@angusm.bsky.social
SF/F author (“The Warrior Within” etc.) Photographer. Programmer. Allegedly sentient mammal. One more pawn for the Muppet Pastor. [he/him] https://angus.pw/ - SF/F writing https://raingod.com/ - Photos & more https://disoriented.net/ - Travel & photo blog
A woman holds a sign with a cartoon frog and the words “I support Amphifa”.
A crowd of protesters with signs. One woman holds a sign reading “New York hated you before it was a thing.”
Signs from today's No Kings protest in Manhattan
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A woman in glasses holds a sign that reads “If only Congress were alive to see this.”
A man holds a sign designed to resemble a parking sign. Red letters on white read “No King Any Time. Violators will be removed.”
A woman holds a yellow sign on which is a stylized image of a humanoid frog and the words “Don’t tread on me”.
A crowd of protesters. One man holds a brown cardboard sign that reads “Imagine losing our country to a fat bitch that can’t even blend his makeup.”
Signs from today's No Kings protest in Manhattan
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A woman in a white fleece jacket holds up a sign that reads “For the Epsteinth time, release the files.”
A crowd of protesters. A woman in the foreground holds a sign that says “We will not flush away our democracy for this piece of shit” beside a caricature of Donald Trump as a flyblown anthropomorphic lump of feces.
A man holds a sign that reads “Only fascists believe anti-fascists are terrorists.”
A crowd of protesters. A man in the foreground wearing a green jacket holds a sign that reads “Elvis was the King. You are an asshole.”
Signs from today's No Kings protest in Manhattan
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A person in a baseball cap and dark blue jacket holds a sign that reads “Consider this a sign”.
A picture of a piece of brown card on which is written “IDK (I don’t know) where to start” in black block letters.
A sign, held above the heads of a crowd of protesters. The sign has a picture of a stylized frog and the words “Don’t Obey” in white block letters on red.
A group of protesters. A woman in the foreground holds a sign with three cartoon frogs and the words “United, we ribbit. Divided, we croak.”
Signs from today's No Kings protest in Manhattan
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A protest sign with three white panels on a black background. In the panels are written the words “Blood Clot 2025”.
A crowd of protesters with signs. One sign reads “Even Bruce Springsteen is only The Boss. No Kings in the USA”. Another says “Rejecting kings since 1776”.
A hand holds up a sheet of brown cardboard on which is written “Killing fishermen is a war crime.”
A crowd of protesters. One woman holds up a sheet of card on which is written “My ancestors were immigrants and so were yours” in green, pink and blue letters.
Signs from today's No Kings protest in Manhattan
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A protest sign made from a sheet of brown card on which is written the single word ‘Empathy’ in black block letters.
A protest sign reading “US Army. The original anti-fascists.” Smaller letters in the corner read “Nazi punks fuck off -- Jello Biafra”.
A sign held above the heads of a crowd, with red and black lettering that reads “What the fuck?! You guys.”
A protest sign consisting of a sheet of brown card on which is written “George Santos? Really? Who’s next? Ghislaine?”
Signs from today's No Kings protest in Manhattan
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A hand-painted sign in brown and orange letters on white. It reads simply ‘Enough’.
A hand holds a sheet of yellow paper on which is written “Honk if you’re not in the Epstein files”.
A protest sign with black block letters on white card, reading ‘First they come for the vulnerable and we say No Fucking Way’.
A person wearing an inflatable orange dinosaur suit walks in a crowd, holding a sign that reads “You think meteors are bad? Try fascism.”
Signs from today's No Kings protest in Manhattan
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A man holds a yellow sign on which is written “Aunt Tifa says no kings”. His shirt has a US flag with the words ‘Rejecting kings since 1776’.
A person holds a piece of card on which is the word ‘Antifa‘ and a photograph of Josephine Baker, an African-American woman, wearing a top hat, white tie and tails.
A crowd of people. A man facing away from the viewer wears a red, white and blue stovepipe hat and a sign that says ‘Feed Gaza’.
A protest sign in green and red letters. The text on the sign says “This madness ends when all of us rise up and say ‘No’.”
Signs from today's No Kings protest in Manhattan.
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The original marketing line, "P-p-p-ick up a Penguin" has also been abandoned, with the new non-chocolate Penguin biscuits being advertised with the slogan "F-f-f-fuck up a Penguin."
18.10.2025 11:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0"Asking for a friend," right?
I imagine the "zombie pathogen", whatever it is, as being something like rabies. Eating a rabid animal would be a VERY bad idea.
If you have plans for a "Big Book of Zombie Recipes", I think it's a nonstarter. Vampires and werewolves are probably off the menu too.
Alan Garner is 91 today. A brilliant and unique author. His books have inspired and enchanted me since I read The Weirdstone of Brisingamen at the age of 11. Here is my treasured copy of Red Shift. The Le Guin quote on the cover is wholly accurate.
17.10.2025 07:20 — 👍 296 🔁 81 💬 7 📌 13"Top Army general says he's using Magic 8 Ball to make key command decisions."
17.10.2025 12:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0My first reaction was "By 'hidden', do you mean that they're using part of the spectrum that's allocated for some other purpose, and annoying everyone who's using it as intended?"
And sure enough …
Tele-cat-nesis
16.10.2025 13:58 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig no graves. Instead, lure your enemy into a catacomb, then immure him.
INGREDIENTS
1 catacomb
stones
mortar (pre-mixed)
cask of Amontillado (fictitious)
NOTES
Practice your masonry skills. You will need to be able to work quickly.
Serve cold.
“We’ll test in production.”
12.10.2025 14:31 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I'm pretty sure that the list of things RFK jr believes DON'T cause autism is probably about one item long, and the one item is "genetics".
11.10.2025 21:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0BO!!!!!!
11.10.2025 03:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Inside me are two wolves. One wolf thinks that TypeScript adds unnecessary complexity to what is already a horror of a language. The other wolf will grudgingly admit that type-checking in TypeScript has saved me from shooting myself in the paws more than once.
10.10.2025 14:22 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🚨 👀 Out today!!!
amazon.com/dp/B0FS9XZPVJ
"We asked a Boeing engineer what inspired this radical new design. Their answer will surprise you."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campervan
A gray tabby cat lounges on a gray sheepskin rug, his head propped against a purple pillow.
It's Caturday, and time to renew my #ProofOfCat.
This is Frankie, who we fostered earlier this summer, and who has now joined the household. I have decided that he is a member of the Lumpenpurrletariat, because when I woke up this morning there was a purring lump in the bed with me.
Vulture Sploot! (is the name of my new band)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splooting
Or governments.
30.09.2025 17:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Susan never stopped looking for Narnia.
29.09.2025 02:24 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Hook, line and sonker.
29.09.2025 01:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Tag yourself, I'm "Slump/Grunt".
29.09.2025 00:37 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0What's your sign?
28.09.2025 20:44 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I was never a fan of the Chinese Room thought experiment, but now that we have Chinese Rooms all over the place and they are all dumb as hell, I'm starting to concede that he may have had a point.
28.09.2025 20:34 — 👍 19 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1I look forward to the people who buy "tactical" everything in black and camo and dress up as if they were in special forces but actually have office jobs referring to themselves as Workspace Marines.
28.09.2025 18:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
