40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

Bicycle Jousting is Strictly Forbidden (Somewhere on the mean streets of Belfast) Actually this junction is horrible to cross whether on foot or Bicycle Jousting. #bikeart #bicycle #streetart #ireland #belfast

Yeah I looked upon Cthulhu's dread visage and I was fine. Big octopus on a man's body. Not exactly "difficult to comprehend." Maybe you guys should go outside more idk

I have a new piece in this exhibition in Vault Gallery. The show is called “Everyone Welcome” and it focuses on challenging right wing narratives and especially on immigration. The exhibition is open 12-6pm everyday till Wednesday. #belfast #art #ireland

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Not the Force you are Looking for. This is a 2 colour screen print that I have been meaning to make for ages. This piece is a limited edition of only ten and you can find it over here: www.leoboyd.com/product/not-... #starwars #belfast #screenprinting #art

I think this post from Keith Woods, an Irish white nationalist has it right. Shapiro's dedicated his entire career to delegitimising anti-racism. It's why he has to start his video in which he cites Fuentes praising Hitler w a lengthy clarification that he's not doing "cancel culture". Feels doomed!

In the arts, in academia, in public discourse, we have only one task, and that is fighting the rise of authoritarianism and fascism. If we fail at that, we fail completely

Every year I design the @vaultartiststudios.bsky.social Christmas Market poster and this year I was going to go with an abstract torn paper design like you might find on a billboard in Europe but as soon as I started the design it sent this way and there was nothing I could do to stop it. #belfast

I bloody love a decent breakdown of Frankenstein and this is a bloody good breakdown. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CY3L...

The collective wealth of the top 10 US billionaires soared by $698bn in the past year… www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Bristol paste ups (after Magritte). #Bristol #streetart #arthistory #magritte #art

The smallest lady in Britain meets a big guy, circa 1920s

I love their films but A24 is simply an impractically small paper size

check these out!

Happy Halloween good people of the haunted internet. #streetart #belfast #ghost

The first episode of my new series Truly Tradly Deeply is here! We dive into the evolution of the tradwife subculture, how hyper-feminine aesthetics are weaponised by the European far right, and why Phyllis Schlafly was a Lean In Girlboss 💅💖 on.soundcloud.com/srccAxW4hXnc...

I am going to have to cancel this evenings spooky paste up jam as it looks like the wind and the rain are coming pretty hard and pasting in the wind and the rain is no fun at all :( #belfast #weather #streetart #pasteup #ghost

Some late night (and quite cold) paste ups in Bristol city. No bicycles were jousted in the making of these paste ups. #streetart #bristol #pasteups #bicycle #bikeart

Some advice from the 3rd century

Public video now available! This is the same link! But THIS is the one you will click! me me big boy

🚨Public Service Announcement Jan Švankmajer's wonderful wonderful LEKCE FAUST (1994) is currently available on YouTube (HD transfer, original Czech with English subs) if you want to treat yourself... www.youtube.com/watch?v=adZp...

This is so fucked up that I am in 2 minds to share it but it is worth looking at the new propaganda and seeing how insidious it is. Fuck AI and fuck who ever made this.

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Some years ago I pitched an idea to the Telly for a cartoon called The Magic Meat Wagon about a flying meat wagon unicorn who went round the world granting wishes and bringing peace. The pitch was roundly rejected and this is the only surviving clip from the pilot. #belfast #ireland #animation

I am going to post this anti AI poster I made again just because fuck AI in general. I hope everyone is keeping well out there in the real world :) #aislop #antiAI

Can we just appreciate how stunning young Ursula K Le Guin was

I am organising another Belfast paste up jam but because its the spooky season it'll be a spooky paste up jam. I'll supply the brushes and glue and you bring the paste ups and we'll go and decorate a wall with spooky pictures. #pasteup #belfast #streetart

Finally found a moment to write a new Dubstack post. Chapter 33 celebrates the 40th anniversary of Warhol's talk show on MTV, and there's a fresh dub mix of Chris Stein's theme tune for my full subscribers rentparty.substack.com/p/chapter-33...

Philip K Dick still undefeated at correctly predicting our current dystopia

notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”? anyway that’s why these events are important

On June 4, 1977, approximately 9,000 demonstrators occupied the Museumplein in Amsterdam to commemorate the road deaths of 1976. Afterwards, they rode en masse to the Vondelpark, ignoring the taunts and jeers of motorists.

Drawing by Robert Crumb for Hansje Joustra, managing director of Oog & Blik, 1994

It's kinda cool that Gary Larson is doing new cartoons because he picked up a digital tablet, taught himself how to use it, and it made him love drawing again. www.thefarside.com/new-stuff/

Saturn's giant moon Titan. By Cassini.

honestly I'll call this forgivable given the explanation seems to be "grant morrison doesn't have a smartphone and hasn't read anything about AI and automatically assumed it was a daemon he should befriend"

hey I am doing a Q&A video at the end of the month so if anyone has any questions they'd like me to answer in a video send them over! I WILL NOT be answering any questions presently

Poke Wagon Pin Badge and Wish You Were Here, Belfast Kitty Hall Post Card all for 8 quids! www.leoboyd.com/product/poke...

Here's a T. Rex bored to death trying to bite their own tail. My partner asked me to animate it in stop motion, after she watched a video about the very important topic of "could T. Rex chew its own tail like a dog". The puppet is still a work in progress 🦖

This is why I'm so vehement about not using the term 'conservative' to describe Trumpists. These people don't conserve anything. They have no moderating impulses. They're reactionary freaks preserving nothing-- personal liberty, law and accountability, philosophical/religious freedom-- nothing.

I can ride my bike with no handlebars. #drawing #art #bike #bikeart

The simulation is encroaching on the high street. This is on the Ormeau road in Belfast and I think it is part of a campaign to make the place look nicer? #ai #aislop

Really not sleeping good at the moment and last night wasn't the best but then i got to sleep and had crazy dreams about swimming in the arctic and having a generally class time until the bit where I found my cat Enkidu had been run over and left in the mud to die. Screw you human brain.

Cover by Russ Heath.

I had a heart warming day in Bangor by the Sea yesterday doing paste ups with a ton of lovely people for Bingham Lane Festival which is on all weekend. Get down to Bangor and check out the new paste up wall by Seacourt. #pasteups #streetart

This is both fascinating & frightening. There is a demand for images that show and confirm what people already know and believe to be true, and AI slop meets that demand—with visual content that emblematically visualizes what the headlines report. One could call it synthetic hypervisualization 1/

I have been away on multiple jollies where I have been trying not to make any art but now I am back in the studio and Bob Rossing up the place. #art #painting #bobross