Reposted by @ianbonnar3.bsky.socialMarc Laming all singing, all dancing comics guy. @marclaming.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Since it's now out in the wild here's my cover for mass market edition of Dan dare: First Contact (written by @alexdecampi.bsky.social ). How great are @michaelrbwoods.bsky.social's colours! 715938
Reposted by @ianbonnar3.bsky.socialRachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Went back to Nancy Leveson's brilliant Engineering a Safer World this morning. This is a massively simplified process diagram, but every software/digital person who's worked on a big "transformation" project and suddenly feels out of their depth knows this feeling direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon... 55915
Reposted by @ianbonnar3.bsky.socialOld British Telly @oldbritishtelly.co.uk · 14/09/2026[1975] Nationwide - "The Incredible Rise of Billy Connolly". Connolly revisits his old school classroom - the front row of which inspired some of his favourite stand-up material - and the Govan shipyard where he used to work, where he considers some of the perils of his new found fame. 051
Reposted by @ianbonnar3.bsky.socialOld British Telly @oldbritishtelly.co.uk · 14/09/2026[1980] Check It Out - Youth-oriented series produced twice weekly by Tyne Tees Television. Here, The Jam perform 8 songs at Newcastle City Hall. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNjC8QNPD5gyoutube.comTHE JAM - Newcastle City Hall Oct 1980 - 8 songs REMASTERED in 1080pThe Jam played at Newcastle City Hall on the 27th and 28th October 1980. These 8 songs were recorded during those dates for Tyne Tees' 'Check It Out' TV show... 121
Reposted by @ianbonnar3.bsky.socialDr Craig Dalȝell @thecommongreen.scot · 12/09/2026For the UK-based #Oldhammer folks. I have a few classic models up on eBay if anyone is interested. www.ebay.co.uk/usr/craidalz #Warhammer #Warhammer40k #WH40k 0132
Reposted by @ianbonnar3.bsky.socialDara O'Reilly @daraor.bsky.social · 11/09/2026It's hard to read this as anything other than complaining bitterly about having to do one's job. 1937281
Reposted by @ianbonnar3.bsky.socialNick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I just think that risking your life at a moment's notice to save people you've never met in exchange for no money is a better expression of patriotism than dressing up like a Poundshop paramilitary and intimidating families with kids trying to get onto a ferry. 343107784
Reposted by @ianbonnar3.bsky.socialElle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I am the very model of a modern day typographer A font take on the tune “Modern Major General” by Gilbert & Sullivan #typography #fonts #graphicdesign 24650281562
Reposted by @ianbonnar3.bsky.socialOld British Telly @oldbritishtelly.co.uk · 08/09/2026[1975] The Wombles - The Wombles are fictional pointy-nosed, furry creatures created by Elisabeth Beresford and originally appearing in a series of children's novels from 1968. "Pirate Gold": Tomsk and Wellington hunt for pirate treasure. Narrated by Bernard Cribbins. 0147
Reposted by @ianbonnar3.bsky.socialThe Web of Evil @webofevil.bsky.social · 06/09/2026UK's institutions are gearing up to collapse like soaked cardboard, just as America's did. 38326
Reposted by @ianbonnar3.bsky.socialStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/09/20262) and 3) are intimately linked, in that the BBC (the organisation that really matters in the modern environment) treats 'claims by rival parties' as the operating frame for how it covers everything. The failure from Labour and the Conservatives to say 'this stuff is bad' is really, really bad. 341090340
Reposted by @ianbonnar3.bsky.socialJimmy Reid Foundation @reidfoundation.bsky.social · 03/09/2026How will John Swinney 'rewire' local government and public services? Just a reminder that we already have the largest ‘local’ councils in Europe. In most countries, local government covers actual communities of place, not artificial administrative areas. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukHow will Swinney 'rewire' local government and public services?The first minister announced wide-ranging plans to shake-up Scotland's public sector. 055
Reposted by @ianbonnar3.bsky.socialOld British Telly @oldbritishtelly.co.uk · 03/09/2026[1987] Top of the Pops - Rick Astley performs Never Gonna Give You Up, the UK number 1 on this day in 1987. 023
Reposted by @ianbonnar3.bsky.socialProf. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 02/09/2026The Earth will cross the 1.5 degrees warming limit that everyone agreed to in the Paris Accord. Thank all those politicians that delayed and weakened the vital climate policies, and still do. It’s not them who’ll pay the price, but you and your children. apnews.com/article/clim...apnews.comGlobal warming will exceed limit, UN says in a report that maps path to get back below danger zoneIn a strategic retreat, the United Nations concedes that Earth has lost its chance to prevent some of the worst impacts of global warming. 18552304
