It's most likely to be ermine moths/a moth species rather than spiders, believe it or not!

#EventsDearBoy 3. MUTANT MASSACRE (1986, Marvel) Apparently one of Jonathan Hickman's ideas when he revamped the X-Men was 'give them some wins'. Wherever could the idea that the X-Men are constantly losing have come from, I wonder? Perhaps this first mutant event will shed some light!

Tom Ewing@tomewing.bsky.social · yesterday

#EventsDearBoy 4. AGE OF APOCALYPSE (1995, Marvel) Stuck in the diminishing returns of imitating Chris Claremont's labyrinthine subplotting without his flair, the 90s X-Office does the one thing he never tried: a story with a beginning, a middle and an end.

almost the defining characteristic of professional wrestling fandom is engaging with it despite, or even because of, the fact we know it's not "real", whatever "real" might mean. It's not like I've written a book about this, but wrestling fans are willing participants in kayfabe, not victims of it.

wild way to frame one of the most aggressively anti-trans bathroom bans in the developed world

Equality and Human Rights Commission@equalityhumanright.bsky.social · 11h ago

Our code of practice for services, public functions and associations comes into force today. It provides practical guidance on how the Equality Act 2010 applies to services, public functions and associations. Find out more: https://ow.ly/alIf50Zwrkx

This is something I haven't seen locally before - a but of shrubbery or something absolutely covered in spiderwebs. It's at least six foot high.

i cannot actually express how happy this makes me, i really hope this is true

Zebulon Vitruvius Pike@vitruviuspike.bsky.social · 21h ago

Pubic Service Announcement The Vagina Museum is trans inclusive. Always has been, always will be. Today the new EHRC Code of Practice comes into effect. Let us be clear, the guidance changes nothing about how we operate.

Oh, it's San Quentin, not Sam Quentin. That... makes more sense. I mean, I could just not admit that I heard it wrong as a kid and never noticed, but that's not how I roll. Open book, that's me, and full of typos.

hell yeah meet AI with ambivalence and this is how they react lol

Matt Simpson@brickie78.bsky.social · 9h ago

Presumably in response to your benefit-of-the-doubt response, since it was posted immediately afterwards

"The mean people on Bluesky are saying Rod Liddle was a woman-abusing racist who talked about wanting to fuck kids and wanted child pornography to be legal." "And he wasn't, right?" "What?" "He wasn't any of those things, right?" "Well, he was, but..."

True story.

Dara O'Reilly@daraor.bsky.social · 10h ago

There's a heartwarming story, in @seamas.bsky.social ' best-selling memoir "Did Ye Hear Mammy Died?" (available in all good, and many mediocre, bookshops) where Séamas is forgotten at Mass, and we only realised we'd lost him because we'd also lost another sibling, who we returned to collect.

To be fair, “Councillors and council elections don’t matter” are a load-bearing part of the “Kemi Badenoch is doing well and the Conservative party’s prospects under her are looking good” thesis.

Chris Terry-Enescu@cjterry.bsky.social · 11h ago

It's OK for criminal ex-neo Nazis to run your bins is a hell of a line.

Neil Armstrong's footprints are on the moon to this day, preserved. The work and effort to reach it has been inspirational. And dickhead Musk is throwing trash at it like it's a beer at a road sign.

all writers are vain,selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. - George Orwell

I rarely do these, but this one looks fun. Let's have a go.

Mo 🌸📚@moplayspoke.bsky.social · 2d ago

1 like = 1 book question 📚💙

Know what? Fuck it. Here's a list of things that are better in my 40s than they were in my 20s. 1. Boundaries. I am still not amazing at them, but I'm getting better, and every step I take towards setting and maintaining boundaries makes my life more peaceful.

The Excavation of Hob's Barrow is a whopping all-time high 60% off on Steam until August 18! 💀⛏️🩸 It's the perfect time to check out our folk horror adventure set on the moors of Northern England. The answers lie in the soil...

I’m launching the paperback edition of Breaking: How the Media Works, When it Doesn’t, and Why it Matters on September 1 at The Book Elephant in Elephant & Castle. I’m very lucky to have Juliet Jacques joining me for the Q+A. 🎟️ Ticket details coming very soon.

Perhaps the unlikeliest of comedy sketches to crop up in 2026, but also one of the funniest:

British Pork: It’s Got the Lot | SNL UK

YouTube video by Saturday Night Live UK

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I had *just* started getting the latest X-Men comics when the lead-up to this started. It was as exciting as anything could get, and led me to start going to Dublin to pick up as much of the story as I could.

Tom Ewing@tomewing.bsky.social · yesterday

#EventsDearBoy 4. AGE OF APOCALYPSE (1995, Marvel) Stuck in the diminishing returns of imitating Chris Claremont's labyrinthine subplotting without his flair, the 90s X-Office does the one thing he never tried: a story with a beginning, a middle and an end.

Galvatron just folded in half going 'FUCKIN'ELL MAGNUS, RIGHT IN THE BOLLOCKS' and Magnus is all 'Get FUCKED, you crownheaded BASTUD'

I have only just realised that A)That's a very toy accurate Galvatron and B) He is so clearly going 'OOOOO! RIGHT IN ME CHALFONTS!'

I rarely do these, but this one looks fun. Let's have a go.

Mo 🌸📚@moplayspoke.bsky.social · 2d ago

1 like = 1 book question 📚💙

Morticia and Gomez Addams

Rosie Duffield and co.

"The final spirit showed Scrooge people talking about the dead man as they pawned his sheets, but they were respectfully silent and kind. Breaking his silence, the spirit said 'you're not going to learn a fucking thing from this, are you?'. And Scrooge did not."

Ben Goldacre@bengoldacre.bsky.social · 2d ago

Sad to see people posting on social media negatively about Rod Liddle, who died yesterday. If I have disagreed with you very strongly in life - and you die - I hope I'll be either silent, or kind.

Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.

started watching the bakshi directed seasons of the 60s spiderman cartoon & every so often there will just be a killer shot someone managed to throw their whole pussy into despite all the production limitations

Audible has made this weird gameshow about books, with comedians I like, but it's like it's genuinely embarrassed to be about books. If you just had Masie Adams, Phil Wang and Catherine Bohart talking about Dracula, I'd have enjoyed it a *lot* more.

"The final spirit showed Scrooge people talking about the dead man as they pawned his sheets, but they were respectfully silent and kind. Breaking his silence, the spirit said 'you're not going to learn a fucking thing from this, are you?'. And Scrooge did not."

Ben Goldacre@bengoldacre.bsky.social · 2d ago

Sad to see people posting on social media negatively about Rod Liddle, who died yesterday. If I have disagreed with you very strongly in life - and you die - I hope I'll be either silent, or kind.