I guess they needed a really big distraction from the Epstein Files.
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I guess they needed a really big distraction from the Epstein Files.
- you clean up that banksy? - sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked
Doctors ignored my reports if pain for years. In high school my mom would have to come pick me up because I was puking from agony. I'd pass out at work. I was told some discomfort is normal. At 23 a (cis woman!) doctor told me if I did not stop complaining the only solution was a hysterectomy.
The Global Sumud Flotilla is a courageous act of solidarity with Palestinians who are struggling to survive under the Israeli government’s cruel and unlawful aid blockade, ongoing genocide and man-made famine in Gaza The flotilla must be protected #stopthegenocide
And it turns out that period pain, untreated, can have long-term consequences:
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Cat man
The knight stood, triumphant, over the prostrate dragon. He raised his sword high above his head and- "I wouldn't if i were you" The voice was in his head. Confused, he glanced around. A black cat was cleaning a paw, casually nearby. He raised the sword again. "Are you REALLY, really sure?" /1
Thank you, Andrew!
This is why Molly is not allowed to do tours.
The 1918 Influenza Epidemic was made significantly worse because Wilson's administration (and the rest of the participants in WWI) deemed reporting on it to be bad for morale. It's called the Spanish Flu because Spanish newspapers were free to publish the truth about the spread and severity. 1/2
If I’m being honest, I’m feeling pretty crap about my small business. It’s so bloody difficult at the moment with rising costs, US tariffs, Brexit nonsense and the threat of AI. Please have a look at what I do and repost to spread the word gailmyerscough.co.uk
Things you can get for £10 these days: Just over 1/3 of a brand new LP. A cup of coffee in a stupidly expensive place 10 & a 1/2 hours of rent of a one bedroom flat in York. 5.3 litres of unleaded petrol A year's worth of my writing, including stories like this: the-villager.ghost.io/my-ex-husban...
Of all the ancient landmarks of the United Kingdom's West Country, the psychedelic grit salt cow of Great Elm, Somerset, is possibly the most mysterious.
THREAD. A short, true story, which I still think about sometimes: Many years ago, not long before they found the 19th Century house in the north eastern part of Nottinghamshire where they live now, my mum and dad had wanted to buy a different, older house, not far away from there...
... And this one: the-villager.ghost.io/31-notes-i-h...
... And if you enjoy that, you might also enjoy this other more recent piece I wrote about my dad: the-villager.ghost.io/the-guns-alw...
"TOAD IN SHOE." Now free to read: the full story of the toad who decided to take up residence in one of my dad's old gardening shoes. the-villager.ghost.io/my-dad-and-t...
fun fact: did you know you can impeach and convict a vice president
This is how they invade Canada #cdnpoli @davidebybc.bsky.social
Hey Canadians ! PLEASE READ Just found out about this . Very concerning , can you read this and go to the link and say a Hard NO ! ( no offense to our wonderful US neighbours who aren’t extremist )
I spent years researching and trying to explain the imperial boomerang to people and he just … tweeted this out
Feeling pretty good about the latest progress. [ #thebeastboutique #wip #animalart ]
This gets progressively funnier with every use of the term "floppy".
![One of Britain’s most senior police officers has launched an angry tirade against Extinction Rebellion protesters going “all floppy” when they get arrested. Sir Stephen House, the deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan police, said the tactic of going limp was a “flipping nuisance” as it required extra officers to drag protesters away. House told a London assembly police and crime committee hearing: “We have asked them to stop being floppy. And that might seem like a silly thing to say, but when we arrest them and pick them up, they go all floppy, which is why you see four or five officers carrying them away. It’s a complete waste of officers’ time, and a complete pain in the neck.” Extinction Rebellion: how successful were the latest protests? Read more House also expressed annoyance at how the tactic made the police look heavy-handed. He said: “The problem with them going floppy and four offices carrying them away [is that it] looks to the general public like police are overreacting here. We’re not making them go floppy. They’re just sort of being a nuisance.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7uvcqt45oqlutlrtgx7bpodq/bafkreie7yqxb4cj2t4gxftiqsno5wgk2kczb5vbtj7wh2b2u5sjtqtdrku@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Your challenge BlueSky: Find me chairs like this in the UK. They were surprisingly comfy and definitely Tortie-proof
'Sea Change'
Lately I'm seeing games being advertised as recreating every where on earth for you to play in. So every town, city, etc. is in the game... When I hear that I always ask them what my village looks like in their game... they never respond ;) I live (near) here, Bourtange:
Vibe I need…
Very important info for eg women in violent relationships who maintain a secret phone. Please pass along.
