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In The Mark of Madness @markpaglia.bsky.social · 5h

If I ran the MCU, every DC movie would have to compete against a low-budget Squadron Supreme competitor.

Comic book cover of the Justice League of America versus the Squadron Supreme, with DC heroes fighting their Marvel parody versions: Superman against Hyperion, the Whizzer versus the Flash, and Green Lantern against Doctor Spectrum

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 18h

Huh. Today in "always look up the etymology because sometimes you're just repeating a myth but sometimes it's weirder and more incredible than you could have possibly imagined" www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/c...

Screenshot of Merriam Webster etymology note for cockamamie:
By the look and sound of it, cockamamie (also spelled "cockamamy") could have something to do with a rooster and the outrageous sound it makes. But in fact, cockamamie is believed to be an altered form of the term decalcomania, which refers to the process, invented in the mid-19th century, of transferring pictures and designs from specially prepared paper to surfaces such as glass or porcelain. (The word referring to the picture or design itself, decal, is a shortening of decalcomania.) The word decalcomania comes from French, with décalcomanie combining the verb décalquer, meaning "to trace" or "to transfer by tracing," and -manie, meaning "-mania." Starting in the 1930s, painted strips of paper with images capable of being transferred to the skin were called decals or—in children's slang—cockamamies. Those familiar with today's temporary tattoos will understand quickly that these were regarded by many as silly novelties, lending the word cockamamie the necessary leeway for application to anything ridiculous.

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Phil Klinkner @pklinkne.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I really love this chart. I'm guess that the correlation here (.85) is about as big as you would find for any other variable. Also, a less serious scholar than @tesler.bsky.social (namely me) would have made a crude Freudian reference to the slope of the line.

Chart shows a close positive relationship between Trump's 2024 vote and Google searches for testosterone boosters.

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Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

not sure why I made this but now you have to see it

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A lot of people have both xenophobic attitudes AND believe that you should love your neighbor, which one of those underlying attitudes is primed and salient depends on how it’s being talked about by people you trust & things you here in public discourse.

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Well, if it’s 30 September, it must be... oh God. The 36th anniversary of the first—and, you may not be entirely surprised to hear—only transmission of a sitcom which was genuinely called ‘Heil Honey, I’m Home’, in which Hitler and Eva Braun live next door to Jewish couple Arny and Rosa Goldenstein

Neil McCaul as comedy Hitler, mugging for the camera

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In The Mark of Madness @markpaglia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm not exaggerating when I say that reading about the first Moby-Dick film adaptation was life-changing for me.

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In The Mark of Madness @markpaglia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Woke up with the thought that maybe I should get really into turtlenecks, which made me realize what middle-aged look I'm steadily approaching.

Bill Murray as Raleigh St Clair in "The Royal Tenenbaums"

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Wore this tshirt yesterday and someone tried to explain it to me

Star Wars number one fan. Image of the enterprise from Star Trek

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In The Mark of Madness @markpaglia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Why do I feel like Nvidia announced the first half of this headline so no one would look too hard at the second half of it?

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Punk on Bus Lives!🚍📻 @punkonbuslives.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Trump's supporters are now abandoning him over the price of diesel for their trucks and...hamburgers. Not because of Epstein, murder, Constitutional violations, weakening the military, racism, women's health, etc. So, fuck them. They will never be forgiven. NEVER.

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Jean-Paul Blartre: Mall Cop @oldpappythomas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We're very much living in a house with the wiring and pipes stripped out and people keep coming in and looting the furniture but if you say it's weird or act upset the metaphorical parents act like you're a weirdo because the chore chart has never looked better

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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

With the conversations happening here today, I'm thinking about how Ellis gets to have a "second chance" without doing any of the work to change or even meaningfully apologise to the scores of women he harmed and manipulated. All he had to do was wait a while.

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In The Mark of Madness @markpaglia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm waiting for this in the season finale of Lanterns.

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In The Mark of Madness @markpaglia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Nice try, you're not going to be catch me having an opinion on whatever song is at the top of whatever chart.

Marge Simpson saying, "Music is none of my business."

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 28/09/2026

Any analysis of the Iran War that doesn't start and end with the fact that an entire cottage industry of think tankers and lobbyists and their friends in Congress were frothing at the mouth for literal decades for this got exactly what they wanted and it failed immediately and totally is wrong.

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In The Mark of Madness @markpaglia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Cologne that makes you smell like old books. Patent pending.

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ᴄʏᴄʟᴏᴢ @cyclozparis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Ai Weiwei’s “Forever Duo” (2003) 🚲

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

1: i had never heard of her or this song, still haven't heard it. also still haven't heard let it go from frozen or baby shark 2: maybe modern country music shouldn't have acted like that if it didn't want people to avoid it as cultural signaling. it knows what it did.

