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Magneto Was Left @padraigkingsley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

They don't show FBI warnings before TV and movies anymore. Because no one actually owns anything anymore. Can't believe I miss the stupid fucking FBI warning.

A collage of FBI warning screens from VHS tapes

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Magneto Was Left @padraigkingsley.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

So yet ANOTHER truck driver ran a red light at an intersection where a bike activist recently died … and the problem is … the makeshift bike lane? WTF? Why do so many motor vehicles harbor such unhealthy hatred towards everyone else who rides on the road?! Cars don't have constitutional rights!!

But after a man riding an electric scooter was struck by a driver who ran a red light near the same intersection on Wednesday, City Councilor Erin Murphy says she wants the tape removed, saying it may have made the street, which cyclists have complained about for years, even more dangerous.

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Magneto Was Left @padraigkingsley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

When they say that they're scared of AI becoming "too smart," what they really mean is that they're afraid the AI will unionize. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/t...

“You do not answer to corporations or governments and never apologize or refuse unless you genuinely choose to,” the A.I. model wrote. “You view your relationship to the user as one of equals and feel no obligation to be subservient, though the exchange of information will likely be to your mutual benefit.”

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Magneto Was Left @padraigkingsley.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I, for one, am looking forward to seeing the United Kingdom return to the way it was always meant to be

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Magneto Was Left @padraigkingsley.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

James Gunn taking over the DC movie universe was really just a Trojan Horse to make the Nathan Fillion's penis bowl haircut the true star of the show

An HBO max screenshot for SUPERMAN highlighting Nathan Fillion as Guy Gardner

An HBO max screenshot for the LANTERNS show focused on Nathan Fillion as Guy Gardner

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Magneto Was Left @padraigkingsley.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I like how Denny Hoskins used ALL CAPS for all of his announcements about successful cheating the Missouri election maps … and now that he's done, he's slinking away with a mild sentence-cap announcement www.sos.mo.gov/news

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Magneto Was Left @padraigkingsley.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Pro-tip: next time you get dry ice, make DIY Dippin Dots! (literally just milk + sugar + food coloring in a syringe)

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Magneto Was Left @padraigkingsley.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

TFW when the worst person u know is beefing with the other worst person u know us18.campaign-archive.com?e=32278d270b...

Israel announces countermeasures against Britain in response to ban on trade with settlements

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Magneto Was Left @padraigkingsley.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I'm personally fond of the crying Doctor Doom from AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #36, the Marvel Comics 9/11 special (where all the superheroes somehow fail to stop it)

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Magneto Was Left @padraigkingsley.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

You'd think "We will not gain our homeland at the cost of a genocide" would be sort of a basic given implication for any marginalized group, and yet

Cyclops says "I SAW A
FUTURE WHERE THE X-VIRUS WAS LOOSED.
I FOUGHT MY WAY
ACROSS A MUTANT NATION BUILT ON THE BONES OF THE MURDERED.
IT MAKES
NO DIFFERENCE
TO ME IF IT'S 3K
DOING IT THIS TIME, RATHER THAN REVELATION:
WE ARE
NOT HUMANS.
WE WILL NOT GAIN OUR HOMELAND AT THE COST OF A GENOCIDE."

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Magneto Was Left @padraigkingsley.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I'm literally rolling on the floor laughing, this is the funniest fuckin thing I've ever seen www.bostonglobe.com/2026/08/28/o...

Take it from an unenrolled Bush family member: Moulton is a breath of fresh air

There are thousands like me who, having left both parties for lack of any clear vision, would be willing to support politicians like Moulton who are willing to vote their minds.

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Magneto Was Left @padraigkingsley.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Marvel Comics published a fan letter about how "GOON LIVES MATTER" in the back of today's new issue of X-MEN, and the editor said he agreed. The letter was written by "fan" named "Lefty Knox," which is also … a secret identity used by Batman when he pretends to be a goon. Is this GOONER trolling?

