Reposted by Chris WilliamsSarah Nour @sarahnour.bsky.social · 1hIn the Iberian tale "The Seven Pigeons," a princess refuses to marry a knight, so her father orders her death. But a magician instead turns her into a swan with a golden crown, and employs seven maidens who can shapeshift into pigeons as her caregivers. #FairyTaleTuesdaystatic.klipy.comSwan Princess Transformation SceneALT: Swan Princess Transformation Scene 021
Reposted by Chris WilliamsLance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 5hFirst major AI company collapses. Valued at a billion dollars this time last year, just sold some assets to Disney for $20m. 7263113
Reposted by Chris WilliamsAdam Warren @adamwarren.bsky.social · 1hEMPOWERED study based on a delightful panel from Ryo Kaneda’s manga CAN’T STOP THINKING ABOUT YOUR HAIR; penciling hair like this is easy enough, but inking that hair is gonna be VASTLY more difficult, especially with the rather coarse brush-pens I use nowadays. Challenge ahoy! 0314
Reposted by Chris WilliamsRichard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 1h#taxnerdery huh, had missed that Avios is in an over half a billion VAT dispute with HMRC on how it treats Airmiles. www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKF... s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/document-api...s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com 141
Chris Williams @chrisnjwilliams.bsky.social · 3hEasiest way forwards is to do what Manchester did to Salford: keep expanding until there’s no clear line between the cities. Manchester expands west, Liverpool expands east, we’ll merge around about Warrington I reckon. Then we cross the Pennines. 020
Reposted by Chris WilliamsJay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 4hCalvin may not have changed denominations (for once) but I'm obsessed with this because Monsignor is a title that is specifically bestowed by the Pope as an honour and is unrelated to a priests job or role, and so to decide that you're a Monsignor in a denomination that doesn't have a Pope is WILD. 812715
Reposted by Chris WilliamsJerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Sleepy Hollow High School (in the very real town of Sleepy Hollow, NY) has the best mascot I have ever seen at any level. 25826215
Reposted by Chris WilliamsJames Felton @jimmfelton.bsky.social · 8hMan in a gilet stood on platform 12 gives up on reading the display and asks ChatGPT out loud if he is on the right platform for his train. I don’t want to be dramatic about it but Eratosthenes figured out the circumference of the Earth using a stick and knowledge of a distant well. 361342330
Reposted by Chris WilliamsJoel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 9hThe problem seems to be that the people who are coming up with solutions to the everyday tasks we have to do in our ordinary working lives, have never themselves had ordinary working lives. 58226
Reposted by Chris WilliamsIlanin @ilanin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Movie posters that could only be put up in British railway stations, one of a series of probably one. 438194
Reposted by Chris WilliamsRobert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Public executions were not abolished out of tenderness towards the criminal. They were abolished because of the effect on the people watching, and the dangers of making human death a source of commercial entertainment. Here's Charles Dickens in The Times, after witnessing an execution in 1849. 131192429
Reposted by Chris WilliamsBrian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 12hTib Street entrance to Affleck's Palace indoor market, Manchester, 1995 (Manchester Libraries). 1521520
Reposted by Chris WilliamsLouie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 12hOK so this doesn't annoy me so much as provokes a headcanon in me. At one point Buffy talks about Vikings going to north america "in the 1400s". So, headcanon: history in the buffyverse is largely the same EXCEPT for scandinavia and the extreme north, due to the impact of vampires in the long nights 813916
Reposted by Chris WilliamsBrian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 12hAnnie Kenney and Christabel Pankhurst were arrested on this day 1905 after disrupting a Liberal rally at Manchester's Free Trade Hall attended by Winston Churchill and Sir Edward Grey. They shouted: ‘Will the Liberal government give votes to women?’ 38320
