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AiredOnTVToday @airedontvtoday.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

35 years ago on September 28, 1991, TV show 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' aired episode "Darmok"

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Robert Mackenzie @robertmackenzie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Rick: "Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world." Dr. Strange: "But perhaps...in ANOTHER WORLD...they *do*."

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Contexts Magazine @contexts.org · 23/09/2026

What happens when economic change feels like a threat to masculinity? In Contexts, Dan Cassino examines how men’s political preferences change when the traditional breadwinner role becomes less secure. ➡️ doi.org/10.1177/1536... #Sociology #Masculinity #Gender #PoliticalSociology

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70s Sci-Fi Art @70sscifiart.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Stephen Fabian, “Rhialto the Marvellous”

Black and white art of a woman shooting lightning from her hand at a cloaked figure on a cliff, while a shadowy dark face hovers over her.

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Ibrahim Moustafa @ibrahimmoustafa.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

So cool that people are still finding this post nearly a year later 🙏🙌

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KateW @kateweb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

New Susannah Clarke! Fans of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, and Piranesi - this may be news to you, it was to me.

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Robert Mackenzie @robertmackenzie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Legitimately thought this was Michael Myers

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Robert Mackenzie @robertmackenzie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Puzzles. Vampires. Wizards. Horrors from the Beyond. Pathos. Puns. Redemption. Folklore. John Rhys-Davies. Jennifer Hale. You wouldn't want to say there's a single definitive Ur-Text for you as a person, but--

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J.A. Prentice @japrenticewrites.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"How well did you know Bruce Wayne?" Play it cool, don't give away your secret ID. "Slightly!" Shit, too casual. He's supposed to have just died and Gordon was his friend. "I'll miss him..." No, too much. Can't let Gordon know there's a link. "I guess!" Nailed it.

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Robert Mackenzie @robertmackenzie.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

When I was seven(?), my parents took me to a fancy Cantonese restaurant with some friends of theirs. Very quiet, dignified, lots of tuxedo wearing waiters. Also the type of place and in the era where seafood was chosen live from tanks. My parents order a whole crab, naturally brought live to table.

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Robert Mackenzie @robertmackenzie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Jumping off this to emphasise: "Trans ideology" is that trans people exist. Trans people *do* exist. You can meet them, some are on this very app! Ergo, opposition to "trans ideology" is opposition to the continued existence of a group of people. That's, in effect, a genocidal intent.

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Ian Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 10/09/2026

Some of those that work forces Are the same that fuck horses

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Logan / Tachyon @tachyonart.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"Unexpected maintence work on your route is causing a [3d6+15] minute delay to your next encounter. We apologize for the inconvenience!"

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Catching up on the big tech news:

What advantages does this $3,000’foldable iPhone have over say, a piece of paper? Which I could also fold in half.

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Boo-tros Boo-tros Ghoulish @dlbowman76.com · 09/09/2026

Discrete: an insult to King Minos.

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Robert Mackenzie @robertmackenzie.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Well, well, well--if it isn't the Blobfish Brothers

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Robert Mackenzie @robertmackenzie.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Good *lord* this looks extremely up my street.

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VOID 🔞ART CATCH UP. @v0idm0nster.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Burnout's no joke kids

A cat on a space and sky background that says "sorry i havent finished a project in months, i have been at war with myself"

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Robert Mackenzie @robertmackenzie.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Please be aware this is a style parody, I don't actually write like this.

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Robert Mackenzie @robertmackenzie.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Dudek crossed the wide-expanse of road, its wide grey expanse circumscribing the city and choking his beloved wilderness like a noose around its neck. Their laws said no man could cross the six-lane road, but he ignored them, darting between the traveller's vehicles with catlike steps.

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Robert Mackenzie @robertmackenzie.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Is this petty bullshit to get riled up about when there are very real problems going on?! Definitely!! But I'm extremely stressed about all those other things and the petty bullshit is the part where I feel like I can exercise a modicum of control!

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Robert Mackenzie @robertmackenzie.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Man, I thought I was immune to "they're going to adapt my beloved IP wrong" in these latter days when everything has become debased, but they found the gap in my armour. Pacing the house *ranting* at 7am.

