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There WILL BE less people like Patrick Stewart or Dolly Parton, given widening wealth inequality, loss of jobs in creative sector, austerity, privatisation of education (especially arts) & financial exclusion. Art of the near future will be less diverse & restricted to the privileged few.

Asinus Pervicax@knownagitator.lol · 3d ago

Patrick Stewart's passing feels a whole hell of a lot like Dolly's. It's hard to imagine that singular talents found in people born in the working class or working poor will get fostered the ways theirs were. The things that nurtured those talents have been stripped for profit by assholes.

destroy Draftkings to save the national economy

Thomas HD@degolierthomas.bsky.social · 4d ago

in the two weeks since online gambling was banned in Brazil, nationwide retail spending rose 6.5% and 10% in the South and in areas of the Southeast.

Massive part of my teenage years now getting an adaptation. Never thought this would happen. Cannot tell you how many hundreds of hours I spent with this novel. Will be buying every single variant.

IDW Publishing@idwpublishing.com · 5d ago

Just announced with io9: Worm Is Becoming a #Comicbook with #IDW! The most popular prose web serial of all time is getting a brand-new adaptation in the form of its first-ever physical release. See more with link in bio! #Worm #ComicBook #WebSerial #Adaptation

Mentally I'm here RN

Gray Gamut@graygamut.bsky.social · 5d ago

I didn't expect the attention this post got. For reference, it's based on the original here and I've been trying to find the original creator. Alas, no game. (It doesn't help that I've been progressively cutting myself away from sites requiring a login)

parahumans.wordpress.com/2026/10/27/w... WORM COMIC ADAPTATION WOOOOOO

Worm is Getting a 2027 Comic Adaptation with IDW Publishing

I can finally speak about this- Worm is getting a comic.  As I was quoted saying for the press release, Worm is a story that was written to take the world of comics, which are very visual, into the…

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AOC 2028 campaign popping champagne when 'DSA condemns AOC candidacy' headlines start breaking

Nathan Goldwag@goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 5d ago

One thing I have suspected for a while is that an AOC presidential campaign probably does not make it to November without being disavowed by DSA NPC.

Today we lost Walter Koenig. Some thoughts about a fine actor and genuinely nice guy....

Post-Trek, Koenig struggled to land roles. He turned to writing and found it an outlet that helped his mental health. But the man could ACT. He was given the opportunity to prove that with Babylon 5. Koenig speaks with unabashed fondness of B5, welcomed as an equal and given juicy character work.

oh wow i can read portuguese now

ari@paceisthetrick.bsky.social · 6d ago

MARK ZUCKERBERG GUILHOTINADO AMANHÃ

I'm never more of a USA USA THESE COLORS DON'T RUN BUD, COME AND TAKE IT type when I hear about discourse regarding media censorship in the UK. goddamn. and I don't consider myself an especially strict free speech absolutist either.

Man, I love this cover by Kaluta.

This is gross for another reason people aren't mentioning - and I suspect it's because a lot of Bluesky users don't know or aren't considering what people do with the Fortnite models (and other 3d renders from video games) once they're publicly available.

Bloody Disgusting@bloody-disgusting.com · 2w ago

Nikki from OBSESSION joins FORTNITE tomorrow. You wished for this...

iirc a British officer in charge of screening and decommissioning IJA soldiers in late 1945 joked that he'd met so many translators and cooks that he wondered how the Japanese fought at all.

Stan Oklobdzija@stano.bsky.social · last wk.

This is what winning looks like. Eventually, the stigma will get so big that it will be like Germany in the 1950s where everyone's dad "was forced into the army and just had some support role."

AvP Requiem was *slightly* better than Alien vs. Predator. Neither are worth watching.

I'm going to start a charity that helps underprivileged conservative youths access AO3 and learn about fanfic.

Your Scary Ad Here@cooluser354.bsky.social · 2w ago

Malfoid is quietly becoming a symbol of the West's cultural counter-revolution.

the latest story I heard that's actually indicative of what your average person with psychosis faces is this. 24-year-old with schizophrenia was stable, thriving until he apparently encountered bad symptoms, and died horribly for it. and then everybody ridiculed his death, including the US president

Man killed by tiger at Yorkshire zoo had bouts of psychosis, inquest hears

Family express concerns about William Chapman’s contact with mental health services before his death

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Just finished volume 19 of Claymore. Really bummed. She deserved better.

Conan the Barbarian art by Manuel Sanjulian.

Jeepers Creepers feels like a bad Vampirella story if she never showed up to solve the problem. Choosing to believe Vampi and Pendy killed this guy in the 70s. (Watched this blind, pulled from a list of slashers, did *not* know that stuff about the director, would not have watched if I knew.)

Read the harder-than-hard sci-fi The Forever War recently (amazing book, must read for any SF fan), and since it came out in the 70s, there's a Rhine test for psi-sensitivity that several members of his platoon aced.

Dragon Cobolt@dragoncobolt.bsky.social · 3w ago

it is still so fucking funny to me that to understand a huge chunk of AMerican pop culture you need to remember that a bunch of people were just positive that ESP and psychic powers were, like, real

Sad news for cinephiles: Tilly Norwood has been killed in a Ukrainian drone strike.

Jeeeeeezus

Mary Peltola@marypeltola.com · 3w ago

Grocery store prices in rural Alaska right now. Most goods here come by barge or plane, so life here has always cost more. But this? This is as bad as it's ever been. This is what the price-hiking war in Iran is costing Alaskans. Dan Sullivan has now voted for it 14 times.

You best start believing in Blindsight (2006, by Peter Watts), you’re in Blindsight (2006, by Peter Watts)…ok not really but like you get the general point

bree bird 🇨🇦@goose.ski · 8mo ago

the major implication LLMs have for consciousness is that the coherent and meaningful manipulation of human language doesn’t actually require it at all

Candyman (1992) is the best adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula I've ever seen.

When you are in a movie theater, you are silent. You do not talk unless somebody's life is in danger. You do not whisper. You do not pull out your phone. The post-COVID destruction of movie theater etiquette is awful. Probably won't see a movie in theaters for a few months.

I watched the Waiting for Gorgo short. For all that this short clearly wants to poke fun at a 'silly old monster movie', the idea that the British government could successfully cover up the events of Gorgo (1961) is sillier than anything in the actual movie it's riffing on.

The YouTube AI generated chapter summaries are so obnoxious, I had to install an extension just to get rid of them. What a terrible idea. Want to watch this movie or video? Don't worry, we'll spoil everything that happens for you.

Hippolyta is, when not written by rabid misogynists, normally one who rules with the enthusiastic consent of her subjects and speaks on functionally equal terms with almost all of them. She exerts considerable authority, sure. (I also saw someone saying Diana would be transphobic - go to hell lmfao)

QuoProQuid@quoproquid.bsky.social · last mo.

i suspect most superheroes would have insane nonsense politics. like, wonder woman is an absolute monarchist. thor doesn't believe in the separation of church and state. clark kent is just bob dole.