Kubobukata
@kubobukata.bsky.social
Formerly the prime number few.
Still a pretty good translator, trying to not be a translator anymore.
Drive-by comments in English and German.
Kobudo.
Made out of meat.
♀️
Still a pretty good translator, trying to not be a translator anymore.
Drive-by comments in English and German.
Kobudo.
Made out of meat.
♀️
Is it maybe time for a plucky little nation to tell a despot across the ocean to pound sand?
Someone could make a whole musical about it in the end. How about it?
Someone could make a whole musical about it in the end. How about it?
November 11, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Is it maybe time for a plucky little nation to tell a despot across the ocean to pound sand?
Someone could make a whole musical about it in the end. How about it?
Someone could make a whole musical about it in the end. How about it?
Oglaf is the funniest filth on these here internets.
My latest at @comicsjournal.bsky.social: I talked to @oglaf.bsky.social! Not the character, but rather, the people who create it.
They don't do many interviews, so this was a real treat. They're funny people! Turns out they're not super private, just...really bad at PR?
www.tcj.com/talking-ogla...
They don't do many interviews, so this was a real treat. They're funny people! Turns out they're not super private, just...really bad at PR?
www.tcj.com/talking-ogla...
Talking Oglaf with Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne: 'We'd stay up all night drawing stuff to make each other laugh' - The Comics Journal
Other than some time off every year for Christmas, Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne have delivered a new Oglaf comic, skewering fantasy tropes with absolutely not safe for work humor, every week since 2008...
www.tcj.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Oglaf is the funniest filth on these here internets.
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The ancient road map is very nice.
But where I live didn't get colonised, so there's just no roads.
Come find me in the forest and try not to get ambushed, I guess.
But where I live didn't get colonised, so there's just no roads.
Come find me in the forest and try not to get ambushed, I guess.
I‘m on my nonsense again. This week’s Six Things:
– ancient road map
– huge piggy landscape
– hardcore Lake District fells
– sneezing responses
– a very short and very silly film about Oreos
– yes you do need another game in your daily routine
open.substack.com/pub/levparik...
– ancient road map
– huge piggy landscape
– hardcore Lake District fells
– sneezing responses
– a very short and very silly film about Oreos
– yes you do need another game in your daily routine
open.substack.com/pub/levparik...
Six Things, Volume 134
Itiner-e | Rootling | Fells | Sneezing | Oreo | Hued
open.substack.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:20 AM
The ancient road map is very nice.
But where I live didn't get colonised, so there's just no roads.
Come find me in the forest and try not to get ambushed, I guess.
But where I live didn't get colonised, so there's just no roads.
Come find me in the forest and try not to get ambushed, I guess.
Now Andy, did you hear about this one?
November 9, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Now Andy, did you hear about this one?
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KOKO: Chatgpt, good chatgpt, vibe code app
ME: No Koko the app doesn't work, it won't function
KOKO: Gorilla code, gorilla engineer
ME: Koko the app doesn't even load on mobile
KOKO: jealousy cynic
ME: No Koko the app doesn't work, it won't function
KOKO: Gorilla code, gorilla engineer
ME: Koko the app doesn't even load on mobile
KOKO: jealousy cynic
November 7, 2025 at 3:23 PM
KOKO: Chatgpt, good chatgpt, vibe code app
ME: No Koko the app doesn't work, it won't function
KOKO: Gorilla code, gorilla engineer
ME: Koko the app doesn't even load on mobile
KOKO: jealousy cynic
ME: No Koko the app doesn't work, it won't function
KOKO: Gorilla code, gorilla engineer
ME: Koko the app doesn't even load on mobile
KOKO: jealousy cynic
Indeed. God bless every one of them.
![Comic. [Person sitting at desk with laptop with machine labeled E-21 making “click click” noises on the floor behind] VOICE FROM LAPTOP: Hey all! Does your E-21 humidifier make an annoying clicking noise? Mine did, but I finally figured out that there’s an easy fix, so I made this video in case anyone else… PERSON AT DESK: Oh my god. Yes. *Yes.* [caption] I know there’s more important work in the world, but I feel like these people deserve, at minimum a statue.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreifdjde6wgflkeil7kf4kdh3zqk32k55rkljlwu6arzbw557ogbulu@jpeg)
November 5, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Indeed. God bless every one of them.
