This is basically why I (half-jokingly) say that ~2019-2023 were the best years to be a fan of comic book movies. There will always be the potential for a great Spiderman movie to come out, but how often is there the potential for Shang-Chi and The Legend of the 10 Rings?

Asher Elbein@asherelbein.bsky.social · 4d ago

The assumption that this speaks to a continued desire for MCU stuff in its own right is, I think, incorrect. People like Spider-Man, people will almost certainly turn out for the X-Men, but I'd be genuinely surprised if they manage to get butts back in seats for Nova or Ghost Rider

Taylor Swift is the millennial version of Elvis.

lil miss big boy@lighter.bsky.social · 5d ago

Post your hottest music take. Mine is New Order is better than Joy Division.

Every time I look away from the screen and look back, the Dream have scored and the Storm have not #wnba.

Trump fucked over the US Auto Industry, but I'm sure Mary Batra is personally paying less in taxes.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

GM CEO Mary Barra is introducing Trump at his rally. Something to keep in mind if you're in the market for a vehicle anytime soon.

Not to be a lefty doomer, but I don't really think the GOP being reduced to 47 senate seats is "end days" for the GOP. The thread doesn't specify, but I assume Dems win all current seats, + ME, NC, IA, OH, TX, and AK to get to 53. That's mostly just a normal bad year for the GOP.

The Editorial Board@editorialboard.bsky.social · 2w ago

7. With D+11, what happens is 242 Democratic House seats and 53 Democratic Senate seats. In other words, "the end days" for the Republican Party. x.com/davidslosttt...

Is the surprise that they're still a thing?

Pop Crave@popcrave.com · 2w ago

Fifth Harmony tease a surprise for their anniversary next week.

Reminds me of the time another Dem candidate tried using anti-Asian racism against Stephanie Chang. Chang wiped the floor with her. Where do people get the idea this stuff will play well?

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 2w ago

Great stuff

Flashback to my grandma saying "I'll vote for Bernie Sanders even though he isn't a real socialist".

Poll Tracker 📊@polltracker.bsky.social · 2w ago

"Which of the following people are socialists? Check all that apply" Bernie Sander 55% Zohran Mamdani 51% Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez 45% Barack Obama 27% Kamala Harris 27% Elizabeth Warren 25% Joe Biden 23% Gavin Newsom 20% None of the above 28% d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/ec...

I remember Scott Adams laid out a theory of "Slow Moving Disasters", which supposed that such events would always be corrected before they became really serious. Like a lot of things he believed, it turns out to have been pretty stupid.

Austen@ac-f.bsky.social · 2w ago

I was not prepared for how much of the apocalypse is stuff just slowly working less and less.

"It looked like a film Michael Cera would act in"

Secret Drug Addict@scrtdrugaddict.bsky.social · 2w ago

I'm not sure if it's actually more expensive to hire one of these than to buy an ad slot, but it definitely feels like the sort of thing you do when you have more money than you know what to do with.

Joe Wrote@joewrote.bsky.social · 2w ago

Haley Stevens flew a banner over Abdul El-Sayed's Grand Rapids rally. The banner said El-Sayed should "release his PDF." The Stevens campaign edited to images to say "PFD" (personal financial disclosure), posted it online, and got caught. Millions from AIPAC and she can't afford spell check!

It's hard to find good info on the status of the war, but I feel like the fact that the US is just launching missiles at the same parts of Iran again and again while Iran is hitting bases further and further away is a sign that, even tactically, the US is losing badly.

Rima I Anabtawi@rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 2w ago

U.S. strikes Iran for ninth consecutive night, IRGC says it targeted Jordan www.haaretz.com/middle-east-...

we need people who are not focused on electoralism and do other things! we have...less need for people to spend all their time yelling about how electoralism is pointless and you shouldn't vote.

I was not prepared for how much of the apocalypse is stuff just slowly working less and less.

Abilu Tangwa.@abilutangwa.bsky.social · 3w ago

What they don't teach you about heatwaves: It's not just heat. It's: • Your crops dying • Your river drying (Rhine is low again, disrupting shipping) • Your lungs burning from wildfire smoke • Your power grid collapsing It's everything at once.

