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Here's what I don't get: why can't they make the whole airplane out of the same material as the biscoff cookies?

11.03.2026 14:21 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

New comic book reviews, now on Wednesdays*!

*they’re always on Wednesdays, that’s the joke**!

**the GREAT joke

11.03.2026 13:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Just throwing it out there: has anyone every tried a video podcast, but only in audio format? I call it an "audvid."

11.03.2026 12:59 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If you think you need Grammarly to help with your writing, you absolutely don’t. Not only is it a shitty, unethical company, the program is obtrusive, poorly made, and will make your writing actively worse by sanding every inch of your voice out of your prose.

11.03.2026 12:46 👍 17 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

If you are still, for some reason, using Grammarly? Uninstall it. Right now.

11.03.2026 12:41 👍 27 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 0

Hell yes @moryan.bsky.social

I co-sign every word of this piece 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

11.03.2026 11:59 👍 32 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0

Why didn't the vultures have to check their bags? They had carrion luggage.

11.03.2026 11:18 👍 18 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Diamond Still A Thing, Kristin Kreuk Pens Comic, Marvel Rolls Out Civil War Variant Covers | Comic Book Club News For March 11, 2026 Somehow, Diamond has returned. Kristin Kreuk pens comic. Marvel rolls out Civil War variant covers.

Somehow, Diamond has returned. Kristin Kreuk pens comic. Marvel rolls out Civil War variant covers.

11.03.2026 10:00 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Comic Book Club: Joe Kelly Writer Joe Kelly returns to the podcast to chat about all things Amazing Spider-Man!

Writer Joe Kelly returns to the podcast to chat about all things Amazing Spider-Man! With the Death Spiral event in full swing (that's a Spider-Man pun), what's next for Spider-Man, Venom, and Carnage?

11.03.2026 01:00 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

You know who I bet has no idea how money works at a grocery store? Husted.

10.03.2026 21:12 👍 16 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Literally anyone who has either used SNAP or seen anyone use SNAP knows they are, in fact, hyper-aware of exactly how money works at a grocery store.

10.03.2026 21:10 👍 32 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
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The trailer for EVERYONE IS LYING TO YOU FOR MONEY. In select theaters starting April 17th 🍿🤑🤣

10.03.2026 20:02 👍 5127 🔁 1520 💬 136 📌 281

Soon enough, the clown event began occurring every 33 minutes

10.03.2026 19:49 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Action Philosophers: Modernity Bites The 3rd volume in Fred Van Lente and Ryan Dunlavey's award-winning Action Philosophers series!

Hey folks! I'm managing the just-launched Kickstarter campaign for original good guys @fredvanlente.bsky.social and @ryandunlavey.bsky.social's new volume of Action Philosophers! Check it out! Yeah!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/roc...

10.03.2026 19:33 👍 10 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
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Are the Young Avengers Going to Defeat Dr. Doom? YouTube video by ScreenCrush

Hey folks, I'm heading back on to ScreenCrush today to chat about Young Avengers stuff. Tune in live at 2pm ET! www.youtube.com/live/wpaPQiE...

10.03.2026 17:35 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Comic Book Club: Joe Kelly YouTube video by Comic Book Club

Tonight at 7pm ET we're LIVE with writer Joe Kelly chatting all things Amazing Spider-Man!

Come hang out: youtube.com/live/MVF0NlK...

10.03.2026 16:54 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1

Scarpetta also does this thing where there are two timelines, so technically one of them is a flashback, but then they have flashbacks in both timelines, as well? That's bad! Don't do that!

10.03.2026 16:45 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Only watched the first few episodes of Nicole Kidman's Scarpetta, so no formal review, but I found it to be utterly bizarre; half gory crime procedural, the other half goofy domestic drama, but also working in AI and an over-the-top Jamie Lee Curtis doing essentially cast-offs from The Bear.

