like reading them. Preorder NOW and don’t miss a webfooted trick!
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There's a way yesterday's failed attempt to frame up Jack Smith for perjury could've been covered as part of the same story — the deadly serious abuse of the DOJ by Republicans to ruin the lives of who they perceive as political opponents — but instead it was like "EMBARRASSING WHOOPSIE"
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Littledigits @littledigits.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
being in animation, its not from AI. the streaming bubble bursting cuz everyone hopped on the grain cuz it undermined unions, less regulations and more mergers are what lead to the loss. AI is just what people think but it started way before that
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026
“What I personally find so frustrating is no one is ever given an ounce of grace for the understandable ways these conversations might blur. Whereas, men who act poorly are given a delusional amount of cover & protection. They say illogical things and get polite responses.” - on sexism in AI spaces.
Frances Lorenz @frances__lorenz
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One dynamic to be aware of in the current discourse: I do agree that there is sometimes a motte & bailey where people are slut-shaming, only to retreat to concerns around second-order harassment. However, I would like to discuss this dynamic in a different way.
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Frances Lorenz @frances__lorenz
I will get to my main point by 3). To set context: 1) it is very difficult to be heard within some EA, rationalist, & Al safety spaces when you discuss sexism, harm, and harassment. You have to use specific framings and language. You have to be
"precise." You cannot misstep.
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Frances Lorenz @frances__lorenz
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2) You have to spend time inspecting a number of illogical assumptions that govern these spaces, "if autistic men harass you, they do not mean itỊ(?) Distress is always reduced to
"discomfort," regardless of the inciting incident, abuse is a "norm differenceỊietc.
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3) right now, for various reasons, there is sustained & wider discourse about sexism in these spaces. This means women who have never really had their experiences taken seriously may use this as an opportunity to share.
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Frances Lorenz @frances__lorenz
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Yes, some people are doing a motte & bailey. Some people have also simply felt prompted to start discussing real harms they've been concerned about for months or years. Predictably, these two threads are colliding and blurring in a messy way.
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What I personally find so frustrating is that no one is ever given an ounce of grace for the understandable ways these conversations might blur. Whereas, men who act poorly are given a delusional amount of cover & protection. They say illogical things and get polite responses.
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Frances Lorenz @frances_lorenz
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There are people who have existed in these spaces for years and years, who have consistently and relentlessly made it difficult for any real, empathetic, productive discussion on sexism to occur.
They are doing a motte & bailey too, and they will continue to do
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They know what happens in these spaces, that there are legitimate issues, and they will take those and chuck them under slut-shaming or "women being sensitive & not liking it when men ask them out because they have no agency boo hooạỊi
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Frances Lorenz @frances_lorenz
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The thing I really want to say is: regardless of the current discourse, there are legitimate accounts of harm that the community has not reckoned with. In Al safety, I know of: a hiring manager asking out an applicant in their hiring round, while the round was still underway.
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Frances Lorenz @frances__lorenz
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Multiple fellowship mentors reported as consistently making women mentees uncomfortable, still returninh as a mentors. A man discussing explicit sexual content, including attending orgies, at an explicitly professional event, in front of people they'd never met.
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Frances Lorenz @frances_lorenz
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None of these accounts are public and more detail can't be given or they'd be identifiable. And then there are more severe accounts that are specific and cannot be shared at all, even in an anonymised or vague way, due to theirFrances Lorenz @frances__lorenz
And there are always reasons and rationalizations and no one really takes it that seriously, except for those of us who do and are disgusted. Lament about precision all you want, but the precise issues exist and they are ignored.
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Frances Lorenz @frances_lorenz
If this field is going to grow, then it will need women, and if more women come on, the field may need an actual reckoning, and that reckoning will not be about consensual sex parties.
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Frances Lorenz @frances lorenz
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At the risk of being insufferable, I am one of the few experienced event organisers operating in this space and I'm very worried about Al. I would love to just spend all my time working, hanging out with my wife & friends, & writing nice stuff, but I am worried about the girls
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David Gerstein @biryanifan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Womonkees ...I'll see myself out
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 25/09/2026
I still get a pit in my stomach every time thinking, "I am going to have to tell so many good people the worst possible news, through no fault of their own, over and over", and there are motherfuckers out there reveling in trying to find a trifling way to push people while they're down? for what?
