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Woodrow Phoenix
@mrphoenix.bsky.social
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Stashes pens around the house like drinkers stash bottles. Comics for cash. Where applicable.
Artist/Author: Crash Course, Rumble Strip, Donny Digits, Sugar Buzz!, Plastic Culture, etc
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mollymckew.bsky.social
Like I dunno, maybe the reason it took a lady to break open the story of all the men protecting the dude trafficking underage girls is because the male journos were all emailing him making jokes about it?
November 12, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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pftompkins.bsky.social
I am calling upon the people of Ireland to immediately begin construction of a thread on this site about how you or someone you know was roasted for a fashion choice. We need it.

All roasts must have come from Irish people *only*. Please respect this important rule, it makes a difference.

Tanks
November 12, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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louiestowell.bsky.social
CREATIVES! A gang of us are organising an auction raising funds for mutual aid groups in Sudan, amid the war on civilians. Can YOU contribute to the auction? Perhaps a piece of art or music? Signed books? Embroidery? Half an hour of creative mentoring? Sign up here! www.sudancoup.com/auction
Creatives4Sudan Fundraising Auction — Keep Eyes On Sudan
Creatives coming together to raise life-saving funds for the people escaping genocide in El-Fasher, Sudan
www.sudancoup.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:09 AM
mrphoenix.bsky.social
Okay, so you have to touch it once. For science. But now you’ve touched it again. And now you’re poking it? STOP POKING IT
rvbdrm.com Ravin Boodram @rvbdrm.com · 5d
World's biggest spiderweb discovered inside 'Sulfur Cave' with 111,000 arachnids living in pitch black.

www.livescience.com/animals/spid...
November 9, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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mrphoenix.bsky.social
Just found this from 2013: Sarah McIntyre’s sunday newspaper strip SHARK & UNICORN. An angry man told her “that does not look like a unicorn! That’s a fat pig!” So I rewrote it.
She liked it.
It has an extra edge now.
Shark & Unicorn BY SARAH McINTYRE Shark is looking in a mirror, wearing a golden corsety thing, and flossing their teeth. Unicorn stands behind them. Unicorn: I'M MUCH MORE MYTHICAL THAN HE IS. IT'S NOT FAIR THAT SHARK GETS TO WEAR A GOLDEN FLEECE. U: BESIDES, WHO EVER HEARD OF A SHARK WEARING CLOTHES? HOW ABSURD. U: SHARK, MAY I BORROW YOUR FLEECE FOR AWHILE? Shark: Aw, I'D LET YOU, UNICORN. BUT I'M A LITTLE CHILLY THIS MORNING. MAYBE LATER? U: EVEN IF I SAY PLEASE? PLEEEASE? Unicorn glows magically, rainbows appear, Shark hides their eyes S: No! DoNT DO THAT! NoT THE SPARKLY THING! Shark is now hypnotised S: HERE YOU GO. U: I GRACIOUSLY THANK YOU. Unicorn wearing the girdle which is much too tight, looking like a dumbell: squeezed in the middle and spilling out at both ends U: UM... ITS A BIT TIGHT. U: CANT BREATHE! S: AARGH! GET IT OFF! YOU'RE STRETCHING IT! Shark holding shapeless girdle S: I'LL HAVE TO SHRINK THIS IN A HOT WASH NOW. U: MAYBE FLIP-FLOPS ARE BETTER FOR THAT MYTHICAL LOOK... FAT PIG & FINNED MOLE BY SARAH McINTYRE The panels are identical to the former version, but all the dialogue in the balloons has been replaced. Unicorn is now FAT PIG and Shark is now FINNED MOLE or FINNY Fat Pig (thinking): MY UNICORN INJECTIONS COST ALL My SAVINGS BUT THEY'RE WORTH IT. I'M STILL TOO FAT TO WIN LOVELY UNICORN 2013 THOUGH. Fat Pig: MAYBE I CAN CONVINCE FINNED MOLE TO LEND ME HIR SPANX. S/HE OWES ME. Fat Pig: MOLE, YOUR FIN LOOKS AWESOME! I BET YOU CAN'T WAIT FOR YOUR GILL SURGERY! Finny: I’M GETTING THEM NEXT WEEK DARLING! ANYWAY, I TOLD YOU I ONLY ANSWER TO FINNY NOW. Fat Pig: SORRY. FINNY. WHILE YOU'RE IN POST-OP, I CAN BORROW YOUR SPANX, RIGHT? I WONT ABUSE THEM... Fat Pig does the sparkly magic thing. Fat Pig: PLEEEASE? YOU CAN TRUST ME. HONESTLY, DARLING! Finny (hypnotised): FOR SOME REASON I THINK I SHOULD LEND YOU THIS. Fat Pig: ONLY IF YOU REALLY WANT TO! Fat Pig, squished into the girdle as before UH! YES! THEY'LL ALL LOVE ME! YES!! UHH!! AHHH!! Finny: PIGGYHORN! YOU ARE SUCH A LIAR! WHY DO I EVER LISTEN TO YOU?! Finny holds the stretched out, shapeless girdle Finny: MAYBE YOU SHOULD KEEP THIS. IT SMELLS ALL BACONY. Fat Pig: HORNS ARE GREAT! I THINK I WANT ANOTHER ONE! I COULD BE A MAGIC IBEX!
October 21, 2025 at 1:04 PM
mrphoenix.bsky.social
I drifted into sleep an hour or so into Cronenberg’s NAKED LUNCH at the Ritzy in Brixton. I woke up several minutes later and everyone else in my row—about eight people—were all soundly asleep!

