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Brian Mackenwells @mackenwells.bsky.social · 2d

Oh that's *lovely*

Brian Mackenwells @mackenwells.bsky.social · 3d

Miss Piggy would make a great Countess Gertrude.

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Brian Mackenwells @mackenwells.bsky.social · 3d

I like this reading - it sort of tracks with Steerpike starting off as something the castle has never really seen (someone who doesn't care about the social order), who then becomes a grotesque just like the rest of them by his end. He gets absorbed by gormenghast

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Chris Baldie @chrisbaldie.bsky.social · Sep 16

We're almost there.

Why not download issue 1 for free. Dip your toe in the icy waters of Foran 4. Explore a new world...
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/hnvyx...

Then back the kickstarter here!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/chr...

Who knows... when it ends tomorrow, maybe the world will be a brighter place

A red/pink background has a mockup of the "Space Captain: Captain of Space" book. The words "16 Hours To Go" take up most of the space, with a green banner below saying "On Kickstarter Now"

A simple graphic with a mockup of the first issue of Space Captain hovering on the page and some text saying "download issue 1 for free" "taste. See if you like it. there's no downside. it's free!"

An inner page of the space Captain comics. It shows a zoomed out image of an ice planet. We slowly pan in on the surface. We are shown desolate icy landscapes and long dead animal skeletons.
A long figure walks through the icy fields.

The first panel reads “Foran 4”.
The second panel reads “somewhere between Foran 3 and Foran 5”
The last panel reads “not that anyone cares”.

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Brian Mackenwells @mackenwells.bsky.social · Sep 10

Wait, mesmerism is an eponym en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_M...

Franz Mesmer - Wikipedia

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Rev Darren Jalland @oldmacharrev.bsky.social · Sep 9

This has surprised me as much as hearing tonight that Tennessee Williams only died in 1983, meaning he was alive at the same time as Serena and Venus, the other tennisy Williams

Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · Sep 9

a thing I have just discovered that feels utterly wrong is that Arthur Miller only died in 2005. he could have seen Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. he could have seen Donnie Darko!

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · Sep 1

I feel like it's hard to get across to my English pals that if the Taoiseach **made a point of insisting to the press** that they put Irish flags all over their house, and made sure to 'always' sit by one in their office, then they would immediately, and forever, be tainted as a massive weird freak.

The National @scotnational.bsky.social · Sep 1

NEW: Keir Starmer has said he hangs the English flag in his home and 'always sits front of a Union Jack'

He told the BBC: 'I'm very encouraging of flags. I think they're patriotic and a great symbol of our nation.'

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Alom Shaha @alomshaha.bsky.social · Aug 28

Publication day for “About Time”! It seems to have got the horology world very excited (see review below). I hope some of you might take a look to learn about something so absolutely central to our existence - you literally can’t imagine it not existing, because without time, there’d be no thought

About Time — How Two Writers Made The Most Elusive Concept Kid-Friendly

✓ Chris Antzoulis highlights About Time by Rebecca Struthers and Alom Shaha ✓ A wonderfully engaging children's book on horology and more! ✓

www.fratellowatches.com

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False Knees @falseknees.bsky.social · Aug 27

A scene of destruction; a city's downtown lays in smouldering ruin, skyscrapers crumbling, fires creating toxic smoke. A colossal mechanical robin stands in the middle of this mayhem. The machine leans forward with a hydraulic "VVVVRT" and exhaust shoots out of its neck with a "PSSHHT!". In the interior of this horrible mechanism we see a robin in the command centre, pausing and looking away from its module. Two more robins wait in pregnant pause, all wearing headsets. There is a poster hung that reads "WORK SAFELY" and features a bird wearing a hardhat. Another begins "you don't have to be CRAZY to work here but..." and is cut off by the frame of the image. We see the captain of the vessel, in a captain's hat, pause before commanding "Full power to thrusters". In the final panel, the mecharobin is blasting forward with immense jet engines that have emerged out of each side of the machine. Entire buildings are blown apart in its wake. The target of this war machine is a giant earth worm which is laying waste to the city in the foreground. It seems surprised at this maneuver of the robins.

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Anthony Clark @nedroid.com · Aug 26

A jury of my peers? TWELVE murderers?!

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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · Aug 23

For deeply silly reasons, I need to find a scientist who specializes in magnet stuff. If you are such an individual and would be up for talking about superheroes on a podcast, I would love a word with you.

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Brian Mackenwells @mackenwells.bsky.social · Aug 22

I say "BUILD your own atom storage box!" whenever the opportunity arises

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Brian Mackenwells @mackenwells.bsky.social · Aug 18

I STRONGLY urge you to back this. Space Captain: Captain of Space is a fantastic comic, full of humanity and heart, I love it so much. Also a chance to pick up a copy of We Said Goodbye To Gravity, also a big rec from me (I haven't read the others on offer, but I'll bet they're real good too)

Chris Baldie @chrisbaldie.bsky.social · Aug 18

Hey the new Kickstarter is live!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/chr...

Physical book is £18
Digital book is £12

That's it for main tiers. Keeping it super simple to make things easier at the fulfilment stage. Feel free to add some digital rewards on though if you like!

The title reads "Physical book" with a mockup of how the comic front cover and inside pages look like. Below this image is the information "242 pages of story • Perfect bound"

The title reads "Digital book" with a mockup of how the comic looks on an iPad screen. Below this image is the information "242 pages of story • PDF file format"

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splendidland🌱 @splendid.land · Aug 15

flaming moe's

lenny is sat with homer at moe's with some pokemon cards scattered across the bar.
Lenny: hey whatcha got there homer?
Homer: oh i don't know... it's some crap the boy is into these days
Barney: hey! moe! this one looks like you!
Moe then snatches the card.
Moe: what? gimme that! i oughta sue the hell outta-
Moe then contrmplates the Magmar card, and finds recognition within it.

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Chris Schweizer @ NYCC A-28 @schweizercomics.bsky.social · Aug 1

It's Swiss Independence Day!
Here's a drawing of William Tell, the retired country crossbowman & Swiss folk hero who, in 1307, was, as a cruel jest by his captors, given the chance to save himself & his young son from execution if he could shoot an apple off his son's head at an absurd distance. 1/

Painted watercolor of a man with a crossbow in a red cloak

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · Jul 21

15) We should improve society by responding to every declaration of "Cringe!" with "Shut up, coward."

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Jaunty Art @jaunty.art · Jul 19

Eadweard Muybridge: Animal Locomotion: An Electro-Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movement 1872-1885

An illustration I did on a cat being a cat version of Eadweard Muybridge: Animal Locomotion: An Electro-Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movement 1872-1885

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Brian Mackenwells @mackenwells.bsky.social · Jul 18

Ah, wonderful!

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Emily McGovern @emilyscartoons.bsky.social · Jul 13

Up Corcaigh 🤙

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · Jul 1

A favourite variation was one I contrived for @thefence.bsky.social in 2020, re: Jeff Bezos' then wealth of $177bn.

"Iago first said 'Put money in thy purse’ at the premiere of Othello on Nov 1st 1604. You'd only need to put $1.1 million in said purse every single day since to match Bezos’ total".

Philip Bump @pbump.com · Jul 1

Given the Mamdani discourse, I wrote a bit about billionaires. If you were given $100 a day and aimed to have as much wealth as the world’s billionaires, you’d have had to have started about when animals first developed the ability to breathe oxygen.
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Learning Laser @learninglaser.bsky.social · Jun 25

Illuminated comics are always great, this one particularly so. Enjoy! I didn't clip my fav panel because it's a spoiler, but it's only ten pages so you can get there and enjoy it yourself!