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Chas LiBretto @chaslibretto.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I think what we’ve really learned this month is that most classicists aren’t particularly good film critics.

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

so anyway, I’m not allowed back at the bank

Image on a tshirt of a strawberry with a face and human hands holding two guns that are pointed at the viewer. Underneath it says “this is a strobbery”

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John Hudgens @johnhudgens.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Spaceballs: The Extended Universe graphics from yesterday's SDCC panel - Part One

Spaceballs Extended Universe: Begin Here - Spaceballs: The New One

Spaceballs Extended Universe: Phase One:
Spaceballs: The Schwartz Awakens
Spaceballs: The Franchise Menace
Spaceballs: Winnebago Nights
Spaceballs: Super Duber Secret Wars

Spaceballs Extended Universe: Phase Two
Dark Helmet Origins: A Spaceballs Story
Dark Helmet Origins 2: Even Younger
Dark Helmet Origins 3: Youngest
Dark Helmet Origins Origins: Where It All Began

A Flat Circle
Spaceballs: The Animated Series
Spaceballs: The Animated Series Reboot
Spaceballs: The Animated Series Live-Action
Spaceballs: The Animated Series: The Musical

Spaceballs Extended Universe: Phase 3 (or is it 6?)
Yogurt: Schwartz & All
Mawg: The Last Dawg Standing
Heroes of Druidia: Rogue Dumb
Spaceballs: For Kids

Spaceballs Extended Universe: Phase 5 (maybe 7)
Spaceballs: The Musical
Pizza the Hutt: Cheesy Does It: A Spaceballs Story
Lone Star: The Twilight Years
Vespa
2 Space 2 Balls
Schwartzatar: Just Begging for a Lawsuit
Dot Matrix: A Druish Hope
Colonel Sandurz: Who You Callin' Chicken?

Spaceballs Extended Universe: Phase 4? (We Lost Count)
Spaceballs vs. Spaceballs
Spaceballs vs. Spaceballs vs. Spaceballs
Spaceballs: Enough is Enough
Spaceballs: Enough is Never Enough

Spaceballs Extended Universe: Phase 6 (?)
Spaceballs: The Cookbook
Spaceballs: The Lunchbox
Spaceballs: The Coloring Book
Spaceballs: The Frangrance (Smells Like Lonestar)
Spaceballs: The Board Game
Spaceballs: The NFT Collection
Spaceballs: The Lawsuit
Spaceballs: The Apology
Spaceballs: The Retraction
Spaceballs: The Apology for the Retraction
Spaceballs: Earnings Call Q2

Spaceballs Extended Universe: Phase 7
Spaceballs: The Musical
Spaceballs: The Musical Live!
Spaceballs: The Musical: The Real Live Tour
Spaceballs: The Musical: The Realer Live Tour
Spaceballs: The Musical: The Cruise
Spaceballs: The Musical: The Karaoke Experience
Spaceballs: The Musical: The Album

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Chas LiBretto @chaslibretto.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Someone get Mitch McConnell on the phone to say something nice about his dead friend Lindsey Graham for 20 or so minutes.

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 11/07/2026

‘Jules Verne was largely ignored by Zola and the Naturalists, or treated with disdain when they did bother to notice him. For them, science meant determinism, heredity, pathology; not techno-optimist speculation.’ Raymond N. MacKenzie on Verne’s fantastic voyages. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Raymond N. MacKenzie · Platinum Noses: Jules Verne’s Fantasy

Few writers could match Verne in sales or in spin-offs, including the hugely successful theatre productions. Popular...

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Chas LiBretto @chaslibretto.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Got some classic July 4 food-borne illness from the catered food at work last night. The container said “new potato salad” but it must have meant “new potatoes” not “potato salad that was just made.” Amateur mistake and am now paying for my hubris.

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Chas LiBretto @chaslibretto.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Why even hire artistic directors in the first place? What happens when Dillard dies? What becomes of the Little Island fiefdom?

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Chas LiBretto @chaslibretto.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Read the article in the NYT about Little Island’s abbreviated summer season. This is a place that says it keeps ticket prices low so it can cater to real New Yorkers, but the billionaire owner decides he doesn’t want to do theater anymore and that’s just it?