I treasure this memory :)
remotecore.bsky.social remotecore @remotecore.bsky.social · 4d
I've definitely been at films people slept through, had to nudge them when they started snoring!
November 9, 2025 at 2:19 AM
mrphoenix.bsky.social
Lambeth Bridge and Horseferry Road is officially no longer the most dangerous junction for cycle deaths in the UK. No more palm tree. The pedestrian on the sign looks like they don’t quite trust this yet.
Night. Looking at orange plastic barriers at the intersection of Lambeth Bridge and Horseferry Road, dividing lanes of traffic from each other and from the pavements. At the crossing points there are signs attached to the barriers. Red sign, white writing and white graphic of a person. The text says: Pedestrian Crossing Point.
November 9, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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bladeofthes.bsky.social
Seems fair to me.
November 8, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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isabelott.bsky.social
Rosalind Franklin died at 37 of ovarian cancer attributed to radiation exposure from the methods she & her assistant used to photograph a cross-section of the DNA double helix.

Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!
November 7, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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dreadships.bsky.social
Raising a glass for Rosalind Franklin tonight. James Watson absolutely did her dirty.

But beware...
Rosalind Franklin at her microscope
November 7, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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brendelbored.bsky.social
It shouldn’t be forgotten that a big piece of Mamdani’s campaign was simply “cities are cool and lots of people enjoy living in them” which in and of itself dismantles alot of rightwing talking points
November 7, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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translucent.org.uk
The women who actually use Kenwood Ladies Pond spoke clearly: the 900 members democratically voted to maintain their trans+ inclusive policy, in place since 2019. 🏊‍♀️

notinourname.org.uk/nion-women-r...

#TransInclusion #KenwoodLadiesPond #TransRightsAreHumanRights @nionwomen.bsky.social
NION Women Rejects Anti-Trans Narrative at Kenwood Ladies Pond - Not in our name
NION women supports the previous decision by members to keep the Kenwood ponds inclusive, and calls for people to engage in the consultation
notinourname.org.uk
November 7, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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lorennacleary.bsky.social
THIS IS SO GOOD
November 6, 2025 at 4:42 AM
mrphoenix.bsky.social
Do Ho Suh
Nest/s 2024
Made using traditional Korean sewing techniques.

