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Anna Dent @annadent.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

David Byrne looking a bit rough there

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John Coulthart @johncoulthart.com · 18/09/2026

Peter Max was everywhere in 1970, even on US TV: THE FIFTH DIMENSION SPECIAL: AN ODYSSEY IN THE COSMIC UNIVERSE OF PETER MAX www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjC3...

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KNXT-TV2 (May 21,1970) THE 5th DEMENSION SPECIAL: An Odyssey in the Cosmic Universe of Peter Max.

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Michael Ellis Day @michaelellisday.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The cover of Peter Max Magazine #1 from 1970. Contents included a comic by Wally Wood with parody mashups of Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny (plus a cameo by Plastic Man), which was the first time I ever saw cartoon or comics characters subverted for countercultural use. It blew my mind.

Cover of Peter Max Magazine issue #1, 1970 (though it was dated "2000 AD" in what would have been an obvious joke at the time).

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Leyton Jay @leytonjay.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

...and people say #DoctorWho isn't real.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026

[Exit Queen.]

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Michael Ellis Day @michaelellisday.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Film crew descends on Amity Island to make a sensationalized reenactment of the notorious shark attack summer. Actors depict versions of Scheider, Shaw, Dreyfuss, et al playing their respective characters. Robot shark causes setbacks. Martha's Vineyard reprises its role as Amity. (1/2)

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Josh Michtom @rsgat.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Still working on my project of turning "Billie Jean" into a mournful Spanish waltz.

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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

As long as you identify yourself directly and personally with the cultural objects you like you will find critique intolerable, regardless of the quality of the critique or the object

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Michael Ellis Day @michaelellisday.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

You make an interesting point, but have you considered a Japanese mens fashion magazine named after and featuring Popeye the Sailor in homage to Stewart Brand's Whole Earth Catalog?

The cover to an issue of the Japanese mens fashion magazine Popeye, subtitled "Magazine for City Boys" with an image of Popeye rendered in white and gold against a dark starry background and the crescent of the Earth as seen from space. The image of the Earth from space is based on a cover from the Whole Earth Catalog from the early Seventies. The headline reads "Whole City Boy Catalog."

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Paul Rhodes @parhodes.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Hurrah! It does exist, I just didn't look hard enough... youtu.be/D00rpvyBcVM?...

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"The Muppet Show" Season 1 CREW VIDEO 1976

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Flightradar24 @flightradar24.com · 16/07/2026

Investigators have released their preliminary report on the crash involving a LEGO 747 and Space Shuttle earlier this week. flightradar24.com/blog/flight-...

A photo showing the wreckage of the LEGO 747 reconstituted at a secure location with an inlaid photo of a black cat sitting smugly on the side of a desk.

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Dave @mediocredave.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I used to get yelled at when I suggested that maybe the culture around English football might be reinforcing some imperial nationalist values so just for the record, please look at how the army's current recruitment campaign makes this explicit.

Images show the torsos of soldiers lined up with the legs of football players. Green graphic text reads: "You're already speaking our language. You belong here". Text box reads: "Scroll down to explore how your strengths on the pitch could translate to vital skills in the British Army".

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Tube Mapper- Luke Agbaimoni @tubemapper.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Abbey Road DLR station has confused so many Beatles fans that TfL installed a sign directing them to the real Abbey Road at St John's Wood, North West London. So I thought it would be fun to bring the Beatles to East London instead, staging a tiny reunion cutout from a poster.

The Beatles at Abbey Road Docklands Light Railway station

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Michael Ellis Day @michaelellisday.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I spoke to my old friend Mitch McConnell just now. He listened graciously but I knew if he had something to add he would interject. Finally, curiosity got the better of me and I asked, "Mitch, why have you taken the form of a squirrel?" Mitch chuckled and said "Well, it's like thi

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Way too much of my life right now seems to be consumed by "Americans are being fucking weird about something again."

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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Sorry to lib out but I guess my thought on the Fourth is that if it wasn’t possible for this country to really be an egalitarian multiracial democracy someday, the most disgusting people alive wouldn’t be trying so hard to foreclose that possibility

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THAWK! @thawk79.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Pete Townshend walking by a Guitar Center

From CAPTAIN MARVEL ADVENTURES #20. “NOW TO SMASH
ALL THOSE
INSTRUMENTS!”

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Michael Ellis Day @michaelellisday.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

For all the people in the UK who have been suffering through a heat wave without air conditioning: bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Michael Ellis Day @michaelellisday.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

To the person who called me an asshole and then blocked me: I wanted to apologize for being an asshole to you but you blocked me and now I can't. (I understand why people are so quick to block other people on here, but sometimes people are just way too quick to block other people on here.)

