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Lesley

@basculerascule.bsky.social

I'll Be Your Marrow.

Pete Paphides @petepaphides.bsky.social · Aug 10

I'm waiting for the van.

August 10, 2025 at 4:25 PM

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David Ho

@davidho.bsky.social

I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.

"WE'VE ARRANGED A society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don't know anything about it?"
"Science is more than a body of knowledge, it's a way of thinking. A way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we're up for grabs for the next charlatan, political or religious, who comes ambling along."

May 4, 2025 at 6:21 AM

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Library Bear 📚

@adklibrarybear.bsky.social

Besides for all the horrifying fascism, it is worth pointing out how easy it is to delete digital collections without public awareness in comparison to, say, a book burning. Which is what this is. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... 📚 #libraries

Mississippi orders deletion of race and gender databases in state libraries

Library commission says state ‘in dire shape’ and has ‘had a reconsideration of everything with regard to’ Doge

www.theguardian.com

April 11, 2025 at 1:01 PM

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KE Salisbury

@kesalisbury.bsky.social

Brian has a poem - and I can't stress this enough - for EVERY occasion.

Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · Nov 14

Today’s poem is called ‘Monetisation’.

Monetisation

The advert said
MONETISE YOUR FOLLOWERS
so he thought
he would respond;

by painting them
in the changing light,
like waterlilies
in a pond.

Brian Bilston

November 16, 2024 at 7:12 AM

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Mark Chadbourn

@chadbourn.bsky.social

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan (so if any Americans are looking for somewhere to go):

"I know that many Londoners will be anxious about the outcome of the US
Presidential election. Many will be fearful about what it will mean for democracy and for women's rights, or how the result impacts the situation in the Middle East or the fate of Ukraine. Others will be worried about the future of NATO or tackling the climate crisis.
"London is - and will always be - for everyone. We will always be pro-women, pro-diversity, pro-climate and pro-human rights.
"London is a place where we're proud of our diversity, proud of the contribution of all our communities and proud of our spirit of unity. These are some of the values that will continue to bind us together as Londoners."
"The lesson of today is that progress is not inevitable. But asserting our progressive values is more important than ever - re-committing to building a world where racism and hatred is rejected, the fundamental rights of women and girls are upheld, and where we continue to tackle the crisis of climate change head on."

November 6, 2024 at 6:00 PM

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Q. Pheevr

@q.pheevr.ca

Books designed to be read only by human eyes are different from books designed to be read by machines, which is why Google will tell you that the phrase “shake my booty” can be found in an 1863 English translation of Don Quixote.

Screenshot from a scan of page 289 of an 1863 English translation of Don Quixote. The text is set in two columns. In the left column, we read in part “thou hast hit the point, Sancho, which can alone shake my resolution”, and on the right “thy share of the booty would would have been at least the emperor’s crown of gold”; by coincidence, these align so that the phrase “shake my booty” can be read across the columns.

March 24, 2024 at 9:27 PM

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Jeffw

@jeffw.bsky.social

You're so Venn.
You probably think this diagram is about you

A Venn diagram with two circles featuring YOU which intersect unsurprisingly with YOU

November 22, 2023 at 11:20 AM

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Paulette

@paulette7.bsky.social

😂

Depiction of a classroom.
The teacher: Hello everyone! Are there any classes you are struggling with?
Karl: The bourgeoise
Another student: wtf Karl!

February 19, 2024 at 12:46 PM

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Tom Gauld

@tomgauld.bsky.social

A cartoon about libraries for the Guardian.

Title: Methods of defending your local library from government cuts.

1. Comminity Support: families stand round the licrary with placards
2. Fortifications: The library now has crenellations, a high wall and guards with spears.
3. Camouflage: the library has been painted with a camouflage pattern.
4. Black magic: the library has been painted with a huge pentagram , a sorceror casts a spell from an altar.
5. Time Travel: weird machinery is attached to the library, it is in a prehistoric jungle, a dinosaur walks past.
6. Disguise: the library has been dressed to look like a vape shop
7. Attack!: the library has tank tracks and large mechanical arms, it speeds forth, a librarian urges it on from a hatch at the top.

February 11, 2024 at 9:30 AM

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Pavel

@spavel.bsky.social

you don't have to put on the red light,

February 2, 2024 at 3:15 AM

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Martin O Connor

@martinoconnor.bsky.social

When Vladimir Kosarevsky was ordered to destroy books referring to same-sex relationships, he raised the alarm instead – then went to Spain to rebuild his life.

www.theguardian.com/world/2023/d...