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Scott Redmond

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Freelance writer (Comicon.com - ComicsXF.com) & Educator – He/Him – Biracial (B&W) – ✊🏿 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 – Fueled By Coffee & Sarcasm – Talks About SF Giants A Ton

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Scott Redmond @scottredmond.bsky.social · Jul 22

I'm eternally grateful to all that have supported my teaching credential journey. Unfortunately, because of complicated financial aid restrictions, I'm having a hard time paying off the rest of the summer course load costs. Any help, either by spreading the word or monetary, is greatly appreciated.

Donate to Help Scott Redmond Continue His Teaching Dream, organized by Scott Redmond

My name is Scott Redmond and I'm on a journey to becoming a Mild/Moderate… Scott Redmond needs your support for Help Scott Redmond Continue His Teaching Dream

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 3h

I'd seen the reporting around Keira Knightley's awful response but wow the video makes it... even worse??? It's so dismissive and callous and that horrible little laugh??? like what the hell?? And the smarmy, "I'm very sorry" in the least apologetic tone I've ever heard in my life. Jfc.

Lady Emily ☄️ @ladyemily.nebula.tv · 2d

The thing that gets me about actors responding like this whenever they’re asking about JKR is that they always say “we need to learn to agree to disagree ^_^” as if trans people are the ones leading the campaign, when we’re just trying to live our lives while JKR posts about trans hate 24/7

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Comicon.com @thecomicon.bsky.social · 7h

@scottredmond.bsky.social says "Just in time for the horror season, Supergirl finds herself plagued by the demons which reside deep within herself."

Check out his review of Supergirl #6 at the link >> tinyurl.com/mv4tcjf7

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Count Reckula 🦇 @adamreck.bsky.social · 7h

AI ain't a "god", it's theft regurgitation. I'm not surprised that Morrison is into this, but it's very disappointing. Extra-so when he's listed as a "DC Verified Creator" here given Jim Lee's passionate anti-AI stance this past week.

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Scott Redmond @scottredmond.bsky.social · 22h

How things are feeling in the teaching program lately:

a cartoon drawing of a man running up a hill

Alt: An animated old man with a bushy white mustache is running down a rocky outcropping as a giant boulder is falling at him, and he is terrified.

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Scott Redmond @scottredmond.bsky.social · 1d

Almost everything that Jared Leto has been in is him being the weird character, mostly to the side, never as the lead, yet studios keep trying the past few years to make him a lead and watch their box office crater as no one wants to watch him as a main focus.

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Nola Pfau @ohnola.bsky.social · 1d

It's unsurprising but so funny that the lesson they're taking here is "Tron" is the problem, and not that everyone fucking hates Jared Leto

Gizmodo @gizmodo.com · 1d

A new report suggests that the disastrous opening weekend for the Jared-Leto-starring sequel may lead to Disney pulling the plug on the Grid once and for all.

'Tron' Might Really Be Doomed After 'Tron: Ares'

A new report suggests that the disastrous opening weekend for the Jared-Leto-starring sequel may lead to Disney pulling the plug on the Grid once and for all.

gizmodo.com

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Scott Redmond @scottredmond.bsky.social · 1d

Even as a Giants fan, I have no real issue with the Dodgers. A lot of talented guys over there. They've built something that works (mostly).

That being said, the slobbering submission that MLB has for the Dodgers at all times is just truly goofy stuff.

Scott Redmond @scottredmond.bsky.social · 1d

It's truly telling how many television/movie characters (and just characters in general) were created to be grown men who groomed a teenage girl at some point in their canon.

Scott Redmond @scottredmond.bsky.social · 1d

"Boys will be boys" is the rallying cry of shitty white men, and encompasses the ages of early childhood till 30s, 40s, whatever age they need to "defend" their shittiness about.

Scott Redmond @scottredmond.bsky.social · 1d

It's amazing what exposure can do when the mind is willing to receive it. (Thus why they are so against college & DEI)

It's the difference between those who follow a thing, and those who are dedicated to that thing. The guys from the text message leak are dedicated to their closed minds.

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Scott Redmond @scottredmond.bsky.social · 1d

There comes a point where the choice to be a certain way rests completely in their hands.

As you noted, the age of your own change is about the normalish range, because exposure to other people, ideas, & more beyond family/home sphere opens eyes. At this point, these bigots are eyes fully shut.

