Reposted by MARC in a Cold ClimateStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 5hOne thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?” 533638784
MARC in a Cold Climate @marccold.bsky.social · 8hDoes anyone know of a performance of the Weill/Brecht Dreigroschenoper that was filmed? The full opera, not the Pabst movie 001
Reposted by MARC in a Cold ClimateShannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I have an older friend who lives at the National Arts Club. It’s always such a delight to see that Donald MacDonald skylight dome ☺️ 41053
Reposted by MARC in a Cold ClimateLangston Blues @dradambanks.bsky.social · 06/10/2026static.klipy.comDenzel Washington Says 'Get Out'ALT: Denzel Washington Says 'Get Out' 329850
Reposted by MARC in a Cold ClimateNANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller January 22,1974 442155240
Reposted by MARC in a Cold ClimateNew-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 05/10/2026This kind of thing rarely happens to nose surgeons. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukTree surgeon rescued in Loughborough after getting stuck upside down in treeFirefighters in Leicestershire created a "rope system" to rescue the stranded tree surgeon. 2246
Reposted by MARC in a Cold Climateyorick @helloyorick.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Does he see the future? Or does he just have a particular direction he's invested in trying to pursue? If "we're" not in it, it's because that's what's most profitable for him, not because that's actually a predetermined fact. 152
Reposted by MARC in a Cold ClimatePEEBleguese PEEBleguese @thehumancentipeeb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I was once caught dogging and caused the entire US B1 bomber fleet to leave the nearby RAF airbase 929484
MARC in a Cold Climate @marccold.bsky.social · 05/10/2026There is a Jeeves story from Jeeves's POV (by Wodehouse)! I bet it was inspired by the Holmes stories Conan Doyle wrote from Holmes's POV. It's charming Having said that, Ring for Jeeves (third person POV, no Bertie) was dreadful, obviously mostly Wodehouse's writing partner 110
Reposted by MARC in a Cold ClimateDave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I know this isn’t useful but it’s weird how “the president should be coherent” was a Very Important Thing just a few years ago and then suddenly wasn’t. 17058711199
Reposted by MARC in a Cold ClimateGwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 09/02/2026Great chance to post my all-time favorite headline 2034031272
MARC in a Cold Climate @marccold.bsky.social · 04/10/2026There's an early talkie with this premise where Edna May Oliver, through wisdom and organizational skill, becomes General Secretary of the UN. Saw it at a festival and still remember it fondly 030
Reposted by MARC in a Cold ClimateElizabeth DeLoria, Pope of Chili-Town @yourdadloves.me · 03/10/2026 172127993004
Reposted by MARC in a Cold ClimateDorothy Berry @dorothyjberry.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I'll never understand how "a lot of mostly/potentially/probably incorrect metadata is better for digital discovery than accurate but sparse metadata" became a popular idea than "we will put things online more slowly, but we will do it with accuracy" 827777
MARC in a Cold Climate @marccold.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I really enjoyed this one Connections Puzzle #1210 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 000
Reposted by MARC in a Cold ClimateAsher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Government by rapists, for rapists 14913
Reposted by MARC in a Cold ClimateOut of Context Mickey Mouse Comics @oocmickeycomics.bsky.social · 28/09/2026 15313
Reposted by MARC in a Cold ClimateAbby The Cleric @abbythecleric.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The face of a dog that's never held butter in her mouth before and is unsure that she made the right choice, but in this house we commit to the bit 948155
MARC in a Cold Climate @marccold.bsky.social · 01/10/2026wonder how much my friends paid the Times to push this story onto my newsfeed 082
Reposted by MARC in a Cold ClimateScott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026He had all afternoon and this is the best he could come up with. Great ratio! 1142732246
Reposted by MARC in a Cold ClimateKeegan 🎃sinski @keeganosinski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Saw this Wendell Berry quote today: "The standard of the exploiter is efficiency; the standard of the nurturer is care." I can't wait to squawk "EFFICIENCY IS THE STANDARD OF THE EXPLOITER" in meetings any time someone uses the word 25113
Reposted by MARC in a Cold ClimateArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social 178124572669
Reposted by MARC in a Cold ClimateAmanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Juniper Tree 2: Electric Boogaloo 082
MARC in a Cold Climate @marccold.bsky.social · 29/09/2026nothing can go wrong if we tell the cataloger to teach a library instruction session for a comparative literature seminar on the Brothers Grimm, they said 011430
MARC in a Cold Climate @marccold.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Brainstorming: My library is doing a Halloween event which consists of three separate games. A patron who completes one game will get candy. A patron who completes all three games will get a grand prize. What should the grand prize be? I need ideas that are 1) inexpensive 2) fun 3) Halloween-y 820
MARC in a Cold Climate @marccold.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I Know Where I'm Going! Truly, Madly, Deeply The Wrong Box The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner Brief Encounter 190
MARC in a Cold Climate @marccold.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Fair, I am doing the opposite of looking forward to your discovering this, like Joe Pantoliano in Memento 010
Reposted by MARC in a Cold Climateceeks @ceeks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026abc you got me all wrong 222715215
MARC in a Cold Climate @marccold.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I also have a cold. Apparently when you are an Old violent coughing can induce nosebleeds? I am learning this lesson slowly and horribly 110
Reposted by MARC in a Cold ClimateThe Heathyorker @theheathyorker.bsky.social · 25/09/20269/25/26 0355
Reposted by MARC in a Cold ClimateRobin Bradford @tuphlos.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"James Patterson returns with a World War Two–era thriller" Where did he go? WHEN did he go? 3251
Reposted by MARC in a Cold ClimateInnsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Your mom trying to remember the name of that podcast 01824219
Reposted by MARC in a Cold ClimateLake Superior! Live! @lake-superior.live · 28/09/2026Current* conditions near Marquette, MI: 0101
MARC in a Cold Climate @marccold.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Then I woke up. Working from home today. 060
MARC in a Cold Climate @marccold.bsky.social · 28/09/2026At one point a man in a wrinkled grey suit clicked a button on a computer mouse and looked satisfied and the narrator said, "This man has declined a meeting and believes that that automatically deletes it from everyone else's calendars. We will sell him for parts and eat what is left." 170
MARC in a Cold Climate @marccold.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Then suddenly a Centron-style educational short film about using Google Calendar started playing. Everything about it was late '40s/'50s (black and white, avuncular narrator, girls in sweaters and saddle shoes, boys in flat top haircuts) but it was about Google Calendar 150
MARC in a Cold Climate @marccold.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I saw a bot zooming around in there and reached out and turned it off with my hands 1100
MARC in a Cold Climate @marccold.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I had a fever dream that I was flying through my Google Calendar 1102
MARC in a Cold Climate @marccold.bsky.social · 26/09/2026It is infuriating that I race around all week comforting myself with "well, you can have fun on the weekend" and then on the weekend I'm so sick I can barely walk to the bathroom 4140
Reposted by MARC in a Cold ClimateSteven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise. 160191343863
Reposted by MARC in a Cold ClimateBlue sky nice ghost @rajandelman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026We need to reboot Murder She Wrote 34741141
Reposted by MARC in a Cold ClimateNew-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026IF NO DRAGON TREATS THEN DRAGON WAILING WILL CONTINUE. 2309
Reposted by MARC in a Cold ClimateNew-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026And this from the next page in the sketchbook! 081