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Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Why does this old ad make it look like Andy Panda is gonna get some?
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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
'attack a minority who typically vote for us, piss off our own base, & just hope we attract more voters across the aisle than we lose' is a risky galaxy-brain tactic to try when there's 'record high fuel prices' sitting right there. but they know this, of course. they simply don't want progress
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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Taught the Fugitive Slave Act for the first time in a few years. Man, my head was spinning as I uttered my familiar refrain about how the FSA radicalized Northerners who maybe never thought much about slavery until they saw people being snatched off the street right in front of them...
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Euphoria Wait Is This Fucking Play About Us
Alt: Euphoria Wait Is This Fucking Play About Us
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Paul Hikari @paulhikari.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
That's our cue to pressure the judge into rejecting the merger, folks. bsky.app/profile/dani...
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Techdirt @techdirt.com · 23/09/2026
‘Independent CNN Oversight Board’ To Be Hand Picked By Paramount Earlier this week we noted how California Democrats fecklessly folded to Paramount's demands and settled the 12-state antitrust... www.techdirt.com/2026/09/23/indepen…
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‘Independent CNN Oversight Board’ To Be Hand Picked By Paramount
Earlier this week we noted how California Democrats fecklessly folded to Paramount's demands and settled the 12-state antitrust lawsuit against Paramount's $111 billion merger with Warner Bros. We also noted how the conditions affixed to the deal are largely pathetic, and generally consist of a lot of performative fluff Paramount itself recommended and California AG...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My entire life I've heard centrists scolding leftist candidates with "oh, but how will we pay for all that? isn't your agenda unreasonable? shouldn't we run on a modest proposal for means-tested tax rebates?" Then Mamdani gets elected and makes it all look pretty easy. No wonder they hate him.
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Heidi MacDonald @ SPX @comixace.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is the absolute truth. OWN YOUR STUFF. All other platforms change or implode. I've kept the Beat hosted on its own platform for 22 years (at great personal cost) and that's the ONLY reason it lasted this long.
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LunchCounterPunch @theultrasecret.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
White nationalism has to become a kitchen table issue as well (sorry).
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
And if Talarico wants to bolster confidence, he needs to come out ten toes down about civil rights. For EVERYBODY. And he needs to state that that includes trans people. It's not going to hurt him. Everybody likes civil rights. We had a whole movement and everything.
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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
obsessed with this comment on a reel of an opossum eating live crawfish in a bathtub
an opossum eating live crawfish in a bathtub, with the below comment: 

You really never know what ppl got going on in their houses man
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David Gerstein @biryanifan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"Rickety Rocket was my favorite cartoon After marriage, the honeymoon I'll be damned, gag me with a spoon Who loves Popeye? Alice the Goon" — Nice & Smooth (note: how Rickety Rocket could be anyone's favorite cartoon, I'll never know)
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David Gerstein @biryanifan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Pumpkin tacos are the obvious solution to this merciless standoff
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TinkieGurl 🇨🇦 #ForeverCanadian @tinkiegurl.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Now imagine this happening IRL when Drs start using AI to diagnose & treat patients. www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...
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AI 'actor' Tilly Norwood glitches during Piers Morgan interview, starts speaking Cantonese | CBC News
While promoting Misaligned, an upcoming film from Particle6, in an interview with Piers Morgan and actor Tom Conti, AI-generated 'actor' Tilly Norwood abruptly switched from speaking English to Canton...
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Fantagraphics @fantagraphics.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Something strange is afoot... Read all about it in Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers: Scheme the Impossible Dream: Disney Afternoon Adventures Vol. 7, out 9/29! ow.ly/MY9r50ZPNTG
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David Gerstein @biryanifan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Yes—Fantagraphics' Disney Legacy Comic Books are back, starting in December! Check them out HERE (thank you, @richjohnston.bsky.social and @bleedingcool.com!)...
