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jinty comixminx wildebeest the third

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sewing and comics, comix and sewing. Reading and silliness. Getting more hair-trigger at blocking transphobes and reporting hate

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jinty comixminx wildebeest the third @comixminx.bsky.social · Mar 23

I see some other people doing ongoing threads of stuff they listen to or have read; seems like a good thing, share knowledge of good stuff and enjoyment of what’s out there. Here’s something I’ve just finished:

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jinty comixminx wildebeest the third @comixminx.bsky.social · 2m

Have you watched the movie biopic on Netflix? worth it!

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 10h

An astonishingly large crowd!
Chicago

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jinty comixminx wildebeest the third @comixminx.bsky.social · 16m

youtu.be/rUE9vqW71PY I found this which is very explanatory and clear, and translates concepts, context, and at least bits of songs

Ney Matogrosso: Brazil’s Wildest Icon – A Rebel, A Visionary, A Force of Nature

YouTube video by Lost Samba

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Nine @jinxremoving.bsky.social · 3h

Fantastic interview by @patrickfreyne.bsky.social with Dr Mohammed Abu Mughessib on surviving two years in Gaza under Israeli attack. He is now in Ireland, a country I couldn’t live in due to the housing crisis - I hope he has better luck so his family can join him www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

Leaving Gaza for Ireland: My soul is there. My memories are there. My cat is there

Dr Mohammed Abu Mughessib, who has lived in Gaza for 25 years, has been accepted for an MSF advisory job based in Ireland

www.irishtimes.com

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Stephanie Burt @notquitehydepark.bsky.social · 1h

THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS

El Sargento García @elsargentogarcia.bsky.social · 10h

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To the Editor:
I am one of these so-called profoundly autistic people this article describes. I cannot utter meaningful speech, and as a result, I was branded for years as someone with an intellectual disability and an I.Q. of 40. All this time, however, I understood everything that was going on around me. I just could not show it to others because of my deranged relationship with my own body.
I am concerned about the creation of a separate category, called profound autism, for those of us with the most severe disabilities.
There are real differences between the sort of autism that I have and so-called Asperger's syndrome. But it does not help us at all to impose a hierarchy of lower and higher functioning. We need to figure out how to tap into the skills and insights of those of us who cannot talk, who make up anywhere from 25 percent to 40 percent of the autistic community, depending on the estimate.
For me, the way out of this dilemma was learning to communicate by typing. I suddenly went from being seen as intellectually impaired to taking college classes. I was never low-functioning, and neither are my autistic brothers and sisters without the ability to speak. I was just misjudged and ignored, and I fear that my fate will be the fate of many others termed low functioning in this new schema.
Jason Jacoby Lee
New York

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jinty comixminx wildebeest the third @comixminx.bsky.social · 9h

Would it not be Diwali fireworks rather than bonfire night ones?

jinty comixminx wildebeest the third @comixminx.bsky.social · 12h

and the t-shirts bought from the Mongolian Yak Hair sock stall

jinty comixminx wildebeest the third @comixminx.bsky.social · 12h

If I’d known, I would have turned up with me large bag o Turkish delight bought from a turkish food stall

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jinty comixminx wildebeest the third @comixminx.bsky.social · 12h

They are gorgeous indeed! They are real physical books I take it? not mockups or similar?

jinty comixminx wildebeest the third @comixminx.bsky.social · 13h

I completely missed this - it seems to have been a rather busy day in the town centre, with Matriculation, an International Food Fair, a poster and houseplant sale (in the same location as the far right demo and the trans rights counter demo?!), and the usual tourist crowds.

Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 13h

Crowds gathered in Oxford's Bonn Square today to demonstrate both for and against trans rights. The ‘Let Women Speak (LWS) movement had organised a demonstration, fronted by anti-trans activist Posie Parker with around 30 protesters.
[📷 Roger Close. ]

Posie Parker (she/her) in all red under a Union flag speaking to crowds.

Platform boots with 'single sex facility, women only' sticker on them

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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 13h

Counterportesters chanted 'Trans rights, women's rights, one struggle, one fight' and 'Posie Parker you can't hide, you have fascists on your side'

signs saying 'no more dead trans kids' and 'women against the far right'

Signs saying 'support trans witches;' and 'why not let all women speak?'

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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 16h

My point is that we are engaged in a fundamentally moral argument about how society ought to be, not a factual argument about how reality is. I am very wise. Now, if you'll excuse me, I forgot to bring underpants and socks on a trip to Glasgow so I have to go and buy some.

Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 18h

It seems pointless to fact check someone saying "curry isn't proper British food like fish and chips", just like it's futile to correct someone saying "there are no pronouns in the Bible". They haven't made a mistake. What they're saying is, "Britain is a white country".

