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Mike Costa @mikecosta.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Anyone working as a PA on a TV show who sends an email to the showrunner saying they deserve to be made an Executive Producer is a legitimately insane person. That’s not dispositive of any accusations they might make, but it makes it very, very hard for me to believe what this guy says re anything

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Mike Costa @mikecosta.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Imagine being this arrogant and entitled when your one boast is that you’re slightly better than the worst people in the world. Great energy. Winning strategy.

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Mike Costa @mikecosta.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

It is to be celebrated. Major parenting win

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Mike Costa @mikecosta.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

What an interesting experiment

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Mike Costa @mikecosta.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Call me when you get to Cucamonga

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Mike Costa @mikecosta.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Meanwhile RFK’s hand looking like it’s entirely made out of steak

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Mike Costa @mikecosta.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

RIP Rex Reed. Critic, Gong Show judge, and old-school Hollywood crackpot from back when it was possible that could keep you essential for decades. They’re passing away from this earth but Gene Shalit lives.

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Mike Costa @mikecosta.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

The great @zandercannon.bsky.social came back in 2025 to once again shame everyone in the field by putting out the best book of the year. This is a must-have for the shelf

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Mike Costa @mikecosta.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

To clarify — this is not a defense of the immensely amoral and incalculably destructive AI tech bubble. This is merely a snapshot of a smug dipshit internet guy making manifestly ahistorical and instantaneously debunkable arguments. The cancer metastasizes everywhere if not cut out

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Mike Costa @mikecosta.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Honestly this new extra-long season of “Adam Ruins his Credibility” is getting really tedious.

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Mike Costa @mikecosta.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

On this most recent episode of The Pitt, one character makes a Rumble Fish reference and another character recognizes it. I was told this was a realistic show.

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Mike Costa @mikecosta.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

We used to do real journalism in this country

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Mike Costa @mikecosta.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Dan is, at least, one of the top 3 Spidey writers of all time, and all of these stories are top tier. Though I’m personally partial to Venom Inc…

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Mike Costa @mikecosta.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Look, I agree that it’s a net societal good that sora is shutting down, but it’s going to drastically cut down the number of AI videos in my social media feed of overweight people filling their homes with diarrhea and I’m allowed to mourn.

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Mike Costa @mikecosta.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

The thing that makes Joe Bob (and @darcythemailgirl.bsky.social) special is the love. Love of movies, and the love of people, and his sappy, tender heart that gets him choked up reading viewer mail more episodes than not. I’m glad that comes through strongest here: variety.com/2026/tv/feat...

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Joe Bob’s ‘Joyous Cancellation’: The Horror Host on Ending ‘The Last Drive-In,’ How Fans Lifted Him Up and His New Production Company

Joe Bob Briggs, the host of Shudder's 'The Last Drive-In,' talks about the show's sudden cancellation and all of the things he's planning to do next.

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Mike Costa @mikecosta.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

I have to miss this once-in-a-lifetime 35mm showing of my favorite Kurosawa film because I’m officiating a wedding that weekend. It’s unreasonable to ask any of the parties to reschedule, so my request is that someone finally release a remastered 4K disc of this movie. I’m afraid I have to insist.

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Mike Costa @mikecosta.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

I got to work with Larry on GI: Joe when it was re-launched at IDW. Both he and Chuck Dixon, two indisputable legends, were so kind and welcoming to be me as a collaborator even though at the time I’d written exactly six issues of comics. But Larry was a special kind of legend so I am not surprised:

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Mike Costa @mikecosta.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Sure my giant art-destroying theft-machine guzzles up water and crucial resources, but you know what else does that? A BABY! Checkmate, libs!

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Mike Costa @mikecosta.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Cat Stevens probably intuited that if the dad was missing his son’s childhood because he was getting obscenely wealthy from ruining the world, people might not like the song as much

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Mike Costa @mikecosta.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

I wouldn’t expect you to know this — Blaylock has a history of washing his image by working with progressives — and I still fully support you. I’d just ask that if you do another of these, consider working with a different artist. The Chicago comics scene is one of the most vibrant in the country.

