GI Joe picture of the day: Heavy Duty hangs by a thread. Featuring Heavy Duty, Road Pig, Cobra Commander, Sludge Viper, and Toxo-Viper (all 1991) and the Toxo-Lab (1992). In retrospect I wish I'd done this against a dark background instead of the baby gate, so the bright colors would pop. oh well!
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Just a Warcabbit, still running City of Titans
This is maybe the perfect example of @gregpak.net bit that replacing every instance of “AI” with “cocaine” gets to the deeper truth of the attitude.
There is a lengthy pro-AI screed in the latest HWA newsletter and it is . . . a mood.
Ursula K. Le Guin’s Home Recognized as National Historic Landmark, to host Writers’ Residency locusmag.com/2026/08...
IT'S DONE I GOT THE SCUFFED MAGAZINE BLURR I FINALLY HAVE EVERY BLURR FIGURE EVER MADE
Katsushi Murakami has sadly passed away at the age of 83. He designed Leopardon for Toei’s ‘SPIDER-MAN’ series.
Local coverage link, including link to coverage of someone impersonating the licensing company to get the performance cancelled: www.sevendaysvt.com/news/its-ast...
It’s Astounding: 'Rocky Horror' Threats Came From Troupe's Musical Director, Cops Say | Seven Days
Essex Community Players rehearsed for weeks, but its show was canceled due to ominous texts. Police say a person working on the production was responsible.
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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...
VT musical director of planned 'Rocky Horror Picture Show' created fake threats, police say
The director of a planned production of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" admitted to sending himself threatening texts that eventually got the play canceled out of safety concerns.
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oh this is going to be fun lol *US DRAFTING BAN ON CHINA DATA CENTER COMPONENTS: REUTERS
Been seeing the “how do you break in” conversations floating around and I remember in my early days of just wanting to work in film all the conversations were about how to break in. Turns out the answer is just show up and do the work. Make friends. Be helpful.
New sticker for Fall SPiCE and TFcon Orlando, probably? Rainforest Cafe homage because I thought it was funny.
Okay, I am going to tell a little story. It's one I have saved for the last couple years, almost nobody knows about it. But it lives in my heart. I don't know how others will feel about it, maybe something, maybe nothing. It's about the Uncanny X-Men. 1/
I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.
book series so good that they convinced me to go to law school (btw i finally caught up on the craft wars and i am dyiiiiinnnggg for the last book now)
Want a deal on some books? In honor of the Craft Wars being up for the Hugo Award, these are $2.99 in ebook for a limited time, on all retailers: THREE PARTS DEAD (bookshop.org/p/books/thre...) TWO SERPENTS RISE (bookshop.org/p/books/two-...) DEAD COUNTRY (bookshop.org/p/books/dead...)
Damn... 300% higher yields for peppers 200% for tomatoes. 65% lower water use for jalapenos. #agsky #agrivoltaics ,🌱🌞🔌..
*American farmers slid solar panels over 62,000 acres of farmland, and the biggest payoff had almost nothing to do with electricity* #Erneuerbare #Renewable #Solar #Photovoltaik energiesmedia.com/solar-panels…
‘BEYOND THE SPIDER-VERSE’ is officially the next Spider-Man film. In theaters on June 18, 2027.
I am going through Bram Stoker’s earliest notes on DRACULA today - they include a list of the powers and features of the Count (then named “Wampyr” before Stoker stumbled on “Dracula”), many of which are never elucidated in the book…
He did a bunch of the 0079 suits but sadly no guntank. They are all in the og 1/144 0080 kits. www.dalong.net/reviews/old/...
Make a board game dirty: The Game of FetLife
Make a board game dirty Monopolyamorous
I was able to get access to the first season free via Hoopla via my library system (basically Libby for TV & movies).
Dominic Monaghan brings something special to Season 2 of #TheLibrarians: The Next Chapter. Here’s an early review of what’s ahead. tvbrittanyf.com/2026/08/02/t...
Holy cow, Shari and Lambchop singing “I’ve Been Everywhere” is one of the best ventriloquist performances I’ve ever seen. youtu.be/9omuZbYL_aU?...
Lambchop and Shari Lewis on Playboy After Dark
YouTube video by Lord Vlygar
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Vince DiCola wins for going "I was asked to rework a sad theme for the Apology Tour album..." and then lauching into a piece it took about a minute for people to click wasn't a bold reinvention of Death of Optimus Prime, but Simon and Garfunkel. He punked us.
This is it boys, the platonic "New York can never get better" piece www.archpaper.com/2026/07/litt...
I'm a giant fan, and bonus, you can then slide right into the *not quite a sequel but some stuff has a different context* Rachel Peng near-future crime novels.
If you're voting for the Hugos this weekend, please consider A GIRL AND HER FED for "Best Graphic Story or Comic." We're eligible as we wrapped the most recent act in 2025, a 20-year project about the illusions of freedom we somehow managed to land. #Hugos #WorldCon #GraphicArt #GraphicStory #Comic
All error messages should be copyable. I'm so bored of having to transcribe some arcane error code just because some gobshite developer couldn't be arsed to find the setting to make their error messages appear as copyable text.