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Joshua Dysart @joshuadysart.bsky.social · 8h

Here we go!!!! Alright!

Vivian Moira Vampire @itsviviactually.bsky.social · 12h

No alt text, so: this is an announcement for Swamp Thing 1989 #1-4 by Rick Veitch, Michael Zulli, Vince Locke, Tom Mandrake, & Trish Mulvihill, under DC's Black Label imprint

They're finally printing the canceled story arc in which Swamp Thing goes back in time and meets Jesus

Chewbacca But A Wolf Man @jason1749.bsky.social · 14h

@mikester.bsky.social Just in case you didn't see this

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Joshua Dysart @joshuadysart.bsky.social · 8h

Make a movie better by adding John Carpenter's to the title:

John Carpenter's One Battle After Another

"I'm in a secure location somewhere between the stolen land of the Wabanaki and the stolen land of the Chumash." - Comrade Josh

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 1d

Losing my mind and what look like video game assets but instead were used to justify war crimes and genocide in the real world

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war.Our analysis of 43 official IDF videos found recycled 3D environments, spatial inaccuracies, and assets lifted from unrelated artists and institutions.We traced over 30 unique assets to Washington-based 3D creator Ian Hubert, who makes bespoke models created for his sci-fi project Dynamo Dream, available to his Patreon subscribers.

Models of parking lots, antennas, + pipes were repurposed as Hamas and Iranian military sites

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Fascinating work here tracing how the IDF recycled 3D assets from a cyberpunk sci-fi art project, the Scottish Maritime Museum and elsewhere to populate its widely-seen models of supposed enemy locations in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran. One of the most infamous, the alleged underground Hamas command center at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, used to justify an unprecedented assault on the biggest medical center in Gaza, was actually an animation the IDF had used the previous year, saying at the time it was a tunnel beneath a UN school.

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columbo out of touch thursday @ootcolumbo.bsky.social · 15h

it’s here

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Joshua Dysart @joshuadysart.bsky.social · 9h

I’m so glad I got to see Scott Glenn and Alberta Watson fake fuck Michael Mann style, despite having no idea why they were fucking in the first place. I will not look this gift horse in the mouth!

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Deniz Camp @denizcamp.bsky.social · 11h

Just announced!

𝗦𝗧𝗜𝗣𝗔𝗡 𝗠𝗢𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗡 @stipanmorian.bsky.social · 13h

BLEEDING HEARTS! @denizcamp.bsky.social on a typewriter, @matthollingsworth.com with a paint roller and me with chikin' leg voodoo pencils, almost like grabbing a live wire!

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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 13h

Censorship has fully arrived. In the latest, Apple banned an app that archived ICE abuses for legal evidence

Every single day, censorship gets stronger as media and corporations bend to serve the regime

Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses

Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

www.404media.co

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treekisser @treekisser.bsky.social · 18h

#NationalGuard

Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 19h

A former National Guardsman planned an American Caliphate on Discord and shipped more than 100 3D printed machine gun conversion kits to what he believed was Al Qaeda (it was the FBI) www.404media.co/national-gua...

National Guardsman Planned American Caliphate on Discord, Sent 3D Printed Guns to Al Qaeda, Feds Say

‘We don’t want democracy lol. We want caliphate.’ According to court records, an Oklahoma guardsman with a security clearance gave 3D printed firearms to an FBI agent posing as an Al Qaeda contact.

www.404media.co

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Mike Prow-Perstrong @mikeproper.bsky.social · 10d

2025's hottest club is UNBRIDLED COWARDICE

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Joshua Dysart @joshuadysart.bsky.social · 14h

okay, I'm all caught up. More added to the thread throughout the month as I watch. Happy horror month everyone!!!

Joshua Dysart @joshuadysart.bsky.social · 15h

You know what time it is? Time to start the ongoing...

OCTOBER 2025 WIERD/HORROR MOVIE LIST!!!!!

Every single horror movie I've been watching leading up to (and probably a few days after) Halloween!!

Let's go!!!

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Joshua Dysart @joshuadysart.bsky.social · 14h

I watched an excellent copy on YouTube with English subs.

Be warned... it does not care if you don't understand what's going on and it's deeply involved with the Jewish history of turn of the century Eastern Europe... but if you take joy from floating down a river of imagery... this is the jam!

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Joshua Dysart @joshuadysart.bsky.social · 14h

MadS (2024) Dir- David Moreau

A true single-take (no hidden cuts). The actors are game, the sound design solid, the direction often incredibly clever & the premise is fun. Considering the budget & the limitations they put on themselves, it more than hit the mark for me. Really ambitious stuff.

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Joshua Dysart @joshuadysart.bsky.social · 14h

Inland Empire (2006) Dir- David Lynch

The horror is the men women meet along the way. Lynch was living his best life when he was looking at breasts. Here an actress shows her breasts then does a dance to 1962s “The Loco-Motion”, & even still, Lynch lenses it as horror. Fucking legend.

