URGENT CALL FOR MUTUAL AID: can someone help me hack my LG washing machine to play the xylophone solo to Gone Daddy Gone (Violent Femmes '83)?

absence

Well, everything I attempted sucked today so I wrote myself a permission slip about that.

Warming down.

Nods.

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There. Actually finished something this week. 🎉

Two years ago, I ran a crowdfunder seeking support to keep my comic news site Downthetubes operational, and was blown away by support. Thank you. Can you support the site now? www.gofundme.com/f/downthetub...

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tiny little magic fella

Things with the not-my-cat that keeps visiting the garden escalated this morning.

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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I put on The Last Stand for some reason and all I can think of is the greatest tumblr post of all time

House clearances undertaken is the usual terminology but ok

Terrible morning to wake up to the news that the data centre plan was approved and will be built on the cultural and historial Truman Brewery in Bricklane in East London 😭😫 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Controversial Brick Lane data centre and office plans approved

The proposals include a data centre, offices and 44 homes of which six would be available for social rent.

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This is who runs this account

Chris McLaren@chrismclaren.com · 3d ago

This is who runs this account

Might bake some cookies.

Get ready for Caption (next week?!) and peruse this year's schedule 🏴‍☠️

I'll be doing my small press thing at Caption next weekend. Chatting with our 'Six to Watch' creators on the opening panel and then talking about @brokenfrontier.bsky.social on the 'Comics and Journalism' one. Get tickets here: caption.sumupstore.com

CaptionComicFest@captioncomicfest.bsky.social · 4d ago

Get ready for Caption (next week?!) and peruse this year's schedule 🏴‍☠️

I was really late opening some mail, so only recently got to see the fab Pride story by @zoewithasword.bsky.social and I in print. Marvel letting me do my own colours was so much fuunnnn

My family were… not exactly conversationalists when I was growing up. So: this is how, like a lot of people, I absorbed a lot of my vocabulary. Still is, to be honest. Better to crack at it and mangle the thing, than let it lie in a mental drawer, filed as an exotic beast for others to play with.

Tim Byrne@tbyrne75.bsky.social · 4d ago

Be cautious about criticising someone for mispronouncing a word - it is usually because they learned the word by reading.

Oh hi Bluesky, long time no see. I hope this app is still alive?? Here's a new poster

New print for the month of August! Ghost in the Shell Available on Patreon when you join any of my print tiers or in my shop. Patreon.com/scoobtoobins Or Scoobtoobins.com

Call for subs!

Shibari is just sexy macrame

This is possibly the most obvious goblin trap I’ve seen in London in a long time.

“A team of creatives have teamed up with a typography company to create a new type of font that’ll trick LLM scrapers into ingesting poisoned gibberish.” people are wonderful!

Future ex-Housewife@justahousewife.bsky.social · 6d ago

www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/20...

Also in SKRAWL mag #3 comes @alisonsampson.bsky.social INTERVIEW! @catfoodcomics.com will interview the multi talented award winning comic artist and illustrator. Please share the news! 🐩🙏🏽🐩 www.kickstarter.com/projects/rus...

SelfMadeHero, UK's independent publisher of graphic novels, has announced that an unoficial The Count Binface Comic Book will be published on 6th August  2026

Count Binface flies to SelfMadeHero!

The Count Binface Comic Book brings the universe of “Old Binnie” to glorious life!

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"The Broken King is an extraordinary read – deeply personal and intimate, but also expansive and free-ranging, taking in everything from TS Eliot (the title comes from Eliot’s poem Little Gidding) to James Baldwin, Brazilian football and the Rolling Stones." www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...

‘I had a really crippling break’: how author Michael Thomas lost 20 years to mania, depression and more

In 2006 the novel Man Gone Down made Thomas famous and won him a €100,000 prize. He expected to produce a follow-up within a year – but life had other plans

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