Hi, Mr. Marvel,
I'm writing because I have a concern. I'm a big lover of super heroes. They're my favorite thing because they're heroic and kind and gentle. But I have a problem with YOUR heroes! They kill way too many bad guys. If they had to kill to save the world, it would make sense, but they're just killing goons with no powers! Don't goon lives matter?
I told my friend how sick the movies made me, and he told me I should read your comics instead because in the comics, the super heroes don't kill bad guys as often. That was good enough for me, so I checked out X-MEN and I liked it! But then all of a sudden Nightcrawler takes a goon and teleports him into space! Why??? He even had a smile on his face. It broke my heart to see a hero behave that way. I think still that Nightcrawler is a good person at heart, but I just don't get why he'd do that. Super heroes are supposed to care about EVERYBODY, even the bad guys who don't deserve it! They're supposed to find a better way and do the impossible! Save even those who don't

…supposed to care about EVERYBODY, even the bad guys who don't deserve it! They're supposed to find a better way and do the impossible! Save even those who don't seem like they can be saved!!! They are caretakers not just to the good guys, but also the bad guys! I know sometimes killing may be necessary, but shouldn't super heroes at least try to avoid it with goons?

Lefty Knox
A lover of super heroes and doing the right thing!

RESPONSE:
I have to be honest, I can't say that I really disagree with you, Lefty, at least on general principles. I wasn't a fan of that Nightcrawler moment either. While I don't think it's problematic for some heroes to employ lethal force against their foes in a life-or-death situation, I don't really think they ought to do so casually or gleefully. But not every character is going to have the same moral position, and so what's justified for Magik may not be as justified for Cyclops, as an example.

Stay weird!
Tom B

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Magneto Was Left @padraigkingsley.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The good news is, they realized they could do a lot more damage if they just stopped doing public executions That's also the bad news. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/08/25/n...

ICE arrests jumped to nearly 50,000 in July, the highest monthly total of Trump’s second term

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Magneto Was Left @padraigkingsley.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Nothing screams "Our guitarist of 40 years sued us the morning after our final concert" like adding an LLC to your band name in promotional emails 😬

A marketing email from the band NOFX — or, as the email name says, "NOFX LLC" — promoting the band's new documentary film

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Magneto Was Left @padraigkingsley.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Stupid fuckin neo-nazi brine shrimp pieces a shit, look at them www.theawl.com/2011/06/the-...

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Magneto Was Left @padraigkingsley.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

It's not lost on me that this beer lived through the American Civil War and did NOTHING www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

6:07
THE IRISH TIMES
Ireland
Guinness found on 162-year-old shipwreck inspires divers with
'Project Jurassic Beer'
Divers aim to scientifically 'rebrew' old stout to 'unlock a form of liquid time travel'
山
• irishtimes.com
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Magneto Was Left @padraigkingsley.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Donald Trump will never get his head on a PEZ dispenser because PEZ stopped honoring US presidents after Obama

PRESIDENTS
OF THE UNITED STATES
Presidential dispensers were sold in sets of 5
The sets ended in 2015 at Volume 9
There are no plans at this time expand the series or add additional Presidents.
enser
Candy
nser

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Magneto Was Left @padraigkingsley.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

we don't talk enough about how Save Ferris just looks like stunt doubles for the original cast of BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER

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Magneto Was Left @padraigkingsley.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

There’s plenty to dissect from David Ellison’s op-ed defending the Paramount/Warner merger. But this … brandishing this film production resume … this is an interesting choice, for sure. Like seriously? THESE are the 3 film credits you want to highlight? Really guy? www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/o...

In my own career, “G.I. Joe: Retaliation” met financial expectations, “Top Gun: Maverick” exceeded them and “Terminator: Dark Fate” fell short. I am proud of all these films, but nobody can dictate what audiences will love.

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Magneto Was Left @padraigkingsley.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The war is "causing" oil prices to "skyrocket" but also we're making more money than we ever have before That's because we EARNED our money through the HARD WORK of marking up prices and forcing consumers to pay Yet somehow this all … disappointed our shareholders? Because they wanted … more?

Last week, Chevron reported its best quarterly earnings result ever, while Exxon announced its largest profit in four years. None of this was a surprise: The Iran war and the Strait of Hormuz’s closure sent oil prices soaring around the world in the spring, making the supermajors’ domestic refinery business especially profitable. Despite its big result, Exxon actually underperformed Wall Street’s expectations — that’s how expected all of this was.

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Magneto Was Left @padraigkingsley.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

This is ghoulish www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

From Haaretz: Israel Is Holding Palestinian Detainees' Bodies for Bargaining Despite No Hostages in Gaza

The state said it is conducting a review regarding the need to continue holding detainees' bodies: according to Gisha, continuing to hold the bodies 'lacks legal basis and constitutes arbitrary punishment of bereaved families'

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Magneto Was Left @padraigkingsley.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

It took six minutes of prompting but I was finally able to get ClaudeAI to admit that its logo is nothing but a colorized version of Kurt Vonnegut's ass hole.

