Umberto Echo Chamber
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Ex-Senior Narrative Producer for Camouflaj; former Senior Manager of Global Production at Capcom; posts about AKIRA, games, translation, and bad comedy
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Rep. Ilhan Omar: "I hope he gets the help he needs. It sounds like he's trying to deflect from the failures that he's had as president ... he's fought to be the head of the pedophile protection party."
December 3, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Rep. Ilhan Omar: "I hope he gets the help he needs. It sounds like he's trying to deflect from the failures that he's had as president ... he's fought to be the head of the pedophile protection party."
Can’t believe this is how I learned Tom Stoppard died.
December 1, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Can’t believe this is how I learned Tom Stoppard died.
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✨ A few years back I stood outside Wells Cathedral for a full day and photographed the impact of the light on the front facade. I was amazed at the outcome - at how a single entity could morph and change under the changing light. 🌅 #thread
November 28, 2025 at 7:13 AM
✨ A few years back I stood outside Wells Cathedral for a full day and photographed the impact of the light on the front facade. I was amazed at the outcome - at how a single entity could morph and change under the changing light. 🌅 #thread
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It's loose! My new sketchbook of monstrous portraits & my "Philosophy of Monsters" essay on value & importance of putting monsters down on paper. Recommend the color edition (there's also a black-and-white edition, same contents)—Spread the link, please! www.amazon.com/dp/B0G41R2LS6/
S R Bissette's In The Mood For...Monsters - Color Edition
Amazon.com: S R Bissette's In The Mood For...Monsters - Color Edition: 9798275966480: Bissette, Stephen R, Bissette, Stephen R, Masztal, Mark A: Books
www.amazon.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:41 PM
It's loose! My new sketchbook of monstrous portraits & my "Philosophy of Monsters" essay on value & importance of putting monsters down on paper. Recommend the color edition (there's also a black-and-white edition, same contents)—Spread the link, please! www.amazon.com/dp/B0G41R2LS6/
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It's time for the 2026 Comics Criticism Mini Grant!
My family and I are awarding four $250 grants to active comics critics. The application is simple, just your name, email, and two recent clips. Deadline for submissions is January 1st.
forms.gle/Cy8FtCcqVSWa...
My family and I are awarding four $250 grants to active comics critics. The application is simple, just your name, email, and two recent clips. Deadline for submissions is January 1st.
forms.gle/Cy8FtCcqVSWa...
2026 Comics Criticism Mini Grant
This project will be awarding four mini grants of $250 to comics critics.
To apply, please provide 2 links to comics criticism work of at least 500 words published within the last year (blogs and YouT...
forms.gle
November 26, 2025 at 7:03 PM
It's time for the 2026 Comics Criticism Mini Grant!
My family and I are awarding four $250 grants to active comics critics. The application is simple, just your name, email, and two recent clips. Deadline for submissions is January 1st.
forms.gle/Cy8FtCcqVSWa...
My family and I are awarding four $250 grants to active comics critics. The application is simple, just your name, email, and two recent clips. Deadline for submissions is January 1st.
forms.gle/Cy8FtCcqVSWa...
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Hell yeah. Sorry Poland, you have to be decent now.
BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
www.reuters.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Hell yeah. Sorry Poland, you have to be decent now.
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Weird, I thought it was totalitarian censorship to sideline people with views you don’t agree with
"elevate charismatic figures such as Alan Dershowitz"
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November 25, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Weird, I thought it was totalitarian censorship to sideline people with views you don’t agree with
Man, it’s 2025. Can’t believe it’s been 20 years since Megatron was routed at his sneak attack on Autobot City.
November 21, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Man, it’s 2025. Can’t believe it’s been 20 years since Megatron was routed at his sneak attack on Autobot City.
We were robbed! I just imagine what the soundtrack would have been like! But I guess he did go on to create Twin Peaks
Just learned that David Lynch did a handshake deal in the early '90s to write and direct an adaptation of Katsuhiro Otomo's DOMU
November 21, 2025 at 6:06 AM
We were robbed! I just imagine what the soundtrack would have been like! But I guess he did go on to create Twin Peaks
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It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.
November 21, 2025 at 4:27 AM
It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.
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Zohran Mamdani doesn’t make me, an American Jew, feel unsafe.
Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.
Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Zohran Mamdani doesn’t make me, an American Jew, feel unsafe.
Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.
Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.
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It has been a very short hop from ‘this is not who we are’ to ‘ok this is exactly who we are’
Swastikas, nooses and the Confederate flag are reportedly no longer considered to be hate symbols by the U.S. Coast Guard
Swastika No Longer Hate Symbol Under New U.S. Coast Guard Policy: Report
www.huffpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:47 PM
It has been a very short hop from ‘this is not who we are’ to ‘ok this is exactly who we are’
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I can finally post videos so...
Hi, I'm Cressa and I do stop motion. You may have seen my preshows at your local movie theatre.
Here's a cute thing I made for the release of Godzilla Minus One:
Hi, I'm Cressa and I do stop motion. You may have seen my preshows at your local movie theatre.
Here's a cute thing I made for the release of Godzilla Minus One:
February 11, 2025 at 3:06 PM
I can finally post videos so...
Hi, I'm Cressa and I do stop motion. You may have seen my preshows at your local movie theatre.
Here's a cute thing I made for the release of Godzilla Minus One:
Hi, I'm Cressa and I do stop motion. You may have seen my preshows at your local movie theatre.
Here's a cute thing I made for the release of Godzilla Minus One:
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this would have been a month-long scandal in 2011
President Trump walking past the flag at the Whitehouse which has fallen to the ground
November 18, 2025 at 12:38 AM
this would have been a month-long scandal in 2011
All these AI claims give off the vibes of that old SNL skit: “it’s an ice cream topping AND a floor polish.”
