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Sam Thielman | Graphic novels at NYT Book Review, seen NYer, Flaming Hydra, foreverwars.ghost.io | he/him | DC COMICS: THE STORY OF A UNIVERSE w/Sean Howe forthcoming | I know I can come off a little proactive, and for that I’m sorry.

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sam @samthielman.com · 18m
“I don’t want to”
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sam @samthielman.com · 3h
Joe Kennedy getting got like this is truly the sweetest part of
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sam @samthielman.com · 5h
sound on. full screen. oscar for best short subject
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com
🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:
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sam @samthielman.com · 6h
I'm raising my word rate by 50¢ to cover operational costs. This will be reflected on your next invoice
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sam @samthielman.com · 8h
I'm 45 now, which means neologisms are illegal now. thank you for your attention to this matter
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sam @samthielman.com · 9h
early career Alex Ross using his cachet to become insane yellow Bob Kane Batman Alex Ross is such a baller move
a lovely Rockwell-esque cover from Kurt Busiek and Ross's Marvelsan insane variant cover to Batman 900 where a bunch of tiny little villains are being menaced by an enormous uncanny pseudophotorealistic Bob Kane Batman. the main color being used is yellow
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sam @samthielman.com · 11h
science has long said it is impossible to be both a pig and a worm. well,
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If you happen to know who this Cornell
"Jane Doe" is, get in touch and I would be happy to publish her name and identifying information. And yes -- this is 100% permitted under the First Amendment, whatever threats or emotional blackmail people might want to deploy
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@mtracey • 14h
Let's see if anyone has the "balls" to name this Jane Doe so we can all evaluate her veracity, and that of her lawyers, since her lawsuit didn't hesitate to name & shame 7 of her peers as gan...Michael Trac... * @mtracey
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Congratulations to the Daily Beast for totally EXPOSING this day laborer from the Bronx who had the audacity to allegedly post a joke video about Nancy Pelosi on Facebook. Maybe you'll ruin his life! This is TRUE JOURNALISM in the public interest x.com/NoahShachtman/...
9:28 AM • Jun 2, 2019
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sam @samthielman.com · 11h
The worst thing is the silhouetted figure is Shaquille O’Neal
@mattielubchansky.com@mattielubchansky.com
awoke this morning with a Vision
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sam @samthielman.com · 12h
Got onto the fire escape briefly, licked a bird poop, ran back in, wolfed down some kibble, yelled, threw up, took a nap. A rich, full day
My cat in her window
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sam @samthielman.com · 12h
big Tom Gauld fan over here
My cat with several Tom Gauld collections. There’s an Ed Steed under there, too, I think
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sam @samthielman.com · 28/09/2026
everyone watching this makes the same face
@headquartersnews.bsky.social@headquartersnews.bsky.social
Ken Paxton: The criticism has been that I let a child predator out after one day. Well guess what? They served 60 days.
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sam @samthielman.com · 28/09/2026
the 80's were the 70's without hope, now the 20's are the 80's without money
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sam @samthielman.com · 28/09/2026
remarkably quick journey from "do I need WhatsApp so I can communicate safely" to "do I need to take WhatsApp off my phone and factory reset it so I can communicate safely"
@evacide.bsky.social@evacide.bsky.social
Meta Muse appears to read your Apple messages and upload them to the cloud even if you explicitly tell it not to: appleinsider.com/articles/26/...
appleinsider.com
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sam @samthielman.com · 28/09/2026
he's just mad because he didn't get credit for that beach boys single
@frogsgent.bsky.social@frogsgent.bsky.social
"Does the rationalist movement have a misogyny problem?" is a question with a pretty clear answer. Just look at what Yud's willing to say out loud.
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sam @samthielman.com · 28/09/2026
[applause]
fnl.mit.edu
How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Campus Surveillance – MIT Faculty Newsletter
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sam @samthielman.com · 28/09/2026
Marvel actually had a bunch of incredibly successful creator-owned books like Casanova and Powers and Kick-Ass and Incognito but they let the entire line go over to Image because they didn't want to play ball with the creators. Now they're probably a couple billion dollars poorer.
J. Caleb Mozzocco@jcaleb.bsky.social
Okay, maybe I'm being a bit facetious with the WATCHMEN comparison. But I've been thinking about Marvel "graphic novels" vs. DC ones, and I have a hard time thinking of any that meet this criteria I lay out in the post (especially the "in print" part):
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sam @samthielman.com · 28/09/2026
no! no!!
