Pangur Bán
@pangurban.bsky.social
‘Messe ocus Pangur Bán, cechtar nathar fria saindan; bíth a menmasam fri seilgg, mu menma céin im saincheirdd.’
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I thought this about Prague too. And Chernitvsi and Katowice and others… part of the story of ‘Borderlines’ is exploring how this works, even in places where extreme change has been forced on a city (usually by nationalists of one sort or another).
Banal observation, sorry, but conversations in Prague really brought home to me that while countries come and go, cities have a historical existence and character that typically is far more resilient.
November 14, 2025 at 9:07 AM
I thought this about Prague too. And Chernitvsi and Katowice and others… part of the story of ‘Borderlines’ is exploring how this works, even in places where extreme change has been forced on a city (usually by nationalists of one sort or another).
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Don’t allow tech to turn you into an un-person. Refuse to let AI make things you could produce with your own brain. Develop your mental & creative faculties. Read constantly. They want you illiterate, and nothing threatens them more than a brain that is sharp and intact.
November 13, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Don’t allow tech to turn you into an un-person. Refuse to let AI make things you could produce with your own brain. Develop your mental & creative faculties. Read constantly. They want you illiterate, and nothing threatens them more than a brain that is sharp and intact.
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"Proof that magical girls (fighting girls?) existed in the Muromachi Era"
November 13, 2025 at 7:05 PM
"Proof that magical girls (fighting girls?) existed in the Muromachi Era"
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David Bowie: Warszawa - from his 1977 album, Low; co-composed by Brian Eno; Chamberlin and Minimoog by Eno www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAD1...
Warszawa (2017 Remaster)
YouTube video by David Bowie - Topic
www.youtube.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:00 AM
David Bowie: Warszawa - from his 1977 album, Low; co-composed by Brian Eno; Chamberlin and Minimoog by Eno www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAD1...
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Right. Here's my big pitch:
Muppet James Bond
James Bond in…A Heart-Felt Goodbye
Dominic Cooper as Bond
Kermit M Frog
Mrs Moneypiggy
Beaker & Dr Bunsen HoneyQ
The agents of G.O.N.Z.O. want to kidnap the world's chickens. MI5 has a mole (Rizzo the Rat). An agent is undercover as a chef in Sweden.
Muppet James Bond
James Bond in…A Heart-Felt Goodbye
Dominic Cooper as Bond
Kermit M Frog
Mrs Moneypiggy
Beaker & Dr Bunsen HoneyQ
The agents of G.O.N.Z.O. want to kidnap the world's chickens. MI5 has a mole (Rizzo the Rat). An agent is undercover as a chef in Sweden.
December 4, 2024 at 3:35 PM
Right. Here's my big pitch:
Muppet James Bond
James Bond in…A Heart-Felt Goodbye
Dominic Cooper as Bond
Kermit M Frog
Mrs Moneypiggy
Beaker & Dr Bunsen HoneyQ
The agents of G.O.N.Z.O. want to kidnap the world's chickens. MI5 has a mole (Rizzo the Rat). An agent is undercover as a chef in Sweden.
Muppet James Bond
James Bond in…A Heart-Felt Goodbye
Dominic Cooper as Bond
Kermit M Frog
Mrs Moneypiggy
Beaker & Dr Bunsen HoneyQ
The agents of G.O.N.Z.O. want to kidnap the world's chickens. MI5 has a mole (Rizzo the Rat). An agent is undercover as a chef in Sweden.
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Fripp & Eno: The Heavenly Music Corporation - from their 1973 album, (No Pussyfooting) #RobertFripp #BrianEno vimeo.com/766274819
Fripp - Eno - The Heavenly Music Corporation .mp4
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November 10, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Fripp & Eno: The Heavenly Music Corporation - from their 1973 album, (No Pussyfooting) #RobertFripp #BrianEno vimeo.com/766274819
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I wish you success in whatever you do.
📸 It Is a Cat
📸 It Is a Cat
November 10, 2025 at 1:57 PM
I wish you success in whatever you do.
📸 It Is a Cat
📸 It Is a Cat
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I think we sometimes love certain places as they reflect what we feel, but can't say aloud. There's an old Hookland phrase – to be tulled – meaning to be caught between two worlds and at home in neither of them. I feel that a lot and I'm sure my favourite places do as well. – Martha Twilling #VOH
November 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I think we sometimes love certain places as they reflect what we feel, but can't say aloud. There's an old Hookland phrase – to be tulled – meaning to be caught between two worlds and at home in neither of them. I feel that a lot and I'm sure my favourite places do as well. – Martha Twilling #VOH
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24/7 cake vending machine in the middle of nowhere. Maximum Poland.
November 9, 2025 at 10:25 AM
24/7 cake vending machine in the middle of nowhere. Maximum Poland.
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'A black cat, without a single white hair, is a witch of the sort that brings luck to the house.'
-Samuel Adams Drake
🎨Denise Warren
-Samuel Adams Drake
🎨Denise Warren
November 9, 2025 at 6:55 PM
'A black cat, without a single white hair, is a witch of the sort that brings luck to the house.'
