Saturday, July 11, 2026

Initial concept for the Traxus faction introduction




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Lego Sperm Whale vs Giant Squid

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Friday, July 10, 2026

Two new video game Humble Bundles

The narrative game bundle is twelve games for $10, "Fighting boss battles and journeying through open worlds is fun and all, but sometimes all a great game needs is a great story worth immersing ourselves in for a few hours."  

The "Squad Goals" bundle is nine games, plus DLC and a coupon for $10 (including a TMNT game). 

Finally, there's a few hours left for the rhythm games bundle starting at $5.
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Unfortunately, I don't think this deluxe Skywarp figure includes the tiny Rock 'n Roll figure to cuddle

So the latest super deluxe Transformer by Flame Toys is Skywarp, and is up for preorder at the BBTS:





However, from what I could tell, this won't include the special bonus Rock 'n Roll figure:





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Good alternate Chicago Bears logo (art roundup)



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Thursday, July 9, 2026

New Humble Bundle featuring Blade Runner comics

Starts at three volumes for $5.

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Marvel Legends Henry Cavill as Wolverine and other new figures up for preorder

at the BBTS.
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i was complaining on @tvisgoodpod.bsky.social that my kid has decorated her walls with many many posters but none of them are from tv shows, and then she made me this one :)

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— Kathryn VanArendonk (@kvanaren.bsky.social) June 30, 2026 at 1:40 PM

Most exciting about the Emmy nominations is learning which of the shows you've been watching for the past year are dramas or comedies

— James Poniewozik (@poniewozik.bsky.social) July 8, 2026 at 8:40 AM
(Comedy was me starting with a super-praised episode of The Bear and realizing the big drama was whether they could assemble somewhat more sandwiches than they typically prepared in a shift)

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Want to read a truly repugnant story about sports gambling and the Phillies superstar?

I truly don’t see how this country can go on if we don’t ban online sports betting. This story is stomach-turning.

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— Bradford Pearson (@bradfordpearson.bsky.social) July 9, 2026 at 5:28 AM

jesus christ

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— Bradford Pearson (@bradfordpearson.bsky.social) July 9, 2026 at 5:49 AM



Article by David Gambacorta.


Here's a video version of the story, including part of Harper's video:

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Look at this Dave the Diver figure (and pin)







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Finally, the Godzilla DLC trailer:

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This deluxe Shin Getter 2 figure looks very cool




The BBTS has it.
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Wednesday, July 8, 2026

Funny story about Sean Payton designating a game as the "Oxygen Tank Game"

ESPN has an absurdly, needlessly long article about Sean Payton, with a few gems. First, his wife is named Skylene (her parents are Skylar and Darlene). Second, how he tried to motivate his team for a game against the Bills: 

"It's going to be an Oxygen Tank Game," he says.

Then it hits him: He wants it to be known as the Oxygen Tank Game.

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He tells [his assistant] to order 100 or so small oxygen tanks to give to the team prior to the game, with special labels. Pursuits like this, cheesy and earnest, are about more than giving the players an artifact to put in their bookshelves -- more than about " making memories," as Payton says. It's about trying to orchestrate a feeling even before the outcome can genuinely generate it. And he's not done. He tells the video team to pull clips from movies where people suffocate in thin air. A few hours later, a folder hits his computer. He sifts through them, then stops at one. It's from "Everest." At the summit, in swirling wind, a climber is about to die. His wife is called to say a final goodbye. Payton is sold. A few things: he wants head shots of little Broncos pasted on the mountain, with Levi's Stadium in the distance; he wants the dying climber to have Allen's jersey number 17 on his jacket; when they call home, he wants to splice in a clip of Hailee Steinfeld, the actress and Allen's wife, talking on the phone.

Hours later, Payton watches the new clip. He likes it, but adds one more note: he wants "Harder to Breathe" by Maroon 5 to play as it fades to black.

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— Vituperative Erb (@vituperativeerb.bsky.social) July 7, 2026 at 4:58 PM

Erling Haaland comments on fans comparing him to ‘Dragon Ball Z’ character Majin Buu

“I mean I don’t disagree”

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— Culture Crave 🍿 (@culturecrave.co) July 7, 2026 at 9:04 AM


Ok, I'm a fan of Haaland now after that smack he gives the 2nd kid

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— Razzball (@razzball.bsky.social) July 6, 2026 at 2:28 PM


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Great Ghost Rider art, and very funny Ghost Rider story concept

after the last story petered out I wasn’t expecting such a strong change-of-pace - Johnny and Sue team up to pretend to be the Ghost Rider, for shits & giggles, and hijinks ensue. basically what I expected from North’s run and what he’s been so chary about giving us: fun Rube Goldberg super-plots.