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James Whitbrook @jwhitbrook.bsky.social · 1d

we gotta let actors know they don't have to treat every role like it's a gift from the divine

Jeremy Allen White Breaks His Silence on Voicing a Swole Hutt in 'The Mandalorian and Grogu'

White says he discovered the weight of his 'Star Wars' character the moment Jon Favreau soft-pitched the idea that he do some voice work.

gizmodo.com

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Scott Redmond @scottredmond.bsky.social · 1d

Ah yes, today is the wasted school day as all the kids are taken from their classes to be forced to take the PSAT which means nothing since the SAT is no longer required or necessary for college (CA kids are also now auto enrolled at CSU schools) & SPED kids can't go straight to Uni anyway.

Scott Redmond @scottredmond.bsky.social · 1d

In the grand Ferengi tradition

Scott Redmond @scottredmond.bsky.social · 1d

a picture of a man with glasses and the word sweet on the top

ALT: a picture of a man with glasses and the word sweet on the top

media.tenor.com

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Nola Pfau @ohnola.bsky.social · 2d

In late after a day of travel to say hello! I'm Nola Pfau! I wrote GODZILLA RIVALS: JET JAGUAR VS. MEGALON for IDW and also spent nearly a decade editing Women Write About Comics, which earned three consecutive Eisner Awards during that time. I am absolutely looking for work! #PortfolioDay

Main cover for GODZILLA RIVALS: JET JAGUAR VERSUS MEGALON, in which Megalon looms over a pit that holds a disassembled Jet Jaguar and a silhouetted fast food worker who fell down in there.

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Zoe TunnHELL @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 2d

Would it surprise you that the owner of Scientific American's parent company, Stefan von Holtzbrinck, invested $37 million in Inkitt, an AI firm?

What a SHOCK

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 3d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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Scott Redmond @scottredmond.bsky.social · 2d

In the same vein as many things in the X-Line, I'm sick and tired of seeing the name "X-23" used in any fashion around Laura in current books. She's Wolverine.

Stop going back to forcing reasons to rehash the dehumanizing name given to her by her captor torturers. It's regressively gross.

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Scott Redmond @scottredmond.bsky.social · 2d

The X-Men is one of the most potential unique lines that Marvel has, yet remains one of the most stale because the refusal to stop recycling status quos, same old characters, same old costumes, etc. weighs it down time & time & time again.

Also, Jean/Cyclops is utterly boring beyond belief.

X-Men Don't Need Britches 💙💛 @rphutch1975.bsky.social · 2d

What's an opinion about X-Men that'll get you sent to jail? Is Jean really interesting or really boring? Should Logan have stayed dead? Do you think a certain x-mens outfit is positively horrendous even though people seem to love it?

The Brood Saga is better than Dark Phoenix imo 🤷

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Count Reckula 🦇 @adamreck.bsky.social · 3d

Publishing a retro yellowface miniseries that doubles down on tropes with Elektra and The Hand is already problematic.
When your EiC practiced yellow face by impersonating a fictional Japanese man, it seems downright insane.

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Count Reckula 🦇 @adamreck.bsky.social · 3d

"Ninja" is the third in a series of retro X-titles (Savage Land Rogue, White Queen) that have zero story reasons to exist beyond selling cheesecake variant covers of "sexy ladies." But Psylocke Ninja has the additional issue of an enormously problematic version of the character at its core.

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Count Reckula 🦇 @adamreck.bsky.social · 3d

I think we need to call this Psylocke announcement what it is: Racist and Sexist. The original Acts of Vengeance change was never meant to be permanent, and had the benefit of being drawn by an Asian American, but should never have lasted for the decades that it did.

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Scott Redmond @scottredmond.bsky.social · 3d

Marvel allowing a white man to tell a story that returns to glorifying a White woman possessing the body of an Asian woman.

What an absolute not shock from a company that allowed C.B. Cebulski in all his Akira Yoshida glory lead the way.

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Anna F Peppard PhD @annapeppard.bsky.social · 3d

X-Men has some of the greatest female characters in comics but the way they're always regressing those characters to some of their worst eras because apparently guys like 'em best that way sure is something

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Count Reckula 🦇 @adamreck.bsky.social · 3d

Dan and I tried to see as much as we could in two days. Here's our report on all things #NYCC 2025

ComicsXF @comicsxf.com · 3d

@adamreck.bsky.social & @danielpgrote.bsky.social report on the highs and lows of New York Comic Con 2025:
comicsxf.com/2025/10/13/n...

From announcements to Artist Alley, CXF's New York Comic Con in review - COMICSXF

ComicsXF’s Adam Reck and Dan Grote tried to see as much as they could in two days and bring you their hot takes on New York Comic Con.

comicsxf.com

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