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A Map Of Britain After The 2029 Technology Crash, by me and my dad.
November 5, 2025 at 7:13 AM
A Map Of Britain After The 2029 Technology Crash, by me and my dad.
Still thinking about yesterday's customer support chatbot telling me "I’m really sorry to hear you’re disappointed. I understand how frustrating this must be."
Coming from a bot, incapable of feeling sorry or understanding anything, this is borderline demeaning.
Coming from a bot, incapable of feeling sorry or understanding anything, this is borderline demeaning.
November 4, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Still thinking about yesterday's customer support chatbot telling me "I’m really sorry to hear you’re disappointed. I understand how frustrating this must be."
Coming from a bot, incapable of feeling sorry or understanding anything, this is borderline demeaning.
Coming from a bot, incapable of feeling sorry or understanding anything, this is borderline demeaning.
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Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
November 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
Bought Vivobarefoot sneakers that I genuinely loved, but they started coming apart at the top eyelet after four months. Vivobarefoot now uses a godforsaken AI chatbot for customer support. It's going EXACTLY the way you'd expect it to go.
November 3, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Bought Vivobarefoot sneakers that I genuinely loved, but they started coming apart at the top eyelet after four months. Vivobarefoot now uses a godforsaken AI chatbot for customer support. It's going EXACTLY the way you'd expect it to go.
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Definitely worth billions of dollars
November 2, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Definitely worth billions of dollars
Potatober #31: Happy Halloween! My only deviation from the "draw a potato" rule. But I say it's still art.
And so Potatober is at an end. It's been fun, see you next year?
And so Potatober is at an end. It's been fun, see you next year?
October 31, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Potatober #31: Happy Halloween! My only deviation from the "draw a potato" rule. But I say it's still art.
And so Potatober is at an end. It's been fun, see you next year?
And so Potatober is at an end. It's been fun, see you next year?
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If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
![[Scene is the entrance cabin to a NATIONAL TRUST PROPERTY AND GARDENS]
1
NATIONAL TRUST EMPLOYEE [inside cabin]:
Hello there
2
[A young family - two parents two kids - have arrived at the front desk].
DAD:
Hi - do you have an activity trail, for the kids?
3
NT EMPLOYEE:
Of course – you’re just in time for the Autumn Gammon Trail!
4
MUM:
That sounds fun, doesn’t it kids?
5
NT EMPLOYEE [handing an activity sheet and pencils to the kids]:
Every autumn, the Reform Trust gammons flock back to the National Trust for the AGM. Just follow the trail round the grounds, and see how many you can spot!
6
NT EMPLOYEE [hearing something in the gardens]:
Listen - that's their call
[Calls emanating from the landscape]:
tut-tut
woke-woke
7
NT EMPLOYEE [showing the family an apparently empty fenced enclosure with some bushes in]:
They are extremely sensitive and fragile...
But you can bring them out of hiding if you put a little sign down mentioning slavery.
8
KIDS [pointing]:
There they are!
[Some little red faced PEOPLE wearing Barbour jackets and gilets emerge cautiously from the bushes. They are creeping towards a TINY SIGN in the middle of the enclosure].
[Little people noises]:
woke-woke
tut-tut
woke-woke
9
[Close-up of the TINY SIGN - we can read that it says]:
Slavery had a bit to do with building this massive house.
[Noises from the little people again as they inspect the tiny sign]:
tut-tut
woke-woke
10
MUM [pointing]:
What's that one doing there?
NT EMPLOYEE:
Oh, that's so sweet…
11
[We see that one of the people is sat on a rock, with a little laptop open on a tree stump, and they are furiously typing away].
NT EMPLOYEE:
I think he's writing a column for the Daily Telegraph…
12
[We see close up to the little person’s screen, it is a word document reading]:
Are National Trust scones secretly WOKE?
[ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreib7lt736b6rmzinml5s7kxjdaapo2a36xp4d4lssypimx3taqicdm@jpeg)
October 31, 2025 at 9:02 AM
If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
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For 61 years the #BBCWorldService has been broadcasting the latest in science via its weekly Science in Action programme. That dies in the next half hour, with this final edition, reflecting on the fall in trust in expertise driven by malign interests over recent years.
It's the end of the road for BBC Science in Action. But science itself is facing growing roadblocks. For this terminal edition of SinA I'm joined by @naomioreskes.bsky.social @drdebhoury.bsky.social @michaelemann.bsky.social & @angierasmussen.bsky.social for where now?
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...
BBC World Service - Science In Action, How science got here, and where next
As anti-science leaves research reeling, does evidence-based policy have a future?
www.bbc.co.uk
October 30, 2025 at 8:28 PM
For 61 years the #BBCWorldService has been broadcasting the latest in science via its weekly Science in Action programme. That dies in the next half hour, with this final edition, reflecting on the fall in trust in expertise driven by malign interests over recent years.
Potatober #30:
Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered tuber lies, whose flaked
and flame-charred peel, distant from farmer's land,
Tells that its sculptor oft those taters baked,
The skin that crisped up, and the flesh that fed;
And on the pedestal...
Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered tuber lies, whose flaked
and flame-charred peel, distant from farmer's land,
Tells that its sculptor oft those taters baked,
The skin that crisped up, and the flesh that fed;
And on the pedestal...
October 30, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Potatober #30:
Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered tuber lies, whose flaked
and flame-charred peel, distant from farmer's land,
Tells that its sculptor oft those taters baked,
The skin that crisped up, and the flesh that fed;
And on the pedestal...
Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered tuber lies, whose flaked
and flame-charred peel, distant from farmer's land,
Tells that its sculptor oft those taters baked,
The skin that crisped up, and the flesh that fed;
And on the pedestal...
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Pumpkin contest patreon.com/berkeleymews
October 29, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Pumpkin contest patreon.com/berkeleymews
Potatober #29: What kind of sicko would do this?
October 29, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Potatober #29: What kind of sicko would do this?
Potatober #28: I made knishes for the very first time in my life today, and they turned out okay. What did not turn out okay was the attempt to draw one, also for the very first time in my life. I can only apologise.
October 28, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Potatober #28: I made knishes for the very first time in my life today, and they turned out okay. What did not turn out okay was the attempt to draw one, also for the very first time in my life. I can only apologise.
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Potatober #27: Potatoes of the Deep Sea.
October 27, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Potatober #27: Potatoes of the Deep Sea.
Potatober #26: I've been packing a parcel today, so this gets packaged as well.
October 26, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Potatober #26: I've been packing a parcel today, so this gets packaged as well.
Potatober #25: Today may be international pasta day, but pasta is basically Nudeln, and Nudeln include southern German Schupfnudeln: a delicious noodle-dumpling-hybrid that nowadays contains potatoes. I pan fry them, mix them with sauerkraut and other ingredients, then bake them. Better than gnocci!
October 25, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Potatober #25: Today may be international pasta day, but pasta is basically Nudeln, and Nudeln include southern German Schupfnudeln: a delicious noodle-dumpling-hybrid that nowadays contains potatoes. I pan fry them, mix them with sauerkraut and other ingredients, then bake them. Better than gnocci!
Potatober #24: According to @adamcsharp.bsky.social , "t'es une pomme de terre avec la visage d'un cochon d'inde", "you are a potato with the face of a guinea pig", is an insult.
But potatoes are awesome and guinea pigs are cute, so I can only put this down to an odd French aversion to lumpiness.
But potatoes are awesome and guinea pigs are cute, so I can only put this down to an odd French aversion to lumpiness.
October 24, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Potatober #24: According to @adamcsharp.bsky.social , "t'es une pomme de terre avec la visage d'un cochon d'inde", "you are a potato with the face of a guinea pig", is an insult.
But potatoes are awesome and guinea pigs are cute, so I can only put this down to an odd French aversion to lumpiness.
But potatoes are awesome and guinea pigs are cute, so I can only put this down to an odd French aversion to lumpiness.
Just to point out the whole thread is glorious.
working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"
October 24, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Just to point out the whole thread is glorious.