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John Siuntres @wordballoon.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

we're an hour away from talking absolute green arrow. join us

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Nathan Anderson @nathanandersonart.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Happy once again to work with @alzabosoup.bsky.social in making this banner for their podcast episodes on Gene Wolfe's The Devil in a Forest!

An illustration depicting life in a medieval European village. Mercenaries appear entering the composition on the left, a lone rogue leans upon a building's wall and an Abbot is standing on the right, bible in hand. Smoke rises from trees in the background. In the center of the composition is a young boy.

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Robert Mackenzie @robertmackenzie.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Jack Haven too short to play Severian really, but what a Dr. Talos they'd make. Orlando's own Tilda Swinton for the Autarch. Same actor for adult Severian plays Katherine at the Feast. Justice Smith for Jonas. Manifesting.

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Robert Mackenzie @robertmackenzie.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

"It's a soulless all-consuming beast that trades off associations with the dead to feed its merciless hunger!" "Yeah, but Paul became good friends with Chevy on SNL so we try not to mention it."

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Robert Mackenzie @robertmackenzie.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The thing is, in all its iterations, the defining grievance of the age is just this: that somehow, somewhere, someone's life might be being made somehow slightly more bearable, and all the shits who line up on the wrong side of history cannot fucking stand it.

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Robert Mackenzie @robertmackenzie.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The problem with becoming middle aged having grown up in nerdy online spaces is you end up saying things like "Oh, that's my mate Dickjab The Truculent, we've been friends for ages. His real name's John or Jon or something. He's Ambassador to Sweden now."

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Minilla Jovovich 🍉 read Merynthia's Master ⚔️🪱🐦 @minillajovovich.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Rogues in the House is a god tier Conan story cuz it's basically "everybody gangsta until a gorilla in a cape show up" and it ends with Conan going "that gorilla the only one of u bitches i respect tbh"

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Robert Mackenzie @robertmackenzie.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Massively gratified to catch up a few days past completion to find my favourite event "won" (and also to find the Gene Wolfe comparison!) Wolfe defined good literature as "that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure". Final Crisis is certainly that.

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rowan kaiser @rowan.monster · 18/08/2026

lotta people with a lot of opinions about what happened to the MCU that are way more complicated than "the movies got notably worse"

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Robert Mackenzie @robertmackenzie.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The thing about Green Lantern is it takes one of the foundational elements of the superhero--autonomy to pursue your own idea of what's good--and takes it away. You have a *boss*. And not in a mentor-protege sense where it's a personal relationship, but with big impersonal decrees and KPIs.

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Robert Mackenzie @robertmackenzie.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Admittedly, it is 100% easier for me to have no pierogis than just have one pierogi so this seems ENTIRELY apposite.

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Nathan Anderson @nathanandersonart.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Also, as usual, commentary layer on the Lake of Birds!

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Will Perkins @williamhperkins.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

This completely unhinged WB promo for Deep Space Nine – an ill conceived attempt to make the most cerebral of Star Trek shows look “cool” – has got a screaming rock dude wailing over a shot of Captain Sisko watching his wife blow up:

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Robert Mackenzie @robertmackenzie.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The thing is (broken record, broken record) caring about that is just another example of the consumer-king trap. Getting invested in site metrics or movie box office or any of the business side things is because people want their consumption to be validated as "correct" by mass consumption.

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Eric Trautmann @mercuryeric.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

In stores today, from @imagecomics.com: THE FORGED VOL 04—GALAXY'S MOST WANTED, by me, @gregrucka.com, @mikeshenderson.bsky.social, @nolanwoodard.bsky.social, @airy.bsky.social, @alejandrobot.com. Four volumes down, one to go!

Cover to the fourth collection of THE FORGED, featuring one of the series protagonists (Hap) in her combat armor. Art by Mike Henderson, colors by Nolan Woodard.

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Robert Mackenzie @robertmackenzie.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

"So, it's a vast winterbound land divided into various substates rules by powerful boyars, who all serve at the pleasure of the Tsar and command legions of serfs. But the nobility are all part of an ancient draconic bloodline--" "No. Are you Russian, or are you Dragon?"

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

It’s hard to explain but tv was better when you couldn’t watch the show you wanted whenever you wanted to watch it and most of the shows were worse and the TVs were worse and the entire experience was worse, that’s when it was better

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