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Gregory Sickens, PBS Champion @gregorydickens.bsky.social · Nov 10

Did you enjoy the new Endurance documentary? Wonder what Shackleton's expedition would be like when combined in a graphic novel with Lovecraft's At The Mountains of Madness, Arthurian legend, and South Pacific mythology? Well I have great news ...
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1915. The Endurance is locked in the Antarctic ice. Ernest Shackleton must keep his men alive before he can lead them back to land. But they are...

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Gregory Sickens, PBS Champion @gregorydickens.bsky.social · 9m

Weird how he doesn't say he wants Argentina the way he wanted Greenland and Canada. Remember that? I know you do. I wonder if he does.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 12h

The Trump administration confirmed that the U.S. bailed out Argentina.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said he had directly bought Argentine pesos in global currency markets in a bid to relieve pressure on the nation’s embattled President Javier Milei, a supporter of President Trump.

The U.S. just bailed out Argentina, Treasury Secretary confirms

The US Treasury has finalized a $20 billion financial rescue of Argentina, including a currency swap arrangement with the country's central bank.

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Gregory Sickens, PBS Champion @gregorydickens.bsky.social · 3h

It made eggs! A laying mantis!

Gregory Sickens, PBS Champion @gregorydickens.bsky.social · 11h

The first Silvestri issue?

Gregory Sickens, PBS Champion @gregorydickens.bsky.social · 12h

We knew every dinosaur. We knew every Dr. Demento song. We memorized GI Joe bio cards.

Gregory Sickens, PBS Champion @gregorydickens.bsky.social · 12h

In the 1970s we were just "odd ducks."

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Gregory Sickens, PBS Champion @gregorydickens.bsky.social · 12h

This is a true chapter in my life, and I was hooked.

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Gregory Sickens, PBS Champion @gregorydickens.bsky.social · 12h

In 2017, the Oh Hello production called him Anziz Imsorry.

Vulture @vulture.com · 14h

Comedians like Aziz Ansari and Jessica Kirson need to look elsewhere for organizations to donate their Riyadh Comedy Festival money. Human Rights Watch said they ‘cannot accept’ donations from them.

Human Rights Watch Doesn’t Want Any Riyadh Comedy Festival Money

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Gregory Sickens, PBS Champion @gregorydickens.bsky.social · 13h

Discovering X-Men with issue 158 which started Carol Danvers sparring with the Starjammers and sneaking Storm and Xavier and Wolverine into the Pentagon to erase federal files on mutants and convincing you she was the leader of the team because she was so fucking awesome has been linked to autism.

Adam! @afarley308.bsky.social · 14h

Growing up in a loving household with 2 supportive parents has now been linked to autism

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Gregory Sickens, PBS Champion @gregorydickens.bsky.social · 15h

Good to see MAGA getting its ideas from In Living Color in 1992. Glad to see them being open-minded like that.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 20h

Turning Point USA announced it will host counterprogramming to the Super Bowl halftime show, called “The All American Halftime Show,” as MAGA critics have been enraged over the selection of Bad Bunny as the 2026 headliner.

MAGA rage over Bad Bunny at Super Bowl sparks an alternative show

Counterprogramming hosted by the group that Charlie Kirk founded spotlights the growing political polarization surrounding one of the biggest events of the year.

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Gregory Sickens, PBS Champion @gregorydickens.bsky.social · 22h

Will he finally introduce the Yeti he found atop Everest? And then we get a Last Cryptid Standing match with Luchasaurus?

AEW On TV @aewontv.bsky.social · 22h

How far is Darby Allin willing to go to make Jon Moxley say "I Quit?"

Find out LIVE, Saturday October 18th when #AEWWrestleDream is LIVE on HBO Max PPV

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Gregory Sickens, PBS Champion @gregorydickens.bsky.social · 22h

My David Warner toy collection requires this.

preternia @preternia.com · 23h

Hasbro Tron 3.75” scale Haslab.

Gregory Sickens, PBS Champion @gregorydickens.bsky.social · 23h

Better Be Good To Me by Tina GODDAMN Turner

weinberg @weinberg.social · 23h

aside from Don't Fear the Reaper, name a great rock song that features the cowbell.

Gregory Sickens, PBS Champion @gregorydickens.bsky.social · 1d

Jolt Cola and a manual typewriter for a 10-page research paper written in one night in 1988, and I got a B+.

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 1d

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
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It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

Gregory Sickens, PBS Champion @gregorydickens.bsky.social · 1d

Damn, Yankees.

Gregory Sickens, PBS Champion @gregorydickens.bsky.social · 1d

The Nobel Peace Prize goes back in the box.

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 1d

BREAKING: Israeli war planes continue to launch raids on Gaza City as Palestinians celebrate the ceasefire announcement, according to an Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent on the ground.

🔴 LIVE update: aje.io/xqppys

Gregory Sickens, PBS Champion @gregorydickens.bsky.social · 1d

I am a half-century old, and I am calling for consistent score box designs for each sport on every channel.

Gregory Sickens, PBS Champion @gregorydickens.bsky.social · 1d

When I say I have the best wife, I am telling you I have the best wife.

Gregory Sickens, PBS Champion @gregorydickens.bsky.social · 1d

I had this one! It freaked me out as a kid. It has a bummer of an ending.

Gregory Sickens, PBS Champion @gregorydickens.bsky.social · 1d

They are going to put Tylenol in your kids' Halloween candy.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Jonathan Choe to Trump: "Another group right now that is behind antifa and working with antifa very closely based on the research that we have right now that we're gonna give to you and your team are the Democratic Socialists of America."

Gregory Sickens, PBS Champion @gregorydickens.bsky.social · 1d

Federal agents claim the group is led by drag queen empress Auntie Fah, who looks like that tall video game lady and can sing along to [squints at notes] Range Against The Matching.

Gregory Sickens, PBS Champion @gregorydickens.bsky.social · 1d

I just saw an anime commercial for a drug.
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Gregory Sickens, PBS Champion @gregorydickens.bsky.social · 1d

Memories of this movie make me walk around the house like Major Margaret Houlihan when she had appendicitis.

RiffTrax @rifftrax.com · 1d

The Good, The Bad, and The Reflection of the Camera-man. www.rifftrax.com/guns-of-el-c...

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Gregory Sickens, PBS Champion @gregorydickens.bsky.social · 1d

This is college noir of an aging pro doing One Last Mission for his younger muse, and everything going to hell.

Ollie Connolly @ollieconnolly.bsky.social · 1d

Per sources: Bill Belichick has discussed buyout options with North Carolina’s hierarchy. Belichick has signaled a willingness to trigger his own $1 million buyout if he can find a soft landing with another team or in media

Gregory Sickens, PBS Champion @gregorydickens.bsky.social · 1d

We need an arena-sized event with stage pyro and fundraisers for her now while she's around to see it.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING

In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.

Gregory Sickens, PBS Champion @gregorydickens.bsky.social · 1d

If ICE was really rounding up gang members and murders and traffickers, we'd see mugshots and charges multiple times a day. They would crow about it. There would be an ICE channel on DirecTV. They don't. Because they ain't.