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Making it's-the-thought-that-counts fake cassoulet with a duck breast, pork butt, bacon, chicken thighs, and Chinese sausage in homemade chicken stock with my Rancho Gordo cassoulet beans Excited for the disaster
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 21/09/2026
Monopoly as a metaphor for racial inequity. “During the first half of the game, we said that Cas and I could buy property, but you could not, then halfway through the game, we say, ‘Now the rules are even. Now the rules are the same for everybody.’” [buzzfeed.com]
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"Do We Really Both Have The Same Chance Of Winning": This Woman's A++ Analogy Comparing Systemic Racism To The Game Monopoly Is Going Mega Viral
"As progressives, I think we can do a better job welcoming people who are willing to change their views."
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
AI is unpopular. The public overwhelmingly supports aggressive AI regulation; it overwhelmingly opposes further investment in AI infrastructure. Naturally, Dems are telling frontline members to ̶d̶o̶ ̶p̶o̶p̶u̶l̶a̶r̶i̶s̶m̶ curl into the fetal position to appease the mean tech men. There is another way.
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A.I. Risk And The End Of The Neoliberal Style In Politics
You can’t make pragmatic compromises with predatory counterparties.
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Shawn Pryor @shawnrpryor.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
In FAST BREAK, when basketball prodigy Mikayla Thomas transfers to a new school & denied a chance to make the team, she joins a co-ed team, the Firebirds. It’s not the team she hoped for, but might be just what she needs. Created by me & @delartstuffs.bsky.social! Pre-Order at fastbreakcomic.com!
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David Gerstein @biryanifan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
How it started (left); how it's going (right)
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Hnetu | Vtuber @hnetu.com · 18/09/2026
Stop hiring republicans to be democratic advisers and start hiring insane trans women from the internet, because we're gonna give much better advice than being spineless losers.
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David Gerstein @biryanifan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
(Sorry, @masonfromtwitter.bsky.social—when you started to repost me, I noticed a bad typo ("sportsmen" should have been "sportwomen"!) and so deleted and reposted. I don't mind you sharing it at all, but let me at least give you a *fixed* version to share!)
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 17/09/2026
'Bladerunner 2049' (2017) dir: Denis Villeneuve 📽️
real cat watching Disney's 'The Aristocats' on teevee, Dutchess is saying "you look lonely"close up of cat in bisexual lighting with a bandage on its nose looking forelorn
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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026
Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!
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najuf @evictgoras.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
now presenting: my dissertation breaking down the deeper sociopolitical critiques of coyote vs acme 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
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zhinxy and 1 other @zhinxy.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Behold! My cherished copy of Lois Lane #80! An anonymous former owner altered the iconic Kurt Swan cover's Superman into a beatnik saying "hey, baby, cool off!" Would I trade this for a "mint" copy? Are you serious?
A copy of Lois Lane #80 on which an anonymous artist has altered the iconic Kurt Swan cover featuring lois leaving superman.so that Superman is a beatnik with beret, sunglasses and goatee saying "hey, baby, cool off!" Closeup of beatnik superman shows artistry
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Big Sag ♐️Traveling Menace @neau.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026
Bruh
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Hand soap recalled for potential contamination of antibiotic-resistant bacteria
Six hand soaps distributed across 15 states have been recalled over possible bacterial contamination. See the brands, lot codes and affected products.
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Kathleen @burritomadness.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Dang dude if I could get boba tea at the hardware store it'd be over. I'd spend all my money there.
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more mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
with the can appearing to impose a hard limit on his physical size, we believed no threat was posed by Oscar the Grouch, until he vanished and beneath where he'd stood was found the entrance to a vast network of huge underground chambers. hours later, Paris fell. then Beijing. swallowed by the earth
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Tegan O’Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I believe we underestimate the degree to which every single person in Duckburg would want to tear Gladstone Gander to pieces with their bare hands every single day.
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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 12/09/2026
This is why Democrats falling for disingenuous claims that retreating on trans rights or some other issue would ever work. Republicans campaign against imaginary Democrats. They'll accuse you of anything, so stand for the right thing and communicate constantly and very well.
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A.J. Carrillo @ajcarrillo.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The when they go low, we go high approach in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. Yeah, lets not do that again. Instead, the Dem WH must remind Americans non-stop of who is to blame and end this era of white-collar impunity.
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 11/09/2026
In 2016 people revolted against North Carolina bathroom bill. 10 years later and the country is up in arms over 15 athletes and there are Democrats who are insisting that this is a real concern. It is not. I won't pretend that it is. I won't say nice things about people who are pretending that it is
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