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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 2d

It's kinda cool that Gary Larson is doing new cartoons because he picked up a digital tablet, taught himself how to use it, and it made him love drawing again.

www.thefarside.com/new-stuff/

New Work by Gary Larson | TheFarSide.com

Get an exclusive look at brand new cartoons and artwork from cartoonist Gary Larson, creator of the iconic comic strip The Far Side®.

www.thefarside.com

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shajantrik.bsky.social @shajantrik.bsky.social · 2d

Farside and Ai Yazawa returning. the current cycle of franchise regurgitation sucks, but sometimes revisiting old stuff is nice!

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Kody Okamoto @kodyisover.com · 2d

INCREDIBLE DAY FOR AI YAZAWA FANS

MangaAlerts @mangaalerts.com · 2d

Viz Media announced they licensed I'm No Angel by Ai Yazawa for a physical and digital release

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Garrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social · 8d

wife’s great-grandmother made the paper in the best way

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 5d

D’Angelo, Grammy-winning neo-soul pioneer, dies aged 51

Singer known for tracks such as Brown Sugar and Untitled (How Does It Feel) died at home from pancreatic cancer D’Angelo, the Grammy-winning R&B singer who helped pioneer the sound of neo-soul, has died. He was 51. The singer, born Michael Eugene Archer, died on Tuesday morning at his home in New York after privately suffering from pancreatic cancer, his family confirmed to Variety. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 7d

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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shajantrik.bsky.social @shajantrik.bsky.social · 9d

scrolling through live reactions when sports gets goofy is the best part of any proper social media site

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 9d

the joy of tik tok

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 9d

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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Raf Blutaxt @rafblutaxt.bsky.social · 9d

So yeah, I fail at talking about Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon but I suspect I'm not the only one failing at this endeavour. youtu.be/seFUMWVOefs

Atomic Cheese And The Rise Of Fascism - Discussing Tohmas Pynchon's Shadow Ticket

YouTube video by Raf Blutaxt

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Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · 10d

Me and @markkrotov.bsky.social wrote about Laszlo Krasznahorkai and the Nobel Prize in Literature newrepublic.com/article/2015...

The Nobel Prize in Literature Is Boring Now

László Krasznahorkai, who was awarded the Prize on Thursday, is a brilliant novelist and consummate laureate. But has the Swedish Academy lost its sense of fun?

newrepublic.com

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 18d

Should critics read bad books?

It's a much more complicated question than it might seem at first glance.

Spurred by last night's explosive discussion about AI book covers, I consider the problematic of bad fiction and critical bias in our modern age of slop 🩷

Should Critics Read Bad Books? (CW #15)

Art is not something we consume. Art is something we do.

thetransfemininereview.com

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Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 18d

The horror and especially the Hong Kong collections will understandably dominate @criterionchannl.bsky.social viewing this month but don’t overlook the Kira Muratova curation. There was a time when you couldn’t even torrent some of these, and the rest only in VHS rips.

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Ian @brocktoon.bsky.social · 19d

I'll take the bullheaded, deeply flawed, 1990s quest for authenticity and cultivating a core which you shouldn't sell out over this any day. Any day.

Charles PM @charlespulliam.bsky.social · 19d

Fuckin yikes, man

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 20d

I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".

Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 20d

hey @nytimes.com: there is no counterpoint here. There are no credible legal experts who would EVER say that the US military has any right or authority to blow civilian craft out of the Caribbean and kill their crews from afar without any provocation. There is no other side to this question.

"Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians not directly taking part in hostilities, even if they are believed to be smuggling drugs."

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Siddhant Adlakha @siddhantadlakha.bsky.social · 22d

Really sorry to hear about the sudden passing of Kaleb Horton, a fantastic writer. Only seems fitting to share what he wrote for David Lynch kalebhorton.ghost.io/death-is-jus...

Death Is Just A Change

David Lynch has gone on to whatever the next place is. I’m very sad about it; it came at a hard time for the city of Los Angeles, a place he dearly loved, and it’s hard not to think his change of cons...

kalebhorton.ghost.io

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Brandon Kennedy @bicycleidiot.bsky.social · 22d

RIP Kaleb Horton
kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/

I also have advice. Everybody loves reading advice on the computer, so I'll share it: the best thing you can do right now is log off as hard as you can. Go outside, talk to people in real life where it's actually kind of rude to talk about the news, try to actually see the friends you usually just text message. Go for a long drive and turn the phone off while you do it. Get back into your hobbies or pick one and learn it for a while. Watch one of those studio movies that reviews called "wildly miscalculated" and you haven't seen since high school. Play an album you like but find embarrassing. Go to free community events even if they sound stupid. If you take the freeway, try the surface streets. Go to a bad diner and just order some bad coffee because even bad coffee is good coffee.
You can't help anybody when you're exhausted and keep posting one million college-educated rewordings of "I would love to be dead right now" on the computer. Walk away from the thing and try out some of those normal things you hear about and if you get bored that's wonderful because we're not supposed to get bored anymore. It turns out boredom is the Cadillac of feelings.

