Tim Curry, After Dark magazine, 1975.

Let's be real here: "Be strong enough to be gentle" is an all-timer of a mantra that many more people should take heed of

Sixo | Transformers@sixotf.bsky.social · last mo.

I'm deeply saddened to read of Peter Cullen passing Like many of my generation (& countless since), his Optimus Prime *was* my childhood, showcasing a warmth beyond just being a battle-hardened hero that meant everything to me Thank you for all you gave us, Peter RIP

...and Optimus Prime makes it 3. All my youth, etc...

GNU Christopher Lunt 6 years gone, never forgotten

Sorry. It's been a while.

Sam Kieth did not bend for comics. Comics bent to him. I won't call his manner of drawing merely a style because that implies some level of artifice. Maybe not since Kirby had mainstream comics seen an artist with less filter between his imagination and the printed page.

Happy #WorldBookDay! Go buy a book, any book. Not from Amazon, go buy a book from a proper bookstore. Take it home, read it, love it. Flick the pages. Sniff them. Put it on your shelf, by your bed, add it to your TBR. Curl up in a chair with it, and enjoy a cup of #tea. Books are amazing.

There appears to be a big Facebook outage right now if anyone is wondering why they just got kicked out and can't sign in

Punishing myself with a trip to the football. I'm so high up I've just seen a mountain goat trot past... #bwfc #coywm

Why did The KLF burn £1,000,000 of their own money? We talked to author John Higgs about how the band's interest in Discordianism and the philosophy of Robert Anton Wilson may have informed their strange career and infamous money-burning. www.dailygrail.com/2024/03/the-...

The KLF: Discordianism, Robert Anton Wilson and the burning of £1,000,000 in cash - The Daily Grail

Perhaps one of the most bizarre events in modern music history occurred on August 23, 1994, when the British band The KLF burned £1,000,000 of their music career earnings in the fireplace of a boathou...

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Let this Oompa Loompa be an inspiration for us all to just try to get through it with kindness even though our reality is constructed by assholes and actively falling apart.

Ben@benbartlett.bsky.social · 3y ago

Other photos were located showing she really was just doing what she could with what she had:

I wasn't going to brag but I've survived 2 days of having to give ear drops to a cat. If I make it past day 5 without having to go to A&E, I'm gonna buy a lottery ticket!

"...a pasadise of sweet teats." Yep.

Ste Curran (https://mindset.game 🟨🔺🔵)@stecurran.bsky.social · 3y ago

Website for blunderland-of-the-day Willy's Chocolate Experience is still up and it is incredible: willyschocolateexperience.com/index.html

Mood.

Snikt! 🐈‍⬛

Four years ago I 'thought' it was a good idea to start fully using Google Photos for backing up mobile phone pics. Turns out that's fine until you want to remove them from the cloud to back them up. FFS...

This is probs my last #buyastrangerabook day on here. I have one more book to give out. I love bluesky, and i'll continue to post nonsense on here, buti'm gonna have to slum it over on Threads and see how it works over there from next week.

Big Green Books@biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 3y ago

It's Wednesday, so it's "Buy A Stranger a Book" evening on Bluesky! I'll give away two books. FOR FREE. If there's a book you want let me know. If YOU want to "Buy a Stranger a Book" too get in touch! #buyastrangerabook Here's what it's all about. www.biggreenbookshop.com/stuff-you-mi...

Godspeed, Voyager 🫡 https://crookedtimber.org/2024/02/19/death-lonely-death/

Death, Lonely Death

Billions of miles away at the edge of the Solar System, Voyager 1 has gone mad and has begun to die.Let’s start with the “billions of miles”. Voyager 1 was launched in early Septe…

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No, Royal Mail, a photo of one of your guys holding a parcel outside my closed front door is not "proof of delivery"...

First day of new role today. 7 weeks of training ahead and the wheels have already fallen off the plan. Woohoo!

Spent ages reading about gain staging and various audio recording tips and tricks to reduce reverb and echoing and then I just put a sock over my microphone and that seems to have done the trick!

A combination of awful acoustics for recording in my new office and the cats deciding that today is the day that they'll run around the house shouting their heads off has made today just a tad frustrating... #IHateMondays

Also, Unbound has an as yet unfinished project going for a Bagpuss script book that I'd like to see finished so I can buy the book as a present for someone: unbound.com/books/bagpus...

Tim Dedopulos@ghostwoods.bsky.social · 3y ago

Very happy 50th birthday, old chap.

With hindsight, watching The Night Country before heading in to work today might not have been the best of ideas...

😯🤤

Rob Sheridan@rob-sheridan.com · 3y ago

If The Corporations think they can just lure me in with marketing gimmicks like vaporwave pop rocks space cookies, well then yes, yes they absolutely can.

Today has been mainly about contemplating a change in job after 2 years and not getting lost in the woods. (I didn't get lost. I knew where I was at all times. Honest.)

Woke up. Turned on the radio. "So, doctor, what is Measles, and why should people be vaccinated against it?”. The year is, apparently, 2024.

Zero, the last time I checked.

Sadly, that monochrome ship has sailed.

Andy Baio@andy.baio.net · 3y ago

I wrote a long deep-dive into the history of Ello, from its launch and funding to its quiet sale and sudden death last year, noticed only by the community of artists and writers who used and loved it. waxy.org/2024/01/the-...