10.03.2026 16:44 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

This guy is also the Trump administration btw

10.03.2026 13:01 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

[guy who has never heard of the Strait of Hormuz before late last week] that’s not how I would handle military strategy in the Strait of Hormuz

10.03.2026 12:49 👍 20 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
A campaign poster with large text reading "Mayor Mamdani" and a message urging to fund NYC public libraries at 0.5% of the city budget. Two photos of a man in a suit (Zohran Mamdani are shown, with a website link for more information.

A campaign poster with large text reading "Mayor Mamdani" and a message urging to fund NYC public libraries at 0.5% of the city budget. Two photos of a man in a suit (Zohran Mamdani are shown, with a website link for more information.

You can let the Mayor know what you think about him breaking his promise. www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...

10.03.2026 01:40 👍 715 🔁 275 💬 8 📌 0
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Avengers Academy Wins GLAAD Award, Fantagraphics Picks Up R.E. Burke’s ICE Graphic Novel, Dungeons & Dragons Forms Monster Party | Comic Book Club News For March 10, 2026 Avengers Academy wins GLAAD Award. Fantagraphics has picked up R.E. Burke's graphic novel Visiting America: 19 Days in an I.C.E. Facility. Dark Horse releases Dungeons and Dragons book featuring monster party.

Avengers Academy wins GLAAD Award. Fantagraphics has picked up R.E. Burke's graphic novel Visiting America: 19 Days in an I.C.E. Facility. Dark Horse releases Dungeons and Dragons book featuring monster party.

10.03.2026 10:01 👍 22 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

It’s actually about ethics in game journalism

09.03.2026 17:03 👍 18 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Scientists Taught a Petri Dish of Brain Cells to Play 'Doom'—They’re Getting Better How many brain cells does it take to play a game of DOOM?

Hey look, they wrote an article about you www.inc.com/maria-jose-g...

09.03.2026 17:01 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1

Read this wrong and I thought you were like "hey stop joking about crabs and shrimp, this is serious" (I figured it out)

09.03.2026 15:46 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Dungeness Crab & Dragon Shrimps

09.03.2026 15:12 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Okay now I want to commission Maleev to do the Norman Rockwell guy standing up meme painting, but with a Ninja Turtle.

09.03.2026 14:55 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If an official commits an impeachable offense and nobody acts to impeach, it is no longer an impeachable offense.

People who oppose impeachment as “pointless” because it seems unlikely to result in removal do not understand this very simple point and seem unwilling to even try to understand it.

09.03.2026 12:36 👍 6932 🔁 2049 💬 89 📌 72
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37 million pounds of food sold at retailers nationwide recalled because it could contain glass Oregon food manufacturer Ajinomoto expands an earlier recall of frozen and ready-to-eat products over glass contamination.

Sure there’s a nonsensical, horrific war, the environment is destroyed, jobs are in shambles, and secret police are disappearing people on the streets while any semblance of democratic leadership has abdicated responsibility, but at least there isn’t glass in our foo— www.cbsnews.com/news/frozen-...

09.03.2026 12:42 👍 58 🔁 33 💬 6 📌 1
"Hoppers" features zanier cartoon comedy and less tear-inducing pathos than audiences may expect from the studio behind "Up." During production, the filmmakers toned down its pro-environmentalism story in an effort to make it more balanced. "It felt like a message movie," Morris said.

"Hoppers" features zanier cartoon comedy and less tear-inducing pathos than audiences may expect from the studio behind "Up." During production, the filmmakers toned down its pro-environmentalism story in an effort to make it more balanced. "It felt like a message movie," Morris said.

"If we're going to just crank crap out, let's shut the doors," he said. "I'd rather die trying to make something that we genuinely believe in."

"If we're going to just crank crap out, let's shut the doors," he said. "I'd rather die trying to make something that we genuinely believe in."

Pixar toned down the pro-environmentalism story in Hoppers because "it felt like a message movie," but also don't want to "crank crap out" and make movies "we genuinely believe in."

...what?

www.wsj.com/business/med...

08.03.2026 16:15 👍 48 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 1