Aggro meathead causes crash on Queensboro Bridge, but it's mostly the DOT's fault for not updating the signage!
The better question is whether working people can exist in the city they built.
It’s not enough. They should pay the $150k fine per book.
What Epstein records have not been made public?
You don’t want to know what mumps are. I have the dubious distinction of having had mumps twice and it was more than twice as bad the second time around.
🚨 NEWS FLASH 🚨 👇🏾👇Friday, September 5, 2025 - A Historic Day for the #Haida Nation 👇👇🏾 On Friday, September 5, 2025, at 10:00 am in the BC Supreme Court, the #HaidaNation will take a historic step forward in its long journey to have Haida Title formally recognized by the Court.👇🏾 #Indigenous 🇨🇦 #Canada
For context that's a third the price the RIAA expected a single human to pay for just downloading 24 songs a decade ago (after cutting the ruling down from $1.5m, or $62,000 per song), and that's not adjusting for inflation:
I'M LOSING MY MIND, THE BEST AND MOST EXCITING YHING JUST HAPPENED, BABY SNAPPING TURTLES HATCHED IN MY YARD, HOLY FUCKING SHIT WOW HOLY FUCK
My early thoughts on the Anthropic settlement: a) good, fucking pay us b) no, that’s not enough c) shouldn’t have stolen our shit to train your stupid mediocre plagiarism artbarf robot in the first place, you fuckers d) this isn’t something to celebrate; it is a Pyrrhic victory at best
Two of BC’s public sector unions just went on strike as public servants push back against rising costs of living Wages that don’t keep pace with inflation and outsourcing contract work are at the centre of two public sector strikes in British Columbia
As a BC EA, our wages have not come anywhere close to keeping up with inflation for years. I effectively earn less now than when I started over three decades ago.
My very dear friend Eric Yeakel just had a very serious heart attack at just 30 years old. It is no exaggeration to say that he and his wife Erin saved my life 5 years ago. Please help me repay their immense generosity by donating to his gofundme. 🧵 www.gofundme.com/f/support-er...
Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!
Canadians! There is a petition to sign to protest Mastercard and Visa's control over the purchase of legal adult content. This is specifically about the Steam & itchio situation, but language protects adult creators. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en... #nsfw #censorship #canpoli @acvalens.net
If you're feeling down this morning this tweet might cheer you up.
the one thing you need to know about chocochops is that they're great. the other thing is that they're chocolate pork chops with a real pork chop bone www.qwantz.com/index.php?co...
My new book of cartoons is out soon. I am bringing it to SPX/BETHESDA TORONTO, NEW YORK, CHICAGO, MONTREAL and QUEBEC CITY in the next two weeks. Visit www.tomgauld.com for more details and preorder links!
It takes time. I learned the armature wire combo from Christiane Cegavske’s work. I solved the skinning issue with moldable silicone rubber which remains flexible but comes as a putty and not a liquid. The heads I make out of clay—they are not finished yet.
THIS WEEK'S FRIDAY MURDER took place in Ponteland just outside Newcastle. It's now the place where all the footballers live, but back in ye olden days, it was an isolated moorland with terrible drainage. The Bushby brothers moved there in 1861.
woah this is genuinely, utterly WILD Ant queens of one species produce males of another species, so she can then mate with them and produce hybrid workers! This is so gloriously weird I can't quite compute it 🤯🧪🐜 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Testing Fat Patients' Patience Read more cartoons! ---> #PoliCartoon Help us make more! ----> patreon.com/barry #FatAcceptance
Zuckerberg, sitting next to Trump, repeatedly refuses to answer a question about free speech in the UK
I think that since the overwhelming majority of mass shooters are cisgender men, we should take their guns first.
Yep, I bet there are a whole bushel of them in there.
LA City Attorney: Businesses are empty and shuttered. The city’s law enforcement personnel have received countless 911 calls about what, for all intents and purposes, looks like a kidnapping. That’s what it looks like — individuals who will not identify themselves.
Canada’s out-of-control wildfire crisis in six charts. Important new analysis from @nationalobserver.com's @bsaxifrage.bsky.social 👇 www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/03/a...
