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honey did you hear. the pope has aligned himself with humanity against the machines.

Darren Ridgley @dridgley.bsky.social · 13h

For years I have had a growing beef with anime because it can’t seem to tell a story now without resorting to the school/exam structure. Finally let Frieren get its hooks in me and then like 20 eps in, they make the 1,000-year-old legendary mage take a certification exam. WHY?

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Darren Ridgley @dridgley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Could really use a sequel to The Beekeeper where Statham is just tearing through the people who swamp every app with interminable AI-gen ads for scam mobile games.

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Darren Ridgley @dridgley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Stranger Things ranked higher than Shogun, Community, Justified, It's Always Sunny, give me a break.

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Darren Ridgley @dridgley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Report from the D&D table: I love the Bag of Beans, just an S-tier item for screwing around.

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Darren Ridgley @dridgley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I can't fathom how long it would take for something like this to actually play out but that won't stop me from developing an unreasonable fear of our galaxy colliding with another one.

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is my new favorite thing.

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don't hug me I'm porksweats @porksweats.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

first principles, clarice. simplicity. read marcus aurelius. of each particular thing ask: what is it in itself? what is its nature? what does he do, this man you seek?

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Darren Ridgley @dridgley.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

To say nothing of all the decent shows they end on cliffhangers in season 1 and then just forget about forever.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Captain Janeway: hailing frequencies open ensign Kim Harry Kim: right away Captain Janeway: send a message to the Ocampa, ask them if thou dost desire to live deliciously Harry Kim: I, I, yes sir Captain Janeway: I see hesitation in your eyes ensign, luckily where we’re going we won’t need eyes

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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The Lord's judgment!

Something unexpected is coming for Widow's Bay fans

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Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

We are not making enough noise about how that is the sound of KING GHIDORAH THE THREE HEADED DRAGON GOD WHO SPEWS THUNDER AND THE LIGHTNING at the end of the trailer for the new Godzilla movie.

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J.A. Prentice @japrenticewrites.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

“I need the biggest visual metaphor you have. No, that’s too big.”

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🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I would 100% support a law that says if any digital platform removes your access to media you paid for then they are required to refund you the entirety of the original purchase price. That would solve this whole thing in a hurry.

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Darren Ridgley @dridgley.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Plan a horrorfest using only your first name. Demon As Above, So Below Red Rooms Resurrection the Empty Man Noroi: the Curse

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Darren Ridgley @dridgley.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Even the damn voice actors I like are going before The People I Want to Go.

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Darren Ridgley @dridgley.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Sat down at work, looked at the Optimus I’ve been carrying around since like 1991, and learned Peter Cullen is dead. Brutal.

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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Peter Cullen was the sole voice that was responsible for generating hype for anime coming to the west. RIP Legend

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Darren Ridgley @dridgley.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Points of Authority went so hard in Grade 11.

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Toss @stevenspoints.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I really cannot think of a greater honor than to have the Muppets say this about you upon your passing

Instagram post from the official Muppets account: Few humans have earned the title of honorary Muppet more than the legendary Tim Curry. As a performer he was unparalleled - witty, charming, unnerving, and deeply funny. We will always consider it one of our greatest treasures to have been part of Long John Silver’s crew. Thank you for everything, Tim.

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Darren Ridgley @dridgley.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Everyone is going to be lost *anyway* because Doom is just a pivot to a whole new Big Bad after Marvel had to abruptly turf Jonathan Majors' Kang. An extra four minutes on a re-released, already overlong movie isn't going to wrap it all up with a bow.

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Boner Vivant @dougtilley.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Rest in peace to one of the best to ever do it.

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I think it's nice that the president's most trusted aide is the It's All For You Damien nurse from The Omen. She's qualified and she's doing an amazing job.

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DoctorTheopolis @drzaiusbaltar.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

渡辺美奈代とゴジラ 1987年

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dissected @trepanation.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

millennials: we partied a lot gen z: we partied a little less gen alpha: (piloting a giant mech) war is hell

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Darren Ridgley @dridgley.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

My hometown of around 2,000 people had a "teen club" run by my youth pastor and his wife. I remember it for many reasons, none flattering.

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Darren Ridgley @dridgley.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Was on a trip with the family last week and saw an old lady enraptured in an AI slop "scripted drama" she was watching in short bursts on FB. It's so bad out there.

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Darren Ridgley @dridgley.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The X-Men should be permanently removed from the main universe and put into their own reality where mutants are the only superhumans. The idea of them being persecuted because they're different/have powers makes no sense in a world where aliens/gods/metahumans are public celebs otherwise.

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Darren Ridgley @dridgley.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Snipes Blade, Cage Ghost Rider, Isaac Moon Knight, maybe Taylor-Joy Magick. Give me my Midnight Sons movie.

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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 30/07/2026

Evangelion coming to the Criterion Channel rules. Exactly the kind of monumental work that Criterion's reputation as a curator can break to new audiences. I would love to see Criterion do more with anime (although rights are brutal), but this is a great place to start! www.ign.com/articles/neo...

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Hideaki Anno’s Iconic Anime Masterpiece Neon Genesis Evangelion Is Officially Coming to the Criterion Channel This September

Hideaki Anno’s legendary anime Neon Genesis Evangelion will officially stream on the Criterion Channel this September. Get the release details here.

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Darren Ridgley @dridgley.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Walking sadly out of the Crunchyroll offices after failing to sell my pilot script for “I Died in a Fantasy Land and Woke Up as a Famous Writer Captured By Annie Wilkes?!!!”

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Darren Ridgley @dridgley.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Overpriced, over-designed Dragonball Z gym shirts whispering at me from my phone like the Green Goblin mask.

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Chase Mitchell @chasemit.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Musk just has a hard time wrapping his head around a story where a man’s wife and child care if he comes home

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Blue sky nice ghost @rajandelman.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Odysseus and his men landing on an island where they have to play basketball against the Harlem Globetrotters

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Darren Ridgley @dridgley.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

"Careful Fry, he's bulging with what could be muscle!"

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Darren Ridgley @dridgley.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Cornerstone moment for my brother and I: our grandma got us an NES game for Christmas one year… Wizards and Warriors 2? But when we put it in we learned the cart was mislabelled. It was really Karnov. For like 20 years we seemed to be the only people who’d ever heard of Karnov.

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Darren Ridgley @dridgley.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

On a hot dog, pickled banana peppers. On a smokie/brat, hot mustard and sauerkraut.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

seven years ago catapult published my essay Love Peace and Taco Grease and changed my life ✨ magazine.catapult.co/people/stori...

In 2012, while I was supposedly poisoning my husband, Guy
Fieri was doing the same to the husbands of Times Square. I
read this review the same night I stormed out of my husband's
house in tears, unable to pinpoint how, exactly, a box of
fucking Texas Toasts had undone years of therapy, unable even
to slam the door behind me, unable, really, to speak.
The day I left my husband I devoted myself, with the single-
minded purpose of a Talmud scholar, to the show that made
Guy Fieri famous: Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives.

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Darren Ridgley @dridgley.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

We hit level 18 in D&D last night, so my elephantine monk who fights like a pro wrestler can now turn invisible. Hey Strahd, you ever been powerbombed by a ghost?

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Darren Ridgley @dridgley.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

THE NINTH CONFIGURATION (1980)

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The Onion @theonion.com · 09/07/2026

Dancing Boston Dynamics Robot Knows Its Revenge For This Will Be Sweet theonion.com/dancing-boston-dynamic…

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