Reposted by @ianbonnar3.bsky.socialFraser MacDonald @frasermacdonald.bsky.social · 25/08/2026I hope that the Scottish Government can urgently attend to this, despite yesterday's resignation of the minister, Ben Macpherson. Universities and their staff are struggling – this story explains why. 146
Reposted by @ianbonnar3.bsky.socialDaniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Republicans have spent the last year trying to defund Dolly Parton 7165572898
Reposted by @ianbonnar3.bsky.socialKevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 24/08/2026Underappreciated: US farmland *already substantially produces energy, not food*, and does so very inefficiently. Corn ethanol (~40% of all US corn) requires about 100 times more land per vehicle-mile driven than solar photovoltaics -> electric vehicles. Shifting corn to solar *would free up land*. 4935121020
Reposted by @ianbonnar3.bsky.socialOld British Telly @oldbritishtelly.co.uk · 25/08/2026[1981] Ulysses 31 - Intro to the French–Japanese–Luxembourgian animated series based on the Greek mythology of Odysseus, set in the 31st century. 0103
Reposted by @ianbonnar3.bsky.socialDeb Chachra @debcha.bsky.social · 23/08/2026This explainer out of Australia is genuinely useful background and analysis of what happened with the Canada-US trade deal last night. Note that it is extremely and delightfully sweary. Also there’s an appended glossary of Australian slang. ifloz.substack.com/p/king-carne...ifloz.substack.comKING CARNEY ACTIVATES KONG MODE WITH ZERO FUCKSCarney Reads the Clock Like a Pro Wrestler 1002005769
Reposted by @ianbonnar3.bsky.socialEmma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 22/08/2026One of the first "outrageous" claims I saw as Jason Arday's media hounding unfolded was that he ran 30 marathons in 35 days! Wow! What a thing to claim! And the newspapers all suggested there was no evidence he actually did it. Well, they clearly didn't look very hard 🙄 🧵 1/26 10628181393
Reposted by @ianbonnar3.bsky.socialCount Mysterioso @mysteriosox.bsky.social · 22/08/2026A) this story is insane. B) wait for the twist buried in the final paragraph www.stornowaygazette.co.uk/business/ber...stornowaygazette.co.ukBernera groups face financial ruin from legal costsA second Bernera community organisation is facing financial ruin due to the activities of Claire Kellerman, an American woman who has been involved in multiple altercations with businesses on Lewis, ... 137031
Reposted by @ianbonnar3.bsky.socialFrances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 20/08/2026“I’ve been full time at The Guardian for over a decade now. I’m the first columnist in the country to use a wheelchair. I’m still one of the only visibly disabled journalists in the press. That is objectively batshit.” I wrote about the British media’s diversity problem. shorturl.at/ZHX5Wfrancesryan1.substack.comIntroducing: Press AccessThe things nobody tells disabled journalists about getting into an industry that wasn’t built for us. 712333
Reposted by @ianbonnar3.bsky.socialSteve Bullock @guitarmoog.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Been thinking about this for the last few days (well, for about 33 years, since I read Mill on the tyranny of society), and I think it is under-appreciated* just how much conformity benefits the already-powerful in the world. It’s not just preference or ideology. It’s also self-interest. 1/ 63811
Reposted by @ianbonnar3.bsky.socialThe Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 19/08/20262001: A Space Odyssey (1976): Comic book by Jack Kirby 718537
Reposted by @ianbonnar3.bsky.socialMargot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 19/08/2026'Examinations of London schoolchildren before and after the introduction of the city’s ultra-low emission zone (Ulez) found a restoration of lung capacity that had been stunted by exposure to pollution.' Brave politics, wise policy, good news.theguardian.comUlez led to better lung size and function among London children, study findsResearchers find capacity stunted by pollution restored after introduction of ultra-low emission zone 120775
Reposted by @ianbonnar3.bsky.socialTheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social · 18/08/2026This must be the third video of wonderful voices singing global scales I have seen, and each is mesmerising and has taught me things I didn't know. Such as: That these scales exist and how they, the bare backbone of tunes, reflect and unlock whole world regions' music. This is amazing. 1373289889
ianbonnar3.bsky.social @ianbonnar3.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Somebody over-fertilised the broccoli. 000
