Peter, The Balloon Animal
@theballoonanimal.bsky.social
As in word balloons. Cause I like comics
He/him/they/them
He/him/they/them
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"As AI fever has propelled global stocks to record highs, the data centres needed to power the technology are increasingly being financed with debt, adding to concerns about the risks."
Five debt hotspots in the AI data centre boom
As AI fever has propelled global stocks to record highs, the data centres needed to power the technology are increasingly being financed with debt, adding to concerns about the risks.
www.reuters.com
December 12, 2025 at 1:04 PM
"As AI fever has propelled global stocks to record highs, the data centres needed to power the technology are increasingly being financed with debt, adding to concerns about the risks."
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Hero Initiative is helping writer Mike W. Barr through a series of health problems. If you'd like to contribute directly to Mike as well, go HERE: www.gofundme.com/f/rally-for-...
Donate to Rally for Mike W. Barr's Medical Care, organized by Dave Kellogg
Mike W. Barr has been a writer of comics, science fiction novels and mystery novels… Dave Kellogg needs your support for Rally for Mike W. Barr's Medical Care
www.gofundme.com
December 10, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Hero Initiative is helping writer Mike W. Barr through a series of health problems. If you'd like to contribute directly to Mike as well, go HERE: www.gofundme.com/f/rally-for-...
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People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!
December 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!
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Our new game is about the fantastical, far out idea that someone would sink billions of dollars into generative AI
December 10, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Our new game is about the fantastical, far out idea that someone would sink billions of dollars into generative AI
You will be visited by three spirits
December 9, 2025 at 6:02 AM
You will be visited by three spirits
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These things literally drop loot lol they're are BEGGING to be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
I came across *the* example I have been hammering with these food delivery robots.
A man with a mobility aid is forced to step aside because there is not room for him because the robot will not make room for a person (esp. those with a mobility aid who need addditional room)
A man with a mobility aid is forced to step aside because there is not room for him because the robot will not make room for a person (esp. those with a mobility aid who need addditional room)
December 8, 2025 at 6:17 PM
These things literally drop loot lol they're are BEGGING to be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
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The Hateful Eight is based on Fair Game, a 1960 episode of The Rebel. A bounty hunter stuck at a stagecoach stop is poisoned in order to rescue his female prisoner & everyone is a suspect, etc. Tarantino borrows the concept, reworks dialogue & more. This video🧵is an appropriately long, slow burn...
December 1, 2025 at 10:09 AM
The Hateful Eight is based on Fair Game, a 1960 episode of The Rebel. A bounty hunter stuck at a stagecoach stop is poisoned in order to rescue his female prisoner & everyone is a suspect, etc. Tarantino borrows the concept, reworks dialogue & more. This video🧵is an appropriately long, slow burn...
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as you dig through coverage of the Netflix Warner Bros merger, play a little game with me:
notice how many of them mention, at ALL, the two decade history of disastrous previous Time Warner mergers, and the massive layoffs, price hikes, and quality erosion that resulted
notice how many of them mention, at ALL, the two decade history of disastrous previous Time Warner mergers, and the massive layoffs, price hikes, and quality erosion that resulted
December 5, 2025 at 2:33 PM
as you dig through coverage of the Netflix Warner Bros merger, play a little game with me:
notice how many of them mention, at ALL, the two decade history of disastrous previous Time Warner mergers, and the massive layoffs, price hikes, and quality erosion that resulted
notice how many of them mention, at ALL, the two decade history of disastrous previous Time Warner mergers, and the massive layoffs, price hikes, and quality erosion that resulted
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I’ve forgotten this sometimes but being able to discover something you like, curate it, and make time to enjoy it *is* intelligence, connecting with art is intelligence, empathy is intelligence, the way of the dullard is to find nothing meaningful in art except for a way to seem snidely clever
December 4, 2025 at 3:21 AM
I’ve forgotten this sometimes but being able to discover something you like, curate it, and make time to enjoy it *is* intelligence, connecting with art is intelligence, empathy is intelligence, the way of the dullard is to find nothing meaningful in art except for a way to seem snidely clever
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It goes into that weird thing that genuine appreciation is somehow considered less intellectual than criticism but everybody is getting trained to be such a cynical unfeeling asshole nowadays that I find the smartest people often are the “hell yeah cool song/drawing/story/video” people
December 4, 2025 at 3:15 AM
It goes into that weird thing that genuine appreciation is somehow considered less intellectual than criticism but everybody is getting trained to be such a cynical unfeeling asshole nowadays that I find the smartest people often are the “hell yeah cool song/drawing/story/video” people
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I’ve sometimes fallen into the trap of thinking that complementing a creative person for their work is less sophisticated or desired than discussion or debate about it but very often the best thing you can say to them is hell yeah and that doesn’t make you dumb it just makes you nice
December 4, 2025 at 3:05 AM
I’ve sometimes fallen into the trap of thinking that complementing a creative person for their work is less sophisticated or desired than discussion or debate about it but very often the best thing you can say to them is hell yeah and that doesn’t make you dumb it just makes you nice
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Hero Initiative is helping writer Mike W. Barr through a series of health problems. If you'd like to contribute directly to Mike as well, go HERE: www.gofundme.com/f/rally-for-...
Donate to Rally for Mike W. Barr's Medical Care, organized by Dave Kellogg
Mike W. Barr has been a writer of comics, science fiction novels and mystery novels… Dave Kellogg needs your support for Rally for Mike W. Barr's Medical Care
www.gofundme.com
December 3, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Hero Initiative is helping writer Mike W. Barr through a series of health problems. If you'd like to contribute directly to Mike as well, go HERE: www.gofundme.com/f/rally-for-...
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Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨
December 3, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨
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One of the strangest things I’ve learned after half a century on this planet is that those with less tend to share more while those with abundance tend to hoard like dragons. I find this very odd.
December 3, 2025 at 3:11 PM
One of the strangest things I’ve learned after half a century on this planet is that those with less tend to share more while those with abundance tend to hoard like dragons. I find this very odd.
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“We do not know where we will end up and I continue to believe that it is possible to transform our conditions through human action. In the new year, let’s embrace making mistakes so we can take more courageous anti-fascist action together.“ @prisonculture.bsky.social
We Don’t Know Where We Will End Up…
A Year Since the 2024 Election
prisonculture.substack.com
December 2, 2025 at 4:02 PM
“We do not know where we will end up and I continue to believe that it is possible to transform our conditions through human action. In the new year, let’s embrace making mistakes so we can take more courageous anti-fascist action together.“ @prisonculture.bsky.social
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Shared Fantasy, the first sociological monograph about roleplaying games, is about a period when established players are dealing with a new wave of younger players with different priorities. The period is 1978.
A game where you can do anything and they’re mad that people are doing anything.
November 30, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Shared Fantasy, the first sociological monograph about roleplaying games, is about a period when established players are dealing with a new wave of younger players with different priorities. The period is 1978.
Wanted to make sure the Sword Brothers over at @warrocketajax.com have seen these panels from @davidbcooper.bsky.social 's LEGEND OF THE MOE MAN
November 29, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Wanted to make sure the Sword Brothers over at @warrocketajax.com have seen these panels from @davidbcooper.bsky.social 's LEGEND OF THE MOE MAN
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The Proofreader’s Guide to Comic Book Style came out a year ago today!
To celebrate my first book birthday, I’m running a 20% sale on all orders on comicbookstyle.com now through Black Friday with the code BIRTHDAY
To celebrate my first book birthday, I’m running a 20% sale on all orders on comicbookstyle.com now through Black Friday with the code BIRTHDAY
November 22, 2025 at 6:01 PM
The Proofreader’s Guide to Comic Book Style came out a year ago today!
To celebrate my first book birthday, I’m running a 20% sale on all orders on comicbookstyle.com now through Black Friday with the code BIRTHDAY
To celebrate my first book birthday, I’m running a 20% sale on all orders on comicbookstyle.com now through Black Friday with the code BIRTHDAY
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Five years on, @benitocereno.bsky.social's video lecture series THE MAGIC AND LEGENDS OF OLD CHRISTMAS is still the best and most accessible general survey of Christmas-adjacent holiday traditions and characters from around the world (predominantly central Europe).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fO9E...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fO9E...
Magic and Legends of Old Christmas part 01: Christmas starts earlier than you think
YouTube video by Benito Cereno
www.youtube.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Five years on, @benitocereno.bsky.social's video lecture series THE MAGIC AND LEGENDS OF OLD CHRISTMAS is still the best and most accessible general survey of Christmas-adjacent holiday traditions and characters from around the world (predominantly central Europe).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fO9E...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fO9E...
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What fictional creature/villain traumatized you as a child?
November 23, 2025 at 5:30 PM
What fictional creature/villain traumatized you as a child?