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Sean Gilman @theendofcinema.bsky.social · Sep 18

In October on The Channel there will be a whole lot of Hong Kong

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · Sep 17

No words.

The lives of those living in Gaza are deemed less important than maintaining relations with Israel and, by proxy, the US. At the personal level, on Labour's doorsteps, this approach plays out in the most callous of ways. Dalloul al-Neder is a Palestinian refugee from Gaza, who was a constituent of the former deputy prime minister, Angela Rayner.
He got to know her, meeting several times: she visited his takeaway shop in 2019 and posed for pictures, declaring "Palestine must be free". She took him on a tour of parliament.

PHOTO: Dalloul al-Neder, who lives in Manchester, with an image of his late mother - he has lost several family members in Gaza bombings.
Photograph: Sean Hansford/MEN Media

Within weeks of the genocide beginning, in October 2023, his mother, brother, sister-in-law and two young nieces were killed by an Israeli airstrike. Desperate to evacuate his wife and four-month-old daughter - who had been buried under rubble three times by Israeli attacks - he emailed Rayner twice to seek help evacuating his family. He says received no response.

In January 2024, he attended a Labour fundraiser in Stockport addressed by Rayner and her colleague, Jonathan Reynolds, and got to his feet, clutching pictures of his dead mother, begging her to support a ceasefire, emotionally declaring "I lost my family in Gaza". The whole tawdry episode is on camera: he was aggressively ejected from the meeting and on to the street. Rayner did nothing, except to say "thank you, you've made your point". She then unfollowed him on social media. Days later, she was interviewed by Sky News' Beth Rigby, who framed the incident as an example of the threats politicians face, linking it to the murder of the MPs Jo Cox and David Amess.
Since then, so many of Neder's relatives have been slaughtered by the Israeli state that their names take up three pages of a notebook.

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Imran Khan @imrankhan.bsky.social · Sep 12

lmao a skinhead beat me up in my high school bathroom with a pipe and I was too afraid to tell a teacher because they all got hyper-bloodlust from 9/11

The New York Times @nytimes.com · Sep 12

From @theathletic.com: On a day when America remembered the 9/11 victims and heroes, and confronted pain all over again, Yankee Stadium was a great place to be, our columnist writes. nyti.ms/46gq9BN

A quote from Carolee Azzarello, a longtime Yankees fan, who lost her two brothers on Sept. 11, 2001: “It’s a shame. It would be great if we could all go back to Sept. 12, 2001, when we were all Americans regardless of your point of view.”

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Just Wandering @justwanderingblog.bsky.social · Sep 6

To honor the 30th anniversary of the debut of Xena: Warrior Princess, here's my magnum opus:

A video essay about Xena and her place in the history of action women and queer women on screen.

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

A Rambling Account of the Badassery of Xena: Warrior Princess

YouTube video by Just Wandering

www.youtube.com

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shajantrik.bsky.social @shajantrik.bsky.social · Aug 29

given his track record, I'm sure Hawley's not sticking the landing on 'Alien: Earth', but I was delighted by the Oops All Chekhov's Guns of episode 4

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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · Aug 23

I love video games so much bc they think they have an objective metric for what “looks better” and they’re always wrong, even in retrospect haaa

LewieP @lewiep.bsky.social · Aug 23

Look how they massacred my boy

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Peter Labuza @labuzamovies.com · Aug 7

It was very cool of James to take the time to put this together and I was glad to contribute. I think what's cool about this list is if you're genuinely curious about getting into experimental cinema, there's a lot of different avenues in the top films and filmmakers listed here.

James Hansen @jpjameshansen.bsky.social · Aug 7

In response to the NYT lists, I called for contributors to submit 15 titles for Best Experimental Cinema of the 21st Century.

109 ballots, 940 films, and 550 artists later, these are the results.

Huge thanks to @filmmakermagazine.com.web.brid.gy for stepping up to publish.

tinyurl.com/484u9f2z

The 63 Best Experimental Films of the 21st Century (So Far) - Filmmaker Magazine

Publication with a focus on independent film, offering articles, links, and resources.

tinyurl.com

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James Hansen @jpjameshansen.bsky.social · Aug 7

In response to the NYT lists, I called for contributors to submit 15 titles for Best Experimental Cinema of the 21st Century.

109 ballots, 940 films, and 550 artists later, these are the results.

Huge thanks to @filmmakermagazine.com.web.brid.gy for stepping up to publish.

tinyurl.com/484u9f2z

The 63 Best Experimental Films of the 21st Century (So Far) - Filmmaker Magazine

Publication with a focus on independent film, offering articles, links, and resources.

tinyurl.com

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · Jul 31

Between March and June, Israel allowed just 56,000 tonnes of food to enter the territory, less than a quarter of Gaza’s minimum needs for that period …

Even if every bag of UN flour had been collected and handed out … starvation was inevitable. Palestinians did not have enough to eat.”

The mathematics of starvation: how Israel caused a famine in Gaza

Israel controls the flow of food. It calculated how much Gaza needs – but data shows how this is being withheld

www.theguardian.com

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