Alexi Conman@alexiconman.bsky.social · 15h ago

I love Hitman WOA. Returning to it after 4 year gap, got top 10 on a few recent featured contracts (STILL GOT IT) Talking about it, had to try & explain gameplay This Chuckle Bros vid remains a) great explanation of the chaos, b) amazing PR chutzpah, c) truly dreamlike/surreal youtu.be/GRKfW841EUE

I love Hitman WOA. Returning to it after 4 year gap, got top 10 on a few recent featured contracts (STILL GOT IT) Talking about it, had to try & explain gameplay This Chuckle Bros vid remains a) great explanation of the chaos, b) amazing PR chutzpah, c) truly dreamlike/surreal youtu.be/GRKfW841EUE

Chuckle Brothers Play Real Life Hitman

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Major oil firms make $93bn profits in just 3 months amid war and climate crisis. They shift profits, dodge taxes, fuel poverty and inflation. They don't bear the social cost of their business. Forever holding people/govts to ransom. Polluters must pay. Need windfall tax now.

Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis

Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage

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Beautiful everyday Ladybird things The bookshop Artist: Harry Wingfield (1964)

"Turritopsis dohrnii has the ability to turn back into a baby jellyfish and grow up all over again" As appealing as this may be, couldn't do school again though.

Ray Harryhausen's stop-motion skeletons in Jason and the Argonauts are amazing even now. He animated the sequence by himself for more than four months -- without computers or even an easy way to check his work. We're looking into how he did it: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/how-ray-ha...

I can't make it this year, but if you're anywhere near Glasgow on Saturday, get to sequentialscotland.co.uk - probably the best-run indie-comic-centric comic event I can think of (& I've been to many & organised some myself so I know my potatoes & by potatoes I mean comic events) ALSO FREE BAGS

Sequential Scotland Comic Con

Sequential Scotland is a comic convention based in Glasgow that focuses on independent and small press comics

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Sequential Scotland Comic Con@sequential-scot.bsky.social · 2d ago

There’s going to be so much amazing art, comics and books on Saturday 🤩 And to help you carry it all Cass Art have gifted us these awesome tote bags free to the first 200 of you through the door!

Paper Jam is running an all-dayer at Jesmond Library on Saturday August 29th. Our usual comic-making and drawing-game nonsense, quality* comics for sale, nice vibes. FREE! *comics of some level of quality, not specifying which level that is

There’s “off the charts” and there’s France’s absolutely bonkers June & July 2026 temperatures (see black line below). Bad things are happening. Fast.

This seemed like it was worth boosting. www.kickstarter.com/projects/735...

His Name was Harvey Pekar

Saving the legacy of Harvey Pekar:Urgent mission to rescue four full storage units of American Splendor history before its lost forever

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Beyond satire, inexplicable that this is apparently real and not trolling

Veerender Singh Jubbal@veerenderjubbal.bsky.social · 5d ago

Melanie Sykes says Would you like a flake in that luv? Boddingtons 1998

I always wondered what it would take for the Telegraph to decide there might be a downside to climate breakdown. Well, now we know. Even so, this article manages not to mention it.

Just sitting on the pavement and clapping is now terrorism. Not saying anything, not holding or displaying any signs, just sitting on the pavement & clapping. Andy Burnham can stop this. But he isn't. Reporting by Steven Methven for @novaramedia.com

At astonishing speed, our rights are being cancelled, worldwide. In the UK, the prosecution of Rajiv Menon KC is the latest example of blatant authoritarianism. Why? Because this is what billionaires and corporations demand. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Think our basic rights are safe? In the age of oligarchs and corporate lobbying, think again | George Monbiot

The global assault on our freedoms is coming ever closer to home. Just look at the sinister prosecution of UK lawyer Rajiv Menon, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Sending postcards (back when we all did) Artist: Eric Winter, 1977

We are embarking on a new project! jennifercwilsonwriter.substack.com/p/project-fi... Are there any representations of the French royal court that you'd recommend? #FrenchHistory #HistoricalFiction

Project Film-de-Lys: Help needed!

Because we don't have enough happening already...

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One thing that doesn't seem to have really cut through is that if the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation collapses - which in recent years has gone from "very distant possibility" to "uh, guys" - we don't get a Mediterranean climate, we freeze.

Twlldun@twlldun.bsky.social · 7d ago

*One* undiscussed problem with embracing a Mediterranean lifestyle as advocated by this piece is we don’t have the Mediterranean, we have the North Sea, and the impact of climate change on the currents and weather patterns of the North Sea is…well, it’s not turning it into the Med, is it?

1961: The Street With Confounding House Numbers | Tonight

1961: The Street With Confounding House Numbers | Tonight

"That's number one, and this is number two, and this is number eight... number eight?!"

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How do you do that with paint? The mastery of artist Harry Wingfield. ‘Milk’ Third Picture Book (1973)

They could make all this stuff they're (destructively) scanning available to everyone. Give it to the Internet Archive to do so, at least. But no. Just feed it into the ol' Torment Nexus that has contaminated everything - & if it makes non-AI sources rarer, well so much the better for them, eh.

Sacrifice! At the Harvest Festival@theharvestmaid.bsky.social · last wk.

Why is everything so transparently evil now?

Why is everything so transparently evil now?

It's a point I've been trying to make for a long time: there is no good way to meet even 10% of current demand for animal products. They trash the living world, whichever way you do it. If you want to reduce your impact, switch to a plant-based diet. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Organic eggs have worse impact on climate than eggs from caged chickens

Adopting organic free-range model in UK could lead to greenhouse emissions equivalent to 2,316,000 tonnes of CO2, study suggests

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Art by • Alexey Gorboot

I've seen a lot of stories in the news recently on getting the youth of the UK back to work. So. Let's all get a job at the CO-OP. They've got their own job site. There's a couple of questionnaires to fill out, Which Statement do you agree with more?

I have a modest proposal for a new tax. It involves a deck of cards and a monkey throwing darts. Here are the rules:

Absolutely ridiculous and terrifying. That the ONE bit of evidence in a criminal trial is a username and *no one* involved notices that one has a double underscore and one doesn't???

Matt Round@mattround.com · last wk.

oof arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...