oh so here's the announcement we were teasing last night and as you can see it is very terrific news and no chicken butts are involved

Somerville Theatre@somerville-theatre.bsky.social · 2h ago

Hey Somerville... Guess what?  WE BOUGHT THE BUILDING. The Somerville Theatre now belongs to the people who run it. Buying it was our leap of faith. Supporting it is where you come in. Find how you can help: somervilletheatre.com/future

looking at the menu for a local place that has a BBQ brisket sandwich named the "Fidel Castro." Yes, BBQ brisket, known as the cuisine of revolutionary communist leaders. Big banners of Che and Fidel and Marx flying over every rural Texas BBQ joint. Red scarves for napkins around every chin

Don't be afraid to look at the grab bag of contextually challenged comics from all over the map today at Stupid Comics! misterkitty.net/extras/stupi...

We will be there helping out!

Anime North@animenorthcompass.bsky.social · 6h ago

Tonight’s the night for a fright as #ANHalloween2026 kicks off at 6PM. The schedule is now online with info on overflow parking near the JCCC (available at the lot behind 100 Wyford Dr). animenorth.com/about/hallow...

There's a re-shot version of Mecha-May's first video up now, with a list of scary Halloween anime: youtu.be/z68zSF7e26U

It's Time for Scares, It's Time for Screams: Spooky Anime for Halloween and Beyond!

YouTube video by The Mecha-May and Mew-Bot Show

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This is what's in charge. For fuck's sake, it's government by eight-year-olds.

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 7h ago

TRUMP: WE COULD TAKE ALL OF THE OIL IN IRAN

gosh, this post was cynical and cranky! By the way, get ready for SISTER X WITCH X GIRLFRIEND IN FANTASY COOKING DUNGEON, the exciting new franchise debuting on all platforms with limited edition figures and exclusive gatcha pulls available on the holographic concert tour, coming soon everywhere an

D. Merrill @terebifunhouse.bsky.social · last wk.

I spent the 00's watching friends get jobs in the anime industry, and I wondered if I was just a sucker for keeping my boring day job, that I shouldn't be working that angle for a paycheck. Well, turns out I still have the boring day job, and I never had to pretend to be excited about mediocre anime

gotta get ready for AWA next week, 31 years ago

Bad / girly / gay: BICYCLES Good / manly / warrior class: BALLROOMS

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 20h ago

Joe Mitchell: "Thank God you're building the ballroom. Thank God you're getting rid of those awful bike lanes. We don't ride bicycles in Iowa."

This is ragebait so not directly quoting it, but the question misses the point: studying those topics trains you to THINK, which ia something EVERYONE needs to know regardless if you use those specific skills.

Don't be afraid to look at the grab bag of contextually challenged comics from all over the map today at Stupid Comics! misterkitty.net/extras/stupi...

you'd think JD Vance, Famous Mountain Boy, would put a stop to this, but he's too busy being a complete lying-ass fuckup

Jezebel@jezebeldotcom.bsky.social · 21h ago

FEMA is planning on cutting all federal disaster aid to states, leaving them to fend for themselves after storms www.jezebel.com/trump-admin-...

Sailor Moon fans should check into @sailorsoapbox.com's Crystal Tokyo Radio show right now for the Sailor Venus birthday show and it will also be on various other times throughout today and tomorrow! sailorsoapbox.com/crystaltokyo...

Crystal Tokyo Radio

Listen to Crystal Tokyo Radio, an all Sailor Moon radio station featuring music from (almost) every version of the series!

sailorsoapbox.com

Oh, boy, feel this article nymag.com/intelligence...

The 75-Year-Old Screenagers

Seniors are spending more time than ever on their slop-filled, scam-riddled feeds. It has become their adult children’s job to save them.

nymag.com

The Nigerian Anime-Focused Podcast To Know: Bolaji Akinwande that explores "My Best Friend, The Weeb," a Nigerian podcast about the country's anime scene. He talks with its hosts about Nigerian anime fandom, the growth of anime access, and more. Link: hera.fyi/mbfw #anime #fandom

The Nigerian Anime-Focused Podcast To Know

Podcasting in Nigeria has become a form of storytelling within mainstream media, beginning in the 2010s, with names like I Said What I Said, F & S

hera.fyi

i guess it scans that hockey and football are the sports of choice for libertarians with head injuries

George Pearkes@peark.es · yesterday

Man. www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeau...

