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Alex de Campi

@alexdecampi.bsky.social

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On your bookshelf: THE SCOTTISH BOY, SCRAPPER, PARASOCIAL, BAD KARMA, DRACULA MOTHERF**KER!. On your TV: BLADE RUNNER: BLACK LOTUS, SCAVENGERS REIGN. Film/TV: Sean Berard @ Untitled. Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/themagpie . She/her/Mother

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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · Sep 25

Hwæt! I write comic books, mostly at Image.

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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 2d

ooh, I could get back to listening to BBC News Radio

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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 2d

What if the little glowing box in my hands wasn’t a source of stress and took up less of my day, hmmm

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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 2d

Or just subscribe to a bunch of online media I like, but also I want… fewer emails

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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 2d

I like @defector.com and @404media.co too!

Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 2d

no? that’s a hell of an assumption, stranger, and says more about you than it does me

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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 2d

I do think that responding to me like I don’t know these things and am stupid for suggesting them is a dick move, btw

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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 2d

I was thinking like the New Scientist and things like that, but go off

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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 2d

A thought I keep having: what if I just log off all social media and subscribe to a few paper magazines and newspapers instead

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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 2d

Ah, it was Irn Bru, they just didn’t tell you

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Lindsay @alatriyana.bsky.social · 2d

I see *several* food banks and drives for military-related folks all the time. There are constant questions about how to get WIC and SNAP in spouse groups.

If we get to the 12th with no confirmation of military pay, it will not be good.

Patrick Hickey, MD @pwhickey.bsky.social · 2d

“Trump tells sailors not to ‘worry about’ paychecks as shutdown continues”

There isn’t a failsafe for military pay this time

1 in 3 “military families has less than $3,000 in savings,
[and]… nearly 1 in 4 service members has trouble putting food on the table.”

www.stripes.com/theaters/us/...

Trump tells sailors not to ‘worry about’ paychecks as shutdown continues

All troops will miss a paycheck if Congress does not agree on a deal to reopen the government before Oct. 15, the next pay date for the military.

www.stripes.com

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Jacob Oller @jacoboller.bsky.social · 3d

the words every girl wants to hear

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DAVE! (like "Them!" but Dave) @daveexmachina.bsky.social · 3d

normal person: i just want a place to hang out with my friends
tech weirdo: and shitheads
np: no just my friends
tw: but what about hearing alternative views on race and gender?
np: we just want to hang out and goof around
tw: so where do the shitheads fit in then
np: no shitheads
tw: not following

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Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 2d

As a bit of a scholar of glam metal myself I wrote about how Peacemaker season 1 brilliantly used the maligned genre in its soundtrack and I made a playlist of songs that people who enjoy James Gunn’s picks should like as well.

There’s No Wrong Time To Rock: A Peacemaker-Inspired Playlist - WWAC %

The Peacemaker TV show has helped introduce younger fans to the joys of hair metal. Here's a playlist to dive into the musical genre.

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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 2d

I remember screeching at you to watch Peacemaker because of ALL THE HAIR METAL

Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 2d

A papyrus illustration showing the ancient Egyptian gods Thoth (god of learning/wisdom) and Ammit (devourer of sinful hearts). Ammit is saying “Maybe it will happen today”

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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 2d

An undisclosed amount of time later…

Two panel cartoon featuring the Egyptian god Anubis. The first panel reads: Yo whaddup, it’s ya boi Anubis, back back at it again with another soul unboxing video.

In the next panel, Anubis weighs a tiny white man against an ostrich feather on a scale. The text reads: Now, as you can see, this one is a little heavier than a feather, which long time viewers will know is really bad. Haha.

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Pete “The Cabin in the” Woods @thatpetewoods.bsky.social · 2d

The U.S. edition of the book I did with Jodorowsky is getting its KS launch very soon.

I apologize in advance if I get obnoxious in sharing it.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/hum...

Coming soon: FROM CHILE TO THE EDGE OF IMAGINATION—JODOROWSKY & RODRÍGUEZ

Two comic book giants raised in Chile present their new graphic novels in a joint dual launch.

www.kickstarter.com

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 2d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 3d

oooh this looks PRETTY

Stephanie Williams @stephwilliams.bsky.social · 3d

Etta is off to the Meridian fellowship but something… isn’t quite right…

Check out the first look for ROOTS OF MADNESS #2 and tell your LCS to add it to your pull list by Mon., 10/6!

W: me
A & CVR B: Letizia Cadonici
C: Alessandro Santoro
L: Andworld Designs
CVR A: Juliet Nneka

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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 3d

If you are looking to start stretching more regularly, this is my absolute favorite source for stretching videos—clear sound/visual cues, no talking, and suitable for a wide range of bodies. This is the OG but she also has shorter and longer ones: youtu.be/g_tea8ZNk5A

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 3d

I'm also reminded of the "whistleblower" report about abuses at a Missouri gender clinic, the author of which is now just a full-time anti-transgender lobbyist, that fell apart the moment any reporter tried to verify it

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 3d

David Ellison’s note to staff on Paramount’s acquisition of the Free Press

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 4d

When I turned 30 I had not yet written my first published book or my first published novel and did not know (or know of) some of the most important people in my life. I didn't know how much my life could still change, and did, after the age of 30. There is so much your life still yet to live.

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 6d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 3d

I love that you and I had exactly the same keysmash reaction to this, haha

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Ben Applegate @benapplegate.com · 3d

I've met Blessing a few times outside Delaney Hall, where her husband, a home health worker, has been held for months. Her baby Princess is the sweetest—loves being held and grabbing stuff off my snack tray.

This is a VERIFIED call to help a family suffering under ICE terror. gofund.me/02fea4ec8

Donate to Open your heart for this family, organized by Bernard Rous

My name is Blessing Nickerson, and I am a US citizen. My husband is a very gentle, kind h… Bernard Rous needs your support for Open your heart for this family

gofund.me

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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 3d

!!!!!

Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 3d

Rebecca Sugar (Steven Universe) to direct a "Moomins" animated feature film.
variety.com/2025/film/ne...

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