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Jools Vergne 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇬🇧 @joolsvergne.bsky.social · Mar 27

Gwen in trouble. Storyboard for FIRST LANDING, a story by @zubrin.bsky.social

Jools Vergne 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇬🇧 @joolsvergne.bsky.social · 1d

The spearhead of human civilization and curiosity is being decimated by tax evaders. Fucking barbarians.

Reuters @reuters.com · 2d

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Monday it will cut nearly 550 jobs as part of a restructuring, not related to the current U.S. government shutdown.

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Kaja Kallas @kajakallas.bsky.social · 2d

The evidence of Russia’s war crimes in Ukraine is plain to see.
Unpunished crimes encourage new atrocities.

Today, we are providing the first €10 million for the Special Tribunal to ensure that those responsible for the crimes of aggression do not escape justice.

Extract of my press conference ↓

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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 3d

Weekend read: Métal Hurlant n°2

April 1975. Cover Art by Philippe Druillet. Includes: Harzak by Mœbius, Gail and AAARRRZZZ by Ph. Druillet, Going Home by Richard Corben, Les armées du conquérant by Jean-Pierre Dionnet and Jean-Claude Gal. Absolute legends!

@metalhurlantoff.bsky.social

A cover of the Métal Hurlant magazine, produced by "Les Humanoïdes Associés", with cover art by Philippe Druillet, featuring a red-eyed monstrous character seemingly being tortured by some refined metallic mechanism.

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Jools Vergne 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇬🇧 @joolsvergne.bsky.social · 3d

a magnolia apparently

Jools Vergne 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇬🇧 @joolsvergne.bsky.social · 3d

#BlueSkyArtShow
#Glow

A café in Paris called Boire, rire et manger (Drink, Laugh and Eat) with patrons and passerbys

Jools Vergne 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇬🇧 @joolsvergne.bsky.social · 3d

things and other
#MyArt

rough drawing/sketching of a kid riding a snail and Juno my dog

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 4d

I can remember people saying it would mean WW3 as well. Good times.

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Jools Vergne 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇬🇧 @joolsvergne.bsky.social · 4d

The last opus from Master Paul Thomas Anderson. In theatres now. 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟.
The score was composed by Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood.
#FilmSky

One Battle After Another film/movie poster

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Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social · 4d

This is fascism. This is a police state. Masked men with guns in unmarked cars are driving through residential neighborhoods during the daytime looking to kidnap women and children.

Resist this. Never normalize this or else these fascists thugs will some day be used against you and your family.

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justthisguy.net @justthisguy.net · 4d

I’m imagining the #NoKingsProtest, nationally, organizing this song as one gigantic flashmob. This, but everywhere:

youtu.be/rfUEstWJUkA?...

The most INSANE Bohemian Rhapsody Flashmob you will ever see!!

YouTube video by Julien Cohen

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Jools Vergne 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇬🇧 @joolsvergne.bsky.social · 5d

listen to the master

samuel @quilombo.bsky.social · 6d

This from @realgdt.bsky.social talking about 'Frankenstein' is so good.

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king's co-op bookstore @kingsbookstore.bsky.social · 6d

i love you all but there isn't one of you i wouldn't turn on for this moby dick chess set

a moby dick themed chess set with the whaling characters up top, and moby dick and other animals down below

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Polychaete Bob @polychaetebob.bsky.social · 7d

JOB ALERT 🫎🦋🐞🪱🐍🦦🐚
Come and work with us at National Museum Cardiff. Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales seeks a new Head of Zoology to lead an experienced curatorial team driving forward innovative research and public engagement programmes.

nmwtest.ciphr-irecruit.com/Applicants/v...

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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 9d

This right now is another golden era of @2000ad.bsky.social and Henry’s a huge part of why that is—and yes, it’s time you started reading the Prog again. Get it on the app if you can’t get to the newsstand / are far from the UK

St🅰️ked Matty 💿 @stoked.bsky.social · 9d

This is what @henryflint.bsky.social is cooking up in Judge Dredd: And To The Sea Return. RIGHT NOW. Phenomenal, exciting, psychedelic artwork. Nobody is doing it like Flint.

A page of Henry Flint's art in Judge Dredd, And To The Sea Return. The page features Judge Anderson trying to read the mind of a perp, whos mind is filled with nightmarish images of worms. The panels are all at different angles, suggesting the madness Anderson is witnessing. Sat behind the entire composition is one giant nightmarish worm creature. It's spooky stuff!

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 7d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Jools Vergne 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇬🇧 @joolsvergne.bsky.social · 7d

It’s healthy to be humiliated daily in front of your loved ones. I’ve been learning English for decades now, and my GF still corrects me (at my request) for simple mistakes every single day.

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Encyclopaedia Britannica @britannica.com · 8d

There’s a lot going on, so here is a map of the world’s forests, divided by categories of wood.

Map labeled "Geographic Distribution of the World's Forests, Differentiated by Categories of Wood"

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Jools Vergne 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇬🇧 @joolsvergne.bsky.social · 10d

J’ai récemment fait tous les bouquinistes des quais de Paris, maigre récolte : une reliure et deux numéros… C’est plus sympa en plein air, mais effectivement je regarderai en ligne, merci !

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Jools Vergne 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇬🇧 @joolsvergne.bsky.social · 10d

Excellent. Tu l’as trouvé où ?

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Jools Vergne 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇬🇧 @joolsvergne.bsky.social · 11d

#Relax
#BlueSkyArtShow

A dog in the forest with patches of sunlight

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 12d

2 months ago today Human Rights Watch reported Russian army is committing war crimes in Kherson, deliberately hunting civilians with drones in "human safaris". UN has said it too.

You'd think this would be bigger news.

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Jools Vergne 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇬🇧 @joolsvergne.bsky.social · 11d

the russian way

The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 11d

⚡️Russian drone attack on farm kills 13,000 pigs in Kharkiv Oblast.

A Russian drone strike on a pig farm in Kharkiv Oblast killed approximately 13,000 pigs on Oct. 3, Ukraine's State Emergency Service reported.

Russian drone attack on farm kills 13,000 pigs in Kharkiv Oblast

A Russian drone strike on a pig farm in Kharkiv Oblast killed approximately 13,000 pigs on Oct. 3, Ukraine's State Emergency Service (SES) reported.

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Jools Vergne 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇬🇧 @joolsvergne.bsky.social · 12d

There are two main types of aliens: one type with a long tail, another type with two shorter tails. They live in harmony… until they become zombies.

Jools Vergne 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇬🇧 @joolsvergne.bsky.social · 12d

But at the same time… the more aliens try to help, the more they die and grow the zombie mass. Mmm, conflict!

Jools Vergne 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇬🇧 @joolsvergne.bsky.social · 12d

Here is my new pitch idea: Nazi zombie aliens. OK, the alien zombies are not actual Nazis with the swastika, but they tend to be racist and very organised. Non-zombie aliens, who are cool, are helping us.
#FilmSky