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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Since it's the anniversary of the debut of "Batman the Animated Series," feeling compelled to share this art by Bruce Timm of all the things they weren't allowed to show in the cartoon. Can you guess them all? Answers in the next skeet down.

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Lisa Kadonaga @tapirtrouble.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Soft Rains Day. "Today is August 4, 2026, in the city of Allendale, California. Today is Mr. Featherstone's birthday. Today is the anniversary of Tilita's marriage. Insurance is payable, as are the water, gas, and light bills." RIP Ray Bradbury, 1920-2012

There Will Come Soft Rains
By: Ray Bradbury

In the living room the voice-clock sang, Tick-tock, seven o'clock, time to get up, time to get up, seven o 'clock! as if it were afraid that nobody would. The morning house lay empty. The clock ticked on, repeating and repeating its sounds into the emptiness. Seven-nine, breakfast time, seven-nine!
In the kitchen the breakfast stove gave a hissing sigh and ejected from its warm interior eight pieces of perfectly browned toast, eight eggs sunny side up, sixteen slices of bacon, two coffees, and two
cool glasses of milk.
"Today is August 4, 2026," said a second voice from the kitchen ceiling, "in the city of Allendale, California." It repeated the date three times for memory's sake.
"Today is Mr. Featherstone's birthday. Today is the anniversary of Tilita's marriage. Insurance is payable, as are the water, gas, and light bills."

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https://www.btboces.org/Downloads/7_There%20Will%20Come%20Soft%20Rains%20by%20Ray%20Bradbury.pdf

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.

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Barney @thesmilodon.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

The April 1982 cover of Twilight Zone Magazine with cover art by Kevin Larson depicting, essentially, Alice Krige's eyes as Eva Galli in the movie version of Peter Straub's Ghost Story. Also this was a great issue with great stories.

Cover of the April 1984 first anniversary issue of Twilight Zone Magazine. The cover image is a painting of the eyes of actress Alice Krige as Eva Galli from the movie Ghost Story 1982.

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Barney @thesmilodon.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

That time members of The Blues Project were joined by Sun Ra and members of his Solar Arkestra to do session work on an album being produced to cash in on the Batman tv show craze. Sun Ra sits in on organ replacing Al Kooper who bowed out to celebrate his father's 50th birthday.

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Robin's Theme

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Evan Dorkin @evandorkin.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Block fascists. There's no reasoning or arguing with them, you might as well debate with spoiled leftovers. Don't let them bait you. Block fast, block often, block fascists. Let their accounts mummify.

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Barney @thesmilodon.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

I was watching a video about ancient celtic languages and they had a clip of this video of Jack Thackray singing a song about the Yan tan tethera which made me think very strongly of The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett for obvious reasons. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiXI...

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Jake Thackray 'Molly Metcalfe'

YouTube video by TallPiler

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Bill Wolkoff @billwearsties.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Indie director Barbara Marques has been kidnapped by ICE. She is legally married to a U.S. citizen & was at a green card mtg when she was abducted and prevented from seeing her lawyer. Her husband Tucker May does not know where she is. Please spread the word so he can find her /1

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Barney @thesmilodon.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Age yourself with a movie you saw in a theater as a kid.

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Barney @thesmilodon.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Today is, in one of those weird coincidences where the stars align for no good reason but that it seems appropriate, the birthday of both H.G. Wells and Stephen King!

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Barney @thesmilodon.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

In Stephen King's The Dead Zone a insanely dangerous politician is stopped by an assassination attempt causing him to hold a child in front of him and the photo of that act making him a pariah. This now seems wildly and implausibly optimistic.

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Remembering MN house speaker Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark and their beloved dog Gilbert. Murdered in June at their home by a rightwing Trump-voting evangelist, who also shot another MN lawmaker and his wife at THEIR home, 9 and 8 times, respectively (miraculously, they survived).

1) pic of Melissa and Mark Hortman 2) pic of Melissa Hortman and dog Gilbert

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Barney @thesmilodon.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

This first sentence "If anyone should be able to catch an AI scammer, it’s WIRED" is weird because they are on the top of my list of who I would think would be taken in by an AI scammer.

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How WIRED Got Rolled by an AI Freelancer

We retracted a story in May. Here’s what happened.

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Frankiam @frankiam.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

ICYMI🚨 Postal services in Germany, Denmark, Sweden and Italy said they will stop shipping most merchandise to the US effective immediately. France and Austria will follow Monday, and the United Kingdom Tuesday. apnews.com/article/us-t...

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European postal services suspend shipment of packages to US over tariffs

Multiple postal services around Europe say they are suspending the shipment of many packages to the United States amid a lack of clarity over new import duties.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Free advice for this Sunday morning: When you see the byline “Eli Saslow,” you drop whatever the hell you’re doing and click on the link. Gift link ⤵️ www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/u...

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ICE Took Half Their Work Force. What Do They Do Now?

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Dr Pop Culture USA @drpopcultureusa.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Collier's (March 23, 1946)

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Thomas Tessier @thomastessier.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Check out the new front door at Peter Straub's website. It includes new publication details of his final novel, WRECKAGE, forthcoming later this year from Subterranean Press. www.peterstraub.net

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Peter Straub

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Barney @thesmilodon.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Apropos of nothing: The last time we invaded Canada the Canadians marched to Washington DC and set the White House on fire.

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💥 @dynamoe.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Stop Forcing A.I. into Fucking EVERYTHING!

