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Tom Dennis @thomasadennis.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This isn't remotely an original observation, but it simply works: the most whacked-out dystopian vision of the near future from 20 years ago wouldn't have had "and Ross Douthat will be the host of 60 Minutes."

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Tom Dennis @thomasadennis.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

The only way that I’d get excited about anything that GRRM does anymore is if I was told that I’d won a secret prize to have it read to me by Florence Pugh with my head in her lap, and even then I’d try to convince her to read random passages from Gibson’s Sprawl trilogy instead.

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Tom Dennis @thomasadennis.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Is the general gist of it that it’s for people who think that Jack Reacher is too complex?

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Lucy Knisley @lucyknisley.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Free to download, and printable on standard Avery 5164 shipping label stickers. Enjoy!

Hand drawn text reading: Oh no! ANOTHER HIDEOUS GENERATIVE AI FLYER
Looks like they:
-don’t care about the harm to the planet and our drinkable water
-devalue human artists and creativity
-lined a billionaire’s pocket instead of hiring a local artist
-want everyone to become more lazy, stupid and misinformed
HOW EMBARRASSING

The text image from the other image in this post, printed six times to fit on mailing label stickers when printed

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Tom Dennis @thomasadennis.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Honestly had no idea if you were kidding.

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Tom Dennis @thomasadennis.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Reminds me of Swan Song by Robert McCammon. The book is mostly Temu The Stand, with nukes rather than the superflu, but the subplot in the beginning with the survival bunker community that was a shoddily built scam was spot on, and sets up the secondary villains quite well.

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Tom Dennis @thomasadennis.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

The Culkins are still playing in the only prog rock group in their hometown’s history and still insisting that they can make it happen. The Skarsgårds are still telling the mothership to not vaporize Earth, but Bill always argues for.

Humorous comparison of the Skarsgård brothers with the Culkin brothers

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Tom Dennis @thomasadennis.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I have never heard anyone actually say this, only seen it in print.

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Tom Dennis @thomasadennis.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

The algorithm is like that relative who only knows about two things about you; I liked reading and also cool gadgets and so they bought me a hardcover biography of Thomas Edison (unread). My insta keeps trying to sell me this sort of plastic bungee cord thingy. Maybe I looked at it once.

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Tom Dennis @thomasadennis.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

If I'd ever watch a YouTube-based version of The Defiant Ones, that would be it.

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Tom Dennis @thomasadennis.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Just another thing in a long list of things that require (or at least compel) one to issue a reflexive disclaimer of “I like [thing], but I’m not a ‘[thing] Guy.’”

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Tom Dennis @thomasadennis.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

I sincerely hope that that’s true and that the lessons learned are put into practice in the future by better candidates.

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Tom Dennis @thomasadennis.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

I would rather gargle Lemmy Kilmister’s vomit than see Rod Blagojevich president, but even _he_ wouldn’t be that bad.

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Tom Dennis @thomasadennis.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

These magazines were the Weekly World News, unironically, every month.

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Tom Dennis @thomasadennis.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Sometimes I wonder how much of the current situation is due to the second-string and below US porn mags deciding that, since Playboy had all the real writers, they were just going to lowball it, and thus exposed millions of teen boys to this stuff. Penthouse would have published Rorschach’s journal.

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Tom Dennis @thomasadennis.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

What that guy in your MFA (not to be confused with That Guy In Your MFA) wishes he looked like.

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Tom Dennis @thomasadennis.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Stephenson in particular seemed enamored of One Weird New Trick That “They” Didn’t Want You To Know About, at least in the earlier works—cryptocurrency, neurolinguistic hacking, nanotechnology, etc.

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Tom Dennis @thomasadennis.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

I give a silent measure of thanks for being a nerd who was never into the sportsball as a result of always being picked last for dodgeball.

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Tom Dennis @thomasadennis.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

It'll go well with potatoes, unless there's another potato blight epidemic, which sadly seems way more likely under this regime.

