Annihilation, Jeff Vandermeer, 2014

You’re not lazy, you’re overwhelmed. You’re not antisocial, you’re drained. You’re not broken, you’re trying to survive in a system built to burn you out.

@keithwdickinson.bsky.social Afternoon Keith, am I remembering right; you like Liam Wong’s photos? If yes,There’s a podcast episode he’s on, thought you might be like it. He’s on *My Perfect Console*, it’s video games themed but they talk about his photos a lot. open.spotify.com/episode/2bQ5...

Worth remembering...

ボクらの目は、見たいものと見たくないものの間で揺れ動く。ボクらの心は、見せたいものと隠したいものの間で迷い続ける。

"This crazy guy with a shrink-ray just started shooting up the place..."

And so the great present wrapping of 2024 begins…

TIME magazine’s ‘Person of the Year.’

A story in three parts:

Importing the archive: The New Scientist is the only source of band names you’ll ever need. #newscientistbandnames

Great read on why the Generative A.I. bubble might be about to burst. Spoiler Alert: it’s money.

Sounds like a lot of weather is happening outside.

Newbies will think I'm lying when I say that, before Bluesky supported gifs, we would type something like "surprised guy gif" and everyone understood it and we were fine

😂 "Nailed it" (got it first guess). #GuessTheGame #6 🎮 🟩 ⬜ ⬜ ⬜ ⬜ ⬜ #Gamer GuessThe.Game/p/6

They spelt density wrong.

I am the guy who owns the theater where Bruce Wayne’s parents were killed and I just want to say, to everyone asking me why I opened an upscale theater next to a place called “Crime Alley,” it’s always been easier to criticize than to take risks

November 14th: A stupid sexy partially muscled skeleton stands by the perimeter fence and screams for thirty seconds before vanishing...

Stealing this from instagram to share with you the majesty of “worksona.”

Your reminder that this accidental masterpiece of an album exists. Genuine transformative art.

@keithwdickinson.bsky.social Happy Birthday, Congratulations* and many happy returns! *or commiserations… delete as appropriate.

A bookshelf is a portal to countless worlds, a gateway to knowledge that transcends time and space.

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need to start keeping a list of all the times some big supposed display of bleeding edge technology turns out to just be A Guy

Yes hello I would like to speak to the marketing team please.

A great show, Sky did it no favours with it promo material. This show deserves to be a far bigger hit than it currently is.

Ooof, feeling old yet?

I managed to zoom out and sharpen the image up a bit more

Here’s a short rhyme to help you remember how many days there are in each month.

Good morning to everyone, especially @evieweeviewoo.bsky.social who’s not long been back from the nursery run 🥶

*pikachu shocked face*

computing peaked at this moment, it's all been downhill since

Morning all, it’s Monday. I’ve been at work less than an hour and a half and I’m already exasperated with my colleagues weapons grade fuckwittery. How’s your Monday going, better I hope?

Still in this the year two thousand and twenty four, iPlayer cannot, **will not** make a note of which episodes of a series you have watched. Leaving you to half-guess. Every. Single. Time.

Do you ever really grow out of the conviction that wood panelling must hide a secret passage and that it’s just a question of finding the lever ...? Artist: Harry Wingfield

It is 9pm and many people will be going out to mark the passing of one year and the arrival of the next. I meanwhile am wearing new pyjamas and plan to be in bed before well midnight… but happy “Paying to get into a pub that’s free entry the other 364 days of the year day” to all who celebrate!

The Tories said everyone wants imperial measurements again, everyone said, ‘no we don’t’. The Tories said ‘let’s have a consultation on it anyway’ and everyone went and filled it in to say ‘no we don’t want it’. So now they’ve got to scrap it. 🤣 Good times! inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Am I the only miserable bastard that just stopped going to these things years and years ago? I get this strip is about the fall-out, but if it’s out of office hours no one can make you go.

The cookbooks: The best potatoes for this are petticoat furbies, but if you can’t get those, chalky ministers will do nearly as well The shops: We've got big potatoes or small potatoes

Belated good morning all! Well I’ve managed to get all the way to 20th December without succumbing… but I’ve finally been caught out by mince-pie-ageddon* *what do you mean that’s not a thing?

Someday you will find me Caught beneath the landslide In a...

you: (just gave birth in a bed of straw, husband doesn’t know who the dad is, bunch of weird old dudes showed up to gift stinky cologne) well it can’t get worse me: (the little drummer boy) and-a one and-a two and-a one-two-three-four

Good Morning everyone, putting the finishing touches to some fridge magnets made with iron beads, they’re going to be a stocking filler for a friend*. Quite pleased with how they turned out, not bad for a first attempt. *he has zero social media presence so it’s fine #craft #pixelart #retrogames

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This kind of thing is what often puts me off buying modern reprints of older comics. I remember the artist Steve Rude describing modern colour techniques --when done badly-- as "embalming" the linework with colour.

Today’s poem is called ‘Frisbee’.