Reposted by CalMatthew Dow Smith @matthewdowsmith.bsky.social · 18/09/2026An absolute must listen about all the "AI is going to become a god and kill us all" hype BS. 1203
Reposted by CalCal @cal-smith.bsky.social · 15/09/2026What I lacked in eloquence I made up for with enthusiasm when chatting to Waiting On The Trade about A Garden Of Spheres by @decassette.bsky.social aka the book I have bought/recommended to people nonstop since last year. Please listen! Then read it! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/w...podcasts.apple.comA Garden of SpheresPodcast Episode · Waiting on the Trade · 15 September · 1 sec 001
Cal @cal-smith.bsky.social · 15/09/2026What I lacked in eloquence I made up for with enthusiasm when chatting to Waiting On The Trade about A Garden Of Spheres by @decassette.bsky.social aka the book I have bought/recommended to people nonstop since last year. Please listen! Then read it! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/w...podcasts.apple.comA Garden of SpheresPodcast Episode · Waiting on the Trade · 15 September · 1 sec 001
Reposted by CalLouie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Therapist: can you point to which page of The Usborne World of the Unknown: Ghosts book which explains why youre like this? Me: this one 3438051
Reposted by CalSOLRAD Magazine @solrad.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Today on SOLRAD, Hagai Palevsky on URI TUPKA AND THE GODS by Mike Mignola solrad.co/a-moment-of-... @dialhforhagai.bsky.socialsolrad.coA Moment of Personal Reckoning: Hagai Palevsky on URI TUPKA AND THE GODS by Mike Mignola - SOLRADToday on SOLRAD, we feature Hagai Palevsky on URI TUPKA AND THE GODS by Mike Mignola 1248
Reposted by CalThe Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.theverge.comThere is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter seriesYou can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry. 366201029864
Reposted by CalIndrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Everyone should watch PENDA'S FEN, it's incredible. A very Moore-ish (aired when Moore was a teen) work of art as sigil to break the thought prisons of infernal modernity. It feels, to me, enormously powerful, moving, magical. 720p rip here, with generated subs only unfortunately:youtube.comPenda's Fen (1974) HDYouTube video by Oliver the Egoist 633892
Reposted by CalNick Clarke @nickclarkegeo.bsky.social · 17/08/2026How Place-Based Policy Could Counter Populist Discontent New article in @politicalquarterly.bsky.social with Gerry Stoker, @daisyblackburn.bsky.social and @drjennings.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...onlinelibrary.wiley.comHow Place‐Based Policy Could Counter Populist DiscontentResentment felt by people in areas that have suffered from social and economic decline is a significant driver of populist backlash—‘the revenge of the places that don't matter’. An effective place-b... 1711
Reposted by CalZack Davisson @zackdavisson.com · 01/09/2026Never too late to discover genius. We have published 18 works by Shigeru MIzuki now, and hope to publish many more in the future! drawnandquarterly.com/books-catego...drawnandquarterly.comMizuki – Drawn & Quarterly 1245
Reposted by CalKieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 31/08/2026I'm wrapping The Power Fantasy #21 before I allow myself to nose at what the folks have been up to. Big ol' zine about The Power Fantasy, as folks spill their brains and hearts. 0457
Cal @cal-smith.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Hey, here it is! thepowercut.itch.io/the-power-cu...thepowercut.itch.ioThe Power Cut #3: We Have To Be Better by The Power Cuta fanzine for The Power Fantasy 021
Reposted by CalThe Power Cut - a fanzine about The Power Fantasy @thepowercut.bsky.social · 30/08/2026TOMORROW! THE POWER CUT #3 The internet's finest fanzine for @imagecomics.com 's The Power Fantasy, by @kierongillen.bsky.social and @casparw.bsky.social (the comic not the zine), has done it again, but more so. To meet the quotation title/challenge "We Have To Be Better", it is our best yet. 13013
Cal @cal-smith.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Very pleased to say that I have an essay in the tomorrow’s issue of The Power Cut, the internet’s premiere fanzine for The Power Fantasy. Tell your friends! Tell your enemies! www.tumblr.com/thepowercut/...tumblr.comPost by @thepowercut · 7 images💬 0 🔁 12 ❤️ 18 · The Power Cut #3, coming August 31, 2026! · Go on, try to guess the contexts of all these excerpts. I dare you. The Power Cut will see you again soon... 000
Reposted by CalNANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller August 29,1947 262149375
