Brian Mackenwells

Handshake meme - "Me doing a CAPTCHA" and "THE THIRD POLICEMAN by Flann O'Brien" uniting over "Is the guy riding the bicycle part of the bicycle?"

Marvel Team-up

This PEANUTS comic strip was published #OTD on November 21, 1990.

Two interesting stationery facts that you might need to sit down for :

1. The blue part of a classic pink/blue eraser was originally intended for pencil on thick paper, not ink.

2. Etymologically ‘stationery’ stems from ‘stationary’.

At some point I played my last game of chasing with my friends in school, without realising it would be our last game.

However, that means one of us is still IT, and doesn't even know. Forever chasing people who don't know they're being chased.

I think about this all the time. Is it me? Am I IT?

happy Halloween

YouTube video by VideoFromSpace Moon Landings Faked? Filmmaker Says Not!

Apparently it doesn't even make sense from a film technology point of view either youtu.be/_loUDS4c3Cs?...

This is so good.

A handdrawn laptop with 'Apply for sciencewrite' on the screen and 'Deadline 10am 17th November 2025, sciencewrite.co.uk' underneath

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Oh that's *lovely*

Miss Piggy would make a great Countess Gertrude.

I like this reading - it sort of tracks with Steerpike starting off as something the castle has never really seen (someone who doesn't care about the social order), who then becomes a grotesque just like the rest of them by his end. He gets absorbed by gormenghast

A red/pink background has a mockup of the "Space Captain: Captain of Space" book. The words "16 Hours To Go" take up most of the space, with a green banner below saying "On Kickstarter Now"

A simple graphic with a mockup of the first issue of Space Captain hovering on the page and some text saying "download issue 1 for free" "taste. See if you like it. there's no downside. it's free!"

An inner page of the space Captain comics. It shows a zoomed out image of an ice planet. We slowly pan in on the surface. We are shown desolate icy landscapes and long dead animal skeletons. A long figure walks through the icy fields. The first panel reads “Foran 4”. The second panel reads “somewhere between Foran 3 and Foran 5” The last panel reads “not that anyone cares”.

We're almost there.

Why not download issue 1 for free. Dip your toe in the icy waters of Foran 4. Explore a new world...
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/hnvyx...

Then back the kickstarter here!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/chr...

Who knows... when it ends tomorrow, maybe the world will be a brighter place

Franz Mesmer - Wikipedia

Wait, mesmerism is an eponym en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_M...

This has surprised me as much as hearing tonight that Tennessee Williams only died in 1983, meaning he was alive at the same time as Serena and Venus, the other tennisy Williams

I feel like it's hard to get across to my English pals that if the Taoiseach **made a point of insisting to the press** that they put Irish flags all over their house, and made sure to 'always' sit by one in their office, then they would immediately, and forever, be tainted as a massive weird freak.

About Time — How Two Writers Made The Most Elusive Concept Kid-Friendly ✓ Chris Antzoulis highlights About Time by Rebecca Struthers and Alom Shaha ✓ A wonderfully engaging children's book on horology and more! ✓

Publication day for “About Time”! It seems to have got the horology world very excited (see review below). I hope some of you might take a look to learn about something so absolutely central to our existence - you literally can’t imagine it not existing, because without time, there’d be no thought

A scene of destruction; a city's downtown lays in smouldering ruin, skyscrapers crumbling, fires creating toxic smoke. A colossal mechanical robin stands in the middle of this mayhem. The machine leans forward with a hydraulic "VVVVRT" and exhaust shoots out of its neck with a "PSSHHT!". In the interior of this horrible mechanism we see a robin in the command centre, pausing and looking away from its module. Two more robins wait in pregnant pause, all wearing headsets. There is a poster hung that reads "WORK SAFELY" and features a bird wearing a hardhat. Another begins "you don't have to be CRAZY to work here but..." and is cut off by the frame of the image. We see the captain of the vessel, in a captain's hat, pause before commanding "Full power to thrusters". In the final panel, the mecharobin is blasting forward with immense jet engines that have emerged out of each side of the machine. Entire buildings are blown apart in its wake. The target of this war machine is a giant earth worm which is laying waste to the city in the foreground. It seems surprised at this maneuver of the robins.

A jury of my peers? TWELVE murderers?!

For deeply silly reasons, I need to find a scientist who specializes in magnet stuff. If you are such an individual and would be up for talking about superheroes on a podcast, I would love a word with you.

I say "BUILD your own atom storage box!" whenever the opportunity arises

I STRONGLY urge you to back this. Space Captain: Captain of Space is a fantastic comic, full of humanity and heart, I love it so much. Also a chance to pick up a copy of We Said Goodbye To Gravity, also a big rec from me (I haven't read the others on offer, but I'll bet they're real good too)

lenny is sat with homer at moe's with some pokemon cards scattered across the bar. Lenny: hey whatcha got there homer? Homer: oh i don't know... it's some crap the boy is into these days Barney: hey! moe! this one looks like you! Moe then snatches the card. Moe: what? gimme that! i oughta sue the hell outta- Moe then contrmplates the Magmar card, and finds recognition within it.

flaming moe's

Painted watercolor of a man with a crossbow in a red cloak

It's Swiss Independence Day!
Here's a drawing of William Tell, the retired country crossbowman & Swiss folk hero who, in 1307, was, as a cruel jest by his captors, given the chance to save himself & his young son from execution if he could shoot an apple off his son's head at an absurd distance. 1/

15) We should improve society by responding to every declaration of "Cringe!" with "Shut up, coward."

An illustration I did on a cat being a cat version of Eadweard Muybridge: Animal Locomotion: An Electro-Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movement 1872-1885

Eadweard Muybridge: Animal Locomotion: An Electro-Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movement 1872-1885

Ah, wonderful!

Up Corcaigh 🤙

A favourite variation was one I contrived for @thefence.bsky.social in 2020, re: Jeff Bezos' then wealth of $177bn.

"Iago first said 'Put money in thy purse’ at the premiere of Othello on Nov 1st 1604. You'd only need to put $1.1 million in said purse every single day since to match Bezos’ total".