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Richard Swift

@swiftofopal.bsky.social

Just seeking what passes for human interaction in these end times. Film geek, comic book dork, Star Trek nerd, horror movie dweeb.

created June 13, 2023

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Profile picture Richard Swift (@swiftofopal.bsky.social)

So i have to check what country every ebay seller is in now or i will get fees greater than the 5 dollar thing i ordered. Cool cool cool.

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3/9/2025, 2:58:35 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Have not seen it but apparently there was a pgh ref too

3/9/2025, 1:09:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"Let's see you at 21"

3/9/2025, 1:08:55 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They let you travel with what appear to be massive guns in that first picture…?

3/9/2025, 1:05:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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George Michael (Michael Cera) from Arrested Development, wearing clothes that no longer fit as he is wearing a fake muscle suit underneath them.
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If you can track the boat on camera to slaughter everyone aboard then you can track the boat on camera to intercept the boat and arrest them

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Sheik! Sheik! Sheik! Sheik!

3/9/2025, 3:08:18 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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3/9/2025, 2:41:07 AM | 77 17 | View on Bluesky | view

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Do this like thrice daily.

2/9/2025, 4:48:18 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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2/9/2025, 4:38:35 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Boooooooooo

2/9/2025, 4:33:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I laughed out loud the first time i saw this page.

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2/9/2025, 4:24:47 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I wonder if they first met on epstein island

Screenshot of the headline “Woody Allen says Donald Trump was 'a very good actor'” And then a picture of the accused sexual offender Woody Allen and the adjudicated sexual offender Donald Trump.
2/9/2025, 3:49:53 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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2/9/2025, 3:21:40 PM | 63 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I don’t care if bluesky if a left wing echo chamber. I’m middle age and the right wing hasn’t had a good idea, ever. Now? They’re offering nothing more than hate and bigotry. Don’t believe anyone who tells you that you need that shit in your life. They’re just a bigot trying to sell you hate.

2/9/2025, 2:36:23 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yay, i guess. Don’t really think this will stop anything and unclear why it took so long to decide a thing that seems blatantly obvious, but yay!

2/9/2025, 1:44:34 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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RIP Scott Spiegel. He made a lot of fun b-movies and helped bring one of my all-time favorites, EVIL DEAD II, to life. That, and he *almost* got a free pizza courtesy of Spider-Man. search.app/GZ6JQ

2/9/2025, 1:21:15 PM | 7 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Can’t wait.

2/9/2025, 1:21:21 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Unfortunately you’re a digital artist…?

2/9/2025, 1:12:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Never thought we’d elect AI president until now…

2/9/2025, 11:05:00 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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“When was I in this mood…?” Ah, Nov 6th. Fair.

2/9/2025, 3:17:26 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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2/9/2025, 3:14:19 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And I don’t *just* mean the laying still trying not to blink or be seen breathing for the month they filmed or whatever, though also that. I mean the micro expression changes. He changes it just slightly enough to punctuate a joke and but never enough that you’re certain that he’s doing anything.

2/9/2025, 3:09:47 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’m not pretending the movie is a timeless classic for the ages but I legit believe Terry Kiser should have gotten a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination for Weekend At Bernie’s. Not a win, but a nod. He is the funniest part of the movie and this performance had to have been HARD.

2/9/2025, 3:02:29 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Rest in Peace Graham Greene 1952-2025 Among the unsung for greats.

1/9/2025, 10:56:26 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That’s the best I’ve ever seen Vigilante look.

1/9/2025, 9:42:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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i've had this on my hard drive for literal years at this point, my time has come

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Jealous

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Important milestones

1/9/2025, 6:53:05 PM | 126 29 | View on Bluesky | view

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1/9/2025, 6:13:10 PM | 9 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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I am very jealous of about half this house… and the other half makes me feel guilty about the liking of half of it.

31/8/2025, 8:02:18 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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In this Shatner and Bakula commiserate over their inability to manage their own time while staring in their first tv show (Trek, Leap, respectively) cost them their first marriages.

Poster for “The Captains Close Up” docuseries hosted and directed by William Shatner.
31/8/2025, 2:29:04 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Two people to take the Ring to Mordor?

30/8/2025, 10:03:00 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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30/8/2025, 7:35:42 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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how to install bisexual lighting

30/8/2025, 7:31:33 PM | 409 94 | View on Bluesky | view

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30/8/2025, 7:34:32 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Amazing.

30/8/2025, 7:25:29 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is so awesome that upon looking at it I heard the song “It’s Party Time” song from Return of the Living Dead in my head but with “Buffy” substituted for “Party.” ‘Do you want Buffffffy? It’s Buffy Time!”

30/8/2025, 7:23:59 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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30/8/2025, 7:14:25 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It’s Saturday 📺 Post a cartoon TV series you love.

30/8/2025, 7:13:59 PM | 8 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Makes me wanna get in a sword fight.

30/8/2025, 7:07:49 PM | 5 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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30/8/2025, 4:23:24 AM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 🔥💀LA MANTIA!💀🔥 (@lamantia.bsky.social) reposted

Logging on to Bluesky.

Smithers Scared of Strippers but it's Watto from Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace instead of strippers. I don't know man, we're just trying to get through the day.
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30/8/2025, 2:22:50 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Highly recommended as a chaser open.spotify.com/episode/0YNm...

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Pino Dell'Orco

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30/8/2025, 1:30:14 AM | 31 5 | View on Bluesky | view

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Appeals court rubber stamping some crime is what that sounds like.

30/8/2025, 2:00:21 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Like, I’ll watch that Springsteen biopic but it’s not going to be a better love song to his music, music in general, youth, and falling in love with things than this movie.

