Dan Larson
@danlarson.bsky.social
Action figure collector
Host and writer of Secret Galaxy on YouTube
Behold, our stuff: http://linktr.ee/secretgalaxy
Host and writer of Secret Galaxy on YouTube
Behold, our stuff: http://linktr.ee/secretgalaxy
I just stumbled across this ebay listing of a comic book that I self published (and autographed) back in 2001! AND 2 of our promo stickers. Very curious if the seller is someone I know. Clearly they did not bag and board it. www.ebay.com/itm/33552667...
Stick-Man #2 Comic book by Dan Larson & Joe Parham signed by Dan Larson | eBay
Up for sale is a Stick-Man #2 Comic book by Dan Larson & Joe Parham signed by Dan Larson.
www.ebay.com
December 26, 2025 at 9:25 PM
I just stumbled across this ebay listing of a comic book that I self published (and autographed) back in 2001! AND 2 of our promo stickers. Very curious if the seller is someone I know. Clearly they did not bag and board it. www.ebay.com/itm/33552667...
These are the things that pop into my head when I see collectors taking their military toys a little too seriously.
It’s been too long since I thought about GIJoe’s widdle vehicles for it’s widdle guys
December 26, 2025 at 5:35 PM
These are the things that pop into my head when I see collectors taking their military toys a little too seriously.
Christmas video drop.
The Story of Emmet Otter's Jug Band Christmas: Depressing & Innovative?
YouTube video by Secret Galaxy
youtu.be
December 25, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Christmas video drop.
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For further context twitter added a button that allows users to generate ai images using existing art posts from artists. It removes glaze and it basically reskins the artwork by using the existing work as a base. Twitter is no longer a safe space for art
December 24, 2025 at 8:03 PM
For further context twitter added a button that allows users to generate ai images using existing art posts from artists. It removes glaze and it basically reskins the artwork by using the existing work as a base. Twitter is no longer a safe space for art
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55K to go!!!!! Almost halfway!!
Heads up! The Mighty Orbots Kickstarter is live. 1/3 of the way to the goal after just 2 days. www.kickstarter.com/projects/the...
Mighty Orbots Deluxe Combining 12" Figure (1985 Edition)
The holy grail of 80's robots is finally here. 5 bots combine to form the 12" Mighty Orbots. Based on the unproduced 1984 prototype.
www.kickstarter.com
December 24, 2025 at 2:11 AM
55K to go!!!!! Almost halfway!!
From the bird site.
December 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
From the bird site.
The world of Plunderlings keeps expanding and I'm absolutely loving it. 2 figures from the new Plunderbeaks branch as gorgeous and fun as the previous figures.
December 23, 2025 at 3:06 AM
The world of Plunderlings keeps expanding and I'm absolutely loving it. 2 figures from the new Plunderbeaks branch as gorgeous and fun as the previous figures.
Big thank you to my local comic shop @dmcomics.bsky.social for hooking me up with Boba Fett no. 575. Took the opportunity to clean out my pull folder as well. Lots of GIJoe and Transformers.
December 23, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Big thank you to my local comic shop @dmcomics.bsky.social for hooking me up with Boba Fett no. 575. Took the opportunity to clean out my pull folder as well. Lots of GIJoe and Transformers.
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If you pay attention to any large industry long enough and follow it to its logical conclusion you eventually end up sounding like a communist even if you started off testing CPU case fans. youtu.be/cUrJVdF2me0?...
December 22, 2025 at 5:58 PM
If you pay attention to any large industry long enough and follow it to its logical conclusion you eventually end up sounding like a communist even if you started off testing CPU case fans. youtu.be/cUrJVdF2me0?...
Every year leading up to my Top 10 I revisit the figures that are eligible for consideration. First up is every Jada Toys Street Fighter 2 figure released in 2025 that I purchased. Still a fantastic line of figures but not my top priority. I'll grab the rest as I see them along the way.
December 22, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Every year leading up to my Top 10 I revisit the figures that are eligible for consideration. First up is every Jada Toys Street Fighter 2 figure released in 2025 that I purchased. Still a fantastic line of figures but not my top priority. I'll grab the rest as I see them along the way.
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It’s been brutal the past month but I want to take a moment and compliment @danlarson.bsky.social and @secretgalaxy.bsky.social on the lighting of their latest episode. It’s just really good. There is clearly attention to detail to how things are lit.
December 21, 2025 at 7:28 PM
It’s been brutal the past month but I want to take a moment and compliment @danlarson.bsky.social and @secretgalaxy.bsky.social on the lighting of their latest episode. It’s just really good. There is clearly attention to detail to how things are lit.
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If I had been in college and generative AI could have let me turn a photo or a drawing into a Gustave Dore-style woodcut (something I really wanted to do), I would've used it in a heartbeat, and I never would have learned to define form using cross-contour lines.
December 21, 2025 at 1:11 AM
If I had been in college and generative AI could have let me turn a photo or a drawing into a Gustave Dore-style woodcut (something I really wanted to do), I would've used it in a heartbeat, and I never would have learned to define form using cross-contour lines.
