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Tom Shapira @tomshaps.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Bruce Wayne should use his vast fortune to buy every copy of The Killing Joke with the new colouring and destroy them.

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Phillip Maciak @pjmaciak.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I wrote about whether Odysseus is a *dad* or a *father* — and why Christopher Nolan should just get a phone and not be such a turd about it. pjmaciak.substack.com/p/the-dadyssey

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The Dadyssey

Six Theses on Christopher Nolan’s Dad Issues

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

In the prose case, the LLM is making a bunch of “choices” about how to flesh out & resolve ambiguities in the outline it’s fed, in ways that may not even be apparent to a prompter who isn’t manually going through their own version of that process. You may not even notice there was a choice to make.

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BW Costello @bwcostello.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

In a way, it's a relief not to feel compelled to work up a grudging iota of respect for Bill Cassidy.

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BW Costello @bwcostello.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Finally, a Connect 4 that boys can play!

Black and red Connect 4 game aimed at boys.

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BW Costello @bwcostello.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Bill Callahan: At my funeral, tell them about the time we did it on the beach with fireworks above us. John Darnielle:

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Matthew Levay @matthewlevay.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

My new book publishes in just a few weeks, and @univnebpress.bsky.social is offering a generous 40% discount with the attached code. See the bottom of this flyer for more info!

Flyer for The New Old Style with 40% discount code attached. The code is: 6AS26

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BW Costello @bwcostello.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Makes you think.

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

My informed take as a publisher is that the tethering of job security and academic freedom, in the form of tenure, to a book of all things is a disaster.

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Marc Singer @theothermarcsinger.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Excited to announce that Strange Hybrids is out this fall--my new book about the genre turn and the growing overlap between science fiction and literary fiction. Focusing on novels by Francis Spufford, Kim Stanley Robinson, Richard Powers, Jennifer Egan, Colson Whitehead, and more.

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Strange Hybrids

How science fiction and literary fiction merge to represent today’s social, political, and environmental concernsThe future is now. D

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Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

would be a mistake to think of this and the other Memphis-related news item as completely separate stories

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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 21/03/2026

This fake Marvel Bullpen Bulletins item remains one of the funniest things written about comics professionals, and I want to know the marvel staffer responsible for it.

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

MAHA: Eating a giant steak cooked in butter alongside beef tallow fries and washing it down with coffee spiked with butter Not MAHA: Clean air, clean water, health insurance, vaccines, disease monitoring, scientific research, food assistance, food safety, bike lanes

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Phillip Maciak @pjmaciak.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

I think the greatest gift college professors in the humanities can give to students right now is a seminar room where, for 80 minutes twice a week, nothing that happens to them is a sales pitch for an AI product.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 23/01/2026

I can not emphasize strongly enough that Kathleen Edwards, who has been producing great music since *2002*, has just put out what is, IMO, the best album of her career, produced by Jason Isbell. Buy it; see her live.

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Kathleen Edwards

Shop exclusive Kathleen Edwards vinyl records, CDs, merch & more. Get Exclusive Kathleen Edwards albums and pressings, and sign up for the Dualtone mailing list so you never miss out on release dates,...

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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 29/01/2026

I hope Schumer understands how bad it will look if they get no meaningful concessions and then next week ICE blankets Springfield, OH in poison gas the way they have Minneapolis www.springfieldnewssun.com/news/springf...

springfieldnewssun.com

Springfield braces for 30-day targeted ICE surge after Haitian TPS ends

Editor’s Note: Springfield City School District Superintendent Bob Hill responded to this story with a statement saying the district is preparing for possible immigration enforcement actions, but has ...

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John Picacio @johnpicacio.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Remember the other day when I was saluting my friend Greg Ketter, owner of Minneapolis’ DreamHaven Books? This is him the following day. Greg will never say this, so I will — now is a great time to buy books from DreamHaven. Support Americans who stand up vs. 🧊. dreamhavenbooks.com

DreamHaven Books owner Greg Ketter emerging from a cloud of tear gas that ICE agents fired into the streets of Minneapolis.

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 19/01/2026

Bill Cassidy, a medical doctor, beclowned himself and endangered millions of lives by voting to confirm RFK Jr. in an attempt to get on Trump's good side after voting to impeach him for January 6. And what did Cassidy get for it? Trump endorsing against him in a primary.

nytimes.com

Trump Backs a Potential Primary Challenger to Bill Cassidy, a G.O.P. Senator

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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 17/01/2026

If you work for ice please understand that your kids will laugh at a character based on you dying in an action movie before the end of the decade. They’ll be in movies for really little kids. Like Phineas and Ferb shit. There will be an action figure of you with a detachable head

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

What an interesting coincidence.

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Trump's stupid FIFA peace participation trophy

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BW Costello @bwcostello.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Really nothing’s been the same since they changed The New Zork Times to The Status Line.

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Gre-Gory's Haunted Library @garaujo1.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Happy Anatomy Lesson Day to those who celebrate! (Saga of the Swamp Thing #21 on sale date: November 17, 1983)

Saga of the Swamp Thing #21

Artist: Thomas Yeates

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BW Costello @bwcostello.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

How come when people want to spend a year in "self-imposed exile at the edge of the country" they never wind up in Biloxi.