Cal @cal-smith.bsky.social · 16/08/2026I am always so excited to see a new Ex Mag on the horizon, there has never been a better anthology comic, and luck the vocabulary with which to urge people to back this with the correct level of urgency! new work from Jillian Tamaki and Plastiboo! Exclamation mark www.kickstarter.com/projects/peo...kickstarter.comEx.Mag Volume 7The 7th volume of Ex.Mag. An Eisner-nominated and award winning genre-based anthology series from Peow2. The Genre: Witch 000
Reposted by CalCatsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 11/08/2026"Nanbanjin", a 500-page graphic novel by Taiyou Matsumoto & Cyril Pedrosa. A same story told in turn by these two great artists from Japan and France. International editions (JP/FR/IT) >> www.catsuka.com/shopping/ind... 5375100
Reposted by CalJared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 06/08/2026new issue of Vizier Monthly is out 5041121200
Reposted by CalPyke Redrock @pykeredrock.bsky.social · 24/07/2026The best thing about this interview is how he directly pushes back against the interviewer who keeps trying to carry water for AI. 639454
Reposted by CalAparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 10/07/2026"executives with no understanding of the industry" seems to be an endemic problem across industries: higher education, medicine, you name it, a bunch of suits with MBAs and unearned arrogance are destroying everything around us, and for some reason, we're supposed to accept that they know best 11053312011
Reposted by CalMangaAlerts @mangaalerts.com · 12/06/2026Viz Media announced they licensed Takemitsu Zamurai by Issei Eifuku and Taiyo Matsumoto for a physical and digital release 110242
Reposted by CalAnimation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 02/06/2026From: The Book of the Dead (2005), dir. Kihachiro Kawamoto, Sakura Motion Pictures 2459124
Reposted by CalRitesh! @riteshwriter.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Going to Burger King was your first mistake, my brother. Free yourself. There is a whole world outside waiting for you. 052
Cal @cal-smith.bsky.social · 02/06/2026How do we get these posts up so early after the release of an issue? A very timely review of the lovely return of Head Lopper by @andrewmaclean.bsky.social mattreadscomics.com/2026/06/02/h...mattreadscomics.comI Couldn’t Stop Callum Smith From Talking About Head Lopper’s ReturnCallum Smith just can’t stop talking comics – at least, not when they’re as good as the recently-returned Head Lopper. 000
Reposted by CalVideo Game History Foundation @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social · 22/05/2026A little backstory: these CDs contain artwork and press releases that game publishers sent to GamePro magazine. These are some of the only surviving copies of the original assets used by magazines!youtube.comThe art of GamePro | VGHF Library HighlightsYouTube video by The Video Game History Foundation 19019
Reposted by CalGemma Clark 🧿🕯️ @gemmaclark.bsky.social · 23/04/2026Parkrun try very hard to be as inclusive as possible and encourage walkers, prams, running frames and provide guide runners for blind participants etc. The inclusive ethos is what we love. Fuck off, bigots. 46111
Reposted by CalTarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 22/04/2026I guess the use of AI in media will lead to a strong increase of made up quotes by experts. I never spoke to Just the News (and definitely wouldn‘t) but I said something strikingly similar to @jonhenley.bsky.social for the Guardian. AI-based plagiarism adding a lie for credibility. 3457
Reposted by CalRitesh! @riteshwriter.bsky.social · 17/04/2026The enormity of the horror is beyond any description. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...lrb.co.ukEyal Weizman · All they will find is sand: Gaza’s Yellow LineMost of the Gaza Strip – cities, refugee camps, schools, universities, mosques, the health infrastructure, agriculture... 02419
Reposted by CalDreamboat Branny 🦢 @bransonreese.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Don't miss your chance to read what critics are hailing as "the most recent Swan Boy arc" swanboy.com/comic/philly... 23682147
Reposted by CalNews Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 07/04/2026BREAKING: Extraordinary scenes as Iranian citizens start forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites. This is Kazerun Power Plant in Fars province, southern Iran (🎥 i24 News) 26555122791
Reposted by CalMarie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 07/04/2026oh fuck I can't believe today is 17776 Day!!!!!! if you've never.....read? experienced? this I would recommend 1) setting at least one full hour aside 2) clicking on this on a laptop, and just........seeing what happens I would genuinely call the first time I read this "transcendental" 1619648
Reposted by CalSean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 20/09/2023JESUS CHRIST (ninth hour): Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? GOOFY (present at the crucifixion): Gawrsh 152051574
