Status report, “In Bed Thinking About Packing” dep’t: Just as I’m starting to make a list, one of those thin leggy Irish spiders comes abseiling RIGHT DOWN FROM THE CEILING BETWEEN ME AND THE IPAD. …Oh FFS GUY! (Or madam.) (eyeroll) *…And now they’re in bed with me somewhere.* …Gonna ROLL on them. 🫤

Status report, "May 4th Thoughts". REVENGE OF THE SITH dep't: (sigh) This period's perinatal care for women sucks. :/ (Which raises questions about the producers directing the writers. [eyeroll]) "She's lost the will to live"? Sorry, my money's on shock. And cruel, badly thought-out screenwriting.

By the way, one of my own Oz stories is in this. It’s one of the lighter ones, and I think old-school Oz book fans will appreciate it.

Never forget.

Since it's #starwarsday and #Maythe4th, here's a comic I drew almost 2 decades ago about Darth Vader's personal assistant, Sheila.

Seen at Heathrow Airport, this date in 2018…

Keith Haring body painting Grace Jones at Paradise Garage in NYC — Tseng Kwong Chi, 1985

Good thing to hear again in these troubled times. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYnE...

So nearly there! Jump in!

May the Fourth Be With You Yes, I love Star Wars. It helped me decide to reach for my dream, leave the practice of law and start to write. Star Wars gave me my life and my joy.

Just because we can do something doesn't mean we should. And we shouldn't here. AI is a giant data-stealing plagiarism machine. Nothing more.

an excellent @tomgauld.bsky.social from 2017 for @newscientist.com

Now 96% as of 10 AM on the West Coast! 🤩

This may be anti-hot take, but dumping billion of tons of particles into the atmosphere to block the sun is maybe a bad idea, which is why I'm very worried some billionaire will want to do it. Words by me. badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/dimming-th... 🧪

I think this guy had better avoid trying to write the more predictive types of science fiction. 😏

🔭 Markarian's Chain Image Credit & Copyright: Chuck Ayoub ap260501

One for my fellow geeks on #StarWarsDay: the lightsaber handles were made from vintage flash guns. Star Wars had a small budget so set decorator Roger Christian went looking around thrift shops & found a 1940s Grafex camera with flash gun attached & voila!

Your chances of being spied on by a pyramid in London are low but never zero.

James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake was published on May 4th 1939. A work of staggering linguistic invention, a phantasmagoria of terror, night, the unconscious, with belly laughs on every single page. If you’ve never read it, do yourself a favour and start it today

Han Scotch First

NINE DAYS and bluesky cannot help? I do not believe this. I believe there's an expert around here for every single thing.

Would you like to be part of citizen science astronomy? We invite you to classify gravitational lens candidates in so-far unreleased #ESAEuclid data: "Space Warps – ESA Euclid DR1". #ESA #Euclid #astronomy #GravitationalLensing #science #CitizenScience.

THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK trailer with giddy narration by Harrison Ford.

ブロックされたので改めて。このアカウントが他人の絵を無断でAI加工し再投稿しています。皆さんもお気を付けください。 I was blocked, so I’m posting this again. This account is taking other people’s artwork, editing it with AI without permission, and reposting it. Please be careful.

Thoughts: 😆 😅 😁 😂 🤣 🤣 🤣 #ItsFunToPretend 👍

May the 4th Be With You! Happy Star Wars Day from Rome!

NASA just dropped more than 12,000 photos from the Artemis II mission. It'll take me a few days to go through them all, but so far it's one stunner after another. Link: eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos... Credit: NASA/Artemis II Crew (h/t @jonostrower.com)

You KNOW what day it is …

#MayThe4th Happy Star Wars Day – May the Force be with you! ✨ Looking for a real-life galaxy far, far away? The Zweibrücken Observatory has you covered! 🔭 #StarWarsDay 📷 www.zeit.de/zett/2019-03...

Dolphins spotted off the coast of Brighton in southern England. Footage captured by the Sussex Dolphin Project shows dolphins jumping and swimming in the sea off the coast from Brighton marina

The Cosmic Web - From Rolf Wahl Olsen - https://flic.kr/p/2nDaUax

My service dog Minion needs knee surgery next week. I am raising money to help pay for it. Please, anything you can spare will help. If you can, please share this post widely. Thank you so much. paypal.me/MsAprilDaniels venmo: @Mz-April-Daniels

Hey #Montreal!

Looks like the end of the trail, but what an end! So happy to see all this water on the land. Banner day of birding at Last Mountain Lake - 53 species, with >500 pelicans and pretty much all the grebes. My heart is full 😊 #birds 🌿

Today is Quintidi the 15th of Floréal in the year 234. Floréal is the month of flowers. Today we celebrate silkworms.#JacobinDay More information on silkworms

The author copies of The World According To Sharks have arrived. I’ve only got ten of them. In a box. They’re all ear-marked for family and friends except for one, which I’ll send to one of you lovely Patreoneers.

GenAI is plunder, pass it on (a comic)

This annual meteor shower occurs as Earth passes through the dusty debris left behind by Halley’s Comet as it journeys around the sun

We have an *extremely* important announcement to make. From Wednesday, we will be launching our puffin live cam, coming to you from the Farne Islands. So you can watch puffins all day long. In celebration, please enjoy this clip of puffins being really busy for 39 seconds straight.

So here is the creepy part. THE YEAST COLLECTED AT XBOX HQ MAKES XBOX LOGO BREAD. I have no idea how this happened. It’s a miracle and so creepy. Ancient aliens and shit. Ok good night. Try some baking. Play some games. I love you, I’ve got your back. 👊💚

LOOK AT THIS BEAUTIFUL PIECE OF ART @crossnmm.bsky.social made for me! I can’t stand how perfect it is and Rogue is now canonically a Monkees fan because of this! Thank you, Cross!

My latest books cartoon for the @theguardian.com

Every splashy New York Times profile of a right wing influencer.

Ornamental Lancet Heads https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/471870

Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.

i've been getting more folks telling me about this and it's not anything i agreed to. it's been stolen like AI steals. please vandalize it if and when you see it.