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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 6h

This is going to be spreading around soon in the movie space, in all likelihood, and is a good example of a researcher knowing their stuff but the reporter making wild claims beyond what the expert said. Let's fact check! www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Was Scottish film Till the Bell Rings the first ever 'talkie'?

In 1927, The Jazz Singer made movie history with the first recorded dialogue on film - but new evidence suggests the first feature talking film was Scottish.

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Mei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.

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Molly Templeton @mollytempleton.com · 10/10/2026

no idea who made this but I think of that random person with gratitude every time I heat up any sort of wraplike food object in the microwave

two scenes from an X-Men animated program: in the first, scott summers and jean gray are making out; he is labeled "microwave heat" and she is labeled "plate." in the second, we are more distant from the couple, and wolverine is standing in the foreground, labeled "my burrito."

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Having long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me.

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Matthew Surridge @bookofdays.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

There's a story I read about a guy visiting a friend who'd just had one of the first ever phones installed. While they were talking the phone rang and the friend went to get it. "My god!" the guy said. "You mean *it* calls and *you* answer?"

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ThemBOO! @thembo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

good morning

comic panel depicting clark kent handing a handgun to lois lane.
clark: here, lois -- shoot the gun at Jimmy and see what happens!
lois: but why..oh, all right!

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Robert Jago @rjjago.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Poor Péquistes, now that they’re officially a minority, they’ll have to discriminate against themselves

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Yannick Belzil @yannickbelzil.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Très content de voir qu'un clown que personne ne respectait sur le forum des Cowboys Fringants en 2005 est maintenant élu à l'assemblée nationale.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 05/10/2026

The SPEAKER implies. The LISTENER infers. The DUDE abides.

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Matthew Surridge @bookofdays.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Can't say he's not learning anything from Marty.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

do I hate Harold Bloom? yes. do I think he's an awful snob, and that King has some unacknowledged literary merit? absolutely. does he have a point? yeah, man. he has a point.

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Matthew Surridge @bookofdays.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Welcome back! I'm writing a series of posts about the original Weird Tales, with background posts about aspects of the 1920s. www.blackgate.com/into-the-wei...

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Into the Weird: Index and Bibliography – Black Gate

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Lainey Williams @endless-swords.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

The Hearth (1/21) A sapphic horror comic about witchcraft and hunger in the dead of winter.

An illustrated cover for a short comic called The Hearth by lainey williams. A cabin sits in a clearing in a snowy forest. The small windows in the log cabin are lit yellow and there is a trail of blood through the snow leading to the door. Smoke rises from the cabin’s chimney to surround the title. On either side of the smoke are illustrations in the style of Karelian embroidery, showing stylized geometric patterns in red thread. On the left side embroidery section, there is a depiction of a woman kneeling. her hands are stained red and she wears a headscarf. Opposite her is a woman standing. Instead of a left arm she has a wing. Over the top of the image, two geese shaded in red fly over the cabin and smoke. The trees all around the cabin are shaded in dark blue.

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Francesco Francavilla @ffrancavilla.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

September 30th / October 1st

A split image of Anthony Perkins as a happy guy and n the left to his Paycho character on the right

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)

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Killackey Illustration @kjkillackey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Thinking some more about how archaeological illustration is always created and viewed in a larger context, in my case broadly Western culture. Does anyone have good examples of #SciArt created by and for consumption in a different cultural setting? … 🐡 #archaeology 🏺 #DataViz #ArtHistory

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Brian Wilde @bwildemtl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

83 to go. The Canadiens open their season with a mature effort. It wasn’t spectacular but it was an intelligent road game. The win in Toronto in the season opener of the Call Of The Wilde for Global Montreal globalnews.ca/news/1207663...

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Call of the Wilde: Montreal Canadiens start the season with a tight victory over the Maple Leafs in Toronto - Montreal | Globalnews.ca

The Montreal Canadiens drew the Maple Leafs in Toronto and it was a match-up that Montreal has struggled with, but not this time. The Canadiens posted a tight 3-2 win.

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 30/09/2026

Quick reminder that Ralph Nader had zero impact on the electoral outcome of the 2000 election, which Bush didn't win anyway He was gifted the presidency by the supreme court, a decision Al Gore immediately accepted for some reason

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John HELL Roberson @jlroberson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

who hurt you, saws

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

me, observing humanity

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Veronica 🌶️ @chilepepper.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Ladies and gentlemen. Mesdames et Messieurs! The Habs won! Undefeated!! 😃 #GoHabsGo

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Bugs Bunny Skipping and Hopping

ALT: Bugs Bunny Skipping and Hopping

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Scott Matla @callmescort.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Dobes told John Tavares to pay his taxes

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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Bluesky @bsky.app · 29/09/2026

Happy opening day of hockey season, NHL fans! Keep up with all 1,344 regular season games with this starter pack of hockey writers.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If anyone uses the term Super Intelligence I can only conclude they’re an idiot.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Morning Bluesky.

