Maybe 😆
He is a good friend who is definitely not about to eat anyone he—

Friend!

Sometimes, what matters most is not the light or the dark, but the in-between moment.

INKTOBER 2025
Day 11 - Sting

#Inktober #Inktober2025 #Sketch #ink #Art #Day10 #Sting

I cannot stress this strongly enough: Support your local theatre, café, bookstore, bakery, and library. We breathe life into these places when we support them. They need us, and more importantly, we need them.

Minute Cryptic now make weekly donations of $1000 to Alzheimer’s Research Australia 💙

Minute Cryptic - 11 October, 2025
"Brunette’s first two AirPods Pro lost in hair, possibly?" (6)
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🏆 1 hints – 1 under the community par (64,213 solvers so far).
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Ai-generated anything, really, but the whole “let’s use this tech to make fake beautiful women” thing particularly gets under my skin. Anyway. Go outside and look at the sky. It’s beautiful, you know.

Apropos of nothing, if you turn up in my mentions yelling obnoxiously about something and you have an Ai-generated woman as your profile pic, I probably will block you, yes.

Le Guin wrote this at a very particular time, and I understand why it leans the way it does.

I don’t think, however, that we need to throw out deep irrational wisdom and knowledge of nature with the bathwater, so to speak. A little more of that might be just what the world needs, actually.

Ahead of tomorrow's World Mental Health Day, @laurenwrites.bsky.social caught up with @leemurraywriter.bsky.social & @davejeffery.bsky.social, editors of Flame Tree anthology This Way Lies Madness, to chat about stigmas & how horror can actually help us.

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How it started ⬆️
How it’s going ⬇️

Five years ago today (awww) 🧡

Louise V Durham, stained glass and driftwood sculpture, Shoreham by Sea, UK #WomensArt

Your daily horoscope:
Today you are a page in a coloring book - feeling half finished and waiting for someone to fill you in.

It’s #WorldMentalHealthDay #WMHD and this is @mind.org.uk’s campaign 💙

Oh, is it, we hadn’t noticed 😁

One of the cartoons in my new book 'Physics for Cats' which is out now in the UK, USA, Canada, France and Germany. Order from your local bookshops or online: www.tomgauld.com/

Flash on the Borderlands LXXV: Together is Our Favorite Place to Be

“Our family doesn’t have to be perfect to be wonderful.”

The Wind Beneath, byAlex Ebenstein
They Still Haven’t Found Stevie, by Scott Weisser
Precious Darlings, by Annie Diao

Various CWs: please follow the link

It's just 28 days to WFC. PR3 has gone out and with it the news about our new MC. We are very sorry to lose Sarah Pinborough but delighted to welcome Joanne Harris.
Joanne Harris was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has written over 20 novels, published in over 50 countries.

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Yep. And, distressingly, sometimes women tacitly defend it (“oh, just the way men think” “all men are like that” “of his time”) and everyone needs to push back a bit harder against that kind of internalised attitude.

I really believe they don’t perceive women as humans equivalent to themselves, and that leads to some *extremely* dangerous thinking

As I said, oh, just a couple of hours ago…

You’ve got to ask some serious questions about men who perceive machines as people and women as things.

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.