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Tegan O’Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.social · 4d

in which we conclude our look at Rob Liefeld’s earliest Image work with a glance at a unique artifact of a strange time: an autograph book for a cohort of young artists at the zenith of their success, signifying a moment in the medium’s history unlike any other

Review excerpt - I fear the appeal of Extreme - and especially the work of its progenitor - is opaque to later generations, who see only the comical artistic excess, or the subsequent business failures, without proper context for why or how this material could have been so popular in the first place. That it was huge, you can see for yourself: they printed an autograph book for the first generation of Extreme Studios talent to sign at comic cons. You can certainly argue their time might have been better spent making more comics than doing more shows - but these guys were in genuine demand. They were mobbed in public at these conventions, I know because I saw it happen myself. They hired a guy to dress up like Chapel and pose for photos with fans, and that Chapel actor even has a page in this autograph book.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 3d

K-Pop Demon Hunters is legitimately the global cultural phenomenon of 2025 and honestly there are far worse things to be a cultural touchstone this year than a trio of young women fighting literal soul-sucking hegemony through the power of their art

E. Perkins 🎃 @hauntedpumpkin.bsky.social · 3d

Oh crap, it's back at #1 in movies again today on Netflix too. That's awesome!

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 4d

According to the City of Paris, in the last 10 years 150K trees have been planted & 45ha of parks created in the already hot city, all intended to not only improve quality-of-life today, but also help the city adapt to & manage summer heatwaves of 50℃ (122F) by 2050.

Just the start.

Common sense.

Paris before and after street transformation

New urban forest planted in front of Paris City Hall

A Paris “School Street” where cars are removed and people space/tree planting are added

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Matthew Murray 🦇 @midnitelibrary.bsky.social · 4d

A lot of Marvel characters who had origins tied into real wars, now use the Siancong War.

marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Siancon...

Siancong War

2 minor appearance(s) of Siancong War 3 image(s) of Siancong War

marvel.fandom.com

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Matthew Murray 🦇 @midnitelibrary.bsky.social · 4d

It can also definitely work if you had him go into academia. Tons of people (even with doctorates) take a long time (if ever) to get a tenure-track position and end up cobbling together multiple adjunct jobs for years to try to stay afloat.

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Félix the Rover @therovercomics.bsky.social · 5d

Supervillains were invented so that superheroes would stop trying to make the world a better place and would rather spend their time defending a meaningless status quo instead.

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buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social · 4d

Too many comic artists have abandoned this rule, leading to tons of incomprehensible garbage interspersed with pin-ups

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/180-deg...

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 4d

We did not weather nigh two decades of “lazy millennials are destroying every single industry” to turn around and do this to Gen Z!!!

Fortune @fortune.com · 4d

“We millennials know that there’s no such thing as work-life balance. My career is my life, my life is my career. I would never be at peace if I wasn’t working so hard.” trib.al/suc3yU6

Astronaut says Gen Z often quits when things get uncomfortable—here’s the Jeff Bezos Blue Origin training that taught her to push through | Fortune

From space rockets to 13-hour workdays, this millennial astronaut reveals the mind trick that can make discomfort your secret weapon to success.

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Peter Kelly @thepeterkelly.bsky.social · 4d

Time travel to the 90s, and return to street racing.
Set up the first movie and make the whole thing a loop

Time travel is bigger than anything they've done before and street racing is way cheaper than what they've been doing.

DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 4d

Universal execs are not sure they’ll make the final ‘FAST & FURIOUS’ movie unless there’s about $50M in budget cuts.

Despite what Vin Diesel has claimed, there’s no approved script, no release date & most of the cast don’t have deals to return

(Source: www.wsj.com/business/med...)

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 4d

About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported, according to a June @pewresearch.org survey.

About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported

About four-in-ten immigrants (43%) say they worry a lot or some, up from 33% in March.

www.pewresearch.org

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Luis Castillo Silva @theeluisifer.bsky.social · 4d

After working on my webcomic Witch-Slayer with my co-creator @rosegarou.bsky.social for over a year now, I can confirm that all of the advice @jimzub.bsky.social has listed on his comic script critique is one hundred percent correct and will aid you in writing comics, especially point number one!

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 4d

Omelas Simulator, a city builder where your currency is misery and you have to decide between children, puppies, and kittens in various amounts.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 4d

after careful experiment with miserium particles, the discovery that you could just have one hundred kids who had kind of a shitty year on an annual rotation really made everyone feel a lot better about things.

Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 4d

Has anyone checked to see if things get even better here in Omelas if we chuck another kid or two in the oubliette

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 4d

history teacher in 50 years: So in September, that’s when the president signed an executive order criminalizing anti-fascism and saying all resistance would be crushed

student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism

teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 4d

This is embarrassing and the same shit we spent our entire teens and twenties putting up with from people older and wealthier than us.

Why the hell would any millennial want to become the assholes who came before us?

Be better than this.

Fortune @fortune.com · 4d

“We millennials know that there’s no such thing as work-life balance. My career is my life, my life is my career. I would never be at peace if I wasn’t working so hard.” trib.al/suc3yU6

Astronaut says Gen Z often quits when things get uncomfortable—here’s the Jeff Bezos Blue Origin training that taught her to push through | Fortune

From space rockets to 13-hour workdays, this millennial astronaut reveals the mind trick that can make discomfort your secret weapon to success.

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Woltergeist II: The Other Side @wolter.bsky.social · 4d

I reiterate: every single person, regardless of the year they were born, has to make a conscious effort not to shit on the following generations the moment they realize they themselves are approaching middle age or older. It’s not just boomers and X that are susceptible.

