Simon Key ✍️📚

Those celebrating 'Alligator Alcatraz' would do well to remember that Ernst Röhm was taken to Stadelheim Prison in Munich, and shot on
1 July 1934.

Panel 1: character crying at a desk Text: this IS hard Panel 2: character is now drawing determinedly Text: but I can do it

Little gentle reminder to all the human creatives out there 💪

1. Yesterday I wrote a thread about the dire warnings from food professionals on the state of supply chains. Comfortable folk might find it impossible to imagine an end to the current abundance. But we'd better start imagining it fast.
THIS thread is about solutions - false ones and sound ones.

I’d rather buy a car from this guy, thanks (it’d be a better one too)

It's always been the case that "buying" an ebook from amazon was only actually a loan they could rescind at any point, but lately Amazon have gone harder on this, and it is 100% so that they can wipe banned books from your libraries without your consent.

Buy direct from authors. Get your files.

Live your life so that when you die, some joyless schmuck is annoyed that his entire social media feed is a wall of people's posts talking about how much you and your work meant to them

She's had her arm nearly off, got it infected, went diving and got the bends and then when she got out of the water she got a surprise arrow in the shoulder. So she's doing well. I'll be tickety-boo in no time.

This is getting sad now, like when the nerd joins the school bullies and then they all turn on him when he won't nick an N64 game from Electronics Boutique down the town centre.

Me facing 2025

Share a scene that makes you cry (happy or sad):

“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?”

Revealing the hidden benefits of birdsong Nature’s soundtrack matters: louder, richer birdsong can enhance wellbeing and deepen our connection with the outdoors

Did you know birdsong can boost your mood, mindfulness, and wellbeing? Protecting nature’s soundtrack is essential.
@natbzielonka.bsky.social & @simon-butler.bsky.social report. From @ConversationUK -- thanks!

Birdsong Conservation

eastangliabylines.co.uk/environment/...

Going to see the Augur of Dunlain? Take a book, or snacks, or a Rubik's cube, or something. If you thought talking to Hermeus Mora was a slog...

Don't. Use. AI. Images. To. Promote. Your. Work.

I will block you.

Marvel Premiere 14 (3436)

Carrie Ann Lucas, Disability Rights Activist and Attorney, Dies Following Denial From Insurance Company Carrie Ann Lucas was instrumental in getting the Colorado legislature to pass the “Family Preservation for Parents with Disability Act,” which aims to ensure that parents with disabilities are not dis...

Seems like posting tributes to Carrie Ann Lucas is the thing to do huh

rewirenewsgroup.com/2019/02/25/c...

An ugly alien creature with large eyes and a long nose, strapped to a table. They say they're a prisoner of America. So Say We All.

Nukie (1987)

A terrible film that gave birth to the perfect meme that sums up my (our) life. 🥰

It is what is fuckin' best in life! 🤘

'Do come ba-ack'

Challenge: Use 'Prisencolinensinainciusol' in a sentence.

Someone asked me: How can we maintain our frequency once we have raised our vibration?
So I said:
You must perform the Quirkafleeg which will reverse the polarity of the neutron flow.
Was I wrong?

Night breed. Classic Elfman.

I want one.

70s kids animated series about a bowler-hatted gent who frequented a magical tailor's shop that gave him a different outfit each episode which sent him on an adventure in the profession associated with that outfit.