I wrote on @boingboing.net about The Underwater Cabaret, a satirical magazine incredibly made by a poet hiding from the Nazis in a Netherlands attic. - boingboing.net/2026/10/22/t...

The Underwater Cabaret, a magazine made by a poet hiding from Nazis

Curt Bloch made 96 issues of a satirical magazine from 1943 to 1945 while hiding in an Enschede attic.

boingboing.net

Could Donnie, America's oldest Make-A-Wish child, finally be in the FO stage of something?

MS NOW@ms.now · yesterday

BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered President Trump to sit for a deposition in his $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the BBC or risk the case getting dismissed, according to the AP.

when I worked for General Cinema, they also owned Pepsico's largest bottler company, so every time someone asked for a Coke at the concession stand we had to respond with "is Pepsi okay?" And it usually was. But sometimes people got huffy. Atlanta is a Coke town

CNN@cnn.com · yesterday

KFC dumped PepsiCo last week, but its sister chain Taco Bell announced it’s keeping the Mountain Dew Baja Blast maker on for another decade. https://cnn.it/4eKyB16

the article talks about Fanime's Manga Ichiba, which was a successful Comiket type event for original doujinshi, that required artists have a new comic for the event! This is a great idea to weed out the all-talkers, and I might steal it

D. Merrill @terebifunhouse.bsky.social · yesterday

The Beat article touches on the avalanche of cheap plastic junk overwhelming AAs - keychains, stickers, and "washi tape" which is like, I don't know what it is or what you do with it. I get it, the bottom line is "it sells". Well, I didn't drive an hour to look at 'what sells,' I wanna see zines

if I might say more things about comics and AA in an old man voice: back in my day you could table at these things for cheap, make your zines for cheap, sell them for cheap, and get into them for cheap. Now? Everything is $$$. Everyone is trying to wring every last $ out of every aspect

I still believe that comics are a democratic medium -- just pencil and paper to make something, which is still sort of affordable -- but I don't think it's democratically distributed. The systemic costs to play grow worse and worse each year and push more people out. Innovation remains key.

It's not easy to make original stuff or head out to shows where audiences are ambivalent or hostile to things they don't recognize. I think there's a lot of work and time required to cultivate audiences, in an industry where people don't have the resources to return to shows year after year.

I think there's a framing around indie comics that what holds people back is just fear of engaging with people. I don't think it addresses underlying economic pressures; like it's hard to pay for a table and not see a return. Maybe that manifests itself as fear, but it's rooted in something tangible

"I used to really be into Trump. Then I turned 12"

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 2d ago

Michael Fusella supported President Trump for nearly a decade. But as the Iran war drags on and the cost of living continues to climb, the 21-year-old Republican said he feels betrayed by a president who said he’d end overseas conflicts and lower prices.

Read up on REX www.tokyoscope.blog/p/japans-rex...

Japan’s REX: A Dinosaur, a Drug Scandal, and an Unexpected Cult Movie Afterlife

Japanese pop culture news edited by Patrick Macias

tokyoscope.blog

This is going viral because *shakes Magic 8 ball, peers inside* policies from the Trump administration resulted in the Umamusume concerts in the States being cancelled.

Paul Marvin@paulmarvin.bsky.social · 2d ago

LRT: I don't have the numbers, but from the worried emails I get about the zine show, and the nervous emails I've received in the past about anime con AA's, and the conversations I've been in, the answer is "no." If people were making money, I'd never be in a lot of those conversations

The rising costs detailed here apply mostly to mainstream cons. Indie cons are getting out of hand, too. I only attend either if all my costs are paid. But I'm a prima donna, and I don't need con income. If I was still hitting the road trying to make a name, yeah it would tough.

Is Artist Alley even sustainable any more?

It's more expensive than ever to set up in artist alley or at a comics show - and here are some of the numbers

comicsbeat.com

are these the people that threw all their LPs into the dumpster the minute CDs came on the market? Spotify happened and they threw all those CDs away? Netflix started streaming and they took all their DVDs to the thrift store? I guess they are.

D. Merrill @terebifunhouse.bsky.social · 2d ago

had a convo about book bans with a right wing guy who was OK with schools banning books because 'everything is on the internet.' These people have the object permanence of literal infants, they are d-u-m-b.