Bobbins.bsky.social
@bobbinsu.bsky.social
Mostly here to read/learn/laugh/find amazing art & photography. UK to JP immigrant. Freelance bid writer. Dreadful social skills.
I've trained my dog to salivate at the sound of a bell thanks to my invention, the edible bell
I live in a rural town and, like, I don't know how to tell you this, but the girls play on the boys team and vice versa all the time because otherwise we don't have enough players for a game and it's literally always fine so stop being weirdos about kids sports and just let trans kids play.
I hate when boxing announcers say a boxer is "down for the count." I don't care that he loves Dracula I just want to know who's winning
I want all trans people to know that Erika Hilton is a black transwoman and the most-voted congresswoman in the history of Brazil, with 1.5 millions votes. She campaigned for Lula over the last three weeks. WE TRANS PEOPLE CAN EXIST IN POLITICS. It’s not a dream. It’s already a reality in Brazil!
Brazil’s results tonight are a big endorsement for the idea that every country should have a second “are you you sure about that” election a couple weeks after the first one for the important stuff
The achievement of Serbian students overthrowing Aleksandar Vučić can't be overstated. In 2024, they began protesting. In 2025, they transformed a protest movement into civil dissidence. In 2026, they became a political party — and two months later, crushed a corrupt state-entrenched authoritarian.
There was a fucking hole in our planet’s *atmosphere* Like a legit, no joke, “this will unravel our entire ecosystem” hole in the world, and then we fixed it by working together across national and political lines As a species we decided, “we will survive” Let’s do that some more
Michael Druker 🇨🇦@mdruker.app · 5d agoSocial media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?
Same is true across Western Europe. The age of mass immigration has also been the age of a record drop in registered crime.
Roland Smith@rolandmcs.bsky.social · 6d agoFraser Nelson commendably points out to the Right that their narrative of 'lawless Britain on the verge of civil war' is the inverse of the truth. And the big rise in immigration has coincided with a big drop in crime. frasernelson.substack.com/p/lawless-br...
We come back to the idea of Execs who really don't understand art or why people make art, in any way, finding ways to absolutely annihilate those that do, in a death of a thousand cuts and then one big 400-person cut. It's heartbreaking. The western games industry kills a NIntendo every year.
Corneliu Dragan-Targoviste. (b.1956, Romania) Autumn day in Bucharest, 2014. Watercolour on paper.
One joke I learned from the class a few years ago was this accent-based cracker: A Brummie invited me to a fancy dress party with a spice theme. I turned up as a chill pepper but everyone else was dressed as astronauts
Our ag school's master gardener program had a podcast called garden hoes and the bosses made em change it to garden thyme and this is an academic freedom issue
Mizutani Chaya Nara Park, Japan. Photography by Koborin@KoborinX2
Really interesting stuff. My ha'pennies worth is that its likely hard to overestimate the emotive impact of having to adopt the Euro. Or actually, to put it more accurately, of having to lose the Pound.
Steve Akehurst@steveakehurst.bsky.social · last wk.NEW: How robust is opinion change on Brexit/Brexit @persuasionuk.bsky.social research properly stress tested it. We find a fair bit of softness. We think headline Rejoin support is more like 52 v 48% (!) rather than ~64-36% you see in polls. Not fatal for Rejoin but worth paying attention to🧵
Everyone ends up at Coffee Shop Cool in Kabukicho. Company owners, yakuza, sex workers, students, hosts, even a farmer share one 40-seat room. A regular reported watching yakuza executives negotiate turf at the next table, and a sex-shop job interview at another.
Ysabel Yates'... I mean Cookie Monster's superb takedown of why GenAI in the workplace sucks.
🧵Spotted at the Inaugural Nelson Tasman Pasefika Festival: A small human (3?) is walking along with BIG STOMPY steps. A man (20s?) asks: "What's this all about little cuz?" Little Cuz says: "I'm HAPPY!" Big Cuz says: "Fair enough. That's a good reason eh."
There's a weird unwritten rule in English that if you have a sequence of words with the same consonant sounds but different vowels, the vowels must go "i - a - o". This is why you never hear the tock-tick of a clock or the dong-ding of a bell. And you're definitely not listening to hop-hip.
When Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens begins playing “Old Corn Liquor,” a traditional Black American folk tune, acclaimed Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man recognizes similarities to Chinese pentatonic music and spontaneously joins in. The joy on their faces says it all.
Paul Bettany has been playing JARVIS/Vision for 18 years, a time during which he should have been in like four Master + Commander movies.
in the event of an apocalyptic event like nuclear war or zombie outbreak i will use my last remaining strength to write out notes that say things like "i don't feel so good, nobody had better open my safe, the code for which is 6816" and smear yellow paint on things
No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads
