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Burrowing owlets looking very angry, peeking out from their burrow.

Good morning! 🪶

The Owlympic Games were in full swing. In the competition of Defiance Against The Big Loud Orange Bird (BLOB), Owlexander, Owlizabeth and Owlgernon won all the medals, and took their positions on the rostrum, wearing their trademark anti-BLOB glare.

Computer and coding books from Usborne | Usborne | Be Curious Usborne children's coding books for a new generation

Usborne released a bunch of their old 80s programming books for free a while back, and they're all just a gem:

usborne.com/us/books/com...

A long page describing how to use Arrays in the BASIC language. There's three screenshots of BASIC computers, with pixely game enemies on top giving extra context to the screenshots. There's also a box with a bunch of paper with numbers on them next to a robot, as they use a sort of mailbox metaphor to explain Arrays

See? Page 9. Arrays.

A book for children called "Usborne guide to better BASIC: A beginners guide to writing programs". The drawing on the front is a yellow TV screen, and silver robots are putting various BASIC keywords on it, using ladders. Example keywords are PLOT, GOSUB, GOTO, PRINT.

Specifically, this one.
The Usborne guide to Better BASIC: a beginners guide to writing programs (1983)

if someone doesn't have experience with arrays, then they don't have enough experience with programming to hire them to program for you. they are still on page 9 of the programming book

a popup from Indeed asking if you have experience in "Arrays (data structure)".

what are we even doing here man

Cigarette In My Hand - Old Ad 1991 YouTube video by raees raisi

90s Indian anti smoking PSAs were a trip, man

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEQI...

WILL EISNER'S CHAINSAW MAN

ALAN MOORE’S COWBOY BEEBOP

AL CAPP'S DRAGON BALL Z

WALT KELLY'S SAZAE-SAN

nobody wants to admit it, but lawful neutral is the safest alignment for us to live under

the cishets need to be governed by the cold and unfeeling iron hand of HR and corporate mandated sensitivity training

80's Action-Comedy INNERSPACE To Receive Arrow Video Limited Edition 4K UHD and Blu-Ray Release | Horror Cult Films Arrow Video has announced the release of 80’s flick INNERSPACE on limited edition 4K UHD and Blu-Ray on 27th April 2026. From director Joe Dante (Gremlins, The ‘Burbs) and producer Steven Spielberg (P...

My movie Innerspace is coming to 4K UHD & Blu-ray in a special @arrowvideo.bsky.social limited edition!

horrorcultfilms.co.uk/2026/03/80s-...

Photo in mono of a large gothic style window, looking out onto old rooftops.

Photo of wooden panels with graffiti carved in. One says POTTER 1860. Another says R. BARKER.

Photo of low-lit graffiti on wooden windowsill. An apparent date 1777 is visible.

Photo of a lot of graffiti in different hands on a windowsill. Names and dates but not easily legible.

🗃️ Happened to spend a couple of hours working in Charles Darwin's old school room today. Wooden panelling absolutely covered in children's graffiti, hope someone's done research on this!

She needed to inspect the crater 🥹

#EmotionalSupportSpood

Furiously rapping the “The average office worker is measurably bigger, taller, and probably has more functional strength than their grandparents” sign.

If You Were the Average G.I. in World War II | The Saturday Evening Post What was the average G.I. like in World War II? Some of these facts may surprise you.

"if you were the average frontline G.I....you are five feet, eight inches tall, and you weigh 144 pounds. During your basic training...you gained 5 to 20 pounds and added an inch to your 33 ¼” chest."

it's written kind of ambiguously, but that sounds like they got up to 145 *after* a 5-20lb gain 😬

Donald Trump's next press conference:

Says dumb things about AI:

@erikahall.bsky.social

putting all of that potential cash into Montana makes 100x more sense than Texas now that there's an open seat there and Cornyn looks much stronger than expected. Talarico will have plenty of small dollar donations; the bundlers with the *big* money should look elsewhere.

Eyeing Voting Rights, Liberals Aim to Secure Wisconsin’s Supreme Court through 2030 - Bolts After flipping the court in 2023, Wisconsin liberals now hope to expand their majority on a body that could be a critical backstop for voting rights during the next presidential election.

NEW: Believe it or not, it’s that time of year: the Wisconsin Supreme Court election is next month.

Liberals have a huge opportunity: if they win, they can lock down the majority of this court thru 2030.

That means they’d have it in the next presidential race, a big democracy guardrail.

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2 photographs of a biography of Marty Feldman. One has googly eyes added but it looks virtually the same.

Every time we see this Marty Feldman book it reminds us of that time we stuck googly eyes on it but all that happened was it looked even more like Marty Feldman. 👀

Dunno how much louder you can say this but after the last cycle bad faith operators know that our side of the aisle is susceptible to being told our politicians are 'too old' to run for office and right now its 1:1 with people saying Nazi tats are NBD

Visitor card with a drawing of the Grant Museum’s gibbon skeleton and the caption ‘why the gibbon chill like that?’ held in front of the specimen.

Love reading the visitor comments @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social ❤️

‘Why the gibbon chill like that’?

Why indeed but also, why not?

Color photograph. A long haired tan and black tabby kitten with cerulean eyes is perched atop a tan colored platform on a cat tree. She looks absolutely peaceful and has her face stretched a bit towards the camera as if to get closer. The photo has a very soft focus.

“Come closer…closer… I have a story to tell you.
It begins with a brave and majestic floof, a mysterious red dot, and a battle for the ages…”

#cats #BlueskyCats #gato #CatsOfBluesky

I think it's very bad to lose a grasp of which parties are threats to liberal democracy and which ones you merely don't like.

A big part of both historical documents Captain America: The First Avenger and With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa feature a prominent plot point of the main character being SO FUCKING UNDERWEIGHT THAT THEY WON'T LET HIM ENLIST

Cornfed usually came with the extra bonus of pellagra in the 40s lol

They have no idea how well-fed we are compared to back then: