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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 2h

Double kudos to @jonhenley.bsky.social and the @theguardian.com for:

a) taking the trouble to report on a set of continental European elections where the far-right didn't sweep all before it!

b) calling the far-right the far-right, not 🤮 'the hard-right'!

Portugal’s far-right Chega falls well short of expectations in local elections

Party hoped to take 30 municipalities but secured three after share of vote halved from parliamentary elections

www.theguardian.com

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Nat Cassidy @natcassidy.bsky.social · 2d

This photo of Robert Bloch is the most writer photo to have ever writer photo’d. It is Pure Writer Photo.

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Threatening Music Notation @musicnotation.bsky.social · 4h

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Patricia Moj 🎨 || freelance illustrator / concept artist @pbmoj.bsky.social · 5h

Hi #PortfolioDay ! 💕

I'm Patricia, a freelance illustrator and concept artist from Germany. I especially love doing character-centric illustrations and do work for books, tabletop, board + video games, and other projects! 😊

✨ patriciamoj.com
✨ [email protected]

digital painting of an elf holding a magically glowing cup, leaves floating around

digital painting, a mage wielding water magic

digital painting, fanart of Lucanis and Spite from Dragon Age Veilguard

digital painting, a magic student instructing their pet pig to do some magic

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AryaOrgana @aryaorgana.bsky.social · Oct 26

Neurotypicals need to stop telling autistic kids to carry a blue bucket to justify being nonverbal, or not wearing a costume.

Stop asking kids to carry a literal sign they're different.

If a kid shows up on Halloween, give them candy. No requirements. Period.

#autism #actuallyautistic

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Jesper Haglund @jesperhaglund.bsky.social · 5h

www.youtube.com/shorts/i1n3S...

A Defendant Stupidly Interrupting His Lawyer's Closing Remarks

YouTube video by Game Changer Shorts

www.youtube.com

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Myra Åhbeck Öhrman @myrannosaurus.doomscroll.se · 17h

Saknar också ett sosseparti som inte bara är en slav till opinionen. Som drev den istället för att hela tiden vika sig för folks dumma känslor om saker. Känslorna är inte alltid sanna, det är då ert jävla jobb att förklara det för folk så de gör rätt val. Inte att rycka på axlarna och anpassa er.

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Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 17h

This week's Oktobersketch vignette. All quiet on the front.

A scene of various animals wearing roughly WW2 kit, relaxing with tea and cigarettes. A platypus, scorpion, barn owl, ourang-outan, jumping spider, crab and monitor lizard.

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matthew @pahuski.com · 23h

Happy Columbo’s Day

Screenshot from Columbo. He his talking to his dog, which is sitting is the drivers seat of a car. “Okay, I’m gonna put you in charge. You take care of the car. You’re a responsible dog. When I get back, if the car’s okay, I’ll give you another cookie.”

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waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 2d

Job occupations, from an 1881 census. Every one of these sounds like something a sorely provoked Captain Haddock would should at someone in times of heavy stress.

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Aly Fell @alyfell.bsky.social · 1d

Old pic day (well, just found an 'old pic in a file' day really). Isabelle Kingdom Brunel

Isabelle Kingdom Brunel. An image I painted quite a few years ago of a gender-swapped Isambard Kingdom Brunel. It's based on the classic photographic portrait (by Robert Howlett in 1857) of the Victorian engineer taken against the huge launching chains of the SS Great Eastern.

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Jesper Haglund @jesperhaglund.bsky.social · 1d

Funny thing is, with this one, the last two penalty saves I've seen have been like that. (The previous one was Elis Beshisari for IFK Gothenburg against Malmö FF.)

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Katie West @katiewest.bsky.social · 1d

J. Draper has an incredible YouTube channel about London history and recently did a video about how the UK beat the fascists in the 1970s and it's really good. youtu.be/XeHviTKEqSo?...

How We Beat The Fascists Last Time: The London History Show

YouTube video by J. Draper

youtu.be

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 1d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Jesper Haglund @jesperhaglund.bsky.social · 1d

I realise Forest, Wolves and Villa have had shaky starts to the season, but I didn't think it was *that* bad.

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Centuries of Sound @centuriesofsound.bsky.social · 1d

#TheTwen2ie5 day 12

Kate Nash - GERM (UK, 2025)

I confess, I did not know that Kate was still recording in 2025, let alone that she would come out with this anti-TERF banger, and a banger with footnotes and sources too! YT comments full of furious TERFs too.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2Mo...

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Laura @lauropea.bsky.social · 1d

looking for some MOTTE STUFF
BAILEY this evening
looking for some MOTTE STUFF
BAILEY tonight 🎶

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Jesper Haglund @jesperhaglund.bsky.social · 1d

Goth - The world is a terrible place, and that makes me sad.
Punk - The world is a terrible place, and that makes me angry.
Ska - The world is a terrible place, but I have a trumpet.

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r o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 1d

It really sucks that snob gatekeepers framed classical as high brow music so now any time you talk about it, people assume you're trying to signal intellect

But the music itself isn't pretentious, thats cultural baggage. I just like it when sounds are arranged in a cool way, like any other genre

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Jesper Haglund @jesperhaglund.bsky.social · 1d

Like, I literally can't think of a more immediately hummable tune than Eine Kleine Nachtmusik.

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Jesper Haglund @jesperhaglund.bsky.social · 1d

Papa Smurf is the Babeuf of comic book stories.

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Michel Lacombe @michellacombe.bsky.social · 1d

Julius Caesar conquered Gaul in 51 BC and died in 44 BC, therefore all of Asterix's adventures took place over the course of less than seven years, probably much less since Asterix's chieftain was at the battle of Alesia, were it is probable Asterix and Obelix's fathers died. In this essay, I will

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Jesper Haglund @jesperhaglund.bsky.social · 1d

Seems fitting for the horniest decade.

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Emily McGovern @emilyscartoons.bsky.social · 15d

(Nun speaks to Giant Walrus)
Agatha. Agatha spitt it out. Agatha
(Walrus spits out penguin wearing wimple)
(Nun slaps penguin)
Consort NOTTE with the Wallruss
Ten Hail Marys and NO SUPPERE
(Walrus thumps away, penguin grumbles)

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Jesper Haglund @jesperhaglund.bsky.social · 1d

They're not wrong.

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