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Elephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social · 3h

Come on, where is a company like MARVEL supposed to find human artists who can do superheroes on a tight turnaround?

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 4h

Guess I’m not watching WonderMan.

nerd_talks_show 6h
Marvel employees were asked whether the 'WONDER MAN' poster for the in-universe movie was created using Al.
"Its artwork made by artists but touched up by Al," which was clarified with "so, really Al-assisted Photoshop work," and the response was "yes."
(via: searcher_gold | X)

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maura johnston @maura.bsky.social · 4h

turns out the answer to “are they malicious or just stupid” — a question often asked about big media boss types — is “yes, but sliiiightly more the former”

Blake Leyh @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social · 14h

If you think you know why US newspapers died, this feature documentary now streaming for free on PBS might surprise you. It wasn't the Internet. Newspapers were specifically targeted by vulture capitalists.

I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink

A handful of journalists rebel against a hedge fund that is gutting newspapers nationwide.

www.pbs.org

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Elephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social · 7h

80s dystopian comics explain the world today

WormDrivePRO @wormdrivepro.bsky.social · 8h

Marshal Law #6

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Elephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social · 10h

Shoot the Moon is a gem.

Albert Finney & Diane Keaton in Shoot the Moon.

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Elephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social · 10h

I’m so sorry.

Diane Keaton in dark hat and glasses, looking radiant.

Kid Rock in dark hat and glasses, looking derpy.

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Elephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social · 10h

Kid Rock stole Diane Keaton’s look.

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Elephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social · 10h

Golden Age Jesus overturned the tables of money changers in the temple & healed lepers.
Silver Age Jesus was deputized by the Romans and used space age technology to chase down his arch foe Barrabas.
Grim & Gritty Jesus died on the cross in a special issue with actual thorns embossed on the cover.

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 11h

once Jesus Christ is firmly established as a DC character we can at last start having some important power level conversations

Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 13h

Holy shit.

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Elephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social · 1d

Essential civic affairs text.

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Elephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social · 1d

tbh it’s more of a Kamandi tagline

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Elephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social · 1d

You couldn’t make The Wizard of Oz today.

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Elephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social · 1d

Me, in the fall of 2025: this solo Malkmus stuff is pretty good

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Elephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social · 1d

You might be asking, Nathaniel, how many gables can I get for one dollar? One gable? two gables? Friends, if you call in the next 90 minutes, I can put you in a house with six gables plus one amazing bonus gable. Thats right! A House of the Seven Gables for one low price!

Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 1d

Seven Gables for One Low, Low Price!

book cover: Built on a wizard's grave, centuries of secret sins curse-
THE
HOUSE of the
SEVEN GABLES
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
COMPLETE
AND
UNABRIDGED
WALMART
2 for $1

Cover art is lurid purple toned illustration of old house at dusk with broken tree trunk and gargoyle in foreground

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John Elizabeth Stintzi @jestintzi.bsky.social · 2d

My publisher put up a preview of BAD HOUSES for free online, so if you want to read an excerpt (the first story in the book!) you can check that out here: arsenalpulp.com/Books/B/Bad-...

Bad Houses

A boisterous collection of surreal, darkly humourous short stories that will delight fans of George Saunders and Kelly Link From John Elizabeth Stintzi, the mind that created the daringly bizarre nove...

arsenalpulp.com

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Henry Carnell @hencarnell.bsky.social · 2d

"What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid."

Willamette Week @wweek.com · 2d

Jack Dickinson, 26, says “we’re winning this.”

An Interview With the Portland Chicken

Rachel Saslow

www.wweek.com

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Elephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social · 2d

The Fabulist Thunderbirds

Elephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social · 2d

New show on the Paramount Plus Channel imagines an alternate history where the Fabulous Thunderbirds achieved Taylor Swift levels of cultural heft. Starring the Fabulous Thunderbirds as themselves.

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Elephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social · 2d

New show on the Paramount Plus Channel imagines an alternate history where the Fabulous Thunderbirds achieved Taylor Swift levels of cultural heft. Starring the Fabulous Thunderbirds as themselves.

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Elephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social · 2d

You have to admire that Scott Moe created a branch of law enforcement that, allegedly, you know.

Last Mountain Times @lmtimes.bsky.social · 2d

Saskatchewan highway patrol adds new officers -
Province invests in specialized weigh scale enforcement to increase safety and disrupt illegal activity.
https://www.lmtimes.ca/saskatchewan-highway-patrol-adds-new-officers/

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Elephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social · 2d

Reuse a teabag? Not with these pods!

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Elephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social · 2d

Finally a gimme!

#Versedle #663 1/6
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melaniewalsh.github.io/versedle/

VERSEDLE

Test your literary knowledge with Versedle!

melaniewalsh.github.io

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Elephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social · 2d

Sunsets treat me like dirt.

Sunset between condo towers from a train.

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Elephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social · 2d

#hotdogcode in between

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Elephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social · 2d

#hotdogcode on the nose

Discarded 7-Eleven hot dog box outside a 7-Eleven.

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Elephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social · 2d

Compared to a summer's day and the shining eye of heaven, thou can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate thine lovely, more temperate ways, writes William Shakespeare.

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