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Susie M

@wrathofgodherself.bsky.social

780 followers 250 following 7.7K posts

Mammal. Actor, writer, editor, reader, sister, comedy scene survivor, older than you think. Virtual collector and junk-fiend. Dispenser of small ephemeral offerings against the prevailing horror.

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Tom Shakespeare @tomshakespeare.bsky.social · 12h

Happy World Mental Health Day - may you be free from stress, stigma or fear.

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 11h

The Dark Blue Bird, Edward Lear.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 2d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Skot Armstrong @skot.bsky.social · 22h

Isamu Noguchi, “radio nurse” and “guardian ear,” an early baby monitor system, for the zenith radio corporation (1938)

#ThrowbackThursday

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Susie M @wrathofgodherself.bsky.social · 20h

i see the shy and retiring zia y*ssuf of ref*rm is on BBCQT this evening...

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Mathew Lyons @mathewlyons.bsky.social · 1d

“Smile at everyone, but without trusting anyone you do not know. Above all make sure that you do not scorn or condemn anything about their country."

Advice from Erasmus to a scholar visiting England in 1527.

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Susie M @wrathofgodherself.bsky.social · 1d

or a sheep in a woolly wolf's fur coat

Susie M @wrathofgodherself.bsky.social · 1d

thank you, Bruce :-)

Susie M @wrathofgodherself.bsky.social · 1d

'Billy Flea'
Coming soon to a boarding-house/bed-sitting room near you.

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Susie M @wrathofgodherself.bsky.social · 1d

A white dog with an amazing ruff (and probably also a rufffff!)

Artwork attributed to someone with the name Sophia Wilhelmina Evans.

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Susie M @wrathofgodherself.bsky.social · 1d

in tiny print it seems it was being sold by a music shop in Sydney

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Open Risk @openrisk.eu · 1d

"it feels like we lost twenty years just trying to get tech policy and tech firms to kill fewer people, to be just a bit less egregious, and that is time we’ll never get back"

Alas, exactly true. In inteconnected and highly technological societies failure to properly regulate has dire implications

Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.bsky.social · 1d

On the vanquishing, for now, of chat control:

"if we didn’t have to expend most our energies saying ‘No’ to this stupid, ghastly shit, and saying ‘No’ to the stupid, ghastly shit of the tech oligarchs, what might we have built instead? How productively and joyfully could we be spending our lives?

Delighted to be proved wrong — Crooked Timber

crookedtimber.org

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Susie M @wrathofgodherself.bsky.social · 1d

Orange frog, hopping by.

Susie M @wrathofgodherself.bsky.social · 1d

'Oblige me with a light'

Firefly cigarettes, c 1900-WWI

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Susie M @wrathofgodherself.bsky.social · 1d

The wise grasshopper grandpa

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Susie M @wrathofgodherself.bsky.social · 1d

what is the frog singing about? he is singing about frogs and puddles.

Susie M @wrathofgodherself.bsky.social · 1d

owl matchbooks

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Susie M @wrathofgodherself.bsky.social · 1d

How to knit. A little.

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Susie M @wrathofgodherself.bsky.social · 1d

Simple old postcard. Reminder to me of comedian Arnold Brown, who used the rhetorical 'Why not?' as a feature of his stage performances. I did a sit-com pilot with him in the '80s. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gqp8...

Susie M @wrathofgodherself.bsky.social · 1d

POLYDOR - making the discs the Elite prefer. Apparently. Superb ear arrangement.

Susie M @wrathofgodherself.bsky.social · 1d

Natural dyes for linen handkerchiefs.

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Susie M @wrathofgodherself.bsky.social · 1d

Can a person ever have too many pencils?
No.
Pens?
No.
Drawing pads?
No.

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Susie M @wrathofgodherself.bsky.social · 1d

Sport-related advertising for St Raphale quinquina (an aperitif, I think, but never tried it) - the implication is that you need a few glasses a day of it to be fit and beautiful. Hm.

Susie M @wrathofgodherself.bsky.social · 1d

how to dye your clothes (while looking pert) - turning the mechnism allows you to see a variety of colours of dye.

Susie M @wrathofgodherself.bsky.social · 2d

To be an excellent Gas Station you must train your pump-jockeys (pompistes) to be forever smiling and willing to run, skip, & dance around you car while attending to your fuel needs.

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