Herb Swinford
@herbswinford.bsky.social
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Herb Swinford
@herbswinford.bsky.social
· Nov 14
From first to last
The peak is never passed
Something always fires the light
That gets in your eyes
One moment's high
And glory rolls on by
Like a streak of lightning
That flashes and fades
In the summer sky...
Rush - "Marathon"
The peak is never passed
Something always fires the light
That gets in your eyes
One moment's high
And glory rolls on by
Like a streak of lightning
That flashes and fades
In the summer sky...
Rush - "Marathon"
Stephen Miller is fucking crazy. I mean it, not hyperbole. An entire lifetime filled with hatred and cruelty has broken his mind. In a sane world he would be institutionalized. The caretakers would need to be aware he might bite them if they look even a little non-white. Let's hope we survive him.
December 18, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Stephen Miller is fucking crazy. I mean it, not hyperbole. An entire lifetime filled with hatred and cruelty has broken his mind. In a sane world he would be institutionalized. The caretakers would need to be aware he might bite them if they look even a little non-white. Let's hope we survive him.
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Love your family this holiday, no matter how messy they might be. Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas. ❤️
Art: Jason Badower
Art: Jason Badower
December 17, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Love your family this holiday, no matter how messy they might be. Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas. ❤️
Art: Jason Badower
Art: Jason Badower
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JUST HOOK IT TO MY VEINS!!!!!!!
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December 17, 2025 at 5:53 PM
JUST HOOK IT TO MY VEINS!!!!!!!
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The holidays are chaotic… but there’s nothing like getting the family together. #Supergirl
🎨 Jason Badower
🎨 Jason Badower
December 17, 2025 at 6:21 PM
The holidays are chaotic… but there’s nothing like getting the family together. #Supergirl
🎨 Jason Badower
🎨 Jason Badower
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My sense is that the “male loneliness crisis” is not really about addressing men’s emotional needs but rather the relatively newfound absence of having someone to perform domestic labor for you quietly in the background now that there is a longer gap between your mother and your wife doing it
December 17, 2025 at 3:48 PM
My sense is that the “male loneliness crisis” is not really about addressing men’s emotional needs but rather the relatively newfound absence of having someone to perform domestic labor for you quietly in the background now that there is a longer gap between your mother and your wife doing it
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delighted to see my article on TV's Angel and its weird, weird, weird relationship with sex on this list!
Okay yes we love books at Reactor but we ALSO love movies, TV, and witches. Here are some of our favorite nonfiction articles from 2025, featuring David Lynch, folk horror, Kpop Demon Hunters, and Master & Commander:
Some of Reactor’s Best Articles About TV, Movies, and Pop Culture in 2025 - Reactor
We're looking back at some of our favorite non-fiction articles from the past year, highlighting essays focused on visual media.
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December 17, 2025 at 3:21 PM
delighted to see my article on TV's Angel and its weird, weird, weird relationship with sex on this list!
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The trailer for Melania’s movie is out.
December 17, 2025 at 12:40 PM
The trailer for Melania’s movie is out.
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My outfit for the day it happens.
December 17, 2025 at 1:41 AM
My outfit for the day it happens.
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We are parents of a trans kid and our family takes this very, very personally. If you intentionally make life harder for our beloved daughter, it’s EXTREMELY hard to think of you as an ally, to say the least. @amyklobuchar.com - you still send us requests for money, while hurting our kid. Disgusted.
Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->
By a vote of 76-23, S 1071 passes the motion to proceed to the motion to concur. Won't know who voted for this until the roll call is uploaded, but safe to say it passed with the support of at least 24 members of the Democratic caucus. (Rand Paul probably voted nay and Steve Daines has been absent).
December 16, 2025 at 2:33 PM
We are parents of a trans kid and our family takes this very, very personally. If you intentionally make life harder for our beloved daughter, it’s EXTREMELY hard to think of you as an ally, to say the least. @amyklobuchar.com - you still send us requests for money, while hurting our kid. Disgusted.
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Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
December 16, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
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i expected giamatti to be like oh sure i watched TOS as a kid with my dad, fun show. nope! he's a fucking real one, DS9 is his favorite series, sisko his favorite captain, and he shouts out admiration for colm meaney's performance specifically. One Of Us
www.ign.com/articles/pau...
