Cartoon Floris Oudshoorn: Trump en Infantino verpesten het WK voor iedereen www.bnnvara.nl/joop/artikel...

Sterkte, Rode Duivels!

Heat waves. Thanks to @climateadam.bsky.social's most recent video, which helped inform this comic and gave me the kick I needed to make it.

Why put solar panels on green space when we could put them over car parks? www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

“The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.” --- Bill Watterson, #cartoonist, 7/5/1958 - . #quotes #quotations #cartoons #birthdays

Nathan Fowkes

Happy birthday, America! Comic from almost 20 years ago, sadly still relevant.

Illustration By Arnaldo Angeli Filho(2004)

Editorial cartoon: Threesomes. You should know I spent longer than I wanted to come up with an idea that was LESS horrible than a full on sex scene :P

"There are *numerous* safe alternatives to slop products, both for writing and for writing-adjacent activities that some define as falling outside whatever they call “writing.” #academicsky #writing #ai 🗃 1/ buttondown.com/surekhadavie...

Cartoon Floris Oudshoorn: Eindelijk volwassen www.bnnvara.nl/joop/artikel...

Happy birthday, America!

Saturday second hand book market haul. 🤩

Orson

Check it out! @anntelnaes.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/anntelnaes/p/democracy-under-siege-free-screening

Listen to a recreation of how the dawn chorus has changed over 50 years. DYK that Lento episodes are archived by the British Library? Future researchers will be able to use our recordings to hear how UK landscapes have changed.

Terrifying

your brain looks for ways its right so if you are talking all the time about being ugly your brain is gonna go "hell fuckein yeah we are" but if you talk all the time about how beautiful you are your brain is ALSO going to go "hell fuckeing yeah we are" and which sounds better to experience

The Prairieland cartoonist/zinester who got 30 years for making a zine. Still short of the goal for funding his fight against this total travesty of justice. A gullible rural jury brainwashed by rightwing media, and the most fascist judge in the country. Donate & push this over the finish line.

“The message that I always bring when I have a chance is that, when the text that comes out of one of these systems makes sense, it’s because we are making sense of it. This is also in the stochastic parrots paper.”

France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces. Equals 10 nuclear reactors Reduces heat island, shades cars The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight. Why aren't we doing this?

Generative AI is not only fundamentally based on the rejection of consent, but also *standards*. Artists have been micromanaged and hounded over individual pixels, academics fighting to defend every minute detail of their thesis, etc, and then are tossed away in favor of the get shit wrong machine.

You gotta write, and you gotta write your own stuff, and you have to write stuff you'd want to read. Enjoy writing for its own sake and enjoy what you write, because if you don't, no one else will either.

Dus 'supporter' betekent niet: Iemand die je steunt als je dat nodig hebt, maar: Iemand die boos op je wordt als het je niet lukt. Ik begrijp echt geen reet van dat voetbal.

ROBERT LEIGHTON robert-leighton.com

GenAI outputs a homogenized statistical average of all the stuff that was stolen to train it. Think about what that does to the aesthetics of a person raised on it, imagine subversive and erotic and queer art made by a person who has only ever known Mcdonalds ads, muzak, and advertising copy.

Yesterday, for Mel Brooks' 100th birthday, 7,000 fans gathered in the main square of Bologna, Italy, to sing “Happy Birthday” to him. Mel himself replied with a video message, and then the crowd watched Young Frankenstein together. ❤️ #Filmsky 📽️

Music is not a luxury here. It is proof that we are still alive. Two young women. Two banduras. One bench in a Ukrainian city. They played. People stopped. No one said a word. hfu.org

One of the most successful pedestrian streets in the world, the Strøget in Copenhagen, was filled with cars until a 2 year pedestrianization pilot project in 1962. The opposition argued “no cars means no business,” but the street has been a massive retail success, the city’s busiest shopping street.

A libellous sham or a monstrous truth that the worst of humanity rush to deny. A cartoon... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

There's another interesting cognitive bias: humans suck at negating statements. Spinoza had an interesting idea that when you encounter a new sentence or idea, you first try to understand how it could be true *and then* deny it. Comprehend, and then negate. It turns out he was right.

when people talk about AI used in moderation of social media posts, you must remember there is always the human-in-the-loop, often a woman, often in the Global South, always dehumanised and forgotten 1/n www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

From: Catnapped! (1995), dir. Takashi Nakamura, Triangle Staff

So the good news is the water in my hall last night didn’t come from my toilet. Which is also the bad news.

On June 13th 1954, the US backed a coup against Jacobo Árbenz, the progressive, democratically elected leader of Guatemala, because he sought to restore land to small farmers and Indigenous communities that had been dispossessed by US fruit companies.

my kind of Jubilee, the Japanese national team vs. 100 kids

THIS 👇 HERE.......

Ein weiterer Baustein der technischen Möglichkeiten großer Städte an Flüssen bzw. dem Meer. Wir müssen das endlich umsetzen. "Stockholm uses sea water from the Baltic to reduce electricity usage during heatwaves & Toronto uses a cooling system that pulls water from Lake Ontario."

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'The Thing' was released on this day 44 years ago! (June 25, 1982) Directed by John Carpenter. Screenplay by Bill Lancaster. Starring Kurt Russell, A. Wilford Brimley, Keith David, Richard Masur, T.K. Carter, David Clennon, Richard Dysart, Charles Hallahan, and more. #OTD #OnThisDay #TheThing

Every creature leaves a mark on the Earth. And humans? We leave behind plastic bottles, packaging, containers, and trash. The saddest part is that we are the only species that understands the damage—yet we keep doing it. Our footprint should be one of responsibility, not pollution.

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

From: The Tale of Tsar Saltan (1984), dir. Ivan Ivanov-Vano and Lev Milchin, Soyuzmultfilm

Dogs at the Rescue Center get to pick their own toy 🧸

Big raspberry for the blackbird. 😢