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Thomas Maluck @maluckamuck.financialflock.com · 26/09/2026

I have hated peanuts and peanut butter my entire life, but a local boiled peanut festival has led to (momentarily!) trying a couple of flavors of boiled peanut for the first time. CAN A MIDDLE-AGED MAN CHANGE HIS WAYS?! Place your bets!

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Thomas Maluck @maluckamuck.financialflock.com · 18/09/2026

A generous coworker scored me this Nicole Goux print at Small Press Expo

Long-haired knight with a glowing buckler and long sword stands before a just-beheaded dragon that still looks down menacingly.

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Thomas Maluck @maluckamuck.financialflock.com · 13/09/2026

The one time I installed a sports betting app to see how it operates, I could smell the mind games and terrible odds like an unflushed urinal. This page from Danny Funt's "Everybody Loses" gets to the heart of the ripoff that is sports betting apps:

A passage of text explaining how multi-leg parlays create a tantalizing dopamine rush and mistaken impression of being close to getting a payout. On the same and next page, Bonaddio compares his gambling work to Dept of Defense contracting, as in, feeling guilty for helping build something so destructive.

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Thomas Maluck @maluckamuck.financialflock.com · 08/09/2026

My new job has somewhat changed my reading patterns, but comics will always be a place to recharge. (Source: "Kurumizawa's Folly" by Yohira Tokiwa)

Two classmates stop at a corner store for sodas after school. One asks, "Oh... how much was it?" and the other replies, "I'm the one who wanted to stop here for a break. It's my treat."

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Thomas Maluck @maluckamuck.financialflock.com · 04/09/2026

Green Lantern Jessica Cruz: +Early career, would be too scared to embrace it +Mid career, has already dealt with a corrupting ring and could resist it +Late career, would probably hunt it down herself

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Cathy G. Johnson🏴 @cathygjohn.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Pull your work off of Webtoon right now if you've put anything on there, allowing AI to be trained off their platform's work so "fans" can make AI "fancomics" is horrible, horrible. Pull it right now.

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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Hilarious and enlightening activity in today's academic orientation (I did not come up with the idea; Jered Bright did). Students wrote professional emails to profs on the board, and we brainstormed how to make them even better. Then they wrote the most unprofessional email to a prof they could.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

ICYMI, I dug up the full story of the death of Darline Graham's parents back when she was 11 years old, which she cited as an argument against "government-run health care." But what happened to her parents actually makes a strong case FOR government health care: newrepublic.com/article/2148...

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What Darline Graham’s Ugly, Viral Outburst About Death Really Reveals

The senator’s parents died when she was a kid. That’s tragic. But it’s also tragic that she’s against the kind of care that could help untold numbers of people avoid that fate today.

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Mylee Joseph @mylee.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The PLV Young Adult Playbook is a practical resource designed to support public library staff to better understand, welcome and engage young people aged 12–25. www.plv.org.au/projects/you... #libraries

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Young Adult Playbook - Public Libraries Victoria

The PLV Young Adult Playbook is a practical resource designed to support library staff to better engage young people aged 12–25. The Playbook was developed in partnership with YLab and shaped by the v...

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Thomas Maluck @maluckamuck.financialflock.com · 30/08/2026

Glad to see Steve Epting locally, this time for his new comic "Hammerfist"

Steve Epting and a cosplayer wearing a mask and giant foam black-and-red hand, holding up fists alongside some goober in a duck shirt who bought an issue of Epting's comic and posed with them.

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That Librarian: Amanda Jones @librarianjones.com · 30/08/2026

Want to know why The Librarians Film is nominated for an Emmy, was long listed for a BAFTA, and won over 30 international film festival awards? Now is your chance. It’s free on PBS’s YouTube page for a limited time at youtu.be/ywQOCY-qDzE?... (1/3)

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Banned Books and the Librarians Caught in the Political Battle | Full Documentary | Independent Lens

YouTube video by PBS

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Waxy.org @waxy.org · 28/08/2026

Katamari Object Library — sort by triangle count to see the simplest and most complex models in the game

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Katamari Object Library

A desktop-style archive of textured GLB models from Katamari Damacy and We Love Katamari.

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Jon Maki @jonpaulmaki.com · 28/08/2026

If they still made them, I'd add a penny to that quarter today. I can't generate much of an audience for the things I make, but I can do this, and you can, too.

