It’s not been a bad weekend but I have been unable to watch Frankenstein. So that needs to be corrected asap

It interesting to me that people used to sarcastically say “oh if its on google/wikipedia/ the internet then it must be true” and now people earnestly say “I asked ChatGPT” and just assume this mechanical Turk is infallible.

#StarTrek 🖖

It’s fun.

You if you had to pick, if they were mummy and daddy and they were never goin’ back again, who would you pick? Nicks or Buckingham? I just think when it comes to counting bangers, it’s Buckingham.

I’ve seen, admittedly funny, posts by gen Z pointing out how silly millennials act in clubs when we hear Daft Punk and I pray they never stumble across The Walkman’s The Rat, which is generationally good.

It’s a vampire. Me: Meh But it’s much larger than you would expect! Me: Go on. Happens every-time. Big vampires just work.

When I hilariously fart four times

It gives the fullness of loose pencil and the precision of ink all at once. Almost makes the ink glow.

I don’t want to cause a fight but I’m not sure you can hold both the positions of “video games are art” and “make them faster”

You can get to feck with the fireworks now, thanks

Post a picture of you from a different era. Me, before I hardly had any grey hair. And a bonus @jordancollver.bsky.social before he had hardly any hair.

Lol.

The thing is, you can still tell. As “good” as gen AI has got, it’s still uncanny. There is an AI style now. And it’s crap. And ruining Christmas!

Wow. Just saw the Coke Cola Christmas ad. You know the one. Holidays are coming. Well turns out that timeless, warm, grainy footage that fills us with nostalgia has been replaced with AI slop. A fine example of making something worse, cramming in AI and missing the point entirely!

Man alive, we need local journalists. The difference between how Farage is perceived and projected by the national press and how bad Reform local councillors are is unfathomable.

Not the point but whenever I see Bannon I always think “are you not staying?” He never takes that coat off. Hopefully in jail he will both stay and have to wear something else though.

Already been a great week for freelancing, but got some even cooler stuff lined up for the next couple of months! Most won't see fruition until the start of 2026 though, so in the meantime please pay me to write words www.bensledge.co.uk

“A bloody dirty bomb is abowt to go off at the Latvarian embassy as his nibs jet sets off to meet with stretchy bollocks Reed Richards for a chat about our illegal negative zone defences and I’ve only got you soppy cunt to work wiv. Fuck me,” SFX: Fart. Please post my Eisner.

Portrait of Alan Moore by Kevin Nowlan

Goddamn Natee is good

This is the inverse of that picture of him after he was shot, and let’s face it, has just as good composition.

They know which side their bread is buttered on

“A bloody dirty bomb is abowt to go off at the Latvarian embassy as his nibs jet sets off to meet with stretchy bollocks Reed Richards for a chat about our illegal negative zone defences and I’ve only got you soppy cunt to work wiv. Fuck me,” SFX: Fart. Please post my Eisner.

“Low-Calibre” It’s X-Men meets Slow Horses. Pete Wisdom runs a team of super powered MI-13 rejects. That’s the pitch, Marvel, you cowards. You know where I am.

Barry Windsor-Smith

Having a bit of an identity crisis in my day job and got some lovely reminder from wife.

SICKOS ha ha ha yes etc

Is Starmer still looking to inject this AI bubble into the UK’s veins and incidentally does he know what happens when you inject air bubbles into veins?

The thing you’ve already given us money for won’t work so we need more money otherwise you’ll lose more money. Ladies and gentlemen, this is what con artists are getting at when they say they can’t con an honest man. AI was a morally (and now fiscally) bankrupt shell game from game one.

I really thought ninja’s would play a larger part of my adult life. I should correct that.

Lads. I’m tired. So very tired.

Here’s a better idea, put fuel duty on private jet fuel. There’s 2billion found www.aviationnews-online.com/public/index...

I’m not sure how this A) fixes the cost of living b) help the environment or c) outflanks the left who we know are “the reason” Starmer will lose at the general election. www.theguardian.com/money/2025/n...

How do we get this story to the Reform curious. Sure, these things happen under the less extreme parties, but it’s pretty telling Reform are ballsing up a lot of the councils they run. Turns out migrants might not be the issue.

Got some unexpected good news and it made me anxious. WTF IS THAT?

Book 20. A mixed bag. Skipped the Bradbury because I didn’t vibe with Something Wicked. Good occult detective story though. And Aickman is a odd treat I can’t quite fathom.

Who do I know who is in the @cbnnetwork.bsky.social and which of you is going to the Christmas do?

“Trump cannot turn out the vote unless he is on the ballot, and that is never happening again." Great if and only if ballots happen again.

Reform do not currently have enough MPs to form a Cabinet. How can even discuss what their government would look like, beyond bad, if you have no idea how deep their bench will be? Because so far, it’s not like Reform has been packed with talent.

if the polls are to be believed, Gen X men need this way more than their grandkids.

It’s important to remember that Mamdani isn’t going to be able to deliver everything he wants, and that the real good news is plenty of Americans aren’t insane and do want progressive change. Which will come in time. Still. Nice it feels a little like this…

We now go live to Andrew Cuomo...

*Glass Shatters* Fukuyama: Bah Gawd! That’s History’s music!

How soon will the Democratic leadership start briefing that actually, historic landslides aren’t the way to defeat Trump?

Chuffed for Mamdani but cannot shake this: “The public likes you, Dent. That's the *only* reason this might fly. But that means it's on you. They're all coming after you now. Not just the mob: politicians, journalists, cops. Anyone whose wallet's about to get lighter. Are you up to it?”

Nice one, New York. You’re alright, you.

I really wanted to open up some pre-Thought Bubble commission slots but I'm just too slammed with comic stuff at the moment. What if I did a bunch of Phantom headshots? Would folks going to TB want Phantom stuff?