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JWMangrum @jwmangrum.bsky.social · 1h

He’s dressed as Adolf *Hilter*, if you please

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JWMangrum @jwmangrum.bsky.social · 23h

Now is time for go get new press secretary

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JWMangrum @jwmangrum.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I’m an astronaut too. On other planets, you wouldn’t have heard of them

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JWMangrum @jwmangrum.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

TFW you’re listening to a decade-old podcast, and then the host and his guest co-host rapid-fire randomly namedrop two people you know personally, chat about your favorite movie, and then mention that most people listen to podcasts years after the fact. You know, *that* feeling.

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Morgan Johnson @poormojo.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads

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JWMangrum @jwmangrum.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

We have always been at war with Pellucidar

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JWMangrum @jwmangrum.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Finally got around to seeing DIGGER today and I think… I think I love it? A lot to chew on, still.

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JWMangrum @jwmangrum.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

My gut screams to avoid all irony at this stage

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JWMangrum @jwmangrum.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Sadly, their parents never taught them that the song “20 Minutes of Oxygen” by the Darkest of the Hillside Thickets is not intended to be a life hack

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JWMangrum @jwmangrum.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

All the cool kids say “anymorez,” it’s definitely not a typo

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JWMangrum @jwmangrum.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Boy. Different circumstances, but the mental frission of not being able to tell if former work associates recognized or remembered me (and the one guy I knew and was glad *didn’t* recognize me) was one step on my path to not attending Gen Con anymorez

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JWMangrum @jwmangrum.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

...for there were no more lands to conquer

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JWMangrum @jwmangrum.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I've spent the last year digging into the Alien expanded universe, thanks to the #AlienRPG and @avpgalaxy.bsky.social podcast, I just saw ALIENS on the big screen again last week, and I love noodling around with Hero Forge, so, anyway, have an Arcturian, which I have never seen depicted visually:

An Arcturian, an alien species introduced in the film ALIENS and fleshed out in the Alien RPG. A slender, androgenous humanoid with milky white skin, large and all-black eyes, but otherwise largely human in appearance. Dressed here in human garb, including a leather jacket, and carrying a flashlight, just in case of monsters.

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JWMangrum @jwmangrum.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This movie is why I was onboard the very *moment* HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS was announced.

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JWMangrum @jwmangrum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

For your own sanity, never dig into the history of X-Ray Specs and Sea Monkeys.

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JWMangrum @jwmangrum.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Panel 4: TV is still on, but we see MUTED on the screen. Person is now standing at the back window, their back to us, peering out through closed blinds.

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JWMangrum @jwmangrum.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

For years I’ve meant to draw up my relation to satirical news in a four panel comic: Panel 1: Person watching TV, laughing at the news, window visible in the background. Panel 2: Person still laughing, but now looking quizzical Panel 3: Leaning in to the TV, looking deeply concerned

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

My inner pedant demands I point out it isn’t the wolf and sheep who clock out, it’s the wolf (who wants to eat the sheep) and the dog (tasked with guarding the sheep). Which is, if anything, even more on point.

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JWMangrum @jwmangrum.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Maybe this’ll finally get us Skeleton Crew on disc

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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 · 24/09/2026

Y’know, you’re looking for romance, and ripe for court intrigues… ex-queen Titania Belaroth returning from seducing the sky, looking to reclaim her family throne… just sayin’!

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JWMangrum @jwmangrum.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Man, an Illinois-developed AI messes up just *one* first manned expedition to Jupiter and down comes the hammer :)

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JWMangrum @jwmangrum.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

WERWOLF was initially reported to be in Old English too, and that turned out to be inaccurate. Or, an oversimplification, at least. For now, chalking this up to reporting that doesn’t know the difference between OE and antiquated English.

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

Oh so THAT's why my neighbor got TPed

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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 · 18/09/2026

Improved everything he was ever in.

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JWMangrum @jwmangrum.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Federal Bestiality Instigators

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JWMangrum @jwmangrum.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Next time, as a solution, try making one cheese macaroni for yourself and giving each cat two cheeses.

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JWMangrum @jwmangrum.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Can’t wait for the new The X-Files to rip this from the headlines

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

But he's sassy to the same guy we hate! That makes him a good guy! That's how that works!

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JWMangrum @jwmangrum.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I assume they were yoinking him out of the interview where he bragged about having the tallest tower in lower Manhattan.

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JWMangrum @jwmangrum.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

To be fair, you only have to send the fax if you can’t issue a daguerreotype

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JWMangrum @jwmangrum.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Unfortunately what pops into my head first is the forced cultural realization that vast populations of us can’t, and don’t want to, differentiate fiction from reality.

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JWMangrum @jwmangrum.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

“I’m sorry, [SENDER]. I can’t do that.”

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JWMangrum @jwmangrum.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

"Millennials are self-absorbed Boomers" theory undefeated

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

OK, well, that comes as a relief. (It dropping from Prime caught me by ugly surprise tonight.) Good news, even.

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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 · 02/09/2026

I once had to go through the extracts (land transaction records) of our family farm back to 1835. Amazing how many family farms had been sold to the bank in the 1930s to cover what felt like pocket change-level debts.

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JWMangrum @jwmangrum.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The lack of a doorknob is how the level designers indicate that it‘s just a decoration meant to *suggest* branching paths.

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JWMangrum @jwmangrum.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

“How will you afford gas? That’s simple: Volume.”

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JWMangrum @jwmangrum.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

It’d be real pity if a major journalistic outfit did a racism, izzallweresayin, godferbbid

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