-Samuel Adams Drake
🎨Denise Warren
-Samuel Adams Drake
🎨Denise Warren
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I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.
November 7, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.
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"Home Office data suggests that recent immigrants are more likely to be working than British nationals and make higher wages than them."
✍️ Lauren Gilbert argues that migrants to the UK are net fiscal contributors, adding much more to the economy than they take out,
ukandeu.ac.uk/lower-migrat...
✍️ Lauren Gilbert argues that migrants to the UK are net fiscal contributors, adding much more to the economy than they take out,
ukandeu.ac.uk/lower-migrat...
Lower migration is bad news for the UK economy - UK in a changing Europe
Lauren Gilbert argues that migrants to the UK are net fiscal contributors, adding much more to the economy than they take out, and that the recent collapse in immigration will harm the UK's economic p...
ukandeu.ac.uk
November 6, 2025 at 4:52 PM
"Home Office data suggests that recent immigrants are more likely to be working than British nationals and make higher wages than them."
✍️ Lauren Gilbert argues that migrants to the UK are net fiscal contributors, adding much more to the economy than they take out,
ukandeu.ac.uk/lower-migrat...
✍️ Lauren Gilbert argues that migrants to the UK are net fiscal contributors, adding much more to the economy than they take out,
ukandeu.ac.uk/lower-migrat...
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I think this may top Enigma
November 6, 2025 at 9:49 AM
I think this may top Enigma
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Ha, this Polish saying has already been assimilated into English enough to end up in Cambridge Dictionary, first English-language dictionary other than Wiktionary to include it.
It's become popular in English in the last few years, starting mostly with its use in Orange Is the New Black in 2017
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It's become popular in English in the last few years, starting mostly with its use in Orange Is the New Black in 2017
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not my circus, not my monkeys
1. used for saying that a problem is not your responsibility, or that you have…
dictionary.cambridge.org
November 6, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Ha, this Polish saying has already been assimilated into English enough to end up in Cambridge Dictionary, first English-language dictionary other than Wiktionary to include it.
It's become popular in English in the last few years, starting mostly with its use in Orange Is the New Black in 2017
🐦🐦
It's become popular in English in the last few years, starting mostly with its use in Orange Is the New Black in 2017
🐦🐦
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A 34-year-old as a politician: My god he's like a baby. It's like they just elected an infant to be their mayor.
A 34-year-old as an athlete: You have to admire the bravery of him attempting that dunk, knowing full well the grim reaper is right behind him.
A 34-year-old as an athlete: You have to admire the bravery of him attempting that dunk, knowing full well the grim reaper is right behind him.
November 5, 2025 at 5:45 AM
A 34-year-old as a politician: My god he's like a baby. It's like they just elected an infant to be their mayor.
A 34-year-old as an athlete: You have to admire the bravery of him attempting that dunk, knowing full well the grim reaper is right behind him.
A 34-year-old as an athlete: You have to admire the bravery of him attempting that dunk, knowing full well the grim reaper is right behind him.
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Talking Heads: Once In A Lifetime - from their 1980 album, Remain In Light #DavidByrne
Co-written by Brian Eno; produced by Eno www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IsS...
Co-written by Brian Eno; produced by Eno www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IsS...
Talking Heads - Once in a Lifetime (Official Video)
YouTube video by Talking Heads
www.youtube.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Talking Heads: Once In A Lifetime - from their 1980 album, Remain In Light #DavidByrne
Co-written by Brian Eno; produced by Eno www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IsS...
Co-written by Brian Eno; produced by Eno www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IsS...
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November 5, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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The recurring thread in Norse ethos, as highlighted by myth and sagas, is that fate cannot be avoided. Called Wyrd, fate rules everyone and everything, and simply knowing fate is not enough to stop it. The Norns do not rule it, but can read fate. #FairyTaleTuesday
🖼️: A. Lewis
🖼️: A. Lewis
November 4, 2025 at 2:34 PM
The recurring thread in Norse ethos, as highlighted by myth and sagas, is that fate cannot be avoided. Called Wyrd, fate rules everyone and everything, and simply knowing fate is not enough to stop it. The Norns do not rule it, but can read fate. #FairyTaleTuesday
🖼️: A. Lewis
🖼️: A. Lewis
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We’re further away from The Rolling Stones recording “Sympathy for the Devil” than they were from the murders of the Romanovs when they recorded it
November 4, 2025 at 4:59 PM
We’re further away from The Rolling Stones recording “Sympathy for the Devil” than they were from the murders of the Romanovs when they recorded it
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The one about purpose doesn't show up until you have to spend 12 hours a day at a repetitive job.
COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/myth-4
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com
COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/myth-4
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com
November 3, 2025 at 11:30 PM
The one about purpose doesn't show up until you have to spend 12 hours a day at a repetitive job.
COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/myth-4
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com
COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/myth-4
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com
People who have been on Bluesky for over a year:
November 4, 2025 at 6:54 AM
People who have been on Bluesky for over a year: