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James Perrin
@spiderdust.bsky.social
Stop steaming up my tail!

Life long comic book & music fan. 80’s synth pop, new wave and trance music are my jam. Fascinated by American history & true crime stories. I don't believe in ghosts but I'm pretty sure I might meet an alien someday.
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My CFNY playlist. Based on my memory of listening in the daytime at work and Saturday nights.

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CFNY - The Spirit Of Radio - There's Nothing Like It by James Perrin on Apple Music
Playlist · 300 Songs
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The rest of the Marvel Universe doesn't quite know what to make of KISS.

#marvel #marvelcomics #comics #KISS
November 22, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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This is an amazing, gutting story. Grifters make bank by peddling misinformation about the harms of medical or midwife-assisted births, and moms and babies suffer and die. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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TRAIN DREAMS, one of my favorite films of 2025, is now on Netflix.
Train Dreams Movie Review: The Lonely American
Clint Bentley’s soulful, melancholy drama turns an American myth on its head.
www.commentarytrack.net
November 21, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Most Valuable Comic Ever: ‘Superman No. 1’ Sells for a Record $9 Million
Most Valuable Comic Ever: ‘Superman No. 1’ Sells for a Record $9 Million
A comic found in an attic has just become the most expensive comic of all time. A copy of Superman No. 1, the 1939 issue that introduced the Man of Steel in his first solo title and astonishingly in near pristine condition, sold for $9.12 million Thursday at an auction run by Heritage. That price handily beats the previous record, set only in 2024, when Action Comics No. 1, the comic that first introduced the Kryptonian hero to the world, sold for $6 million. Before that, a copy of Superman No. 1 held the record with a sale of $5.3 million in 2022 while a copy of 1962’s Amazing Fantasy No. 15, the first appearance of Spider-Man, sold for $3.6 million in 2021. While comic book prices have not been climbing as fast or as far as they had in the early 2020s – in fact, a lot of comic prices have fallen by a third or more in some cases – this copy has several factors going for it, according to those in the rare comic book world. For a comic being 86 years old, it is in excellent condition, and it graded a 9.0 out of 10 by the Certified Guaranty Company, the leading third-party grading service for comic books. Then there is the attic backstory, which enhances the comic’s pedigree. The comic was discovered by three brothers in the attic of their late mother’s house, in a box of yellowed newspaper clippings. Their mother bought the comic, along with several others, when she was nine and living in Depression-era San Francisco. Over the years, the mother occasionally insisted to her sons that she had “rare comics somewhere.” But she could never remember where, and the boys assumed it was just a family legend. The mother died just before the pandemic, and the house sat untouched until the brothers were ready to go through it earlier this year.
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November 21, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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HBO head Casey Bloys is doing a press session today, and there’s renewal news along with it.
- “Task” is getting a second season w/Mark Ruffalo returning. 1/2
‘Task’ Renewed for Second Season at HBO
The drama starring Mark Ruffalo has become a word-of-mouth hit.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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EPSTEIN BOMBSHELL: my staff is releasing a new report showing JPMorgan Chase executives – all the way to the top – enabled Epstein's sex trafficking operation. You're going to want to read this.
Wyden Presses for Investigation Into JPMorgan Chase and Epstein
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Rewatch complete of my favorite entry in this phenomenal series. Filled with amazingly colorful characters, sweeping score and jaw dropping action design by Kenji Tanagaki. Elevated by heartfelt thematic storytelling of the cost peace and redemption. An absolute action classic!
November 19, 2025 at 4:15 PM
“We Built This City” has been streamed over 682 million times on Spotify. That’s a whole lot of hate-listens.

www.pastemagazine.com/music/starsh...
“We Built This City” is a good song, actually
Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.
www.pastemagazine.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House.

By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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Nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from the Broadview ICE Detention Center has been "irretrievably destroyed" and cannot be produced as evidence in a lawsuit against the government over abhorrent conditions there:

www.404media.co/two-weeks-of...
Two Weeks of Surveillance Footage From ICE Detention Center ‘Irretrievably Destroyed’
"Defendants have indicated that some video between October 19, 2025 and October 31, 2025 has been irretrievably destroyed and therefore cannot be produced on an expedited basis or at all."
www.404media.co
November 18, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Bill Watterson’s “Calvin and Hobbes” first appeared 40 years ago, on November 18, 1985. Here’s the first week of dailies:
November 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Microsoft has been leading a big tech push to use generative AI to enshittify the nuclear power plant licensing process

Absolutely on brand

www.404media.co/power-compan...

