Reposted by Alexi ConmanMy Imaginary Brooklyn @myimaginarybrklyn.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Tove Jansson, 1958. “Midwinter” #illustration #comics #1950s #Moomin #ToveJansson 0690181
Alexi Conman @alexiconman.bsky.social · 10hYou know who was round on Claw Island the other day givin' me grief? Only bleedin' BATMAN! I says "You can't go round punching folk like me with bad hips vigilante-like. I've got rights!" & HE says "the right to be punched in the face" & I say "that's RUBBISH mate. You was better in the ol' days"... 131
Reposted by Alexi ConmanThe Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 15hBound into three exquisitely colored volumes, Fungi Collected in Shropshire and Other Neighbourhoods (1860–1902) features hundreds of species, collected across 42 years by a female mycologist named M. F. Lewis: publicdomainreview.org/collection/f… 540091
Reposted by Alexi ConmanHelen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 12hThe mastery of artist: Harry Wingfield ‘Moonlight’ (1970) 132152
Reposted by Alexi ConmanHappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 16hInspired by @captainhowdy.bsky.social 618731
Reposted by Alexi ConmanSpookysaurus @cheekyian.bsky.social · 17hThe ghosts in PacMan are conscious. They can distinguish between when PacMan has eaten one of those large dots and when he hasn't, knowing when to chase and when to retreat, aware of the suffering should he catch them at the wrong time. I have no more patience for hedging on this matter. 113742
Reposted by Alexi ConmanThe Crack Magazine @thecrackmagazine.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Grainger Market Newcastle - Unplugged Mercury Prize Fringe. Sat 17th Oct 11am - 5pm FREE. Showcasing acoustic sets from; FAWNS SAM BENNETT HELS PATTISON JOSH WEBB POLYVINYL BEAR PARK Supported by Creative Central NCL 042
Alexi Conman @alexiconman.bsky.social · 21hRealised the best way to remind myself what I'd agreed to do in meetings is simply send myself an email Just before sending, thought it would be funny to add brief affirmative message from past-me to future-me Had a little cry 030
Reposted by Alexi ConmanScifi Art @scifiart.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Best villain entrance ever. Star Trek First Contact (1996) directed by Jonathan Frakes 616227
Reposted by Alexi ConmanMatt Round @mattround.com · 15/10/2026popcar.bearblog.dev/ai-is-mass-d...popcar.bearblog.devAI is mass decompiling games. That's both awesome and scary.AI is now able to decompile games and software in a matter of days. That's scary... but kind of exciting. 041
Reposted by Alexi ConmanOliver Bullough @oliverbullough.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Re the Sally Rooney news, I was looking up data on arrests under terrorism legislation the other day, and hadn't quite realised how utterly bonkers the effect of the Palestine Action prohibition had been. That big purple spike is basically all PA-related arrests. 311214529
Reposted by Alexi ConmanAnimation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 13/10/2026From: Dance to the Rhythm (1991), dir. Karen Aqua 111242401
Reposted by Alexi ConmanNicholas D Carter @nicholasdcarter.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I find this part hilarious. They even pressured Random House to stop reprinting a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles book that explained cattle methane and encouraged eating less meat. By coincidence, I randomly found this book for my kids a year or so ago in a thrift shop: 32315
Alexi Conman @alexiconman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026As I get old enough to have been there for some of it, I realise a lot of History (certainly the 'simple version', and of popular culture) is horseshit 010
Alexi Conman @alexiconman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026The plotting in the latter half perhaps gets a little linear/neat, but impossible not to root for the two lead characters, and the performances are super. Really nice stuff. 000
Alexi Conman @alexiconman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Just spotted 'Bob Trevino Likes It' currently streaming on Channel 4, watched it straight off. Vaguely remembered (from intending but failing to see it previously) it was my kind of thing (understated dramedy, about found family) but cried A MASSIVE AMOUNT (good thing). Strong recommend. 110
Reposted by Alexi ConmanPrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 12/10/2026UK drivers forced to use parking apps can pay up to 40% more. Hidden charges, full price not shown until the payment page. Neoliberals complain about regulation but silent on daily fleecing of people by predatory capitalism. All done to boost profits, exec pay.theguardian.comDrivers forced to use parking apps can pay up to 40% moreCouncil car parks have switched away from ticket machines to cut costs, leading to extra fees for users 38586264
Reposted by Alexi ConmanSkippa @skippa23.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Just been Whamageddoned on October 12th at the Royal Quays. Not even Halloween yet, lads! 121
Alexi Conman @alexiconman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Just caught this on a recent Night Tracks: 'I Remember' by Molly Drake. Turns the WISTFUL AUTUMNAL MELANCHOLY up to 11, beautiful www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYo2...youtube.comMolly Drake - I RememberYouTube video by Folk ABC - Americana, Blues, Country 010
Reposted by Alexi ConmanTorgo Wells: Marked safe from caring about the Sleep drama @torgowells.bsky.social · 12/10/2026It's Here. It's Queer. It doesn't Want Anymore Gulls. Stardozer #2 is making it's debut at #Thoughtbubble2026, and available from the webstore thereafter. Many thanks to @owenwattsdraws.bsky.social for the cover colours. Brace for Impact! #Comic #thoughtbubble #smallpress 094
