Sam Scott at Media Magpies
@sam-scott.bsky.social
Writer and co-founder at Media Magpies WIPs include completed scripts and some art for a children's graphic novel and "underground" webcomic, and 1300 words of a combo novel/short story collection
Aside from the knock to the ever-dwindling music journalism ecosystem, I just think about what this all means for smaller and mid-tier bands. If you're not already huge, who is going to cover your album? Who is going to post about your tour? Who is going to…
Leor Galil@imleor.bsky.social · 8h ago“Music publications BrooklynVegan, Alternative Press, Revolver, and Goldmine have been gutted by parent company Veeps... Nearly all the staff at each publication appear to have been laid off yesterday. Veeps, which is now owned by Live Nation, acquired the publications in 2024 or 2025”
From: Panache the Squirrel (1978), dir. Tadanari Okamoto, Echo
I found out that my friends grandfather was able to avoid the WW2 draft by telling them he was an engineer working on a military project and it was a pogo stick with a gun mounted on it and they bought it. There are actual designs and plans of the thing. I'm going to write the hell out of this story
Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.
there are two types of fans of things- those who treat it like a hobby and understand it's ok to laugh at things you enjoy and those who use it to replace church or whatever in their lives and are very vigilant against Blasphemy
mom having a conversation with a friend she'd stopped talking to because of very toxic politics Person: So we can never be friends again? Ma: I am not saying that, there is always the next life
grimly funny that in The Dark Knight, Batman’s city-wide surveillance is the moral crucible, the point at which he has clearly gone too far, while in Brand New Day it’s just something that Spider-Man does.
Gotta love the “or stocks” part. Like Gemini realized its first answer was nuts so it tried to wedge in a better one.
a lot of the anti-ai discourse on here ignores the fact that it lets me automate my pointless coding job so i can post more
I have some tea that says it’s “sweetened with sugar for an authentic sweetness” like yeah I guess you know what sugar is
As a writer I try to remember that the fact that something annoys me personally does not necessarily make that thing important enough to write about
Sculpture by Japanese illustrator, graphic designer, and artist Shigeo Fukuda, 1980s, known for his optical illusions.
A PSA to my fellow cis people who are (or want to believe they are) trans allies If you are getting pushback from trans people and your reaction is to be all “no! not me! I’m one of the good ones!” please remember that “being one of the good ones” is something you DO, not something you ARE
Saw this picture and trying to figure out the Diddy Kong situation is leading me down a rabbit hole that can only end with me rejecting the moon landing
I knew Marvel was Done With My Ass when I temp-named a villain The YOLOgarch and no one made me change it and it went to print
the odyssey is a realistic depiction of what it’s like when you’re trying to get home to your girl at 2 am on the mta. it’s always some shit
the biggest and best movie of the year revolves around the perils and horrors that come with sacrificing a trans life in the name of a short term victory
![As a result of the victory by Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election, the Mayor of Obama City announced to the Japanese press that he intended to commission a statue of Barack Obama to be put in front of the city hall
"as a token of the great historical moment for the name Obama".123][needs](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:of56nmyuqzvjta7qlf7gwht6/bafkreiglv62rog3iztfmqy5smqzoyi4medbsfpgxqh7rfxugq26tgh5oqe)
GIRL SNAKE CATCHER. she makes a snug little income by securing reptiles for traveling shows SHE JUST GRABS THEM (The Washington Bee, Washington DC, November 8, 1902)
Reviews of Garfield Eats Crow (Garfield #39, first published in 2003)
Brendel@brendelbored.bsky.social · 6d agoSome more Garfield Goodreads reviews
