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Al Kennedy
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50% of the world's ninth longest running comic book podcast, House to Astonish. 100% of interview/book group podcast Desert Island Discworld. New Warriorologist. He/him.
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Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · Jul 8
So yes! I'm not spending my time on Twitter any more! You are all I really have left! So here is my creative output!

House to Astonish! It's the ninth longest running comics podcast in the world, a fact I find motivational and somehow also very funny! housetoastonish.com
alkennedy.bsky.social Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · Jul 8
This is true. I quit Twitter this afternoon and basically nobody gives a shit, and that's the healthy way for people to be, quite frankly
danabra.mov dan @danabra.mov · Jul 7
the weird thing about being on the internet is nobody really notices when you disappear cause there’s always enough stuff to fill the timeline. i’m overstating it but it’s partially true. there’s nonzero count of people you forgot about because they stopped posting or deactivated
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kennylogins.bsky.social
[the hold steady voice]
baybayfriend.bsky.social BayBayFriend @baybayfriend.bsky.social · 10h
They’re getting rid of the Frank Sinatra music at the dancing fountain in Las Vegas. At the Bellagio casino. And they’re replacing it with Jelly Roll. They’re going to make the water red, white, and blue. And every night they’ll pick one kid to go into the fountain and wave. I’ll be there. Will you?
November 25, 2025 at 11:35 AM
alkennedy.bsky.social
People are laughing at this, but nobody is stopping to consider the real victim: poor old Officer Fozzy Bear But He's Playing Abraham Lincoln For A Skit
emptywheel.bsky.social emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 4h
The depositions from the batshit CBP and ICE officials in Chicago have been unsealed. Here's how Russ Hott denied actually knowing anything about one of the weirder claims they made: that a protestor had ripped someone's beard off.

legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
Q Thank you. You say that -- in your 3 declaration that "There was an incidence where 4 somebody was pulling the face mask and personally" 5 -- "and forcefully ripping off an officer's beard." 6 Do you see that? 7 A Yes. 8 Q What does that mean? 9 A Well, there was an officer that was 10 wearing a gas mask and a protestor had ripped the 11 gas mask off. This officer had a large beard. They 12 grabbed it and forcefully ripped the beard out of 13 his chin. 14 Q His beard was ripped off of his face? 15 A Yes, a good portion of it. 16 Q Okay. Did you take any pictures of it? 17 A I did not. 18 Q Did somebody else? 19 A I'm not aware. 20 Q How do you know that this happened? 21 A From the officer reporting it. 22 Q Okay. Who is he? A I don't recall the officer's name. 2 Q Was it somebody that you were familiar 3 with before you began work on Midway Blitz? 4 A No. 5 Q Do you know whether a report was written 6 about this incident? 7 A I don't know that. 8 Q Do you know whether or not the person who 9 allegedly ripped off an officer's beard was charged 10 with a crime? 11 A I don't know that specifically.
November 25, 2025 at 5:13 PM
alkennedy.bsky.social
What was it Steve Albini said? Some of your friends are probably already this screwed?
comicsbeat.bsky.social Comicsbeat @comicsbeat.bsky.social · 6h
The one about comic book page rates – again. News flash: Comic book page rates are STILL stagnant, after all these years, and for indie cartoonists it's even harder
The one about comic book page rates – again
News flash: Comic book page rates are STILL stagnant, after all these years, and for indie cartoonists it's even harder
www.comicsbeat.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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caraellison.bsky.social
Honoured to be part of the 2025 @bafta.org Breakthrough Programme and represent Scotland with some of the most talented people I’ve ever met

www.gamesindustry.biz/bafta-breakt...
BAFTA Breakthrough profile: Cara Ellison
"Your game's story or narrative, even if it's not a traditional narrative, is the thing that actually keeps people picking the controller back up"
www.gamesindustry.biz
November 25, 2025 at 4:03 PM
alkennedy.bsky.social
#TheTwen2ie5 Day 50

Chappell Roan - Red Wine Supernova (2023) - bonus 11 points

I think my favourite part of this is when we learn that her backing singers have been her roommates the whole time

youtu.be/VS6ixn2berk
November 25, 2025 at 8:38 AM
alkennedy.bsky.social
#TheTwen2ie5 Day 49

The Beths - Jump Rope Gazers (2020)

I love when you can pinpoint a band's country of origin from the singer's vowel sounds alone. This was the first Biths song I ever heard and I proper fell in love weth thim

youtu.be/lRMoE02hp_s
November 24, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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lewstringer.bsky.social
I thought I'd sold out of Combat Colin No.2 months ago but I'ver just found five unsold copies if anyone is interested. Limited stock! Grab one while you can.
ko-fi.com/s/281dedd997
COMBAT COLIN NO.2 Physical comic. - Lew Stringer's Ko-fi Shop
LAST FEW LEFT! Reprints the Combat Colin strips from TRANSFORMERS Nos.153 (Feb 1988) to No.225 (July 1989). This edition published in 2018. Limited ...
ko-fi.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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tomhumberstone.com
I Know The Way Out - the new poetry comic collection from me and @chrissywilliams.bsky.social - is OUT NOW and available to order online here: tomhumberstone.com/shop/i-know-...

