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Eric Trautmann @mercuryeric.bsky.social · 1d

My soul feels deadened, I am laden with despair, and my wrist hurts. Good day for sending out freelancer invoices, I guess.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 1d

SEPTEMBER 2025: From bombing Venezuelan boats, to scaring families with misinformation about Tylenol, to getting stuck on an escalator at the UN, to summoning the military to tell them to lose weight and shave, it's all here--plus, (unfortunately) much more. #LestWeForgetTheHorrors

Lest We Forget the Horrors: An Unending Catalog of Trump’s Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes: September 2025: Atrocities 417-466

Early in President Trump’s first term, McSweeney’s editors began to catalog the head-spinning number of misdeeds coming from his administration. We...

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Darren M. A. Calvert @dmacalvert.bsky.social · 1d

Iterview

MARTIN SHORT: Who's sexier, me or Steve Martin?

DIANE KEATON: I mean, you're both idiots.

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Blaise Ulysse Bernard Collins @wittywebhandle.bsky.social · 2d

Mock cover for 'Atlas Shrugged' by Ayn Rand

"Ayn Rand

Atlas Needs You To Spot Him Like 20 Billion Dollars

1st Argentinian Edition"

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Eric Trautmann @mercuryeric.bsky.social · 1d

Posting one of my all-time favorite movie posters, by the late Drew Struzan and Charlie White. God, I love that version of the logo. www.rockpaperfilm.com/all-posters/...

Drew Struzan & Charlie White, Star Wars, 1978

Drew Struzan & Charlie White Star Wars, 1978 US One Sheet, Style D 41 x 27½ in. (104 x 70 cm.) Backed on linen

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Bill Mudron @mudron.bsky.social · 2d

Look at the wraparound artwork Struzan did for the Indiana Jones books in the early 90s, complete with hand-drawn titles and author blocks!

16 year old me would stand in a mall B. Dalton and could feel the thunder & hear the music with one of these books in my fat little white suburban hands.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

Definitely nothing can go wrong with OpenAI having a full record of your sexy chatbot interactions.

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Leah Miller @leahmiller.bsky.social · 4d

Sometimes tiktok has it

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Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · 4d

Moist owlettes. 🪶

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Dak @dak.myatproto.social · 5d

🎶Whoa, Black Betty🎶

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Eric Trautmann @mercuryeric.bsky.social · 3d

Glad you dug it. That was a fun gig.

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Eric Trautmann @mercuryeric.bsky.social · 4d

Oh, man. Hang in there.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 5d

ICE Raids: Myth Vs. Fact https://theonion.com/ice-raids-myth-vs-fact/

MYTH: My grandmother was deported to El Salvador.

FACT: No one really knows where she was deported to.

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Jack @jackloftus.bsky.social · 6d

Such a fun one to write and continually, shamelessly self-promote all week long.

McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 6d

STORY: ORANGE MAN LIE AGAIN

OLD WAY: “CRITICS SAY STATEMENT MAY BE MISLEADING.”

ANIMAL WAY: HIT KICK DRUM, YELL “LIE!” HIT TAMBOURINE, WHISPER “but other side lie too” IN SOFTEST MIKE JOHNSON VOICE.

“AAAGGGHHH!!!” A Memo from Animal, Your New Editor-in-Chief

“[Editor-in-chief of CBS News] Bari Weiss told network staffers in a morning editorial call that she wants to ‘win’ before delivering a rallying cr...

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Eric Trautmann @mercuryeric.bsky.social · 6d

Honestly, I don't think we've ever discussed the movie/the piece of shit actor in question, but I can predict. ;)

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Eric Trautmann @mercuryeric.bsky.social · 6d

The fact that there's a cool-looking TRON sequel, with a killer soundtrack, in theaters now and--due to one piece of casting--I have ZERO desire to see it is not a thing I would've predicted.

Sigh.

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Hawklorddragon @cimerians.bsky.social · 6d

Art by Philippe Druillet
#StarWars #scifiart

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RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 7d

horror movie posters but with muppets: thread

Oscar the Grouch in the movie poster for Alien.

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 8d

You will soon stalk, hunt, and take down Prey in theaters:

reactormag.com/prey-predato...

Prey Is Finally Getting the Theatrical Release Director Dan Trachtenberg Says It Was Made For - Reactor

The 2022 film is showing as part of a Predator double feature.

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SNL Nerds @snlnerds.bsky.social · 10d

#DowneyWroteThat: Documentary about #SNL writer Jim Downey gets October launch on Peacock #SNLNerds :
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMgF...

Downey Wrote That | Official Trailer | Peacock Original

YouTube video by Peacock

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Woltergeist II: The Other Side @wolter.bsky.social · 8d

Natalie Dormer is probably the most famous actor from Game Of Thrones whose last name is a part of house, narrowly defeating Peterdink Ledge on a technicality.

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Eric Trautmann @mercuryeric.bsky.social · 7d

The Kickstarter to fund a full first season is here:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/che...

Cheating History: Season One

A narrative podcast

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Eric Trautmann @mercuryeric.bsky.social · 7d

My friends are putting together a Kickstarter for a sci-fi narrative podcast, and I'd urge you to give it a look.

CHEATING HISTORY is a narrative Sci-Fi podcast. The podcast pilot is fully recorded/edited, and can be heard here:
media.rss.com/cheating-his...

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Alejandro Arbona 🇵🇷 @alejandrobot.com · 9d

Hugely excited to show off our Lazarus: Fallen #6 "Youngblood variant"!! Cover art by @comixbychloe.bsky.social, design by @mercuryeric.bsky.social. Featuring our Forever Carlyle alongside Vogue from Youngblood, it is truly "a Vogue cover" if you know what I mean
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Lazarus: Fallen #6 "Youngblood variant" cover art by Chloe Brailsford in the style of a fashion magazine cover, depicting the purple-haired Youngblood team member Vogue in a low-cut, high-slit dress in her signature color of magenta cinched at the waist with a belt and thigh-high tight-squeezing boots, with her hands on her hips and her head defiantly thrown back, and the Lazarus Forever Carlyle in skintight black leather pants with two loose studded hip-hugging belts, a black leather jacket with a giant zipper-pull worn over a skintight sheer top, a black choker collar reading CARLYLE in metallic letters, and a little black leather cap at a rakish ankle, with her sword on her back, and she's pulling on black leather gloves. Cover copy reads: TIMELESS LOOKS, LETHAL CHIC. YOUNGBLOOD STUNNER VOGUE & THE LAZARUS FOREVER CARLYLE. PHOTOGRAPHED BY CHLOE BRAILSFORD.

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Scott Murderhouse @voxparlour.bsky.social · 11d

Taylor Swift announces next album title: The Queen in Yellow. She told Variety: "A few years back I came across this amazing play and I was so inspired. It's been living in my head for years. I even dream of it, of the city in the play."

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