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S.H. Mansouri @shmansouri.bsky.social · 9h

The hulk is in full on monster horror mode lately, loving it

S.H. Mansouri @shmansouri.bsky.social · 2d

Sweet

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

S.H. Mansouri @shmansouri.bsky.social · 2d

I wish they’d stop resetting these after twenty something issues. Just give it #31 and keep counting

S.H. Mansouri @shmansouri.bsky.social · 2d

This scene kills, great song too

youtu.be/li-E-9e5Zn8?...

Peacemaker’s trauma | House Of Pain | S1E4 HD Clip

YouTube video by MaddieFR

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S.H. Mansouri @shmansouri.bsky.social · 3d

The opening credits of Peacemaker are growing on me

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S.H. Mansouri @shmansouri.bsky.social · 3d

Gabe and Cass on the spinner rack, all kinds of fun all over again. Great to see this mmp @sgj.bsky.social

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Grimdark Magazine @grimdarkmagazine.bsky.social · 6d

Issue #44 is here! Headlined by Zamil Akhtar, known for his “Gunmetal Gods” series, and also including fiction by Miles Cameron, Emma Burnett, Ryan Cole, Hûw Steer, Yudhanjaya Wijeratne, Rich Larson, and Max Gladstone.

Link: www.grimdarkmagazine.com/grimdark-mag...

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Jesse Lawrence @jesselawrence.bsky.social · 6d

Been waiting ages for this day to come. Eons, it feels like. @sgj.bsky.social in mass market (courtesy @sagapressbooks.bsky.social). So very.

Picture of the mass market paperback edition of The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones, published by Saga Press

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S.H. Mansouri @shmansouri.bsky.social · 8d

This was a pretty good start, super lush art with a story somewhere between World of Warcraft (the film) and Avatar. Comics are a necessary component to my sanity of late.

S.H. Mansouri @shmansouri.bsky.social · 8d

Breakfast of fiends: Mountain Dew, Marlboros, and the new @pfracassi.bsky.social killing it.

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S.H. Mansouri @shmansouri.bsky.social · 9d

Being a sucker for any cover that’s wizard adjacent I played this and it’s glorious—like being in an episode of Afro Samurai or an old Shaw Brothers flick.

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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 9d

🎶 Take a look, it's in a book 🎶

🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈

#FollowTheRainbow

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S.H. Mansouri @shmansouri.bsky.social · 9d

Great episode here, with the creators of ‘The Spine of Night.’

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S.H. Mansouri @shmansouri.bsky.social · 10d

Didn’t think the Miller run could be topped, but this Zdarsky stuff is just as good so far.

S.H. Mansouri @shmansouri.bsky.social · 11d

🙌

Nerdist @nerdist.bsky.social · 15d

Vincent D'Onofrio wants to play DC Comics’ sympathetic monster Swamp Thing.

Vincent D'Onofrio Really Wants to Play Swamp Thing in the DCU

nerdist.com

S.H. Mansouri @shmansouri.bsky.social · 12d

Say it ain’t so!

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S.H. Mansouri @shmansouri.bsky.social · 12d

October 8: apparently Conan #25 is a super-sized standalone issue where all the panels are oil paintings. Stoked.

S.H. Mansouri @shmansouri.bsky.social · 13d

Means I’m doing it right

S.H. Mansouri @shmansouri.bsky.social · 13d

These are always fun

Talking Scared Podcast @talkscaredpod.bsky.social · 13d

ANOTHER Patreon bonus this week (see, it is worth signing up)

Here are some honest reviews of books recently read on the show. I do this every month, and we call it HUSHED TONES!

Hushed Tones 21 (July) | Talking Scared

Get more from Talking Scared on Patreon

www.patreon.com

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S.H. Mansouri @shmansouri.bsky.social · 14d

Went through this phase when all I listened to was The Doors, so how’d I totally miss the ‘squirming like a toad’ thing? Caught it with the audiobook, that “Riders on the Storm” opening activating my brain, felt like I was sitting next to Jack Burton, only Jack had a bucket for a mouth. Was a riot.

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 14d

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

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S.H. Mansouri @shmansouri.bsky.social · 15d

I remember them saying, of the MTV generation, that music videos would rot our brains, and I chuckle. ‘Bout 40 years off on that one.

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Kat Lister @katlister.bsky.social · 16d

8 days left to watch this extraordinary archival testimony from the likes of Quentin Bell, Duncan Grant, Leonard Woolf & Angelica Garnett. It really is a time capsule to another realm:

BBC Four - Omnibus, Virginia Woolf: A Night's Darkness, A Day's Sail

A celebration of the life and work of author Virginia Woolf.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Tim Waggoner @timwaggoner.bsky.social · 16d

New short story, coming Jan. 27, 2026!

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