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Prankster, Noted Vamgoo

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Maker of comics, stories and podcasts. http://phantasmictales.com . He/Him. Portfolio: http://adamprosser.ca Patreon: http://patreon.com/phantasmictales

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Prankster, Noted Vamgoo @prankster36.bsky.social · Oct 17

Hey there, I'm Adam P., a comic creator and podcaster. You can check out my work at www.phantasmictales.com and my Patreon, www.patreon.com/phantasmicta... . Works include Dash Platypus, Nightbeach, and New Junk City, plus my podcast What Mad Universe?!?: what-mad-universe.pinecast.co

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Stuart Webb @inflatabledalek.bsky.social · 9h

It's probably been lost to the sands of everyone deleting their twitter, but someone worked out @rhidaneelolivaw.bsky.social was in fact the first person to make the "Morbin time" joke (the famous tweet didn't rip it off, just parallel evolution), so please think of them in these difficult times.

The Legacy of Nerd @thelegacyofnerd.bsky.social · Mar 9

IT’S MORBIN TIME is now Canon in Marvel Comics

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Bilbo Yaga @bilboyaga.bsky.social · 15h

This reminds me of how David Lynch said he wanted to keep working but couldn’t because COVID posed too great a risk & people stopped being willing to mask up to protect others.

Ableism is an insidious evil in society & healthcare. It convinces us to abandon each other for profit & convenience.

Kristen Immoor @kristenimmoor.bsky.social · 15h

Enjoyed the New Yorker interview with Tim Curry, a free-wheeling conversation in which there were several sensitive questions about his paralyzing stroke. But oh my goodness, why was there no follow-up at all to this staggering answer? www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Screenshot of text from the interview:

You’ve always been an incredibly physical performer: your strut during “Sweet Transvestite” in “Rocky Horror,” or the way you run around unfurling the mystery at the end of “Clue.” Do you still feel that in your body? Does that live somewhere in you still?

I think it does, but it’s angry. My mobility is angry to get out. But it’s not happened yet. I do a certain amount of physical therapy. I did a whole bunch of it at Cedars-Sinai, and I got very close, I think, to walking. That was tantalizing. For insurance reasons, I had to withdraw. And I have a visiting physical therapist now, but I can only really do exercises from my bed, which is pretty pathetic. It’s not going to get me walking, I don’t believe.

[I have underlined the sentence "For insurance reasons, I had to withdraw."]

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Chris “Chance!” Brown @chancesecond.bsky.social · 14h

It’s absolutely worth getting because you get Mike Mignola not only drawing Gary Oldman but Keanu Reeves

Reuben Willmott @reubs.bsky.social · Oct 30

Four ads from the Previews catalogue for Topps adaptation of the Coppola Dracula movie

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Lynn Miclea @lynnmiclea.bsky.social · 19h

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Prankster, Noted Vamgoo @prankster36.bsky.social · 17h

The spectre of MY WIFE SNEAKING INTO MY BLUESKY ACCOUNT

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Maybe Bees Is Vampire @notthebees.bsky.social · 17h

there appears to be some sort of spectre haunting bluesky

Prankster, Noted Vamgoo @prankster36.bsky.social · 18h

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 2d

This is what I mean when I say, when it comes to political positions, most ppl just run on vibes. 100% feelings-before-facts. Japan is screaming towards a population crash at 1,000 MPH, it's not reversible at this point. But you have political parties agitating to return to hermit kingdom status.

Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 2d

Japan’s far right is on the rise, alarming foreign workers. Nowhere is that anxiety more apparent than in the city of Toyota, where immigrants power the economy while facing political backlash.

Japan Needs Foreign Workers. Its Far Right Is Turning Against Them

In the city of Toyota, immigrants help power the economy while facing political backlash.

bloom.bg

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Prankster, Noted Vamgoo @prankster36.bsky.social · 18h

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r o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 20h

It really sucks that snob gatekeepers framed classical as high brow music so now any time you talk about it, people assume you're trying to signal intellect

But the music itself isn't pretentious, thats cultural baggage. I just like it when sounds are arranged in a cool way, like any other genre

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K. A. “Kîck Åß” Pillë @keithpille.bsky.social · 20h

Valuable thread, both up and down

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 20h

After the Peloponnesian War - I promise this is relevant - Sparta installed an oligarchic puppet government, the Thirty Tyrants, in Athens.