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In short, using AI in your writing is among the dumbest things you can do as a writer as it exposes you to potential legal action while affording you zero legal protections. AI is a nightmare box for idiots. Don't fall into the trap of shortcutting your writing career.
December 20, 2025 at 10:17 PM
In short, using AI in your writing is among the dumbest things you can do as a writer as it exposes you to potential legal action while affording you zero legal protections. AI is a nightmare box for idiots. Don't fall into the trap of shortcutting your writing career.
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New reaction image just dropped.
December 19, 2025 at 3:29 AM
New reaction image just dropped.
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I grew up on a steady diet of Bloom County and Outland, so this is gonna be a must watch
Our December Members Only video is live! Join on Youtube or Patreon for $1 a month: youtu.be/BNmMJwkL4ls
The History of A Wish For Wings That Work - MEMBERS ONLY
YouTube video by Secret Galaxy
youtu.be
December 18, 2025 at 11:56 PM
I grew up on a steady diet of Bloom County and Outland, so this is gonna be a must watch
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Guess I'll post this again
December 18, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Guess I'll post this again
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Our December Members Only video is live! Join on Youtube or Patreon for $1 a month: youtu.be/BNmMJwkL4ls
The History of A Wish For Wings That Work - MEMBERS ONLY
YouTube video by Secret Galaxy
youtu.be
December 18, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Our December Members Only video is live! Join on Youtube or Patreon for $1 a month: youtu.be/BNmMJwkL4ls
When you need to take the cat to the vet but you can't get him in the box.
December 17, 2025 at 11:47 PM
When you need to take the cat to the vet but you can't get him in the box.
Heads up! The Mighty Orbots Kickstarter is live. 1/3 of the way to the goal after just 2 days. www.kickstarter.com/projects/the...
Mighty Orbots Deluxe Combining 12" Figure (1985 Edition)
The holy grail of 80's robots is finally here. 5 bots combine to form the 12" Mighty Orbots. Based on the unproduced 1984 prototype.
www.kickstarter.com
December 16, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Heads up! The Mighty Orbots Kickstarter is live. 1/3 of the way to the goal after just 2 days. www.kickstarter.com/projects/the...
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Thanks to @danlarson.bsky.social and @mikekaess.bsky.social I pay more attention to blow molds than I ever have before.
December 16, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Thanks to @danlarson.bsky.social and @mikekaess.bsky.social I pay more attention to blow molds than I ever have before.
Follow up on last repost. Those with money and power want to kill empathy so consumers no longer value the time and effort invested to deliver a message. So you won't care about the medium or the speaker, only the message. Then they can feed you any message they want to any way they want to.
December 16, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Follow up on last repost. Those with money and power want to kill empathy so consumers no longer value the time and effort invested to deliver a message. So you won't care about the medium or the speaker, only the message. Then they can feed you any message they want to any way they want to.
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Please read this whole thread about empathy and work and AI. It's friggin' fantastic.
I hadn't given much thought to the actual philosophy behind the "empathy is bad, actually" movement, because the people espousing it are so transparently anti-human that I never thought of it as having more depth than wolves having the philosophy "Sheep are tasty".
But I realized it matters to AI.
But I realized it matters to AI.
December 16, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Please read this whole thread about empathy and work and AI. It's friggin' fantastic.
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Again going to bang my drum:
*Even if* gen AI excelled at tasks
*Even if* gen AI had abuse-guardrails
*Even if* gen AI helped the environment & medicine
It’s still built on scraping the world’s creative labour without consent.
Gen AI is poisoned at the root.
*Even if* gen AI excelled at tasks
*Even if* gen AI had abuse-guardrails
*Even if* gen AI helped the environment & medicine
It’s still built on scraping the world’s creative labour without consent.
Gen AI is poisoned at the root.
It seems there are exactly two kinds of stories about generative AI:
1) wildly exuberant stories about what this stuff will do sometime really soon (trust us!), and
2) stories like this about how some actual use of gen AI fails fantastically
oh, wait, I forgot:
3) gen AI is pretty good at fraud
1) wildly exuberant stories about what this stuff will do sometime really soon (trust us!), and
2) stories like this about how some actual use of gen AI fails fantastically
oh, wait, I forgot:
3) gen AI is pretty good at fraud
“Internal tests found that the AI was generating podcasts riddled with errors and bias, with anywhere between 68 and 84 percent of the scripts deemed unpublishable by evaluators across three rounds of testing.”
December 16, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Again going to bang my drum:
*Even if* gen AI excelled at tasks
*Even if* gen AI had abuse-guardrails
*Even if* gen AI helped the environment & medicine
It’s still built on scraping the world’s creative labour without consent.
Gen AI is poisoned at the root.
*Even if* gen AI excelled at tasks
*Even if* gen AI had abuse-guardrails
*Even if* gen AI helped the environment & medicine
It’s still built on scraping the world’s creative labour without consent.
Gen AI is poisoned at the root.