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Astronomical optics, get 'em while they're cold

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To Sherlock Holmes she is always *the* Manto

07.03.2026 15:09 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Enjoying the French pundit's giant yellow clown gloves #therugby

07.03.2026 15:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It's a shibboleth in Ireland

Careful now

07.03.2026 11:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
St Etienne, Bob and Sarah in dark grey, Pete in brown, yellow-orange background

St Etienne, Bob and Sarah in dark grey, Pete in brown, yellow-orange background

Frankie Howerd in brown, Wendy Richard and Paul McCartney in black, yellow background

Frankie Howerd in brown, Wendy Richard and Paul McCartney in black, yellow background

Every time I see that picture

06.03.2026 10:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Do you want San Gimignano? Because this is how you get San Gimignano

02.03.2026 15:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

BTW for anyone about to pick me up on terminology I would encourage them to RTFA

02.03.2026 15:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Ireland’s Famine Follies

www.amusingplanet.com/2017/10/irel...

Ireland has famine follies - excuses to pay people for busy work

On a grander scale the Hoover Dam is also sort of this

02.03.2026 15:21 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

The Ones Who Request Evacuation From Omelas Because No One Told Them It Was In A Warzone

02.03.2026 10:19 πŸ‘ 34 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Fun fact: Gert Neumann is older than Gert Altmann

02.03.2026 11:16 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Alle Menschen werden NΓΌtter

02.03.2026 11:08 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The Red Turtle. This film will emotionally wring you out like a wet flannel

02.03.2026 00:29 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The ones who run away from omalos

01.03.2026 23:48 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

40 YEARS AGO TODAY: Hale & Pace host Saturday Live, featuring early Stavros, SNL's A Whitney Brown, Jeremy Hardy, the Dangerous Brothers in a torture chamber and our hosts singing See You Later Alligator with Madness in front of inflatable elephants. www.youtube.com/watc...

01.03.2026 19:00 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The extinction event at the 70s/80s boundary ended this bizarre profusion and left only the dominant forms we see today

01.03.2026 00:14 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Spare a thought for how foolish Gianni Infantino feels today

28.02.2026 14:41 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

As someone who's more familiar with Radio 5Live than Canadian politics, this fairly startled me for a sec

28.02.2026 14:40 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Herge art from Tintin: The Crab with the Golden Claws. A group of Arabs get up from some sand dunes and run away.

Herge art from Tintin: The Crab with the Golden Claws. A group of Arabs get up from some sand dunes and run away.

There are many ways to suggest motion in comics. A subtle one is to place a group of figures that resemble each other in a left-to-right pattern, each showing a progression of movement.

Hergé has a group of Arabs getting up and retreating, but the reader unconsciously sees it as a single figure. 🧡

28.02.2026 13:12 πŸ‘ 54 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 3
Gary Cooper looking confident in High Noon (1952)

Gary Cooper looking confident in High Noon (1952)

"I'm wearing my wife's knickers"

28.02.2026 13:16 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
28.02.2026 13:12 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

They'll shut down all of the smaller lines

27.02.2026 12:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It is! I knew something was nagging me. And the font is specifically Windows 10 BSoD

Possibly a Freudian slip from a former software engineer

27.02.2026 12:07 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

As for the content, it's a bold strategy Cotton. She's the embodiment of John Major's maxim that "when your back's against the wall, you turn round and fight"

27.02.2026 11:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

White text on royal blue?

I did once code up a user interface that Logica had specified, so that may be her training coming out

27.02.2026 11:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Fesshole OP: at long last I have created the murder government from classic novel Don't Create the Murder Government

27.02.2026 11:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It's nice they all look so down to earth and normal in civvies, except Farnaby

27.02.2026 11:16 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Lincoln Jopp is surely an artisan cheese

27.02.2026 11:13 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I think we all read this in a raspy Bavarian accent

27.02.2026 11:09 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

"Thanks, I work out" (difficult maths problems on my calculighter)

27.02.2026 10:59 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
A Bloom County strip featuring the Banana Jr personal computer. The Banana Jr achieves sentience and walks purposefully off until its plug is pulled from the socket and it falls down dead

A Bloom County strip featuring the Banana Jr personal computer. The Banana Jr achieves sentience and walks purposefully off until its plug is pulled from the socket and it falls down dead

27.02.2026 10:31 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0