Sherlock Holmes (1954–1955) | Complete Classic TV Series | ALL EPISODES: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... rumble.com/playlists/Se...

People Who Make Things: PLEASE put a link to the cool thing you do in your bsky profile. P/TY

The guy who was/is the bassist? for Maroon 5? The Wonkette lady? Matthew Sweet?

This is what the internet is for.

Our exhibition 'The West Coaster: New Yorker Cartoons from the Other Side' features works by Oregon and California-based creators Zareen Choudhury, Eric Drooker, Lonnie Millsap, Tom Toro, Mike Twohy, Mark Ulriksen, and Shannon Wheeler. cartoonart.org/the-west-coaster #artexhibition #humor

Umberto Eco’s List of the 14 Common Features of Fascism 14.) Ur-Fascism speaks Newspeak. “All the Nazi or Fascist schoolbooks made use of an impoverished vocabulary, and an elementary syntax, in order to limit the instruments for complex and critical reasoning.”

GOOD NEWS!!:

Milt Gross: Banana Oil Masterpiece – A Source Revealed? I’m *loving* Paul C. Tumey’s latest book, The Art of Milt Gross Volume 1: Mastering Cartoon Pantomime – Judge 1923-1924. Read the latest on my blog: benjaminlclark.com/milt-gross-b...

Drop some horses! 🐴🐎🖤🎠🏇 ✒️Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz, originally published Sunday, June 29, 1958

The pronoun labeler, which was by far the most useful labeler on the site, was deleted by its creator. But thanks to @ripperoni.com there’s a new one available. I highly recommend it. It’s a great way to share your pronouns or see someone else’s pronouns at a glance. bsky.app/profile/pron...

Sounds awesome and my lucky day — my library has it on @hoopladigital.bsky.social

the museum industry in the United States employs more than twice as many people as does the coal industry

Bunnies Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz, originally published August 11, 1963

📢 Educators: It's not too late to get quick NLP tips on how to use The Sift newsletter for teaching #NewsLiteracy! 🔗 Join us at 5pm ET TODAY: go.newslit.org/SiftWebinar26 #EdTech #EduSky

Gay is easy! My goodness. If you don't find Gay easy to explain to a child in a mature, accurate, loving way, then you have some work to do on yourself. There are lots of books that can help you and your kid.

A Brief History of Children Today Are Growing Up Too Fast 🧵

I got this a while ago and it's fun. Do you love comics and old paper, and ephemera, and history, and old comic shops, and plunking over a couple bucks to a comics person to get a piece of something cool? Grab it.

Brandi Carlile's accompaniment for "America the Beautiful" before the game last night was SistaStrings. The duo, Chauntee and Monique Ross, played another American anthem, "Lift Every Voice and Sing," on the Library's Stradivarius instruments in 2024. Here's a clip of that impromptu performance. ⬇️

The Largest Historical Dictionary of English Slang Now Free Online: Covers 500 Years of the “Vulgar Tongue”

Job offer!! I’m helping a PBS series look for a social media manager/content creator for an upcoming promotional campaign. The start date is ASAP, and a project timeline that currently goes to July. This is for a series on American Muslim history, so candidates with cultural familiarity preferred!

LOVED the new Muppet Show. Sabrina Carpenter was an inspired choice to be the guest. I really hope there’s more to come!

The cartoon that appeared this week on the front page of France’s most influential national newspaper, Le Monde Brilliant work by the cartoonist, Guffo.

Huh. Same. I had a couple of half-remembered things to check, and nope, also all after 1941. Seems possible there would be an earlier example, but ...

Because I can tell y’all need some serious distraction: I’ve dropped the ebook price for the first of Richard Stark’s Parker novels, The Hunter, to $2.99. Buy it direct below, or from any major ebook retailer. You won’t regret it.

Parenting hack: I address my kid as Broseph in a cool dude surfer voice whenever he tries calling me Bruh and that has been working.

Hey Bitcoin is going on sale!

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

New Comic Strip Found: Frank and Ernest - 2026-02-03 https://www.gocomics.com/frank-and-ernest/2026/02/03 #comicstrip #frankandernest

The comics in my paper today — the red was a bit off register so the Flying Ace’s Sopwith Camel looks especially worse off after another round with the Red Baron.

Ok, the eponymous character of Flook is not a Labubu, but they kind of look like one. Right? benjaminlclark.com/a-1950s-labu...

Happy Ground Hug Day! Peanuts by Schulz, 2/2/1981

Perfect!

1965, man Tove was on some future shit

A cop messes with Maud the mule and gets kicked through a tree. "He wasn't keerful!" LOL -- Maud the Mule by Frederick Opper, originally published 10/9/1904

I spent a lovely afternoon in 2024 looking through the original art of Flook. Wonderful stuff.

Ok, the eponymous character of Flook is not a Labubu, but they kind of look like one. Right? benjaminlclark.com/a-1950s-labu...

Gordo by Gus Arriola, November 26 1983:

For Liam.

Thank you forever Bluesky for the ultrablock feature!

This is the edition I read, found in our house growing up. And, yes. It's an incredible book.

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pac-land, magazine screenshot, pc engine (1989) archive.org/details/pc-e...

Florist / The Writer / Musician / Barber (ca. 1800) by Samuel William Fores, from Hieroglyphics. Source: @wellcomecollection.bsky.social https://pdimagearchive.org/images/e6d6ad91-4fba-4040-ad77-7d8347fa0ddd #professions #anthropomorphism #satire #musicians #caricatures #florists #writers #job

Here's the tiny scribbly doodle that I started with. And then the final image that I straight ahead drew in ink and toned with pencil.

It being almost Infrastructure Week and all ...

It's cool to care.

This strip just made me laugh. ✒️Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz, originally published November 10, 1997

Beethoven isn't the only composer Schroeder knows. Here is Mozart's Sonata No. 17, 3rd Movement K. 570. Happy Mozart Day. #Mozart