Okay, Spider-Man was amazing. Particular nod to the three-way (not like that, smutty) between Spidey, <redacted> and <redacted>, the, ah, unusual office, and the closing moment, between Peter and, well, go see it :)

I got the chance to see two of the skeletons in person a few years ago, they're absolutely incredible

Possibly my favourite film sequence of all time:

Animation Obsessive@ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 2d ago

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...

Calls for Reviews & Essays: November 2026

Calls for Reviews & Essays: November 2026

ARB publishes reviews and essays on a wide range of speculative topics, including science fiction & fantasy, weird fiction, and their relation to utopian impulses. ARB is also always interested…

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And so, it begins.

Lynn Zero | PlayNeoNeuro.neocities.org@lynnlandra.bsky.social · 2d ago

Oh shit they're just putting whole B5 episodes for free on youtube now. Like, officially.

Crops grown underneath solar panels produce more, require less water and are more resistant to extreme weather, even during a hot, dry summer. We need agrivoltaics to be rolled out asap, for both the electricity and the better growing conditions. microgridmedia.com/solar-panels...

Solar Panels Are Helping Crops Grow Better, Global Studies Show - Microgrid Media

For farmers worried about losing land to solar energy, new research brings surprising news: many crops actually produce more food when grown beneath solar

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Your regular reminder that you can't appease a bully. You show them your belly, they'll just bully you even more. Seriously, @amnestyuk.bsky.social, on behalf of all of us, stand up to this spoiled, schoolyard beehutch, will you? Give her the bloody nose she deserves. You're letting everyone down.

Holl🌞@willows-song.bsky.social · 4d ago

This is why you dont try to compromise or concede anything to these horrors

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Gabby HC@scriblit.bsky.social · 3d ago

Yes lockdown was really tough for kids. Lots of those kids are teenagers now so maybe as a thank you our establishments could stop deliberately making even more things worse for them due to a weird systemic hatred of our own youth

OK, humbling problem to have, but due to overwhelming demand (seriously!) subs are RE-OPENED on the website for The Monstrous & The Divine for one week only! If you missed the deadline due to timezones or any other reason, get it in by Friday AUG 7th! www.scyllapublishing.com/anthology-su...

Very quick phone snap, but my first sight of the (now quite large) pelican chicks in St. James Park. Their bills are still growing!

📣 New Edge Sword & Sorcery is open to short story submissions now through 8am EST, Sept 1st! 👉️ newedgeswordandsorcery.com/submissions/

Jack's complete lack of surprise. I mean, who could've seen that coming? 🤦‍♀️

Geoff Brumfiel@gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 5d ago

BREAKING: Google has rolled back its tool less than a day after it launched. Updated story coming soon.

At the moment there's an online subscription offer to get 5 Beanos for £1, and another to get 6 issues of The Phoenix for £1, meaning that for only £2 you can get 11 brilliant comics by brilliant humans, which is a proper BARGAIN shop.beano.com/beano-comic-... thephoenixcomic.co.uk/signup-offer/

Fascinating take. I have a #Manga section full of kids (older ones, but still) who buy/collect the books after reading the stories online, like they want the physical reminder of having enjoyed the thing. Don't have figures, but would love to know!

Louie Stowell@louiestowell.bsky.social · 4d ago

Has anyone done a study of teen online reading (fanfic/web comics etc)? That would be FASCINATING. What if there ISNT a drop in reading for pleasure? Just a change in mode?

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

In a nutshell:

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

I have never, and will never, use AI Not in my plotting Not in my writing Not for my cover art Not for promotion Where's my million, you sods?!

Lincoln Michel@thelincoln.bsky.social · 6d ago

👀 Fascinated by the "withdrawn by its agents" detail. So the AI use was so blatant that the agents due a huge payday preemptively withdrew the contract?

This is awesome. Probably the best thing I’ve picked up in ruddy ages. A genuine autographed photograph of Ernő Rubik, creator of the Rubik’s Cube, taken whilst he was out and about in the 80s promoting the Rubik’s Snake. The old school gamer in me absolutely loves this.

Comics are a MEDIUM, not a GENRE

Sanjay Srivastava@sanjaysrivastava.com · 6d ago

What is an extremely nerdy/obscure/specific thing you hate with a white-hot wrath?

Ginger shots. Not even once.

Jesse Pinkman Looking Distressed

Alt: Jesse Pinkman Looking Distressed

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*taps sign*

Andy Diggle@andydiggle.bsky.social · 5mo ago

British Journal of Psychiatry: Thirty-two experts find no evidence #ADHD is being overdiagnosed www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...

Oooooofty, <horrible> brain-fog, this morning. Not something I suffer from much, these days, after fighting it for many years, but I must've eaten something funny, because my head's like a rock. It's a tangible, physical weight, and ack. Have learned, though, to step away from the words. Trying...

I thought hip dips were something you ordered with a pizza?

Playboy@playboy.com · 6d ago

What are the incel men up to over on X? Focussing on a quirk of women’s bodies most of us have never even thought about before now. Our take? "Making women mad and getting likes from fellow incels is all they have going for them." Read now: www.playboy.com/read/sex/the...

It's raining 💖

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli

Flash Gordon's Epic Sky Ride

Alt: Flash Gordon's Epic Sky Ride

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Jay Novak, genius [citation needed]@jaynova.bsky.social · 6d ago

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli

Jezero Crater, Mars, seen on 27 July 2026. There is nothing—and I emphasise nothing—we humans could do to Earth that would make it less hospitable than Mars. So should we send astronauts there? Yes! Absolutely! But we will never colonise Mars, nor should we.

Mouse's head on the patio. Thanks, cat 🤢

My paternal grandfather was a semi-famous racing driver, at Brooklands in the 1920s (tho I never met him, he died before I was born). My maternal grandfather was a Channel Islands fisherman (whom I remember mostly as a moustache and a smell). I'm good, thanks.

Revan@revan.eurosky.social · 7d ago

Enough “what would you do on the commune questions” If you got sent back 100 years and were given your grandparent’s job, what are you doing?

Oh my God, this is not a drill - LinkedIn has added 'seems like AI slop' as an option on posts Genuinely thought it was a joke until I clicked on a few posts

Last one, promise :) This was the first proof I had printed, and it's definitely all askew, but still, it's been signed and left in new lodgings, this time in #Cheam. Perhaps it can find new readers, who knows?