Ok. As promised, a thread about supply chain food safety vulnerabilities in the food industry. Buckle up. It's a long one.

‘Lake Keitele’ 1905 Oil on canvas Akseli Gallen-Kallela (1865-1931) “This work expresses Finnish nationalism after being ruled by foreign powers for 800 years. The zigzag pattern of the wind on the lake references folk hero Vanämöinen, who rowed across the water in the Finnish saga Kalevala.”

Hold up! What's small-press legend @soundprojector.bsky.social got in his hands? Find out tomorrow morning! 🤔🦊 #zines #bookarts #foxes

The opening chapter to #Nostos #Unflattening 2 is a 22 page, 15 foot long continuous sequence that is a retelling of the Odyssey. It’s been done since 2019 and I’ve been pushing to have it released as a standalone since to no avail, & really hoping before this movie, but here we are. A sneak peek…

Two men are very uncomplimentary about a third because they think he can’t hear them. Oh dear.

I have just discovered there is a channel on my tv that is called AMBIENT THUNDERSTORMS

I am not a climate scientist but when I was a kid the number of times we couldn’t go outside because of Canadian wildfire smoke was zero times

Two men are very uncomplimentary about a third because they think he can’t hear them. Oh dear.

Did you know a barrister is facing prison just for reminding a jury they have the right to vote with their conscience? This historic right has existed since 1670. We can't let it be silenced in court now. Add your name to help protect Britain's juries: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

Just looked up on the tube and felt an arrow through my heart: but then they leave, they go, before you were ready (how could you ever be ready?) -Maura Dooley

Two musicians find it more useful to wear wigs and dresses instead of suits and ties.

A man in a flatshare finds out his wife is having an affair with a man in the flatshare next door.

Counterpoint: Count Binface as funny as ever.

I like this wall map for the comics art show at MOTE in Peckham that functions in a comics-logic way

i had no idea this would become so literal

w....wait.... you mean to tell me.... gulps..... putting money into the arts.......is profitable and..........produces............g-good outcomes for everyone?

Get a copy of Orlando with an exclusive @goshcomics.bsky.social bookplate!

After Zia Yusuf accuses critics of endangering Reform politicians with violent language, he is read a list of quotes where he called Reform's opponents "lunatics who deserve extinction", "sick arsonists" and "traitors" who will face a "reckoning". He says these are in "a totally different category"

I have just discovered there is a channel on my tv that is called AMBIENT THUNDERSTORMS

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller July 15,1950

As an academic, I have decided to pre-empt AI taking my job, so I am going to take ITS job! I am going to start hallucinating, lying to my students, and drinking 700,000 litres of water

You may have seen a campaign recently about taking down "no ball games" signs in housing estates. Which sounds great, but we need to have a think about who benefits - and so a thread. This comes from girls in a school where boys used football to take over the playground. 🧵

I like this wall map for the comics art show at MOTE in Peckham that functions in a comics-logic way

🔴 For the past year @lucasamin.bsky.social and I have been investigating Palantir in the UK What we found was a company with unrivalled political access, selling a product many data experts in the NHS don’t use, and don’t rate Please read and share democracyforsale.substack.com/p/its-just-a...

OMG 🔥🔥🔥

The mall, movie theaters, arcades, Perkins, Denny's, that local place that was open 24 hours, bowling alleys, hotel lounges that had two pinball machines and Mortal Kombat, comic book stores! record stores! The woods! The strip mall that wasn't as nice as the indoor mall, but closer to your house!

Tokyo, for complexity New York, for novelty Paris, for beauty Buenos Aires, for urbanity Rome, for ever

You’re never broke if you got ideas

This is the Amnesty International report on the anti-rights groups. These anti-rights groups have immediately engaged in lawfare to bury this report. *be a shame if people kept sharing it. drive.google.com/file/d/1UggI...

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller July 13,1946

historians can you confirm whether or not this is the original "t shirt raising a lot of questions answered by the t shirt"

Difficult train journey for somebody

“In 2020, just 1% of all biopharma R&D spending went towards female-specific conditions, excluding oncology according to McKinsey. (Adding oncology, you get to 5%.) In the medical-device industry, it was 4%.”

Looking Back at ARC Festival 2026 @arcfestivallondon.bsky.social – A Truly Triumphant Celebration of Contemporary Comics in South East London. www.brokenfrontier.com/arc-festival...

John was very proud of his logo, so this is what I do if I sign Unbound copies now.

Despite a paper trail proving otherwise, Unbound’s administrators claimed they still owned the rights to Effin’ Birds and threatened to sue Penguin Random House if PRH paid me any royalties for my ongoing book sales. Wasn’t resolved until two months ago. They tried to bankrupt me out of spite.

Appropriately, for a discussion about degradation of materials, I have just noticed that Sean’s photo was much sharper yesterday. After an hour in my pocket, the heat from my body has already blurred the image (!)

I have no idea where this came from, but

There we go! All set up and ready to rhumble @arcfestivallondon.bsky.social - alongside loads of other lovely #comics people. Come and see us! It’ll be good!

Love this non-archival photo by Sean of yesterday’s ARC talk on archives and history of UK Small Press. I talked about fax comics that have faded to blank paper so he snapped this :)

Two ARC panels from yesterday’s talks: Contemporary Fantasy w Matt Seneca, Linnea Sterte, Lando, Leomi Sadler and Hollow Press White Walls - Exhibiting Comics w Dr Gareth Brookes, Paul Gravett, Olivia Ahmad, Kat Chapman, Joe Kessler

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller July 10,1958

Hey guys meta announced a new policy where they send a killer to get you so be sure to go to settings>my account > killer> disable killer to turn that off

Superclassy poster for The Fearless Vampire Killers, 1967

Superclassy poster for The Fearless Vampire Killers, 1967

Today!

ARC Festival of Contemporary Comics: Talks happening tomorrow 10:30AM - 6:30PM FRIDAY, JULY 10th at THE HUB, UAL 42 Bonar Road Peckham SE15 5FB Tickets on eventbrite

I'm been wondering if it would come to this and apparently it has. huge move from cloudflare, which hosts a fifth of all websites on earth.