Awesome | Bearded | Coffee Drinker. Interfaith minister, general nerd, & former theater techie. Comics, pop-culture, 80s tunes, & @bookendedbycats. (he/him)
Southeast PA (USA)
Joined January 2009
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One of these refs has to have an over/under bet on the outcome of this #DALvsGB game. #penalties
"WTF America" – Released 3 months ago in honor of America’s 250th birthday, this is the debut song from You Can't Handle The Truthiness. (It takes about a minute till it starts cooking).
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"Bad AI Consciousness Takes" BINGO – shaming 24 bad arguments against AI consciousness | by Henry Shevlin (Oct 10, 2026)
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This week on the Friday #80s Flashback, I Can Crawl and Stacey Q both had October 1986 debut albums. One is dark and moody, the other is bubbly dance pop. Which is your style of #music?
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Visit the Civics for All Comics Group's Google Site to learn about the group's purpose, see a video of a teacher using comics in class, and access PDFs of their 50+ titles. #comics #education #civics
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Headstones up! Here is Atlas Obscura’s Guide to America’s Most Haunted Cemeteries -- "Not all the dead rest easy. These 13 American cemeteries have the ghost stories to prove it." (October 9, 2026) atlasobscura.com/articles/am…
// NASA Made Nearly 1 TB of Artemis II Data Available to the Public // – Read the WIRED article by Jorge Garay:
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STRANGERCON OCTOBER 24th at 10 AM PST.
Livestreamed virtual convention with Stranger Comics to kickoff the crowdfunder for NIOBE SHE TRIBE CHRONICLES #1 + NIOBE & DURA HARDCOVER!
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Kickstarter: kickstarter.com/projects/str…
"Human rights and the rights of nature are two sides of the same coin. Respect for both is the same cause. Society cannot fully realize human rights while being severed from the living systems that sustain us." nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
The President is threatening us
In his bright red tie
He’s in the Oval Office
Like a pig inside a sty
"The President (2020 version)" by Robyn Hitchcock #Music
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This week on the Friday #80s Flashback: It's the 40th anniversary of ELEMENT OF LIGHT by Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians. #music
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Behold: Otherlab’s Lightfoot, the solar-powered scooter that looks kind of like a drivable air filter. Julian Chokkattu of WIRED took it for a spin.
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We are down to our LAST copy, just ONE left on AUTOGRAPHED Mark Waid books: World's Finest Teen Titans #6, Knight Terrors Shazam #1, Avengers Unleashed paperback. Check out these and more before they're gone; go NOW: qurls.com?i=54439
Douglas Paszkiewicz of the self-published comic book series, ARSENIC LULLABY, has written a 100% angry rant about AI because it f*cked up his week, so we have to sit through the lecture. :)
Arsenic Lullaby Update- How much dystopia do you want?
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"The Number Of The Beast Is 666" by Simon Hanes -- '...a delightfully unhinged concoction that sounds like a renaissance dance gone wonderfully awry.' #Music allaboutjazz.com/media/track…
Reminding y'all of this banger from 2025: "We are Fishbone and our motto is: F*** racism and f*** you if you don't like it." Fishbone performs "Racist Piece of Shit" live on KEXP. (Recorded August 5, 2025). With theremin!
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