Contains 3 poetry comics. 24 pages. Riso-printed in 4 inks (black, blue, aqua and fluo pink).
The cover of "I Know The Way Out". Riso-printed in four colours (black, blue, aqua, fluo pink). A starry nightsky with a silhouetted skyline of a forest. A mysterious/beautiful/sinister pink glow behind it. A page from "I Know the Way Out". Riso-printed in four colours (black, blue, aqua, and fluo pink). A page from "I Know the Way Out". Riso-printed in four colours (black, blue, aqua, and fluo pink). A page from "I Know the Way Out". Riso-printed in four colours (black, blue, aqua, and fluo pink).
November 24, 2025 at 6:42 PM
alkennedy.bsky.social
Dicking about on eBay and genuinely how huffy does this G1 Grotusque look to be missing his left wing
G1 Autobot Grotusque toy. His left wing is absent
November 24, 2025 at 12:25 AM
alkennedy.bsky.social
I'm really fascinated by this too. I'm guessing it's something like panto that dates to sometime around 1912 and was ironed on to the UK by, like, wars and that?
jameswallis.bsky.social James Wallis @jameswallis.bsky.social · 1d
A question for American friends. In the UK, an integral part of Christmas is the big tub of wrapped chocolates--not a box of chocolates, a tub (used to be a tin) with a variety of about eight different flavours of chocolates and caramels, individually wrapped. Do you have anything like that?
November 23, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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trekcore.com
NEW — A new fan-built #StarTrek website showcases hundreds of screen-used NEXT GENERATION and PICARD prop and costume treasures

blog.trekcore.com/2025/11/fan-...
New Fan-Owned STAR TREK Prop & Costume Archive Spotlights Screen-Used NEXT GENERATION and PICARD Treasures
A new fan-built STAR TREK website showcases hundreds of screen-used NEXT GENERATION and PICARD prop and costume treasures
blog.trekcore.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:17 PM
alkennedy.bsky.social
Just got done with @electrolemon.bsky.social's Demi Adejuyigbe is Going To Do One (1) Backflip and it's the best comedy hour I've seen all year. And I live in Edinburgh. And also did so during the Fringe. It's flipping great.

It's flipping great, do you see, flipping, like a flip
November 23, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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tomewing.bsky.social
Handshake meme - "Me doing a CAPTCHA" and "THE THIRD POLICEMAN by Flann O'Brien" uniting over "Is the guy riding the bicycle part of the bicycle?"
November 23, 2025 at 9:34 PM
alkennedy.bsky.social
Just saw a Pointless round where two of the teams were so bad that they had to fully scrap the question and give them a new one

It was identifying Ghostbusters actors from photos. They couldn't name Paul Rudd, Chris Hemsworth, James Acaster or Dan Aykroyd

They said Leslie Jones was Whoopi Goldberg
November 23, 2025 at 1:43 PM
alkennedy.bsky.social
#TheTwen2ie5 Day 48

The Last Dinner Party - The Feminine Urge (2024)

I always feel like TLDP are what you'd get if the Long Blondes Pokévolved. Take that how you will. The influences aren't hidden here but they're so well synthesised

youtu.be/s78dvZBb4DU
November 23, 2025 at 12:25 PM
alkennedy.bsky.social
#TheTwen2ie5 Day 47

Minimal Schlager - Forbidden Fruit (2022)

Whenever I hear this I want to go out an buy a jacket like the one Ryan Gosling has in Drive

youtu.be/g6KMu8ojNxE
November 22, 2025 at 10:29 PM
alkennedy.bsky.social
Let the woman have her pride
November 22, 2025 at 7:47 PM
alkennedy.bsky.social
If you go looking for revenge, first dig two graves. You might find some revenge in there. Squirrels bury them. Actually I think that might be acorns. If you go looking for acorns, first dig two graves
November 22, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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kvngxziz.bsky.social
This is a production.

10/10 😭😭😭

THE LEAVES 🍂 🤣🤣🤣🤣
November 21, 2025 at 4:28 PM
alkennedy.bsky.social
Watching Celebrity Masterchef with my kids and Antony Costa has fully metamorphosed into Guy From Your Kebab Shop Who Calls You Boss
November 22, 2025 at 6:21 PM
alkennedy.bsky.social
"I call this one the 'Adam Smith'"
alkennedy.bsky.social Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 3d
Hands where we can see them please Susan
Sue Storm stands very close to Namor with her hands behind her back. She says "No! No! You can't do this! You must hear him out! Why, he's not even trying to defend himself!" and Namor says "He's too angry to listen to reason! You'd best stay out of the way! I do not fear the Torch!"
November 22, 2025 at 12:58 PM
alkennedy.bsky.social
Hands where we can see them please Susan
Sue Storm stands very close to Namor with her hands behind her back. She says "No! No! You can't do this! You must hear him out! Why, he's not even trying to defend himself!" and Namor says "He's too angry to listen to reason! You'd best stay out of the way! I do not fear the Torch!"
November 22, 2025 at 12:51 PM
alkennedy.bsky.social
This photo that's doing the rounds is clearly AI, look at how many fingers the guy on the right has
A purported leaked photo from behind the scenes of Avengers Doomsday, possibly actually just an AI fabrication, with James Marsden, Rebecca Romijn, Channing Tatum, Ian McKellan, Teyona Parris and Alan Cumming. Cumming is dressed as Nightcrawler, and as such has three fingers on his visible hand
November 22, 2025 at 11:14 AM
alkennedy.bsky.social
Do you think Trump bonded with Mamdani over relative wife aloofness
November 22, 2025 at 11:08 AM
alkennedy.bsky.social
Just got done watching Superman again. I'm not an automatic defender of everything James Gunn does, but this remains exactly what I want from Superman, in movies, comics or anywhere else, and the last moment of the last scene is just perfect
November 22, 2025 at 12:07 AM