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Tom Dennis @thomasadennis.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

It’s startling to remember how _necessary_ the newspapers used to be; the comics were a bonus on top of that. Imagine someone going, “Oh, so you read All the President’s Men? Here’s the latest issue of X-Men.”

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Tom Dennis @thomasadennis.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

There are people who don’t?!?

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Tom Dennis @thomasadennis.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

You are the wind beneath our wings.

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Tom Dennis @thomasadennis.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Don’t forget when Rorschachbert whipped off his mask and screamed “DO IT!” and Dr. Manhattanbert zapped him.

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✪ Beware the Gray Ghost ✪ @jongraywb.blacksky.app · 26/03/2024

Thinking about that time the My Little Pony comics, of all things, absolutely bodied Scott Adams.

Close up of Pinkie Pie looking at a newspaper comic saying “Hmpf. I thought these were supposed to be funny?”

The comic is called Ponybert by Trot Adams. It opens with a building and we see a word balloon that says “Well?” The second panel is of Ponybert, the Dilbert stand-in saying “No one is smart but me.”

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Tom Dennis @thomasadennis.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

As a former drinker who still puts away a pot of coffee every day, yeah, those are rookie numbers.

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Tom Dennis @thomasadennis.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Oh look, it’s someone else who used to do some good work 20 years ago being wrong.

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Tom Dennis @thomasadennis.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Unfortunately I think that so much of pop culture seems to depend on various types of ancillary fandom phenomena--fanfic, cosplaying, social media saturation, etc.--that someone creating a thing that seems completely sufficient in and of itself just confounds people.

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Tom Dennis @thomasadennis.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Some of them became DOs, which are real doctors who are somewhat into holistic medicine, and the rest went beyond the woo event horizon.

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Tom Dennis @thomasadennis.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

The amazing thing for me was that Abrams made TROS as basically the precise movie that the outrage grifters claimed to want, and it was horrible, but all that mattered to them was that they got their way. Just like Zack Snyder’s Justice League for DC.

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Tom Dennis @thomasadennis.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

“We’ve got a full tank of gas, half a pack of miracles, it’s dark, and we’re wearing vestments.” HIT IT

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Tom Dennis @thomasadennis.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Well, since AI depends on vacuuming up content created by real people…

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Tom Dennis @thomasadennis.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Am I correct in guessing that the likely subscribers are the same people who pay to be in these very ripped-from-Amazon-AI-slop things?

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Tom Dennis @thomasadennis.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

"And so I'm sitting there and I says, I says to him, 'Now I'm thinkin' about this scripture and I gotta tell ya, the whole business about "thy rod and thy staff," I mean, they're the same thing, basically, right?' And he's like, 'well, in a manner of speaking, sure. You can have two, see.'"

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Tom Dennis @thomasadennis.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Robinson is also in Cobra, an 80s Stallone film which may be worth watching just for the supporting cast (Brian Thompson, Brigitte Nielsen).

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Tom Dennis @thomasadennis.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

I think that a lot of that desire (and yeah, I had that too as a teen) is wanting/hoping that they’ll apply Dan Savage’s campfire rule.

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Tom Dennis @thomasadennis.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

I'm not a hipster trust-fund socialist, but I'm willing to learn. Is there a special school or something?

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Tom Dennis @thomasadennis.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

It's 1985. I'm thinking about just beaming Rorschach to a really good therapist, not like the one he saw in jail. It's 2015. I'm reviewing Rorschach's Reddit posting history. It's 1985. Never mind.

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Tom Dennis @thomasadennis.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Really wondering how large the set of "people with whom you'd be comfortable playing this with, but for some reason not just having real sex with" is.

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Tom Dennis @thomasadennis.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

The MCU got it right that Ant-Man would be ideal for this sort of thing. Cap, too, as long as he put on a more subdued suit--he probably did a bunch of cloak and dagger stuff in WWII. The rest, not so much. (Silverclaw, maybe, since she's a shapshifter, but also... very shiny?)

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Tom Dennis @thomasadennis.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

brb checking book of revelation (i do that a lot these days)

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Tom Dennis @thomasadennis.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

That’s what the last GOP governor of Illinois did.

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