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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

For some inexplicable reason, this brilliant 1938 anti-Appeasement cartoon by the great David Low came to mind when I looked at the list of the Mega-Powerful / Hyper-Rich at yesterday’s Windsor Castle nosh up for our superhuman masters.

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@Liatach @liatach.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Tom waits, talking heads, the velvet underground, Bach and audobooks

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Swara A.S. ☀️🍉🌊🧿 @spiderswarz.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Do this to voice your outrage at Disney's unjust cancellation of Kimmel and other people's shows for simply practicing their free speech, ASAP.

A post on the importance of sending letters

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Nick Jackson @nickjackson.me · 10/08/2025

And as a bonus feature, to discourage those who are not worthy, your device can scream at you for a whole minute every time you connect.

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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 18/06/2025

We're thrilled to present the shortlist for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction:

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Simon Roy @simonroy.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Do you like titanic alien elephants? Undead cyborg deep-space explorers? Than this book may be for you...

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GingerOfOz @gingerofoz.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

I built a Playstacean!

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-Boulet- @bouletcorp.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

10 ans aujourd'hui. GNU Terry Pratchett.

Une couverture imitant le style du "New-Yorker", avec le titre "the Morporkier".
On y voit le bibliothécaire de l'Université Invisible (un orang-outan) assis sur une pile de livres. Il regarde au loin, l'air triste. En arrière-plan on voit la tour de l'Art (une tour gigantesque et tortueuse, semblant sur le point de s'effondrée, peuplée de milliers de corbeaux), éclairée par un croissant de lune.

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Cinephilia & Beyond @cinephiliabeyond.org · 24/02/2025

“Put the glasses on! Put 'em on!” cinephiliabeyond.org/live-john-ca...

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rael-lyra.bsky.social @rael-lyra.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

rougarou. Another creature design done a few years ago for the game South of Midnight, developed by @compulsiongames.bsky.social

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-Boulet- @bouletcorp.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Oldies but Goodies - French is Weird 08 - "Junior Edition"

French is Weird - Junior édition (image: Boulet with a moustache and a béret, saying "Ohlàlà")
Let's talk about kids. There is a lot to say about playground conversations. (Well, not actual kids, old kids. Like: those are expressions from my childhood, I don't know how kids talk nowadays.)
I remember a lot of stupid rhymes like: haut les mains, peau de lapin, la maitresse en maillot de bain. Which could be translated like this: hands up, rabbit skin, the teacher in a swimsuit" (image: a bunny raising its paws, and a teacher in a swimsuit, both very confused)
We had another one to tease a friend if he/she was upset (for example: if they just lost a game): "T'as les boules, t'as les glandes, t'as les crottes de nez qui pendent!" (you have the balls, you have the glands, you have boogers hanging from your nose! (well, "nose poops") = Yes, in France we don't have a word for boogers, we call them "nose poops" and I think it's beautiful.
"Avoir les boules" in french means "to be upset". Like a lump in your throat. We are talking about THESE balls here (image of glands in the throat)
(Image of a group of kids coming back from a soccer game)
There was also the classic: "On a gagné, les doigts dans le nez, ils ont perdu, les doigts dans le cul!" (We won, fingers in the nose, they lost, fingers in the butt)
Yes in France we don't say "piece of cake" when something is easy, we say "fingers in the nose"
I guess the butt part is just for the rhyme.

We would also use an old expression "Dans le cul la balayette! Le manche et l'étiquette!" which means "up your ass the brush (small brush, like dustpan & brush) the stick and the tag!" (I guess the second part is just a disambiguation about how and to what depth the brush is to be used)
Luckily we had also a lot of clever comebacks, the most popular was "C'est celui qui dit qui l'est!" literally: it's the one who says, who is. Like "I know you are but what am I?"
Or if someone insulted you, you could just use "Miroir!" (mirror), and your ennemi would use "contre-miroir!" and you would escalate to "eternal unbreaking mirror!" (Miroir incassable pour l'éternité)
Sometimes we would une very elegant expressions from our parents, like: "La Bave du Crapeau n'atteind pas la Blanche Colombe" =(The Toad's drool doesn't reach the White Dove", or this one: "Le Train de ton Ignominie Roule sur les Rails de mon Indifférence jusqu'à la Gare de mon Mépris" (the train of your ignominy rolls on the rails of my indifference towards the station of my despisal) There are a lot of variations of this one.