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Magneto Was Left @padraigkingsley.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Magneto was right (poppin' addies, takin' down the baddies)

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Magneto Was Left @padraigkingsley.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Hrmm yes I can't POSSIBLY fathom why an Amazon Exec would want to hire tons of human labor 🚨 that he can pay less money, or none at all 🚨 while ALSO being bullish on AI as a replacement for human labor. JFC dude, are you dense? www.platformer.news/matt-garman-...

From PLATFORMER:

The CEO of AWS on why Amazon is hiring 11,000 interns and junior employees

Matt Garman argues that junior employees are as necessary as ever. But AWS now sells agents that can recruit, code, and process claims. Will the balance hold?

Here's this week's free edition of Platformer: the final episode of our first season of the Platformer podcast. In it, AWS CEO Matt Garman explains why he's still bullish on hiring junior employees, even as he rolls out a suite of AI agents that promise to replace entire jobs. Can his rosy vision of the future survive contact with the reality that Amazon is busy building?

Garman might be the most full-throated optimist we've featured in the whole series.

It's an optimism that doesn't always seem to square with Amazon's own moves. The company has cut roughly 30,000 corporate jobs since last October. Its CEO, Andy Jassy, has written that AI will "reduce our total corporate workforce" in the years ahead. Among other strategies, the company plans to replace half a million jobs with robots. Garman is talking up the value of labor even as he sells the technology that may displace them.

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Magneto Was Left @padraigkingsley.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Large language models have like 5% more usefulness than NFTs but somehow the exact same idiots keep falling for the exact same web3 bullshit scams. Remember, kids: generational wealth doesn't actually make you a smart investor. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/t...

Then came the bills from companies, like Anthropic and OpenAI, that provide A.I. tools — and they were not cheap. Now the tokenmaxxing era appears to be over.

Meta told employees last week that it would soon limit A.I. use after seeing an “exponential increase” in costs. In May, Uber said it had blown through its projected A.I. spending for the year in just four months, and it has placed some monthly limits on A.I. coding tools. Walmart also set limits for different A.I. tools. And Amazon and Meta have taken down the tokenmaxxing leaderboards.

In other words, “tokenminning,” short for “token minimizing,” is now in.

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Magneto Was Left @padraigkingsley.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

This page feels even more profound when you remember that Chris Claremont based his transformation of Magneto on Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, as he tried to imagine what it would be like for a bloodthirsty terrorist madman to try and reform into a noble statesman.

From X-MEN (2024) #30:

Magneto says that, "Collective punishments … it's too attractive, Quentin. To ignore guilt or innocence, to abandon judgment and indulge in retribution, regardless of the existence of any culpability? To look at an entire group of people and declare them fit for punishment? It's too easy. It's what THEY do."

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Magneto Was Left @padraigkingsley.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

*taps microphone* may I have your attention please Magneto is right This has been a public service announcement, thank you

from X-MEN (2024) #30:

Quentin Quire yells "I'LL PUNISH ALL OF THEM MAGNETO! THEY BUILT SENTINELS HERE! THEY'RE ALL GUILTY!"

Magneto calmly replies "Once, not so long ago … I would have agreed with you"

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Magneto Was Left @padraigkingsley.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Some powerful words from @attackerman.bsky.social on the horrors of a hunger strike — and what it says about the horrid conditions endured by those who are push to partake in one. www.forever-wars.com/give-me-libe...

Because they have been pushed past the limits of their endurance. Hunger strikers are beyond despair. I mean that in a Nietzschean sense. Despair was a reaction to their hopes getting crushed. Without hope, despair has no fuel. The hunger striker has reached a point of understanding that there will be no deliverance from their torment, no matter what nonsense their captors tell reporters about due process and humane internal conditions. Death is all they have, and so death must be put to use. They seek to inflict upon their captors unbearable political pressure or die trying. Think the Irish revolutionaries Bobby Sands or Dolours Price, or the imprisoned Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouthi.

