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Tiffany Babb 🔜 NYCC @explodingarrow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I am SO THRILLED to announce the AMAZING lineup of writers that will be featured in The Comics Courier Issue 5. This issue is gonna be 🔥 www.kickstarter.com/projects/tif...

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If you want "personalized music" made just for you pick up a fucking guitar. Or else break the heart of someone who already has.

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tynan @tynan.unimportantbird.com · 25/09/2026

I promise this is a better use of your money than all the other subscriptions you're currently paying for and not using

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Damn that’s crazy but you can’t be racist against the computer. Yeah. No I hear you but. Yeah it’s because it’s not a person it’s the computer.

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tynan @tynan.unimportantbird.com · 25/08/2026

i love the hit song that is definitely called "Texas Sun Khruangbin"

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The media relentlessly promotes the narrative that progressives are too mean to anti-vaxxers and we must bring them around with compassion. This isn't true and isn't helping. The more public sympathy you show them, the more empowered they are in their beliefs. www.statnews.com/2026/08/19/s...

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The fundraising texts you delete are working on someone. It’s infuriating and heartbreaking. An 85yo in Ohio gave more than double the value of his home. A 91yo in an Indianapolis senior facility gave 25K times. The DCCC/DSCC don’t just tolerate the spammers who exploit seniors. They take part.

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Hook and Squeeze

How Democratic consultants, committees, and party leaders built a fundraising spam pipeline that funnels money from a captive pool of elderly donors into their own operations.

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Today @tynan.unimportantbird.com reports from a protest against one of our nation's many concentration camps in McCook, Nebraska. "We just felt so helpless," Deborah told me. "How can we help these people? We don't know who they are. We see on the news that families are being separated..."

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Protesting a concentration camp in Nebraska

Estamos aquí por ustedes

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tynan @tynan.unimportantbird.com · 05/08/2026

I’m playing Shadow of the Colossus and feeling bad about it. I keeping saying “sorry buddy” out loud every time I kill a colossus

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 29/07/2026

Scientist falsifies hypothesis, film at 11

Fauci’s diary shows he thought Covid could be man-made. Now he’s telling Congress it was ‘molecularly impossible’

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tynan @tynan.unimportantbird.com · 29/07/2026

In the spirit of transparency, I want to share a statement about the role of AI in my writing process: I would rather cave in my face with a brick than use it

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tynan @tynan.unimportantbird.com · 27/07/2026

And basically that's the central problem with the review, it's not at all interested in where and how The Odyssey succeeds or fails as a film

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tynan @tynan.unimportantbird.com · 27/07/2026

I think that final sentence about Nolan getting "the general public reading again" is so revealing. Because, even if that's true, it feels like a very secondary consequence to Nolan's actual goal which is getting people back into movie theaters again

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tynan @tynan.unimportantbird.com · 27/07/2026

It's not a good review, but it's also not even a good rant! It pulls its punches in the final paragraph when it should be bringing down the hammer! Unforgivable

"Despite all this, the release of The Odyssey is still an event to celebrate. In what we are told is the streaming era, this epic is bringing audiences back to cinemas. In what we are told is a time of declining literacy and the ‘death of the humanities’, translations of The Odyssey, including mine, are flying off the shelves. Some of those who buy the book or show up in cinemas to watch Tom Holland may go on to study ancient Greek. Perhaps the film will persuade a few college administrators not to cut their literature, language and history departments. Nolan, who studied English at University College London – where students still study The Odyssey as a first year ‘foundational text’ – is doing his best to get the general public reading again, and I am grateful."

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tynan @tynan.unimportantbird.com · 27/07/2026

I say this as someone who has been way less hot on Nolan's film than a lot of people I know but: That review from Emily Wilson is genuinely awful. We're talking a step or two away from cinema sins level criticism here

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tynan @tynan.unimportantbird.com · 27/07/2026

thinking about how much time alfred must spend scraping guano off the batmobile

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tynan @tynan.unimportantbird.com · 23/07/2026

I really love this reading. I've been trying to work through a (somewhat related?) thesis in my head about the extent to which Spider-Man can be interpreted as a figure for comics (and specifically attempts to discipline and/control the medium) within the context of the Spiderverse films

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tynan @tynan.unimportantbird.com · 23/07/2026

I'm hesitant to declare that an individual text I'm predisposed to hate signals the downfall of civilization (cause that feels like right-wing nonsense most of the time) but Angry Birds 3 starring MrBeast sure seems like it could only be the product of a dying empire

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 21/07/2026

here’s my offer, The Atlantic magazine, I will read the next “reactionary pretends to give honest advice to Democrats” take if you let me write a piece where I, a DSA member, pretend to give honest advice to Republicans

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Mr. Shit Head the Little Worm Who Sucks got 15% less racist. I profiled him for the fifth time to see how cool he is now.

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tynan @tynan.unimportantbird.com · 20/07/2026

Fourteen year old me would've been thrilled but current me feels bone deep exhaustion

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tynan @tynan.unimportantbird.com · 20/07/2026

Solrad kindly let me ramble at length about truth and fiction in the context of Joe Sacco's latest book. give it a read!

I want to be careful here: The Once and Future Riot is not some nihilistic post-truth diatribe that declares reality unknowable or unimportant. Sacco still believes in the processes of journalism, as flawed as they are; he dedicates the book to “the hardworking rural journalists of India” and praises the work of multiple local reporters in the acknowledgements, including his guide Piyush. But Sacco doesn’t want you to forget that they — and he — are constantly being gaslit about the circumstances of the riot. The book puts its readers in the same uncomfortable position as the journalists: Like Sacco, you can never be completely sure who is telling the truth and whether it’s the whole truth. It’s an artistic strategy that forces readers to question whether the violent scenes that Sacco illustrates are, in fact, distortions of memory.

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tynan @tynan.unimportantbird.com · 19/07/2026

the odyssey was a genuine spectacle. but i was left wondering: if you took away Nolan's budget and IMAX and gave him a shitty camera, could he still make a good movie?

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A.A. Dowd @aadowd.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

THE ODYSSEY's instantly, predictably enormous success is Exhibit #32176 that the right wing's grievance-farming operation is not some great American cultural shift. Most people don't give a shit about their petty crusades.

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tynan @tynan.unimportantbird.com · 17/07/2026

driving three hours to see the odyssey in 70mm is simultaneously the most film bro coded thing I've ever done and also so mild compared to some of the travel itineraries I've heard about

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tynan @tynan.unimportantbird.com · 17/07/2026

the Aeneid produced by the Asylum

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Momo @heyheymomo.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Rise and grind

4 panel momo comic:

Panel 1: momo in bed. We see the sun has risen through the bedroom window. Text reads “I wake up”

Panel 2: momo behind his table. There’s a coffee pot and a pink cup of coffee on it. Text reads “pour myself a little coffee”

Panel 3: he’s in a chair behind the table with an opened laptop and a glass of water. It says “check my little emails”

Panel 4: we see he left his house. Door still a little bit open. Text: “ignore them a little bit” as momo gleefully goes to play outside rather than answering his work duties

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tynan @tynan.unimportantbird.com · 16/07/2026

The name "Margaux Blanchard" is all over the internet for being outed as a fraud last year! I remember the incident because my brain is cooked from following media news too closely but the entire first page of results from any search engine is full of warnings

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tynan @tynan.unimportantbird.com · 16/07/2026

Looks like Scalawag magazine got duped into publishing something from a pretty well-known AI scammer. I'm glad they quickly unpublished it. But the editors seemingly didn't do a single google search to check on this new contributor's credentials?

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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 13/07/2026

turns out the cure for male loneliness might be invasive species control

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James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Someone should write a story about a curséd device, lusted after as a transformative source of power, that renders its users unnaturally youthful long beyond their time

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 13/07/2026

The fact that J.K. Rowling successfully bullied Amnesty International into taking down a report that accurately called out her attack on trans people, especially trans women, is so repulsive and such a display of the power of her money, and her choice to put her vast fortune behind persecution.

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Amnesty removes report that called JK Rowling's centre 'anti-rights'

Amnesty International UK has removed a report which labelled JK Rowling's sexual abuse crisis centre Beira's Place as "anti-rights".

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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 12/07/2026

donate to Wikipedia also this is the funniest shit

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404 Media @404media.co · 11/07/2026

“It might feel like you’re ‘saving time and money,’ but you’re actually slowly turning your brand into something generic like all the other brands out there using AI tools.” www.404media.co/we-are-livin...

404media.co

We Are Living in a ‘ChatGPT Flyer Pandemic’

"Hey if this is your flyer, I’m not going, I’m not donating, I’m not sharing. Don’t ask me."

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tynan @tynan.unimportantbird.com · 10/07/2026

I don't care how often I see this, I'm still not going to buy the panopticon shades

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tynan @tynan.unimportantbird.com · 09/07/2026

No reason gay Jesus couldn't also be shredded. People forget that he rolled that boulder away from the entrance to his tomb all by himself

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

This is not remotely a “shocking breach of journalistic ethics.” She told him not to come to her house, he came anyway, let himself in and (allegedly) raped her. The texts don’t change the basic parameters of the story.

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tynan @tynan.unimportantbird.com · 09/07/2026

It's very funny that kids reading more manga is included as evidence here. Hard to think of a project that would require more sustained attention and effort than reading all of One Piece

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tynan @tynan.unimportantbird.com · 09/07/2026

The primary villain in The Atlantic's massive cover story on the "end of reading" is short form video and the internet, but the author didn't forget to make a little dig at comics (because of course)

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tynan @tynan.unimportantbird.com · 09/07/2026

Non-zero chance that Platner resurfaces six months from now on Joe Rogan as part of a right-wing pivot. It's basically a law of nature for these dudes

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Micah @rincewind.run · 09/07/2026

one side's voters care about sexual assault and one side's voters don't and while I understand that "impossible to say whether this is good or bad" is the standard for the paper of record I think it's clear which side has the moral high ground here

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tynan @tynan.unimportantbird.com · 09/07/2026

The actual breach of journalistic ethics here is Ryan Grim framing this as an important scoop. Jesus

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tynan @tynan.unimportantbird.com · 08/07/2026

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tynan @tynan.unimportantbird.com · 08/07/2026

say what you will about ants, those guys have the grindset

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

idk if it's possible to understate the amount of damage done by rfk jr and the forces he represents

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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Long past time for any left-of-center person still actively using twitter to admit that it melts your brain. Platner should erase any lingering doubt. Twitter Platner supporters (who ran the gamut of left-of-center ideologies) assured everyone they were the normal ones and it blew up horribly.

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