Reposted by Jonathan KeyIanlovescomix @ianlovescomix.bsky.social · 23hHappy #DayofDredd! Here's 26 things to love about Ol' Stoney Face and his world. A is for Anderson, everyone's favourite Psi Judge, drawn here by #BrettEwins 16215
Reposted by Jonathan KeyBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/07/2026As *tech*, AI isn't exceptional. It's not exceptionally wicked. It's not exceptionally good. Take away the accompanying, galactic-scale stock-swindle, and we'd call AI's apps "plug-ins" and we'd use them and abuse them in the same way that we've used every other technology: www.normaltech.ai 1/ 211230490
Reposted by Jonathan KeyEthan Hein @ethanhein.bsky.social · 28/09/2026One problem my pop history students are having is the lack of a neat linear timeline. One of them asked me, is there some big master chart showing when everything happened? The answer is, no. You can point to specific dates like the Beatles appearing on the Ed Sullivan show, but that's it. 2232
Reposted by Jonathan KeyDenny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026This kind of take made a Rolling Stone writer so mad they wrote a whole piece about it. 8013286238
Jonathan Key @jonathankey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026And Autry’s TV show was preceded by the small matter of 79 movies featuring Gene and Champion. Seventy-nine. 140
Jonathan Key @jonathankey.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The 3 track EP really was one of the odder ideas. Surely you’re not gaining one, you’re being short-changed one. 010
Jonathan Key @jonathankey.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Good to see Halt and Catch Fire on there but really. No Borgen, no Physical 100. What's up with that? 000
Jonathan Key @jonathankey.bsky.social · 24/09/2026One coffee, about 8 cups of tea. Though I just discovered one additional abandoned one. I think I put it down at my desk, went off, wanted tea, and made another one before returning to my desk. 000
Reposted by Jonathan KeyHerr Spooky Gunther Büergers @calamityjon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Wild thing I learned earlier today -- the phrase "This is a job for Superman" predates Superman. I found citations as early as 1909. 520781
Reposted by Jonathan Keycait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 24/09/2026found a new type of guy 2103686414
Jonathan Key @jonathankey.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Not just a terrific, full-paced bowler, but a magnificently silly man. We're all going to miss the sight of him riding an invisible horse around the outfield when he's bored. 000
Reposted by Jonathan KeyElizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 21/09/2026Pleased to say that Last War in Albion: The Watchmen Bomb is the #1 bestselling work of both comics criticism and sci-fi/fantasy criticism. Which just goes to show all my middle school bullies that they were completely correct about how big a dweebus I was. www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJF5CVK9/amazon.comLast War in Albion Volume 2: The Watchmen BombAmazon.com: Last War in Albion Volume 2: The Watchmen Bomb eBook : Sandifer, Elizabeth: Kindle Store 24711
Jonathan Key @jonathankey.bsky.social · 21/09/2026You’re saying it’s basically the template of every British music show from Six Five Special to The Tube. It’s a Jack Good production. 110
Jonathan Key @jonathankey.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Presumably, also, the studio audience feels that they're the focus of attention, not just the cameras. It must change the energy. 130
Jonathan Key @jonathankey.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Absolutely fantastic piece on why SNL UK is such a hit. Joel's profound understanding of comedy does the job, as ever. In the old days, it would result in a must-read newspaper column. Ah well. 000
Reposted by Jonathan Key👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 21/09/2026A blessed Harvest Equinox to everyone celebrating today! As we head towards the setting of the sun and the start of a new year, may we all celebrate what we've accomplished (harvested) this year, be it great or small. 224021
Reposted by Jonathan KeyMags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Every year on 19 December, the famous Christmas lights at Mousehole in Cornwall are dimmed between 8 and 9pm, leaving just the Cross and Angels shining down across the village and out to sea. 10830433
Jonathan Key @jonathankey.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Those idiots are on the side of the void, of death, even though they probably don't understand it. It's part of the war on empathy, and the good news is that we can all resist that just by being normal, empathetic people. You already know what to do. rnli.org/support-us/g...rnli.orgDonate to the RNLI and help save lives at seaYour donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here. 000
Jonathan Key @jonathankey.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Every rescue is a win for humanity against the freezing emptiness all around us. A victory for life, won often at great risk, won by volunteers. Anyone whose political agenda has led them to attack the RNLI is merely announcing that they don't understand suffering. They don't understand humanity. 101
Jonathan Key @jonathankey.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I grew up in a "lifeboat town". My local pub's whole identity is supporting the RNLI. Everyone there does. A place like that, what you learn quickly and deeply is that there is no "us and them". There's only "us and the sea", fragile humans skimming across the vast, implacable water. 100
Jonathan Key @jonathankey.bsky.social · 17/09/2026It’s also telling how the tech bros are so susceptible to an ontological trap. Anything they can conceive being built must eventually get built. That’s just every business proposal they’ve ever cobbled together operates in their minds. 010