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You Can Do It (In 2025)

It was a coin toss as to whether I was going to make one of these this year. Here’s me expressing a similar sentiment four years ago. If you need help, and sometimes we all do, there are&nbsp…

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Hatok @hatok.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

it is really important to be loud about this stuff because it's typically kept very quiet to enable people to go "See? Nothing happened, it was just people being dramatic"

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Koffie Kobold - Gnollsome Adventures! @bemusedbehemoth.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Quick doodle I did for my insta because I post a lot of Pokémon tcg content and I think sometimes people forget how fucking anti AI I actually am.

Messy doodle or a smeargle painting the text Your AI flyer sucks

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Harry Saxon 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @harrysaxon.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Do you like Rumiko Takahashi? Junji Ito? Well, you can see them having a nice time drinking tea together and talking about each other's work. www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_1P...

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VIZ Teatime for Two with Rumiko Takahashi and Junji Ito

YouTube video by vizmedia

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Thomas Maluck @maluckamuck.financialflock.com · 23/08/2026

Me after playtesting a new commander deck and the cards actually combo

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Keith Stack @keithstack.com · 22/08/2026

I am fatigued by “renders”, I like it when video game promo art is pretty

Artwork of Solid Snake, Meryl, Ninja from Metal Gear Solid

Artwork of Alucard from Symphony of the Night

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Anime News Network @animenewsnetwork.com · 21/08/2026

Award-Winning Translator, Jan Mitsuko Cash, Calls on American Manga Industry to Double Their Rates!

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Thomas Maluck @maluckamuck.financialflock.com · 21/08/2026

Does this OST really boost productivity? Simple: do you really have crisis management skills if you haven't dealt with Bowser trampling through your carefully designed city?

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Thomas Maluck @maluckamuck.financialflock.com · 20/08/2026

When the NeeDoh bubble pops, rush for the exits

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 20/08/2026

so this is what it felt like for catholics when kennedy won

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Anne Loves 🔜 NYCC @annecomics.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I also don’t understand this notion that the golden age of Image was somehow the 90s When I think of great and innovative stories from Image all I can picture is the 2010s and maybe that’s *MY* recency bias, maybe that’s my “I grew up with these comics” prejudice, but god damn what an era

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Liselle ᚂᚔᚄᚓᚂᚂᚓ @sellybeth.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I used to think I had a personality with my own with unique quirks and pecadilloes...if not interesting, at least interestingly odd. @thedailytism.com has taught me that I am nothing but a collection of autistic stereotypes loosely tied together with yarn.

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Thomas Maluck @maluckamuck.financialflock.com · 19/08/2026

When praising comedy, people sometimes equate edginess with creativity. "This genius comedian brought slurs back!" "The room couldn't believe the latest dead baby joke!" There is a form to what Rosie O'Donnell is doing on air that no amount of edge can imitate.

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Jill S @outseide.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

If you haven’t already, I highly recommend reading @paolobacigalupi.bsky.social’s book The Water Knife. It’s fiction but … yeah

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I work for the Flickr Foundation and every so often a new Flickr Commons image shows up that I think the librarian folks here would like to see. This one is from Grace Paull and was published in 1934. 📚 www.flickr.com/photos/libra...

An illustration of a man and a younger girl riding a white horse with a golden bridle. The horse has a basket along its side which is full of books. There is a bright yellow background behind them. Caption reads Ride the Book Trail, to Knowledge and Adventure.

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Francesco Francavilla @ffrancavilla.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I watched LANTERNS pilot episode and I'm hooked! Certified COOL! Great job, @dc.com @tomking.bsky.social @damonlindelof.bsky.social & Co, CONGRATS!

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Thomas Maluck @maluckamuck.financialflock.com · 16/08/2026

"If you don't take anything else away from this post, please take this; you have to read queer books. You especially have to read books before you wade into ill-conceived online conflicts about them. Go put a library hold on a queer book right the fuck now."

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I've had freshman have no joke nervous breakdowns over grades. I've had more than one student cry in front of me bc they thought they were gonna fail my course & had no way back. Not all but many students at elite unis have extremely unhealthy relationships w grading that needs to be changed.

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Sen @dresdencodak.com · 15/08/2026

Art tip: don't share everything you draw. Draw things you never intend to show anyone. Your brain needs time to just exist in a state that's not about performing for strangers. This used to be the normal way to exist before social media poisoned us.

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Phillip Maciak @pjmaciak.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Fifteen years ago, in the classroom, wikipedia was annoying because it was hard to describe to kids who relied on it why it wasn't a good source to cite in a paper. Now, it's the final remaining example of citational responsibility any of them have ever seen.

