BrendanClay
@claybrendan.bsky.social
he/him, occasional writer and GM, ceasefire now, follows and reposts aren't necessarily endorsements. Cover art by Stuart Hughes
ICYMI, Neri Oxman notably accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in secret donations from Jeffrey Epstein, and her husband Bill Ackman was also behind the successful right-wing inquisition of Claudine Gay, the first Black president of Harvard University, over plagiarism accusations (see a trend?)
@amiman.bsky.social · yesterdaySo Billionaire`s white wife MIT Professor Oxman accused of plagiarism but the media left her alone. A Black professor accused of the same thing & the media hounds him to death🤔 www.businessinsider.com/neri-oxman-p...
Hawkeye’s such a fun character. Can someone do an animated show or something and wash away the Renner taste? It’s a bummer we basically got Ultimate Hawkeye in the MCU, who had his moments but is not as fun as slutty deaf carnival slacker Hawkeye
Listening to IN THE AEROPLANE OVER THE SEA in full for the first time in a long while It ages like a fine wine tbh
At this point I'm largely pretending to look forward to the weekend for small talk purposes. Not that they're all bad, but they have about the same chances to be good or bad as a work day
Guys like Yglesias keep using the "HR training" and "HR lady" shorthand because it's less obviously odious than honestly saying that they don't think racism or misogyny are important issues worth dealing with and only matter as "luxury beliefs" for prudish upper class people
Cat at a table by British painter and teacher of art, Ruskin Spear (1911-1990). Oil on board 61 x 51 cm #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
Wait, Image was already publishing Latour again??? [mentioned in article] www.comicsbeat.com/ellis-image-...
Image to publish new Warren Ellis book GHOST DRIVE STATION
Five years after Image said it would not publish a new Ellis comic until he made amends, he has a new book coming out
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Really disappointing to see almost total silence from the comics community over Image's decision to rehabilitate Warren Ellis
Comics media should be directly asking image, "you said that you would not work with Ellis until the victims were satisfied. He walked away from the mediation process. Why then are you working with Ellis?" And refusing to cover the book unless/ until they get an answer.
Joe Grunenwald@joegrunenwald.bsky.social · 6d agoImage Comics: "Quick, they're all distracted by Marvel/Star Wars, send the PR about the new Warren Ellis book"
Nolan films: What if a man had a big important project, but he felt conflicted about it
Imagine if you were a team of elite international euroterrorists ala Die Hard whose plan was to pretend to be a ship in distress so you could get aboard Zuck's megayacht and extort him for billions, but you didn't think of one thing: he's a weird creep who doesn't care about human life.
Darcy James Argue@darcyjamesargue.com · last wk.This is a big deal. The owner of a boat that refuses to respond to a maritime distress call should lose their effing boat. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
I guess Glen Hansard wasn’t quite the angelic presence most people knew. Evidently he had quite a robust (and creepazoid) dark side. (I had no idea.) It’s important to talk about these uncomfortable things, and Neko Case is, as usual, on point here. open.substack.com/pub/nekocase...
IN WHAT FUCKING UNIVERSE?
This last week I was just cookin’ along minding my business when I suddenly found myself quite depressed.
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Well, here's an exciting thing ... I have a new short essay live today on @lukeoneil47.bsky.social's excellent Welcome to Hell World: www.welcometohellworld.com/who-goes-tra...
Who goes transphobe?
by Sandy Ernest Allen It is an interesting and somewhat macabre parlor game to play at a large gathering of one’s acquaintances: to speculate who in a showdown would go transphobe. By now, I think I ...
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"Did the guard see me? Is he alarmed?" "No he simply agrees with your plan to stealth kill him"
KSV@ksvesq.bsky.social · 2w agoMy Gen Z employees have taught me that putting the !! sticker on a text means you agree with what the person is saying and not “omfg are you kidding me?!?” (as I had been using it frequently) and now I’m spiraling.
Jeanne Carmen in a publicity still for GUNS DON'T ARGUE (1957) She was BOTD in 1930
CYCLOPS: So after measuring my biacromial width and my midface ratio, it suddenly struck me: I have the MOST symmetrical face, totally mogging all two-eyes. ODYSSEUS [THROWING A SPEAR THROUGH CYCLOPS' EYE]: Say hi to Poseidon for me, bitch
The Eldritch Morton girl handily dispatches of Cthulhu by salting him like the mythopoeic slug that he is.
Derek Faraci@whwoolhat.bsky.social · 2w agoBet you didn't know that the Little Morton Salt Girl is an immortal being who existed before there was life on Earth.
LRP leave kids alone you fucking freaks. leave them alone whether they're trans or cis or gender conforming or not or gay or not or intersex or not or whatever it is: leave them alone, you goddamn creepy horrible motherfuckers
Never forget mentioning to a coworker how much fun I had learning how a Vigenère cipher works for a game I DM, for him to respond that he just uses AI for stuff like that. Where's the fucking fun?
Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉@scumbelievable.bsky.social · 2w ago"I'm entitled to whatever I want whenever I want it for any reason and I don't care what satisfying these urges does to me or the world" well okay dude, seems like there's something deeper going on here, but that's just my take
Horrifying. Repellant. How can they even be considering this? [rhetorical, btw]
Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2w agoAn initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play
Excited to hear what these zoomer guys I've been recommending "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" to recently think of it
This is a well-considered critique of a critique, and I think does a good job of separating itself from the unfair criticisms of Wilson's essays, like that she owes Nolan anything, while clarifying some of those that are more on point
Aftermath@aftermath.site · 2w agoI am here to defend the noble action movie from the classicist Emily Wilson: aftermath.site/the-odyssey-em...
Blade is 90’s style Kung fu film crossed with a 70’s blaxploitation film post John Wick The through line is that even in multiverses there is always the underbelly and other world of Black spaces and “nightlife” And those who travel in between PRINT MONEY
Pastore, god damn it. I corrected the autocorrect two fucking times.
Vincent Pastor, who played Salvatore "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero on THE SOPRANOS, has passed away. A great actor, one of the great American faces and voices. What a loss.
My head canon for the moment is House Atreides in Villeneuve's Dune specifically descends from Nolan's version of Agamemnon. I do not have a good reason for this other than to perversely turn two mostly solid modern epics into an MCU-esque shared universe in defiance of Zeus and all Olympus