Very on brand that there's been no announcement but buried in a press release hyping the City Of Cape Town (JP featured, of course), Comic Con Cape Town has mentioned that the comics pros who will be attending this year are Ron Marz and Heather Antos (ask her all your Star Trek comics questions!).
Born on this day:
My mother
My mother-in-law
Passed on this day:
My father
Terry Pratchett.
#GNU
It's been a complicated day.
Against a backdrop of starts, Death clothed in white in honour and mourning of meeting a Creator standing on the edge of eternity. Death extends a bony hand and says I AM SORRY TO SEE YOU SO SOON, MAY I TAKE YOUR CASE? Beside Death stands the Death of Rats who says SQUEAK
11 years today #GNUTerryPratchett
Where's Binky?
Love it.
A thousand years in the future and they still use the same classification system for habitable planets:
M.
Man with a young girlm behind him, while way in the back something explodes. Movie poster for a film called Man on Fire
In unnecessary remake/reboot news or "films that are too good for Netflix to remake".
Love Yahya Abdul Mateen, and wish him well.
But...
The trailer for EVERYONE IS LYING TO YOU FOR MONEY. In select theaters starting April 17th 🍿🤑🤣
Looking forward to it. Hope it opens well and gets some traction in the right places.
@colbertlateshow.bsky.social
In a related issue:
A wonderfully cooked, sliced steak on a bed of greens, needs some chimichurri.
Watching Dr Horrible on YT (for free - Fuuuuck Joss Whedon), & wondering how much of the songs Kai Cole (his wife at the time) had a hand in creating, & was not credited for - cos there are tons of Buffy music ep soundalikes
FYI: She wrote songs/performed all the demos for Once More with Feeling.
This week is National Gardens Week, which means various botanical gardens, including Walter Sisulu and Kirstenbosch, are offering free entry.
Details:
www.sanbi.org/event/nation...
🎥 Meet the authors behind the #IFLA100 centenary publication with @degruyterbrill.bsky.social
In November 2025, contributors gathered at IFLA Headquarters to shape this milestone volume marking 100 years since 1927.
Watch the interview series: tr.ee/qsW6kJ
More on the publication: tr.ee/uK6FPU
Looks like I'm going to be on a number of panels at @easterconuk.bsky.social!
It's gonna be a blast :D
Also means I have to work instead of just drink, so better for my liver.
USAID: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU8S...
THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!
So I watch Bridgerton obliquely, while reading as others watch it.
And in obliquely watching, one wonders whether Elouise's story will take a queer direction in subsequent seasons.
As my voracious teenaged offspring utters upon her sojourn to the refrigerator, the character in question is...
#UNESCO new report Re|Shaping Policies for Creativity explores how #culture is evolving amid tech, social & political shifts.
See what it means for #libraries and how #CulturalPolicy recognises our role in upholding #CulturalRights for all: tr.ee/CshCAp
As a man once sang:
"I'm afraid of Americans."
Counter at a coffee shop
Some cafe kitsch & whimsy in Observatory, Cape Town 2026
A random sprinkler pipe fixed to the ceiling in a corner - painted bright red - begs more questions as to what this place was Before.
It was said of Observatory, that you could hear the seagulls & the sea- circa 1930's before the reclamation
#StarfleetAcademy's "The Life of the Stars" starts out slowly but then, the episode really hit me hard and got me in the feels. I'm glad I went into this without spoilers and I know exactly which episode we are going to watch after this one on our Friday #StarTrek night. :-)
The latest episode of Star Trek Academy was just the best. Carthartic, introspective, sad but so joyful...hopeful. The best kind of Trek.
@robertpicardo.bsky.social made you feel it.
Brilliant sir. Simply brilliant.
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