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Al Kennedy

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50% of the world's ninth longest running comic book podcast, House to Astonish. 100% of interview/book group podcast Desert Island Discworld. New Warriorologist. He/him.

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Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · Jul 8

So yes! I'm not spending my time on Twitter any more! You are all I really have left! So here is my creative output!

House to Astonish! It's the ninth longest running comics podcast in the world, a fact I find motivational and somehow also very funny! housetoastonish.com

Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · Jul 8

This is true. I quit Twitter this afternoon and basically nobody gives a shit, and that's the healthy way for people to be, quite frankly

dan @danabra.mov · Jul 7

the weird thing about being on the internet is nobody really notices when you disappear cause there’s always enough stuff to fill the timeline. i’m overstating it but it’s partially true. there’s nonzero count of people you forgot about because they stopped posting or deactivated

Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 8m

If anyone claims they've got a better bargain than this on a comic book today then I'm sorry but I simply do not believe them

Aaron Meyers @aaronmeyers.bsky.social · 12m

$0.20 Pick up

Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 9m

These are both such great shouts

Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 10m

#TheTwen2ie5 Day 8

Thomas Stenström and First Aid Kit - Hotel Amigo (2021)

INT: MY ROOM

ME: hummnumma dananoo ombadoma nanana HOTEL AMIGO FOREVERMORE

youtu.be/GFjfvzqDxJw

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Clayton Ashley @claytonashley.bsky.social · 4h

tumblr post by barackinaroundthechristmastree which reads:
please. stop praying for my grandpa!!!! you are making him too strong. he broke out of the hosptial and the cops cant get him. he's too powerful

Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 1h

My only concern with getting Brennan to phone bank is that there's an equal chance of converting anyone he speaks to into a voter as into a Second City trainee

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1h

TONIGHT (and especially for followers outside of NYC who want to get involved):

Join @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social on a special phonebank at 6pm!

Sign up: volunteer.zohranfornyc.com/phonebank-fo...

A graphic with a photo of Brennan Lee Mulligan that says "Phone Bank with Zohran, Wednesday, October 8th at 6pm."

Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 1h

I will buy you one (1) bar of chocolate but we need to do it at some point between now and when the shop closes in ten hours

Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 1h

Me trying to get my kid to choose what treat she wants in the newsagent on a Saturday

Comics Outta Context 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @comiccontext.bsky.social · 1h

In the foreground, we see Vandal Savage. His head is turned to the right so all we see is his hair as he speaks to someone in the background who’s costume is clearly visible, but his head and his right shoulder are still hidden and shadow. Savage says, “Superman! What do you WANT here?“

Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 1h

This is something I've been learning recently, what with my recently-gluten-intolerant missus

Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 1h

I had to go and check which lyric they'd screenshotted and, like, *that* was the one they went for? Out of the whole available MG canon? Blimey

Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 1h

You're right, low blood sugar, I'll go and get a Twix

Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 1h

The granular step by step menu selection system Nando's uses is their finest international export, though it caused some trouble for their first restaurant in France, when a complex Wallace and Gromit machine was constructed there due to confusion over what constitutes an "intricate poulet system"

Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 2h

babygotwayback dot com is a perfectly innocent site

Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 2h

I went to have a look at it on the wayback machine there but my phone won't let me because Tesco Mobile thinks wayback is a website full of girls with no drawers on etc

Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 2h

The realisation that it's been 25 years since we started Robot Fist and 20 years since we stopped would make my hair fall out if that ship hadn't long sailed

Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 2h

Sometimes I check, just idly, for old time's sake, and I'm always proud of how our baby is doing

Screengrab of a website called HugeDomains, which wants to sell me my old website's url back for two thousand nine hundred and ninety five dollars

Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 5h

Just found out that the judge presiding over Kilmar Abrego Garcia's case is called Waverly D Crenshaw Jr, and you know what America, sometimes you really know how to lean in to your best tendencies

Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 6h

It's absolutely the same guy!

Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 6h

Can you believe there is a contingent of people who think this Supernatural Season 7 villain is the future and a bunch of them post on here

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 23h

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 6h

For when you want to ensure downtown is wiped out

Garth Marenghi's Catbus @hayao.lol · 8h

the Godzilla toilet paper holder would fix me

Japanese magazine ad for a wall mounted toilet paper holder shaped like Godzilla

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 22h

I understand that they gave somebody 150 million to be the new boss of CBS. I just want to say, if these people are ever looking to do more novel things with their money, for 150 million dollars I will write an album every day for a year. I'll do it, too. try me

Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 9h

Seems an extreme reaction

Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 9h

Fantastic news!

Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 22h

#TheTwen2ie5 Day 7

Sweet Spirit - Behold (2020)

If I ever jump from a space elevator and burn up on re-entry, I will be listening to this with a beatific smile on my face

youtu.be/E4U-NYsbUlE

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Radio Times @radiotimes.bsky.social · 1d

Moonlighting, the beloved 1980s TV series that launched Bruce Willis's career, is available to stream in the UK for the first time ever.

Read more: www.radiotimes.com/tv/comedy/mo...

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 1d

Hey! Lots more fun here now.

Original versions of the title images from Cheers: UPDATED.

open.substack.com/pub/joelmorr...

Where nobody knows your name...

Tracing the anonymous faces at the start of Cheers.

open.substack.com