Comics panel: a man and a woman talk
Man: I'M IN CHARGE! WE'RE THE LEGIONNAIRES OF EARTH!
Woman: YOU’RE IN CHARGE?
A MALE?
Man: OF COURSE!
Woman: YOU MEAN EARTH
STILL HAS A PRIMITIVE.
PATRIARCHAL SOCIETY...
RULED BY MEN?

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Anthony Etherin @anthonyetherin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

HOW TO DRAW A PYRAMID A zig. Now one zag. Gaze now on Giza! #palindrome

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Tade "Will Eat Your Heart in the Marketplace" Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The best thing about being someone who loves reading is you want to read everything, everywhere, all at once. The worst thing about being someone who loves reading is you want to read everything, everywhere, all at once.

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 25/09/2026

"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents." H.P. Lovecraft was onto something there at least. Now time to hop online and correlate all of the world's contents

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bijan (spooky version) @bijan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i think about this post all the time. you might too

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I am paid a very high salary to design new ways to hurt innocent people. Please don't hurt me. I want to live. My job is to hurt your children. Please, don't do anything to me. I want to be safe. My job is to make your family sick. I want to live. Please, I deserve to live. Pleas
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John Carpenter’s The Alex Nevil @thealexnevil.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

“Making friends is hard.“ —Dr. Frankenstein

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Matthew Surridge @bookofdays.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

You probably already know about this one, but here's a ridiculously obscene page by S. Clay Wilson from Zap Comics #3, reprinted in Estren's History of Underground Comics (page 121): archive.org/details/a-hi... I am so sorry for dragging down the tone of this thread.

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A History Of Underground Comics (1974)

Author Mark James Estren provides a wide-ranging account of the underground comic scene, its influences and the controversies it engendered. Estren is evidently a smart dude, being (as we’re reminded ...

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Carney is truly the Reagan of Canada. A calming, paternalistic figure in a period of apocalyptic uncertainty who galvanizes the economy with short-sighted right wing fiscal policies. And like Reagan, every disaster that Canada encounters in the future will be traceable to his administration.

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

anyway I don't own a cat, I just have a roommate who is alternately aloof and demanding

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Straight outta Compton! Crazy motherfucker named Morris From the gang called Marxists With Arts and Crafts If you're worthwile, I got a textile No gods no masters, or I'm hostile

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t. @hapax.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

on it boss

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

As an aside, I think one of the essential skills being trained in college that the 'college is for training workers' paradigm devalues to its peril is the ability and willingness to treat dry, academic matters as serious and worth getting right, rather than dismissing them.

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Matthew Surridge @bookofdays.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

At Black Gate Magazine I go through the fiction in the third issue of Weird Tales, story by story. There are some interesting points that come out of looking closely at the magazine, I think, even if it is sometimes rough going. www.blackgate.com/2026/09/20/i...

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Into the Weird: Weird Tales, May 1923 (Volume 1, Number 3) Part 2 – Black Gate

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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Narnia books as Isekai Manga

1. My Sweet Tooth Made Me The Villainess’ Slave
2. In Another World, The Dwarves Picked Me To Lead The Revolution
3. All At Sea With My Level 0 Sailing Skills
4. On A Mission In Another World And I Can’t Remember The Cheat Codes
5. That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Horse
6. Help! My Uncle’s In Love With The Demon Queen!
7. Reincarnated In Another World Just As The Game’s Ending

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

sneak peek at next week's strange new worlds finale

another SNW gimmick episode, but the gimmick is that they are trapped in a political cartoon

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026

My issue with paywalls that I do think rises above simple personal grievance is that the misinformation news outlets don’t use them & now people’s perception of reality is upside down & I think those two things are connected

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Helen McCarthy @glider.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

True words from someone who had the wisdom to admit what made him happy.

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pauline kael bot @paulinekaelbot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

There's something snobby in all this; sex is chic but violence is for the animals. The less worldly still ask, "Why can't they make movies about nice people?" It's the comfort of order that's wanted—everything in its place. (1978)

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Tom Fowler @tomfowler.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I asked ages ago but didn’t get much of a response so I’m taking another swing at it. Does anyone following me either know how to read Cree or know someone who can?

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