we all know I have no life, so:

From: Archangel Gabriel and Mistress Goose (1964), dir. Jiří Trnka, Krátký Film Praha

The footage:

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I’m guessing Noah Hawley won’t be making any shows for Amazon Prime for the foreseeable future www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Great how your phone gives you memories. It's two years to the day since Rachel Reeves told me if Labour won the general election they would send the National Audit Office in to investigate the Teesworks saga. The authority responsible hasn't published audited accounts since then, yet nothing.

More than half of Britons support rejoining EU 10 years on from Brexit vote. Brexit was secured with lies. It hasn't delivered any of the claimed economic benefits. Post Trump world will be more polarized. Nobody under the age of 28 had a say on Brexit. Need another referendum.

Loved the first 'web watchers' video, delighted to see another brilliant short that wrings both humour and spookiness out of astutely spoofed reddit chat (and more generally our absurd online life these days).

Watch my video it takes place on the internet youtu.be/_RG7hU_S8Vc

The clarity of this recording! It makes Robert Johnson's guitar sound even spookier. Stunning. Found via @openculture.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmnN...

Been listening to 'Octopus' by The Bees. Man, that's a good (underrated) album. Gently psychedelically weird but accessible, cheery and fun, smushes genres around with abandon, varied but cohesive, great. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCv0...

From: Bobby's Girl (1985), dir. Toshio Hirata, Madhouse/Project Team Argos A famous piece of animation by Takashi Nakamura

Ridiculous statement from Ex Nato chief - UK unprepared for war due to an “ever-expanding welfare budget”. 25.3m people live below minimum income standard. Since 2010 HMRC hasn't collected £500bn of taxes. Does he think poor/ill make better defenders. Silence on corporate welfare, taxing the rich

Prince William, heir to the UK throne, collected £2.5m rent for rat-infested Dartmoor prison via the Duchy of Cornwall. The Duchy owns multi-billion property, runs businesses, pays no corporation & capital gains tax. The Duke voluntarily pays income tax but details are not known. archive.ph/NjkbH

"Hey, Paddington! I heard you were Death!"

#OnThisDay in 1561, as the sun rose over Nuremberg, the residents described seeing an aerial battle take place in its glare — the erratic dance of orbs, crosses, cylinders and a crash-landing beyond the city. An early sighting of alien #UFO? publicdomainreview.org/collection/c... #OTD

When you crash into someone's living room make sure they drink a cup of Tango! , 1999

This is clever rowan441.github.io/1dchess/ches...

WaPo website replaced search with AI and it's going great

I'm dragging these out again for those of you doing "The Broadchurch Game." My criteria were not the same as those @jonnymorris.bsky.social is using for the game, but there might be some handy prompts here.

people are getting all worked up about this but it boils down to simple economics really: if a few people want the yachts to which they’re entitled then a few other people have to die soaked in piss in hospital corridors

Art by Rodney Matthews ‘The Rainbow Room’ (1993)

Illustration by Anton Seder, from Das Thier in der Dekorativen Kunst (1896). Source: @gettymuseum.bsky.social / Internet Archive Available to buy as a print. https://pdimagearchive.org/images/d2f9d8e4-ece7-46ba-8b46-d6c57d8e1cd6 #reptiles #art-nouveau #beasts #modernism #lizards #frogs #ornament

Oh god, is there ANOTHER version with even more bad guys?!

Nowadays Windows is so terrible it’s effectively acting as marketing for Apple & even Linux

It's extraordinary how Israel can go on a murderous rampage and steal land from three different countries at the same time and our leaders will look you dead in the eye and say Iran is the rogue state in the region

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In these stunning chromolithographs from 1851, Jean Baptiste Vérany realizes his ambition — to accurately render “the suppleness of the flesh, the grace of the contours, the transparency and the coloring” of cephalopods: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/verany-cephalopods

And the Greens take the seat from Reform by a healthy margin in a ward they came in fourth place last time bsky.app/profile/elec...

Watercolour illustrations from Mary Gartside’s An Essay on a New Theory of Colours (1808). Hand-made and unique to each volume, the images have been deemed some of the earlier examples of abstraction in painting. More in the post on the site — publicdomainreview.org/collection/g...

NEW: Lebanon is Gaza 2.0. That’s what Israeli ministers are saying in their own words. Believe them. 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/lebanon-wa...

Look it’s either this or a cruel unfair system of taxation where Jeff Bezos goes from having 419 billion dollars to 417 billion dollars

I love most rockumentaries but a 'female brit-grunge-pop almost-made-it band reforming decades later' story is good stuff. Plus I recognised the band (Beaker)! Got Backgarden on an old Shifty Disco compilation - just one of those memorably good individual tracks... www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Entering the kitchen and a tutorial pops up: [Hint: Combine two or more Pastas to create a Pasta Medley.]

*ARCHIVE spotter: clara_goodfarter; east beach; 1228hrs 18/7/24

Just taking a little spin in the *checks notes* DOOMSDAY PLANE en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsda...

Abby Martin Went To Israel. IT'S WORSE Than You Think @abbymartin.bsky.social

"A whole civilisation will die tonight" - the latest inspiring words from the winner of the inaugural FIFA Peace Prize.

I set up a patreon? I don't have tiers really, just trying it out patreon.com/craigactuall...

I made a short horror computer game called The Library a little while ago, and it's currently featured in The Ghost Stories bundle on itch.io! A collection of 19 games, stories, zines and poetry anthologies all about ghosts for the bargain price of $10, check it out!

I can't help but view this panel as Dare and Digby finally facing an inescapable impending fatal situation.

Zima (Winter) (ca. 1920s) by Michalina Janoszanka. Source: National Museum in Krakow Available to buy as a print. https://pdimagearchive.org/images/d7c2c1d4-6b75-4428-bb4f-2a9c2716e5a3 #glass #birds #modernism #poland #snow #stars #trees #landscape #crows #art #publicdomain

Just got to this: Nine Knves by @n-auchterlounie.bsky.social Its great. It says Pulp Fiction as an influence on the back, and I get that but also felt very Coen Brothers/Fargo Great stuff. More plz!

This would be a huge contract for JCB. In other news, the JBC group has so far given £1.1 million to the Conservative party and Kemi Badenoch since she became its leader

This is so, so well-articulated.