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JWMangrum @jwmangrum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I just, at long last, watched THREADS thanks in part to @goodfriendsofje.bsky.social and even after 40 years of "hype" I was not fully prepared for it.

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Ravenlore @ravenlore-jason.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

So we have officially settled on a title. "Keepers of the Mists" The #netflix doc will focus more on the rise and fall of 2e #ravenloft and the subsequent resurrection of the setting by the online fan community known as the Kargataine. John Mangrum, author of Carnival, will serve as it's spine.

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JWMangrum @jwmangrum.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I was never a big fan of the original run of RESIDENT EVIL flicks (and dropped out after the second), but Cregger's take is fantastic. The horror lands, the comedy lands. Not directly based on any of the games but perfectly adopts their pacing and structure.

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JWMangrum @jwmangrum.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Why the HELL is THE VAST OF NIGHT, a Prime Video exclusive available nowhere else, NO LONGER AVAILABLE ON PRIME VIDEO

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JWMangrum @jwmangrum.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Slipped away from a wedding reception to catch IDIOTS, from the director of the TOXIC AVENGER remake. Took me a while to click into the movie’s groove, but once I did—about when Kiernan Shipka walks in—its dark heart grabbed me for the remainder.

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JWMangrum @jwmangrum.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Can't find the article now, but whenever I hear the name Milo Yiannapoulos I think of the writer who met him at a party orbiting an RNC convention and described him to the effect of: "I could see the dumpster fires burning behind the eyes of his human suit."

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JWMangrum @jwmangrum.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Plugging a project I play a small crew role in: youtu.be/Ekyb4v77pkE?...

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Chad Vader Is Back!

YouTube video by BlameSociety

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Tom Savini is a fucking legend. And he lost everything. His home. His beloved pets. His life's work - work that served as the foundation of the horror we hold most dear. There isn't the character count to list his legacy here. If you can, please consider donating. www.gofundme.com/f/support-to...

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Donate to Support Tom Savini After House Fire, organized by Jason Baker

Tom Savini, special makeup effects legend, is facing a heartbreaking loss after Tom’s … Jason Baker needs your support for Support Tom Savini After House Fire

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Fantagraphics @fantagraphics.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

SCAM ALERT: Do not order from www.fantagraphics-us.com, it is not a legitimate website! They have cloned our real website and are stealing people’s credit card information. If you want to order directly from us, please do so at www.fantagraphics.com.

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JWMangrum @jwmangrum.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I have just been informed that when Marvel left the THE NEW WARRIORS pilot to wither on the vine we were robbed not just of Milana Vayntrub's Squirrel Girl but ALSO a practical Tippy Toe puppet. There is no justice in this world.

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Aaron Yonda @aaronyonda.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Over 50 cast and crew creating an ambitious Chad Vader 20th Anniversary episode (3x the normal length). We're making it bigger than initially planned, and we want to add more crew and shoot additional scenes (Rogue One Vader scene!). Please help us expand our budget: www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-cr...

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JWMangrum @jwmangrum.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Binged S3 of #1670 tonight. Some of my favorite characters from S2* are sadly back-benched this season, but I'm laughing as much as ever. Fingers crossed they get to cross the finish line with a fourth season. * Justice for Regina!

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

one aggressive hardball thing I would like to see happen is blue states coordinating to have deliberately contradictory and difficult to navigate regulatory environments for hostile regime-aligned businesses such as X. what red states did with abortion pre dobbs.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences

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JWMangrum @jwmangrum.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

If someone says "this photo's from 2023!" and they don't provide a link: Bullshit. If someone provides a link to a 2023 "source," but the "source" doesn't include the photo: Bullshit. If someone posts an "original" photo showing the subjects poolside, but it's still interior lighting: Bullshit.

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JWMangrum @jwmangrum.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

@gavingsmith.bsky.social Just stayed up all night finishing Alien: Cult. I’ve been barreling through the Titan novels this year (hooked by the RPG). Gotta say, Cult is a blast, and not just another pastiche. 11 books in, this is right up there with Alien: Into Charybdis as far as I’m concerned.

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JWMangrum @jwmangrum.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

The fact that the Hudson River is currently capable of sustaining aquatic life is due in no small part to this organization, as a note.

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JWMangrum @jwmangrum.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula.

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JWMangrum @jwmangrum.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Name a TV show you’re positive no one remembers but you.

Horror host Stella and sidekick from Saturday Night Dead

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TrueRef by Abbey Esparza @trueref.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

From the second we started TrueRef, I instantly started finding our POC refs turned white and redistributed in the wild.

art reference of an east asian woman crouching, golding a sword.

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JWMangrum @jwmangrum.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I have faith in our modern crop of American conspiracy theorists to somehow, SOMEHOW, concoct an explanation for how that tarp means that Trump's name was, magically, never actually removed

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JWMangrum @jwmangrum.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I am more than mildly shocked to declare that MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE kinda rules. Doesn’t quite reach the soaring heights of DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: HONOR AMONG THIEVES for me but it goes on the same shelf.

