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Pancake Day by Mulligan & O’Hare

This account stuck my comic through an ugly AI filter, removed my @ from the bottom and blocked me when I called them out.

It's the national year of reading in the uk in 2026. Instead of asking "why don't kids read any more", ask "how can I help them find the stories (and non fic) they will fall in love with". Less "get off my lawn whippersnappers" and more "come, sit on the lawn, here's a comic".

shel silverstein was a prophet

This will piss the right wingers off, but I’d say this chap is far more a patriot that the wankers painting roundabouts and hanging flags.

What a legend!

Oldboy

new MrBeast video: "I Locked a Man in a Room for 15 years!"

I Know What You Did Last Sumer

Excellent article, historiography is always fascinating, especially when applied to the Beatles.

I want a president that'll put PROJECT A and POLICE STORY in the library of Congress.

My photo collage shows four pottery vessels, all a creamy yellow in colour, with black painted decoration depicting underwater sea-life featuring lively stylised octopuses with writhing tentacles (arms), All on display at Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete. Top L - Minoan pithoid storage jar decorated in the “Marine Style” with wide-eyes octopus, argonauts, rocks, and coral. Rounded top tapering down to a narrower base. Short cyclindrical neck flaring out at the mouth with black wavy decoration reminiscent of waves. Loop handles attached to the shoulders of the body. Height 55 cm. From Zakros. 1500-1450 BC Top R - Minoan flask with a rounded body, short cyclindrical neck which flares at the rim, and two small curved handles attached between the top of the spout and the shoulders of the body. Decorated in “Marine Style” which depicts an almost cartoon-like octopus with wide eyes and sucker-lined tentacles which writhe around the vase. Other decorative sea-motifs include sea urchins, seaweed and rocks. Height 27cm. From Palaikastro, 1500-1450 BC Bottom L - alabastron, broad at the base, swelling outwards into a fuller belly before narrowing near the top with a very short cyclindrical neck and a wider flat rimmed mouth. Decorated in “Marine Style” with a wide-eyed octopus among rocks. From Knossos Little Palace, 1450-1370 BC Bottom R - krater with rounded body narrowing at the bottom towards the foot. Wide flaring mouth and rim with black painted wavy decoration, and two sturdy handles attached on each side between the top of the mouth and shoulders of the vessel. Decorated with a central very stylised wide-eyed octopus whose tentacles loop up and down around the body of the pot, 1370-1300 BC

Something lovely to start the week! 🐙🏺❤️

Ancient clay pots with octopus decoration, made by artisans from Bronze Age Crete some 3,500 years ago!

Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me

#Archaeology

A pumpkin with a light inside. It has been carved with the words “inferring causation from correlation”

Still terrifying

Screenshot of part of the LEGO Ideas website, showing a side view of a diorama featuring both creatures

🚨 THIS IS NOT A DRILL 🚨

We’ve just seen this, by creator “Menapian” - a 4,998-piece set of the Great Exhibition (1851) Crystal Palace - complete with a bonus Megalosaurus and Ichthyosaur…

beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...

A drawing of Henry Mitchell, the smiling, bespectacled dad from the comic strip Dennis The Menace.

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.

Hit like if you read film criticism weekly and repost if you read film criticism more than that

Rogue Trooper is 6 reels long, (an anachronistic system used during post production.)
Our mystery composer played @bazzybazbazbaz.bsky.social & I reel 2 today & it was so, so great, we giggled like loons!
That’s the 1st two reels done! Both brill!
I’m so excited to show you this feckin film.
💪🏼❤️🤞🏼

Ozzy Osbourne visited my magic shop. He said he'd like to buy some stink bombs. How many? All of them. I had to go through drawers finding every last one. He bought 900 of them. To sign the credit card slip I handed him a shock pen, which he thought was hilarious and bought that too. RIP

As a Year 2 - teacher, hand made card with honest message and if you are going to give anything else a shared voucher that works in a few places is the way to go.

I’d definitely pay good money for that, keep us updated if you put it on sale.

Subway style map to go with The Lord of the Rings, showing the different pathways of various parties throughout the book. The title reads: "Lord of the Rings Transit Map: One Does Not Simply Walk Ino Mordor When One Can Ride." The map takes up the middle part of the page, and there are two keys. The one on the left is titles "Standard Service Lines, and has color keys matched to the subway lines on the map. Lines are named: "Shire-Bree Commuter Line Old Forrest Crescent Wildland Scenic Line Fellowship Line Gollum / Sméagol Line Uruk Hai Express Three Hunters Line Fangorn Slow Service Rohan to Gondor Business Line Black Ships Ferry Service Oliphant Direct Line Army of the West Line Gandalf Express A smaller key on the right side of the map is labeled: "Limited Service Lines" and has color keys matched to the following names lines: "Eagle Express Paths of the Dead Line Nazgûl Search & Resuce Valinor Ltd." A note at the bottom reads: "* Mount Doom station only accepts Rings of Power in payment. Plan accordingly."

The other day I drew a subway-style map for The Hobbit, and it was very well received. Some of you asked if I could do one for LoTR, so I have!

Forgive the eel watermark; I'm working on making these something you can buy, if you like.

Are you a parent with a baby that needs a little polish? I do gentle, natural replacement—in accordance with a long tradition of færie child-snatching. I will take your human child and leave behind a waxy-skinned changeling that seems to fade from existence when viewed in your peripheral vision.

He did, started around issue 30 something, think Steve Y the Zenith artist drew it.

Background paintings from Castle in the Sky (1986), dir. Hayao Miyazaki, Studio Ghibli

Pieces painted by Nizo Yamamoto, Toshiro Nozaki and Mutsuo Koseki

If I find myself with a shy bladder in a public loo, I silently recite the poem "Zen & the Art of Going to the Lavatory" seen in the graphics of the TV series "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". Never fails to unblock me. Thanks Douglas.

Relic, by Two Way Mirrors 10 track album

I’ll be putting some new music out pretty soon from my Two Way Mirrors project and for a couple of days I’ve dropped this older album I did down to £1… frostilabel.bandcamp.com/album/relic

Don't believe the haters, the movie's great anarchic fun.

The new Gundam is good (got a bit of Godzilla Minus One vibe), but if you haven't seen it, as recommended elsewhere, Pluto is excellent.

Painting of a little dog coming out of a hard-boiled egg in an egg cup on a saucer.

In a bid to attract more followers online, I looked at which post images do well. People seem to like a) pets b) food, so I strategically painted this image of a weird little guy coming out of a hard-boiled egg. Am I social-media-ing correctly?
#illustration #artsky #art

[To illustrate annoyance]: Arseflesh!

Via Jennifer Lynch. Hollywood Forever Cemetery. That’s a hell of a gravestone.