Weβre going to London, babyyyyy!!! π₯°π
Weβre going to London, babyyyyy!!! π₯°π
Terry Pratchett in a blue jacket and Akubra hat holding a young owl for release.
Eleven years since you crossed the black sands. I wish I could say that the world is better than you left it (although it will always be better for having had you in it) but at least there is a new Young Sam to help carry on the Pratchett name and ethos. Love you always β€οΈ
Yaaaaay!
I think enjoying some comics and a cup of tea is peak woke and I endorse it utterly.
Lou's description of the sun in our most recent Icaron fireside chat was so beautiful, we couldn't help but put it against some lovely audio and visuals.
Score by @willsavino.bsky.social
youtu.be/b3KyruEAtfM?...
π¨ A new wave of animation is coming to Dropout!
Get ready for Toonout β original animated shorts made by indie artists.
Tune in starting March 24th, only on Dropout.
I'm one of many professors quoted in this report from Alice Speri. I really appreciate The Guardian taking an angle which has basically eluded every other major outlet.
To fully understand "Sinners" and the world of the Smokestack twins, we need to explore the Rust Belt Gothik, the tradition of Black speculative survival strategies forged in response to the pressures of the Great Migration
I've been comfort watching 90s ER on Netflix. A 30 year-old show: Trans character with sympathetic backstory. Multiple gay characters. HIV discussed every episode. Main characters who are black and brown talking about systemic racism
Years before we all came anti 'woke' babies.
Yes, hello, is that God? Yeah, hi. I have a complaint. You gave me this brain thatβs designed for finding berries and avoiding lions and now people are βjust circling backβ to see if we can βmove the needleβ on βkey initiativesβ? NONE of those things are berries.
I think we could all do with some 400-year-old flowering ume (flowering Japanese sour plum-apricot) bonsai in our lives.
This is the 75th anniversary Nagahama Bonbai (ume bonsai) Exhibition.
And this incredible 400-year-old tree is Furo, meaning Eternal Youth.
#JohnDoesJapan
Oh! I can bring you spindles!
btw about that pixar thing, the reason why these people think having a conversation about gay people with kids is difficult is because they don't know a way to say to their kid "gay people are normal but you are not allowed to be one" without sounding like a bigot (there is a reason for that)
Glasgow Central is the northernmost point of the busiest rail route in Europe, but more than that, it's so beautiful, it really is, on bright days it spills with light. What an awful thing to be happening.
The world would be a better place if people read more books
You bastards made the first five minutes of UP and you expect us to believe youβre worried about the audience needing therapy?
What's worse than using 'content' to describe artistic work?
Using the term 'content industry' to describe basically all art.
Catching up with Six Nations rugby. The difference in the choices broadcasters make during game downtime is astounding.
ITV: half screen taken up by stupid ad
BBC: Sam Warburton pulls out PowerPoint presentation of first half stats.
I found this deeply reassuring
Thrilled to see HELL'S HEART by @quicunquevult.bsky.social on @bookriot.bsky.social's list of The Most Anticipated Queer Books of 2026 π πββοΈ
I promise you are not ready for this
I dropped out of high school, gained a huge amount of often difficult life experience, then went to community college, and now I'm a professor in a prestigious university. There HAS TO BE A PLACE for non-traditional students. www.theguardian.com/education/20...
The Poet Laureate of the UK is famous for his translation of St Gawain and the Green Knight, and Kym once got up on stage, looked him straight in the eye, and then performed this.
Unsurprisingly enough, every time they've encountered each other since, he's remembered them.
Okay so I was so stunned and excited that I completely missed the intro page that you signed π
Ooops. π
never too old :)
@garethlpowell.bsky.social Got my Starbright copy of Jitterbug today and it is SO BEAUTIFUL.
Have you seen it??
Thank you so much!
May I ask where you're reading them? This sounds really fascinating and it'd be nice to learn about the names/stories rather than just recite/memorize them...
Threads thread: thriller_instinct 3d Is it okay to bully 40 and 50 year olds who are on social media just for being on it, cuz like why are you here - 254 Q 3.1K G 28 746 corporateash 18h β’β’β’ My ICQ UIN is 7231680. That number is burned into my consciousness. I inadvertently learned that you could see private conversations in public chat rooms when using Telnet instead of a browser on GeoCities. I can tell you the difference in audible dial-up handshakes between 1200, 2400, 14.4 kbps modems. I needed a edu email address to join Facebook after my university was admitted. We were here at the beginning. We made social media. You wouldn't be in my Top 8. I have usernames older than you. 852 Q62 G6 72
βI have usernames older than you.β.
Holy shit
unembarrassed enthusiasm about learning new things is genuinely the best way to live