#EventsDearBoy 4. AGE OF APOCALYPSE (1995, Marvel) Stuck in the diminishing returns of imitating Chris Claremont's labyrinthine subplotting without his flair, the 90s X-Office does the one thing he never tried: a story with a beginning, a middle and an end.

Tom Ewing@tomewing.bsky.social · 2d ago

#EventsDearBoy 5. DC ONE MILLION (1998, DC) This is the Grant Morrison event where they play nicely with others, crafting a fantastical future for the DC Universe and opening its gates for other creators to have fun with. And they do - no other event has such an excellent tie-in hit-rate

Of all the things to admit on the internet, “I don’t know how bananas work” is one of the funniest

Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · 20h ago

Spoken like a man who has never had to shop for himself.

Listening to a fairly problematic fave right now. FWIW, my approach to this is that it's fine so long as I never pay the artist another penny, or recommend their work to others, or - and this is where a lot of people fuck up - name them online and asking for absolution for still enjoying them.

Pubic Service Announcement The Vagina Museum is trans inclusive. Always has been, always will be. Today the new EHRC Code of Practice comes into effect. Let us be clear, the guidance changes nothing about how we operate.

It is staggeringly reprehensible and reckless to continue this insulting bullshit at a time when the global far right have advanced so far that *the leader of the Conservative Party* is defending recruitment of a convicted neo-Nazi, on the grounds he is an expert on antiracism and anti-extremism.

Fuck me, Raphael Behr is a joke. If I were going to insist a single duplicitous neo-Nazi's opinion was somehow proof of what I've humiliated myself over and over again insisting was a broad social trend, I would simply *check if the opinion actually says what I claim it does*.

The Tories have selected a convicted former Neo-Nazi as a councillor. Here's why that reflects very poorly on Jeremy Corbyn.

It would be lovely if we could see through the pivot from far-right antisemite to islamophobic Israel enthusiast this time. Just once, maybe?

Grosse Point Blank, the whole soundtrack.

Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️@sophianyx.bsky.social · 24h ago

Name your fav use of licensed music in a soundtrack.

meanwhile, the anti-trans lobby has gone straight from "we won't need toilet police" to "the toilet police will need much more funding" without missing a beat bsky.app/profile/hlee...

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 15h ago

Absolute state of Falkner and Reindorf in the Times today

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"If expensive boots were ultimately more cost effective than cheap ones, poor people would take out loans so they could afford better footwear; and that doesn't seem to be happening" is a take today's Discourse has caused me to read.

RE a petition to ban Nazi salutes: I'm confident detractors are correct that, even were it to become law, the cops would ignore it. But a) it seems odd to suggest proposing a law is meaningless if we don't expect it to be both passed and enforced, and b) it's at least engaging with politics.

so under "contribution to the field" your committee just writes "pushed a button," I guess?

Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · yesterday

"History involves sorting and organizing hundreds of thousands of facts" I remain astounded by how loud and wrong people are about what history actually is.

If this could get me out of departmental meetings, I'd definitely be willing to consider it.

Pixie Casey@pixiecasey.bsky.social · yesterday

in insane local news, the 26 year old director of a rocky horror production was arrested for sending threatening messages to himself in order to get the play shut down bc he didn’t want to deal with cast drama www.mynbc5.com/article/rock...

Many say this leaves no path to redemption; I will note that paths to redemption exist, but they are for the offender to walk, not for others to deem it walked on their behalf. And a Nazi isn't walking a path of redemption if they remain in the Nazi party. Nothing stopping them. Path open.

Everywhere should be a hostile place for Republicans. They should not be able to find a friend anywhere. They should lose all their professional and familial relationships. They should be blocked from signing up to social media platforms, clubs, and yard sales. They should be ejected from fairs.

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Finally got through the third season of Ted Lasso in time for the fourth, which means I'm possibly the last human in existence to realise how totally pointless a fourth season feels.

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Nor do we want to be on Truth Social. I would hate to find a welcome home there. I would hate to be somebody who would be palatable to such a place. We don't go on Truth, because nobody needs bullies. They *do* try to come on Bluesky, because bullies need the rest of us.

Ruth Zakarin@ruthz.bsky.social · 2d ago

The burden is always on us lefties to welcome them, debate them, compromise with them, find middle ground, and generally make them comfortable. It’s totally one directional. No one is calling for Truth Social to make any room for us.

This is objectively hilarious. Rod Liddle was the epitome of Trash Wealth. Stewart Lee did a whole 15 minute bit on how sloppy the fucker was. It was his whole thing. Trying to pass him off as Jim fucking Morrison is an impossible task even for professional white-washers.

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 2d ago

The Times, one of the leading voices when it comes to 'protecting women and girls' calling a man who assaulted his young pregnant girlfriend, said he would rape the kids if he was a teacher and called for child sex abuse porn to be legal, 'brilliant'

Thinking a lot about what someone said yesterday, about how the posthumous praise for Rod Liddle mirrors that of Charlie Kirk - everyone speaking well of him is being very careful to not repeat anything he actually said or wrote. This actually suggests a very strong rule for how to be a person.

as we saw with Charlie Kirk it’s extremely notable that no fans of Rod Liddle include any of their favourite quotes from him in their tributes

This lad, and he fucking LOVES it.

Roland Rat

Alt: Roland Rat dances with joy as he considers the next elevator load of damned souls he will take to hell. YEAH!

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Son of Bengt@sonofbengt.bsky.social · 2d ago

Apropos of nothing...let's just assume Paddington takes people to the escalator that goes up Who takes them to the one that goes the other direction? Edd the Duck?

Disgusted hearing people react to today's news saying "One less racist in the world". How have we fallen so low in what we consider acceptable language? It's one FEWER racist.

Ultimately my position on Rod Liddle is he wasn't important enough for me to publicly enjoy his death. Doing so imparts a upon him a level of relevance he wholly failed to achieve.