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shoutout to the local Douglas Macmillan hospice, who were just amazing to my mate Flick recently. They got her well enough to go to a Skindred gig before she passed away. The sweary funeral notice made it to the paper, but slightly censored! www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=8...

YouTube video by The Last Leg Thomas The Wank Engine

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WO4...

deathgrowling vox ftw!

I got a signed copy via Blackwell's in September, but sadface, didn't get a lovely print with it. I am fond of a bit of linoprint.

Rosalind Franklin and the damage of gender harassment Spurred by a recent report on sexual harassment in academia, our columnist revisits a historical case and reflects on what has changed—and what hasn’t

Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).

whoops!
it's stationEry. e is for envelopes, is how I was taught as a kid.

ah well, the original post got deleted.

and if I want to see artistic nudes, i have to go through age verification bollox. grr/

no pics as I am on laptop and cba to sort out how to post here from google drive where I think my samsung saves pics to.

but I have had buttered crumpet &coffee with gulls screeching in the background, in a half-empty house in Whitby where I've seen some great bands this week, more stuff on later

learned nothing from Goodreads, where shitty downvoting nixed people's book sales before they were even released

Texas Is a Lot More Queer Than You Think. I Am Too. There are 1.8 million of us, and we’re not going anywhere.

"The people in the Capitol who are obsessed with which bathrooms we use, what we do in our own homes, and what kind of art we make? The feds who want to strip away retirement benefits from trans Air Force veterans being forcibly removed from their positions?

Those are the weirdos."

James Meek · Computers that want things For all the fluency and synthetic friendliness of public-facing AI chatbots like ChatGPT, it seems important to remember...

Computers that want things www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

I did not think it weird to read it in order before I saw this post

B&W photo of a building facace

Relief sculpture of a lithe figure in a dancing-like pose

I'm just a lowly art historian, but in moments like these I always think back to one early sign of Trump's wanton, pointless destructiveness: his demolition of the priceless & irreplaceable Art Deco relief sculptures on facade of the Bonwit Teller building, which he tore down to build Trump Tower

Increased AI use linked to eroding critical thinking skills A study by Michael Gerlich at SBS Swiss Business School has found that increased reliance on artificial intelligence (AI) tools is linked to diminished critical thinking abilities. It points to cognit...

there's already evidence it's ruining students' critical thinking skills phys.org/news/2025-01...

knew about this. but then, I was in a 'play with clay' group and someone who was a re-enactor was creating her own badges.

alright, I guess. doing some volunteering for the British Ceramics Biennial exhibition that's on.

excellent colour co-ord there!

current book: 'Unforgiveable Stories' by Kim Newman. Short stories, so far about Dracula (no surprise!), Jekyll and Hyde, Edgar A Poe. Got into it properly during Silent Reading book club

would happily avoid the sun and explore this place

and you shouldn't hang flags the wrong way round, either...

it's a cheesy kind of tourist experience, last i went some years back!
but the museum, and Pannet Park, and the ghost walk that runs from the whalebones, all worth going to.

no linky, just says 'deleted'

The Wheel of Fortune card from The Modern Goth Tarot

Front of the box for The Modern Goth Tarot

Back of the box of The Modern Goth Tarot

The Hierophant card from The Modern Goth Tarot

Another little giveaway to celebrate 33k followers, this is UK only

Follow, like, and repost to be in with a chance to get this

ends midnight BST 21st August

The Modern Goth Tarot #WitchSky #TarotSky

Holidayed for a long weekend. Knackered now. First time at Infest because it wasn't on Bank Hol weekend, when D goes larping. Moved as Bradford was City of Culture. Good news is the crew and bands and everyone thought it was fab at the new place and is running there again next year!

not accepting DMs right now, due to the faff of confirming I'm an adult. bah.

just dropped into here for the first time in an age.
David is happy to see Mousecow!

you'd have to ask Robert Rankin. He's not on here, over on fb tho' www.facebook.com/robertrankin

close-up of the front panel with pocket of a pair of grey rainbow leopard stretch twill dungarees. a patch with rainbow edging reads 'Run & Fly'.

wore my new Christmas pressie dungas out today. Cheers to Run & Fly for making clothing to make me smile.

good to hear!