#StartingAsIMeanToGoOn Happy New Year everybody

“Pray tell, the Baron, what sort of gentleman is he?” “Well…”

I've seen precisely two of these. Most disappointed that the Ballad of Wallis Island didn't get a Braddie

The Quiet Wit of Rea Irvin: Rediscovering The Smythes by Tammi Morton-Kelly www.tcj.com/the-quiet-wi...

I don't know which is more impressive: fighting Spaniards at the of 89 or getting married at the age of 103? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William...

FREE PDF Of my Mundane Diary (Jan-Jun 2024) in the link below. It's a comic strip diary about walking the mundane outskirts of Wakefield, UK. Download it now: (61mb) drive.google.com/file/d/173xN... #DiaryComic #FreePDF #MundaneDiary #ComicStrip #IndieComics #Wakefield

When I Google Carvana, the first thing that pops up Carmax. But when I google Carmax, the first thing that pops up is Carvana. I assume both companies are paying to be put at the top of searches looking for the other one? Google is no longer a search engine at all, really

If anyone ever writes a Guardian Other Lives obituary for me I hope they use the phrase "wolfish good looks" or similar www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.

Easy choice if you're a deer deciding where to buy a house

It's Friday! Time for the good news thread. What's YOUR good news? In lieu of a pic of what I'm watching, I'm sharing the #Creatives4Sudan auction again. My good news is we've raised over 13k now but we can do more. Please consider a bid to make my news even better! app.galabid.com/creatives4su...

Cormorants and calm sea #Prestonpans

DOJ's newest recruitment ad features Judge Dredd, the comic satire about the dangers of lawless policing and authoritarian power

Going home on a 125 like it's the 1980s. Young me would have been drinking Stella and smoking Silk Cut

Enjoyed the Jamie Reid exhibition at the Worm Gallery in Aberdeen. Nice to see a Forbidden Planet flyer in the glass case (promoting his book Up They Rise)

MacAlpine's English Gaelic dictionary for sale. Nineteenth Century original in need of some tlc #Gaelic ebay.us/m/8N3bGQ

Thanks @corneliusbeers.bsky.social. Excellent shop btw. If you want your own copy of Tales of Paranoia I still have some, see the link below... ebay.us/m/A0PsBA

I'll be in Leith tomorrow and can hand deliver if you order this evening

I never did find any copies of the new #RobertCrumb comic Tales of Paranoia in any UK shops so I ordered a bunch direct from Fantagraphics and had them shipped over from Seattle. If you want one check the link below... ebay.us/m/A0PsBA

As no one in the UK seems to have this book I bought some stock direct from Fantagraphics in Seattle and paid to have them shipped over here. If you want one there's an eBay listing below... www.ebay.com/itm/17761336...

Dreadinburgh Goth festival announced for Edinburgh July 2026 headlined by John McKay Reactor louderthanwar.com/dreadinburgh... via @louderthanwar

I walk 47 miles of barbed wire I use a cobra-snake for a necktie www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Quick: mutant raven or cute cat?

From five o'clock in the morning till ten o'clock at night, Give up! Give up!

PLEASE SHARE: On Black Friday, I want to draw attention away from the big chains and towards local Edinburgh independent retailers, makers and markets. Please join me from 7 pm - 8 pm on Friday 28 November to share some ideas for Christmas gifting. We'll use the hashtag #EdinburghHour

Happy Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to those who celebrate

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

Does anyone know where I can buy the new Robert Crumb comic, Tales of Paranoia, in Edinburgh? I tried Forbidden Planet this afternoon and they couldn't help and Deadhead is sadly no more. I know Diamond going bust has screwed up distribution but it will be a shame if I have to resort to mail order

How to write for men.

On 3rd November 1957 the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 2 with space dog Laika aboard, a mostly Siberian Husky, the first animal in space. She did not return. Cover art for “Laika” by Nick Abadzis | amzn.to/3JELFZA

Today's Ripley's Believe It Or Not with the colour guide showing. Is it like this in the newspapers or just the one sent out by @officialgocomics.bsky.social?

youtube.com/watch?v=sh6e... Was Nick Robinson listening to this before his interview with Zarah Sultana? #PoliticalThinking

Scotland's narrowest snicket

Enjoying a late breakfast at the Betty Boop Snack Bar in Tranent

They weren't really witches, they were actually communists. We did it in school #humour

Happy Outwith Day to all who celebrate...

Saw this book in the Pennypit free library. Someone has cut out one of the naked ladies on the cover. Not sure if it's censorship or if the previous owner just couldn't bear to let her go

Edinburgh haar this evening

Saw Jeffrey Lewis manning his merch stall at La Belle last night and realised that for once I didn't have a copy of my own comic which I could have given him. The gig was great and the third song was about how everything people give him ends up in the trash so probably all for the best ;-)

Happy with that #GuardianQuiz

Inktober day 1. Mustache

"a minister for death metal to be appointed and given responsibility for playlists in westminster dining rooms, national no poetry day, silent film of poet laureate picking litter on the m62, child seeing any adult wearing a tie gets to cut it off ... carefully" www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/s...

Happy #NigelDay to all who celebrate

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

Does anyone remember the late 80s/early 90s poster campaign on South Yorkshire buses (or maybe trains) with a famous boxer of the time (possibly Nigel Benn) threatening he would like to meet the people who cut up bus seats?

Pipelayer in the Forth off Prestonpans

Halloween mince pies on sale at Lidl

Cats with jobs: new post box security guard

Defeated by Iceland PepperX