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DB Maggi @dbmaggi.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

You don't have to be Catholic to agree with every word of the quotes below taken from Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical, titled "Magnifica humanitas".

“If the human being is treated as something
to be perfected or surpassed, it becomes
easier to accept that some lives are less
useful, less desirable or less worthy. In the
name of progress, ‘necessary sacrifices’
may begin to be justified, placing the
burden on the most vulnerable in pursuit of
a supposed optimization of the species. ...
For this reason, a clear distinction must be
made. It is one thing to integrate technology
within a human-centered, relational vision;
it is quite another to be guided by an outlook
that devalues human limits and promises a
purely technical form of ‘salvation.”

world. Among these ideologies, | consider
particularly insidious the one that suggests
that every person must earn or justify his or
her own worth, to the point of attributing
greater value to those who are more efficient
or effective. From this perspective, persons
end up being reduced to a means of achieving
results, a resource to be used and exploited,
and are no longer recognized as a proper end
in themselves who should never be
instrumentalized. The value of persons,
however, does not depend on what they
achieve or produce. There are rights that
apply to everyone simply by virtue of being
human, and no human power can legitimately
deny or arbitrarily limit them.

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J Bogart @jonathanbogart.net · 21/05/2026

More bitterly still, we're coming up on forty years since this strip was published.

A Jules Feiffer cartoon of an Israeli soldier talking to a Palestinian prisoner:

"The whole thing is an image problem, you understand?

Americans are watching on TV.

Which distorts history and makes US the villains! And we depend on U.S. support...

But Americans have a short memory. Soon they'll be on to the NEXT crisis.

While you and I will STILL be here.

In fifty years America will be done as a power. And you and I will still be here.

So I suggest you adjust. And go back to digging our ditches and picking up our garbage."

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J Bogart @jonathanbogart.net · 21/05/2026

Change a proper noun or two and these all exactly describe the state of the 2020s.

A Jules Feiffer cartoon with Ronald Reagan giving a monologue:

"My fellow audience: We Americans have lived and prospered under two basic beliefs.

One: Belief in the American Dream. Two: Belief in the Soviet threat.

Now, in the Sixties we lost our will to believe in the Soviet threat.

So in the Seventies our belief in the American Dream faded away.

Well, it's plain common sense, you can't have an American Dream without a Soviet threat.

So as a step toward restoring prosperity and gumption, my administration is reintroducing the international Communist conspiracy.

Supply-side terrorism. It'll make America great again."

A Jules Feiffer cartoon of Jerry Falwell preaching a sermon:

"My friends, some may call me a fundamentalist, but I am a fundacapitalist.

I do not believe in the separation of church and state...

I believe in the separation of free enterprise and state.

I believe in the separation of age and state.

I believe in the separation of medical care and state.

I believe in the separation of poverty and state.

Let 'em eat prayer."

A Jules Feiffer cartoon of two intellectuals talking at a table:

"Why don't the Democrats come up with fresh alternatives to Reaganism?"
"Democrats have always gotten their ideas from liberals.

Liberals have always taken their ideas from the left.

They dump the ideology, they soften the language, they make the ideas respectable. Twenty years later, they squeeze them through Congress.

Today we have Democrats, we have liberals... what we don't have is a left.

So liberals are stuck with their OWN ideas."

"So?"
"Reagan triumphs."

A Jules Feiffer cartoon of himself delivering a monologue while drawing:

"Roh Cohn was my cousin. Sol Feiffer, my uncle, was married to Roy's aunt Alva.

Back in the Fifties, Aunt Alva used to lecture me on how my left-wing politics endangered Roy's anti-Communist career.

After McCarthy's fall, Roy came to symbolize lies, deceit, moral and spiritual corruption.

I'd spot him now and again at parties. No one went near him.

25 years later he was disbarred but venerated, disgraced but mourned by the mighty, a victim of AIDS eulogized by homophobes.

Roy Cohn went out a superstar... Nixon carries on as a beloved elder statesman... had Joe Mcarthy lived he'd be on the Supreme Court by now.

If you hang around long enough, nothing counts."

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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

In the '60s and '70s, one of the biggest producers of drug paraphernalia and trippy blacklight art was the Houston Blacklight & Poster Company. But its history has been nearly lost. I wrote about its influence and the importance of saving artifacts like these: www.chron.com/culture/arti...

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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Happy Star Wars Day. Here's your annual reminder that "May the Fourth be with you" was invented by the Tories to celebrate the election of Margaret Thatcher.

