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Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · 2h

THIS MOMENT DESERVES A BAFTA #CelebrityTraitors

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andrewwyld.bsky.social @andrewwyld.bsky.social · 4h

It's obviously a stunning creation. I've barely had a chance to skim it so far though!

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andrewwyld.bsky.social @andrewwyld.bsky.social · 4h

I plan to sit and read it a bit later

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andrewwyld.bsky.social @andrewwyld.bsky.social · 4h

As a matter of fact

The Word For World: The Maps Of Ursula K LeGuin

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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 12h

UK BASED TEACHERS (& maybe elsewhere in the world, not sure how it works worldwide) if you need a fun way to help with KS2 science/geography lessons that isn't This Awful Slop, there is a whole series of Horrible Science here! www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis... Ep7 has a Taylor Swift Water Cycle song!

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andrewwyld.bsky.social @andrewwyld.bsky.social · 12h

Well that's just, like, your life and opinions, man

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 12h

You don't need to have read it to get the joke

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Cartoon. Venn diagram of two circles intersecting. The left circle contains the text 'Tristram Beer', the right circle contains the text 'Tristram lemonade'. There is no text in the intersection, leaving the reader to fill in the gap.

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andrewwyld.bsky.social @andrewwyld.bsky.social · 12h

Quite apart from the bisic mastakes, why is the colour rendering always so suggestive of a fluorescent lit office full of chain smokers?

Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 15h

kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 14h

Watch with @estelleh.bsky.social on No. 73, @scriblit.bsky.social on Press Gang, @jonnymorris.bsky.social on Crackerjack!, @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social on Around The World With Willy Fog and @invaderace2000.bsky.social on Trap Door.

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The Golden Age Of Children’s TV – “BBC Controlled Anarchy”

Watch with Estelle Hargraves on No. 73, Gabby Hutchinson Crouch on Press Gang, Jonny Morris on Crackerjack!, Mic Wright on Around The World With Willy Fog and Garreth Hirons on Trap Door.

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andrewwyld.bsky.social @andrewwyld.bsky.social · 13h

Of course Joel Morris has already explained this better than I just did. Should have checked!

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · Dec 15

Bill Waterson explained the restrictions that syndicates put on comics layouts so they can flog strips into different spaces (in his Calvin and Hobbes retrospective) and it’s just short of fixing the characters in the frames and putting all the vowels in for you.

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andrewwyld.bsky.social @andrewwyld.bsky.social · 13h

Bill Watterson talks about this a lot in the tenth anniversary Calvin and Hobbes book—not only are the top panels removable but the remaining panels can be shifted around. He fought hard to get a fixed Sunday strip layout, which is why the later treasuries are landscape format.

Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · Dec 15

The top row of the Peanuts Sunday strip was called the 'throw-away panel'. If there wasn't enough space in the comic section that syndicated it, the top row could be removed and the rest of the comic would still make sense without it. Schulz often used the throw-away panel for private/obscure jokes.

Peanuts On This Day @peanuts60yrsago.bsky.social · Dec 15

December 15, 1963

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andrewwyld.bsky.social @andrewwyld.bsky.social · 14h

Facteur Franck et son chat noir et blanc

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andrewwyld.bsky.social @andrewwyld.bsky.social · 14h

This led me to SpatGPT which led me to ChatGMPTE where the model runs on the movements of buses, trams and trains in the North West

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andrewwyld.bsky.social @andrewwyld.bsky.social · 14h

I suppose it's too much to hope that the LLMs will start objecting passive-aggressively to users' more outlandish sartorial choices

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andrewwyld.bsky.social @andrewwyld.bsky.social · 14h

a man in a suit and tie is sitting at a table with a plate of food and saying oh i say really

Alt: Bertie Wooster objects ineffectually to this characterisation of himself. Amiable he certainly may be, but the Wooster brain is firing smoothly on all twelve cylinders

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Olaf Falafel @ofalafel.bsky.social · 1d

Red and yellow and pink and green,
Purple and orange and blue,
I can sing the council's over-complicated recycling scheme.

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Chloe Cumming @chloecumming.bsky.social · 1d

Life drawings from last night, which will undoubtedly be restricted to protect young eyes from demon boobies. It wasn’t my best night anyhoo.

Life drawing in oil and other pastels, woman model leaning back with white highlights on the body, loosely rendered, arm across the body, reddish browns dominate

Model lying back on green blanket with lots of viridian oil pastel, larger female half Indian model, soft curvy lines, impressionistic face

Quicker, cut short study of standing model on beige paper, energetic pastel lines, indistinct head

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andrewwyld.bsky.social @andrewwyld.bsky.social · 1d

In cases where a model contradicts itself (such as saying 1995 wasn't and was thirty years ago) could this be the step in play?

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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 3d

Holy shit someone uploaded the entire stage play adaptation of the Yakuza videogame series with English subtitles and it’s glorious and 500x better than the Amazon show youtu.be/Z2Msr4si6dU?...

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andrewwyld.bsky.social @andrewwyld.bsky.social · 4d

Whither the XB-70?

Anime Herald @animeherald.com · 4d

From Anime to Transformers to Tabletop: How the VF-1 Valkyrie from Macross Became an Icon in 3 Fandoms: Caelyn Ellis explores the history of the Valkyrie VF-1, and how it became an iconic, irreplaceable part of three distinct fandoms.

#macross #transformers #battletech

From Anime to Transformers to Tabletop: How the VF-1 Valkyrie from Macross Became an Icon in 3 Fandoms

The end result of this massive tangle of licensing and legal kerfuffle is that, 42 years after it was created, there are now three distinct robots you can see on screens and buy figures of that are all, at heart, the VF-1S Super Valkyrie

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andrewwyld.bsky.social @andrewwyld.bsky.social · 4d

Actually, I wonder if this is something @xkcd.com might do—what if if you replaced all electrical power with hydraulic? I'm assuming some transmission lines take us into Niagara Falls through a straw territory!

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andrewwyld.bsky.social @andrewwyld.bsky.social · 4d

I once imagined how much hydraulic power you'd need to drive a train through a pipe the size of the overhead wire. I think you'd need liquid at a hundred atmospheres of pressure travelling at a kilometre and a half a second. Good luck getting that pipe to go round a corner though

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andrewwyld.bsky.social @andrewwyld.bsky.social · 4d

I've no idea but it's reminding me of David Lynch's, and indeed my own, preoccupation with electricity. David Lynch said he was surprised more people aren't preoccupied with it when it's such a force in our lives.

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ghost crab @crabbydaddy.bsky.social · 10d

what kind of pants do ghosts wear?

just a paranormal trousers

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · Dec 14

it's wild that R, the ubiquitous statistical computing language, was co-created by a Māori prof (Ross Ihaka) — and yet the vast majority of scientists who use R don't know

this is like inventing the toaster. possibly the largest impact of a single member of an indigenous community on modern science

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