Timeline cleanse
We're over halfway funded on the folk patch campaign! This dragon patch is the first in the folk series and gives a good idea of what the other designs will look like when produced. It's available in this campaign as an add-on. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/w... #rpg #ttrpg #patch
The really stupid one, apparently.
Thread: Many years ago, I realized that some of my successful writer friends who didn't seem to struggle with the non-writing side of a writing career the way I do had a special advantage: an assistant.
Thanks for the laugh!
Disappointing
Thank goodness!
Same
🧵 When I was growing up, my Uncle Noel would come to stay every Christmas. He was a solitary character, quiet but droll. Quite a hard character to read or get to know. Certainly not a cuddly, fun uncle who played games. He grew up very poor, became a builder/labourer like many Irish immigrants...
With an emphasis on the flop.
🚨 ICE can spy on devices 🚨 Everyone please practice online hygiene! Don’t open unknown emails or files. Run a VPN. ICE can see anything they want if you get infected with spyware called Graphite. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
“We’re incredibly proud of the success of the 2025 Fair,” said the CEO of the PNE. But the numbers show this was the least attended non-pandemic PNE in modern history, continuing a 25-year trend. Here’s my video.
#yeg can we help?
From the Archive: A Study of Knitting Sheaths – from North Yorkshire (1000 words) www.ikfoundation.org/itextilis/a-...
New #NUFC STRIKERS Hinnie the Pooh painting Raffle tickets are £5 each 100% to @nufcfansfoodbank.org DM for details - draw on Tues, Sept 30th at 7pm Please share HWTL 🖤 🤍
First signing of my new book #Heiresses at my North Wales launch! Quite a feeling. #skystorians #history #historybooks #newbooks #18thcentury
Ryan is still in jail and being denied his right to see council. All for sidewalk chalk.
Draw the line. Join the Green Party today ⤵️ join.greenparty.org.uk?utm_source=s...
Just reminded of the Oglaf strip with the crow lawyer. (One of the few safe for work strips, but the rest of the comics are very smutty.)
Let's talk about the fascinating myco-doppelgänger we call the lobster mushroom (Hypomyces lactifluorum). It's not a lobster🦞, but has the color of cooked lobster & a seafood-like taste. But it's not a MUSHROOM🍄 either! So what is it? A parasitic MOLD that's has taken over the BODY of a mushroom.
"what if it feels like it's real but it's fake??" okay what if it feels like it's veal but it's cake. WHAT IF?? qwantz.com/index.php?co...
The World Is Crazy. www.patreon.com/posts/world-...
THREAD. A collection of photos I have taken of scarecrows I have stumbled across during walks in the British countryside over the last fifteen years.
RIP Graham Greene. Every time he popped up on screen when I was a kid, my mom would excitedly point him out for being an actual Native on the screen. Able to be deadly serious and infinitely hilarious (even in smaller roles like Last of Us), he ate up the screen. Nʌki’wah brother.
Who's the worst cartoon character? I vote Henry, the dad from Dennis the Menace. He's a mask deliberately invented to whitewash the identity of his creator, Hank Ketcham, one of the worst men to ever make comics. It's gonna take a thread.
Don't forget about the DRM-free Humble Bundle from Tor (with Murderbot, Witch King, and more), benefiting World Center Kitchen. The donation is now at over 58,000. It would be awesome to get it up to $100,000. www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...
A sea turtle surfacing by a MASSIVE school of rays near Clearwater, Florida a couple days ago. Another post into the BluSky void. Maybe 2 or 3 people will see this one and my time won't have been wasted. I'll keep trying a little longer. #nature #animals #amazing #wildlife #awesome #ocean
Supercool!
People were forced to leave their pets behind during Hurricane Katrina, creating an unprecedented animal welfare crisis that has shaped the country's disaster response ever since.
through the kelp forest 🪸 #animation #art
Looking forward to reading it - and because I know you don't like the self-promotion, here's the link to the book for anyone who may want to own it too blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
Rosco is here!
NEW BOOK JUST DROPPED!? Children of Owl is a dash of magical realism that’s grounded in the tragic, triumphant, dauntless Lipan Apache lives of South Texas. With art by @abigailrajunov.bsky.social
Today's newsletter. 31 Notes I Have Made About My Dad In My Notebook: the-villager.ghost.io/31-notes-i-h...
Funnily enough, Alberta also has weird ideas about vaccines.
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