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Paul Giamatti, Star Trek’s Latest Villain, Just Proved His Trek Fandom to Us - IGN
Paul Giamatti, who plays Star Trek’s latest villain Nus Braka on the upcoming Starfleet Academy, just proved his Trek fandom to us.
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December 15, 2025 at 4:24 PM
i expected giamatti to be like oh sure i watched TOS as a kid with my dad, fun show. nope! he's a fucking real one, DS9 is his favorite series, sisko his favorite captain, and he shouts out admiration for colm meaney's performance specifically. One Of Us
www.ign.com/articles/pau...
www.ign.com/articles/pau...
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Superman punching out Thor while referencing Rob Reiner’s directorial debut,, “This Is Spinal Tap”, with art by the late George Perez and writing by @kurtbusiek.bsky.social.
Comics don’t get more perfect than this.
#RIPRobReiner
Comics don’t get more perfect than this.
#RIPRobReiner
December 15, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Superman punching out Thor while referencing Rob Reiner’s directorial debut,, “This Is Spinal Tap”, with art by the late George Perez and writing by @kurtbusiek.bsky.social.
Comics don’t get more perfect than this.
#RIPRobReiner
Comics don’t get more perfect than this.
#RIPRobReiner
Dammit, Dust Bunny isn't playing anywhere near me
December 15, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Dammit, Dust Bunny isn't playing anywhere near me
I had to go outside after dark last night for a few errands that came up late in the day and absolutely had to get done, and I discovered that Roland Emmerich's The Day After Tomorrow is a documentary
December 15, 2025 at 7:59 PM
I had to go outside after dark last night for a few errands that came up late in the day and absolutely had to get done, and I discovered that Roland Emmerich's The Day After Tomorrow is a documentary
The Knives Out films have produced a very specific reaction in me; the first viewing where I'm very happy I get to watch Benoit Blanc again, and the immediate second viewing entitled "how the hell did I miss that clue, I was looking right at it, I'm very stupid"
December 15, 2025 at 7:54 PM
The Knives Out films have produced a very specific reaction in me; the first viewing where I'm very happy I get to watch Benoit Blanc again, and the immediate second viewing entitled "how the hell did I miss that clue, I was looking right at it, I'm very stupid"
Every movie that Guillermo del Toro didn't get to make is a movie I desperately want to see, with At the Mountains of Madness and Justice League Dark being the ones I think would have been masterpieces. gizmodo.com/guillermo-de...
Guillermo del Toro Reveals Ideas for His 'Justice League Dark' Film
The horror filmmaker sure knew what he wanted to do with 'Justice League Dark,' and still loves what he wrote for the would-be movie.
gizmodo.com
December 15, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Every movie that Guillermo del Toro didn't get to make is a movie I desperately want to see, with At the Mountains of Madness and Justice League Dark being the ones I think would have been masterpieces. gizmodo.com/guillermo-de...
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@kradec.bsky.social concludes the 2025 run of the Babylon 5 Rewatch with one of the best episodes in the series. It's time to talk about "No Surrender, No Retreat":
Babylon 5 Rewatch: “No Surrender, No Retreat” - Reactor
Sheridan once again mobilizes for war...
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December 15, 2025 at 6:05 PM
@kradec.bsky.social concludes the 2025 run of the Babylon 5 Rewatch with one of the best episodes in the series. It's time to talk about "No Surrender, No Retreat":
The trailers in front of Avatar: Fire and Ash have been speculated to be four different Avengers: Doomsday trailers; Supergirl; Nolan's The Odyssey; and now possibly Spielberg's new UFO movie. If this is true, FFS see Avatar: Fire and Ash in the theater. gizmodo.com/the-next-ste...
The Next Steven Spielberg Movie Has a Poster to Disclose
Time to get excited as Amblin prepares to finally reveal this new sci-fi movie from Steven Spielberg.
gizmodo.com
December 15, 2025 at 6:22 PM
The trailers in front of Avatar: Fire and Ash have been speculated to be four different Avengers: Doomsday trailers; Supergirl; Nolan's The Odyssey; and now possibly Spielberg's new UFO movie. If this is true, FFS see Avatar: Fire and Ash in the theater. gizmodo.com/the-next-ste...