The frenchiest one would be "Ferme ta boîte à Camembert" ("close your camembert box" to say "shut up").
There were also surrealistic insults, like "Tu pues du cul, t'as les roupettes en chocolat" (your ass stinks and your balls are made of chocolate)
Some were bad puns, they made very little sense, even in French
image: One kid says "arrête!" the other one answers "y'a pas d'arètes dans le biftek!"
("Stop it!" (arrête) - "There are no fishbones (arètes) in the beefsteak")
After that, it could escalate to war "you'll see your face at the exit" = "Tu vas voir ta gueule à la sortie!"
The fight could include a "shampoo" (noogie)=Le Shampooing or an "indian burn" = when you rub someone's arm on both directions "La brûlure indienne"
And we would not "kick someone's ass" but "make them a square head" ("faire la tête au carré")
And if the loser was a snitch (un cafteur) he had a little sing-song for him: "rapporteur à quat'moteurs, quand tu pètes tu nos fais peur!" = It means "tattletale with four engines, when you fart you scare us" (again, there were variations like "when you fart you make butter" = quand tu pètes tu fais du beurre)
The more I do those comics, the more I realize French makes no sense.
(Image of a french guard from "Monty Python's Holy Grail" saying: "your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries".

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twarda.bsky.social @twarda.bsky.social · 04/01/2024

Sharing my wing tutorial for bluesky people! It's light and focuses on propatagium, something that I often found missing when working on client designs. Lastly, check the Alt. text for some commentary. Hope it's helpful! #artsky #tutorial #art #wings #sciart

The image shows oversimplified and idealised wings. Great for some fantasy settings but the bone structure is totally awry.

This image focuses on the leading edge of the wing - the propatagium. It's a membrane that fills the gap between the wrist and shoulder, creating a nice aerodynamic shape.

Final image shows skeletal schematic of the flying vertebrates forelimb: the bat, the bird, the pterosaur. With a funny comparison to the human hand.

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Kevin Parry @kevinbparry.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Chair Stop-Motion 🪑💨 Made with 444 pictures taken over 10 days

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Jason K Pargin, author @jasonkpargin.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

My complaint with AI isn't that I think it'll cause an apocalypse or put everyone out of work. It's that I know what they really want it for, which is to offload responsibility. They want a machine to make the decisions so they, the humans in charge, can't be blamed.

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Wondermark Comics @wondermark.com · 29/10/2024

I'm sure I'm the only one this happens to, right? Wondermark #1552; In which a House is Haunted

Wondermark comic. Panel 1: Scared-looking guy says "Have you noticed something...WEIRD happening? I think our place might be HAUNTED."
Panel 2: He and a scared-looking woman look at a pile of dishes in the kitchen sink. He: "LOOK! I swear, I just did these dishes yesterday. They were ALL clean. And YET! WHAT do we see? A bunch of DIRTY DISHES all piled up in the sink!"
Panel 3: Now she leads him to a laundry room with a clothesline and overflowing hamper. She: "I've noticed this too. See the laundry basket? It was empty VERY recently! I DID ALL the laundry!"
Panel 4: He: "Last night, a creepy voice whispered to me: 'It'll keep happening, over and over, until you die!'" She: "AAAHH! YOU HEARD THAT TOO?"

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Dave Kellett @davekellett.bsky.social · 13/09/2024

“Recycling Plastics: It Works!”

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tooteuobu 💦 @touteeaubue.bsky.social · 13/09/2024

"Not a single case of a journalist killed, injured, or harassed in the occupied Palestinian Territory has ever been transparently investigated or the suspected perpetrators brought to justice by Israeli authorities." www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

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UN experts urge Israel to stop attacks and harassment against journalists in occupied West Bank

GENEVA (12 September 2024) – UN experts* today condemned incidents of violence, harassment, intimidation and obstruction of journalists in the occupied West Bank, which have recently escalated under I...

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Henning @geohenning.bsky.social · 11/09/2024

Just to make things clear, this might be the best-timed shot in science TV history. In the BBC series "Connections", James Burke points to a rocket just as it launches. It was filmed on August 20, 1977, during the launch of Voyager 2 spacecraft. 🧪🚀

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 10/09/2024

For what Microsoft alone has invested in ChatGPT, you could pay 96,000 artists $50 an hour to make art full time for a year.

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Zeb Larson @zeblarson.bsky.social · 26/08/2024

In retrospect, King of the Hill figured out the messaging we should have used with climate change.

Two panel King of the Hill meme.

Top Panel: Hank Hill on a lawn mower. “It’s already 110 in the summer.”

Bottom panel: Hank angrily pointing at Dale. “And if it gets one degree hotter, I’m gonna kick your ass.”

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Davis Bickford @davis.social · 05/08/2024

I’m suddenly disappointed in my life decisions

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telling all of my friends with small daughters that if they say "i wanna learn about dinosaurs and jump on a trampoline" this is in fact a perfectly fine career path
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OMG, Bryony Page, who just won Olympic Gold for trampolining, studied palaeontology and wrote her dissertation on acoustic signalling in dinosaurs
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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 12/06/2024

This meme is about me.