Reposted by Alexi ConmanKit Walker @inferiorwit.at.app.wafrn.net · 11/10/2026a member of law enforcement is trapped in a body with capabilities different from those he had before, loses his memories, and sets out to investigate his own apparent demise 0147
Reposted by Alexi ConmanKay F. Atkinson - Perfect Killer Bodies out Nov. 10 @tinylesbianrobot.itch.io · 11/10/2026just saying that in like, any bargain bin dystopian fiction, this is the kind of thing that would get the heroes putting on gas masks and venturing out to destroy those generators, and the reader would be expected to see them as sympathetic without question 321479
Reposted by Alexi ConmanNormal Island News @normalisland.co.uk · 09/10/2026As the Green Party more than triples its vote share in Holborn and St Pancras, we in the media must ask a very obvious question: why is Zack Polanski's leadership such a massive failure? 1126256
Reposted by Alexi ConmanThe Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Utagawa Hiroshige, Procession to the Torinomachi Festival in the Rice Fields of Asakusa, 1857.⠀ ⠀⠀ One of a few Hiroshige prints we've got for sale in our shop: publicdomainreview.org/shop/fine-ar… 012626
Reposted by Alexi ConmanCatsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Dioramas by the Miyazaki Mecha Modelers Club (today at the Modelers Dungeon event in Japan) 10946328
Reposted by Alexi ConmanNick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Ok, another one! Choose your own adventure comic - beautifully executed! I had shown them one of @jasonshiga.bsky.social’s & she ran with it! (Also another first time comics student). I have guides to making minicomics on my site, including the Shiga example here spinweaveandcut.com/making-tools... 250886
Reposted by Alexi ConmanTom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 10/10/2026My latest @newscientist.com cartoon 3045451659
Reposted by Alexi ConmanNothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026YOU NEED MORE POTATOES THIS WEATHER — Claude Atkinson (for the British Potato Marketing Board), 1930s 22835369
Reposted by Alexi ConmanBrandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 05/12/2025For the curious about correct usage: "12 eggs comprise a dozen." "A dozen eggs is composed of 12 eggs." "Comprised of" is inherently incorrect but that's how it's used, almost exclusively, and "composed," the correct word to use with "of," has disappeared from the conversation. It's just strange! 1673
Alexi Conman @alexiconman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Well, that was dull - no players that I didn't want rising 0.2 within the GW. Still, a shuffle round and finally have nothing better to put funds into than Haaland. 000
Reposted by Alexi ConmanHelen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Ladybird Book pictures on request: The Magic Porridge Pot (1971) Artist: Robert Lumley 1327922
Reposted by Alexi ConmanHelen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 10/10/2026“Farm workers follow where the spinner has passed and collect the potatoes in shallow baskets. Picking up potatoes is back-aching work” Writer: EL Grant Watson Artist: CF Tunnicliffe 1136440
Reposted by Alexi ConmanJim Trinca @jimtrinca.bsky.social · 10/10/2026This is brilliant, also a subtle layer to the joke is that you can completely fuck it up with zero consequences 1276
Alexi Conman @alexiconman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Good reasoning, cheers. Kind of tempted to go with Bruno+Saka over Haaland (who I still think is a bit tired) but each week feels like a bet against the masses! 000
Alexi Conman @alexiconman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Nice team - am on WC and pretty close to this too. Price aside, do you see Saka & Haaland as more reliable for points than Bruno F in the near future? 100
Reposted by Alexi ConmanBen Jennings @bjennings90.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Illustration from today’s @theguardian.com to accompany piece by @georgemonbiot.bsky.social on the government’s Prepare campaign, which gives the public advice on how to avoid disasters whilst policies that lead us closer to crisis are given the green light www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... 3404151
Reposted by Alexi ConmanHelen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Ladybird endpapers ‘Bedtime Rhymes’ (1977) Artist: James Hodgson 433550
Reposted by Alexi ConmanUKADS @ukads.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Woolworth's computer games were right up your street in 1992 0383
Reposted by Alexi ConmanHelen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Beautiful everyday Ladybird things The Mamod model steam engine Artist: Harry Wingfield 2755443
Reposted by Alexi ConmanNo Score Draws ✍🏻⚽ @noscoredraws.com · 07/10/2026Just discovered my Bayeuz Tapestry x Adebayor gif so that's nice isn't it 416731
Alexi Conman @alexiconman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I'm back on the Hitman and am top 10 on three of the most recent feature contracts and, like, top 30 on killing Snoop Dogg and Sean Bean. That's my news. 110
Reposted by Alexi ConmanAnimation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Nick Park spent the '80s making A Grand Day Out mostly alone. It was a school project that got out of hand -- he wanted to quit many times. But Park stuck with it and fulfilled his dream of bringing a cinematic feel to stop motion. We explore: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/wallace-an... 141338400
Reposted by Alexi ConmanTits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The daily sea surface temperature is now so high, they had to add more chart because the previous version only went up to 30C 110261
