So youβre telling me the Wizard of Oz presented itself as a towering force of overwhelming technology, only to be unmasked as just some guy, off-screen?
05.08.2025 15:02 β π 8663 π 3303 π¬ 65 π 27@eljay2.bsky.social
Scottish, parent, dog servant, book lover. Pronouns are she/her
So youβre telling me the Wizard of Oz presented itself as a towering force of overwhelming technology, only to be unmasked as just some guy, off-screen?
05.08.2025 15:02 β π 8663 π 3303 π¬ 65 π 27An update about my book βInvisible Rainbowsβ and the whole messy situation with Unbound/Boundless.
01.08.2025 17:36 β π 210 π 43 π¬ 17 π 2A cartoon drawn live at Herne Bay Cartoon Festival. First panel- A man on the beach is having his chips stolen by a gang of seagulls. One of them steals his phone instead. Second panel - The seagull with phone in hand (wing) is receiving a massive amount of chips from a Deliveroo driver having placed an order with the phone.
Another Herne Bay Cartoon Festival done. Heading, or trying to head home. Thanks to all involved for making it a great weekend. My live drawing from yesterday's event. #hbcartoonfest
04.08.2025 06:48 β π 29 π 8 π¬ 2 π 1a Norwegian king crab
Cis people being weird about trans people makes me think about king crabs.
Bear with me for this one because it will make sense.
You know king crabs, right? Giant crab, lives up north, has long legs, very expensive and tasty, featured on many a mukbang
Did you know they are technically not crabs? 1/
2 panel comic Panel 1: very angry red guy says βwe asked 100 extremely online straight men what makes a man attractiveβ He gestures to a white board showing a very muscular man. Around him are the labels: No feelings Serial killer coded That Scrappy Doo Physique AI Crypto Vascularity Protein Panel 2: Yellow Person sticks their head into shot: βHow many w-β Red guy shouts βZERO. We asked ZERO women.
if only men had another demographic to talk to π
02.08.2025 23:42 β π 4536 π 1212 π¬ 56 π 35Right. This is serious. πΌπ
Help me raise at least £1000 for the Bumblebee Conservation Trust⬠by donating to my campaign to draw 1000+ bumblebees in as short of time as I can (around 3 hours)
If more than Β£1000 is raised, I'll draw #bees to match the amount.
www.justgiving.com/page/1000bum...
There are still 3 copies of this available! (The first three, in fact.)
#KindleBookGiveaway #UKKindleBookGiveaway
Not smiling. Perfect
01.08.2025 16:41 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Shout-out to my fellow Gen-Xers, out here in our 50s with clothes that say we're 25 and knees that think they're 90.
01.08.2025 09:06 β π 404 π 42 π¬ 28 π 9βThere is hope in honest error, none in the icy perfections of the mere stylist.β
01.08.2025 07:28 β π 14 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0At least three people have been saved from having to pay interest on an unpaid tax bill by me posting this today, and that is definitely time better spent than, say, sending queries to agents in an attempt to prove they donβt read ππ
31.07.2025 21:55 β π 18 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0Yikes!
01.08.2025 08:52 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Right. This is serious. π
Help me raise at least £1000 for the Bumblebee Conservation Trust⬠by donating to my campaign to draw 1000+ bumblebees in as short of time as I can (around 3 hours)
www.justgiving.com/page/1000bum...
Am about to lift the following from a thread I did once in the Olim Bird Place, but if I leave a legacy behind, please let it be the legacy of coining the term The Chortlemuffin effect. The Chortlemuffin Effect describes a citational chain leading to bullshit. /1
01.10.2023 22:27 β π 56 π 19 π¬ 4 π 4A small black dog lying on a flat sandy beach with blue water and green hills in the distance behind her. She has a very sandy snoot
Mila getting to know the beaches of the Western Isles #DogsOfBluesky
30.07.2025 19:11 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Hey folks, I'm raising money for Venture Scotland, a charity that changes young people's lives through outdoor learning. I'm doing 300,000 steps in September, my small contribution to their attempt to walk the whole Scottish coastline. You can donate here, thanks:
www.justgiving.com/page/doug-jo...
Please don't plug keyboards or other devices into random USB ports, ok?
29.07.2025 10:47 β π 4731 π 1515 π¬ 51 π 41I was very pleased to see you recognised and quoted in the BBC news article!
30.07.2025 08:23 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0French sign saying (in French) "Crepes and chocolates", left arrow. "Cruel world", right arrow. Harvested from the webs, no idea of attribution.
27.07.2025 08:10 β π 4387 π 1199 π¬ 38 π 58Something that devours words β but cannot understand.
Thereβs a great commentary about the poem online. Reminds me of when I, as a student, learned about it. We students were also, sometimes, bookworms in the pejorative sense! Reading but not comprehending.
theriddleages.bham.ac.uk/riddles/post...
I'm writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.
- Shannon Hale
If you see this post a redhead.
29.07.2025 06:58 β π 22 π 1 π¬ 2 π 1screenshot d'un tweet de @twunkishbaby. Il y a une photo de nicola sirkis et le tweet dit "j'ai demandΓ© Γ chatgpt, j'ai demandΓ© Γ grok, oui bah j'ai demandΓ© Γ la lune et le soleil ne le sait pas"
volΓ© sur mastodon
28.07.2025 15:59 β π 3 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0Just finished Service Model by @aptshadow.bsky.social and I wish every rich person who thinks they are safe from the troubles of the world as long as they sequester themselves in a fancy mansion with AI robot valets would read this dystopian masterpiece.
βοΈ βοΈ βοΈ βοΈ βοΈ
Kudos to the Sebastopol π
Tour Guided Meditation for Inner Peace
youtu.be/R0t_OGli0jg?...
Today, we remember and celebrate Janey Godley.
25.07.2025 08:54 β π 2573 π 675 π¬ 40 π 20Exactly!
Come on @dc.com let me do it!
Genuine call to any DC writers/editors that people reeeeeeally love my dogs.
My daily dogs sketches a day were a big smash & my kid's book about dogs is much-loved.
Would be up for a #Krypto #superman comic or strip.
#SDCC #comics
embarrassing myself
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