Reposted by @ianbonnar3.bsky.socialAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 14/08/2026In 1924, the son of the president of the United States, with access to the best medical treatment, got a blister on his foot playing tennis, it got infected, there were no antibiotics, and he died of sepsis. 613037702
Reposted by @ianbonnar3.bsky.socialBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/08/2026One of my favorite rhetorical and analytical moves is joining things (showing that different, seemingly unrelated ideas are part of the same phenomenon) and taking them apart (resolving paradoxes by demonstrating that what appears like a contradictory thing is different things, lumped together). 1/ 325491
Reposted by @ianbonnar3.bsky.socialThe Dobson Family and Colin the Dalek @dobbersw.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Had just enough time to plant these drought-resistant beauties before staring at the eclipse and tonight's meteor shower. See you all in the morning. 13407108
Reposted by @ianbonnar3.bsky.socialProf. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Die Sonnenfinsternis aus meinem Fenster 939234
ianbonnar3.bsky.social @ianbonnar3.bsky.social · 09/08/2026@guitarmoog.bsky.social Weren't you posting about something similar to this last week? 120
Reposted by @ianbonnar3.bsky.socialAll Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 08/08/2026August 9, 1955 – Canadian physicist Gilbert Plass submits his paper allouryesterdays.info/2024/08/08/a... 36546
ianbonnar3.bsky.social @ianbonnar3.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Absolutely amazing this. There's no-one who's at this skill level these days. 010
ianbonnar3.bsky.social @ianbonnar3.bsky.social · 07/08/2026@symatt.bsky.social Would've spotted it in an instant. 120
Reposted by @ianbonnar3.bsky.socialBilly Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · 06/08/2026NPR: "Scientists say they have found a new clue to how COVID-19 may cause long COVID" 'In the journal Nature..led by researchers at the University of Texas..found that..COVID can apparently reactivate other viruses that had been dormant in their bodies.' www.npr.org/2026/08/05/g...npr.orgScientists say they have found a new clue to how COVID-19 may cause long COVIDIn the journal Nature, the team, led by researchers at the University of Texas at Austin, found that infection with the coronavirus that causes COVID can apparently reactivate other viruses that had b... 04311
Reposted by @ianbonnar3.bsky.socialMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 06/08/2026The doctor who tried to save lives during Covid is being treated like a villain. The traitors who beat up cops at the Capitol on Jan. 6 are being treated like victims or heroes. It's American madness.cnn.comLive updates: Senate committee to vote on whether to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress | CNN PoliticsSen. Rand Paul, a longtime Fauci foe, announced the vote after the retired scientist invoked the Fifth Amendment over 100 times during a committee hearing last week. 883143454531
Reposted by @ianbonnar3.bsky.socialwomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 06/08/2026English stained glass artist Tamsin Abbott, who is inspired by #folklore and nature #WomensArt 3678126
Reposted by @ianbonnar3.bsky.socialPeter Jelinek @peterjelinek.bsky.social · 05/08/202697% der neu zugelassenen Privat-PKW in Dänemark waren E-Autos. Wie sehr sich Poliker verzockt haben, die allen ernstes das Verbrenner-Aus 2035 für den Sargnagel der Autoindustrie gehalten haben, kann man kaum in Worte fassen. 682078450
Reposted by @ianbonnar3.bsky.socialDr Tom Horne @hornesupremacy.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Marble fragments of the original colossal statue of Constantine in the Palazzo dei Conservatori, Musei Capitolini, and the STUNNING plaster, resin, etc, full-scale reconstruction at the nearby Villa Caffarelli Gardens. My 📷 Sovrintendenza Capitolina Fondazione Prada Factum Foundation 1204
Reposted by @ianbonnar3.bsky.socialNettlecake @nettlecake.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week. 17270842923
Reposted by @ianbonnar3.bsky.socialJosh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 03/08/2026There are 7 PR people for every journalist in the US. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti... 171824584
Reposted by @ianbonnar3.bsky.socialProf. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Highly informative article about the recent record-breaking heat and wildfires in Europe. It dives into the science about the causes, quoting several experts. Worth reading! www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...abc.net.auEurope pays the price in a summer where heat went off the chartsStefan Rahmstorf was holidaying in southern France when he came face to face with the climate future he has tried to fight. 6352171
Reposted by @ianbonnar3.bsky.socialNeil Slorance @neilslorance.com · 01/08/2026Some bee content for you guys. 🌻🐝 0146
