rent is due in 2 weeks! donate $50 or more and if you’re in the Seattle area I’ll bake you cookies

krista baked cookies for you 🍪@kristalauren.bsky.social · 3d ago

I hate having to do this but my job search is not going well!! Anything you can donate is much appreciated 💜 gofund.me/f72e54214

Some more theatrical inspiration for #MKMonday! This is a poster for a production of Macbeth, back in 1977 as part of the Milton Keynes Festival. It took place at Stantonbury Theatre.

The Brighton vigil has been postponed as Jason’s family are encouraging people to attend this one in London

University and College Union (UCU)@ucu.org.uk · 21h ago

We would encourage all UCU members in London to attend the vigil for Jason Arday which will take place on Monday in Trafalgar Square at 6pm. Bring your love and solidarity.

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

We need to show rightwing newspapers that actions have consequences. Add your name: goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1 What they did to him, they might do to any of us

Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project

Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.

goodlawproject.org

So..this photo is from 2024. They just ripped it from her Instagram. I’m not going to get into a trans person still repping Harry Potter from 2024. But they didn’t actively seek her out to promote this. They stole her 3 year old vacation photo and tried to make it seem recent. Vile.

Omi Rhodes@omiswatching.bsky.social · 2d ago

Warner Bros is reaching new levels of desperation to hype up the new wizard boy show. They’re actively seeking out trans influencers to do promo and there is no hell hot enough for these traitors.

"Information warfare against black communities is both a political strategy and public safety crisis."

Alan Jagolinzer@jagolinzer.bsky.social · 2d ago

Revisiting the 2026 Cambridge Disinformation Summit discussion of Harms to Targeted Communities, featuring: Meredith Clark, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill @esosaosa.bsky.social, Onyx Impact Mobashra Tazamal, Bridge Initiative youtu.be/wgrIHxNA9LM?...

These are great, as are other suggestions in the thread, which makes me realise I should make an explicit request. Out of copyright art you think would be great to use as collage material in an epic grimdark-ish 40k/Nemesis The Warlock/Dune/Ludocrats TTRPG ashcan? Share!

The Imminence Of A Revelation Which Does Not Occur@nataliereed84.bsky.social · yesterday

have you ever seen Piranesi’s “Prisons” woodcuts? Cos those are etched in my brain as unofficial 40k / Warhammer Fantasy illustrations.

The lies of a known fabulist and racist, Chris Rufo, instigated the scrutiny that ultimately cost Dr. Gay the presidency of Harvard. An American-born eugenicist named Nathan Cofnas—who Cambridge sacked in 2024–triggered the scrutiny which cost Dr. Arday his job, and ultimately his life.

So I dealt with plagiarism issues pretty much every other week as a journal editor, and it's entirely possible to quietly get on with this without teaming up with a bunch of (other) racists and hound a man to death.

Marginalia thread marginalia thread

Arendse@arend.se · 3d ago

Even the people who wrote the books, wrote in them! Here's a 14th-century manuscript where the scribe wrote at the bottom: "May the writer be healthy."

ooh

Tomas Sala@falconeerdev.bsky.social · 2w ago

So september 3rd #shipshaper is coming to Early Access. And yes you can sail around in your creation . And share your creations via the Steam workshop integrations (to Bulwark also). Now to get back to making guns and figureheads!! #indiedev

Black person plagarizes: they take your job, your money, they sneak into your house and steal your dog White person plagarizes: they’re very sorry, of course they’ve lined up a new job writing for the nation, isn’t it great that we all had a teachable moment together?

At the Globe for 1st preview of As You Like It! What joy 🌳 🌲 🏳️‍⚧️

The GOPs problem is that Trump has run and governed exactly as men worry women will govern. He is an actual emotionally overwrought gossipy lightweight. If a woman is going to convince voters she can win, its probably going to be after the emperors clothes have come out dirty from the wash.

OK Planey, let’s go

For every slutty or revealing outfit on a female character there should be an equally slutty outfit on a male character. And I don't just mean Iceman wearing trunks, I mean Angel in a thong and thigh-high boots.

Asher Elbein@asherelbein.bsky.social · 4d ago

Okay, I'm genuinely throwing this out to people: what are your mildly shit-stirring takes on X-Men comics and characters?

Bin Day cometh.

Today is the day everyone. If you know anyone in #Clacton, give them a call. https://mastodon.scot/@simon_brooke/117086810567872036

12th August 2026 King's College Chapel during the eclipse. I'm particularly pleased that I caught an aircraft between turrets 2 and 3 🙂

I wouldn't call myself a cartoonist, but I had the vision and just needed it to be on paper to the best of my ability.

Never noticed this weird plant in my garden before

I photographed a neighbour’s colander (I did ask permission, I’m not an animal).

The tree opposite projected the solar eclipse quite nicely onto our front door.

All the adults working on the wizard bigot show made an active decision to endorse a vile campaign of hate. We do not in any way have to reward them for that, let alone sympathize with their plight. Which they CHOSE.

Mo Ryan@moryan.bsky.social · 7d ago

what you will hear actors, writers and directors etc bleat is -- when you translate it from self-pity word salad -- "I don't want you to make me feel bad about the active decision I made." nah. they knew better and did it anyway. no part of that is on us

In Bilbao for the eclipse. Sun has been absolutely hammering us all day and I can’t wait to see the bastard get sat on by the moon

Dear cis people, Please, for the love of G-d, stop using the terms "biological male" and "biological female." They're scientifically meaningless. Sex is a bimodal cluster categorization. The brain is biological, no? There is no one factor that's universally determinative of sex and gender.

"It’s not just that the crystal is old. It’s that something this small and this fragile-looking has outlasted almost the entire physical Earth it formed on. Continents have assembled and broken apart, oceans have opened and closed, and entire mountain ranges have risen and eroded"

Howard Lee@hlee.bsky.social · 6d ago

Jack Hills Zircon dated to 4.404 billion years old, right around the time the Moon itself finished crystallizing ⚒️ spacedaily.com/t-a-zircon-c...

Tell Ea-nasir: JL sends the following message: When I came, I said as follows : “I will see the tablet of the complaint to Ea-Nasir about his crappy copper ingots.” But you did not do what you promised me. You put a placard which was not good before me and said: “The tablet is in Abu Dhabi.”

This is great and has convinced me I need to read John Crowley

Jared Pechaček@vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 7d ago

a reflection on the late, great John Crowley