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Signing Mass Effect @ Essen! @ithayla.bsky.social · Jan 22

and you can do really fun things with it

french comic mr invincible.
panel 1, old lady: kitty is stuck in the tree!
panel 2, old lady: do you think you can climb all the way up there?
mr invincible: no need (puts down his baguette, reaches down into panel 5 to get the cat out of the tree from above)
panel 3, old lady: kitty! thank you mister invincible!
panel 4, old lady: looks up at the cat still in the tree and the cat in her arms: huh wait! but!
panel 5, old lady: how... there's two?
mr invincible: yeah, but no. it's just a little bit out of sync. check again. (his arms reach down from panel 2 into the tree and is grabbing the kitty)
panel 6, old lady: cat is gone: ?! well, i'll be! you're right!

gwenpool comic.
panel 1: gwen takes a pencil passed down from the previous page: what now...?
panel 2: gwen erases the panel border to panel 3: brave new world, gwen!
panel 3: she drops the pencil out of the page, where it falls and lands next to panel 6: hrnnn...
panel 4: gwen looking through the panel border, about to see herself in panel 5: what's...
panel 5: gwen sees herself in panel 6: holy cow! it's me!
panel 6: gwen looking back at herself in panel 5: ha ha! hi!

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Tom Trott @tomtrott.com · Jan 21

You can't even do a Nazi salute these days without being called a Nazi

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Jack @wakeupangry.bsky.social · Jan 17

Cry January

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Tom Trott @tomtrott.com · Jan 17

RIP David Lynch. One of the greats.

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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · Aug 5

please enjoy this tree singing showtunes

A dead tree in a swamp. It seems to have a body, two arms and two legs, and the way they're each twisting, the tree looks like he's in the big finale of a musical.show

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Chaz Hutton @chazhutton.com · Jan 15

A little comic about desire paths.

Ok so…
There’s a nice little park on a corner, and a path running directly to one edge of the park. That’s the first image, but there’s 12 other images here. In the second image, there is now a desire path running diagonally across the park. Next image, the path has been blocked by a park bench that the council has put in as a deterrent. Unfazed, in image 4 the path now deftly avoids the park bench. In images 5 and 6 the process is repeated, this time with a strategically placed bin which the desire path also avoids. Presumably in a fit of rage, the council plants an entire hedge to stop people creating new desire paths but eventually this too is defeated and a new path find a way. Finally, the council admits defeat and turns the desire path into a proper paved pathway. After a little while, a new desire path curving off this new paved pathway begins to emerge…

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Bethanne Patrick @thebookmaven.bsky.social · Jan 14

A rapist, convicted felon, and known liar walks into a bar.

"Congratulations, Mr. President," says the crowd.

Not a joke. A cruel, soon-to-be, reality.

Who else is having nightmares this week?

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Yael @elle91.bsky.social · Dec 5

Mark Ruffalo sounds like the name a dog would give if he was pretending to be a man.

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Tom Trott @tomtrott.com · Jan 13

A beautiful looking but terrible film

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John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · Jan 13

AI is going to grow the economy and reduce public spending, it seems. How nice.

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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · Jan 12

My favorite part of Zuckerberg's Joe Rogan interview is when he suggests there is not enough masculine energy at his company, where two out of every three employees is a man.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · Jan 13

My door is always open if you want to stop by and fix my door

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Tom Trott @tomtrott.com · Jan 13

Using AI to spot potholes has to be the stupidest idea I've ever heard.

Tom Trott @tomtrott.com · Jan 12

Not to spoil the narrative, but Clarkson was a remainer.

www.theguardian.com/politics/vid...

Jeremy Clarkson and James May back remain campaign – video

Jeremy Clarkson and James May express for their support for the UK remaining part of the European Union

www.theguardian.com

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · Jan 12

Reminder “oh my god, Becky look at her butt” passes the Bechdel test.

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Tom Trott @tomtrott.com · Jan 11

It's a real quandary for self-published authors like myself:

Do I want to tacitly support Amazon's gradual mastication of everything we care about, or do I want to never sell any books ever again?

#books #publishing #kindle #selfpub

Tom Trott @tomtrott.com · Jan 11

Do you want to support a writer with no ties to big corporate bosses, evil media conglomerates, or environmentally destructive practices? Then buy *my* books, only on Amazon.

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Tom Trott @tomtrott.com · Jan 11

It's stats like this that make me think the government should pull all arts funding that goes to big things like the national opera and redirect 100% of it to local community arts projects.

www.theguardian.com/inequality/a...

Fewer than one in 10 arts workers in UK have working-class roots

The cultural sector falls short on other measures of diversity too, with 9o% of workers white, says new report

www.theguardian.com

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Tom Trott @tomtrott.com · Jan 10

Really looks like he's been decapitated, which is something I think we would all welcome

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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · Jan 8

Taking the leap into Bluesky 👋

Ed Davey bungee jumping. His arms are spread out wide and his mouth is open.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · Jan 8

perfect

McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · Jan 8

"Did you consider the people who don't like chili? The people who are vegetarians? The people without tastebuds? The people who don't know how to turn on stoves? What about all those folks?"

Did You Even Consider Every Possible Lived Experience Before Recklessly Posting Your Chili Recipe on Social Media?

Look, I get it. You thought what you posted was innocuous. Still, did you stop to think about everyone who has ever lived and how it could make the...

buff.ly

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Tom Trott @tomtrott.com · Jan 8

KOPPARBERG TROPICAL RUM PUNCH

Has quite a strong strawberry flavour, which isn't tropical to me, and a strong alcohol taste despite being 5%. With these kinds of drinks, I don't think you should really taste the alcohol, that's the beauty of a fruity cocktail.

#cocktails #cocktailSky

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Emily ✨🎃 @emilyoram.bsky.social · Jan 8

*bangs clipboard* PETERS PROJECTION

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · Jan 8

Trump's Greenland obsession is a very concrete example of why the Mercator projection is bad.

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Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan @warringtonruncorn.com · Jan 8

As someone whose entire income is derived from the Internet, even I’m beginning to think we should just turn it off.

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