Fortune @fortune.com · 4d

“We millennials know that there’s no such thing as work-life balance. My career is my life, my life is my career. I would never be at peace if I wasn’t working so hard.” trib.al/suc3yU6

Astronaut says Gen Z often quits when things get uncomfortable—here’s the Jeff Bezos Blue Origin training that taught her to push through | Fortune

From space rockets to 13-hour workdays, this millennial astronaut reveals the mind trick that can make discomfort your secret weapon to success.

trib.al

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Matthew Murray 🦇 @midnitelibrary.bsky.social · 4d

I feel like suggesting that people should eat less cows is often seen as an extreme political position.

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Wendy Reynolds @wendles1967.bsky.social · 5d

UK cis women, please sign this to acknowledge that trans people are not a threat. (Unless you think they are, in which case you're awful so please fuck off and never come back.) Everybody else, please circulate. 💜

Not In Our Name (NION) Women @nionwomen.bsky.social · 7d

We expect to hit 55k signatures in support of our open letter this week, perhaps even today. Thank you to everyone who has signed or shared. Let’s keep this going:

notinourname.org.uk

Home - Not in our name

As women we reject the narrative that trans+ people are a threat.

notinourname.org.uk

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Matthew Murray 🦇 @midnitelibrary.bsky.social · 4d

"They found that alfalfa — used as feed for beef and dairy cows — sucks up more water than all the cities and industries in the enormous Colorado River Basin."
watereducationcolorado.org/fresh-water-...

Most complete accounting yet of Colorado River water use released, shows ag, environmental, evaporative uses - Water Education Colorado

Next time you take a bite out of a juicy hamburger or chunk of cheese made in the western U.S., say thank you to the Colorado River. Researchers released the most complete accounting so far of how the...

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Matthew Murray 🦇 @midnitelibrary.bsky.social · 4d

The amount of water used to grow alfalfa to feed to cows is mindblowing.

Vox @vox.com · 5d

The most effective way to avert a climate change catastrophe: People in wealthier countries have to eat more plant-based foods and less red meat, poultry, and dairy.

The climate movement’s biggest weakness

What the climate movement is getting dead wrong.

www.vox.com

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 4d

I currently have work on display at La Maison de la Littérature and in four libraries (bibliothèques Gabrielle-Roy, Paul-Aimé-Paiement et Monique-Corriveau) in Quebec City. Thanks to @editions_alto for sorting this all out.

A poster drawn by Tom Gauld. A cabinet which looks like a six panel comic. It contains a variety of things: a castle, a drawing machine, a gallery, a sphere containing a princess and a robot, an insect, an artist, a cat, etc. A speech bubble emanating from the machine reads 'Tom a Quebec'

A sketchbook page filled with text and doodles in black ink.

La Maison de la Littérature, Quebec.
Du 30 Septembre au 16 Novembre 2025.
Dans l'atelier de Tom propose une immersion au coeur de l'œuvre du célèbre bédéiste et illustrateur britannique Tom Gauld, à qui l'on doit, entre autres, La revanche des bibliothécaires, En cuisine avec Kafka et La physique pour les chats. Profitez d'un accès privilégié aux coulisses de la création grâce à des planches originales, des bandes dessinées tirées de ses livres et une série de carnets - le tout accompagné de commentaires de l'auteur. Divers éléments ludiques et interactifs issus de son univers

Bibliothèque de Québec.
Du 20 Septembre au 21 Janvier.
Tom à Québec.
Plongez dans l'univers pétillant et décalé de Tom Gauld, bédéiste britannique qui a conquis les lecteurs du journal The Guardian et les amoureux et amoureuses du livre. Au détour d'un rayon où se cache peut-être un ouvrage inusité, un robot chuteur, un lutin ou un extraterrestre lettré, vous serez surpris par l'humour et la subtilité des vignettes présentées un peu partout sur les murs.
Au programme : planches de format géant, signalétique ludique, casse-tête, cartes postales et des activités pour petits et grands!

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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 5d

“'The fact that we don't have money to pay journalists, but we have money to pay Bari Weiss between $100 and 200 million is indicative of what the Ellisons' true goal here is,' a network correspondent said. 'And it's not journalism.'"

CBS News staffers are ‘literally freaking out’ about Bari Weiss taking over newsroom

EXCLUSIVE: ‘People are using words like depressing and doomsday – feels like some sort of doomsday,’ one source told The Independent about the mood inside CBS News right now.

www.independent.co.uk

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New York Transit Museum @nytransitmuseum.bsky.social · 4d

🎳 Taken in 1957, these #NYTMCollection photos show a fascinating peek into the penny arcade culture of the time. These are survey images for a platform extension project on the 50 Street station on the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line, but they also capture an exciting slice of life above ground.

1957 photo of the exterior shop front of a penny arcade. The sign reads "Amusement Center, Rifle Shooting, Admission Free."

Inside of a penny arcade showing the many fun games and devices for having fun and play.

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Avocado Aficionado @darksidestraxus.bsky.social · 11d

I can’t even begin to imagine what it’s like dedicated your life to writing some of the most incredibly written articles in the history of the internet, only to then be told that you no longer have a job because the publication you used to work for got sold off to a soulless hedge fund.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 5d

If a high ranking Democrat ever said "the NFL sucks" it would be looped endlessly on the news as proof of how out of touch Dems are for the next 40 years.

Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 5d

Saying "The NFL sucks.." really is a bold strategy, let's see how that goes

PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 5d

Kristi Noem’s message to the NFL for selecting Bad Bunny for the halftime show:

“The NFL sucks and we’ll win and God will bless us and we’ll stand and be proud of ourselves at the end of the day and they won’t be able to sleep at night because they don’t know what they believe…”

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