Let me tell you, nobody cared about "biological advantages in sports" when I was a short, uncoordinated kid who got boobs early. Sports are fucking unfair. Nobody has the "right" to win. But everyone should have the right to play.

This is one of the reasons I hate the framing of “discovery” — a beautiful graphic novel doesn’t need to erase the academic work it draws from. Now more than ever we should remember scholarship is human-made — & academic books often cost FAR more to research/write/publish than they will EVER make.

british poets stop being toothless about ai challenge level: impossible

Waistcoat https://botfrens.com/collections/223/contents/97466

For a little while I was making these dudes (I called them sneefters), but they kept breaking or falling over in the kiln. Maybe sometime I'll try some more that are sitting like the strawberry & crying ones

Common loon coming in for a landing: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatis...

in my next life im gonna reincarnate as a gonzo

the Impaler🗡️

Part 103 of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg A gun hidden within a bible, made for Francesco Morozini, Doge of Venice 1600s. The owner of the bible could pull the silk bookmark to shoot while the book was still closed

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Rejoice!

Goodnight from Elwood Winn, sitting in his vardo as he whittles yew into Fox Bride memories. Goodnight from The Faerie Plough pub, where a game of Pope Joan has gotten so out of hand that landlord Ron Hayes has put six regulars on warning of lifetime barring. Goodnight from Hookland.

by Yutaka Murakami (Japanese, b. 1957)

A sonnet for one of my favourite beasts, originally published in Fourteen Magazine a year or two ago!

My first webcomic, The World in Deeper Inspection, is out of hiatus. alcottgrimsley.com/comic/chapte...

When people say they practice Scottish Witchcraft I assume that they are just doing regular neopaganism but with little traffic cones on the heads of all their deity statues.

Happy #makeaterriblecomicday I had to draw this.

This beautiful, delicate ornament in the shape of a bee – just 12cm long and made in gilded copper by Moche artisans in northern Peru in the 6th or 7th century CE (The Met) 🗃️

celestial seal. sealestial? celestseal? universeal. a starbor(harbor) seal. ✎: gouache and colored pencil on paper

Dragon posting 🍝 (It's a giant wyrm but it breathes fire so it counts)

jk rowling is still palling around with fellow transphobe kaeley triller on twitter, who admitted to the statutory rape of a minor under her care when she was working as a youth counsellor. rowling knows this because she blocks people who tell her

my son divamaxxing in the heatwave

More than half way to Net Zero in UK The key fact is that most people believe it is a long way off and hard. Only 8% believe we're halfway there. www.gov.uk/government/n...

Odysseus battles the dozens of men who tried to marry his wife while he was lost at sea.

Look, I'm just saying, when was the last time we saw the land sickening and sacrificed a false king at a sacred grove? I mean, have we tried it? It can't hurt to TRY it, surely?

Keir Starmer Resigns Amid ‘Not Being Very Good Prime Minister’ Scandal

Lynda Barry did not squeeze your heart and simultaneously explain the point of all art with the barest of line drawings so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

Qing dynasty Peach Blossom Dock prints 桃花塢年畫 open a strange Jiangnan world where yaoguai crowd the page, spirits born from foxes, fish, trees, tools, and forgotten household things. Unlike ordinary New Year pictures of luck and prosperity, 1/2 #art

An atmospheric painting called 'Midsummer Bonfires In Stormy Weather' by Swedish artist Karl Nordstrum, 1900. #WyrdWednesday #Midsummer #SwedishArt #art

We, the Free Des Support Committee, remain steadfastly by Des’s side. We’ve been there from the beginning, & we’re not going anywhere, until he & the other Prairieland defendants go free. Zines are not a crime. Solidarity is not a crime. Free Des Revol. Free them all. freedes.net @free.des.revol

when AI companies go bankrupt

Irène Mathieu, our Poet of the Week 💙

fav bit myself is the civil service lead looking deeply wounded at the idea that anyone internationally thinks we don't have functional legal gender recognition when, err

Did you know that a simple thermometer can be a tool of resistance?! Share photos of the heat in your workplace - use #HeatStrike Take a group photo with a Heat Strike sign (hand made is fine) Support the call for safe workplaces and climate action! www.cacctu.org.uk/heat_at_work

Bat from Frederick II, De arte venandi cum avibus (French translation), France ca. 1310

little demon, france, 15th century

This feels… portentous?

jesus fucking christ

If you want to be a rebel zine-reader yourself, here are some zines about this case

Cleric familiars i guess

First look at ‘INSECTARIUM’, a new stop-motion film from Mexican director Sofia Carrillo. The film follows a world where insects have gone extinct, until a girl revives a moth.

Moomin with a zweihänder 💙

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Every chronic illness patient has been tempted

This just arrived! It’s such a wonderful survey of Homer ‘haunted’ literature – and I’m very pleased that Deformations (my Carcanet Odyssey-inspired collection) is featured alongside work by Alice Oswald & A E Stallings as examples of contemporary hauntings.

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