Tintin and Captain Haddock meme: "What a week, huh?" "Captain, it's Wednesday."

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EliasJMcClellan @eliasjmcclellan.bsky.social · 12/06/2024

#writerslife writers' self-encouragement—it doesn't have to be all negative, all the time.

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𝔾𝕆ℝ𝔸ℕ @gorangligovic.bsky.social · 14/06/2024

Thor's helmet should emote like Asterix's, my only deeply held superhero opinion

Marvel's Thor, three different expressions.

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RJ Palmer 🔜 LBX 637 @rj-palmer.com · 07/06/2024

I've wanted to paint a Zelda piece for years but I had to wait until I had an idea truly worth doing. (arttag)

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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 01/06/2024

As I understand it this is basically Mr Beast

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Mike Sterling, A Halloween Comic Shipping First Week of November @mikester.bsky.social · 01/06/2024

I don't know, Richie, I bet if you try really hard you could find something even *more* demeaning for your peasant friends to do for your entertainment.

Cover to RICHIE RICH #217 (1982), showing Richie Rich at the side of a track, gleefully looking on as his poor pals push rolls of money along with their noses.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 01/06/2024

This is the most annoying fucking thing I've ever seen

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Wondermark Comics @wondermark.com · 21/05/2024

"You think AS I was building this, I should have been setting up CAMERAS?" // Wondermark #1548; Spring Forth, My Creation

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Rav BOO!dram 🎃👻 @rvbdrm.com · 01/05/2024

Maybe Columbia should pull this page about they handled students protesting the Vietnam War, considering they haven’t learned shit. news.columbia.edu/content/new-...

Columbia is a far different place today than it was in the spring of 1968 when protesters took over University buildings amid discontent about the Vietnam War, racism and the University’s proposed expansion into Morningside Park. After a weeklong standoff, New York City Police stormed the campus and arrested more than 700 people. The fallout dogged Columbia for years.

It took decades for the University to recover from those turbulent times. Columbia now has one of the most socio-economically diverse student bodies among its peer institutions. It has added a new campus designed to be open to the community and pursues fields of inquiry unheard of a half-century ago. Columbia is commemorating the 50th anniversary of those long-ago events with a deep dive of scholarship and exhibits chronicling what happened then and its effects today.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 07/03/2024

That's certainly one way...

Screenshot of a social post by '@GraniteDhuine' on the social platform 'X' that says: 'Originally it was thought that it was our ability to love that made us human. However, it is now believed that it is our ability to pick out photos with traffic lights in them.'

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 25/02/2024

👇🎯💯 Your regular reminder that the median voter holds policy positions closer to Bernie Sanders' than Nikki Haley's, on just about every policy issue, & that our society would reflect those if we were anything remotely close to being an actual, functioning republic/democracy.

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SeaGoatScreamsPoetry(Ankh Spice) @seagoatscreams.bsky.social · 12/02/2024

Once upon a time, the ever-evolving graffiti on this reservoir near the psych unit was a cave-painting-record. I photographed much of it over months. One day they painted it grey. The next day:

A slightly rounded wall painted pale grey, overgrown green grass at the base. Capital lettering on the wall, in two long lines, reads:
'With grey paint we silence some voices in a society. Advertising is fine - it is, after all, the graffiti of the rich"

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Chef Kennedy🐸🏳️‍🌈 @kennedy.northsky.social · 11/02/2024

No more modern nonsense, return to to tradition

original tweet from @oliharris808 showing a photo of British Soldiers in drag in WW2:

"British Soldiers (interrupted during drag show rehearsals by a German raid) manning a BL 6-inch Mk VII naval gun at Shornernead Fort, England in 1940"

quote tweet from @Erica_fosk:

"we interrupted our drag show to shoot at Nazis is a truly powerful energy I want to bring back"

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scott⚡️mccloud @scottmccloud.bsky.social · 11/02/2024

By any means necessary! 📚

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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 05/02/2024

After performing Sinéad O’Connor’s hit “Nothing Compares 2 U” live at the #Grammys to honor the late artist, Annie Lennox ended on a political note. “Artists for ceasefire, peace in the world,” Lennox shouted before the rest of the In Memoriam continued.

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Annie Lennox Calls for Ceasefire in Sinéad O’Connor Grammys Tribute

During the In Memoriam segment at the Grammy Awards, Lennox remembered the singer’s activism.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 21/11/2023

“They were trying to evacuate from the north to the south, when they were stopped at a checkpoint with a lot of others. Mosab was ordered to put his son down and then the army grabbed him, along with a lot of other men, 200, his wife said. His wife has not heard from him since.”

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Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha arrested by Israelis in Gaza, family says

The American Book Award winner was said to be heading south for the Rafah crossing when he was picked up at a checkpoint

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