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Joshua Dysart @joshuadysart.bsky.social · 14h

Weapons (2025) Dir- Zach Cregger

Didn't expect this to be a stealth fairy tale & I love me some fairy tale movies, so, that was pretty fun. It’s never scary & often superficial, don't let people try to tell you it's "about" anything, it's thematically shallow, but the last act is fucking funny.

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Joshua Dysart @joshuadysart.bsky.social · 14h

Don’t Look Now (1973) Dir- Nicolas Roeg

Death is a place that awaits us all & the River Styx flows through all waters, from English ponds that easily take a child’s life, to the ancient Venetian canals swallowing the city itself. Second sight; psychics; serial killers; occultist; ghosts... dreams.

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Joshua Dysart @joshuadysart.bsky.social · 14h

I mean, I don't hate slasher horror. But I hear you.

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Joshua Dysart @joshuadysart.bsky.social · 14h

The Hourglass Sanatorium (1973)
"Sanatorium pod Klepsydrą" Dir- Wojciech Jerzy Has

The best movie Terry Gilliam ever saw. The purest of cinematic dream-logic vectors. Incredibly mesmerizing from frame one. Just one extraordinary image after another. Impossible to follow and awesome. (Not horror)

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Joshua Dysart @joshuadysart.bsky.social · 14h

I don't know if it's my favorite, but it's certainly the most Mann film ever made.

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Joshua Dysart @joshuadysart.bsky.social · 15h

The Keep (1983) Dir- Michael Mann

Epic Prog Synth Opera movie done a disservice by viewers who expect cohesion from their entertainment. This is a glowing, mesmerizing, ambient talisman of a flick. Absolutely legendary, and a must see if you believe that the divine can exist in the nonsensical.

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Joshua Dysart @joshuadysart.bsky.social · 15h

Vampire’s Kiss (1988) Dir- Robert Bierman

A narcissistic yuppie needs to be subbed so hard he invents an imaginary Dom. Outstanding. Peak Cage. One of the Comedy horror high water marks of the 1980s, mostly because it has real cruelty and authentic pathological darkness to it. (Poor Alva!)

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Joshua Dysart @joshuadysart.bsky.social · 15h

Horror Express (1972) "Pánico en el Transiberiano"
Dir- Eugenio Martín

An American producer & Italian studio tapped a Spanish director to make an English horror film based on WHO GOES THERE (also the source material for THE THING) meant to compete with Hammer. The result is a crazy-ass concoction

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Joshua Dysart @joshuadysart.bsky.social · 15h

The Shrouds (2024) Dir- David Cronenberg

Paranoiac oneiric freudian cold-gaze noir from our elder pervy sci-fi king. Transposes Dead Internet Theory onto meat space. The AI-imaged dead & buried are a network of surveillance bots. Our grief engagement is riddled w/disinfo. Not even our decay is real

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Joshua Dysart @joshuadysart.bsky.social · 15h

You know what time it is? Time to start the ongoing...

OCTOBER 2025 WIERD/HORROR MOVIE LIST!!!!!

Every single horror movie I've been watching leading up to (and probably a few days after) Halloween!!

Let's go!!!

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Nate Powell @natepowell.bsky.social · 15h

New batch of commissioned illustrations ready to send out!

I have 3 more to finish in this round, and have had a total blast doing these— I’ll open up more commissions early next year. Special thanks to the people requesting X-Men characters.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 1d

Two big GOP activists from Oregon were in DC last month for meetings with Trump admin officials. On their podcast they talk about a plan they discussed to nullify the results of Oregon's 2026 federal elections. Pass federal voter ID law, then refuse to seat OR delegation because OR didn't comply.

Ep. 18: September to Remember
October 6 • S1 E18 • 44 min
Also, we proposed a idea how to do a end run on vote by mail. Concept is based on what Trump proposed. When you vote, you check everyone's citizenship as well as voter ID.
In a vote by mail state, you might be able to check citizenship during voter registration. You can send copies of your passport and your birth certificate in.
How in the world are you going to check our voters?
Voter ID, right? Vote by mail. So that creates a problem for Oregon.
But if federal government new requirement is to check both, and if Oregon can comply with the requirements, what would happen to our election result? I'm talking about the entire federal delegation.
For federal elections, we're talking about only federal elections.
COMMON SENSE
Vascluar

Ep. 18: September to Remember
October 6 • S1 E18 • 44 min
So entire federal delegation, congressmen and senators could be challenged, could be unseated because you didn't follow federal requirements to elect them. So I said the trade-off is worth it. You know why?
Democrats control two Senate seats out of six congressional seats. We only control one. They control five.
You talk about trade-off, right?
COMMON SENSE
Sanctuany

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