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— Tegan O’Neil (@teganoneil5000.bsky.social) July 2, 2026 at 7:11 PM



Very hopeful that this is the Internet's new favorite react image

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— Christopher Baggett (@jcbaggee.thehomeworld.net) July 2, 2026 at 7:24 PM







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Tuesday, July 7, 2026

Every John Oliver Scene on General Hospital



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Turbo, so ludicrous you have to laugh, nightmare fuel from the flooding in China

One, two.
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The California Supreme Court might authorize electronic recordings in civil court proceedings (I've never seen "voice writers" before)

LAT:

Proponents argue recordings would solve a long-standing crisis that leaves many proceedings with no verbatim record.

Court reporters say the job can be performed only by a human being

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[One out of work tv writer] is now in training to become a “voice writer,” a form of note-taking that relies on a device called a stenomask — something like a cross between a podcast mic and a nebulizer — to produce a transcript. Voice writers repeat every word spoken in court along with a sequence of formatting commands to voice recognition software.

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A change in state law in 2023 allowed voice writers to become licensed as “certified shorthand reporters,” opening a new pipeline


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Glow in the dark Over the Garden Wall exclusive figure set by Mondo

The Over the Garden Wall Chapter 2 Glow-in-the-Dark Variant Figure Set - Entertainment Earth Exclusive includes:

- Enoch Figure with Swappable Frowning Mouth

- Man Pumpkin with 2 Swappable Pumpkin Heads and 2 Swappable Arm sets ( Holding corn and slicing apple)

- Lady Pumpkin with Swappable Arms

- Grandpa Pumpkin with Swappable Arm with Earhorn

- Dancing Cat

- Dancing Skeleton with Swappable Pumpkin Head

- Beatrice with Ball and Chain Attachment

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New Humble Bundle featuring science fiction and fantasy books by Tanith Lee

Starts at $5 for three, $18 for 26. 

There's also a little less than two days left for the award-winning scifi/fantasy/horror book bundle.
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— CJ Fogler (@cjzero.bsky.social) July 6, 2026 at 7:07 PM


(via @belgiumtouch.bsky.social) 🇧🇪

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— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) July 7, 2026 at 7:29 AM
(Best jersey in the tournament)

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The audiobook for Jeff VanderMeer's "Authority" is great

I loved Annihilation (book and movie), but, until now, never got around to reading Authority, I think because I read a later sequel out of order and found it very boring. 

But the Authority audiobook is great--the story's great, and the performance by Bronson Pinchot is great. It picks up right after the events of Annihilation and is about a failson FBI agent sent to the Southern Reach to figure out why their excursions keep ending in disaster, and immediately finding himself in way over his head. It reads like gothic horror, with the bureaucracy of the Southern Reach's headquarters serving as the decaying haunted mansion.

Available at Amazon, but I used the Libby app.

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Good cloaking effect on this WH40K Eldar ship

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Monday, July 6, 2026

3D-printable Motoko Kusanagi figure




$3 for the files. He's also made some Absolute Batman villain heads:

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Museums that have made their catalogs free downloads

Yes I know there are serious & important things happening in the world right now, but this is kind of great: just learned the Van Gogh Museum has made many of their publications, including collection catalogs, freely available on @archive.org. More museums should do this: archive.org/details/vang...

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— Michael Lobel (@mlobelart.bsky.social) July 2, 2026 at 9:48 AM



And while we're at it you should know the Met Museum has done this as well, on their own website www.metmuseum.org/met-publicat...

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— Michael Lobel (@mlobelart.bsky.social) July 2, 2026 at 9:50 AM



I didn't realize the Whitney has been consistently uploading their catalogs to @archive.org, so the list of available titles is much more extensive than when I last checked some time ago: archive.org/search?query...

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— Michael Lobel (@mlobelart.bsky.social) July 2, 2026 at 9:53 AM
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Sunday, July 5, 2026

Hijinks from today's F1 Lego cart race



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New Humble Bundle in collaboration with the annual Summer Games Done Quick live-stream

Starts at five games, including "The Gunk," and two coupons for $7.
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Dating site using AI-generated accounts (AI roundup)

So here’s a lil scoop: you know the new gay dating app Goose? It’s apparently been using at least two dozen AI-generated Instagay accounts to lure men into signing up. Which is “very obviously unlawful,” according to a lawyer I spoke to. My story for @wired.com www.wired.com/story/goose-...

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— Ej Dickson (@ejdickson.bsky.social) July 1, 2026 at 2:12 PM


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Good poster for a Mexico v. England World Cup watch party




From the restaurant's account:

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Saturday, July 4, 2026

Reflecting Pool-themed Jell-O shots; They're rebelling at their own party; Drone show Minutemen



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New Humble Bundle featuring science fiction novels

It's the John Scalzi collction, starts at $5, but $18 for 22 books, including "The Android's Dream," which won the "Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis Award." 

There's also a few days left for the "award-winning fantasy, science fiction, and horror" book bundle.
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still the definitive statement on "can you cheer for team usa if the usa does bad things" discourse:

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— mtsw (@mtsw.bsky.social) July 2, 2026 at 4:16 PM






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Ditto squeeze toy







Some other good Pokemon toys:

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