29/8/2025, 10:29:47 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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RWing Blinded By the Light I love this movie. It’s so deeply sincere cheeseball I just smile life a doofus half the movie.

Poster for the 2019 film Blinded By the Light.
29/8/2025, 10:09:41 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Also, how much do we think WB made this summer in Superman merch? Toys, comics, shirts, popcorn buckets, etc? Why don’t we count that towards the money the movie generated..? Is it because no one wants to release those figures less someone deserving asks for a raise?

29/8/2025, 8:00:44 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If you see this post a monster

29/8/2025, 7:37:59 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I also find it increasingly goofy that we have to pretend a theater box office is the only place a movie makes money. It’s just where a studio has to do the least amount of splitting. Digital rentals, sales, blurays and 4ks, streaming service runs, all generate millions more.

29/8/2025, 7:32:28 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Certainly no Robins pitching in to stop him.

29/8/2025, 7:03:09 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The Penguin’s most dastardly plot yet.

29/8/2025, 6:41:14 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Terrified that this said Twinkless Gotham City at first.

29/8/2025, 6:36:22 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bloody Disgusting (@bloody-disgusting.com) reposted

It's been two years since THE TOXIC AVENGER melted faces at its Fantastic Fest premiere. Now, it's finally out in theaters. Go see the movie that got this reaction out of @fangoria.bsky.social and @thekingcast.bsky.social raconteur Scott Wampler. 💚

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29/8/2025, 5:31:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yeah but don’t you want to try some Radu’s Coffee…?

29/8/2025, 5:27:15 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Indeed. Also? Dumb poll. Might as well have been “republicans, do you think there should be consequences for your actions?” Shocked to find they said that would be bad.

29/8/2025, 5:20:50 PM | 17 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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So shitty people don’t want there to be consequences for being shitty?

29/8/2025, 5:17:23 PM | 9 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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It is, I think, somewhere in the top ten most rewatchable movies of all time. And everyone in it is frickin’ GORGEOUS.

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Profile picture David Mack (@david-mack.bsky.social) reposted

Happy Birthday to Jack Kirby!

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Oooh very pretty. @lotje.bsky.social check out this Dahlia.

29/8/2025, 4:52:13 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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i assume he was quietly transferred to another server

29/8/2025, 4:45:39 PM | 3214 500 | View on Bluesky | view

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Damn right.

29/8/2025, 4:46:18 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Absolutely recommend the last episode, King’s third ending for The Stand now? Easily the best in my mind. The rest… Prime example that some stories are meant to be a linear journey.

29/8/2025, 4:29:22 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The last episode is written by King and is all new material and fantastic. Big fan of some of the casting, Greg Kinnear in particular, but they changed the structure entirely (potentially because of the pandemic?) which just completely gutted any impact to the story or relating to the characters.

29/8/2025, 4:08:25 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Canon in my heart

Cover to a Star Trek comic collected into a trade paperback entitled “Godshock” by Collin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing, and Mike Feehan.
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Among the few really good things from the more recent adaptation of the book.

29/8/2025, 2:50:44 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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More politicians like this please.

29/8/2025, 2:49:46 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Song of the Summer Apocalypse.

28/8/2025, 1:05:38 PM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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You only see value in things that are monetized, don't you? Community has no meaning for you unless you can make money from it in some way...

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Anyone else wondering if all the SNL talent cuts might be a sign that their budget has been slashed after too many trump jokes…?

29/8/2025, 11:07:56 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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William Shatner as Captain James T. Kirk in the episode “Omega Glory” of Star Trek the Original Series (1966). He is pointing a finger and lecturing “You have slurred the meaning of the words, “We the People…” They must apply to everyone, or they mean nothing!”
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In theaters and have preordered the 4k.

29/8/2025, 10:51:11 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You both did.

29/8/2025, 5:13:37 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Griffin Newman in a makeshift Watto costume attempting a sexy pose in a promotional photo for The George Lucas Talk Show.
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Post a random picture, or else everything will go bad in September.

29/8/2025, 4:49:10 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I have the dvds where they cut all of these scenes. And those seemed to be the version put on DaPlus… Where are these available…?

29/8/2025, 2:46:33 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Love it when a guy who makes millions blames the cost of shit on the people making thousands. Microcosm of society.

29/8/2025, 2:43:33 AM | 26 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Fella who makes millions complaining about people who make thousands.

29/8/2025, 2:37:01 AM | 20 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Hereeeeee we are….

28/8/2025, 8:34:53 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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28/8/2025, 7:32:26 PM | 13 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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🤮

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Hail to the King.

Jack “King” Kirby Jack Kirby art of Doctor Doom being maniacal. Jack Kirby art of The Thing from the Fantastic Four “This man… This monster!” Jack Kirby cover of Captain America Comics from 1941, depicting Cap socking Hitler in the jaw.
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Feel like i have been in that mood.

28/8/2025, 5:30:52 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I am a 1-5, wanna try some of these though…

28/8/2025, 5:13:59 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Vaccines are safe and effective. RFK Jr. isn’t.

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Profile picture Patrick Vallely (@pjvphotography.bsky.social) reposted

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

A pika sits on a mossy rock. Tighter crop of the same pika, focusing on its head. An even tighter crop, focusing more on the pika's eye. An extremely tight crop of the pika's eye, emphasizing their reflection of an early morning mountain scene.
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Almost seems like they’re only interested in saving that 65 year or older Republican base.

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Fuck me just look at that.

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Two small fortunes…?

A dark figure walking through a white frozen tundra. From Bernie Wrightson’s Frankenstein.
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Anyone want to loan me a small fortune? I am not good for it.

28/8/2025, 1:48:19 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You’re parting with Bernie Wrightson Frankenstein pages?!? Are you feeling alright? Should we be worried…?

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Song of the Summer Apocalypse.

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