Reposted by Chris WilliamsDice Company @dicecompany.bsky.social · 12/10/2026The brilliant @magpiehound.bsky.social has written another awesome story related to our Small Embers D&D campaign Check it our here ✍️👇dicecompanypodcast.comD&D Fan Fiction: The Waiting Room - Dice Company PodcastD&D fan fiction – like the game itself – tends to focus on heroes and villains. But what about the less prominent characters, or even… 0118
Reposted by Chris WilliamsBarry Deutsch @barrydeutsch.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Adorable AI Puppies By me and @nadinescholtes.bsky.social Read more cartoons! —> #Policartoon Support the cartoons! —>patreon.com/barry 510819
Reposted by Chris WilliamsJessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 12/10/2026A poster that cues into a mood, idea, tone of the production vs. a poster for a film that is scrambling to meet a release date plucked out years in advance. 1717635
Reposted by Chris WilliamsDavid M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social · 21hYOU'RE TELLING ME THAT IN "THE GOLDBERGS," IN THE PRESUMPTIVE 80s THE KID HAD THE REISSUE OPTIMUS PRIME WITH THE SHORTER SMOKESTACKS FOR SAFETY REASONS, AND HIS GRANDFATHER(?) DRESSED UP SPECIFICALLY LIKE 20TH ANNIVERSARY OPTIMUS PRIME, WITH YELLOW ARM-ARROWS AND THE LIVE-ACTION MOVIE AUTOBOT SYMBOL 2249582
Reposted by Chris WilliamsAlasdair Cameron @alasdaircameron.bsky.social · 22hThe very earliest coins ever minted in Britain (pre-Roman) held images of wolves and other creatures. 412720
Reposted by Chris WilliamsJane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 22honce again, you're *supposed* to signal virtue, while also attempting to *possess* it. 161091164
Reposted by Chris Williamsantibot4navalny | bot blocker | блокировщик ботов @antibot4navalny.bsky.social · 11/10/2026To those implying that Kremlin-controlled social media bot/troll farms became silent after Ukraine hit a Yandex data center, posting this CloudFare chart ( radar.cloudflare.com/bots/as13238 ): Hate to disappoint you all ⤵️ 30937478
Reposted by Chris WilliamsGeorge Penney @georgepenney.bsky.social · 12/10/2026🧵Spotted in Country Aotearoa New Zealand: A tiny human (2?) is holding Mum's hand as they walk to the end of a VERY LONG driveway and check their letterbox. Waving at cars as they go by. Doing a happy dance when Mum discovers that they have mail. 124532
Reposted by Chris WilliamsStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 12/10/2026"London has the largest number of Neets, an estimated 117,100, or one in six of all Neets in England, said the report" - you'll never guess what the other thing that London has one in six of all the things in England is.uk.finance.yahoo.comMore than a third of Neets living in nine largest cities, research findsA study has shone light on ‘stark differences’ between areas. 3633237
Reposted by Chris WilliamsBanjon @beardybanjo.bsky.social · 12/10/2026This is up there with the horrified reports you sometimes see from HR departments that in a Monday to Friday working week up to 40% of sick days are taken on a Monday or Friday 214122
Reposted by Chris WilliamsDiane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 10/10/2026Meanwhile, doing some lighting tests on concept art for PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND STARSHIPS. Here: Lib Bennet gazes at 1813 Aquilae V, a planet called Pemberley... 34926144
Chris Williams @chrisnjwilliams.bsky.social · 12/10/2026And doing well to be so high on the list since there’ve been no new books since the ‘70s! 010
Chris Williams @chrisnjwilliams.bsky.social · 12/10/2026en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of... and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of... don’t cross over much.en.wikipedia.orgList of best-selling books - Wikipedia 120
Reposted by Chris WilliamsShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 12/10/2026One Piece stans you are correct, but I didn't include manga, was thinking text only. Probably could have. But that feels like a slightly different category to me, accurately or not 31542
Reposted by Chris WilliamsTallFroGuy - Shape Decider @tallfroguy.bsky.social · 11/10/2026(The top left hole has two pigeons) #critterposting 151690478
Reposted by Chris WilliamsShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 12/10/2026a bunch of you said LOTR. A couple suggested Left Behind. Also had some Narnia and Discworld. A few Famous Five suggestions. All very successful series by authors who are famous for selling books by the ton Only one person got it right. The actual answer is Goosebumps 2944631