Rooting for Spain to beat Argentina, anti-imperialistly.

Austen@ac-f.bsky.social · 4w ago

Wild that the one non-European country in the semi-finals might actually be the most racist.

Stay gold, horse-man.

Oliver Darkshire@deathbybadger.bsky.social · 3mo ago

we should obviously strive for clarity in our work but a not insignificant percentage of your readers will always (erroneously) assume one of your characters is a horse, and no amount of explanation or exposition will prevent this

The Bluey pajamas, the bunny hat and Spiderman backpack... Every child is just one heart-wrenching journalistic detail away from being viscerally recognizable as your own or as a child you know. Let the specificity break your heart open each time. But then widen the lens and fight for all of them.

Sarah J. Jackson@sjjphd.bsky.social · 3w ago

Remember when police murdered Philando Castile a four year old was in the car. Remember children watched George Floyd be suffocated. Remember 7 year old Aiyana Stanley-Jones murdered by police in her sleep. Sonya Massey’s son and daughter. This is the same cookbook, the same evil. I hope folks see.

Wild that the one non-European country in the semi-finals might actually be the most racist.

You know, if 10s of millions of people are actually working "fake" jobs, I might conclude it says more about our economic system than our education system, but what do I know.

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · 4w ago

Vance: A lot of the people who are going and getting 4-year degrees, they're not like engineers and doctors. They have fake jobs

Horrible new bullshit from the sea every time. It’s never ‘oh we found a new pink fish that is so happy’ it’s always stuff like this, the crush-depth screw-headed dongwongler, and it’s got to have big long creepy bits. Sick of the ocean tbh.

Another wild thing is that the "pick up artist hate" guys didn't come around to "maybe we should be nice to women instead".

Emily Tamkin@emilyctamkin.bsky.social · 4w ago

You know, in hindsight, that there was a show about a guy whose whole thing was that you can get more women by being mean to them was a sign that maybe we as a culture were headed somewhere bleak

ICE agents under Trump have shot at least 20 people who were inside their cars They did it again today, killing a father ICE said he "weaponized his vehicle" -- a claim they've often made & that often has turned out to be BS. The FBI is investigating...the dad. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/07/u...

I'm about to develop a theory of "positive dirtbaggery".

Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · last mo.

The political theory that Nazi tattoos, calling people “r******d,” demeaning women, etc. are “working class values,” and that people who object to it should “lighten up” because working class voters who like that are the key to elections, isn’t looking great. And it was always very condescending.

People who spiral out overusing LLM chatbots are really just experiencing the kind of brain-damaging stream of unconditional validation that’s always been the norm for the hyper-wealthy, which explains a lot.

Jon Hendry@jonhendry.bsky.social · last mo.

Worse than Twitter, private discussions (text, email, whatever) among like-minded wealthy lunatics who are all surrounded by yes-men who talk like ChatGPT in maximum ass-kissing mode.

England vs Mexico is the most lopsided cuisine matchup in the world.

"Colorado, New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont, and Michigan aren't the United States".

Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social · last mo.

There is now set to be at least eight democratic socialists in Congress. Melat Kiros – alongside Claire Valdez, Darializa Avila Chevalier, Brad Lander, and Chris Rabb – will join Bernie Sanders, Rashida Tlaib, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Not to be that guy, but I feel like this probably actually is a place where the primary responsibility has to lie with the parents.

Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · last mo.

While not ignoring that social media has many harmful effects, I am very skeptical that "build an increasingly interconnected world of information but also kids will go live out my vague memories of a Spielberg movie instead" is a viable policy approach. The politics of nostalgia are a dead end.

This is Christopher Priest, one of the old school writers of Black Panther (1990s) & Marvel's 1st black editor, discussing his time/interactions with Larry Hama -- the guy who created the classic comics version of G.I. JOE. Hindsight of my own experiences makes this incredibly important to me.

Sometimes you gotta think about all the people who were absolutely prepared to execute this guy in spite of this.

Taniel@taniel.bsky.social · last mo.

Just an insane case, folks. boltsmag.org/chris-duncan...