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Sam Cross (she/her) @poparchives.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I would make a Wildcat and Black Canary show my entire personality. And Bautista as Wildcat? *chef's kiss*

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Katy @katy-katy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Time to teach the youth about zines, small press newsletters, artists books, and most importantly… Star Trek fanzines!

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Prof. Allie Alvis 🌷 @book-historia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is something I had wanted to think about Pop Bibliographically, but haven't yet had the time -- if you know of games with printing presses in them, hit up @ryancordell.org !

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Xalavier Nelson Jr. @writnelson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

WE'RE MAKING A SHELVING SIM WHERE YOU USE THE DEWEY DECIMAL SYSTEM IN A LIBRARY THAT'S HAUNTED AS FUCK BECAUSE A BILLIONAIRE WAS STUFFING CORPSES IN THE WALLS TO GENTRIFY HIS CITY WISHLIST "SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH THE LIBRARY" TODAY store.steampowered.com/app/3971340/...

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JazzReads📚🏀 @jazzreads.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Coming back to this video!!!!

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

As of today, the CDC has changed (reverted) their Covid guidance to make the vaccine recommended for all people over 18. In addition to being a smart public health move, this recommendation also means insurance must cover it. Read more here: www.cdc.gov/covid/hcp/va... Listen to a breakdown here:

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The literacy crisis is not just referring to people's ability to literally read and write. It's also people's inability to read for context. I've been a public educator for over 20 years and I have never, ever seen it this bad.

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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

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Dr. Jordan Breeding @drjordanbreeding.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I watched all 8 Resident Evil movies (even the new one): www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtL0...

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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Dorothy B. Porter changed libraries 💜 The Dewey Decimal System used to only have two classifications for Black people: 325 (colonization) & 326 (slavery). Each book by a Black person was put into one of these classifications. A book of poetry? Classified as colonization. Enter Dorothy B. Porter 🧵

Dorothy Porter in 1939, at her desk in the Carnegie Library at Howard University. Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Manuscript Division, Howard University

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A cleaner version of the fan named Jesteraffe. For all the weirdos who love him.

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Lady Ru’etha & Timbit @ruetha.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We need to show James Hong how much we love him NOW, while he’s still with us. I don’t have the spoons to spearhead, but I will absolutely donate towards a mural fund.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

like i am sorry you will never be able to surpass this mercutio and this tybalt

Harold Perrineau as Mercutio in ROMEO + JULIET. He's a handsome Black man. He's in drag, with a huge white afro, long white gloves, a sparkly white skirt and bustier combo and surrounded by men dancing and bowing down to him. Mercutio has his hands lifted and a huge smile on his face.

John Leguizamo as Tybalt in ROMEO + JULIET. He's a handsome latin man. His dark hair is parted severely to the left into a slight pompadour. He has on a gun holster around his shoulders over a sleeveless top with an image of Jesus painted on the front. He has a gun in hand and a holster slung low on his hip.

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Professionally Nosy @professionallynosy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My Rage Against the Machine/Les Mis mashup is complete. This is my interpretation of the quilt guild’s summer challenge “quilt with your interpretation and/or feelings towards our current ‘democracy’” all hand stitched.

Quilt hanging on a card catalog. Neutral background with navy cursive appliqué “Do you hear thr people sing?” The background is embroidered in red starting light and getting bolder the lyrics to “killing in the name” the quilting effect is a focused sunburst from the center.

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Sam Cross (she/her) @poparchives.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Rule of Three says that Hal Jordan will throw himself out of a car one more time by season's end. However, if that doesn't happen, I reserve the right to use the two nickles meme. #Lanterns #GreenLantern #HalJordan

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

oh! forgot to post this here: there's a 15th anniversary edition of THE NIGHT CIRCUS coming out and i got to write an introduction for it <3 www.penguin.co.uk/books/412187...

a redone cover for THE NIGHT CIRCUS by erin morgenstern. a man in a bowler hat looking at a woman. sort of moulin rouge vibes. a line at the top says "with a new introduction by alix e. harrow"

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Sam Cross (she/her) @poparchives.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Got #Lanterns on the brain? Me too! Turns out Tomar-Re might be an #archivist, so let's see if we can confirm or deny that on the latest #POPArchives. #GLAMS And if you have any pertinent info to help solidify the proof, please let me know! 📜 www.pop-archives.com/post/are-the...

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Are They an Archivist?: Tomar-Re and Tomar-Tu

Let's figure out if Tomar-Re or his son, Tomar-Tu, are truly archivists for the Green Lantern Corps.

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Sam Cross (she/her) @poparchives.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

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Are They an Archivist?: Tomar-Re and Tomar-Tu

Let's figure out if Tomar-Re or his son, Tomar-Tu, are truly archivists for the Green Lantern Corps.

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pam lach @plach.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

For ~20 yrs I thought of my dissertation as a one-off, esp when I moved from history to libraries & digital humanities. But I just realized how connected it all is. Back then, I wrote about the spaces musical films opened up for imagining different possibilities. And I’m still writing about that now

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MurMyrrh @murmyrrh.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

They make some fantastic teas. ICE has been active in Seattle this weekend, so glad to see a business I like taking a stand.