What rapidly became clear was that Athenian democratic habits were so deeply rooted that tremendous violence would be necessary to remove them.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 22h

Pritzker should be held responsible for the police nominally under his control; that being said, this is going to be a problem for every politician you try to sell us on as a savior. Because everyone of them, and many of their supporters, refuses to actually confront what the police are doing.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

Troopers with batons aggressively shoving crowd back.

Just saw two demonstrators arrested.

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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 20h

I finally read that Peter Thiel essay about Alan Moore's WATCHMEN, and it's incredible that his actual argument is: "Moore argues that Ozymandias will fail because history defeats all world conquerers, and no victory is permanent. But maybe I, Peter Thiel, am built different?"

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Michel Lacombe @michellacombe.bsky.social · 21h

Julius Caesar conquered Gaul in 51 BC and died in 44 BC, therefore all of Asterix's adventures took place over the course of less than seven years, probably much less since Asterix's chieftain was at the battle of Alesia, were it is probable Asterix and Obelix's fathers died. In this essay, I will

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Lillian Hochwender (a.k.a. Lillie) @ligerlillie.bsky.social · 21h

Papa Smurf wears a Phrygian cap, most often associated with the French Revolution, indicating Smurf Village had a monarchy it has since overthrown. This makes Papa Smurf, de facto head of state post-revolution, akin to Robespierre. In this essay I will —

An image of Papa Smurf, a small blue man with a white beard. He’s wearing red trousers that lead into shoes and a red cap that slouches forward.

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Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 7d

In Count Dracula/Orlok is a literal dying aristocracy attacking the bourgeoisie replacing it with medieval plagues, in the process unraveling industrial civilization back to peasant superstition and ritual. Even those who survive are left in some sense infected.

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Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 7d

Coppola’s Dracula is the best adaptation of the text but I think Herzog’s Nosferatu perfects the subtext. So much 19th-c horror (Frankenstein, Jekyll/Hyde) is about fear of scientific acceleration but Dracula is the exact opposite, a fear that the supplanted Old World will literally bite back

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 1d

saw a new big article suggest "Neither is the Frog a satire of anything in particular... The Frog is meaningless." the newer variety of copycat unicorns, bears, etc are random absurdity riffing on it, but there's a relevant backstory for the specific main/original frog style, see quoted 🧵 if curious

inflatable costume frog with blue neck bandana standing at front of crowd facing military outfit ice agent people hiding their faces because they're cowards breaking numerous laws daily as part of a coordinated effort to treasonously overthrow democracy in the united states.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah I really need help with this . I’m gonna go hyperventilate into a bag but this has gone bad quickly

🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · Apr 10

Welp it’s gotten real real if you can please help. If you can’t it’s really hard out here so share

gofund.me/a5ee0064

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 1d

AI has lost the dunce vote. It’s over

Nate Silver
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I'm just one person, and my programming needs are somewhat unusual (building various kinds of statistical forecasting models). But I'm just not seeing the consistent productivity gains from LLMs that I would have expected if you'd asked me 6 months ago.

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 1d

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 2d

it's not FOR us

edited comic panel. Batman is breaking a lump-with-handle cow tool over his knee and saying "this is the tool of the cow. we do not understand it. we will not use it."

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Filbi (they/them) @filbi.bsky.social · 1d

At a friend's suggestion I contacted a campaign consultant to help me with my fundraiser, I'll be updating the GFM page in a couple days

In the meantime, thank you from the bottom of my heart to all who chipped in and spread the word, y'all mean the world to me

Filbi (they/them) @filbi.bsky.social · 3d

My GoFundMe is still open. PLEASE help me reach $5000 if you can. I'm desperate.

gofund.me/d7e2f64eb

Filbi (they/them) @filbi.bsky.social · 3d

I just got a call from my loan officer that because I had to spend my down payment on rent, I may no longer qualify for my mortgage loan

I need to come up with at least $5000 asap or my house search will be for nothing and my mom and I will be homeless in under 2 months

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Ring Ring Ha Ha She/They @bizmichael.bsky.social · 1d

Nobody has to like it but the best way to spell an average burp is DEBT

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Prankster, Noted Vamgoo @prankster36.bsky.social · 1d

I don't think Musk plays 4D chess but I don't think he had to be a genius to see that Twitter was a hotspot for the unruly poors and people who he couldn't control

Prankster, Noted Vamgoo @prankster36.bsky.social · 1d

I mean it was where everyone dunked on him. It was probably a big combination of things. But it was definitely a bit of a locus for leftist activism in a way that hasn't been completely recaptured online

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