“Outta Context” and yet I feel enough is provided here
Comics Outta Context 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️@comiccontext.bsky.social · 26m ago
Comics Outta Context 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️@comiccontext.bsky.social · 26m ago
Ruin a book by adding a word: Licking The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldrich
Lady Death Becomes Her@aelixnt.bsky.social · 14h agoRuin a book by adding a word: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep Fucking?
This is quite a startling feature of the 21st century. Imagine the RAF and the Luftwaffe exchanging messages in the small ad pages of the Times.
(((Tendar)))@tendar.bsky.social · 37m agoThis exchange between Russian Yandex and the Ukrainian missile company Firepoint.
Ruin a book by adding a word to the title: In Search of Lost Hammer Time
Upbeat Former Prof@upbeatprof.bsky.social · 4h agoRuin a book by adding a word to the title: The Elements of Gangnam Style
We should all stick to what we good at. AI will write and review the papers, while we humans meet at the conference have beers and hang out. I see a bright future ahead. Just don’t tell anyone or it will ruin it.
In theory having ten hours of a TV season instead of two hours of movie to play with should allow showrunners to go full Tarkovsky, but the only guy with the courage to do that right now is Vince Gilligan on Pluribus. Mostly other showrunners crowd those hours with meaningless incidents.
Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social · 22h agoA handful of great shouts here, but most have the same “do you know how long an hour IS and do you understand that TV is a different medium to books” problem as the HP series.
The last three sentences of this Catherine Bray piece about Jaws are perfection
treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.
Codebreaker, 103, kept his WW2 heroics a secret for decades
Codebreaker, 103, kept his WW2 heroics a secret for decades
Fred Vanke was sworn to secrecy but has now been honoured by Bletchley Park.
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If you think a distinct sub category of human exists because some medieval warlords agreed that the border of England should be on the River Tweed, you are, Im afraid, an absolute maniac bsky.app/profile/theh...
Dan Snow@thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 3w agoEngland is a made up thing. It has no basis in the ineluctable laws of nature. Its extent is defined by Edward II getting his arse handed to him. Athelstan conquering York. The Welsh of Cumbria were incorporated, the Welsh of Gwynedd were not. It is a political idea, an aspiration - not taxonomy.
If you see this we IMPLORE you to post a picture from whatever device you’re using without an explanation.
Jonathan Calder@lordbonkers.bsky.social · 2d agoIf you see this we IMPLORE you to post a picture from whatever device you’re using without an explanation.
Metal is by some distance the most excessively documented music genre online, country among the least, and if I may engage in some frankly irresponsible speculation, I reckon this could tell us a lot about autistic aesthetic preferences
it's good to see this laid out clearly, but i'm once again going to point to Peter Naur's 1985 essay "Programming as Theory Building"
Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick@shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 4d agoHarvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf
OTD 1807: Liberal philosopher Harriet Taylor Mill Co-author of iconic Liberal text On Liberty with her husband John Stuart Mill (He credited her as co-author, but for some reason hardly anyone else did at the time – or even 167 years later. Wonder why? Hmm, what a mystery)
That book? Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.
🎃👻🧙♀️ Vio the VVitch 🧙♀️👻🎃@viothevvitch.myatproto.social · 3d agothis is so fucking sad
This is glorious. I’d usually extract a good quote, but it’s truly all killer, no filler.
‘He punched a polar bear on the nose!’ Ninety glorious years of Brian Blessed – by Emma Thompson, Adrian Lester and more
Peeing in the sink he shared with Derek Jacobi, making a badger video with Brian May, climbing Everest with Alan Hinkes … as the great actor blasts into his 90s, stars celebrate his ‘loudness and madn...
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There's a particular thread context to this but it also works by itself as a summary of one of the most important facts about the last two decades of global history.
Dumbstash@dnlmsstch.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe capitalists were so afraid of the socialists they forgot the fudalists and mercantalists are also their enemies
the Falklands is a really interesting litmus test insofar that it's a profoundly unambiguous example of self-determination, and yet we have this kind of dialogue from (in this case) reactionary centrists who advocate a much more pro-fascistic Darwinian foreign policy
The New World@thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 4d agoIf you ask Brits what they think about the islands no one seems to care and if you ask Argentinians, they care a hell of a lot. So doesn’t it make sense? ✏️ Gary Nunn
the common belief that so-called "back office" roles in the public sector are unnecessary is predicated on an understanding of the world of work that's no deeper than "when mummy hides her face she isn't actually there anymore"
62. THE THIRD POLICEMAN by Flann O’Brien A reread - the mix of comical delight in language, whimsical idea-spinning and terrifying cosmic horror is still like nothing else I’ve ever read. Includes one of fiction’s most disturbing and convincing afterlives
Scholars now believe that Joseph was Mr Fucking and Mary was Mrs Christ, hence Jesus Fucking-Christ.
fesshole 🧻@fesshole.bsky.social · 4d agoAs as child, I thought Joseph and Mary were Mr and Mrs Christ.
Liberal England Gold... Cleaners From Venus: Illya Kuryakin Looked at Me
Cleaners From Venus: Illya Kuryakin Looked at Me
A wonderful homage to the Sixties as they were or should have been. Rita Tushingham. Harold Wilson. David Hemmings. David Bailey. The Avenge...
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I think men should also ask for consent before playing an acoustic guitar
A ship passing the remains of the Lang Dyke opposite Dumbarton Rock. While many people will be unfamiliar with it, the Lang Dyke is perhaps Glasgow's largest and most important bit of engineering as it was instramental in creating a navigable channel up the Clyde. Cont./ #glasgow #riverclyde
Listening to the 1968 BBC radio Hobbit and it’s refreshing to hear the dwarves being presented exactly the way the book in isolation does: not stout warriors, but a bunch of bourgeois, middle aged men who are so in over their heads that adding Bilbo increases their competence by an order of magitude