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Thomas Maluck @maluckamuck.financialflock.com · 15/08/2026

One of the better anime tie-in books I've read, and book two is coming in October? I'm there! (Consider me posting this at nearly 1:30am as a key element of my endorsement)

Cover to "Frieren Beyond Journey's End: Prelude," story by Mei Hachimoku, original story by Kanehito Yamada, illustrations by Tsukasa Abe, and translated into English by Jenny KcKeon.

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Sean | Zimmerit @sean.zimmerit.moe · 13/08/2026

A vintage ('90s?) credit card-sized life counter for use with Magic: The Gathering from Hobby Japan. "Genuine Duelists know what to use to be entitled thus."

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Thomas Maluck @maluckamuck.financialflock.com · 13/08/2026

I had a pleasant conversation with a left-handed person today about all the lefties we know and connections from there. Today of all days!

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Thomas Maluck @maluckamuck.financialflock.com · 13/08/2026

Last repost: one of the aces up AI boosters' sleeves is always, "music algorithms are AI and you're fine with those, right?" Nope! They can't understand that my favorite music is more than a hooky chorus and specific BPM.

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vorpalll @vorpalll.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

If you’ve ever wondered why culture feels like it’s homogenized, why so many streets have the same 5 restaurants or why, despite having so many options, so many songs collapse into the same 2 to 2:30 minute-long structure w/ 50% chorus, then i recommend this (medium-length) essay

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 13/08/2026

every time i see these posts i think its a psyop you cannot open threads and scroll 5 posts without suffering a brain injury. nobody online or irl you ever talk to uses it. they are tricking insta users into clicking on threads links and generating profiles for everyone, that's it

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Image: In a childrens library, a small boy contentedly reads a small picture book, while an angry-looking small girl storms past, carrying a very heavy book.

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Unfortunately for Charlotte, the adjudication committee decides that, for the purposes of the under-nines summer reading challenge, the six volumes of proust's 'in search of lost time' is considered to be one single narrative, whereas each of Roger hargreaves' mister men' books is a distinct work, thereby awarding the library's 'top reader' sticker to her brother Toby.

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Thomas Maluck @maluckamuck.financialflock.com · 11/08/2026

I started reading Solo Leveling (comic) last year on teen/coworker endorsements and am now on Ragnarok. It is the Garfield of isekai and I can't quit.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

What is kind of terrifying about this, aside from everything else, is that this "company" used the actual likenesses and reputations of actual human academics/scientists without their consent or knowledge to make itself sound authentic. Scary times. www.404media.co/company-offe...

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Company Offering ‘100% Human-Written, Never AI’ Medical Research Is Entirely AI

Research Gold's team of human methodologists are either AI generated or using the identity of real people without their permission

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🚲insert into dq_list select uid from partisans where party = "R" @db-user.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

we keep getting warned that a wealth tax wouldn't generate nearly enough revenue to fund anything important while causing wealth-flight and then places that do wealth taxes find they overwhelmingly beat revenue expectations

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🌲🌲🦉🦌Boreal Eggcelent🦌🦉🌲🌲 @astro-egg-celnt.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Folding ideas has a whole video made *before* the AI boom about how there was a huge industry of people on Amazon churning out slop books via hack writers, and how they were actively seeking cheaper and lazier means of producing said books.

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Tony Martin @tonymartin.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

You can also make a one-off donation if, like me, you've been using this great site for free for 20 yrs.

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Patrick Macias @patrickmacias.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

A major manga milestone: Weekly Shonen Jump has fallen below 1 million in average print circulation in #Japan for the first time. The title peaked at 6.53 million in 1994, but reached 985,000 for April–June 2026 as #manga continues shifting digital.

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Thomas Maluck @maluckamuck.financialflock.com · 06/08/2026

If you tried an old Square Enix login to register for the Final Fantasy 14 free trial and got rejected in the form of a wall of Japanese text, I think you should get a #WeebWednesday medal, because it means you first did something much weebier than play an MMO.

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Thomas Maluck @maluckamuck.financialflock.com · 05/08/2026

Haven't seen anyone post about the director's cut of X-Files: I Want To Believe, which ironically enough is an indicator of how excited you turbo nerds are. youtu.be/vbmA8V65czY?...

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The X-Files: I Want to Believe - Vrach Frankenshteyn | Official Trailer | Hulu

YouTube video by Hulu

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