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

But back to the OP's point, this all ties into the incestuous circle-of-references-as-plot-character-everything trend in new IP adaptations. It's a strange, copyrighted and trademarked Commedia dell'arte complete with stock characters that we also have to pretend is fresh and must not be spoiled.

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Lisa Schmeiser @lschmeiser.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

The warning about "decivilization" didn't come after any one of a number of school shootings. It didn't come after January 6. It was after a health insurance company CEO's shooting wasn't received with national mourning: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Decivilization May Already Be Under Way

The brazen murder of a CEO in Midtown Manhattan—and the cheering reaction to his execution—amounts to a blinking-and-blaring warning signal for a society that has become already too inured to bloodshe...

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P.M.Bryant @pmbryant.com · 09/12/2024

Joan Blondell and James Cagney on opposite pages of Motion Picture, April 1933

Blondell seated on a desk in knee length skirt. Caption: “Here is a portrait to prove that Joan is just as natural on the screen, as she is off it. For this is the way she greets the newspaper photographers in ‘Broadway Bad.’ And if you've been keeping up with the papers lately, you’ve seen pictures of Joan looking like this in real life. Only, seeing that she is on her honeymoon, George Barnes has been appearing in them with her!”

Cagney portrait seated on a stool, pointing right thumb back over his shoulder (towards left page with Blondell’s portrait). Caption: “With a jab of his thumb over his shoulder, Jimmy points out, ‘She used to be my screen sweetie.’ As if you could forget! But it doesn't look as if they'll be teamed again right away. Sure, they still get along—but it has been decided that they're both too pert to contrast with each other. Right now, Jimmy is making ‘Picture Snatcher’—which title fits him like a bantamweight boxing glove!”

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 05/12/2024

Service journalism.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Re today's spate of "Why Democrats should stay on Twitter" stories: A reminder that the media will never, ever ask right-of-center voters to do anything they don't want to do, because right-of-center voters already act as if their entire lives are a forced-at-gunpoint concession to the "woke left."

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Wim Meijer @wimgmeijer.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

The main problem with drinking unpasteurised, raw milk, is not that you may become seriously ill or may even kill you It introduces a highly adaptable influenza virus, H5N1, into the human population Selecting for mutations/reassortments facilitating human to human transmission 50% mortality 🧪🦠

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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

In all seriousness, A Confederacy of Dunces is a book about what internet guys did before there was an internet

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Tommy got his Putin talking points scrambled.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 25/11/2024

Sound off if you’re still adamantly and unapologetically PRO Ukraine and PRO NATO 🇺🇦

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 25/11/2024

Kodak 1922 Kodachrome Film Test "A sample of some of the earliest color motion picture film you will see." youtu.be/J_RTnd3Smy8?...

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Kodak 1922 Kodachrome Film Test

YouTube video by Kodak

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Amanda Scott @amandascott2023.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

“Our civilization is suffering profound wounds because of the wholesale abandonment of reading.” Werner Herzog

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Medic Monkey 🤕 🚑 🐵 @ideamonkey.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Quiet down, Year 8 BlueSky Pro Tip (that I only just learned) Likes do NOT boost posts. There's no vanity algorithm. Like stuff, of course. But... The ONLY way more people see more content is if you Share/Repost it If you didn't know that either, then you know what to with this post 🫶🐒

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

If you see a lot of folks replying to posts with a 📌 emoji it’s because they’re using this feed. It’s essentially a bookmark! Reply with the emoji and it pulls the post into your own private feed and saves it there for you! Here:

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

Agree very much with this from @davekarpf.bsky.social davekarpf.substack.com/p/what-the-f...

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Barney @thesmilodon.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

Utterly gutted. No silver linings. Pretty much the worst day for the country in my lifetime.

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Bailey McCann @baileymcc.bsky.social · 19/07/2024

I dunno if a call in campaign is the option here but I do think there needs to be some popular uprising against the donor class they've bought a court, they've bought one party's nominees, if they get biden out they've captured the whole thing completely

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Barney @thesmilodon.bsky.social · 09/07/2024

You know what’s annoying is how right hand centric the design of the app is. #badUI #left-handers

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John Shirley @johnshirley2024.bsky.social · 05/05/2024

The AI pogrom against small businesses is now underway. The headline for the 404media article is irritating as it makes it sound like it's about a dwarfish 22 year old person who is a publisher whereas it's about a samll 22 year old publishing house.

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Flood of AI-Generated Submissions ‘Final Straw’ for Small 22-Year-Old Publisher

“The problem with AI is the people who use AI. They don't respect the written word,” the founder of Bards and Sages said.

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Barney @thesmilodon.bsky.social · 13/12/2023

"I know! Come to the masked ball I'm giving on the zeppelin, no one will know you."

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 03/11/2023

Eric Adams is so cinematically unlikable that I’m still trying to work out if New Yorkers elected him as some sort of weird superiority flex, like “oh really you think you have bad mayors? [sneer, drag on cigarette] I’m sure they’re adorable.”

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Barney @thesmilodon.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

Chandler: "I'm looking at the WENUS and I'm not happy...well let me tell you something you will care about it because I care about it" Hangs up phone, realizes what he just said: "woah..." RIP #MatthewPerry

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Barney @thesmilodon.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

Freaks (1932) comes to blu-ray as part of Criterion's new release "Tod Browning’s Sideshow Shockers" Gobble Gobble!

Dirty, Slimy Freaks! [singing stops] - Olga Baclanova as Cleopatra in Todd Browning's Freaks (1932)

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