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Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🍁

@thatretro.bsky.social

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40X/Pan/Poly/She/They. A mostly existent trans-femme blogger of stuff. Wrestle rambler, old game player, Goosebumps guru and cartoon fan. What if Penny met a dinosaur? https://raidersofthebookmark.blogspot.com

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Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🍁 @thatretro.bsky.social · Nov 15

I guess I should do a proper pinned post.

My name is Alyce. A pan/trans-femme blogger who likes to blog about pretty much anything, but lately it's been old kids books from the 90s. You've probably also seen my name featured on many Botchamania videos.

I also like to talk about old stuff.

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Pop Arena @poparena.bsky.social · 1h

Thinking about how we probably won't have "2025 Nostalgic Ad Compilations" videos twenty years from now because we don't record TV anymore.

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Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🍁 @thatretro.bsky.social · 2h

Seth may be getting shoulder surgery, so he'll have to relinquish the title.

I'm sure they'll take this and give the belt to CM Punk or someone they've begun to build like Bron Breakk-just kidding they'll give it to fuckin' Lesnar.

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Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🍁 @thatretro.bsky.social · 2h

The reason bedroom walls were created. RIP.

James Whitbrook @jwhitbrook.bsky.social · 9h

Fuck. A generational loss.

Drew Struzan, the King of the Movie Poster, Has Died

The beloved artist, who illustrated iconic posters for 'Star Wars', 'Indiana Jones', 'Back to the Future', and more, was 78.

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 4h

Happy Anita Bryant Humiliation Day

A four-panel image of Anita Bryant being pied in her sanctimonious face by gay rights activist Thom Higgins, 1977.

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Hatok @hatok.bsky.social · 3h

Woolie talking about how Sonic is the coolest thing you get to experience as a christian child hence the christian sonic crossover art, and I wanna remind everyone this also applies to Kingdom Hearts

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Mike Smith - Voice Actor @kinglowtier.bsky.social · 2h

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 3h

A reminder, since rando bros are dropping in to announce their boycott, thinking we’re pro-AI like one of our producers.

C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 6d

There’s an interview going around about AI, so before there are any questions, let me state unequivocally that BLACK PHONE 2 is 100% organic. AI was not used at any stage of the filmmaking from idea generation, research, look books, writing, onscreen images - anything. We’re old school and love it.

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 3h

She's not pregnant, holy crap, what is wrong with people.

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Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🍁 @thatretro.bsky.social · 1d

raidersofthebookmark.blogspot.com/2025/10/gnom...

A quick review of James Rolfe's Gnome Cave book. The Nerd critiques nostalgia. Is it a shitload of fuck?

Gnome Cave: The AVGN Critiques Nostalgia

So this will be somewhat different than my normal blogs, just because I'm not sure how cool James Rolfe is with a full-on page for page reca...

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Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🍁 @thatretro.bsky.social · 6h

It's that time of year again. Time for another shitty looking YouTube UI

Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🍁 @thatretro.bsky.social · 7h

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OtterlyNoah 🥏🦦 🔜 PRGE @otterlynoah.bsky.social · 9h

So the new episode of Carl the Collector has Carl encounter a nonverbal autistic kid named Paolo who communicates through a talking tablet. While the other kids want to exclude Paolo, simply because he can't speak, Carl is the one who takes it upon himself to feel included. We need media like this💚

A screenshot of the PBS kids animated series Carl the Collector, which is notable for having the first ever explicitly stated autistic character in a kid's animated show as the main protagonist. A very progressive and forward thinking show that is educational for both neurodivergent and neurotypical kids

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🕸️🕷️ 🥀 Nani🥀🕷️🕸️ @sinmachine.is.severed.fyi · 9h

D’Angelo’s dead.

Titty Tuesday is canceled; gender wars are canceled; everything canceled today!!!

Wrap it up!!! For today we mourn.

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 9h

RIP Drew Struzan
A master.

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Vampire Hunter KB @kaiserbeamz.bsky.social · 8h

You owe it to yourself to listen to Brown Sugar, Voodoo, and/or Black Messiah today. RIP

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 8h

D’Angelo, the neo-soul trailblazer and modern visionary whose three albums were all heralded as classic works of art, has died at age 51.

Access the free article here: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

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Isa / EvilCleverDog @evilcleverdog.bsky.social · Aug 23

Using ChatGPT

Edith @edithcharles.bsky.social · Aug 23

What's something that isn't considered embarrassing but you think it should be?

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piper @roodypatooti.bsky.social · Aug 26

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Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🍁 @thatretro.bsky.social · 14h

Shit the next one's Halloween themed so never mind.

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 21h

This is an alarming compression of the planetary destruction timeline: with the massive growth of the AI bubble, data centers are expected to consume up to 12% of total US electricity by 2028, up from 4.4% in 2023.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/t...

Sora 2 and ChatGPT are consuming so much power that OpenAI just did another 10 gigawatt deal | CNN Business

OpenAI is partnering with Broadcom to design and develop 10 gigawatts of custom AI chips and systems, a massive amount of power that will use as much electricity as a large city. The move further high...

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SassyMetisChick @sassymetischick.bsky.social · 1d

If you didn’t know, Alaska has been hit by a massive storm, causing severe flooding. Many Indigenous villages have been completely wiped out, with some houses floating away with PEOPLE INSIDE THEM. Please keep posting to spread the info. They need help.

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 1d

These are mostly indigenous communities in Alaska that have been slammed by the storm.

The local manager of a small airline fleet says he is the only one doing evacuations right now!

Defund FEMA and people are abandoned. Defund public media and no-one knows.

FYI, today is Indigenous Peoples Day.

Flooding seen with water up to the crash barriers of local roads

Sheds and debris lie scattered in the storm

A small blue house has been blown onto its roof

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The Emperor's New Podcast @podcasttenp.bsky.social · 1d

IT IS TIME. check out the FINAL trailer for "The Road to Kuzcotopia: Chapter One Now! Share thoughts in comments or below! www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdMp...

FINAL TRAILER - The Road To Kuzcotopia: Chapter One

YouTube video by The Emperor's New Podcast

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OverClocked ReMix (We ♥ video game music!) 🎮🎵 @ocremix.org · 2d

25 years in, we are NOT allowing genAI music onto OC ReMix, full stop.

We're 100% against genAI music and are a community geared toward authentic creativity and artistic development. You don't get that by doing text prompts.

ocremix.org/remix/OCR04918
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Recent comment: "This A.I. music is as fake as 🏈 🦇."

In this case, this is human-made. (3 of our judges panel are also involved as collaborators on it: jnWake, pixelseph, and paradiddlesjosh.)

We explicitly do NOT accept any music made with generative A.I. There are tools out there that help identify genAI music. If music involving genAI is ever unknowingly let on, it will be removed if it's discovered.

We're 100% against genAI music and are a community geared toward authentic creativity and artistic development. You don't get that by doing text prompts.

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Deeply Unsexy Scary Gorgon Costume @scarygorgon.bsky.social · 4d

Unsolicited Pickwicks.

An illustration of Mr Pickwick from the Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens.

John Bunny playing Mr Pickwick in the 1913 film of the book

Mr Pickwick played by James Hayter in the 1952 film The Pickwick Papers.

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Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🍁 @thatretro.bsky.social · 1d

Unsolicited Click pick

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