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Mike Costa @mikecosta.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Kat, I’ve been a big supporter of yours since you were roasting Tucker Carlson. Not currently a resident of Chicago, but I used to be and I tell all my Evanston and Skokie friends to vote for you. Absolutely love the mailer, but Blaylock is a thief and a grifter who has stiffed dozens of creators

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Mike Costa @mikecosta.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

I feel like all those old Marvel bullpen staffers who chain smoked at their desks, hated Stan, hated their jobs, and probably hated comics while churning out 20 pages a week the guys doing it right, but they’re all dead now.

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Mike Costa @mikecosta.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

No Derek this is the fun part. We *all* get to do this. And we should never, ever stop until they are all driven from public life and every good restaurant in town.

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Mike Costa @mikecosta.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

I’ve been seeing this post circulating and I really hate it. If you’re going to be a pedant about something, you actually have to be correct. That’s the whole point of the exercise! That’s the juice! Anyway, Superman is a refugee. The iconic DC superhero who is an immigrant is Wonder Woman.

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Derek DelGaudio @derekdel.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Stephen Colbert announced that his last show airs May 21st. What a coincidence, that's National Cancel Paramount+ Day.

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Mike Costa @mikecosta.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

RIP to Sal Buscema, one of the last bronze-age greats. You guys had over two years to do what I said here and I really hope you did it.

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Mike Costa @mikecosta.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

It’s sad to think that if these people knew the names of literally anyone affiliated with Broadway other than Dylan, they’d have so much more to rage-tweet about. Just another way an uncultured life leaves you missing so much, even if you’re an evil swine shilling poison. Fund the arts!

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

This is stunning. Listen to this in Philadelphia. Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.” Really listen to it.

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Mike Costa @mikecosta.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Yeah why should people be able to enjoy a hobby that previously had a self-sustaining market so they could still pay their bills? Fuck em, right? Necessities are all they deserve! To quote this asshole I just saw being a dipshit online: “can you even hear yourself say this stuff out loud??”

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Mike Costa @mikecosta.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

FYI — people who do this are largely middle-class people. The margins are a few thousand dollars. It’s the same with comic books (I don’t know a lot about watches but I do know about that.) Collector markets for these kinds of things are aficionados with day jobs, not billionaires.

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Mike Costa @mikecosta.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

I try and keep my eye out for that. I’ve seen it plenty too. I haven’t seen it from her yet, but if I’ve missed it, I’m always willing to go look. No sacred cows, just good policy.

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Mike Costa @mikecosta.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Well that’s definitely true. And she actually agrees it’s a fine idea to restrict kids’ phone use in school. What she’s pushing back on in that thread is the “smartphones are bad for kids’ brains,” messaging which is moral-panic junk science that’s being exploited by tech-bros pushing bad laws.

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Mike Costa @mikecosta.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Sure! What would be the best way to do this?

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Mike Costa @mikecosta.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

I’m willing to be wrong about your stance here! I’m responding in the spirit that there might be dimensions of Taylor’s work that I’m unfamiliar with. But I’ve been keeping up with her work on Power User for a year now and she seems pretty consistent on this, and well-researched with good guests.

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Mike Costa @mikecosta.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

As someone whose opinion on most things I respect very much, my initial reaction to your take here is that it’s not based in Taylor’s actual positions, which is that basically that every single bill that’s been floated to “protect kids” from the internet is actually pro-surveillance-state panopticon

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Mike Costa @mikecosta.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

I’m good at the grousing part

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Mike Costa @mikecosta.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

I don’t know why I’m tagged in this but it feels like a mistake

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Mike Costa @mikecosta.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

I wish I had the stones to sue my asshole school for the dumbass things they did when I was 13. I’d have made a lot of money. All power to Becky standing up against evil shit.

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Mike Costa @mikecosta.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

I totally agree. We should change the laws so they have to pay more.

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Mike Costa @mikecosta.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

If I’m the first person to notice a bug why does some rando scientist who didn’t do any noticing get to name it? What the hell

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Mike Costa @mikecosta.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Not to be posting so soon again about Mark, but he’s really on the hype-train after the failure of his Netflix projects and the vanishing sales of his recent uninspired comics, and he wants you to know he can say the n-word again, which must be a huge relief to him: www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...

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Cancel culture is over and we’re free again, says comic book writer

Mark Millar, who sold his Millarworld empire to Netflix in 2017, said he was looking forward to ‘crazy’ stories on screen and in print once more

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