The first recorded reference of the phrase being used was on Thursday May 3, 1979, the day of the 1979 United Kingdom general election, in which Margaret Thatcher was elected as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. To express their support before the votes were counted, her political party, the Conservatives, purchased a half-page advertisement on page 13 of the London Evening News reading "Dear Maggie, May the Fourth Be with You. Your Party Workers."[6][7]

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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Not only does this dialogue absolutely sing, it shows Kirby's understanding of the dynamics of power and its concentration - there are always Godfrey types who assume that their special skills will somehow drive not surrender to the authoritarian process; that is not how Darkseid sees things

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 12/04/2026

🐰🇮🇷 Close the Strait! 🦆🇺🇸 Open the Strait! 🐰🇮🇷 Close the Strait! 🦆🇺🇸 Open the Strait! 🐰🇮🇷 Open the Strait! 🤭 🦆🇺🇸 Close the Strait! 🐰🇮🇷 Open the Strait! 🦆🇺🇸 Close the Strait! Look, I say we're closing the Strait, and that's final! Don't try to talk me out of it! 🤡

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Rabbit season, duck season

YouTube video by sadegh sepehri

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Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

TV anti-war ad from 1971

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

NEW: Will Google's AI hype man kill the BBC? I've written about Matt Brittin because the coverage of his time at Google is shockingly naive. The BBC's next DG is a corporate yes man at a rapacious AI monopoly that preys on journalism in order to destroy it. 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/matt-britt...

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Will Google’s AI hype man kill the BBC?

Matt Brittin spent two decades at Google, a tech company helping to destroy journalism. His appointment as leader of Britain’s biggest news organisation represents an existential threat, writes Carole...

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Justin McElroy @thoughtographic.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Support the USPS

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Weird Bristol @weirdbristol.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

From 1915-1924, a dog named Prince lived in a seafood shop on Colston Avenue. His master (Alfred William Collins) charged customers a small fee to “smooth” the friendly pup - who spent his days seated upon the counter. Prince helped raise £37 (about £500 today) for the Bristol General Hospital.

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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Democratic consultants: To replicate Mamdani’s success with the young people we must appeal to their short attention spans with memes and TikTok Mamdani (actual quote): In the fifth century in what we now know as Ireland, a British warlord named Coroticus had laid waste to the countryside

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 17/03/2026

well that went way deeper than I was expecting

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Michael Ellis Day @michaelellisday.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

John Entwistle collecting horror comics and Creepy magazine in particular is new information to me, but also the least surprising thing ever. It could not be more on brand for him.

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It Came From Blog @itcamefromblog.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Me, when I doomscroll.

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Michael Ellis Day @michaelellisday.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

It's like they saw my life and made it into a tv show!

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George @hannahtempler.com · 06/03/2026

move slow and repair things

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Evan Dorkin @evandorkin.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

TIL: Chester, Illinois has a "Popeye Trail" of 19 statues (28 characters) situated throughout the city in honor of hometown hero Elzie Segar. Beyond the main cast they have Castor/The Whiffle Hen, The Sea Hag/Bernard, Alice the Goon & Child, King Blozo, Toar & more. I have a nerdly urge to visit.

Eight Popeye-related statues displayed throughout the city of Chester, Illinois, where Thimble Theater/Popeye creator Elzie Segar was born and raised. Statues shown are Popeye, Olive Oyl with Swee'Pea and Eugene the Jeep, Alice the Goon, Poopdeck Pappy, Brutus/Bluto, King Blozo, The Sea Hag and Roughhouse.

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JacketDan’s Stunt Spooktacular @jacketdan.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

There is no amount of money in the world that would lead me to fight a Vietnamese refugee that grew up in Louisiana (Also I really want to try a Korean style Po’ Boy)

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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

If jeffrey epstein ran for president the media would call him a businessman who has been criticized by democrats

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Gremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

I’ve been thinking about it all day and I’ve decided that the golden snake with golden eyes that can snap at cars and spit fire should be the symbol of New York under Mamdani

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Ponsonby Britt @hockeenight.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

The Monkees knew. They always knew.

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

"It may take time to prove you're right, but you have to stick to it." - Fred Korematsu Jailed for refusing to abide by FDR's Exec Order 9066, he took his case against internment all the way to the Supreme Court - and lost. Remember him on Korematsu Day, January 30th. 1/

A photo of Fred Korematsu in his later years

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Michael Crider @michaelcrider.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

This isn't mine, and I can't definitively find the original source. But I love this little bit of wisdom: "If you're a fifteen-minute walk from a coffee shop, but the server there has to drive an hour to get to work, you don't live in a walkable city. You live in a theme park."

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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 25/01/2026

i’m hearing democrat leadership are preparing their strongest response yet: looking at the ground and mumbling “come on guys stop being a bunch of turkeys”

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