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Peter Clines

@peterclines.bsky.social

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NYT bestselling maker-upper of things. Still making things up. Still getting paid for it. No, it doesn't make sense to me, either. Former film guy. Toy enthusiast. he/him. Try to be a better person than you were yesterday.

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Peter Clines @peterclines.bsky.social · Aug 14

Guess it's time to update the pinned post.

I'm Peter Clines. I write books. Some of them are very popular. All of them are fun in a sci-fi-horror-speculative sort of way. The newest, GOD'S JUNK DRAWER, is out November 11th. I also post about other folks' books, movies, toys, and other stuff I enjoy

The cover for GOD'S JUNK DRAWER by Peter Clines, showing a dinosaur skeleton in a black void, along with a space suit helmet, a human skull, a bionic arm, and a stone-tipped spear.

The cover of THE BROKEN ROOM showing two massive red doors opening to reveal an old classroom chair. On the wall behind it, a small child sits in the chair

The cover for PARADOX BOUND showing an old fashioned car driving on a Mobius strip

The cover for TERMINUS, showing a stormy sea with an island in the distance, and massive tentacles reaching down out of the dark clouds

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Peter Clines @peterclines.bsky.social · 14m

Have you heard how Beatty keeps making short Dick Tracy movies every few years so he can keep the film rights?

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Peter Clines @peterclines.bsky.social · 24m

I wonder if he's been having unexpected moments of self-awareness in his illness and enough people have been telling him "No, no, keep it up, you're great. That's why you're getting the Nobel Peace Prize."

Be nice to think it's all crashing down on him.

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Socks the Macro Wolf Dad @socksthewolf.com · 9d

Windows 10 End of Life is in less than 2 weeks!
But you don't have to upgrade to Windows 11!!

This video will show you how to extend the life of Windows 10 by 3 more years via Extended Security Updates program safely, for free.

MS throws you to the wolves, but the wolves will throw you a bone.

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Peter Clines @peterclines.bsky.social · 4h

Who is this guy? I don't know. Don't want to know. BBTS had him marked down to a ridiculously low price and he looks cool. Maybe he'll fight Doctor Strange or Red Sonja or a Delta Red squad. Toys are great that way.

A boxed action figure for Power Rangers Dino Fury Void King. The box art shows a white and red figure with two swords

The Void King action figure out of the box, standing on a wooden table. He's slim, made of milky-white, pearlescent plastic with a red face and highlights. He has a ragged crown and skirt, maybe made of horns or small tentacles...?

Close on the Void King. He has a curling crown of red-tipped... spikes? Horns? Tentacles? His head is black, but his face is shades of red with a faint checkerboard pattern. His only features are two yellow eyes.

Peter Clines @peterclines.bsky.social · 5h

It turns out FedEx delivers on Sunday so I guess I've got an action figure or twenty to open.

Two*very* large boxes with Big Bad Toy Store logos sit on a wooden coffee table.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 7h

lol liars, every one. Chicago cops threatened to quit if Brandon Johnson was elected mayor. Police union leader LITERALLY threatened "blood in the streets," saying between 800 to 1,000 would walk.

Guess what never happened.

And even if they'd made good on that threat... OK??? BYE????

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 8h

It's hard to help Americans left behind because so much of US identity is rooted in individualism. The average American conservative holds all three positions at once:

— Virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing
— Against raising the minimum wage
— Buys foreign imports because they're cheap

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "I'm willing to pay more for quality products if they are made in America, by Americans, who are paid a decent income." The tweet shows Norman Rockwell's "Freedom of Speech" painting, which is often used to show the tweeter is expressing a brave opinion.

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "MINIMUM WAGE JOBS WERE NOT MEANT TO BE A CAREER. Why does no one understand this? Entry level jobs are STEPPING STONES to better jobs. No one wants to work towards that though."

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "Buy $5 gloves instead of $50 ones. Trust me." The tweet shows a box of "Gorilla Grip" gloves.

The label on Gorilla Grip gloves show they're made in China.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 8h

Ultimately, the death of US manufacturing is about this attitude. It's easy to say "buy american or stfu" because virtue signaling is free. But it's hard to actually sustain a business because many Americans simply don't want to pay what it costs to produce things ethically in this country

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 7h

I am very tired of this, but a quick review.

In America, it is legal for you to own your bullshit laser, no matter how it got into the county.

How you use your bullshit laser matters. Most jurisdictions escalate to felony for lighting up any law enforcement. Doing to them in the sky is ++Felony.

Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 8h

This is such an astoundingly bad idea that I kinda think it’s a false flag or an op of some sort

Merits aside, it is insanely easy to be caught if you do this and the punishment for doing this is much more severe than you’d guess.

(@faineg.bsky.social often writes on stuff like this)

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Peter Clines @peterclines.bsky.social · 10h

Ooooh. Supernaturals, yes?

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Margaret Cho @margaretcho.bsky.social · 12h

If Jan 6 was all Antifa then why did you pardon them?

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Peter Clines @peterclines.bsky.social · 1d

Hitchcock? Is he the guy who tried to reshoot Gus VanSant's PSYCHO in black and white?

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Peter Clines @peterclines.bsky.social · 1d

Written by John Paragon!

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darkdel @darkdel.bsky.social · 1d

One more day for Monsterpalooza in Burbank and then at 2:00 meet Oliver (Poltergeist) Robins signing at Emerald Knights. More details here. Sponsored by Dark Delicacies (www.darkdel.com)

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 1d

“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

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Peter Clines @peterclines.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, but Kevin Flynn was enough of a groovy/ hip/ futurist guy in the first movie that it's easy to believe thirty years later he'd be a practicing neo-hippy.

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Peter Clines @peterclines.bsky.social · 1d

"Sam, you are REALLY messing with my zen!!!"

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Peter Clines @peterclines.bsky.social · 1d

Also, heck, while we're watching and wishlisting, a Castor/ Zoos with his maniacal grin would be fantastic, too.

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Peter Clines @peterclines.bsky.social · 1d

Would've been doing more commentary but I've been making pizza.

Y'know, there's probably a dozen reasons why they couldn't, but Hasbro would sell many, many action figures if they made a two-pack of the DJs from the End of Line Club.

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Peter Clines @peterclines.bsky.social · 1d

Noted this before but I love that in 2010 Clu's assistant is a British-accented program named Jarvis. That Clu stole from... somewhere.

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Peter Clines @peterclines.bsky.social · 1d

Hah. Just now hit me that Rinzler has two identity discs and a double identity.

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Peter Clines @peterclines.bsky.social · 1d

There was a point in my life when I absolutely would've killed for Sam's riverside warehouse/garage apartment.

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Peter Clines @peterclines.bsky.social · 1d

HEY

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Peter Clines @peterclines.bsky.social · 1d

Okay, fine, now I'm watching TRON: Legacy

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