@eddiecampbell.bsky.social@eddiecampbell.bsky.social
Three months from now you'll be lamenting that you only got socks and underpants for xmas and wishing you'd signed up for this. www.kickstarter.com/projects/moo...
kickstarter.com
The Arts of Eddie Campbell, Comicker
The first ever Eddie Campbell Artbook
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sam @samthielman.com · 28/09/2026
MARY SHELLEY: so I was sad after we lost the baby and I wrote a novel. I think you should read it PERCY SHELLEY: [reading] this is about a brilliant scientist beset by tragedy MARY: right, because of his hubr— PERCY: my god he’s so awesome MARY: actually he— PERCY: this the best thing I’ve ever read
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sam @samthielman.com · 28/09/2026
Can you imagine Percy Shelley reading Frankenstein for the first time
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sam @samthielman.com · 28/09/2026
Again: “Liberal” arguments against 230 are stupid. They imagine a world where meaningful regulation of trillion-dollar tech companies that are embedded like ticks in our military and legislature would follow the obliteration of all competition to those companies. Ridiculous, childish nonsense.
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sam @samthielman.com · 28/09/2026
I think this is extremely clever.
refference.substack.com
On On On Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote
by Multiple Authors
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sam @samthielman.com · 28/09/2026
Bought the China Mieville novel and, in a shocking twist no one could have predicted, must now carry the China Mieville novel
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sam @samthielman.com · 28/09/2026
Going to disagree with a lot of my peers on here and say this is a tiresome piece that refuses to treat billionaire tech overlords as people with agency and is woefully ignorant of the workings of applicable laws, especially section 230, which is the bedrock of the internet.
liberalcurrents.com
Social Media Has Not Brought Liberation
Social media has been a boon to autocratic regimes and their allied movements in democracies.
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sam @samthielman.com · 28/09/2026
Obligatory
Mary Poppins about to fuck up the Antichrist in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
@mobiusstripper.bsky.social@mobiusstripper.bsky.social
Finally, we're getting the darker and grittier version of Mary Poppins. I'd like to see you claim Hollywood is out of ideas now!
avclub.com
A darker Mary Poppins TV series is in the works
A darker Mary Poppins TV series is in the works
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sam @samthielman.com · 28/09/2026
The Coder of the Woosters
@aohsusometimesy.bsky.social@aohsusometimesy.bsky.social
Create an unnecessary sequel by adding an -er to a book’s title. I’ll start: Jude the Obscurer
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sam @samthielman.com · 27/09/2026
when you have bad intentions
My cat loafed up with her ears back
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sam @samthielman.com · 27/09/2026
Wait, they did this AGAIN?!
@carlzimmer.com@carlzimmer.com
Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWayc
nyti.ms
Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)
An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.
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sam @samthielman.com · 27/09/2026
If you leave your motorcycle idling on the sidewalk, it becomes my motorcycle
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sam @samthielman.com · 27/09/2026
Real embarrassment of riches here
Some goofballsSome even weirder-looking guysAll of these men could be in the same police lineup for the same crime
@radleybalko.bsky.social@radleybalko.bsky.social
“Muscular Christianity” means that when when you’re glazing the serial predator president who deports refugee children, executes fishermen, and builds idols to himself, you TYPE REALLY HARD.
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sam @samthielman.com · 27/09/2026
It’s funny because Jesus is allergic to tree nuts
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sam @samthielman.com · 27/09/2026
Who would fucking fardels bear?
@wallaceme.bsky.social@wallaceme.bsky.social
Ok don’t let’s get carried away but I found something genuinely good on Threads.
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sam @samthielman.com · 27/09/2026
I LOVE this series. My favorite thing Marvel is putting out. Buckingham is such a king. (Hearing good things about this @gregpak.net guy too)
Comic Watch@comic-watch.bsky.social
The ever-lovin’ Thing, struggles in the spotlight in his rocky, monstrous form in The Fantastic Four: First Foes – Dragon Man #1 on shelves September 30, 2026 @gregpak.net #MarkBuckingham #MarvelComics #FantasticFourFirstSteps #FantasticFour comic-watch.com/news/comic-b...
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The Ever-Lovin' Thing And His Rocky, Monstrous Form Struggle With The Spotlight in The Fantastic Four: First Foes – Dragon Man #1 - Comic Watch
The ever-lovin' Thing, struggles in the spotlight in his rocky, monstrous form in The Fantastic Four: First Foes – Dragon Man #1 on shelves and digital platforms September 30, 2026, #GregPak #MarkBuck...
