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Graeme Burk @graemeburk.bsky.social · 3d

“Concentration of media” was pretty much invented by Doctor Who fandom.

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Matthew Dow Smith @matthewdowsmith.bsky.social · 5d

Chimpanzee lady making me cry at my desk on a Sunday morning was not on my to-do list, but here we are.

Thank you, Doctor Goodall. ❤️

KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 5d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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ladies and gentlemen, the weekend 😌 @craigweekends.bsky.social · 6d

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Felicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social · 7d

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

Article reads:
Woman named as Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first

The 63-year-old archbishop-designate is married to Eamonn Mullally, with whom she has two children. Originally from Woking in Surrey, she was the UK's chief nursing officer from 1999 to 2004.

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Graeme Burk @graemeburk.bsky.social · 14d

I didn’t buy The Anatomy Lesson but eventually my town got a comics shop and I got the Demon story and worked back… all because that “clearing the decks” issue no one regards as much was to my mind, a brilliant comic. I loved your breakdown of how it came together and how miraculous that was!

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Graeme Burk @graemeburk.bsky.social · 14d

I remember reading this on your blog nearly 20 years ago and loving it. For my 14th birthday my Aunt gave me a bunch of comics including this one. All I knew about Swamp Thing was the paperback reprint of Wein/Wrightson stories when the movie came out. But I was blown away by Loose Ends.

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Comics in the Spooky Age 🧛🧟‍♀️👻 @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 19d

Artist Marshall Rogers. #BatmanDay

Detective Comics #476 (1978). On the cover, Batman is standing over several dead bodies. Both he and the bodies have Joker smiles. "The Sign of the Joker."

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · Oct 3

And this is Batman's Aff His Nut by Robert Florence, which, in my opinion, is easily the greatest Scottish poem ever written about Batman...

Batman’s aff his nut
Have you seen the way he cuts aboot
Dressed up as a mad fuckin bat
Batterin guys
I was lit at:
“Mate, I’m worried aboot ye
I know your ma and da died
But everybody’s ma and da dies
And we’re no aw runnin aboot
Hookin muggers and
Kickin psychopaths in the baws.”
And that was when Batman went
“Aye, but do ye ever feel like it?
Do you ever look at the world and feel like it?
Like having a big mad base under your hoose?
Do you ever feel like drivin a big mad motor
that turns intae a tank?
And leatherin fuck oot of guys aw night?
Scarin the fuckin shite oot of them?”
And that’s when I was lit at:
“Aye. Fuck it. Ah dae.”
And that’s the Secret Origin of Robin
And everyone else.

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Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · 22d

This week’s comic now up on @dailykos.com
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CBS - Captured Broadcasting System
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www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Cartoon: Tom the Dancing Bug reports on a school shooter killing a conservative child pundit

Announcing the September 2025 Inner Hive Drive!� �Join Tom the Dancing Bug's Inner Hive, and you'll not only get weekly emails with pre-publication access to each week's comic and other content , ...

www.dailykos.com

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Graeme Burk @graemeburk.bsky.social · 21d

I think the only Downton I've ever seen were the other two films which I took my Dad to see (he's a fan). I just did it for my Dad. I have little recollection of it beyond admiring the costumes and Michele Dockery.

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Steven Schapansky 🇨🇦 @legopolis.bsky.social · 22d

The Warner Bros YouTube channel posted this today, so kudos to them: the entire one shot from All The President’s Men of Robert Redford on the phone investigating Dahlberg. Screws up the last line, stays in character and recovers. Brilliant. https://youtu.be/UmLNzZsEgA4?si=AY8-0wJOdBGsxN7T&t=196

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Graeme Burk @graemeburk.bsky.social · 23d

I have found it great when I give it a single sentence (no more than 2-3) and tell it to simplify it. I would never give it a whole document— it doesn’t have the memory or the sophistication and you have to correct even more. But individual sentences are perfect.

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Graeme Burk @graemeburk.bsky.social · 23d

@riverwardriley.bsky.social I've been biking to work downtown this summer. Today I took transit in.
- New bus routes are so infrequent it was faster to make a 30 minute walk to South Keys
- The line 1 and 2 trains are packed
- Bayview station had no escalators or elevators
Is there any help coming?

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 23d

Oof. Rolling Stone dot com about to find out how many people were mostly subscribing for Alan Sepinwall.

Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 23d

I know nothing about Rolling Stone and its management, but Alan Sepinwall is the smartest, hardest working TV critic working today. His work has elevated the medium. I don't watch a show without checking to see what he thought of it, before or after.

Ian Casselberry @iancass.bsky.social · 24d

Rolling Stone fired Alan Sepinwall, Status’ Oliver Darcy reports. That’s probably the end of my subscription.

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Graeme Burk @graemeburk.bsky.social · 24d

My thanks to so many of you on BlueSky who supported the Kickstarter for my new podcast The Comics Code. You’re all wonderful!

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 24d

Got fired from my job for saying that Samantha on Bewitched didn’t really wiggle her nose, she was just kind of twitching her mouth back and forth.

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Samira Ahmed @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social · 25d

Why @gkw.bsky.social and I are going Through The Square Window.
First ep of @squarewindowpod.bsky.social is coming on Wednesday! samiraahmed.blog/time-to-go-t...

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 25d

I like when you register for a website and then it takes you to a login page instead of just signing you in. That’s right, good point, I might not have wanted to log in right now. Maybe I signed up today so I could log in sometime, some other day.

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Scott Gray @scott1gray.bsky.social · Aug 6

Check out The Comics Code - A podcast by Graeme Burk on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/gra...

The Comics Code - A podcast

The Comics Code is a podcast unlocking the hidden history of the comics and popular culture, hosted by author and podcaster Graeme Burk

www.kickstarter.com

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 27d

*A white Christian nationalist is murdered by a white Christian nationalist who hates him because he does not go far enough with his white Christian nationalism*

The thing that caused this is liberal universities

The Free Press @thefp.com · 27d

Charlie Kirk was murdered while practicing the very act that gave birth to this nation—and the only thing that will ensure its survival.

Je Suis Charlie

Charlie Kirk was murdered while practicing the very act that gave birth to this nation—and the only thing that will ensure its survival.

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ladies and gentlemen, the weekend 😌 @craigweekends.bsky.social · 27d

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Graeme Burk @graemeburk.bsky.social · 27d

There’s a parallel universe where Men of a Certain Age won Emmys for Andre Braugher and Scott Bakula and everyone suddenly realized Ray Romano is a fantastic dramatic actor. And it lasted at least four seasons.

Kevin Smokler @weegee.bsky.social · 27d

Everyone has a 1-2 season TV show they sorely miss and not enough people knew about that you are always praising the heavens about.

What's yours?

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Ten Acre Books @tenacrebooks.bsky.social · 27d

We’re pleased to announce that Richard Marson’s long-awaited history of BBC Children’s TV will be published on November 17 in trade paperback and a collector’s hardback, limited to 300 copies.

Order Box of Delights: The Story of BBC Children’s Television now from tenacrefilms.bigcartel.com

Box of Delights: The Story of BBC Children's Television 1967-1997 cover design.

Box of Delights: The Story of BBC Children's Television 1967-1997 limited edition hardback cover design illustrated by Paul Cemmick.

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VampirElla Watts @gejwatts.bsky.social · 28d

So let's talk about why this sucks. I am so angry and so disappointed, but I also know that a lot of people might not understand why I and my queer friends are feeling this way. Read on for an explanation 🧵(1/14)

Screenshot of a Variety article by Todd Spangler with a headline that reads "Audible's Harry Potter Series Expands cast with Keira Knightley, Kit Harington, James McAvoy, Simon Pegg and More"

Kit Harington as Professor Lockhart; Keira Knightley as Professor Umbridge; Iwan Rheon as Professor Lupin; Ruth Wilson as Bellatrix Lestrange; Ambika Mod as Nymphadora Tonks; Leo Woodall as Bill Weasley; Simon Pegg as Arthur Weasley; James McAvoy as Mad-Eye Moody; Gemma Whelan as Professor Sprout; and Matt Berry as Sir Cadogan.

Cush Jumbo OBE as the narrator, Hugh Laurie as Albus Dumbledore, Matthew Macfadyen as Lord Voldemort, Riz Ahmed as Professor Snape, Michelle Gomez as Professor McGonagall, Mark Addy as Hagrid, Alex Hassell as Lucius Malfoy, Daniel Mays as Dobby, and Sara and Avni Deshmukh as The Patil Twins.

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Graeme Burk @graemeburk.bsky.social · 28d

Well, thanks again Phil.

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