I turned off my mobile for the weekend and was surprised that I didn't miss it at all. I had no idea what time it was and got lost in town, of course.

🎵 You see, I’ve been through the desert on a

Here's how the first story in Maud is Moving begins. My favourite bit of the illustration is how she sits at the table, I was remembering how I'd sit myself as a child.

🚨New report out today.🚨 If we want fewer families facing homelessness, we need to be honest about what works... and what doesn’t. Our new report looks at the evidence behind housing policy and why social housing is key to ending the housing emergency. 🗝️ Read the full report: shltr.org.uk/ifWuB

OK. Looking to raise another sixty quid to get gas and electricity. Got less than 50p left on the emergency credit on both and still a few days away from payday. Super grateful for any help getting there. My kofi: ko-fi.com/robfearon My PayPal: www.paypal.com/paypalme/ret...

I went exactly ONCE and I'm still not over what it did to my lungs and I didn't even get a damn mug

Looking forward to this.

“my children might see the children I voted to put in shackles, how shall they grow up”

Libraries should be for everyone. That's why our Library of Sanctuary scheme is totally free. We do this work on a shoestring so no library ever has to think twice about joining... Please help us support even more libraries 👉 www.justgiving.com/charity/city... www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

I guess I'll have second coffee and sit in my rocking chair and smile a bit about royals getting arrested. Not British enough to have tea instead. Enough to smile

Congratulations to all those independent booksellers on the @thebookseller.com's 2026 Independent Bookshop of the Year shortlist! #booksky www.thebookseller.com/british-book...

A pioneering initiative in Stockholm involved teenage girls in redesigning parks led to a park that focused on spontaneous dance, play and free sports. A response to the fact that the site had been dominated by a football pitch used mainly by boys and men for organised sports.

historian here! Yes

Year of The Horse for my new years playlist youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Tim Hopgood from a Cedric and Boo board book, New Boots. Cedric at ease after he and his elephant friend Boo have played in the muddy park and broken in Boo’s shiny new boots. Digital image with humour and a look of collage. Walker Books 12 Feb. @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social

I never really feel that "being left behind" sounds that negative. When I was a child I was left behind in the school library once because no one noticed I was still reading in there and they locked it up. There was a sofa, drinking water and everything

Otherwise, the task of Leftists isn't to argue about LLMs are "good" or not. It is to understand what workers are fighting for, to understand how the glut of synthetic information is undermining democracy, and to mitigate the harms when the house of cards the economy has been built upon falls.

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

A bit of today's work.

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!

2026 basically

Taking a mental health morning because I can't afford a mental health day today. But I sure as heck will take one soon, turn off the mobile and have a lovely weekend

“The left is missing out on AI!” YEP. Most of us want to miss out! If it ever proves its actual usefulness to our actual lives, stops plagiarizing, and is no longer an environmental disaster, maybe we revisit. Burden of proof is on the industry. So far they’ve done the opposite of that!

Sorry to get radical but I don’t think it’s my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I don’t like any part of it, so I won’t. I’m missing out? Good, that’s what I want. You’re worried about me missing out? That’s fuckin weird, man.

NEW: ChatGPT and other chatbots are feeding users' fixations on real people, reinforcing users' delusional ideas and obsessions about others as they descend into unwanted harassment, stalking, and/or domestic abuse — traumatizing victims and profoundly altering lives. futurism.com/artificial-i...

My friends who I make a collaborative playlist with each week did SCREAMING SONGS this week and honestly it's my favourite one yet. I recommend collating yourself some screaming songs

I think I'm going to stop reading any article or thread that promises to tell a strange story of a well known movie/thing and just assume it's bland AI nonsense

D689,963 - issued to LEGO in 2013 for a design for a "construction set horse." #DesignPatents

Brooklyn-based artist Karlotta Freier, famed for her atmospheric style and detailed approach to illustration, uses the medium of drawing on paper to tell intimate stories and visual narrations. Catch up with Karlotta at this May’s #PictoBerlin Conference on character-driven creativity ⬤⬤ link in bio

Pico8 is fun!

It's on sale for just $1 today ONLY!

Am still grumbling through the morning admin but eventually I WILL make batter and heat up the cast iron poffertjes pan.

its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further

Detail of something I was working on today. Just so you can see what's going on in my professional life

The project of slowly resurfacing my lungs seems to be ongoing.

I'm thinking about why I like second hand things. I just do. As a child, hand me downs meant "clothes that are loved, at home, connection, fun, gratitude" and new ones were "stiff smelly clothes, busy shop, unhappy decisions, stress, ingratitude" Still feeling the same really

Spent an absolutely chaotic day with a friend. Cooking and eating and resting and yelling. Kind of all at the same time really. Then I sequenced a mixtape and now I shall read and sleep. Perfect rainy Sunday.

Again and again, guardrails are a scam

This is going to be out SO SOON...

Decided to clean the flat. Didn't notice I was running out of breath until I got a phonecall and had to do it in mime

BRAINS is my award-winning comic, now available for purchase in print, from Radiator Comics www.radiatorcomics.com/shop/uncateg... for $15 and digitally through itch for $6

A few more pages I haven't yet shared from BRAINS - which you can get for $3 today on itch as part of the winter sale. It is my love letter to brains (and hate mail to so-called AI) alexandragallant.itch.io/brains

I notice that WhatsApp has rolled out a one touch video messaging feature that can't be turned off. So if you don't want to send random body parts/scenery to your colleagues, remember you can just turn off video permission to the app (set to "ask every time" if you still want to make video calls)

Coffee time at the park café

The Kirby Frame is maybe the only time a meme has improved my thinking

My best friend visited today and asked "why is there a parcel here addressed to both of us?" It was a book from the Young V&A museum about their history. I half joked "D'you think we're mentioned?" Our installation is right in the introduction. We had a little celebration.

Being non binary in 90s small town Germany was strange. There there simply wasn't any suitable language to hand and so I just spent that time being vague, feeling like a cryptid, not correcting anyone when they called me young man, young lady, you there. Avoiding public toilets. No identity to claim