jinty comixminx wildebeest the third

That concept, and how people can see things together this way, that’s what Lynda Barry talks about. And that’s why she’s Funk Queen Of The Universe. /done

The Toy Dolls were surprisingly popular in Brazil

hah, yes!

The 2026 Varsity blind wine tasting match

Oxford has won the annual Varsity Match – for blind wine tasting, that is. Sponsored by Pol Roger champagne, the event saw Oxford and Cambridge teams face off at the Photographers’ Gallery in London. The individual ‘Top Taster’ title went to Oxford’s captain, Pembroke history postgrad Julian Leidy.

Also much genuine mirth and enjoyment (spilling into family WhatsApp and into workplace discussions which doesn’t always happen at my place). Everyone is happy and fiercely pleased.

This post is going around again so I will add this excellent resource: leavesubstack.com

Today’s Testify! Look at the musical side of Hanna-Barbera is in the archives at wfmu.org/playlists/TG #radio #freeform @wfmu.bsky.social @gtdradio.bsky.social

Canada Post stamps celebrating Canadian cartoonists. Clockwise from upper left: Kate Beaton (Ducks/Hark! A Vagrant!) Jimmy Beaulieu (22°C/Non-aventures) Julie Doucet (Dirty Plotte/The Madame Paul Affair) Michael Nicoli Yahgulanaas (Red, A Haida Manga) Brian Lee O’Malley (Scott Pilgrim/Seconds) Guy Delisle (Aline et les autres/Pyongyang)

Images of a representative sample of each cartoonist’s most famous works

For #ThingThursday, my new Canadian cartoonist stamps!

This is Canada Post’s second run of cartoonist stamps celebrating the wide variety of fantastic graphic novel creators from the Great White North. Thanks to @pwnny.bsky.social and @andrewencer.bsky.social for getting these to me!

Person with red hair, glasses, coat leaning against a larger-than-life sized statue of a man with a beard and bald head. The status is st down and staring straight ahead. Behind both the statue and the person is the Said Business School in Oxford, St Frideswide Square.

Me with the Big Man On Campus (the statue at the Said Business School). Amusingly there is also a Little Man on Campus tucked a bit further away but visible through the window from another angle.

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Dude who wrote about how "the left is missing out on AI" is on here. Do you see who they are funded by? The biggest EA funders, the longtermist institutes we've been writing about and documenting, including FLI where Muskrat is still an advisor.

totes agree

Also S’ym is a reference to Dave Sim as I seem to recall - a kind of sideswipe at Cerebus

Snappy Snaps is always worth a try

I would expect Timpsons to do this too actually

Even outside of transphobia, I am just totally opposed to biological essentialism full stop.

I realise I’m one of the last people in the English speaking world who apparently believes this, but I don’t believe there are pink and blue roles coded into our cells that we should base society

Official portrait of Keir Starmer, Wikimedia Commons

Andrew Gant (image by Roger Close)

A war of words over potholes has erupted between Oxfordshire County Council member for Highways, Andrew Gant and *checks notes* the Prime Minister, with Gant claiming the PM had made a “Prime Minister made a disgraceful and untrue statement”

Buckle up, this one’s a rough road.

THEY HAD THE “NO TAKE ONLY THROW” DOG MEME SIX THOUSAND YEARS AGO

it’s like a gravy boat innit

A "chicken flap" in the wall of a chicken house, made out of an old toilet seat. (If they'd flipped it around, they could have also had a little entry ramp.)

I doubt I will ever see a more inspired bit of upcycling.

Front cover of the Puffin edition of ‘The Wool-Pack’ by Cynthia Harnett. It is emblazoned at the bottom as being A Carnegie Medal Winner in fairly modest type, and priced at 3’6 (this edition is from 1961). The illustration is a full wraparound: here we see a scene in the Cotswolds, with a row of houses in front of a church with a spire, and people running to see something exciting. They are being beckoned by a boy in striped hose and a yellow jacket, presumably main character Nicholas Fetterlock.

Back cover of The Wool-Pack. A merchant rides towards the town on the front cover; just behind him rides his guest, who is someone we quickly find is a villain. Behind them trail a group of packhorses. In the distance there is a shepherd herding sheep.

Another mild re-read from Cynthia Harnett: this one with an absolutely gorgeous wrap-around cover in a pale watercolour type palette. The first chapters are pastoral and not very lively, but then it gets into the thriller bits with a problem to be solved. Most importantly the girl character Cecily

joins the story just a bit before halfway through and it instantly perks up as a narrative.

Front cover of the Puffin edition of ‘The Wool-Pack’ by Cynthia Harnett. It is emblazoned at the bottom as being A Carnegie Medal Winner in fairly modest type, and priced at 3’6 (this edition is from 1961). The illustration is a full wraparound: here we see a scene in the Cotswolds, with a row of houses in front of a church with a spire, and people running to see something exciting. They are being beckoned by a boy in striped hose and a yellow jacket, presumably main character Nicholas Fetterlock.

Back cover of The Wool-Pack. A merchant rides towards the town on the front cover; just behind him rides his guest, who is someone we quickly find is a villain. Behind them trail a group of packhorses. In the distance there is a shepherd herding sheep.

Another mild re-read from Cynthia Harnett: this one with an absolutely gorgeous wrap-around cover in a pale watercolour type palette. The first chapters are pastoral and not very lively, but then it gets into the thriller bits with a problem to be solved. Most importantly the girl character Cecily

This guy (@glutelord.bsky.social) is correct about a lot of the discourse around "looksmaxxing" and so much of guys' ideas of what men should look like, and he should keep saying it.

Yesterday my friend told me about her PHILOSOPHY students all using ai for their assignments and like come the fuck on man you’re in Uni doing the subject thats Thinking about Thinking and u refuse to Think

Frame: the left is hurting itself by not engaging with the god machines

Negation: but this technology doesn't do the things you claim

kirby: the people writing these stories get funding to support narratives of power and inevitability, and that's what we should be scrutinizing

"We think nothing less complex and showy than a computer or a jet bomber deserves to be called “technology” at all...as if paper, ink, wheels, knives, clocks, chairs, aspirin pills...steel saucepans...and fleece vests...grew on trees, and we just picked them when they were ripe"

—Le Guin

"the left isn't excited about technology"

How many 3D printed whistles have been sent out to ICE watchers

The reporting of this did the rounds a week or so ago but I think it’s nice to hear it from the horse’s mouth if you will. What a great and warm thing for him to have done. I hope people who might not have ever considered the importance of learning about others take something from it.

We say ‘yes dear’ in our house :-)

Vic Reeves & @bobmort.bsky.social made a very strong case for the BBC License Fee…