Cannot decide if Bluesky is up or down, but Mangabookshelf's Pick of the Week post will wait till I can make it go.

Oh no, Deck Blue's update actually made visible changes! D:

Huge changes for Marvel. This could change the Big Two forever. www.comicsbeat.com/president-da...

LICENSE ANNOUNCEMENT: Tie Me Up, Stare Me Down by Zawayuki Taki ( @zwzwyk.bsky.social) A mature story about pressure, liberation, and self-discovery, as one overworked salaryman finds unexpected freedom inside a mysterious bar. Coming in May 2027! #MangaMavericksMonday

Pancakes, eggs, sausage, toast, and tea, which would be there in a truly just world.

Outrageous. But none of those people will ever actually get any money. Trump never pays people, even people he actually owes. This is yet another instance of Trump creating new funding streams to nowhere for public money. This money will go to Trump. Possibly to help fund Coup 2.0.

When I was fresh out of college, I had no connections and nothing but a dream. I co-wrote an indie animated spec. Somehow, we got it to Tom. He voiced our main character for free. “Putting good into the world has a habit of coming back around,” he said. RIP Tom Kane. Thank you, truly.

lmao incredible, bravo to the jury for finding a way to give musk nothing while also not validating anything OpenAI did 😂

***ANNOUNCEMENT*** Coming on August 25th on Blu-ray in the US from @criterion.bsky.social as part of their #Eclipse Series (#49): Five Radical Documentaries by #KazuoHara and #SachikoKobayashi (1972-2016)! Shocking, confrontational, and made with white-hot fury,

***ANNOUNCEMENT*** Coming on August 25th on #4K and Blu-ray in the US from @criterion.bsky.social: #HarlanCountyUSA (1976)! Barbara Kopple’s Academy Award–winning Harlan County USA unflinchingly documents a coal miners’ strike in a small Kentucky town. With unprecedented access,

***ANNOUNCEMENT*** Coming on August 25th on Blu-ray in the US from @criterion.bsky.social: #AmericanDream (1990)! Winner of the Best Documentary Feature Oscar, Barbara Kopple’s American Dream details the tumultuous 1985–86 labor strike against Hormel Foods in Austin, Minnesota.

***ANNOUNCEMENT*** Coming on August 25th on #4K and Blu-ray in the US from @criterion.bsky.social: #LittleOdessa (1981)! A Dostoevskian family tragedy in the form of a gangster drama, the darkly elegant debut feature by James Gray heralded the arrival of a voice in contemporary American cinema.

***ANNOUNCEMENT*** Coming on August 11th on Blu-ray in the US from @criterion.bsky.social: #CoupDeTorchon (1981)! With this existential crime thriller, legend of French cinema Bertrand Tavernier transforms Jim Thompson’s hard-boiled novel Pop. 1280 into a darkly comic, philosophically provocative

***ANNOUNCEMENT*** Coming on August 4th on #4K in the US from @criterion.bsky.social: #Safe (1995)! Julianne Moore gives a breakthrough performance as Carol White, a Los Angeles housewife in the late 1980s who comes down with a debilitating illness. After the doctors she sees

***ANNOUNCEMENT*** Coming on July 28th on Blu-ray in the US from #AllianceHomeEntertainment as part of their #RetroVHS line: #MickiAndMaude (1984)! Dudley Moore and director Blake Edwards are reunited in this romp about a lovable bigamist. TV reporter Rob Salinger (Moore) longs for a baby.

The latest 500 Songs backer-only bonus episode is now up, on The Guess Who and "American Woman"

hello, interpol? i'd like to report a crime

Trump and his lawyers “are figuring out a way to refund the January 6 militia, presumably to get them ready for the next round of battle," says Jamie Raskin in this piece:

上伊那ぼたんはどちゃくそいいぞ！ #上伊那ぼたん

Free samples #上伊那ぼたん

More fallout from Callais: SCOTUS wipes out two decisions involving the rights of private plaintiffs (rather than the DOJ) to bring a claim under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. KBJ dissents. These are less important now that Section 2 has been gutted... www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

Good morning! Too Deep Zone has left Substack for G-G-Ghost. And has thoughts on ... the Dolphins offseason? too-deep-zone.ghost.io/malik-and-de...