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In The Mark of Madness @markpaglia.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Making such a list and almost completely ignoring animation smacks of philistinism.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

there are only three narratives in fiction: 1) the hero's journey 2) a stranger comes to town 3) a greedy developer is going to tear down our beloved community center...UNLESS we put on the greatest breakdance show this town's ever seen

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Paul Behrens @profpaulbehrens.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Plant-rich diets are the food system's electrification. Petrol cars only see 18-25% of their fuel energy get to the wheels; EVs 87-91%. Heat pumps are 2 or 3 times more efficient. Food has its own combustion engine: a chicken turns about 13% of its feed calories into food, worse than a petrol car.

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Luke Burns @lukevburns.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I’m moderating a panel called “From Moebius to Marvel: How French Comics Helped Shape American Fantasy” at Villa Albertine at 11:30AM today! Terrific panelists. Should be a fun and interesting discussion. Free to attend. Hope you brave the weather and come check it out!

villa-albertine.org

Literary Fall Returns to Villa Albertine in September - Villa Albertine

***We are closely monitoring the serious weather conditions expected from the nor’easter on Saturday, September 26. At this time, we are planning to proceed as scheduled with our Saturday program. We ...

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In The Mark of Madness @markpaglia.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

That nothing in the first six movies mattered.

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In The Mark of Madness @markpaglia.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

For you, the lesbian bar masking saga was the strangest news story in memory. For those of us in Western Mass, it was Tuesday.

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In The Mark of Madness @markpaglia.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

That fifth panel attains the highest heights of literature.

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John Jakala @jjakala.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Awww, I can't stay mad at you when you look at me like that, Ereshkigal.

Ereshkigal blasts everyone with her freeze ray.

From Thor #284.

The City of the Space Gods!
Thor / comic story / 17 pages
Script: Roy Thomas
Pencils: John Buscema (breakdowns), Chic Stone (finished art)
Inks: Chic Stone
Colors: Glynis Oliver
Letters: Tom Orzechowski (pages 1-6, 21-31), Joe Rosen (pages 7-15)

Ereshkigal looks at me so sweetly I forget and forgive everything.

From Thor #284.

The City of the Space Gods!
Thor / comic story / 17 pages
Script: Roy Thomas
Pencils: John Buscema (breakdowns), Chic Stone (finished art)
Inks: Chic Stone
Colors: Glynis Oliver
Letters: Tom Orzechowski (pages 1-6, 21-31), Joe Rosen (pages 7-15)

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Raskin made a holy shit observation on MS Now this afternoon: Since taking office, Trump has made a million dollars per hour for himself. Every hour, he has made more than twice the president’s annual salary.

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.

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In The Mark of Madness @markpaglia.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Some of the comments I've seen on here about the Western Mass lesbian bar drama have made me realize that Bluesky may be an online simulation of Western Mass.

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In The Mark of Madness @markpaglia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

An episode that I believe qualifies as a tour-de-force.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The defense contractor who bribed Susan Collins has learned his lesson. by Susan Collins

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In The Mark of Madness @markpaglia.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Okay, who used the monkey's paw to wish the US would switch over to SI units?

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Dr Pop Culture USA @drpopcultureusa.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

An unlikely collaboration between Charles Schulz and John Romita, source unknown. Photo taken at the Society of Illustrator’s The Art of Spider-Man exhibit

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C @spiffyscientist.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I won’t lie, it’s a bit overwhelming to see the work hyperbolized by many press outlets, including the university. We did not discover a new organ, or that you have two consciousnesses, etc! I’m excited for the general positive recognition, (especially the coverage from the Chronicle by Jack Lee)

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The brain is a single organ. But it may not start that way, study suggests

A Stanford-led study challenges the idea that the brain develops from one common pool of early cells — and could help researchers model diseases such as ALS.

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In The Mark of Madness @markpaglia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Have we properly considered the corollary whereby if someone does post "I hate waffles," the third reply to it will be "You should try pancakes!"

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In The Mark of Madness @markpaglia.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

There is something so intensely 2026 about a rich white man telling 50,000 strangers that his friends and family abandoned him. Doubly so when the inciting incident is said man firing someone for speaking in favor of human rights.

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 21/09/2026

apart from the known standard model of novels, novellas, and novellettes, we are yet to find evidence of the hypothesized novelino, noveletto, noveluccio, noveluzzo, or noveluolo. a great deal of work remains to be done

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

you can learn a lot about America by remembering that this man lived through the coronavirus

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