your old pal andy

your old pal andy

@andycs.bsky.social

he/him. musician • beetle enjoyer • occasionally funny on purpose

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Diane Tucker
@theshymuseumgoer.com

#ArtHistory 🗃️ 🐡 Weekend vibes... 2,000 years ago, a bronze masterpiece immortalized a young girl playfully chasing a partridge. Stolen from an archaeological site in southern Spain and recently recovered, the sculpture is now on display at Madrid's Museo Arqueológico Nacional. (my 📸)

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Emily M. Bender
@emilymbender.bsky.social

Software engineering could and should be done with the same care as any other type of engineering. This is a post in honor of Margaret Hamilton (and also a subtweet of all vibe-coders everywhere).

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aLec robBins
@alecrobbins.bsky.social

looked up mine and this is killing me lmao

Dexerto@dexerto.bsky.social

Amazon users are discovering a bizarre "About You" page that reveals what the company thinks it knows about them One woman found Amazon had determined she "has flat buttocks"

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Kieran Healy
@kjhealy.co

Replying to @kjhealy.co

Incidentally, the pattern on custard creams represents ferns. More generally the style is that of William Morris, in tiny biscuit form. I was not aware of any of this when growing up, only that being allowed to have a second one was a rare treat and having a third decadence beyond imagining.

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Peter Huestis
@peterhuestis.bsky.social

It's International Rabbit Day and I've always loved this thuggish chalkware rabbit captured in watercolor and graphite by Betty Fuerst for the Index of American Design, 1940. This rabbit cannot believe you just said that:

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LEE GATLIN
@neilaglet.bsky.social

Hey! I did a Startling Tales of Santa Claus cover!

Benito Cereno@benitocereno.bsky.social

Hopefully somewhere will post nice shareable cover images and preview pages soon, but I can say that among the things I have coming out in December is the all-new STARTLING TALES OF SANTA CLAUS 2026 ANNUAL, featuring Santa vs Dracula, at last

your old pal andy
@andycs.bsky.social

wow that's crazy. just back of the envelope here but I reckon I only attended school for about 21,000 hours total. it's so different the pressures kids are under these days

The Guardian@theguardian.com

Pupils missed 15m hours of school time during UK’s June heatwave, study finds

theguardian.comPupils missed 15m hours of school time during UK’s June heatwave, study findsAt least 760,000 children in England and Wales missed lessons as more than 1,700 schools closed or finished early The gruelling heatwave that hit the UK in June caused pupils to miss more than 15m hours of lesson time as soaring temperatures forced hundreds of schools to close, according to a study. The research found that at least 760,000 schoolchildren in England and Wales missed lessons owing to closures during the heatwave – one of five to batter the UK this summer – as temperatures inside some classrooms topped 40C, leaving pupils and staff suffering from heat stress, nausea and headaches. Continue reading...

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Hugo Gordon
@hugogordon.bsky.social

Absolutely incredible to write a review of a play in which you complain about audience behaviour, and just not mention that your partner strangled someone for a bit during the showing

Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social

Everything about this story is wild, from the theatre critic who witnessed it to the use of terms like 'colourful' to describe the crook at the heart of the story!

bbc.co.ukWe Will Rock You strangler was jailed for trying to hire hitmanMalcolm Potier is beginning his third spell in jail after attacking the woman at a Queen musical.

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KetAnthropic JoshAI
@ketanjoshi.co

Who would like to guess why UK, US and European media outlets are not publishing 3,000 articles per minute about this www.dukechronicle.com/article/duke...

dukechronicle.com‘Insane data’: Duke professor Dan Ariely accused of additional research fraudNew evidence released Monday shows that Dan Ariely, professor of business administration in the Fuqua School of Business, likely tampered with or fabricated data in an influential research paper from ...