It’s so hard to say goodbye to yesterday…

Depressed and anxious at the sight of the discourse, I decided to remind myself why I liked reading, so I opened Don Quixote for the first time and it’s fucking hilarious. Thanks, books, shouldn’t doubt you.

Chitose Is in the Ramune Bottle LN 8 review: suitablefortreatment.mangabookshelf.com/2026/05/17/c... @yenpress.com

***ANNOUNCEMENT*** Coming on June 3rd on Blu-ray in Australia from #ViaVisionEntertainment: #ToSirWithLove Complete Collection (1967/1996)! The timeless original classic film and its 1995 sequel are paired together in this special Blu-ray collection. To Sir with Love (1967) is a timeless film

***ANNOUNCEMENT*** Coming on June 10th on Blu-ray in Australia from #ViaVisionEntertainment: #ChangeOfHabit (1969)! Elvis Presley in his final film role! An inner-city doctor falls in love for a social worker who turns out to be a nun preparing for her final vows.

I will never get over how much Roxy Music-era Brian Eno looks like Riff Raff from the Rocky Horror Picture Show

Wait, new Yotsuba&! next week? What?

Blog update: All About Eve's indie number one "Flowers In Our Hair" was also their indie swansong, as they moved to Phonogram a few weeks into its run. It joined the ranks of songs about the hippy dream which suggested it was - well - no more than a dream. indienumber1s.blogspot.com/2026/05/101-...

***ANNOUNCEMENT*** Coming on July 14th on Blu-ray in the US from @kinolorber.com: #TheLoveTrap (1929)! 4K Restoration by Universal Pictures! In this comedy classic from director William Wyler (Roman Holiday), Laura La Plante (The Cat and the Canary) stars as a bright-eyed dancer who is

***ANNOUNCEMENT*** Coming on July 28th on #4K in the US from @kinolorber.com: #KingCreole (1958)! 2020 HDR/Dolby Vision Master by Paramount Pictures – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative! Elvis Presley brings a new beat to Bourbon Street in King Creole!

***ANNOUNCEMENT*** Coming on June 9th on Blu-ray in the US from @undercrankprods.bsky.social: #EdwardEverettHorton: 8 Silent Comedies (1927/1928)! Remembered today for his fussy persona in Hollywood sound films such as Top Har (1935) and /Arsenic and Old Lace (1942), Edward Everett Horton is not

God, this Zappa '66 release is true primal stuff. For those who love Freak Out, Absolutely Free, and possibly nothing else, this release is for you.

Today on Okazu – Botan Kamiina Fully Blossoms When Drunk Anime, Episodes 1-5 Okazu Staff writer Matt Marcus (hic) takes a look at this boozy (hic), yet low-key (hic) slice-of-alcoholic college life anime streaming now on Crunchyroll! okazu.yuricon.com/2026/05/17/b...

ﾘｮﾆ路マイルとかポイント貯めてプチ贅沢してほしいと思って描いてる

上伊那ぼたんさんと砺波いぶきさん

Today's Popeye at @comicskingdom.bsky.social : comicskingdom.com/popeye/2026-...

『映像研には手を出すな！』連載10周年記念　大・映像研展！開催 会期：2026年6月26日(金)～7月12日(日) 会場：北千住マルイ 7階 抽選無しの一般チケットが２９日発売です！ 【HPでは順次展示内容やグッズを発表】 googoodept.jp/eizouken-exh...

Maid and Robot

So I guess the San Diego Zoo posted the whole Pet Sounds album on their channel, set to thematically appropriate footage of their animals just chillin

It might just be me, but if I didn't want people talking about really heinous, unforgivable, shit I'd been accused of, I wouldn't sue my accuser for life-ruining sums of money right when a TV show based on my work premiered, thus reminding people of her accusations and all the other ones.

What a time to be alive (1973)

The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade and Grogu.

Despite them being by different bands, with different lyrics, melodies, and rhythms, you will never actually convince me that "All Right Now" and "You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet" aren't actually the same record.

the botan eyecatches aren't playing around this week lol

Sword Art Online: Progressive LN 9 review: suitablefortreatment.mangabookshelf.com/2026/05/16/s... @yenpress.com

Finally, the WaPo's video blog has discovered the worst corruption and abuse of government power in America today -- a program to give free diapers to new parents at a trivial cost, administered by someone who knows someone who knows Newsom's wife or something