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

when ai leaves u behind

7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2:
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4:
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6:
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy.
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”

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Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

it’s actually a museum of narrative art!!!!! Wow!

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

help us 90s rachel leigh cook's problematic anti-drug psa, you're our only hope

Rachel Leigh Cook in her iconic anti-drug PSA. She's holding an egg and I've added a subtitle that reads, "This is your brain"

Rachel Leigh Cook holding a frying pan with a completely smashed egg on it, dripping yolk onto the floor. I've added a subtitle that reads, "This is your brain on AI"

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

🐐

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Alex Ries @alexries.com · 18/09/2026

Guide to the Ratbag Democrats. Transphobes are morally inferior and weak, and best avoided.

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Amelia Sandrine Reisinger 🏳️‍⚧️ @ameliasandrine.com · 17/09/2026

Gonna start referring to Democrats who take anti-trans stances as “Biological Republicans”

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Sam Cross (she/her) @poparchives.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I can't really play anymore #SovereignTower until the weekend, but I need more people to be talking about Sovereign Tower because it's so pretty and well written and I am absolutely feeling normal things about it. @curvegames.com @gobertillu.bsky.social

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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 16/09/2026

True story.

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Ralph Brandi @thereisnocat.com · 16/09/2026

As an American citizen, I want all that money back. Confiscate every goddamned penny.

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Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

it’s almost like ciswomen aren’t inherently athletically inferior to cismen and maybe the Trans Threat In Sports has been hallucinated by 37 bigots with bullhorns

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Gabby HC @scriblit.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The person with the music written on their arse from Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights has pulled out of Ed Sheeran's tour

A bare bum with music written on it. Someone is pointing at it all 'look! Arse music!'

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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Fuck yes Macklemore. Beautiful statement. Also, aside about him as a person, a friend used to work at a restaurant in Seattle he used to go to often. Apparently he was an extremely generous tipper. So just a good fucking guy all around.

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Riley Silverman @rileysilverman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I got to voice the Black Cat for this!

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proffrisch.bsky.social @proffrisch.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Can we also give some respect to the amazing work he did on the Carol Burnett Show? Those costumes are iconic and helped to make that show what it was.

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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

And people told us we were being too extreme when we called them a death cult.

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Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com · 13/09/2026

I don’t normally do this: If you’re an archivist or metadata sicko who is doing working to preserve/collect/organize TTRPG materials and/or Actual Play & you’ll be at PAXU, let me know. If there’s already something brewing I don’t need to be involved unless it’s useful. But it needs to be there.

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average scottythered @scottythered.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Tor Johnson gets ready to clock Papa Nez real good in an outtake from HEAD (1968)

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The Orion @gettheorion.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Barnes, "I really like this classical band called The Monkees. Ever heard of them?" Rutherford, "Let's just say, 'Im a believer'."

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A.J. Wilden🏳️‍⚧️ @wcwit.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"They're not misunderstanding the film; they're co-opting a message"

Screencap from the interview linked in the quoted post

Marlow Stern (the interviewer): You have one of the most renowned replies in Twitter history. Elon Musk tweeted out, “Take the red pill,” then Ivanka Trump enthusiastically wrote, “Taken!” to him, and then you replied, “Fuck both of you.” I’m curious how you feel about the co-opting of “The Matrix” by those on the right who don’t really seem to understand its messaging.

Lilly Wachowski: I mean, I can’t sit in a room and explain the movie to every single person who watches it. Even if I did sit in a room with Elon Musk and Ivanka Trump — yikes — it doesn’t matter. They’re not misunderstanding the film; they’re co-opting a message. And that’s what fascists do: They co-opt the messages of progressives and use it to their benefit to confuse and obfuscate what is going on and the intention of their ideology. They do it with everything. They do it with Martin Luther King Jr. Look at how they’ve changed the idea of what antisemitism is.

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Sam Cross (she/her) @poparchives.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Having literally just watched the movie a couple days ago, I get what's being said, but I don't hate the line. It actually works because, yeah, of course it sounds stupid and cheesy, but it's said with such sincerity that it's exactly something Clark would say to Lois. Will gladly fight at ECCC 😎

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MxLazuli @mxlazuli.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Continuing to try and add a little positivity into the world! For those interested, check out @TonyWeaverJr’s amazing Nerds For Literacy charity! He and so many others are working to provide more books to children around the world!🩵 donorbox.org/nerds-for-li...

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Nerds for Literacy Year 2 | WEIRD ENOUGH COMPANY (Powered by Donorbox)

LET'S GET KIDS SOME BOOKS!We’re a charity that donates books to kids at underfunded schools and libraries. Did you know that kids are losing access to books?!Yup! It’s true that: Youth reading levels ...

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Sixty years ago today, the starship Enterprise launched and with it, a vision of the future where humanity had moved beyond its divisions. I was there at the beginning, and I can tell you...

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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Ruby Bridges was 6-years-old when she stepped into the history books. Bravely accompanied by her mother, she was the first Black child to desegregate an all-white school in the South. It was not long ago… Today is her birthday. She is still with us. She is 72. Happy birthday, Ruby Bridges 💜

Young Ruby Bridges, photo in black and white

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