Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Reposted by PaulXThompson

Jonathan Edwards @jontofski.bsky.social · 21h

Fallingwater. Watercolour painting finished on this day 5 years ago. Still available as a print in my shop.

10 76 420

PaulXThompson @paulxthompson.bsky.social · 23h

Look at his eyes, look at his blinking.

PaulXThompson @paulxthompson.bsky.social · 1d

Saw that, thought of this. Boze is correct nonetheless.

Barton Fink, Burning Corridoor, Shouting: "ill show you the life of the mind"

1

Reposted by PaulXThompson

Boze the Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 1d

Chatbots and AI slop are going to ruin countless brains. Yours doesn't have to be one of them. Study history. Read poetry. Get acquainted with Bach, Shakespeare, George Eliot. In a time when people are rapidly getting dumber, we need communities devoted to the life of the mind.

4 83 290

PaulXThompson @paulxthompson.bsky.social · 2d

#notanexpert

PaulXThompson @paulxthompson.bsky.social · 2d

If your ordering system enabled them to make an account to put in the order, remove the account. Their goal maybe escalating the privs of the accounts.

1 1

PaulXThompson @paulxthompson.bsky.social · 2d

There's not a whole lot you can: make sure all relevant code and plugins are up to date. Delete suspicious orders. Block the IP addresses if you have access to do so (which probably won't help too much as they will change em).

2 1

PaulXThompson @paulxthompson.bsky.social · 2d

Theyre testing your security. Saw it a lot on my dads site last month.

1 1

Reposted by PaulXThompson

Alistair Fruish @fruishfruish.bsky.social · 3d

Shardcore giving you a sneak preview of some if our Oblique Strategy tribute cards from Alan Moore, Thurston Moore and @leahmoore.bsky.social as well as from
@andrewoneillcomedy.bsky.social
Steve Albini,
@robinince.bsky.social
And others...

shardcore @shardcore.org · 3d

delighted to receive my set of Ambagious Tactics cards from @fruishfruish.bsky.social and the good people of Northampton Arts Lab.

my card is in excellent company!

(also, the cat approves)

Ambagious Tactics: an Oblique Tribute Act a choir of over
100 versatile enigmas

2025 marks the 50-year anniversary of the first appearance of Oblique Strategies by Peter Schmidt and Brian Eno. Northampton Arts Lab decided to mark this by creating a deck made up of many Ambagious Tactics from over one hundred different people. Some of them are connected to Eno and Schmidt, and some are folk who regularly used the decks. Others we asked for different reasons.

a card which reads:

Steal carefully

- shardcore

1 4 14

PaulXThompson @paulxthompson.bsky.social · 5d

Thats amazing.

1

Reposted by PaulXThompson

Deanna Kreisel 🌱 @doctorwaffle.substack.com · 7d

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

Screen cap of parodic version of William Blake's "The Tyger" that begins:
Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright
(Not sure if I spelled that right)
What immortal hand or eye
Could fashion such a stripy guy?
What the hammer that hath hewn it
Into such a chonky unit?
Did who made the lamb make thee,
Or an external franchisee?

36 1.4K 3.6K

Reposted by PaulXThompson

Jennifer C. Wilson @inkjunkie1984.bsky.social · 6d

I'm really excited to be joining @paperjamcc.bsky.social at this event on Sunday 19th October (and I LOVE being referred to as 'jovial', although, let's be honest, there's not many 'J' words!!).

Come along! Buy comics! (Or my books...)

paperjamcomics.blogspot.com/2025/09/smal...

5 8

PaulXThompson @paulxthompson.bsky.social · 8d

What is wrong with this prick?

1

Reposted by PaulXThompson

Jedidiah Ayres @maybejed.bsky.social · Jun 5

Guess it's time to get back to my life's work documenting #milknoir
Now that I've nuked the twitter evidence I'm starting over here.Gonna take me a bit to catch up, but please send me screenshot evidence of adults drinking or intending to drink milk in thriller flicks
letterboxd.com/jedidiahayre...

Milk Noir

Mostly classic noir and crime featuring grownups drinking or intending to drink milk. Find the screenshot evidence on Twitter #milknoir

letterboxd.com

3 8 15

Reposted by PaulXThompson

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 10d

Newsletter: This is The Case Against Generative AI, a comprehensive analysis of a financial collapse built on myths I’ll dispel, the markets’ unhealthy obsession with NVIDIA's growth, and the fact that there is not enough money in the world to fund OpenAI.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-aga...

The Case Against Generative AI

Soundtrack: Queens of the Stone Age - First It Giveth Before we go any further: This is, for the third time this year, the longest newsletter I've ever written, weighing in somewhere around 18,500 wo...

www.wheresyoured.at

49 630 2K

Reposted by PaulXThompson

Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 10d

"Legislated nostalgia: to force a body of people to have memories they do not actually possess."

- Douglas Coupland, Generation X.

2 22 120

PaulXThompson @paulxthompson.bsky.social · 10d

Just checked against interest rates: I ain't had a pay rise in 25 years and I still earn exactly the same multiple of minimum wage as I did in 2000.

1 2

PaulXThompson @paulxthompson.bsky.social · 10d

Nice one - I have gone down the Blambot route for now, but definitely think Soliloquous is pretty close to what I was looking for, and one to bookmark for future use.

www.comicbookfonts.com/Soliloquous-...

Soliloquous font

Talking to yourself out loud? Jabbering? Muttering? Wittering away on some flight of fancy? Why not? Why wait to get compliments from someone else? If you deserve them, pat yourself on the back, give...

www.comicbookfonts.com

1

PaulXThompson @paulxthompson.bsky.social · 11d

Ah nice! I think I'd assumed you worked entirely digitally. Its a great font for the handwritten notes look im going for.

1

PaulXThompson @paulxthompson.bsky.social · 11d

"Keep Dreaming" from @blambot.bsky.social is actually working very for me - in the samples it looks quite crackly, but for my use here a very very slight stroke bridges some of that crackle and gives it the edge over "Wishful Thinker".

blambot.com/en-gb/collec...
blambot.com/en-gb/produc...

Keep Dreaming

Regular & Italic Double Letter Ligatures Barred-I Correction Limited European Characters Which license is right for you? Installation instructions for both Mac and Windows

blambot.com

1 5

PaulXThompson @paulxthompson.bsky.social · 11d

I've happily paid for fonts before and no-doubt shall do again.

Anyway, adding some hashtags might help: #fonts #typography #accessibility

1

PaulXThompson @paulxthompson.bsky.social · 11d

So far, I think Georgia is the closest to fitting the bill, but I'm looking for something a little more unique and interesting. Ideas welcome.

1

PaulXThompson @paulxthompson.bsky.social · 11d

This may be a contraction, but I'm looking for accessible fonts that read well at smallish sizes, have a handwritten, typewriter, generally non-digital vibe and can be used in different weights.

1

PaulXThompson @paulxthompson.bsky.social · 11d

Pretty good overview of what the problem of programming actually is and what you have programmers for: youtu.be/1A6uPztchXk

Vibe Coding Is The WORST IDEA Of 2025

YouTube video by Modern Software Engineering

youtu.be

1

PaulXThompson @paulxthompson.bsky.social · 12d

Working on a comic for Paperjam, it might be called "interview with this fucking prick of a vampire honestly what is wrong with them?"

3