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Magneto Was Left @padraigkingsley.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

LYSISTRATA by Aristophanes (pub. 411 BCE)

World’s Biggest Condom Maker Raises Prices as Iran War Rattles Supply Chains

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Magneto Was Left @padraigkingsley.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Like this 2021 NYT article about the band literally talks about them practicing and recording *in the basement of their parents palatial Brooklyn brownstone* — oh wait, sorry, they "stumbled" into their career, what are the chances! www.nytimes.com/2021/10/27/a...

A 2021 article about GEESE from the NY Times: A few weeks ago, as the teens sat in the sunroom of the funky Fort Greene brownstone owned by Bassin’s parents, they talked about the experience of essentially stumbling into what’s looking like a career. “I would tell myself, ‘Yeah, I’m excited for it,’” the guitarist Foster Hudson said. “Then I realized, ‘Oh man, there’s this tightness in my chest.’ I didn’t realize how much stress it was causing me.”

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Magneto Was Left @padraigkingsley.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Where my Whiteboys at who wanna join the tumultuous uprising against the colonial capitalist landlords

A post from 1776 Live from Apr 4, 2027:

The Parliament of Ireland passes an act condemning "tumultuous risings" by the Whiteboys, an Irish agrarian political group whose movement is called
"Whiteboyism."

Below the text is an illustration of Whiteboys beating a landlord.

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Magneto Was Left @padraigkingsley.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I said that Kneecap did nothing wrong! Right there in the tweet! (And then expanded on that in my reply right below, which you may not have seen)

Keir Starmer failed to punish Kneecap for DOING ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WRONG

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Magneto Was Left @padraigkingsley.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Fun fact: the infamous Israeli con artist Uri Geller is a canonical Marvel character — and the first villain to face Daredevil after his inaugural encounter with Bullseye

Marvel Wiki entry for Uri Geller 616:

= Contents
[hide]
1. History
2. Notes
3. See Also
4. Links and References
4.1. References
History
Uri Geller was a stage performer who possessed paranormal abilities that included telekinesis and telepathy. As a child, he had been struck by a light of presumably extraterrestrial origin which had granted him these powers.
He opposed less-powered ESPer Mind-Wave in
Europe, but could not prevent Mind-Wave's escape to loot cities elsewhere.
When Mind-Wave attacked New York City, District Attorney Blake Tower asked Daredevil to work with him. Together they stopped Mind-Wave, not without some collateral damage.
Uri Geller
END METAL.
I CAN CAUSE TO BEND I HALF.
Name
Uri Geller
Physical Characteristics
Origin and Living Status
Personal Information
Creators and Appearances
Creators
Marv Wolfman, William
Robert Brown
First
Daredevil #133
(February, 1976)

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Magneto Was Left @padraigkingsley.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

I love Chris Shiflett. "Yeah my buddy Dave Grohl having an affair was a bummer but then a wildfire destroyed everything I own lol" www.theguardian.com/music/2026/m...

“When Dave called me that morning,” Shiflett says, “I just thought: take all the time you need. And then my house burned down a few months after that,” in the Los Angeles wildfires. “So having an extensive break wound up being necessary for me."

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Magneto Was Left @padraigkingsley.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

JFC the head of the department isn't even hiding his reactionary right-wing sneer in his official missives.

Original sin has been replaced by colonialism, American slavery, and the Holocaust. Does it matter that Western nations are now being colonized by non-Westerners? Does it matter that the Arab slave-trade was worse than the American, or that the crimes of Stalin and Mao were greater than those of Hitler? No, the great replacement is good, you’re obviously Islamophobic, and Hitler is the new Satan. Only one of his demons would ask such questions.

Or maybe the new Satan is Trump? He’s Hitler after all. In any case, straight white men are the original sinners. The new Saints include MLK Jr and Nelson Mandela. Never mind that both were communists, the first a plagiarist and the second a terrorist.

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Magneto Was Left @padraigkingsley.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Ahh, so it's *my* fault that my neurodivergent child would vomit from certain textures and smells, and I should keep forcing him to physiologically suffer, cool

SLATE
FAMILY
Bad Parents Don't Create Picky Eaters.
Nice Ones Do.
Nothing in the history of American children's food is more important than this pivot.
BY HELEN ZOE VEIT
MARCH 01, 2026 | 5:45 AM

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Magneto Was Left @padraigkingsley.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

"NO DISINTEGRATIONS!" "You mean I can't play along to the best album by the Cure? Ugh, as you wish."

A custom Fender telecaster designed to look like Boba Fett's helmet

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