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Jon South

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I forgot to post this yesterday.
youtu.be/JCBIelqeuEU?...

The Bad Plus - Cheney Pinata

YouTube video by Smims

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November 5, 2025 at 1:44 PM

Jon South

@phlebasjon.bsky.social

My name is Paul Cezanne, King of Kings. Look on my table, peaches and this pear.

Philip Purser-Hallard @purserhallard.com · 12d

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and don't forget to like and subscribe.

cameron @famousceleb.co · 12d

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and let me know if you have any questions! 🤗

October 30, 2025 at 2:40 PM

Jon South

@phlebasjon.bsky.social

Have you listened to the first season of The Holmwood Foundation? Then you'll be wanting season 2.
Have you not listened to the first season of The Holmwood Foundation? Then I recommend it. You can pick up tips for what to do if you ever find yourself on the run with Dracula's head in a carrier bag.

The Holmwood Foundation @theholmwoodfnd.bsky.social · 28d

THE HOLMWOOD FOUNDATION SEASON TWO IS NOW LIVE ON KICKSTARTER!

Help us reach our goal of 40k to create Season Two of our found footage horror fiction podcast, The Holmwood Foundation.

Click the link below for more information, and an array of exciting tier rewards!

tinyurl.com/THF-S2

Coming soon: The Holmwood Foundation - Season Two

Season Two of the horror-fiction audio drama about possession, queer identity, and Dracula's severed head!

tinyurl.com

October 15, 2025 at 1:09 PM

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Zack Polanski

@zackpolanski.bsky.social

The truth: we need migration.

The problem: too many politicians are terrified to say it.

Why? They're led by a) toxicity of the charlatans & b) wealthy media organisations who demand these useful distractions rather than us talking about inequality.

Reject it. Draw the line.

September 22, 2025 at 12:57 PM

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Emaux

@emauxstylo.bsky.social

BBC News captures Doctor Who himself Sylvester McCoy at the Trump protest seemingly unaware of who they're interviewing.

September 17, 2025 at 6:29 PM

Jon South

@phlebasjon.bsky.social

In a world of Lucy Connollys, be a Miss Webster.

Colin Elves @colinelves.bsky.social · Sep 3

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Smajo Beso • Follow
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I started school in Newcastle in Year 5 without knowing a word of English. I was nine years old and had arrived as a refugee from Bosnia just a couple of months earlier.
I was one of those strangers our politicians often speak about.
I missed my grandparents and friends. I was having awful nightmares, and I would wake up screaming every single night. I hated going to school. I would sit in my chair, look out of the window, and spend my day daydreaming about ways to run back to Bosnia. I didn't want to be here.
After a couple of weeks at school, my teacher, Miss Webster, and my classmates did something special to help me settle, something that made me feel less of a stranger. That was the first day I went home with a smile on my face.
I have shared this story before, but as tomorrow is start of the new school year, I thought I would share it again.
**

Miss Webster was amazing, but I couldn't understand a word she was saying. She had this ritual where, at the end of each day, we would all sit on the floor around her, she would play the guitar, and we would all sing a song together.
I couldn't understand what they were singing, but I could see she would sing one part of the song, then she would say someone's name or point to them. The next part of the song would be sung with that person's name in it, and they would get to go home first.
My classmates loved this, but I hated it. It annoyed me because I couldn't understand what they were singing, but if I am honest, l hated it mainly because of how happy they all were. I definitely wasn't happy. I cried myself to sleep nearly every night.
I eventually started having separate English lessons, which I enjoyed more because it took me out of the classroom. It was always daunting coming to school because I felt everyone was looking at me or speaking about me. For months, my dad would stand with me outside the school gates in the morning until it was time to go in.

One day I came back into the classroom from my English lesson. We sat down, and everyone was extra-excited, looking at me more than usual for some reason. Of course, I thought it was because I was a refugee, because I couldn't speak English, or because they couldn't pronounce my name. I was bracing myself for another afternoon of my classmates encouraging me to sing. This was probably the closest I came to running out.
So we were all sitting on the floor around Miss Webster. She was holding her guitar, ready to sing. I remember the sun shining through the tall, narrow windows as I slowly drifted into a daydream of being back in Bosnia. She began playing the guitar, my classmates joined in, but this time, everything was different. I froze. I understood what they were signing. Not because I had miraculously learned English in one afternoon, but because they were singing in Bosnian for me. I looked around in shock, and they were all smiling at me, and for a moment I thought I was daydreaming.

While I was having separate English lessons, Miss Webster had taught our entire class to sing this song for me in Bosnian. They sang it terribly, but it was the most beautiful thing I had ever heard. I skipped home that day with a huge smile on my face. For the first time, I looked forward to going back to school the next day.
I have often imagined Miss Webster and my classmates rehearsing, struggling with the strange Bosnian words and laughing at themselves. For me, that effort was the ultimate recognition, an act of peace that felt like the opposite of everything I had known during the war. It was special.
I do not know if they realised it then, but that moment helped to give me back my dignity, my belonging, and, for the first time in a long time, I didn't feel like I was just a refugee or an outsider. I was home.

September 4, 2025 at 10:01 AM

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One Angry Eyebrow…

@oneangryeyebrow.bsky.social

Still the best gorilla joke 128 years later:

The Best Gorilla
Joke of 1897
Gorilla: Did you hear about the gorilla who escaped from the zoo?
Zookeeper: No. I did not.
Gorilla: That is because I am a quiet gorilla.
[Muffled sounds of gorilla violence]

July 27, 2025 at 10:04 AM

Jon South

@phlebasjon.bsky.social

If you see this, post a DC comic cover you love

Cover of Legion of Super-Heroes(1989) #1. A man (Rokk Krinn) in a long brown coat stands among wreckage and clouds of purple mist. In the foreground, a broken Legion flight ring.

