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Marc Singer @theothermarcsinger.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I've said it before and I'll keep saying it until it's no longer true--the Washington Post is now the lobbying arm for Amazon Web Services.

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Marc Singer @theothermarcsinger.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

No, he voted for her. He led off Deadspin's "who we're voting for" piece with "I am voting for Clinton, which makes me the most conservative staffer on this goddamn site." Which proved sadly prescient, I guess.

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Marc Singer @theothermarcsinger.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

We didn't tear down *our* monuments.

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Marc Singer @theothermarcsinger.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Not just bear hugging but dragging him across the finish line! Figures at every level of the party are trying to help him shore up the constituencies he alienated in the primary.

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Damon Kiesow @kiesow.net · 03/10/2026

At a panel on AI slop and got this email. This is the cost, making hundreds of thousands of people a day try to decide if they are talking to a real person or not.

Hi Damon,
I know you are likely not actively job searching, so l will keep this brief.
Your progression from digital newsroom leadership into product management, particularly building McClatchy's product organization and establishing its first Product Design and UX Research teams, stood out for a very specific reason.
1 am a Sr Executive Search Consultant working with leading organizations across media and technology, and I am currently conducting a search for a Director of Product at the New York Post.

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Marc Singer @theothermarcsinger.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Planet Terror was Robert Rodriguez. Eli Roth did the Thanksgiving parody trailer (and stunk up Death Proof as one of the misogynist bros--not a stretch for him, I think). And yeah, Planet Terror was the better genre pastiche. But Death Proof was the better movie for the same reasons.

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Marc Singer @theothermarcsinger.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

(On a related note, it always bugged me that Eli Roth's shitty Nazi war movie pastiche in Inglourious Basterds looked exactly like a Hollywood WW2 movie. My guy, we know what Nazi propaganda films looked like and it wasn't that.)

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Marc Singer @theothermarcsinger.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I can tell you right now which one of those characters did not feature in any Soviet movies.

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Marc Singer @theothermarcsinger.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

To be fair, if a building in an R5(CW) zone casts a shadow for more than two hours on the summer solstice it will release Choronzon, the demon Jack Parsons and L. Ron Hubbard bound in the arcane geometries of the Los Angeles freeway system.

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Marc Singer @theothermarcsinger.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

He also doesn't have anything like Platner's history of sexual assault.

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Marc Singer @theothermarcsinger.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"My community drowning circle will really clean up Gotham City" - the next major Batman villain

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Marc Singer @theothermarcsinger.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When "housing" "advocate" Nathan Quimby falls into a vat of toxic Bluesky discourse, he emerges as Bruce Wayne's greatest foe... the NIMBY!

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Marc Singer @theothermarcsinger.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Don't worry, at the end he looks out of the comic and says he's the same kind of communist I am.

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Marc Singer @theothermarcsinger.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I think "in true Mad Max" style answers your question clearly enough.

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Marc Singer @theothermarcsinger.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Jesus Christ, that's not even an Avengers lineup. It's the Product Placement Defenders.

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Marc Singer @theothermarcsinger.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

And if they had stayed at that (middling) level of quality, Marvel would have been fine. But they put out too many products too quickly, and they rushed to this half-baked multiversal stuff when they should have taken the opportunity to go back down to earth and reset the franchise.

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Marc Singer @theothermarcsinger.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I can't wait to watch this place blow up in the next Bond movie.

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Marc Singer @theothermarcsinger.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It was the subsequent movies and streaming TV that gave people an excuse to start ignoring Marvel.

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Marc Singer @theothermarcsinger.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Battle of Hoth is a valiant delaying action. Everything that happens in TLJ is an own goal.

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Marc Singer @theothermarcsinger.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Because the failures in Empire are driven by structural imbalances (the Rebellion can't take the Empire in a stand-up fight, Han can't outrun them) or core character traits (Luke can't abandon his friends) and the failures in TLJ are driven by the script's need for the Resistance to act like idiots.

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Marc Singer @theothermarcsinger.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"You should come up with a story before you start shooting."

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Marc Singer @theothermarcsinger.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I mean, that's basically Jurassic World, which gets the arrogance of its new tech bro owner exactly right. (And which correctly realizes that the most fun you can have with the Jurassic Park premise is to open the park and have a mass casualty event with a bunch of tourists becoming raptor meals.)

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Marc Singer @theothermarcsinger.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

In the last ~30 hours I have gone from indulging myself in New Orleans to viewing (for the first time in ~30 years) and teaching (for the first time ever) Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ. But I got to teach this amazing scene.

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The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) - Pontius Pilate Scene (5/10) | Movieclips

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Marc Singer @theothermarcsinger.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The problem you outline in this post is real, but when you cite a WaPo editorial you are basically citing the house organ for a Trump courtier, nothing more.

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Marc Singer @theothermarcsinger.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Fair point, but the thing that many Canadians and Americans need to understand is that the Bezosites at the Washington Post are Trumpites. WaPo is now the lobbying arm for Amazon Web Services, a means of currying favor with the would-be autocrat. They represent no one but Bezos' bottom line.

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Michael Fry @bigdirtyfry.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Your Grandad Cyclops talks about his school days

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Marc Singer @theothermarcsinger.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

And if you're actively discouraging people from voting for the Democrat, you're making an in-kind contribution to the GOP.

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Marc Singer @theothermarcsinger.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

See also, the claims that Trump only ran because Obama roasted him at the WHCD. He'd been talking about it since the 80s! He actually ran in 2000! It's a way of rationalizing the unthinkable while simultaneously blaming mom for dad's abuse.

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Marc Singer @theothermarcsinger.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

That would require that they actually support Democrats in an election.

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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

When it all comes crashing down, the basic political assumption we must all carry with us is that Trump 2.0 was never a legitimate government and that it is the duty of a future, legitimate US government to decide which policy decisions and actions to repudiate and which to legitimate.

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Marc Singer @theothermarcsinger.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Cynthia McKinney will have you know, she is an *exceptional* "both sides are the same" mf

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Marc Singer @theothermarcsinger.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I was out late celebrating the night before after defending my dissertation. I woke up, answered some emails about a conference I was organizing, started to work on an article. One of my roommates told me to turn on the news. The conference was canceled and I never looked at that article again.

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Marc Singer @theothermarcsinger.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I'm not sure how that solves the problem of Abrams just redoing the Death Star again. But in-universe, almost every problem the Resistance has in the *last* two sequels could be fixed by court martialing Poe and then shooting his ass out an airlock.

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Marc Singer @theothermarcsinger.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It's (mostly) great at taking apart the Star Wars mythology but it doesn't put anything back in its place.

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Marc Singer @theothermarcsinger.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The sequels were doomed when Abrams decided to just remake A New Hope instead of doing something new. The Last Jedi was their chance to do something interesting, and Johnson did, but he also utterly failed to reset the trilogy to something more viable.

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Marc Singer @theothermarcsinger.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Got it, you won't vote for us under any circumstances. Goodbye and fuck off

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Marc Singer @theothermarcsinger.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Sudhir Venkatesh, Hydra Soldier for a Day (2014)

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Marc Singer @theothermarcsinger.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Nolan, I see what you've done for other people, and I want that for us.

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Marc Singer @theothermarcsinger.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Faint praise indeed! But yeah, I want to see where they take this. And the art is buying this series a lot of good will.

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Marc Singer @theothermarcsinger.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I'm not wild about some of the character redesigns, which seem more cosmetic than substantive. But underneath that superficial novelty there just might beat the heart of a good Legion story. And the book looks amazing. Maybe I more than kind of liked this? I think I'm on board, at least for now.

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Marc Singer @theothermarcsinger.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

But it helps a lot that we see the founding Legionnaires being heroic right off the bat. Williamson seems to be going back to more traditional portrayals of the Legion homeworlds that Bendis neglected. And he reintroduces a classic Legion villain while giving them a very new twist.

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Marc Singer @theothermarcsinger.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

As for Joshua Williamson's story... I'm willing to give it a chance. Parts of it are reminiscent of the generation-gap story from Mark Waid's "threeboot" (not a compliment) and there are elements of the Bendis reboot in there too (even less a compliment). Plus general reboot exhaustion!

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Marc Singer @theothermarcsinger.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

A big part of that is the art by Hayden Sherman. There's a huge J.H. Williams III influence in the page layouts, but Sherman also brings their own distinctive designs. The teeming cityscapes look like the future but they're also distinct from each other, which are must-haves for this book.

Page by Hayden Sherman for Legion of Super-Heroes #1

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Marc Singer @theothermarcsinger.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Legion of Super-Heroes #1, out this week, does a lot of things that have killed previous versions of this series. Rebooting the continuity AGAIN. Casting the Legion as enemies of a repressive future society. Killing off characters right off the bat. And yet... I kind of liked it?

Cover to Legion of Super-Heroes #1 by Hayden Sherman

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