Reposted by Jonathan KeyDouglas Wolk @douglaswolk.bsky.social · 17/09/2026A fun rundown of the past 20 years' worth of NEW THRILLS. I particularly wave the flag for Zombo, The Out, Cradlegrave, and especially Brink, which started out fantastic and keeps getting better with each successive volume--ingenious concept, note-perfect execution. 0218
Jonathan Key @jonathankey.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The only rational approach to listening to new music 110
Reposted by Jonathan KeyTy @sprunt87.bsky.social · 15/09/2026One of the best ways to learn and remember things through all of schooling is to write it out by hand. The brain works in magical ways. Get lazy with it and become a dumbass. 1184
Reposted by Jonathan KeyJoel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I really enjoyed making this series - and people have said nice things - so I’m going to put it out on the main Comfort Blanket feed. Starts next week. 36314
Reposted by Jonathan Key2000AD Randomizer @2000adrandom.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Brendan McCarthy 28414
Jonathan Key @jonathankey.bsky.social · 06/09/2026The most middle song possible: middle of the middle album. Perfectly hidden. 010
Reposted by Jonathan KeyManMadeMovies @manmademovies.co.uk · 02/09/2026Including @manmademoon.bsky.social @2000ad.bsky.social ROGUE TROOPER at the PCC Monday 12 October 2026 20:35 whatson.bfi.org.uk/LFF/Online/d...whatson.bfi.org.ukRogue Trooper | BFI London Film Festival 2026Duncan Jones brings the beloved 2000 AD comic strip to life with an all-guns-blazing sci-fi animation, about a soldier in a dystopian future who is sent on an impossible mission. 14412
Reposted by Jonathan KeyJared Dunn @jddunn.bsky.social · 31/08/2026*gets super excited about postmodernism and the radical freedom to play with and recombine ideas and symbols as an undergrad* *reads Foucault's Pendulum* Oh. Oh no. 1266
Reposted by Jonathan KeyTW @twesq.bsky.social · 31/08/2026this is gonna upset so many of y’all 241382323
Jonathan Key @jonathankey.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Civil servant’s quiet Christmas is disrupted by a clerical error at work and plumbing problems at home, but most of all by meeting his dream girl 020
Jonathan Key @jonathankey.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Coder: I did the loading screen myself too! Friend: Maybe it needs a bit of anti-Nazi text. To make it, you know, less Nazi. 022
Reposted by Jonathan KeyJohn Ossoway @ottomancer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026futurism.com/future-socie... a shirt with an "adversarial loop" design. Cyberpunk as hell. Want.futurism.comDesigner Creates World's Most Hideous Hawaiian Shirt to Hide From AI Surveillance CamerasGerman artist Simon Weckert has designed a shirt meant to trick AI-integrated surveillance cameras into looking right past him. 18625
Reposted by Jonathan KeySal Cap0ne @salimotxo.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Had another loan successfully paid off today (Zambian women's co-op). I cannot tell you how good it feels when they pull it off. Try it. 3379
Reposted by Jonathan KeyJoel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 26/08/2026NEW EPISODE: We open the pod bay doors and let in No 8 in the Comfort Blanket / 2000AD Top Ten Sci Fi Movies. It’s got monkeys and robots and, oh my god, it’s full of stars. It’s only 2001: A Space Odyssey! (Comfort Blanket Patreon / Substack exclusive.) 093
Jonathan Key @jonathankey.bsky.social · 25/08/2026“Five genuine things can still produce a completely false story if somebody invents the connections between them.” 000
Reposted by Jonathan KeyLinkMachineGo @linkmachinego.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Alan Moore’s Script for “In Fictopia” substack.com/@donsimpson3...substack.comAlan Moore’s Script for “In Fictopia”Presented for Educational and Historical Interest On Its 40th Anniversary 021
Jonathan Key @jonathankey.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Taken together, telling the national story of the happy amateur blundering his way to success 010
Reposted by Jonathan KeyBirmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Here are some close-ups for the curious. The "Gaz" tapes #1-101 in the 4th and 5th rows are sought-after compilations by Gaz Mayall of Gaz's Rockin' Blues fame. Apparently Jools Holland also has a full set. They were sold in limited numbers at places like Kensington Market 3474
Reposted by Jonathan Keynewadrian.bsky.social @newadrian.bsky.social · 20/08/2026We have just had proper rain here for the first time since June - and I have just come to realise that the purpose of Test cricket as a ritual in England is TO MAKE IT RAIN IN THE SUMMER. We have angered the gods with The Hundred and we must return to the old ways. 619959
Reposted by Jonathan KeySonja Henrici @sonjahenrici.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Great account of how BIRDS OF WAR came to be…. 011
Reposted by Jonathan KeyThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 01/07/2026‘Get away from there – run!’ The stunning film about love blossoming amid the carnage of Aleppotheguardian.com‘Get away from there – run!’ The stunning film about love blossoming amid the carnage of AleppoBirds of War is an award-winning docudrama in which its own directors fall in love while reporting the horrors in Syria. They explain why they needed a psychotherapist to complete it 0306
Reposted by Jonathan KeyColin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Piccadilly Circus, London, c.1938, by Eric Ravilious, a transfer decoration for the Wedgwood Bowl “Boat Race Day”. 05014
Jonathan Key @jonathankey.bsky.social · 15/08/2026“All join on for [war|starsky & hutch|stuck in the mud|kiss chase|etc.]” 010
Jonathan Key @jonathankey.bsky.social · 15/08/2026“We seldom realize that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.” Alan Watts 000
Jonathan Key @jonathankey.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Come on Wellington, make it happenyoutu.beWellington Womble - RainmakerYouTube video by Kitsuneranger 000
