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Tim Hardy @timbobaggins.bsky.social · 1h

We bought it yesterday, and will be making a start in two chapters' time.

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Adrian Teal @tealcartoons.bsky.social · 2h

Here's why A.I. art is a thin gruel rather than a nourishing cassoulet...

eric stirpē @stirpicus.bsky.social · Aug 15

Kurt Vonnegut’s definition of what makes something “art” is one of my favorites I’ve seen - from a letter to his brother in 1995.

People capable of loving some paintings or etchings or whatever can rarely do this without knowing something about the art-ist. Again, the situation is social rather than scientific. Any work of art is one halt of a conversation between two human beings, and it helps a lot to know who is talking at you. Does he or she have a reputation for seriousness, for sincerity? There are virtually no beloved or respected paintings made by persons of whom we know nothing. We can even surmise a lot about the lives of whoever did the paintings in the caves underneath Lascaux, France.
So I dare to suggest that no picture can attract serious attention without a human being attached to it in the viewer's mind. If you are unwilling to attach your name to your pictures, and to say why you hope others might find them rewarding to look at, there goes the ballgame right there. Pictures are famous for their human-ness and not their picture-ness.
There is also the matter of craftsmanship. Real picture lovers like to "play along," so to speak, to look closely at the surface to see how the illusion was created by nothing but an unusual human being, with hands and eyes. If you are unwilling to say how you made your pictures, there goes the ballgame a second time.
Good luck, and love as always
K

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Tim Hardy @timbobaggins.bsky.social · 1h

Agreed, but the "Christmas and New Year's Greetings" message could surely wait until closer to the time?

Tim Hardy @timbobaggins.bsky.social · 2h

How about a musical tin of humbug?

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Tim Hardy @timbobaggins.bsky.social · 2h

I had no idea the last repost was based on fact! I thought it was just excellent silliness.

Dan Douglas @dandouglas.bsky.social · 3h

every line of this story keeps getting better

Barnsley man in hospital after three-day cola bottles binge

Nathan Rimmington ate his way through 3kg of sweets - and doctors were shocked he survived.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 2h

This is just to say

I have eaten
3kg
Of cola bottles

Which was
Medically
Ill advised
And bunged me up
Completely
With gelatin

Forgive me
I had a hankering
And also
Ate a carvery

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Jack O'Lantern Graham @timescarcass.bsky.social · 2h

Oh really? Y'don't say. Well I never. Gee golly gosh. And other sarcastic expressions of surprise.

รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈 @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 2h

👍🏻

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Jason @nickmotown.bsky.social · 5h

Both Cream and The Jam were going to reunite for gigs in Devon and Cornwall this year, but the venues couldn't agree about who should go on first.

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 6h

My local greengrocer has started putting the aubergines on the top shelf.

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Tim Hardy @timbobaggins.bsky.social · 6h

Unsolicited nit pick

The Irritating Gentleman by Berthold Woltze
It shows a man in a hat and bow tie leaning over the back of a bench and apparently talking at great and unwanted lengths to a very unimpressed young woman sitting on the other side of the bench.

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 7h

I see the UK has now made the plot of Some Like It Hot illegal.

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Tim Hardy @timbobaggins.bsky.social · 7h

This (My Little Pony RPG) sounds weirdly good. And it's a lovely thread.

John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 8h

The MLP rpg is legot brilliant btw. I've run it for adults multiple times. They always go "wtf is this" at first then end up enjoying ot so much.

The whole concept of your 'save' tokens counting double if you spend them on SOMEONE ELSE shifts the whole table dynamic.

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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 7h

This is such a good point. I can't afford £100 for a covid booster. I could and would cheerfully pay £15 for one as I do flu. I also don't understand why so many aren't eligible for an NHS booster this year considering it didn't miraculously stop being covid over the summer

Gabby @gabliotecaria.bsky.social · 7h

This makes me want to break things. If it's such a no-big (it actually is a big that fucking disabled me), and you're equating it to flu (again, not remotely like), then why aren't the prices comparable?

(They should be free but given that's not going to happen, well)

Jason Hazeley @jasonhazeley.bsky.social · 7h

It’s dispiriting that this is what getting a COVID vaccination now looks like to this chronic asthmatic.

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WATCH @watch-notequalyet.bsky.social · 8h

We are so encouraged by the huge response to our Transparency campaign.
Thank you to the thousands who have visited this page on our website:

www.womenandthechurch.org/transparency

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Tim Hardy @timbobaggins.bsky.social · 7h

That sounds like an excellent follow-up.

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Tim Hardy @timbobaggins.bsky.social · 7h

Glorious.

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 8h

It won't matter and it isn't the point - transphobia is the point and that's all it is - but if we're going to define rape as gaining sexual consent by deception, that opens up an awful lot of totally normal situations to prosecution. Lots of people lie to get someone into bed.

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Viv Schwarz @vivschwarz.bsky.social · 7h

I think letting children make books together gets them thinking in a lot of ways that inevitably lead to increased media literacy. Telling stories helps you to recognise stories elsewhere. Who is telling them? How are they being told? And why are they being told this way?

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

this is absolutely my favorite protest innovation of 2025

"my opponents are violent antifa extremist terrorists"

"your opponents are dressed as giant inflatable frogs"

solid fuck you to the pepe crowd too

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Keith (vibe spreadsheeter) @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 11h

BASEBALL FANS UPSET AT RECEIVING EXCESSIVE AMOUNTS OF BASEBALL

"I came here hoping to see the normal amount of nothing happening. But this is more nothing than I prepared for," said one attendee.

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Tim Hardy @timbobaggins.bsky.social · 7h

I hope you had a lovely time! Dancing at a wedding is a good way to spend an evening.

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 7h

Could an AI journalist do THIS? Maybe. But would they? No. And this is why human ingenuity is vital. (Among other reasons).

Geoffrey Bunting @geoffreybunting.bsky.social · 1d

New from me. I took a little bit of time out of my oppressively busy schedule to comb through what may be my favourite current show, Slow Horses, and carefully log and rank every single fart therein (I made a spreadsheet and everything). Hard-hitting journalism for @thedailybeast.bsky.social.

Every Gary Oldman Fart in ‘Slow Horses,’ Ranked

This week marks a very special episode of “Slow Horses”: the return of its famous flatulence. To celebrate, we ranked each one.

www.thedailybeast.com

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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 9h

When you come at inclusion via the early years idea of creating an 'enabling environment' then what happens is that you adapt the setting to suit the children rather than trying to adapt the children to suit the setting.

'The child is not for the school; the school is for the child." #EduSky

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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 20h

I used to be obsessed with Phil Collins but take a look at me now.

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 10h

To be fair, the government doesn’t talk nearly enough about the economic fallout from Farage’s pet project, Brexit - either what it’s already cost us or what’s still to come.

In both cases, the answer is pretty much the same: a bit shit.

This feels well overdue.

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TIMES
THE SUNDAY TIMES
Keir Starmer's plan to blame Nigel Farage for budget tax rises With Reform UK threatening the end of' two-party politics, both Labour and the Tories are fighting to stay relevant as conference season comes to an end

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