one morning, when gregor samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a very hungry caterpillar

Bit of a week! Series 2 readthrough for Smoggie Queens and then winning best comedy at the @broadcastnow.bsky.social digital awards! 🤪 🏆 #SmoggieQueens #BDAS #Comedy

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In years to come we'll look at this era and wonder why in light of a global pandemic, economic inflation, growing inequality and technological upheaval we decided to make the private lives of a minority considerably worse.

Having excluded all trans people from proceedings before it, the Supreme Court decides in favour of For Some Women Scotland.

When icons collide... #Bluey #SesameStreet youtu.be/kowOpl8FghM?...

Kurt Vonnegut man

The head of #WhiteLotus’s corporate PR team arriving at work on Monday.

God I miss when the news was basically just shit like this

Today's Headlines

Last One Laughing is brilliant fun. Just joyful and daft.

That US national security group chat

So excited that @chrisjonesgeek.bsky.social's show Smoggie Queens has been recommissioned for a second series. Up the Boro! deadline.com/2025/03/bbc-...

'Tuvix' remake waiting to happen.

Everyone watching The Phantom Menace in 1999: “Why does this matter? Tarrifs and blockades of trade routes in outer space?” George Lucas in 2025:

Ozymandias

Diana Davies, US photographer who documented the US Gay Liberation movement of the 1960s and '70s, including activist Marsha P. Johnson #WomensArt

This. Those with power do not want others to have human rights - the rights you have because you are human. That is why they sneer at human rights, use the media and propaganda to deride those rights, and cut off legal aid so the rights cannot be asserted. And some unwise people clap and cheer.

More of this!

Back in 2023, Elon Musk infamously posted and reposted a meme falsely claiming Republicans hadn't changed their views in the last decade, while Democrats had moved left. An FT study confirms that was a lie: Democrats are typical for Western democracies, and MAGA and Musk are _nearly off the chart_.

personally would not describe the myth of a man cursed to roll a rock uphill FRUITLESSLY FOR ALL ETERNITY as “a reminder that you can overcome anything” but you do you, meta ad

Happy Pancake Day

Natalie Rak, also known as Rak, is a Poland based street artist #WomensArt #Monday

It is March 2, 2025. My plan was to leave the world on March 2, 2024. What a difference in a year. I still have bad days. But reasons to stay are easier to find each day. Thankful for family, for friends, for library kids who ARE going to save the world. Once a library kid, always a library kid 💚

Emergency podcasts sir. Thousands of ‘em.

Freddie Mercury didn't go into the studio and nail the vocals for "The Show Must Go On" in one take while dying of AIDS for you to despair and give up now. Take the time you need, but then get up and get back out there. The show must go on.

"Daddy or Chips?"

The three doctors (1973)

Soundtrack to my afternoon... #EastEnders www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wzi...

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The big takeaway here is that Reuters won this case against the AI company on grounds they violated fair use—the judge found the AI company was guilty because, in using copyrighted works to generate its output, it “meant to compete... by developing a market substitute.” Huge.

“Don’t let the injustice of what could have been override the joy of what was” #BigBoys was always big-hearted, brilliant and bloody funny, but it ends on a beautiful, thoughtful, melancholy note. Great telly.

In the culture of everything that is happening at the moment, this does not surprise me in the slightest. Dolly Parton musical halted over 'homophobic abuse'

Monday showing up for another week of news.

Artist Janet Echelman creates largescale soft fiber sculptures which are suspended over particular outdoor sites #WomensArt

On 22 January, GB News presenter Josh Howie repeated a homophobic slur linking the LGBTQ+ community to paedophilia. This is offensive, wrong and unlawful. Join me and @GoodLawProject to file a complaint to Ofcom 👇 action.goodlawproject.org/ofcom-stop-g...

I read this on dark days for a little solace.

Clips from the West Wing aren’t going to save us

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10/10, no notes.

Self care is ‘Delias Winter Collection’ (1995) She’s just made a salad dressing out of one whole melted Camembert and a tub of Crème Fraiche.

For the love of all that is good in this world do NOT buy books from Amazon. Cancel your Amazon accounts. Go to the Library (in person or online ebooks!) and support local bookstores instead. Please #BookSky don’t be ambivalent

Trying to follow an online recipe: - read a short essay on how mustard works - close pop up ad for Klarna - skim through a history of spoons: from anointing to quenelles - skip FAQs on whether chicken is fruit - chase away video ad for Uber Eats - get to recipe (units: nanometres or decibels)

This is @timothysnyder.bsky.social ’s concept of not obeying in advance in action. “Working towards the Fuhrer” is the psychosocial explanation of how and why a lot people will have the urge to invent orders for themselves to obey.

My little neice Olivia has the worst case of hemorrhoids the doctor says he's ever seen.