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei thinks AI could help find cures for most cancers, prevent Alzheimer’s, and even double the human lifespan. cbsn.ws/4oRZ8Nm
November 17, 2025 at 4:42 PM
All these AI claims give off the vibes of that old SNL skit: “it’s an ice cream topping AND a floor polish.”
Two types of reactions to buying too many books: people who wonder how that could happen and those who nod knowingly as tears stream down their cheeks
Surprise! I bought some books and here they all are. Check it out 👀! #scifibooks #sciencefiction #booktube #bookcollecting #bookhaul
youtu.be/uK5tNDr_Do8
youtu.be/uK5tNDr_Do8
I Bought Way Too Many Sci-Fi Books… Again | Sci-fi book haul | November 2025
YouTube video by SciFiScavenger
youtu.be
November 16, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Two types of reactions to buying too many books: people who wonder how that could happen and those who nod knowingly as tears stream down their cheeks
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I always get a kick out of the NYT Defense Squad trotting out harrumphing takes about how serious journalists don't report on mere speculation, blow things out of proportion, dig into their colleagues' email, etc etc
November 13, 2025 at 7:44 PM
I always get a kick out of the NYT Defense Squad trotting out harrumphing takes about how serious journalists don't report on mere speculation, blow things out of proportion, dig into their colleagues' email, etc etc
I don't know anything about "Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die" aside from what I've seen in the trailer, but I feel VERY strongly that Peter Stormare should be in it.
November 13, 2025 at 6:21 AM
I don't know anything about "Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die" aside from what I've seen in the trailer, but I feel VERY strongly that Peter Stormare should be in it.
Bought this for $1; the cover was cool and it sounded fun. (An even more sardonic “Running Man”? Yes, please!) But it was the laudatory pull quotes from Douglas Adam’s AND John Le Carré that persuaded me.
It was fine; I had higher expectations based who the quotes came from.
It was fine; I had higher expectations based who the quotes came from.
November 13, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Bought this for $1; the cover was cool and it sounded fun. (An even more sardonic “Running Man”? Yes, please!) But it was the laudatory pull quotes from Douglas Adam’s AND John Le Carré that persuaded me.
It was fine; I had higher expectations based who the quotes came from.
It was fine; I had higher expectations based who the quotes came from.
Read the first two books in the Heechee Saga by Frederik Pohl. Knew he was important in SFF, but only knew him from that quote about not just predicting cars but being able to predict traffic jams.
Both good, but liked Gateway more.
Both good, but liked Gateway more.
November 12, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Read the first two books in the Heechee Saga by Frederik Pohl. Knew he was important in SFF, but only knew him from that quote about not just predicting cars but being able to predict traffic jams.
Both good, but liked Gateway more.
Both good, but liked Gateway more.
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first it's pensions, then it's healthcare, then vacation, finally it's the wages, pretty soon you're just going to one box to work all day for no money and going to another to get the rest of snap to eat, which sounds a lot like how they described the soviet union to me in the 80s but what do i know
Is this good? It doesn't seem good.
"Walgreens will no longer give many of its retail workers paid vacation time for Thanksgiving, Christmas and other major holidays, as the company looks to cut costs under new owners."
"Walgreens will no longer give many of its retail workers paid vacation time for Thanksgiving, Christmas and other major holidays, as the company looks to cut costs under new owners."
Walgreens Cuts Pay for Hourly Store Workers After $10 Billion Buyout
Walgreens will no longer give many of its retail workers paid vacation time for Thanksgiving, Christmas and other major holidays, as the company looks to cut costs under new owners.
www.bloomberg.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:00 PM
first it's pensions, then it's healthcare, then vacation, finally it's the wages, pretty soon you're just going to one box to work all day for no money and going to another to get the rest of snap to eat, which sounds a lot like how they described the soviet union to me in the 80s but what do i know
Read ババヤガの夜 (Night of the Babayaga) a few weeks back. Pretty fun action-crime story starts straightforward but takes a few sharp turns I didn’t see. It definitely falls into the category of fuck the yakuza and doesn’t romanticize them at all.
November 11, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Read ババヤガの夜 (Night of the Babayaga) a few weeks back. Pretty fun action-crime story starts straightforward but takes a few sharp turns I didn’t see. It definitely falls into the category of fuck the yakuza and doesn’t romanticize them at all.
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These guys are constantly saying that Dems need to abandon identity politics and run on kitchen-table issues. They get the most kitchen table-ass candidate imaginable, spend months saying he's secretly radical, then as soon as he wins they say he's secretly moderate.
November 9, 2025 at 3:35 PM
These guys are constantly saying that Dems need to abandon identity politics and run on kitchen-table issues. They get the most kitchen table-ass candidate imaginable, spend months saying he's secretly radical, then as soon as he wins they say he's secretly moderate.
Always exciting to a Richard Corbett cover in the wild.
November 9, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Always exciting to a Richard Corbett cover in the wild.
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“0% woke shit”
a black man with a physical disability leads an environmental terrorist cell trying to save the planet from mega-billionaires and you play as a cross dressing twink femdomed by two different women ending and the final boss against the gayest angel of all time
a black man with a physical disability leads an environmental terrorist cell trying to save the planet from mega-billionaires and you play as a cross dressing twink femdomed by two different women ending and the final boss against the gayest angel of all time
November 7, 2025 at 7:59 PM
“0% woke shit”
a black man with a physical disability leads an environmental terrorist cell trying to save the planet from mega-billionaires and you play as a cross dressing twink femdomed by two different women ending and the final boss against the gayest angel of all time
a black man with a physical disability leads an environmental terrorist cell trying to save the planet from mega-billionaires and you play as a cross dressing twink femdomed by two different women ending and the final boss against the gayest angel of all time