July 25, 2025 at 1:24 PM

Jon South

@phlebasjon.bsky.social

What perfect albums came out when you were 16?

Edie Brickell & New Bohemians - Ghost of a Dog

July 23, 2025 at 1:20 PM

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Dr Laura Eastlake

@victorianmasc.bsky.social

Modern things that the Pride and Prejudice characters would LOVE. 🩷🩵 1/12

A little bit of silliness for Monday morning.

Picture of pride and prejudice cast in ball gowns leaning on the terrace of Netherfield Park. Text: Modern things that
Pride and Prejudice
Characters Would Love

July 14, 2025 at 9:11 AM

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Sam Adams

@samadams.bsky.social

the amount of people who still don’t understand this utterly foundational fact is staggering

Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · Jun 19

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

July 1, 2025 at 3:40 AM

Jon South

@phlebasjon.bsky.social

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. ”Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, Lord of the Rings, or Marvel)

June 27, 2025 at 1:28 PM

Jon South

@phlebasjon.bsky.social

Star Trek The Simple Harmonic Motion Picture

King of the Vagabonds 🇹🇼 @kingofvagabonds.bsky.social · Jun 26

Star Trek The Motion Picture
Star Trek The Slow Motion Picture
Star Trek The Stop Motion Picture
Star Trek The Motion Sickness Picture
Star Trek The Motion of the Ocean Picture
Star Trek The Motion Picture This
Star Trek The Motion Picture-in-Picture

June 26, 2025 at 10:11 AM

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Randi Mayem Singer

@rmayemsinger.bsky.social

Bravo this sign.

sign says: could someone explain which crimes get you deported and which ones get you elected president. it's so confusing.

June 15, 2025 at 11:25 PM

Jon South

@phlebasjon.bsky.social

Having read the serialisation online: this is a beautiful book, evident in every page as a labour of love by one of the UK's great cartoonists. Please consider backing it - I so want to see it on actual paper!

ILYAgraphic @ilyagraphic.bsky.social · Jun 15

FIVE DAYS to go? NO… FOUR!! It's The Final Countdown, do do do dooh… downthetubes.net/last-days-to...

Last Days to Back ILYA’s amazing “Romo the Wolfboy” graphic novel

Just five days to back this gorgeous-looking graphic novel

downthetubes.net

June 16, 2025 at 12:13 PM

Jon South

@phlebasjon.bsky.social

Julian says repost, so here I am reposting. Please note that although the Kickstarter is for Crowley there is a load of MYTHOS stuff in there too, and MYTHOS is bloody great.

May 29, 2025 at 4:52 PM

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Will Jennings📉🗳️

@drjennings.bsky.social

Trump and Musk feature in the latest Beano. D.O.P.E.

This sort of satire is wasted on 7 year olds!

April 19, 2025 at 2:04 PM

Jon South

@phlebasjon.bsky.social

Loads of free music going here from a lovely little label. I'd say Eversame and fuvk were my favourites of these, but I don't want to sound down on any of the rest. Enjoy!

filip from start-track.com @filip.start-track.com · Mar 4

Are you looking for some new music? www.getmusic.fm/labels/start...

START-TRACK | GetMusic

www.getmusic.fm

March 5, 2025 at 11:55 AM

Jon South

@phlebasjon.bsky.social

Rob's comics are good. You should probably consider buying some while he's doing these bargainous bundles.
(I'd go for the Storytellers/Merchants bundle if I didn't have them already)

Rob Jackson @robjacksoncomics.bsky.social · Feb 10

I'm doing a sale on my comics. Till the end of the month I'm selling three different bundles of comics, as pictured below, £10 each, free postage. UK only sorry. Why not have a look? Cheers robjacksoncomics.blogspot.com/2025/02/febr...

February 10, 2025 at 11:19 AM

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Dr Laura Eastlake

@victorianmasc.bsky.social

Ben Hur has had some absolutely wild cultural impacts:
🔴 Poster for a parody burlesque adaptation from 1900 called 'The High Rollers' or 'Bend Her'! (Frankly, I'm betting on the horse who *isn't* wearing roller skates)
🟠 A 'Ben Hur' formation dance. 1904. Sydney
#19thC #Ancientbluesky #skystorians

Poster for 'The High Rollers' or 'Bend Her' showing two actresses in breeches roles as Roman charioteers, driving horses while a Roman crowd cheers. One horse is wearing roller skates!

sepia photograph of a ballroom from 1904, Sydney, where dance 'teams' are arranged with one dancer holding the reins of three others. Some 'drivers' are men and others are women. Image: National Library of Australia

January 30, 2025 at 9:46 AM

Jon South

@phlebasjon.bsky.social

One of those annoying sales where there's a nice reduction on something really good that I've Already Got.
If you haven't, and might enjoy some dashing adventure with a darkly psychedelic edge, now's a good time!

Big Finish Insider @bigfinish.bsky.social · Jan 24

🚨 SALE 🚨 Get up to 50% OFF selected Adam Adamant Lives! releases: https://bgfn.sh/4d4m4nt

Offer ends expires 23:59 (UK time) on 28th January 2025

January 24, 2025 at 10:39 AM

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Francesco Francavilla

@ffrancavilla.bsky.social

"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."
[Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, Oslo, Norway, 1964]
#MLKDay #MartinLutherKingDay #MartinLutherKingJr

A black and white portrait of Martin Luther King with an American flag in the background

January 20, 2025 at 3:11 PM

Jon South

@phlebasjon.bsky.social

It's the fifth of December again already. Better watch out! #DoctorWho #BigFinish

December 5, 2024 at 7:54 PM

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