Reposted by CalLee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 26/03/2026Some good queer people involved with this... 0194
Reposted by CalJudge Anon @judgeanon.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Back when I saw THE NORTHMAN, something that stuck with me was how much the final minutes of that movie succeeded at dehumanizing a man into a prowling beast through framing and body language. This comic has a panel that makes me feel exactly like that with just a single, haunting-ass image. 0123
Reposted by CalAnimation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 18/03/2026From: When the Day Breaks (1999), dir. Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis, National Film Board of Canada 141180326
Cal @cal-smith.bsky.social · 17/03/2026It impossible to overstate just how good all Linnea Sterte books are www.tcj.com/an-interview...tcj.comAn Interview with Linnea Sterte: 'Small moments are probably the easiest thing for me' - The Comics JournalGina Gagliano talks to the author of A Garden of Spheres and Stages of Rot about fantasy, dragons and why frogs are so fascinating. 010
Reposted by CalA toad @toadlett.bsky.social · 15/03/2026a break from my Read Around The World challenge to read Godhusk by Plastiboo. This book is so extremely my shit. Plastiboo is so good at not only evoking the feeling of playing an obscure horror game, but also interrogating this extremely niche format: ephemera about nonexistent media. 183
Reposted by CalTrevor Henderson 🍉 (commissions closed) @slimyswampghost.bsky.social · 04/03/2026all-timer book, I love this one so very much 1330923
Reposted by CalSkulls and Sheets @skullsandsheets.bsky.social · 01/03/2026Can recommend this book! Really informative- I should reread it soon! 1262
Cal @cal-smith.bsky.social · 22/02/20262026 comics reading thread, as I will otherwise forget! Such a strong start with Ex. Mag vol 6, focussed on space exploration. I love this book! Highlights includes work from Lando, Hannah K and Linnea Sterte but the whole thing is amazing. @peow.bsky.social forever! 1233
Reposted by CalKendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 19/02/2026Look, I'm not a royal watcher but I am confused why people are acting like Andrew's arrest is about standing up for rule of law and not an increasingly unpopular monarchy trying to save face by throwing him under the bus natcen.ac.uk/news/public-...natcen.ac.ukPublic support for the monarchy falls to historic low while calls for abolition start to rise | National Centre for Social ResearchNew findings from the British Social Attitudes survey show how the public’s views towards the monarchy have shifted over the past four decades. 1113412
Reposted by CalLondon Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 14/02/2026‘It’s often hard to tell whether or to what degree bodies were decomposed before they were acted on, and harder still to deduce much about the beliefs that prompted the intervention.’ @mikejay.bsky.social on vampires, revenants and killing the dead. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...lrb.co.ukMike Jay · Demand Stolen Rings: The Dangerous DeadIt’s understandable that the dead should be angry or vengeful: after all, they have suffered a terrible calamity.... 092
Reposted by CalShane M. Bailey @shanembailey.com · 11/02/2026TCJ has had some great articles lately. www.tcj.com/mort-walker-...tcj.comMort Walker, Beetle Bailey, and the decline and fall of newspaper comics - The Comics JournalFrank Young looks at two books celebrating cartoonist Mort Walker, one a reprint, the other a collection of Beetle Bailey strips. 0153
Cal @cal-smith.bsky.social · 05/02/2026@kierongillen.bsky.social apologies if this is how you’re learning this - but spotted this and verified it’s true - hopefully an easy fix with Google! 110
Reposted by CalRitesh! @riteshwriter.bsky.social · 30/01/2026You ever just remember that 5 second window wherein capeshit losers were pretending they had principles and would actually stop reading and boycott their slop after DC fired a trans woman. Then they went right back to screaming about how Desolute Donkeyman was turbo-woke and leftist or whatever. 071
Reposted by CalEdward Ongweso Jr @edwardongwesojr.com · 12/01/2026I wrote about why we should understand the metaverse hype cycle as a dress rehearsal for the generative AI hype cycle www.fastcompany.com/91467599/met...fastcompany.comWhat was the metaverse?Mark Zuckerberg effectively declared its death last December. But the delusional fervor it inspired lives on. 14514108
Reposted by CalThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 12/01/2026‘The response is a beautiful thing’: how Glasgow is squaring up to Reformtheguardian.com‘The response is a beautiful thing’: how Glasgow is squaring up to ReformIn the face of Nigel Farage, flag-waving and a longstanding housing crisis, some Glaswegians are taking on anti-immigration rhetoric 39711
