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Al Kennedy

@alkennedy.bsky.social

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50% of the world's ninth longest running comic book podcast, House to Astonish. 100% of interview/book group podcast Desert Island Discworld. New Warriorologist. He/him.

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Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · Jul 8

So yes! I'm not spending my time on Twitter any more! You are all I really have left! So here is my creative output!

House to Astonish! It's the ninth longest running comics podcast in the world, a fact I find motivational and somehow also very funny! housetoastonish.com

Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · Jul 8

This is true. I quit Twitter this afternoon and basically nobody gives a shit, and that's the healthy way for people to be, quite frankly

dan @danabra.mov · Jul 7

the weird thing about being on the internet is nobody really notices when you disappear cause there’s always enough stuff to fill the timeline. i’m overstating it but it’s partially true. there’s nonzero count of people you forgot about because they stopped posting or deactivated

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Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 7h

Also, not to pre-empt anything, but Richard Garfield's dev diary makes it explicit that they're going to do a bunch more and can I just get in here now and suggest Magical Athlete Legacy, ok thanks

Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 7h

We've now played this with our kids half a dozen times and it's clear to us that it's something that we're going to be pulling out for a quick round for years

D @vysetron.pixeldie.com · 4d

If you told me a few years ago that I'd have an opportunity to review a new edition of Magical Athlete, I'd have called you a liar.

If you followed up by telling me it was from @cmyk.games and was perfect in every discernible way, I'd have asked who put you up to this.

pixeldie.com/2025/10/08/m...

Magical Athlete – Review

Excitedly crouched at the starting line.

pixeldie.com

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Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 7h

We've now played it a half dozen times with our 11- and 7-year-olds and it's clear that it's something that we're going to be playing in a decade when the box is taped together and the board has separated at the hinge

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Bobbie Draper - Martian Marine & Cucumber Sandwich Enjoyer @nicosan1.bsky.social · 17h

Farts Johnson posting his Tron Legacy playlist gives me a chance to repost the Star Trek Legacy video by Patrick Collins which he made a cut of Star Trek The Motion Picture with Daft Punk’s score for Tron. It’s nice. I’d like someone to recut a version of TMP w/that like Soderbergh’s Raiders

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Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 9h

I'm very accustomed to it being both tbh

Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 10h

Nick Cardy was the only Teen Titans artist whose name is also a mission directive in a GTA game set in an old folks' home

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cpuk (trampoline park connoisseur and occasional comic printer) @comicprintinguk.bsky.social · 10h

I like Stephen King’s short story “The Jaunt” a lot, but I think it ought to be classed as a novella really. It’s longer than you think.

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Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 10h

#TheTwen2ie5 Day 12

Kid Sistr - Little Sister Song (2020)

An absolute cannonball of a chorus, almost scientifically designed for belting out in unison as you drive down the motorway with your sibling in the passenger seat

www.youtube.com/watch?v=o75Z...

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Anthony Oliveira @meakoopa.bsky.social · 14h

heads up lesbians:

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meliss-AAAH! @mel.bzky.team · 15h

good afternoon

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 17h

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 15h

Where are you now when we need you, orcas

Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 15h

R.E.M. Speedwagon
My Chemical Addiction
Ned's Atomic Kitten

TheSocioPhi @thesociophi.bsky.social · 1d

Mash up bands:

Chumbastank

Jake_Vig @jakevig.bsky.social · 1d

Mash up bands:

Foo Sisters

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Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 16h

Just discovered why this is getting retweeted again

Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · Jul 29

Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau dating is the rare occurrence of two grenades jumping on each other

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Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 16h

*Luffy on the cross* sorry, this is probably really embarrassing for you guys

Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 16h

Imagine trying to claim Luffy is a Christ figure in a red straw hat. His hat is yellow. You're thinking of Paddington

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 18h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Geoffrey David B. @geothetrickster.bsky.social · 18h

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Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 21h

The Tron: Ares greenlight meeting in one image

Still from the video "Rejected Theme Song from READY PLAYER ONE" by Demi Adejuyigbe.

Video at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMBylNJQEbg

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Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 21h

Extremely understandable reaction tbh

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 1d

I'm perplexed at watching pundits in the trades struggling to explain Tron Ares' disappointing opening.

Was it covid? Do people just not like science fiction? etc. etc.

The main reason is pretty obvious: Tron isn't a popular franchise. Nobody's interested in nostalgia for a failed 1980s project.