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sam @samthielman.com · 27/09/2026
hot, and I want to be very clear here, diggity
@javierrodriguez.bsky.social@javierrodriguez.bsky.social
Friends! I’ll be posting updates soon with my schedule for signings, panels, and other events, but for now, I’m happy to announce that I’ll be back at NYCC in just a few days, once again with Scott’s Collectables, as always. See you there!
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sam @samthielman.com · 27/09/2026
Remarkable piece here.
cornellsun.com
EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will
The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.
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sam @samthielman.com · 27/09/2026
Primetime good
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sam @samthielman.com · 27/09/2026
very hard for me to react to this without sounding like Rorschach’s Journal
@rallennautilus.bsky.social@rallennautilus.bsky.social
Kentucky Republicans have been fawning over Trump for the past decade. But now, as the war with Iran drags on and Trump’s approval ratings crater, even they are starting to keep the president at a distance. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
theatlantic.com
The Republicans Are Bolting From Trump
A president who demanded loyalty is no longer getting it.
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sam @samthielman.com · 26/09/2026
At the risk of stating the extremely obvious this is emphatically nowhere near enough to replace the container ships that should be transiting the strait
@maciekhamela.bsky.social@maciekhamela.bsky.social
With the Strait of Hormuz closed, Iraq has resorted to moving its oil across the desert to Syria in hundreds of tanker trucks, in true Mad Max style. From there, it will be shipped to worldwide markets.
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sam @samthielman.com · 26/09/2026
Truly astounding to have a mayor who talks like this. He hasn’t done everything right and won’t, but refusing to be ashamed of your convictions is a real breath of fresh air.
@mayor.nyc.gov@mayor.nyc.gov
Being a leftist means taking big shots. And making them.
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sam @samthielman.com · 26/09/2026
when the cardboard recycling is full
My cat on a cardboard palette that once held seltzer
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sam @samthielman.com · 26/09/2026
we love to see it
Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social
DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.
theintercept.com
DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.
In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam
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sam @samthielman.com · 26/09/2026
Oh that's unfair. As a middle-aged married person who has regular sex, at no point am I thinking, "why am I doing this at all" or "this person does this exact same thing with so many different outlets I doubt they could even name mine"
@royalpratt.bsky.social@royalpratt.bsky.social
“Talking to Rahm, it’s like middle-age married sex,” said John Anzalone, a Democratic pollster who has known him for decades. “It’s focused. You know what you’re going for. And it’s short.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/u...
nytimes.com
Rahm Emanuel Makes His 2026 Play (Gift Article)
The longtime Democratic insider has emerged as a behind-the-scenes force in his party’s push to win back Congress. After that, he’ll think about 2028.
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sam @samthielman.com · 25/09/2026
looking for a place called lee ho fook's, obviously
@rogersparkman.bsky.social@rogersparkman.bsky.social
I have always said the best people-watching spot in Chicago is Miller’s Pub on S. Wabash. First time I’ve seen a dude in a gorilla suit. Whatever he’s up to, I am smiling.
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sam @samthielman.com · 25/09/2026
now to take a big sip of iced coffee and open bluesky
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sam @samthielman.com · 25/09/2026
the greatest generation were 100% right about the boomers
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sam @samthielman.com · 25/09/2026
“The boundaries between respectable art and disreputable art are arbitrary and porous” is a truism that is constantly misunderstood by people with awful taste to mean “there is no such thing as good or bad art”
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sam @samthielman.com · 25/09/2026
No, this issue standard fatuous objection and it’s not reasonable. Rembrandt doesn’t sit in your house trying to sell you fast food in between brushstrokes
@mtc111.bsky.social@mtc111.bsky.social
All art is commercial. Rembrandt wasn’t painting for free
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sam @samthielman.com · 25/09/2026
saw somebody say that breaking bad is the dramatic equivalent of junk food and like, yes, that's what makes it the best TV show of the 21st century. you have correctly understood the nature of television. there *aren't* 100 TV shows that transcend the medium. it's there to sell cars.
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sam @samthielman.com · 25/09/2026
I love arguing about lists of pop culture stuff because it reminds me that I actually care a great deal about it. The Sopranos and Mad Men are perpetually overpraised for the depth of insight in their writing because the performances are so good. Homeland is genuinely hateful. Rick and Morty whips
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sam @samthielman.com · 25/09/2026
nytimes.com
My Top Shows — the 100 best TV shows of the 21st century
Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23, The Mighty Boosh, Adventure Time and 7 more.
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sam @samthielman.com · 25/09/2026
30 Rock is so much better than Mad Men
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