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 03/06/2026

eavesdropping on a couple of english lit academics in st. john, i overheard confirmation of what is surely going to be the biggest literary news story of the year

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

0n my knees, pleading, tears in my eyes, I ask: what is this monstrosity? Why is the brain in the big toe, why are there four fingers on what I guess is a foot? Why are all the internal organs below the solar plexus inside of this HAND FOOT? Yes, AI is certainly the future. One without humans.

A poster, obviously AI generated, that purports to show the internal organs in relation to each other, but they are inside of a foot that has four fingers, one of which is a thumb that contains the brain.

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ompuco @ompu.co · 28/04/2026

found a whole operation of unmanned youtube channels making completely unchecked long form slop videos where the ai voice simulacra regularly trips up & does this for a full ten minutes every time. all the very legit comments are like "NO! THATS NOT TRUE! YOU LIE HE DID NOT" & never acknowledge it.

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Josh Mayfield @bean525.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

I'd REALLY appreciate it if anyone who sees this would try out my text generators so I can iron out any remaining bugs. Please, and thank you! trek.epicrandomness.com

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Star Trek Title Card Generator

Make your own era-accurate Star Trek episode title cards in seconds. Boldly go!

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Then I guess it's not a financially sustainable organization. They'll have to close some locations or shorten their hours. Alternatively, we could end the public navy and let private navies provide this service.

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JWMangrum @jwmangrum.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Slightly increase a band. They’re Probably Giants

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JWMangrum @jwmangrum.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Watching #StrangerThings Tales From ‘85 and, 3 eps in, all of the D&D/RPG references have been *accurate*. What’s going on here!?!?

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JWMangrum @jwmangrum.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

I would distort the box office by bankrolling a string of weird mid-budget genre films.

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

A shot of the Virginia Theatre after the conclusion of the last screening on the last night of the very last festival. (The movie was the American president, and Rob Reiner was originally gonna be here.) What an astounding trip it's been. I was blessed to have been able to participate.

A nighttime shot of the Virginia Theatre in Champaign, Illinois, a 1000-seat movie house where EbertFest took place for 27 years. It's on the campus of the university of Illinois at Champaign Urbana, where Roger Ebert attended college and studied journalism. The marquee says EbertFest: The Last Dance, April 17 &18. In the foreground is the head and shoulders of a bronze statue of Roger Ebert.

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Yaza Games 📖 Scriptorium: Master of Manuscripts is OUT NOW! 🎉 @yazagames.com · 16/04/2026

We waited 3 years for this moment. 🥹 Scriptorium: Master of Manuscripts is OUT NOW on Steam! 🎉 Play now: 👉 s.team/a/3119540 Please repost & help us spread the word 🙏

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JWMangrum @jwmangrum.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

A lot of the worst people on the planet are seeing the end of their road on the horizon tonight, so that's nice.

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JWMangrum @jwmangrum.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Replace “Family Member’s Birthday” with “Time I Want to Post About a Game I Played or Movie I Saw” and you get what killed my social media posting habits in a nutshell.

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Tess Snider @malkyne.com · 08/04/2026

I highly recommend that everyone follow artists. If you do, your feed is filled with art every day. Real, original art. It's bonkers that you can even have this. Amazing. Undeniably cool. And then support those artists, when you can, because that helps the delight continue.

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JWMangrum @jwmangrum.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Just got caught up with season 2 of #1670Netflix, the "workplace comedy" set in 17th Century Poland. Others have aptly described it as a melding of The Office and Blackadder. Have no idea how they managed to up the emotional stakes so much in this deeply silly framework. Justice for Regina!

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JWMangrum @jwmangrum.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Happy ”Sigh and Roll Your Eyes at Every Screengrabbed ’Headline’” Day to those who celebrate.

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Thank You For Your Extension To This Antimatter @doczmail.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

This is an interesting read but I have to recommend the blog post version. Following a reply chain 75 posts long should not reveal my preference for that format.

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Pluralistic: Market participation is exhausting (30 Mar 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Bobsession @bobservo.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

dang, the final lost MST3K episode was JUST found at a garage sale, and now it's on YouTube for all to enjoy. watch and be astounded that a 38-year-old VHS recording held up so nicely: youtu.be/u_Z4hnagGLE?...

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MST3K - KTMA - K03 - Star Force

YouTube video by Arthur Putie

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JWMangrum @jwmangrum.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Not gonna lie: My voting decisions today were formed in part by the question: “Who did the cryptobros most desperately want to defeat?”

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JWMangrum @jwmangrum.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

I don pay a lot of attention to the Oscars but this seems like a pretty pleasingly solid roster of winners.

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JWMangrum @jwmangrum.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Post an iconic horror movie image.

A startled-looking bendy rubber Mickey Mouse toy standing on an end table in an ordinary living room.

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JWMangrum @jwmangrum.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

I’ve been diving into the Free League #AlienRPG recently and feel compelled to say that Andrew Gaska’s every-part-of-the-buffalo efforts to weave the films, games, and EU novels into a coherent narrative setting isn’t just impressive, it speaks directly to my old shared-world-builder’s heart.

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Anna 🌿👁️ @annacwebs.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

I may delete this because it’s a bit spicy but it shouldn’t be lost on us that games being turned into TV is essentially harvesting the stories written by those who don’t have union representation or healthcare with WGA by those that do. Our stories are good enough for TV but the writers aren’t?

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