Spaces between rooms from buildings in Seoul, New York, London and Berlin. Suh’s ‘fabric architectures’ let him pack up and transport spaces, fulfilling his desire to ‘fit my childhood home into a suitcase’.
November 6, 2025 at 12:28 PM
mrphoenix.bsky.social
Do Ho Suh
‘Home Within Home (1/9 Scale)’
2025
Resin

Suh's childhood hanok home in Seoul inside a 19th-century house in Providence, USA.

Recreation from a dream where Suh's childhood home flew over the sea and crashed into the Providence building he lived in as a student.
November 6, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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paulandstorm.bsky.social
[P] Found a higher-quality photo; IT *IS* TAPED UP SHEETS OF PAPER!
photo of a sign outside the door of the Oval Office, reading "The Oval Office" in gold bullshit script, made out of three sheets of paper Close-up image of the same sign
November 5, 2025 at 7:22 PM
mrphoenix.bsky.social
“…hedge fund manager Bill Ackman donated $1.75 million … Michael Bloomberg donated $8.3 million, all to no avail.”
How does this kind of money get spent? Whee does it go?

prospect.org/2025/11/04/a...
America’s Dumbest Billionaires Fail to Stop Zohran Mamdani - The American Prospect
It’s encouraging on many levels: New York City didn’t submit to a campaign of flagrant bigotry from disgraced two-time loser Andrew Cuomo, and Americans, particularly young ones, can still be politica...
prospect.org
November 5, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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aliettedebodard.com
I lost the framed original of this while I was going through St Pancras on Sunday Nov 2nd around 3pm. Would love if it had been found by anyone?
A picture of a red moon with a tower and the steps leading to it, in black and white The caption says "The keep and keeper"
November 5, 2025 at 11:23 AM
mrphoenix.bsky.social
I was very taken with this sculpture, seen in a textbook from 1972 and then I read the caption :/
Stone sculpture, head and neck of a shaven-headed, young person with hollow eyes and open mouth: on looking closer there is a second person’s eyes and mouth visible beneath the face, so you realise it’s someone wearing a mask. The caption reads: “Mayan-Toltec stone statue from central Mexico represents a priest wearing the flayed skin of a young victim to appease Xipe Tétec, the god of spring. The grisly ceremony symbolized the taking on of a new spring mantle by the earth.”
November 5, 2025 at 2:36 PM
mrphoenix.bsky.social
Imagine if Mamdani had walked out to THIS to begin his victory speech

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOXD...
David Shire - The Taking of Pelham 123 - Main Title
YouTube video by LM R
www.youtube.com
November 5, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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caasbrey.bsky.social
Harvard Gazette: Gazette: “You are the mother of two In ten years you have produced three novels and two short-story collections. Can you talk about your process and how you manage work and family?” Groff: “I understand that this is a question of vital importance to a lot of people, particularly to other mothers who are artists trying to get their work done, and know that I feel for everyone in the struggle. But until I see a male writer asked that question, I am going to respectfully decline to answer it.”
November 5, 2025 at 12:19 AM
mrphoenix.bsky.social
It has been a very long time since I wanted to listen to a politician. This speech is worth hearing.
youtu.be/kOQT_4A1eb8?...
FULL SPEECH: Zohran Mamdani's victory speech following historic NYC mayoral win
YouTube video by ABC News
youtu.be
November 5, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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baileymcc.bsky.social
This person took this when they called the race
November 5, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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angusmain.bsky.social
Well done Zohran! And of course the real victor of the day - typography.
Zohran Mamdami’s beautiful colourful typographic posters
November 5, 2025 at 7:37 AM
mrphoenix.bsky.social
Gonna extend my vocabulary with this new book by @suchmayer.bsky.social

peninsulapress.co.uk/products/bad...
Hand, holding a copy of ‘Bad Language’ by author So Mayer. It’s a paperback book, the dark blue cover features a large pale blue letter ‘B’ (initial cap of Bad) formed from the body of a long, thin dragon wrapped several times around a tree in a heraldic/illuminated manuscript style. Designer: David Pearson.
November 5, 2025 at 11:22 AM