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Harbonaut @harbonaut.co.uk · 1h

Awesome

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SUGAR @sugarcopperblue.bsky.social · 2h

Sugar is back! New music at sugarcopperblue.com PLUS May 2026 live shows in NYC and London. All the info is here!

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Ant Dan @antdan.bsky.social · 2h

I was thinking about keeping up with all the X-books post-Krakoa, but they decide to publish about 47 X-books per month and that just put me off the whole thing! Not sure this Age of Revelation is going to change minds.

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Ant Dan @antdan.bsky.social · 2h

I will keep reading the core X-MEN team books and events - I think X-Men’s appeal is the team dynamic, and you don’t get the same from the solo books, so I’m fine with that. Maybe stuff like Aaron’s Wolverine but I will have to be very selective.

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Ant Dan @antdan.bsky.social · 2h

Claremont is obvious, but what immediately followed is just as beloved - big events and a high pop culture profile - all maintained until the animated series ended roughly when OZT was done and Lobdell had left. That will be where I stop reading all the X-books and get more picky.

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Ant Dan @antdan.bsky.social · 2h

Been thinking about this for my own (very gradual) X-Men retrospective reading. At the very least - I would say the Core X-Men reading period - for all X-books - is 1975-1997. Claremont and the Post-Claremont animated series era. It’s all a bit pick-and-choose after that.

Ian @comicbookian.bsky.social · 1d

I think a lot about when long-running comics are basically "finished" even though they can run for decades afterward. They can be revived if someone comes along with a new twist, but the comic as conceived originally is over (I'd argue that Spider-Man ended decades ago).

X-Men ended with HoXPoX

X-Men Don't Need Britches 💙💛 @rphutch1975.bsky.social · 1d

What's an opinion about X-Men that'll get you sent to jail? Is Jean really interesting or really boring? Should Logan have stayed dead? Do you think a certain x-mens outfit is positively horrendous even though people seem to love it?

The Brood Saga is better than Dark Phoenix imo 🤷

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Matinee Mode @matineemode.bsky.social · 19h

Take a few minutes to appreciate Drew Struzan creating the original artwork for THE PHANTOM MENACE. Truly a master at work.

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Ant Dan @antdan.bsky.social · 17h

Caught PERFECT BLUE for the first time with the 4K re-release at my local indie. Nearly 30 years on and that film knew exactly where the Internet would go.

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Ant Dan @antdan.bsky.social · 22h

Farewell to a King. Drew Struzan is as iconic to Gen X kids as any band or film star. And it wasn't just movies - one of his earlier pieces was this classic from Black Sabbath:

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 22h

RIP Drew Struzan
A master.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

a foundational belief of the modern right is that there is no such thing as organic disagreement with their policies, it’s all directed from the top down

they just can’t conceive that ordinary people find them horrifying

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

I know it’s the most obvious thing in the world but it’s really sad that so many people have absolutely no desires or dreams in life except to accumulate money and our entire world is becoming a fucking pit because of it

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Ant Dan @antdan.bsky.social · 1d

May arrange a game of "Wikipedia History page" or "Sabaton lyrics"?

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 2d

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 2d

what did she call us | patreon.com/lubchansky

PANEL 1: MATTIE and one other person are handcuffed on a platform over a big cylindrical vat full of glowing liquid. Behind them, TWO ARMED TROOPERS stand. One is shouting, next to a big lever.
TROOPER: You have all been charged with sexual deviance under the new statutes!
TROOPER: You are hereby sentenced…

PANEL 2: Closer in on MATTIE and the person next to her.
TROOPER (VO): …To being dropped into a big vat of acid, thus dissolving your perverted bodies!
MATTIE: I sure did prefer life before we were overrun by fascist stormtroopers.

PANEL 3: The TROOPERS look at each other.
TROOPER 2: Sorry…What did she-he call us?
TROOPER 1: NOT Cool…

PANEL 4: The other TROOPER from panel 3. He's crying, and pulls the lever. Some acid splashes into the frame.
TROOPER: STOP BULLYING ME!
SFX: CLUNK
SFX: SPLASH

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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 1d

I’m sorry fuck the Elon Musk bit: that’s varnish.

Tommy had a bag with thirteen grand in fucking cash in it.

THIRTEEN GRAND.

Remove Tommy from the conversation & you have a convicted criminal in a silver Bentley crossing the channel with a big bag of cash.

Of course it’s fuckin suspicious

The activist had arrived alone at the Channel Tunnel in a silver Bentley belonging to a friend and was on his way to the Spanish resort of Benidorm with more than £13,000 in a small bag, the first day of the trial at Westminster magistrates court heard.
The money was said to have been from a collection to offset the expenses from organising a major rally of Robinson's supporters that took place the day before in Trafalgar Square. Robinson told police he was white English but was travelling on an Irish passport he had recently obtained and that he lived in Spain.

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Ant Dan @antdan.bsky.social · 1d

Yup - saw that. An extra filter and Frogger is laughing.

No Kings AND Halloween this month? Great for convenience and capitalism.

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Ant Dan @antdan.bsky.social · 2d

To quote the immortal bard:

What an absolutely mad c*nt.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 4d

Exclusive: Tech billionaire Peter Thiel warned that Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and critics of AI are “legionnaires of the Antichrist” in private lectures that connected government oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future.

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

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Ant Dan @antdan.bsky.social · 2d

Haven’t seen anyone make the observation yet that it’s a bit more tricky to arrest someone in an inflatable costume.

Plus - as well as safety issues, I believe there would be constitutional barriers for cops etc quickly deflating them in the US.

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Matthewせいじ @matthewseiji.com · Aug 14

It’s 2050 and a teen girl is torrenting a .tar.gz file of all the consciousnesses of all the tech bros who uploaded themselves into the cloud in a bid for immortality and modding them into The Sims 4

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Tammi, yeah, that one. 2.1 @tammi.bsky.social · 2d

I found a 19th century Cat Villain!

A huge chonk of a fluffy cat sitting on a table near an open fire. The cat is cream and grey and appears to be shaped like a barrel in a fur coat. They are scowling fiercely with their moustache and bewhiskered ears apparently flowing back into the cold wind. There's a definite vibe that this villainous cat twirls their moustache as they evict orphans into the aforementioned blizzard and think Scrooge was an easy-going lightweight. They are magnificent.

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In The Abyss Metal Podcast @intheabyssmetal.bsky.social · 2d

The arguments for sacking off live shows by established bands and sticking to small grass roots venues are accelerating. At some point - the public will collectively conclude that the costs for gigs of this size are no longer worth it.

The Night Train® @thenighttrain.co.uk · 2d

Sold 2 Radiohead tickets on the official resale process. Couldn't charge more than face-value (£214 each), which is great.

What's not great is AXS has charged a £321 "Sellers Connection Fee".

That's some absolute bullshit.

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Rory, new face who dis? @zealousagain.bsky.social · 2d

Magneto was right.

Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 2d

Bastion from X-Men 97, explaining why most people will happily go along with persecution and genocide: "Because when your skin's not in the game, apathy's your answer."

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ceej @ceej.online · 2d

caught my vampire neighbor creeping through my front door. he claims my saying “for sure dude, we should definitely hang out sometime” the other night counts as an invitation, but I disagree. we’re on hold with the etiquette hotline

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Blaise Ulysse Bernard Collins @wittywebhandle.bsky.social · 5d

I would like to just take a moment to invite you to enjoy Cake's 1996 mega-hit 'The Distance'.

It's likely that you know this song, perhaps even love it. But just take a moment to revel in the utter masterpiece that it is.

Surrender yourself to it.

You deserve it.

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