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Chas LiBretto @chaslibretto.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

There’s a great David Henry Hwang anecdote about how Joe Papp gave him a bunch of notes for his first play at the Public (he was like 22), he said “yup will do” and then a couple days later handed in the exact same play unchanged to Papp, who said “good job” and produced it.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

When these data centers become debt traps in a few years at most, the next Dem president should offer to wipe out those debts if they're sold for a dollar back to cities for community centers, mutual aid hubs, YMCA-style temporary housing services. Try to salvage anything out of this mess.

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Chas LiBretto @chaslibretto.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Well in an alternate universe where the nonprofit theater industry was healthy, this was to be THE ROYAL PYRATE’s first preview 🫠

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/06/2026

currently reading a whole bunch of petitions and editorials from black americans of the revolutionary era and it is so striking (and frankly inspiring) to see how the ink wasn't even dry on the declaration before black americans were demanding that the patriots live up to their stated ideals

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Chas LiBretto @chaslibretto.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I can now reveal the pope made me do a Substack

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Chas LiBretto @chaslibretto.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Also - it's FREE! Though if you choose one of the paid subscriptions, there will be BTS material (I developed this project over about 9 years and read like 400 books on Arthurian literature and Medieval history - there's a lot to unpack!)

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Chas LiBretto @chaslibretto.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I've got a fun new project on Substack. An honest to goodness serialized novel, WOLFRAM & KYOT, which just started this week and will run through September! It's Arthurian but in a sneaky way! And check out the accompanying art by the great Adam Murphy! chaslibretto.substack.com

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Check out this sword stuck in a stone!!

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John Hudgens @johnhudgens.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Anyone up for a Dip in DC today?

Judge Doom's gloved hand holds a shoe over the green Reflecting Pool in Washington DC in the first image - in the second, the shoe has been Dipped and begins to melt

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

He has dyed the reflecting pool green in honor of Islam per Iran's demands.

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Chas LiBretto @chaslibretto.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Jeff Epstein? The talent booker?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/06/2026

i have been obsessed with this for years. allowing manufacturers to sell direct to consumers would be good for consumers and also destroying the car dealership would be an existential crisis for republicans

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Chas LiBretto @chaslibretto.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Think it might have been me that asked that. Now I’m going to ask who came up with the OT spanning 4 years. WEG editors?

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Chas LiBretto @chaslibretto.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

“The more you define, the more you confine” - feel like I remember an editor somewhere saying that about franchise work.

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Not the Guy @notnotnuanced.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

looks like candy crush is back on the menu boys

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Chas LiBretto @chaslibretto.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Cant be overstated how little interest I have in another production of Spring Awakening

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Chas LiBretto @chaslibretto.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Makes it sound like a web series

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

There's a reason why the Supreme Court is in a big hurry to basically eliminate the Reconstruction Amendments

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

The problem here is all of these people know they're in a race against the clock to get all of this done before the tide turns. And by "all of this," I basically mean the destruction of anything that could criticize the post-Constitutional technofeudalist society they're hastily trying to stand up.

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Chas LiBretto @chaslibretto.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

People got mad about “Ahsoka” doing this - I thought it worked 🤷‍♂️

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Chas LiBretto @chaslibretto.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

TFA really was kind of once in a generation wasn’t it. Probably a lesson there no one wants to learn.

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Chas LiBretto @chaslibretto.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

When they call “cut” is when they hand him his stogie.

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Chas LiBretto @chaslibretto.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Groguniverse gonna stay in my brain a long time I’m afraid

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Chas LiBretto @chaslibretto.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Great story and so odd how prescient it is about themes that would later go on to be explored in AotC

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Chas LiBretto @chaslibretto.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Image/Wildstorm really is a huge gap in my comics reading. Someday (I guess)

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Not the Guy @notnotnuanced.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

::christopher walken voice:: grogu

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/05/2026

yes. the clearest path to deal with the SCVA ruling is just to say that it wasn’t a constitutionally valid exercise of judicial review. because it wasn’t!

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Chas LiBretto @chaslibretto.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Famously loves to talk to the fans

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Chas LiBretto @chaslibretto.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

You might say the the hierarchy of power in the Star Wars universe is about to change 😏

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Chas LiBretto @chaslibretto.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Is the narrative basically that Lucas threw together his sequel treatments to further sweeten the Disney deal? The Maul/Talon idea feels very Lucas circa 2011.

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Chas LiBretto @chaslibretto.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

“Rihanna is the key to all this”

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Chas LiBretto @chaslibretto.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Saw “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?” in a movie theater for the first time since I was 4 today and I got the sense it was changing peoples’ lives.

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