Reposted by Chris WilliamsAlexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Deleted the Yandex data centres post. There are indicators that something around botnets went offline, but the graph in the original was dodgy 910716
Reposted by Chris WilliamsLegal C @legalclaret.bsky.social · 12/10/2026As a high profile criminal trial is commencing this week, a quick reminder of what you can and cannot do on social media or press reports. You can report facts from open court, for example “the defendant appeared in the dock” or “x gave evidence” if X is a named individual. 33919
Reposted by Chris WilliamsShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 12/10/2026A place where anyone can purchase extra visibility irrespective of quality is the literal opposite of a free market and good luck running a business in a feudal setup where you aren't sucking up to the king 014611
Reposted by Chris WilliamsKathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Operation Warp Speed developed Covid vaccines, “and the country then went back to treating countermeasure development as something the pharmaceutical industry does when there is a market for it. There is no market for a pathogen that does not exist yet. This must be a government responsibility”nytimes.comOpinion | We Need an Operation Warp Speed for New Biological ThreatsThis is a hair-on-fire moment for the biosecurity community. 0319
Chris Williams @chrisnjwilliams.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Wait, was he not serious? He certainly looked serious. 100
Reposted by Chris WilliamsGabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026I double-checked this on a couple of Xitter stat sites and it's true. Average views of the main AfD account dropped 90% and average engagement dropped by 60%. This is commercial social media for you: bots, damn bots and Russian bots. 7856201994
Chris Williams @chrisnjwilliams.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Not even their stuff though, although they get a percentage from the seller (and possibly the buyer too, not sure if PayPal is still the same company). 000
Chris Williams @chrisnjwilliams.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Similarly, I just found out EBay will tell a seller you’re interested in an item if you look at it twice. I’ve started receiving offers on items I’ve looked at but not put on my watch list. It’s encouraging you to spend more. 110
Reposted by Chris WilliamsSam Whyte @samwhyte.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Whilst we know ChatGPT is a craven, simpering, yes-man machine, so is the insta algorithm. This is why my curated feed regularly includes - Here's the jumper you want an excuse to buy - Why ADHD means nothing is your fault - Your shitty ex is a narcissist, so you retrospectively win every agument 6385
Chris Williams @chrisnjwilliams.bsky.social · 11/10/2026“May I have your attention?” is another good one. 1150
Reposted by Chris WilliamsRandy Milholland @choochoobear.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Today's Popeye at @comicskingdom.bsky.social: comicskingdom.com/popeye/2026-...comicskingdom.comPopeye Comic Strip 2026-10-11 | Comics KingdomRead the Popeye comic strip from October 11, 2026, and check out other Popeye comics by E.C. Segar, Bud Sagendorf, Hy Eisman, Randy Milholland. 79927
Reposted by Chris WilliamsJess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 10/10/2026This article offers half a dozen reasons why people have stopped having friends and family over, but it ignores the fact that the women who planned parties and kept homes tidy enough for unplanned guests are now working for pay full-time (usually more than 9-5). www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...theguardian.comThe dreadful decline of hosting at home: ‘I feel shame any time a friend comes over’It used to be quite normal to pop next door for a coffee or invite friends over for dinner. But not any more. What’s behind this change – and just how damaging is it? 1172649447
Reposted by Chris WilliamsStandplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 22/09/2026 115536
Reposted by Chris WilliamsStandplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 27/09/2026 1314128
Chris Williams @chrisnjwilliams.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Already deleted. Vulture Squad being efficient as usual! All hail Friend Computer. 021