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BW Costello @bwcostello.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Out today! I was honored and delighted to write the introduction for LOST MARVELS: HOWARD CHAYKIN, VOLUME 1, the latest in a series of volumes from Fantagraphics/Marvel Comics reprinting forgotten and neglected gems from Marvel's vaults. www.fantagraphics.com/products/los...

First page of Brannon Costello's introduction to LOST MARVELS: HOWARD CHAYKIN VOLUME 1.

Cover of LOST MARVELS: HOWARD CHAYKIN VOLUME 1

Back cover of LOST MARVELS: HOWARD CHAYKIN VOLUME 1

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University Press of Mississippi @upmississippi.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

“Comics might be the form of the future.” Rick Veitch’s journey from underground icon to visionary storyteller is collected in CONVERSATIONS WITH RICK VEITCH. 📚 Available now.https://buff.ly/yiNAHvV #UPMississippi #ComicsHistory

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/07/2025

when RFK says he wants to “end chronic disease,” what people hear is “he wants to cure us” but what he means is “i want to cull the weak”

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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 19/07/2025

The profile of “an artist exploring the new frontier of human-machine collaboration,” the wistful first-person literary essay about the writer’s mildly disorienting and somewhat dispiriting but ultimately bracing and useful week with ChatGPT

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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 19/07/2025

The most depressing AI pieces are always going to be the thoughtful, nuanced, open-minded considerations by respected writers who are transparently responding to the publicity incentive created by editors whose owners want this kind of content

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Nate Powell @natepowell.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

This is the most disturbing aesthetic evolution of my central point in “About Face”: the mainstreaming of fascist & paramilitary presence through its aesthetic in consumer goods, AKA white men with no real sense of self buying adjacency to violent authoritarian power. 🤮 popula.com/2019/02/24/a...

popula.com

About Face

Death and surrender to power in the clothing of men.

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Anti-Wife Equation @antiwifeequation.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

*Rushing into the Sony CEO's C-suite with this in hand before security drags me out* So, you know how people liked both Oppenheimer and Superman...

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Phillip Maciak @pjmaciak.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

I like Caitlin Clark. But there's a growing Caitlin Clark stan community on the other site that a) hates all other players in the WNBA and b) seems suspiciously interested in criticizing the leadership of the WNBA players association, who are now negotiating a new CBA. I'm sure that's a coincidence.

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Phillip Maciak @pjmaciak.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Dr. Victor Frankenstein: But tonight, we shall hurl the gauntlet of science into the frightful face of death itself. Tonight, we shall ascend into the heavens. We shall penetrate into the very womb of impervious nature herself. Ross Douthat: yes I agree that religion should be a friend to science

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BW Costello @bwcostello.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

The DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE trailer looks like the Brendan O'Brien-produced Bruce albums sound.

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Stephen R Bissette @stephenrbissette.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

NEW WORK: My contributor copy arrived today, marvelous, definitive volume on one of my dearest friends.

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BW Costello @bwcostello.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

CONVERSATIONS WITH RICK VEITCH is out now! Thirteen interviews from the 1980s to today, three of which are brand-new to this book, including a career-spanner by @stephenrbissette.bsky.social. www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/C/Conv...

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BW Costello @bwcostello.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

So many of the comments are "She didn't prompt it correctly" or "She gave it bad input" or "A different generative AI model would have done this better." For some folks, AI cannot fail, it can only be failed.

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BW Costello @bwcostello.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Watching TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A. for the first time. William Petersen’s partner is 3 days from retirement. Great character, hope the movie checks in later on to see how he’s enjoying the sweet rod and reel Petersen gave him! Maybe we’ll get some scenes of them on the lake together?

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BW Costello @bwcostello.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Great post by Holly Raymond on a late-run J.M. DeMatteis/Paul Neary Captain America issue. @jmdematteis.bsky.social's run on Captain America, most of it with Mike Zeck, is a still underappreciated gem of thoughtful 1980s superhero comics.

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Duy Tano (The Comics Cube) @comicscube.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Conversations with Rick Veitch is 55% off - my two interviews with him are in here! www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/C/Conv...

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University Press of Mississippi @upmississippi.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

We're celebrating UPM's 55th Anniversary with 55% off ALL TITLES, including CONVERSATIONS WITH RICK VEITCH, edited by Brannon Costello. buff.ly/0QJ1doB May 14–23, 2025 Plus, get free US shipping with no minimum purchase! #Sale #UPM55 #ReadUP #UPMBooks @bwcostello.bsky.social

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Shawn Gilmore @gipperfish.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Really excited to have this piece up! I moved all of my academic writing around this Spring to get this done and am delighted that it all came together, apropos of everything. It's a long, hopefully necessary piece—I'd be honored if you'd take the time to read and share. Games for our times. ✊

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BW Costello @bwcostello.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

"We are ACCELERATING to EXCELLENCE with AI SOLUTIONS and HIRING FREEZES and BUDGET CUTS"-- e-mail from my employer today.

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BW Costello @bwcostello.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Logged into FB yesterday and saw a stream of people wishing happy birthday to a long-deceased acquaintance. Not even like "We miss you" or "Happy heavenly birthday," just dozens of folks blithely hitting "send" on the auto-generated birthday greeting, complete with emojis. Pretty bleak!

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