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TJ Horwath @tjhorwath.bsky.social · 14h
Taking a break at the Louvre to read the latest Swan Boy. As it deserves.
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Micolash, Ghost Host with the Most Ghosts @evilgenius815.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
[Footnote from Zampanò, explaining this is a reference to a song] [Footnote from Johnny, saying the song doesn't exist] [Footnote from the editors saying yes it does, see Appendix D]
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rare body oils @rarebodyoils.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
the skull is the perfect bone because he (my skull is a man) encages the slimy brain, which defies boneship by jiggling🪼 and thinking🤔, the two extant bone anathemata. the worst bone is leg. it insists upon a destination
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The deployment of National Guard troops into cities has been so normalized that it barely merits a mention in the press or among the public anymore. D.C. remains occupied, Memphis is occupied, so is New Orleans... It's incredible to me.
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I see some folks asking: what motivates RFK Jr to tell such horrific, dangerous, repulsive lies about the HPV vaccine? Well, he has made $856,559 from suing the HPV vaccine maker (his vaccine adviser, Dr Kulldorff, also got rich the same way) Always follow the 🤑! www.npr.org/sections/sho...
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RFK Jr. plans to keep a financial stake in lawsuits against the drugmaker Merck
RFK Jr. plans to keep collecting referral fees in lawsuits against the drug company Merck even if confirmed as HHS secretary, according to new filings with the Office of Government Ethics.
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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ballpoint pen, watercolor, colored pencil, a little crayon, and charcoal pencil. 

Our guy pulls up deep in the forest on his 2-speed bike. He’s flanked by tall dark trees and his path is blocked by a massive spider. He lets the Big Fella know it’s on. “Big Fella,” he says. “I fixed my 2-speed. You still wanna race.” Reader, you know Big Fella wants in on that action. Next slide.Against a starry night sky we see silhouettes of Big Fella and our man racing down a hill. It’s unclear in the drawing who will win but Big Fella is likely about to pull away.
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Hourly Twin Peaks @hourlytwinpeaks.bagpuss.org · 03/10/2026
[SCREECHES]
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The Missing Pieces July 16 2014
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Billy Jarrett @billyjarrettugh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Not usually one for these, but checking out this 35mm scan youtu.be/Lck33tjEJ-U?...
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Dawn Of The Dead (1978) 35mm Theatrical Cut
YouTube video by Sonicfan2.6
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Eric Janssen @ericjanssen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If you liked AGFA, there’s also “Trailer War” on Tubi. And one YT’er who routinely posts gloriously unrestored 1-2 hr. compilations of 60’s-70’s grindhouse trailers to choose from (late 60’s hippie dramas included): youtu.be/dPSRC4G0NIA (“GMRX? What’s GMRX?”)
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Grindhouse/Drive-In Movie Trailers 1960s-1970s (2026 Edition) Vol. 1
YouTube video by KeroroClaptrap's Second Channel
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Tend! @tendehka.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
i think it's safe to say that Swan Boy is solidly in its imperial phase
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Maybe It Will Happen Today @today-maybe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
An illustration done mostly with digital colored pencils. Ok, so we have a wooden coffin in the classic top-heavy hexagon shape. The coffin is propped up at an angle on nothing against a background of gray-blue paint splatters as a spooky sheet ghost rises out of it. Although it’s not a real sheet as it’s translucent and there’s nothing inside of it except a gape-mouthed green skull in the approximate head position within the sheet. The ghost is wearing a big. floppy, black witch’s hat and there’s a little brown bat hanging down from the wide brim. The ghost’s arms are extended holding a jack o’ lantern with a one-toothed frowny face carved into it. Popping out of the jack o’ lantern is a a black cat with green eyes balancing the cap of the pumpkin on his head. And on the stem of the pumpkin cap is a very serious-looking brown speckled owl. A series of spooky speech balloons is chained together around all this , each balloon containing one word and associating back tot he spooks and creatures named in the reverse order listed. The lettering in the balloons is red and drippy and reads ‘Maybe it will happen today’.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026
This was a emotionally challenging piece for me to write--angering, saddening, and tbh frightening--but I also think it's important There were so many opportunities to save Tierra Walker's life and it's so obvious why her pregnancy ended in death anyway ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
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Tierra Walker’s Death Was Preventable. The Conservative Legal Movement Made It Predictable
Republican politicians have made Texas doctors increasingly afraid to provide lifesaving abortion care.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 01/10/2026
He's not joking, this reads like a very dark episode of The Simpsons
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Mary (elephant) - Wikipedia
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Lily Mason @lilymasonphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
My new JOD piece arguing against the “cure polarization” approach to saving democracy.
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Nat Brehmer @natbrehmer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
There's nothing like being able to observe HALLOWEEN 4: THE RETURN OF MICHAEL MYERS in its natural habitat, AMC Fear Fest.
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Michael Myers Halloween 4
ALT: Michael Myers Halloween 4
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
AOC should run for President and convert this into the Office of Butlerian Jihad
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Ben Towle @benzilla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A while ago I got asked by a newspaper writer to comment on the weirdness of Steve Ditko's artwork. He used pretty much none of my response... but I posted it on my blog. Check it out, Ditko heads! #Ditko #Comics www.benzilla.com/?p=8080
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Why is Steve Ditko’s Art so Weird-Looking?
I recently received an inquiry from a writer at the Daily Telegraph, asking me a few questions about Steve Ditko’s art style for an article he was working on–presumably to coincide with…
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Bran 9 From Outer Space @bransonreese.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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First panel of today's Swan Boy. The Carrabba's endures.