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@ainowinstitute.bsky.social @sofiaguerra.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Cloudflare says ‘incident now resolved’ after outage causes error messages across the internet – live
Cloudflare says ‘incident now resolved’ after outage causes error messages across the internet – live
Company says it believes the outage has now been resolved and a fix has been implemented * Cloudflare outage causes error messages across the internet Key sites around the world went down, some for a few hours, after a widely relied-upon Internet infrastructure company suffered an outage The outages took place in the early hours of US morning and during UK business hours It affected users of everything from Spotify, ChatGPT, X, Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Canva to retail websites of Visa, Vodafone and Vinted and UK grocery chains Asda and M&S. Cloudflare said at 11:48 GMT that it was investigating and working on a fix. It declared the incident resolved nearly three hours later. The US company provides protection and defensive services to millions of sites, and claims to handle a fifth of web traffic. Cloudflare said it had to temporarily disable some services for UK users in its attempts to fix the outages on Tuesday. “Some customers may be still experiencing issues logging into or using the Cloudflare dashboard. We are working on a fix to resolve this, and continuing to monitor for any further issues.” The firm has just issued an update saying it believes the incident over. A fix has been implemented and we believe the incident is now resolved. We are continuing to monitor for errors to ensure all services are back to normal. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Happy 24th Anniversary to Justice League, the animated series that changed so much for so many of us! Forever grateful to the show & all its fans! 💛❤️💙
November 17, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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I went to Netflix House and had a very weird time, you can read about it here

slate.com/culture/2025...
Netflix Has Built Its Own In-Person Immersive Experience. It’s … Weird, to Say the Least.
What it’s like visiting Philadelphia’s Netflix House, a disorienting experience housed in a giant mall.
slate.com
November 16, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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"I think understanding the origin story, and understanding what the intention was, of the creation of the United States as it morphed, and as it changed as it went along, helps us today understand not only where we are, but where we could be going," Ken Burns said. https://to.pbs.org/4p6Y47H
Ken Burns' 'The American Revolution' explores the beginnings of the nation's democracy
"The American Revolution," the latest work from filmmaker Ken Burns, begins this Sunday on PBS. The six-part, 12-hour history of the war of independence from Britain and the beginnings of the American...
to.pbs.org
November 17, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Gift link to NYT article about the corruption of DOJ. One former insider says “I wouldn’t even call it the Justice Department anymore. It’s become Trump’s personal law firm. … [T]he American people should be enraged.”
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
60 Attorneys on the Year of Chaos Inside Trump’s Justice Department (Gift Article)
Sixty former staffers describe an environment of suspicion and intimidation within the nation’s most powerful law enforcement agency.
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Happy milestone 80th birthday! today - November 15 - to Anni-Frid Lyngstad (Abba)
November 15, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Read this 2020 story by the Guardian and you'll understand why the focus on Epstein scares Trump so much. Trump is a sex predator with a history of appalling behavior toward teenage girls.
Teen models, powerful men and private dinners: when Trump hosted Look of the Year
In the early 90s, Donald Trump judged contestants at the world’s biggest modelling competition - since hit by allegations of abuse. This is how the people who were there remember it
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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50 yrs ago today - Nov 14, 1975 - release of "The Lumberjack Song" from Monty Python's Flying Circus. "... I'm a lumberjack, and I'm okay. I sleep all night. I work all day. He's a lumberjack, and he's okay....he sleeps all night and he works all day" Now try and get THAT out of your head today! 👍😎👍
November 14, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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This is neither here nor there, but the current plot of South Park is that Trump is (graphically) cheating on Satan—who is pregnant by him—with a sycophantic JD Vance, who’s a) trying to prevent the baby from
being born and b) being portrayed as Hervé Villechaize from Fantasy Island
November 14, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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Beautiful Batman watercolor by Ito.
(@ itoscaresme on ig)
#comics #art
December 8, 2024 at 10:49 PM
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New from me: Hackers broke into a company that does batch SMS messaging on Monday night and sent out hundreds of thousands of crappy scam messages to people who normally get alerts from New York State, a Catholic charity, a group that helped organize No Kings protest.
Hackers breach mass texting service used by New York state, send hundreds of thousands of scam texts
Hackers sent text messages to users from trusted SMS numbers, referencing nonexistent transactions and directing them to call a phone number.
www.nbcnews.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Bob Iger says Disney+ will soon have AI-generated short form content from users

(via THR)
November 13, 2025 at 2:54 PM