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Discussion between a person and a guru of some kind: "Whither?" "Thither." [from off-panel: SPLAT!] "Whither?" "Thither." [SPLAT!] "W-w-whither?" "Thither." "NO NO NO NO NO NO! WHY thither?" "In life there is but one thither-- and it's a mile past splat."

R.I.P. Jules Feiffer. Here's my favorite strip by him.

Purely by coincidence, this will prevent any comparision between crowd sizes from previous inaugurations.

Seriously thinking about leaving Facebook but not crazy abotu the Bluesky interface.

He was about to testify in a fraud investigation and apart from that bit about writing on the bullets everything else screams "professional hit'.

Underreported: Elon just picked the head of NASA—a massive conflict-of-interest that will damage a government entity that he partners with, depends on, and in some cases competes with. The nominated NASA director is a high-school dropout billionaire who is pals with Musk. He has no business at NASA.

This is a classic "Magic stone that keeps tigers away" trick.

There's no real prospect of the BRICS crating a common currency but now he can claim his threat stopped them doing it.

Everything old is new again.

How do I block someone on Bluesky?

Charles Murphy is here and we have mutual friends so I'd hate to hurt his delicate sensibilities

Essentially: “Don’t support what I want? EM will fund a primary challenger against you.”

Blesky may be CURRENTLY valued at $1 billion but as a tech start-up showing massive growth, you can expect that to rapidly grow several fold.

"Defend free speech by destroying the competition."

Conspiracy theorist: "You're both wrong."

The spine of an old book titled "English Costume" by Dion Clayton Calthrop. Elizabeth's dress resembles the lower half of a Dalek

It has almost entirely been airbrushed from history, but the fact is Elizabeth I was half-Dalek

Yeah. I'm here.

Deal with it.

A Mayan vase, thought to be from 500-900 CE. It is mostly light brown, with darker brown strips at the top and bottom. The middle of the image shows a cartoon-like charcoal-coloured line-drawing of two kneeling men (a student scribe on the right, and his instructor on the left) facing each other over what we can assume to be some writing. The instructor looks narked, and the scribe looks a bit dismayed!

A Mayan scribe (right) and his instructor (left) – the dots and lines between them form an early speech-bubble, and it's thought the glyphs refer to sloppy work.

So here we have a 1,500yo cartoon of a writer getting a bollocking from his boss!

#Writing #AncientScripts #History

Or just hanging out with their now-deceased former team mates

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