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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 · 1h

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

jinty comixminx wildebeest the third @comixminx.bsky.social · 1h

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 · 1h

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

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

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 · 3h

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 · 3h

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 · 6h

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 · 8h

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 · 8h

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 · 8h

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 · 7d

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 · 8h

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

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

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 · 10h

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 · 10h

:-D

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Nola Pfau @ohnola.bsky.social · 22h

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 · 11h

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 · 21h

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 · 23h

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 · 21h

Announcing The THINGS Project!

www.lucyknisley.com/things

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Evan Dorkin @evandorkin.bsky.social · 17h

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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jinty comixminx wildebeest the third @comixminx.bsky.social · 1d

Presumably RuPaul for a start

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1d

A small bit of bright news for trans men in the UK and their right to bodily and reproductive autonomy. The judge's opinion is an excellent read!

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d

A must read blog about a landmark decision for gender recognition, just published by the High Court today.

Once again, @goodlawproject.bsky.social paid all the costs. goodlaw.social/78iw

WIN: Victory in landmark case on gender recognition

High Court rules that a trans man cannot be denied a Gender Recognition Certificate because he is trying to conceive, in an important win supported by Good Law Project.

goodlaw.social

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jinty comixminx wildebeest the third @comixminx.bsky.social · 1d

Have borrowed a copy from work now. It is published by OUP UK so is primarily UK and only secondarily US (though of course it's all global now anyway). There's one other book in the series that looks rather interesting: Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea by John Plotz (pub Aug 2026).

jinty comixminx wildebeest the third @comixminx.bsky.social · 1d

So, what is this Pharmadoctor anyway - is it the private system that is available to you locally for booking a private covid jab, or is it something that the NHS uses in Wales? It does sound rubbish, my sympathies.

jinty comixminx wildebeest the third @comixminx.bsky.social · 1d

Oh actually this sounds right up my street, I will look for it nearer the time. I enjoyed 47 Borders though to be fair I don't think any of the specific borders have stuck in my mind, it was a cracking read though.

Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 1d

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The book tracks the ideas and inventions that enabled humanity to become, by the early 21st century, a majority urban species for the first time, and looks at how essential infrastructure of modern life – the innovations that we barely even notice, but without which our world would fall apart – happened.

According to the publisher, Elledge writes with his characteristic wit and boundless curiosity, and takes readers on a "fascinating and often surprising tour of the ideas and technologies that made modernity possible".

Elledge is a New Statesman and New World  columnist, a regular on the podcasts Oh God, What Now? and the now defunct Paper Cuts, and is a contributor to the Big Issue, the Guardian and a number of other publications. He was previously an assistant editor at the New Statesman, where he created and ran its urbanism-focused CityMetric site, spending six years writing about cities, maps and borders and hosting the Skylines podcast. He has written three books, including bestseller A History of the World in 47 Borders.

He said: "We all accept the world we’re born into, with roads and trains and parks and central-heating systems, as just the natural order of things. But it isn’t – people had to create it all, and mostly within the past 200 years. This book – the one I’ve been wanting to write for many years, and wanting to read since I was the sort of kid who had a tube map on his wall – will explain how that happened, and ask what becoming a primarily urban species has done to our brains."

Clarke said: "Jonn’s writing is an absolute joy to read. He looks at the world from a different angle to the rest of us and sees things that the rest of just miss completely. He casts these unique observations onto the page with such passion and intellectual curiosity – one can’t help but be utterly captivated. It’s been a delight seeing so many people enjoy 47 Borders – and those readers are going to love The World as We Built It."

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Philip Purser-Hallard @purserhallard.com · 1d

Is the prime minister's job these days just to attack private organisations for doing anything the most unhinged voices in the right-wing press might construe as critical of Israel? Because we already have the most unhinged voices in the right-wing press for that.

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