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Aieee-Iain Clark

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(He/Him) Fan artist / 6x Hugo loser / Designer of the 2024 Hugo Trophy. Vocal about diversity, inclusion, feminism, trans allyship; tell me if I get it wrong. No AI art. https://iainjclarkart.com

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Aieee-Iain Clark @iainjclarkart.com · Nov 13

Some thoughts about gender. Be kind, it's sort of personal and very well meaning. iainjclarkart.com/2024/11/13/o...

On gender

“Cis dude talks about gender” alert. I’ve been thinking a lot about gender recently. I mean a lot. This is not a coming out post. I’m still a straight cis dude. But the more…

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Aieee-Iain Clark @iainjclarkart.com · 1h

I'm currently getting through a book every 2 or 3 weeks which is *so* much better than the last few years. Mainly by only reading things where the first page grabs me. But even so I feel intense reluctance whenever starting a book that I have to push past.

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Aieee-Iain Clark @iainjclarkart.com · 1h

I never learn tv character names either. It's just "that tall person" and "that shorter blond person". See also: real life.

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Aieee-Iain Clark @iainjclarkart.com · 1h

Opening credits include the incredibly inelegant line: "From now on, like your parents were, you are the secret force of Pole Position". Honestly it bothered me every time I heard it.

POLE POSITION Cartoon Intro | Classic 80s Action Cartoon Theme Song

YouTube video by Cartoons

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Aieee-Iain Clark @iainjclarkart.com · 1h

Yeah I just have a fuzzy placeholder for their appearance most of the time. Details appear and disappear as required by the text!

Aieee-Iain Clark @iainjclarkart.com · 1h

Breakfast TV tells me Tony Hadley and Tony Christie are doing a new cover of Avenues and Alleyways.

Me: "That's the theme tune to something...."

a man in a yellow shirt is sitting in a chair holding a cup and pointing

Alt: Leonardo Di Caprio sits up in his char, leans forwards and points.

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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 1h

Taking on Elon Musk should be an open goal in British politics.

Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 1h

Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, aka ”Tommy Robinson,” says Tesla CEO Elon Musk is paying his legal bills.

Robinson says Musk is paying his legal costs in counterterrorism trial

Far-right activist accused of refusing to give his mobile phone pin to police

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Aieee-Iain Clark @iainjclarkart.com · 1h

Love that! (Also big Target Doctor Who vibes from the image with the little quote underneath.)

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Aieee-Iain Clark @iainjclarkart.com · 1h

I don't so much remember character names as the opening letter, the shape of the word and an indistinct mental sound glyph that goes with it.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 20h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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James Alistair Henry @jamesbluecat.bsky.social · 4h

All literary novels should have little b+w illustrations every few pages to remind you what the characters look like.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 20h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 1h

TV THAT TIME FORGOT: Defenders Of The Earth (King Features/Marvel, 1986)

Newspaper strip-derived Flash Gordon, Mandrake The Magician, The Phantom and Lothar - who was, crucially, 'armed with his powers' - team up to, well, defend the Earth, invarrably from Ming The Merciless.

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Aieee-Iain Clark @iainjclarkart.com · 1h

Opening credits include the incredibly inelegant line: "From now on, like your parents were, you are the secret force of Pole Position". Honestly it bothered me every time I heard it.

POLE POSITION Cartoon Intro | Classic 80s Action Cartoon Theme Song

YouTube video by Cartoons

youtu.be

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Aieee-Iain Clark @iainjclarkart.com · 1h

Share a cartoon from the past that kids today probably never heard of.

Pole Position: A group of cartoon characters including a woman with big black hair and neckerchief, a cure girl withnred hair in bunches, a dude driving a hi tech car in a helmet, and some kind of weird grey marsupial.

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Aieee-Iain Clark @iainjclarkart.com · 2h

Some books are more frictionless than others. But every time the pov changes that is new friction to overcome.

Aieee-Iain Clark @iainjclarkart.com · 2h

I have new book inertia. At the start of a book I'd rather be doing almost anything else.

By the end of a book I have book momentum. It is hard to stop.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 20h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Micah @rincewind.run · 12h

it is more important to read books you actually enjoy reading than books that are Literature

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 20h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Aieee-Iain Clark @iainjclarkart.com · 11h

My colleagues may start to wonder why I'm posting extremely long messages consisting only of the number 6.

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Fagatha Ghostie @joelnb.bsky.social · 23h

Don't make me tap the Robert Pattinson quote, Leto.

“I always say about people who do method acting, you only ever see people do the method when they’re playing an assholes,” Pattinson said in an interiew with Variety in November. “You never see someone being lovely to everyone while they’re really deep in character.”

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Amberley Museum @amberleymuseum.bsky.social · 5d

This is Ada Lovelace, daughter of Lord Byron and considered to be the first person to write a computer programme which was for Babbage's Analytical Machine. She died in 1842
In her honour, today is Ada Lovelace Day and is all about encouraging women and girls in mathematics, science and engineering.

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ooOOOoona McCormack 🎃 @unamccormack.bsky.social · 3d

A privilege to speak about what “The Tombs of Atuan” means to me. Launch of “The Word for World” book and exhibition of the maps of Ursula Le Guin.

Architectural Association, Bedford Square, London: banners for The Word for World exhibition.

Architectural Association, Bedford Square, London: display for The Word for World exhibition.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 2d

This week on the blog: More Peasants!

This week, we're modeling the full(ish) structure of women's labor in a pre-industrial peasant household, very roughly assessing the work required for textiles, farming, cooking, cleaning, childcare, etc.

Now with pie chart!

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Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IVe: The No-Rest Of It

This is the fifth dish of the fourth course of our series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc, IVd) looking at the lives of pre-modern peasant farmers, who made up a majority of all of the humans who…

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Aieee-Iain Clark @iainjclarkart.com · 13h

I am trying not to sound like a 24 carat nerd when I say it is SO GOOD.

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Aieee-Iain Clark @iainjclarkart.com · 14h

Brilliant film. Great location filming and a Nigel Kneale story.

Aieee-Iain Clark @iainjclarkart.com · 14h

I usually just say "" i.e blank if there isn't a match.

xlookup(cell, match column, result column, if false)

e.g xlookup(A46,C:C,Y:Y,"")

looks up the contents of A46 in column C and returns a result from column Y, or blank if it doesnt find anything.

Aieee-Iain Clark @iainjclarkart.com · 14h

It's relatively new. I only found out a couple of years back and I haven't touched vlookup since!

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Aieee-Iain Clark @iainjclarkart.com · 14h

Do you have a minute to talk about our lord and saviour, "XLOOKUP"?

It's VLOOKUP but you specify the column to match and the column with the results so it doesn't matter what order the columns are in or how far apart they are.

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