Some Rob Reiner movie memories of my own (thread)
1) Spinal Tap: I'm a guitarist from way back, and the "don't touch it, don't point at it" bit about the rare guitar is not even a little bit satire. I personally know people with climate controlled rooms in their houses for expensive guitars.
1) Spinal Tap: I'm a guitarist from way back, and the "don't touch it, don't point at it" bit about the rare guitar is not even a little bit satire. I personally know people with climate controlled rooms in their houses for expensive guitars.
December 15, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Some Rob Reiner movie memories of my own (thread)
1) Spinal Tap: I'm a guitarist from way back, and the "don't touch it, don't point at it" bit about the rare guitar is not even a little bit satire. I personally know people with climate controlled rooms in their houses for expensive guitars.
1) Spinal Tap: I'm a guitarist from way back, and the "don't touch it, don't point at it" bit about the rare guitar is not even a little bit satire. I personally know people with climate controlled rooms in their houses for expensive guitars.
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David needs folks to lend a hand. https://www.gofundme.com/f/david-gerrolds-health-and-leukemia-fundraiser?lang=en_GB&ts=1765731124&fbclid=IwdGRjcAOs_FtleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA8xNzM4NDc2NDI2NzAzNzAAAR6KKiZ2rx4-CeehknGhy0m7jAsLfQXTijNNB--x4dSYOZovtFMCTh0YuSl10w_aem_bDanHCEMaHX8JsZvYYD7Jg
Donate to David Gerrold's Health and Leukemia Fundraiser, organized by David Gerrold
Here is a thank you just for coming this far, a link to a short collec… David Gerrold needs your support for David Gerrold's Health and Leukemia Fundraiser
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December 15, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Slight spoilers for Wake Up Dead Man:
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After we hear that hateful gaslighting prick's confession at the start of the movie, every time he starts a bigoted tirade about the evils of modernity you think, "he probably just jerked off in the other room, didn't he"
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After we hear that hateful gaslighting prick's confession at the start of the movie, every time he starts a bigoted tirade about the evils of modernity you think, "he probably just jerked off in the other room, didn't he"
December 14, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Slight spoilers for Wake Up Dead Man:
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After we hear that hateful gaslighting prick's confession at the start of the movie, every time he starts a bigoted tirade about the evils of modernity you think, "he probably just jerked off in the other room, didn't he"
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After we hear that hateful gaslighting prick's confession at the start of the movie, every time he starts a bigoted tirade about the evils of modernity you think, "he probably just jerked off in the other room, didn't he"
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New data reports that LGBTQ+ people — especially trans & nonbinary people — have been forced to make significant changes to their daily lives, confirming the real-world harm that anti-equality politicians have on our community.
We will not be deterred. We will fight for our freedom to exist.
We will not be deterred. We will fight for our freedom to exist.
December 13, 2025 at 10:03 PM
New data reports that LGBTQ+ people — especially trans & nonbinary people — have been forced to make significant changes to their daily lives, confirming the real-world harm that anti-equality politicians have on our community.
We will not be deterred. We will fight for our freedom to exist.
We will not be deterred. We will fight for our freedom to exist.
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Brutal but effective public health messaging from New York Public Health.
The CDC is compromised. They’re no longer a reliable source of information.
They push anti-vaxx & anti-science grift.
Get your vaccines. Wear a respirator. Clean the air
Get public health advice from experts, not RFK Jr
The CDC is compromised. They’re no longer a reliable source of information.
They push anti-vaxx & anti-science grift.
Get your vaccines. Wear a respirator. Clean the air
Get public health advice from experts, not RFK Jr
December 13, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Brutal but effective public health messaging from New York Public Health.
The CDC is compromised. They’re no longer a reliable source of information.
They push anti-vaxx & anti-science grift.
Get your vaccines. Wear a respirator. Clean the air
Get public health advice from experts, not RFK Jr
The CDC is compromised. They’re no longer a reliable source of information.
They push anti-vaxx & anti-science grift.
Get your vaccines. Wear a respirator. Clean the air
Get public health advice from experts, not RFK Jr