www.crowdfunder.co.uk/checkout/lcf... My local comedy festival #leicestercomedy has collapsed into a steaming heap of unpaid debt, so there's an organisation raising money to get the comedians and promotors paid

Leicester Comedy Festival Artist/Promoter Support

We're raising £30,000 to provide financial support to artists and other people affected by non-payment during the Leicester Comedy Festival.

crowdfunder.co.uk

A boy no more, I have fixed my leaking bathtub and have become a man.

"you fucked up a perfectly good loom, is what you did. look at it, it's got anxiety"

It's probably not going to be a great bootlace, but it's totally a band!

Thingus@thingus.bsky.social · last wk.

Right, here we go

Right, here we go

Wearing a white t-shirt at #emfcamp and being asked 'Whats your favourite YouTube video? I'll project it on your chest', and I couldn't miss up the chance to do a bit of unpaid marketing for @simogo.com

Talk to your friends about Popes...before they find out for themselves.

Alix Weasel@alixwzl.bsky.social · 2w ago

I just wanted to look to see if Daniel Ortegas had kids and now I know that there was an al-Gaddafi Peace Prize and that one recipient was the Pope of the Orthodox Coptic Church who visited the Catholic Pope in the Vatican because both their Patriarchies were recognised by the Council of Nicea and-

Face!

Hiya, if you’re having post-EMF discussions in the group chat for your mates/fellow villagers/whatever then PLEASE PLEASE put any useful feedback into the feedback form. It will be read by actual humans when we are caught up on sleep. grist.orga.emfcamp.org/forms/cL1XSk...

Grist, the evolution of spreadsheets

A modern, open source spreadsheet that goes beyond the grid

grist.orga.emfcamp.org

I'm packing my fibrecraft box up for #emf - going to teach some of my villagers to drop-spindle badly and hopefully tablet me up some new bootlaces!

now look here, you can't go attacking me like this, we've never even met

Chris Person@papapishu.bsky.social · last mo.

We actually tried to kill him with crocodiles

omgisme@omgisme.bsky.social · last mo.

Happy 4th of July to Chibodee Crockett and his multicultural pit crew only. It takes a REAL AMERICAN to pilot a kindergartner's What I Want To Be When I Grow Up? homework (a mecha quarterback cowboy boxer surfer astronaut)

many of my friends

You've nailed your last nine inches

D.C.V.@sportyspectator.bsky.social · last mo.

you’ve panicked! at your last disco

When there’s a crisis, three things can happen www.todepond.com/sky/crisis/

Todepond dot com

todepond.com

You've maneuvered you last orchestra (in the dark)

ian.fenrisgames@fenrisgames.com · last mo.

you've Cartered your last Unstoppable Sex Machine

I got ✨data✨ now, gonna sort this heatwave out right quick.

The worst part about this is that most of these organisations were working from paycheck to paycheck. Even a short interruption in funding would have shuttered most of them permanently and broken the relationships needed to rebuild them.

Lauren Dobson-Hughes@ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · last mo.

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

Signal boosting, but honestly this was an important call to make and I'm glad that they did.

Trans+ Solidarity Alliance@transsolidarity.bsky.social · last mo.

Important mass lobby update: With a red weather warning in place for the day, it will not go ahead. We are reaching out to participants with further detail and actions, but please do not travel. We are arranging a future date and will update ❤️ www.transsolidarityalliance.com/post/weather...

If you can get to Halfords, car window sun-blockers work pretty well for regular windows and have Velcro fastenings

Jay Hulme@jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · last mo.

If ur landlord has provided you with curtains that are basically semi-transparent tissue paper, remember that u can tape tinfoil directly onto glass without "damaging the window frame paint" (which u know they'll try and get u for even tho they left u to boil like a crab in this heatwave)

I am proud to announce our new podcast One Pound Film Club! The podcast where we believe no good movie should cost more than a quid. We can only review a film if we can get a physical copy for a pound or less. Our first episode is Scorpion King 3, hoooo boy.

One Pound Film Club — A podcast about hunting down hidden gems in movie bargain bins.

Get more from One Pound Film Club on Patreon. A podcast about hunting down hidden gems in movie bargain bins.. Support One Pound Film Club and get exclusive access to their work.

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Bluesky to make the Mosquito Noise or be banned in the UK.

Cethan Leahy@cethanleahy.com · 2mo ago

Bluesky overrun by British teenagers at night because it's the one place the Labour government will never check.

We had. We had ARM. It grew out of the BBC Micro into THE chip architecture that runs _every_ phone. It was a huge economic, strategic and cultural asset. We had this. And then you daft bastards sold it! To SOFTBANK! For basically a fiver!

Sarah Kendrew@sarahkendrew.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"Britmaxxing" - new levels of cringe achieved in UK politics. ✅🥴

"Dragonlance Musical" is up there with "Les Miserable Fighting Game" of cross-media works ideas that are Good, Actually.

Brooke@brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I think I might have to watch that Dragonlance musical again this weekend

Does anyone else see the cat ears?

Peter Gleick@petergleick.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Trump's selling and debasement of the White House. Disgusting.

Super interesting interview this

You're Gonna Think About This Yuppies Interview All Day | Culture Study

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I offered some inkle warping advice and got a bit carried away 🧵

Thingus@thingus.bsky.social · 2mo ago

So what I've found easiest is to - grab the first colour of thread in your pattern - tie on to the front bar - warp it around however many times - cut it off a with a good length left over - wrap _that_ length around the front bar about eight or nine times, so it stays in place without a knot.

This got me on eBay for the first time in my life

Gareth@gawuffy.co.uk · 2mo ago

I'm sorry what? As part of its 1987 rebrand British Rail's sectorised freight business Railfreight had its own branded After Eight mints and called them AFTER FREIGHT!?