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treekisser @treekisser.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Michigan nurse charged with helping immigrant flee ICE custody
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Michigan nurse charged with helping immigrant flee ICE custody
A Michigan nurse was charged with helping a Mexican national escape from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody at the hospital ​where she worked, court documents unsealed on Tuesday showed.
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Mad Scholar Frights @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social & other leaders need to understand that if anyone on the Democrat side even SUGGESTS we just "move on" from this evil era, they will be vilified as bought-and-sold quislings THEY MUST BE PUNISHED
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: Claude has a feature called Friend Mode. It helps you pretend like you're not a goddamn loser who needs AI to interact with the outside world.
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
wrote about why dinging Doja Cat for being too elitist for country music is pretty fucked up. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/there-are-...
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There Are A Lot of Reasons Not To Have Heard “Choosin’ Texas”
Country music’s racism is one.
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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
it is very cool to have the livelihood of every creative person on earth obliterated by people who don’t understand what art is for
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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The current huge story about the gang rape at Cornell University, a crime originally brushed off and covered up by the administration, is SOLELY the product of the student paper, the Cornell Daily Sun, which doggedly pursued the story. Not the NYT or CNN. An independent student paper. #Cornell
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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR | Cornell Won’t Listen, We Will
The Sun's Editor-in-Chief Sophia Dasser '28 calls on the Cornell community to share its reactions to the Chi Phi lawsuit and the University's response, on the record, for a permanent public archive.
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Keegan 🎃sinski @keeganosinski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Saw this Wendell Berry quote today: "The standard of the exploiter is efficiency; the standard of the nurturer is care." I can't wait to squawk "EFFICIENCY IS THE STANDARD OF THE EXPLOITER" in meetings any time someone uses the word
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Justin @roboplato.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A panel from the comic Swan Boy showing an anthropomorphic spawn in a suit with a long curving neck saying “it’s actually a flex when we do that. When we get more stupider”
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journeyman folklorist @aniceburrito.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
The psycho pedophile regime who kidnaps and kills us is polling unfavorably
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martha quicklime @humblebumbler.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
(at dark mcdonalds drive thru) Speaker: oough. have you come to release me from my waking dream me: nah sorry. can I get a repast of the forlorn S: nine souls today. round up for the penitent order of dolora? me: not today S: ok pull forward (a boulder appears and squishes me like a bug)
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Comics in the Spooky Age 🧛‍♂️🧟‍♀️🎃 @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Will Eisner's The Spirit from September 28, 1952. Art by Wally Wood & letters by Ben Oda.
The cover shows a rocket ship heading towards Earth, above the title "Return from the Moon." The Spirit's face, partially in shadow, is in the background.
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Sage Coffey🌿☕ @sagecoffey.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Mifepristone is still widely available but if you don't have access to it, safe medical abortion is possible with just Misoprostol! Excerpt from Abortion Pill Zine by myself, @isabellarotman.bsky.social & @marniegalloway.bsky.social on miso. Full zine here: www.silversprocket.net/2024/09/17/a...
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Gaijin "Jiangshi" Rando @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Images from films featuring visual effects by Phil Tippett - BOTD in 1951 Dragonslayer (1981) Return of the Jedi (1983) Starship Troopers (1997) Mad God (2021 - Tippett also directed)
Dragonslayer (1981)Return of the Jedi (1983)Starship Troopers (1997)Mad God (2021)
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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
When people say Bari Weiss will destroy CNN and make it a rightwing-friendly disinformation news network my main question is: how would you even be able to tell?
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Comics Covers @comicscovers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The Savage Sword of Conan 132 (3422)
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is the trailer that all the major platforms refuse to run as a paid ad:
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026
Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all
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Julia Is Waving, Not Drowning @booktweeting.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
what a normal world we live in, just a very very human way to exist
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The ɅɅeech @diedfrombeing.labeledrude.online · 25/09/2026
everybody says this but the only thing that's ever mattered to a vast swath of society is when policies start hurting them or the people they care about directly. bemoaning our lack of ethical backbone is a mug's game, take it to religious ed
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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
it really needs to be more openly discussed that all the people advocating for “we should be fine with losing basic skills if we get more systems thinking” are men, meaning socialized to expect to be able to offload basic tasks of daily living onto a wife as part of their compensation for existing
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Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I've got a tell tale heart situation going on but I just play drum and bass music really loud all the time so it's not really an issue
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
all these people sound like this:
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Micah @rincewind.run · 24/09/2026
"they're coming for birth control" is not alarmism, that is absolutely next on the agenda I have my doubts on how successful it'll be but they're going to make a real go of it
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I was just pointing out a couple of days on here that this is the LOWEST HANGING FRUIT of low hanging fruit for Democrats to promise if they take control of Congress. RAISE THE FEDERAL MINIMUM WAGE from $7.25. It has not risen since 2009. It's criminal.
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Chris Weston @westonfront.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Meta employees don't like their privacy being violated.
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Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This was the next logical step in GameDay’s journey down into the Nazi sewer but that doesn’t ease the sting defector.com/this-is-so-f...
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This Is So Fucking Embarrassing | Defector
I guess the addled corpus of Lee Corso was the only thing keeping ESPN’s college football arm from shedding every last trace of dignity. If you tuned into the four-letter network’s College GameDay pro...
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Comics Covers @comicscovers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Black Hood 1 (3395)
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ULTRA💀BLAST @ultrakillblast.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
FROM BEYOND (1986, Stuart Gordon)
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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Please know that this is one of my few legitimate areas of actual, high-level professional expertise: Kicking the healthiest people off of a health insurance program will bankrupt it. Not 'could;' not 'might,' not 'probably," but absolutely will, with mathematical certainty.
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