Photo of my legs as I sit on a park bench, with my dog Tintin, a small white Maltipoo, watching in the background. My jeans are covered in muddy paw prints. 🐾
The unspoken cost of dog ownership
Photo from The Londonist showing a traditional British pillar-box confined in a small space with openings on either side with the caption “The only postbox with two, opposite openings in Britain can be found in the grounds of the Royal Hospital Chelsea. The two apertures allow both the public (outside the walls) and the pensioners (inside) to use the box when the gates are closed.”
Why isn’t this one of our main tourist attractions
Clément Oubrerie, dessinateur de la BD « Aya de Yopougon », est mort à 59 ans
Le dessinateur Clement Oubrerie
Quelle tristesse : Dargaud annonce la mort à 59 ans du dessinateur Clément Oubrerie ("Pablo" avec Julie Birmant, "Aya de Yopougon" avec Marguerite Abouet) www.instagram.com/p/DVYro6dDK2...
Back in the 1990s, I had a conversation with one of my father’s friends, and he mentioned that his grandfather was born during the Napoleonic wars
John Tyler, 10th US President, was born in 1790. His last surviving grandchild, Harrison Ruffin Tyler, died on May 25, 2025.
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🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work.
This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public.
Please spread the word.
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'Sleeping Beauty.' Evelyn Dunbar rarely exhibited her paintings and did not view them as an essential source of income; her work had, until recently all but disappeared from accounts of 20thC British art. This oil sketch shows her father taking a post lunch nap sometime in 1928.
I just had to double-check this and I hate that “unmercifully” is a word
every shot-on-video, made-with-a-camcorder horror movie that's just some teenage friend group fucking around in the woods with some fake blood and a monster mask contains more artistic merit, human joy and creative light than anything AI has ever made or will ever, ever make
After scripting all 5 issues, I started art work on my B&W, hand-lettered independent comic.
I always try to turn spite into fuel, and this is my book that will be 100% human-made, free from publisher BS, late/missing payments, nonsensical notes, & absent marketing efforts. I’m pumped.
Google suggestions to complete the words “is it possible to”: fly, read minds, be allergic to weed or have black hair
I was going to ask a question about invoicing once
ComicsPRO 2026: DC Gives an Update and Tease of more from Vertigo! #comics #comicbooks #comicspro
One of my fave short stories I've ever created, this one in tandem with the illustrious and masterful @dustinweaver.bsky.social. It's... The Adventures of Thing Thing: The Blue Cheese Affair.
I once saw a section on someone’s Pinterest account labelled “beautiful women”, and when I opened it (I’m only human) I found hundreds of photographs of Christine Lagarde
From the archive, 6 years ago independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...
If you don’t want Russian tanks inside the EU, you must ensure they are destroyed in the Donbas.
The cheapest way to defend Europe is to fund Ukraine to build the missiles and drones that are already decimating the Russian economy.
It’s not charity
Wow.
Bohumil Konečný (1918-1990)
IF YOU'RE UNEMPLOYED IT'S NOT BECAUSE THERE ISNT ANY WORK JUST LOOK AROUND: A HOUSING SHORTAGE, CRIME, POLLUTION; WE NEED BETTER SCHOOLS AND PARKS. WHATEVER OUR NEEDS, THEY ALL REQUIRE WORK. AND AS LONG AS WE HAVE UNSATISFIED NEEDS, THERE'S WORK TO BE DONE. SO ASK YOURSELE, WHAT KIND OF WORLD HAS WORK BUT NO JOBS. IT'S A WORLD WHERE WORK IS NOT RELATED TO SATISFYING OUR NEEDS, WORLD WHERE WORK IS ONLY RELATED TO SATISFYING THE PROFIT NEEDS OF BUSINESS. THIS COUNTRY WAS NOT BUILT BY THE HUGE CORPORATIONS OR GOVERNMENT BUREAUCRACIES. IT WAS BUILT BY PEOPLE WHO WORK. AND, IT IS WORKING PEOPLE WHO SHOULD CONTROL THE WORK TO BE DONE. YET, AS LONG AS EMPLOYMENT IS TIED TO SOMEBODY ELSE'S PROFITS, THE WORK WONT GET DONE.
the Black Panthers were right
Roses are red
Violets are blue
The means of production
Can be seized by you
What's so amazing about Jim Henson as a puppeteer is that he could literally be explaining that Kermit is made out of felt and ping pong balls and yet Kermit still feels alive the whole time he's doing it
a poorly drawn square cat
an orange and white cat tightly curled inside a small cardboard box, filling it perfectly into a square shape!
square
Excerpt from a vocal.media article on Donald Trump’s friendship with Liberace: “In 1985 at Trump Tower, Jackson took the second bedroom in Liberace's suite for a few weeks. The fact that Liberace and Michael Jackson were actually roommates, albeit for a short time, in Trump Tower is certainly stranger than even fiction would have it.”
This approaches the weirdness of Samuel Beckett driving André the Giant to school in his truck
An old friend of mine touched on the subject in a review he wrote for the TLS years ago. I can’t remember the context, but as he put it, “it has become quite common practice to verb a noun”. The editor cut it out. (3/3)
I have mixed feelings about this practice. I always quite liked the use of “Pride” as a verb, as in “to attend Gay Pride”, not least because of the way it conjugates: “we didn’t Pride this year, but we Prode last year”. I think it’s fallen into desuetude, though. (2/3)
I just had a heart attack and died (got better) when I accidentally saw some Winter Olympics coverage and heard a BBC announcer use the word “podium” as a verb: “… but the question is, can she podium?” I looked it up, and apparently it’s something we’ve been doing since the 90s. (1/3)
it really sucks that “enjoying stuff is weird and gay and means you’re a GIRL” infiltrated food culture and now a bunch of alleged manly men have undiagnosed eating disorders they’re too prideful to get help for.
For every annoying vegan I've seen on the net, I've seen 50 people complaining about the existence of vegans
