I have nothing but contempt for this Congress.

Politico@politico.com · yesterday

Paul sets Fauci committee vote for Thursday

1. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. 2. I submit this question is impossible: Meditations Voltaire's Bastards The collected Conan stories Compleat Works of Shakespeare V for Vendetta 3. Probably history, but maybe SF or philosophy. 4. Usually SF 5. Mostly the Kindle these days or used bookstores.

Mo 🌸📚@moplayspoke.bsky.social · 2d ago

1 like = 1 book question 📚💙

Small town terrorized by shark. Media starts giving a lot of airtime to the shark, allowing the shark to explain the logic behind its attacks. Shark becomes popular, and successfully runs for mayor on a platform of "sticking it to the woke anti-shark elite".

weinberg@weinbergs.bsky.social · 7mo ago

let's pretend: Universal announces a screenwriting contest for Jaws 5. What's your pitch?

These people are mad at Dr. Fauci because he told them to wear a mask during a deadly pandemic.

Chapter 4 has begun and we're back to where we started (kinda) with a return to Bradson and Frazier's confined situation: www.dystopia.ink/comic/sd0401/

Chapter 04: Shadow’s Depths – Page 01 - DYSTOPIA | Supernatural Cyberpunk Webcomic Series

A Dystopia webcomic page opens Chapter Four, Shadow’s Depths. The first panel is a title card on a dark gray background with the Dystopia logo, the words “Chapter Four”, and the chapter title “Shadow’...

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There is no version of yourself you could become that would satisfy the people who hate you. So you might as well be who you are.

my neighborhood 7-11 closed a couple years ago and tried to reopen but couldn’t get the permit approved because there’s a preschool next door and 7-11s sell alcohol (the previous permit was grandfathered in). i saw a fence going up around the lot recently and looked up what was moving in: a gun shop

Genuine democracy means that everyone who's a citizen votes. The US is one of the worst offenders claiming to be a democracy in this respect. For example, Yigal Amir, the assassin of Yitzhak Rabin, has continued to vote from prison. That's how it should be.

Marc Elias@marcelias.bsky.social · 4d ago

Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger announced Friday that she has restored voting rights for 66,085 people who otherwise wouldn’t be able to vote due to past felony convictions. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

dichotomouspurity.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-... Saw it yesterday. Was good, not great.

The Odyssey, but not epic poetry

The question of adaptation has been an open one in culture since people began doing them in other media, as it were. Just like the fact that...

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The city collapsed. The levels broke apart. The clown kept selling burgers. This week's Dystopia drop is live → more #webcomics at dystopia.ink

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam or Alice In Chains.

Ray Radlein@radlein.bsky.social · last wk.

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam or Alice In Chains.

Without saying your age: What is your favorite movie from the year you turned 18?

Mitsuketa: Roger Rabbit

Alt: Mitsuketa: Roger Rabbit smashing plates over his head to prove he can produce stars.

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Rob Haug@robhaug.bsky.social · last wk.

Without saying your age, what is your favorite movie from the year you turned 18.

@blackeyeart.bsky.social Look familiar? (It's not him, but it's funny how similar they are.)

Citizen Screen@citizenscreen.bsky.social · 2w ago

It’s National Carousel Day marking the anniversary of when inventor William Schneider received the first U.S. patent for a carousel design, today in 1871.

All the rooms they smell like diesel and you take on the dreams of the ones who slept there.

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

New episode just dropped: 👇 https://www.thecomicscout.com/episode/interlude-broadcast/

This. Absolutely. No debate. This. I tell people all the time: "It's your world and welcome to it." It's not your role as a creator to get hung up on "canon", no matter what the fanatics online might say about what's "right" or "wrong" about your creation. It's your creation, adaptation or no.

EMILY WILSON@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 3w ago

1. Creators, including screenwriters, can and should do their own thing, especially when adapting a myth. Euripides adapted the end of the Iliad for the Athenian tragic stage using a different meter and different lexicon from Homer's, for a different genre and a different time. That's fine!

@charlietheel.bsky.social @hotseatgames.bsky.social Ermagerd. boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/47... New version of Forbidden Stars.

Old Ones Origins

Become one of the eldritch gods and wage war at the dawn of time.

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You can actually watch football die

Murray: Is it true that people making under $184,000 pay a 12.4% Social Security tax rate? Dahl: Yes. Murray: And what is the rate for someone making $1,000,000? Dahl: 2.2%.

Ten acts you've seen, female lead singer edition: Tori Amos (seems to be a thing) Lydia Loveless Bikini Kill L7 Sleater-Kinney Hole The Cranberries The Crane Wives Alabama Shakes The Fugees There's a bunch more...

Matt Thrower@mattthr.bsky.social · 3w ago

Tori Amos The Sundays PJ Harvey Curve Cranes Charli XCX Cocteau Twins Paper Aeroplanes Steeleye Span Paloma Faith, twice, even though I can't stand the music

For the 3015th time: I no longer understand the handball rules.

www.patreon.com/DystopiaComi... A bit about making some time and space (instead of being lost in it.)

The need for intermission | DYSTOPIA

In most lengthy stories that are part of visual media (films, TV, comics), you're going to have a moment where the audience and/or the creat

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absolutely insane story, and yeah, just looking at this chart... with the exception of maybe two people, this entire class was cheating like motherfuckers

Jacob T. Levy@jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 4w ago

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My biggest issue with soccer has always been that there were too many incredible goals scored 40 seconds after a marginal foul happened on the other side of the field. So glad they fixed this.

VAR is supposed to deal with clear and obvious ref mistakes not to give a foul at the opposite end of the pitch after an underdog scores a great goal.

If the match can't be decided after 90 minutes and extra time we go to a cage match between the reanimated corpses of King Leopold II and Henry Kissinger so fingers crossed 🤞

The Collapse changed the city. Some companies saw a disaster. Others saw independence. This week's Dystopia drop is live - More #webcomics at dystopia.ink

Absolutely this. "I don't know shit about how a) the game works, b) officiating works and c) FIFA works, but I'm going to sit here and pontificate about things like "respecting the game" and "sportsmanship" because I have an easy window to take what I think is the moral high ground."

Matt@mbunchanumbers.bsky.social · last mo.

Useful exercise is scrolling back and through anyone, especially verified accounts, posting stuff like this and see how far back you have to go to find anything about sports

Released 43 years ago today Suicidal Tendencies eponymous debut album, featuring the track Institutionalized. #punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #suicidaltendencies #history #punkrockhistory #otd