It is sort of crazy that a defining feature of contemporary Republican politics is the claim that there is a cabal of pedophiles who are protected by the powerful, and then they do stuff like this. Paxton is trying to win a Senate seat this year!

Post your warning sign (also worth saying for context, the tidal pool was a kids play area, so this sign effectively said “please don’t set sharks on toddlers”) bsky.app/profile/step...

lol for the first time in my life I’m like “oh actually that’s a nice brutalist building” bsky.app/profile/moul...

I absolutely love Mona Awad's book BUNNY and reading some of the online discussion I am *baffled* some people think it's an 'it was all a dream' schizophrenia book! I know this sounds ridiculous, but: No, there *are* magic bunnies/stags/swans and it's all a metaphor for the creative process.

One of my favourite moments on twitter was when I tweeted "Accidentally said "Many thank you" to a woman in a shop." and got hundreds of replies about various misfortunes. (it's still there if you want to look). This was one of the highlights.

Hot take into the void: "ultra-processed food" is basically the antivaxx conspiracy theory for people who think they're far too well informed to get hooked into anything like antivaxx.

This is absolutely bonkers. Like the plot of a series of LINE OF DUTY making the courts: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Supreme Court Overturns ‘Right v. Wrong’ https://theonion.com/supreme-court-overturns-right-v-wrong-1819573211/

Nevermind

I haven’t had any ‘proper’ work, barring smaller commissions (under £450), for the entirety of 2026! twitter & insta socials failing as a place to help with artist profile reach , & Bluesky not being a place larger clients are on yet doesn’t help -

I know other Tolkien artists that use subtext, and they’re all cowards

Ok fine I’ll do it myself. I’m fucking wheezing

"All right chat, thanks for showing up. Got some amazing content for you today" I say from the lectern as the funeral director gives me the dirtiest look ever seen on this earth

I’m a person who thinks there are some valid use cases for machine learning/ai but omg, the fact WhatsApp now has an “ask ai” button is MAD. Why do I need to ask that ai anything ever as I text my mum???

The Goose Girl, by William-Adolphe Bouguereau

One of the big advantages the Americans had in the revolutionary war was mandatory inoculation against smallpox, now’s our chance folks bsky.app/profile/cnn....

I've seen a lot of "Who would win, Superman vs ____" questions, but honestly the answer is probably just "Superman would be nice to them and they wouldn't have to fight"

kissing under the rain

A good mate sent me the cool lady head from the new custodes set for my knights blazing sun- a three part head kit!

Headline of the Day.

Something in my occasional series reminding people I play warhammer- I’ve done a fun little cavalry patrol using the lovely AOS cavalry models for old world. Of course because I’m me, I’ve included a whimsical toad:)

Speaking on Sky this AM about Mandelson, energy sec Ed Miliband says: "Prime ministers make errors. Prime ministers are fallible. Prime ministers are human. As you know, I steered well clear of Peter Mandelson when I became Labour leader in 2010. But people make mistakes."

I did almost exactly this over the weekend. Big novel edit to complete, loads of time, wrote a fun little 1200 word story instead. I think sometimes your brain just needs it. bsky.app/profile/davi...

Tremendously depressing read. Also: proper reporting. open.substack.com/pub/londonce...

It is mad that he made Rayner resign for getting bad tax advice and Haigh resign for minor phone shit, but is clinging on after ignoring security vetting for a traitor who was leaking secrets to the world’s most notorious pedo bsky.app/profile/wall...

And for what? For whom? This incurious man, whose political insight has long since failed? Whose life is dedicated to self-enrichment and marginal parasitism on billionaires? There's nothing there worth lifting a finger for.

So much of the Mandelson affair involves people making objectively insane decisions and thinking, well, this surely will not blow up in my face -- despite substantial precedent that, where Mandelson is concerned, it really will definitely blow up in your face.

One thing that’s hugely underestimated about Mamdani - how much he clearly loves NYC. I think that goes a long way! bsky.app/profile/mayo...

Jaws at 4 on Betamax, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom the same year in the cinema (!), ghostbusters at 5 on a plane. My 13 year old sister thought I’d be fine. Tbf, I mostly was although I’d scream the house down if she put her hand on my heart and said “Kali Ma, Kali Ma shatiday!”

“How lucky I am, to be working as the first ever lobster teacher. Life in a nice tank. Each day I get to open young minds to the wonders of crustacean sea life…oh hey. Wait, put me down! What are you doing? No, I liked it in there, you don’t understa- What the f…” *splash*

Sorry I yelled “FINISH HIM” at your son’s circumcision

Today is my birthday! And the best gift you could give me is to share my artwork 🎉

Japanese sci-fi: two robots in space, yearning American sci-fi: man gets the author's beliefs on polygamy confirmed by the aliens of ramalama IV french sci-fi: two horny bounty hunters visit the Galaxy of Breasts British sci-fi: nuclear war. Everyone dead. America's fault

And being sued is an extinction-level event for an independent journalist. That lawsuit is two years old and it still hasn't gone to trial. Just endless filings and appeals. You can have a story 100 percent correct and still be crushed by someone with deep pockets

When I was reporting on Dan Schneider 8 or so years ago, I got to a point where I had to stop. Because I was being threatened w a lawsuit & despite having everything nailed down, I couldn't afford to go to court. When "Dark Side Of Kid TV" came out, Schneider sued the producers @moryan.bsky.social

(A)I.N.R.I.

“SECRATARY”

first in my bloodline to see someone get excommunicated by a community note

This is great advice. It’s super inspiring and great for my own creativity bsky.app/profile/malk...

"Rejoice! For a Knight of Bretonnia provides your shield..." #WarhammerCommunity #Nerdlings

Helen DeWitt on turning down a $175k Windham-Campbell Prize because she wasn't able to handle the prize's mandatory publicity requirements. Imo a moving, deeply relatable, and darkly funny story about money, obligation, mental health, & executive dysfunction paperpools.blogspot.com/2026/04/we-l...

Hall of fame FT correction

shout out to my ex con friends who i now see were playing the longest possible game

It's called mantasy, T. It's when the magic sword is your dad never hugged you.

The win for Iran here is huge. $40 billion a year in tolls in perpetuity is 10% GDP growth, plus lifting the oil embargo. Big win for China too in ending freedom of navigation. )

I remember thinking my grandparents were completely mad to see antisemitism everywhere - growing up in Britain in the 1990s it was no more common than anti-catholic prejudice, just felt completely historical. bsky.app/profile/naom...

I’ve come to the sad conclusion that the relative low level of antisemitism in my life up till now has been a blip caused by the existence of living Holocaust survivors. And as the last Holocaust survivors die, and it fades from living memory, the base normal level of antisemitism returns.

A long piece this week on the various kinds of AI foolishness I have seen lately. Tl;dr: in your professional life, do not use technologies in which you have no expertise and with which you have not engaged critically?! It’s not that complicated?! open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...