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jinty comixminx wildebeest the third @comixminx.bsky.social · 18h

both getting plenty of screen time. Loved it and would watch another like it, no bother. I suspect I have seen it once before but entirely forgotten it, works rather well like that because it feels familiar without that getting in the way somehow.

jinty comixminx wildebeest the third @comixminx.bsky.social · 18h

Another weekend and another movie night at home; last week it was a surprising corker (The 13th Warrior) bsky.app/profile/comi... and last night it was another good un: ‘Gosforth Park’. Ticked all the boxes: murder mystery, star-studded cast of thespians, gorgeous location, upstairs and downstairs

jinty comixminx wildebeest the third @comixminx.bsky.social · 8d

Watched and enjoyed old film The Thirteenth Warrior: R had fond memories of it but hadn’t watched it in ages, I’d never seen it. Complete nonsense but very watchable indeed: pretty, well-told, plenty of myffic bits, doesn’t outstay its welcome, good soundtrack, nice pace to the storytelling.

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jinty comixminx wildebeest the third @comixminx.bsky.social · 18h

@carlaspeedmcneil.bsky.social you might like him or at least his vibe, I suspect

jinty comixminx wildebeest the third @comixminx.bsky.social · 3d

I’m finding it quite hard to find good images to add here, partly because there is just so much which is from the film rather than the actual images from the time. But here is a blurry screengrab of the original band he was in, Secos e Molhados, singing “Latin Blood" on TV, in dictatorship times.

Sideways view of Ney Matogrosso in the band Secos e Molhados. This is in 1973; Ney is wearing full on thick white face makeup with striking black designs around his eyes and black dots underneath the eyes on his cheekbones. His lips are black with the same makeup as his eyes and the dots. The effect is more First Peoples than Kiss but it is a bit of a mix (though the band Secos e Molhados did come before Kiss they would have you know). Ney has long flight feathers in his hair, stuck up like a headdress; and a collar around his neck that might be leather. Behind him out of focus is another band member, with simpler stylised white face paint plus a beard and long hair.

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 21h

The long awaited time lapse of how i wrap my tentacle pots for shipping! Lots of bubblewrap around all the limbs then layered up to make a big ball and then secured in the box with paper all around!

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jinty comixminx wildebeest the third @comixminx.bsky.social · 20h

:-D

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Nola Pfau @ohnola.bsky.social · 1d

An easy one: Any comics film adaptation that exists without the original creator being able to pay off their house is a moral failure

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 2d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

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jinty comixminx wildebeest the third @comixminx.bsky.social · 21h

are they real people? I get random followers that seem off and then I look and mostly block.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

giant statues typically take about eight years to build, a timeframe that I simply do not believe these men are capable of working on.

◥◤CDFI, Frankenstein @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 1d

Conservative-leaning tech investors are racing to build a new American colossus, and they want something much, much bigger than the Statue of Liberty. Meet the new monuments men of the tech right and their plans for statue-maxing:

www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

America’s Tech Right Is Obsessed With Building Giant Statues

With proposals for a 450-foot statue of Prometheus on Alcatraz and a 650-foot George Washington, MAGA adherents are racing to build America’s largest statue.

www.bloomberg.com

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Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.social · 1d

Football matches had become so violent and unsafe in England by the mid-1980s that attendance was dropping rapidly; it seemed quite possible to imagine the game dwindling away entirely. Jenrick (born 1982) is fantasizing about a world he neither remembers nor understands.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

Does Robert Jenrick even realise English clubs were banned from playing in any European football competitions after May 1985 for the rest of the decade, returning only in 1990/91, after Heysel disaster, as UEFA + our government felt fans couldn't be policed safely travelling away?

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Lucy Knisley @lucyknisley.bsky.social · 1d

Announcing The THINGS Project!

www.lucyknisley.com/things

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Evan Dorkin @evandorkin.bsky.social · 1d

Block fascists. There's no reasoning or arguing with them, you might as well debate with spoiled leftovers. Don't let them bait you. Block fast, block often, block fascists. Let their accounts mummify.

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Pete's notes & links @peteashton.com · 1d

People significantly younger than me and/or who have been paying attention to music this last decade, what is this sort of music called? www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkRd...

City On The Map- Donn Eclipse

YouTube video by Weezyy

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Zachary Schrag @zacharyschrag.bsky.social · 1d

"I followed a piece of advice from one of my dissertation committee members, Zach Schrag at George Mason: whenever you stumble on a new idea in the archives, file it away in a dedicated folder on your computer and come back to it later."

www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/b...

Born-Again Boogie: A Q&A with Eric Gonzaba

The recipient of the Western History Association's 2025 Arrington-Prucha Prize recognizing the best article on American western religious history tells us about his research into evangelical Christian...

www.ucpress.edu

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