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Walter Hickey @walthickey.bsky.social · 8h

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Corey S. Powell @coreyspowell.bsky.social · 8h

Amazing: Comet ATLAS formed some 8 billion years ago. It made about 3 dozen circuits around our galaxy. It entered our our solar system & just passed 30 million kilometers from Mars...

...where ESA's ExoMars orbiter captured these images of the interstellar comet! 🧪🔭

www.esa.int/Science_Expl...

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Craig @craigtime.bsky.social · 13h

One that bothers me instinctively is that it would be entirely historically accurate if the characters in Dracula took a break to play Nintendo and drink Coca Cola. But they probably wouldn't do that

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Walter Hickey @walthickey.bsky.social · 11h

this is only surprising if you cannot comprehend the difference between "pay Amazon $1.7 billion to open an office" and "build 15,000 housing units across 54 blocks of warehouses"

The Upshot @upshot.nytimes.com · 12h

Years ago, progressives defeated a plan to build headquarters for Amazon in Queens. Now a new kind of development is gaining their support. From NYT Metro:

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/n...

In Ashes of Amazon Fight, Tensions Emerge in Huge Bet on N.Y.C. Housing

www.nytimes.com

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Walter Hickey @walthickey.bsky.social · 16h

hell yeah www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

‘Heat 2’ Is On: Michael Mann Crime Drama Moves From Warner Bros. to United Artists; Jerry Bruckheimer, Scott Stuber Producing (Exclusive)

Mann is set to direct the follow-up to his 1995 feature, which has Leonardo DiCaprio circling to star.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

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Walter Hickey @walthickey.bsky.social · 17h

there was new information revealed in a news story that was not previously known by way of earnings, which motivated the move

Walter Hickey @walthickey.bsky.social · 17h

lmfao variety.com/2025/film/ne...

Dick Van Dyke Jokes ‘It’d Be Funny if I Didn’t Make It’ to 100 Years Old: ‘If I Had Known I Was Going to Live This Long, I Would’ve Taken Better Care of Myself’

Dick Van Dyke will celebrate his 100th birthday on Dec. 13.

variety.com

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Walter Hickey @walthickey.bsky.social · 18h

i suppose if your stock went up 65% in the past year your shareholders are probably expecting a business that's more profitable than manufacturing, say, paper products.

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Walter Hickey @walthickey.bsky.social · 19h

you buy AI chips because you can make lots money off them. this was not the case at Oracle. this is the result

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Walter Hickey @walthickey.bsky.social · 19h

this is a bfd sherwood.news/markets/orac...

Oracle tumbles after report that it’s lost nearly $100 million from renting out access to Nvidia’s Blackwell chips

Early returns from the AI boom look tiny for Oracle, per The Information....

sherwood.news

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Walter Hickey @walthickey.bsky.social · 20h

this story is so funny. everyone he smoked at the regionals was like “great guy, fun brush with a real celeb, gave me some great tips!”

Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 20h

"Hikaru Nakamura, the #2 player in the world and five-time US champion, had flown in as a last-minute entrant, making him far and away the top player in the building [...] He was exploiting an arcane loophole on a much larger mission to become the next chess world champion."

The Latest Controversy in Chess Is the Cupcake Gambit

World No. 2 Hikaru Nakamura needed to hit a minimum number of games for a shot at the world championship. He sparked a firestorm by beating up on lower-ranked players to get there.

www.wsj.com

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Walter Hickey @walthickey.bsky.social · 1d

Blade of the Fane was such a delight last year, too. I really dig your work.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 1d

Nineties comic books were crazy, because folks would really be out in the street beating people's asses dressed like this. Tell me that Black Canary wouldn't have rolled out in something like that--with fishnets, of course.

Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 2d

“Ready-to-wear?” I am ready to wear this, but I don’t know if the world is ready for me to do so

A dude in a long-sleeve V-neck French cut bodysuit with shoulder pads and sandals

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 1d

him and a gazillion others, like 3/4ths of this country is descended from people like "guy who got kicked out of Belfast for gambling crimes and ended up mayor of Duluth" bsky.app/profile/nval...

🫥 @nvalvo.name · 1d

Alexander Hamilton, right?

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 1d

"lying silver-tongued charlatan runs to the US, attempts to reinvent himself, turns out to be pretty good at an important job" this is like one of the foundational American Stories www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/u...

The Superintendent’s Bio Seemed Too Good to Be True. It Was.

www.nytimes.com

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Walter Hickey @walthickey.bsky.social · 1d

Ladies of the Living Princess is a real standout so far from an already outstanding year of Shortbox www.shortboxcomicsfair.com

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DrawPlayDave @thedrawplay.com · 1d

Finally got curious enough to look at the Mark Sanchez victim photos and yeah, we don't need Mark Sanchez in the public eye ever again

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 2d

It’s up! Me and Gabriel Gianordoli went deep on the great Emil Ferris and her terrific mystery/art books

Emil Ferris Pays Homage to Horror Comics With ‘My Favorite Thing Is Monsters’ (Gift Article)

In her two-volume classic, “My Favorite Thing Is Monsters,” Emil Ferris explores a girl’s journey to understand the world, and herself.

www.nytimes.com

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Walter Hickey @walthickey.bsky.social · 3d

[drags out dusty M1 Macbook Air in front of my disgusted grandchildren to play a worn out AAC file] now back in MY day these fellas, OneRepublic, knew how to make people listen

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Walter Hickey @walthickey.bsky.social · 4d

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/a...

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Adam Bumas @bumas.bsky.social · 4d

Every month, we write about the most popular content around the internet. For the first time, I'm proud to say that we're on our own list! @panicworld.com was Patreon's fastest-growing podcast last month.

Despite this, there’s one source of news about the shooting that’s gotten a lot of attention in September: Us, apparently. According to Graphtreon, Panic World was the fastest-growing Patreon in September for the “podcast” category, with over 1,300 new subscribers this month. Our own reckoning puts as as number 12 across the whole website — first place, of course, goes to a porn game with over 3,300 new Patrons — but we’ve never even come close to making our own lists before, so we think we’ve earned the brag.

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josh terry @joshterry.bsky.social · 5d

already got a half dozen new paid newsletter subscribers after writing about geese. funnily enough, the last time that happened in three hours was when i went long on goose

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Bill Barnwell @billbarnwell.com · 5d

$4 joker in Balatro

Hatin’ Ass Brian @hatinassbrian.bsky.social · 5d

just enjoying being a Normal Shaped Person

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Walter Hickey @walthickey.bsky.social · 5d

thank goodness we don't have that many paranoid people in the United States!

Kevin Collier @kevincollier.bsky.social · 5d

From Reddit, apparently Google Home users can use Gemini on their Nest cams and get daily LLM briefings on what went on in front of their house that day.

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Walter Hickey @walthickey.bsky.social · 5d

I'm gonna help the brilliant Chris Dall Riva launch his data-and-music book, Uncharted Territory at his NYC-area launch party! You should score a ticket and come to this one, it's a phenomenal read and should be a great conversation. www.eventbrite.com/e/chris-dall...

Chris Dalla Riva's Uncharted Territory: Book Launch

A conversation between Chris Dalla Riva and Pultizer Prize winner Walt Hickey about Chris's new book "Uncharted Territory"

www.eventbrite.com

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