Mike Anderson

Discworld QOTD, from A Hat Full of Sky

“Tomorrow, your job is to change the world into a better place. Today, my job is to see that everyone gets there.”

This is a wonderful read.

a snippet of a mini-comic, at top - straight line stretches from point A to B. Immediately below, same dot at A, then becomes a curving, meandering line that winds through the page and ends at a point with rays and a question mark emanating from it. Text reads: "Nothing can do this for you - that robs you of experience and conflates answers with learning. Rather, it's all the decisions you make along the way, the mistakes, struggles, and surprises! These pathways you create - this is learning.

my statement on Ai from the mini-comic I'm making as syllabus for a new class I'm teaching this fall. It's simple, but I pretty much said all I have to say on it - it robs you of decisions and struggle - and the joy of being surprised. It robs you of learning...

If an individual offering consensual nudes of themself on OnlyFans is considered “illicit” but a program generating nudes of women without their consent is fine, the powers that be have made their priorities clear. And they’re the same as they ever were.

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No explanation needed. The Met police and Yvette Cooper MP should be ashamed.

Absolutely incredible work thank you

There Is an Information Blackout at Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Migrant Detention Camp Public records related to Florida’s so-called “Alligator Alcatraz” migrant detention camp have...

Over 90 pages of "Alligator Alcatraz" files disappeared as I was looking at them and reporting on the situation. Our public records requests are getting stonewalled. A slew of experts told me this all seems to be illegal. talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/th...

Our flâneur president is exploring the psychogeography of the White House in the context of its urban environment but go off

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen.

By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

Discworld QOTD, from Men at Arms

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Person in a party hat giving a presentation and it says The greatest research skill you can have is being a nosy bitch who wants to find out

;)

screaming in delight there's so much going wrong here the height the legs?? what's happening in the legs area?? the way too short arms of different lengths the giant hands the legs I can't get over the strange bulging yet flatness of the legs what's even under this hideous dress

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With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

Cubist(ish) Thing is a great look.

I haven’t thought about Descent in years but this is the second time I’ve heard it mentioned in a couple of weeks. Now to go find it on GOG and relive a big part of my childhood gaming memory.

A bunny on a red Big Flyer tricycle with the Akira logo in the foreground.

An old one but still very, unfortunately, relevent.

Straw panel, Holz 100, glue free, doweled masstimber wall section. Straw drywall boards with paper backing rest on top.

Always remember,
construction could be on the forefront of decarbonisation, relieving the climate through carbon storage, contribute to well-being through healthy climate adapted environments with growth where it's due...

Reacher is basically “what if a man had Carrot’s body, Vimes’ brain, and Cohen’s desire to wander and skill at not dying”

line of guys on an escalator all holding stuffed Blahaj sharks captioned me and the boys coming back from Ikea (we all bought sharks)

🦈

i think of this whenever someone has some shit to say about abstract art

This. Thank you National Liberty Museum.

Today, if you care about visual art at all, you probably recognize that comics are as interesting a medium as any. The painter and sculptor Roy Lichtenstein may have ironized images for his canvases that he had appropriated from jobbing cartoonists (who responded with understandable bitterness), but even he acknowledged that the subjects of his paintings were part of an artistic lineage. The cartoonist Tony Abruzzo drew waves that look remarkably like the Japanese artist Hokusai's famous woodblock print of a tsunami into a panel of a weeping girl neck-deep in water. Lichtenstein adapted that panel for one of his most significant works, the 1963 canvas "Drowning Girl," telling the artist and curator John Coplans in a 1967 interview that he had recognized Abruzzo's homage and been inspired. "The original wasn't very clear in this regard - why should it be?" Lichtenstein said. "I saw it and then pushed at it a little further until it was a reference that most people will get."

reposting my piece on comics and fine art for the evening crowd. gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/b...

Labubu Hög when?

Musk will ask Tesla shareholders to vote on bailout for Twitter/xAI Tesla shareholders will vote on whether to invest into xAI, Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s private company, according to a post...

Musk's empire is a house of cards that becomes less stable every single day
#teslatakedown #MuskMustFall electrek.co/2025/07/13/m...

WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for.

Stop using WeTransfer.