I'm begging the small local community groups in Ireland to please consider reframing their use of AI design work this way. The amount of drama and theatre groups in my sphere that I see using AI posters now just makes me sad.

I've been unemployed for a few months. I now set myself pretend jobs to prevent the rot setting in. My son thinks this guy is funny, which is a good enough excuse to make something. Any requests?

MPs’ basic salary to rise to £110,000 by end of parliament, watchdog says. This should be accompanied by a total ban on second jobs, which in most cases is a corporate bribe. Must end all conflict of interests. Being a MP is a full time job. MPs must act exclusively as MPs.

Continuing in the extremely-specific genre of 'Folk Songs Protesting the #Regeneration of #NewcastleUponTyne", here's a performance of a song against Richard Grainger's redevelopment plans, written in the 1830s: youtu.be/kY41ZeNgGq0?...

🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work. This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public. Please spread the word. 🧵 1/4

NEW 90s INDIE POP QUIZ Britpop Now or Then? www.monkeon.co.uk/britpop-now-... A dead-or-alive game using Wikipedia data, giving you an overview of the current state of 90s indie in quiz form.

Our March 2026 issue features stories by David D. Levine, R.L. Meza, Carolyn Zhao, Thomas Ha, Wanxiang Fengnian, Thoraiya Dyer, and Marissa Lingen. clarkesworldmagazine.com/issue_234 Subscribe at: clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

Just had another rejection letter, Tesco don't want to stock my motivational greetings cards.

Author and famed comics creator Alan Moore has launched his own indie record label, Other Shoe Records https://downthetubes.net/new-record-label-other-shoe-records-has-a-famed-comic-creator-connection/

In the story of Humpty Dumpty it is never said that he is an egg. However, it is never said that he is NOT an egg. This means that any character in ANY story could be an egg unless explicitly stated otherwise. Keep that in mind when you read a Jack Reacher novel

Private equity companies linked to Manchester City owner, and Bono making millions in profit through taxpayer-funded special needs schools. 20%+ profit margins. Children are cash cows. Councils pay up to £350,000 a year to support pupils. Money ends up in offshore tax havens. archive.ph/sY2eJ

Labour MP Clive Lewis doesn’t hold back on the Gorton and Denton result in this interview with ITV

Remember when parties who lost elections used to be like "This is a strong message from the electorate and we will listen and learn and change" rather than "Fuck everyone who didn't vote for us, you're all extremists trying to destroy Britain"

Strong and needed words, but is it too late for Labour? The leaders decided to chase fash votes, and define themselves against the Left long enough to make them into a glass bubble full of petty wankers. Change Is Possible, but I'm not sure it's possible without changing the top layer completely.

France’s Engie to buy UK Power Networks for £10.5bn. Much of UK infrastructure is foreign owned - water, energy, ports, airports, mail, vets, hospitals, care homes, mines, shipbuilding. Rip-off practices follow. Govts have fewer economic levers. City prefers speculation to investment.

Art by • lan Miller

Dear @lucympowell.bsky.social, Why did you invent a fake tactical voting company to stop the Green Party beating Reform? I'm starting to think your letters haven't always been in good faith...

This is massive, and disgraceful. No organisation called “Tactical Choice” appears to exist.

But who was the real time-wasting idiot? The blackbird who spent the entire morning trying to fight its own reflection in an old mirror in our back yard? Or me, who was watching it through the door and sneering at its stupidity? (Answer: the blackbird)

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This is great - a concise apocalyptic spiral from elevator to plough, entertaining but more bleakly relevant now than ever.

(Using ai to make a 1min video where Robert Downey junior has lobster claws for hands and fights with Tom cruise on the surface of the sun then Tom turns into a transformer jet and flies to earth to blow up Big Ben) - Hollywood is FINISHED

ICYMI we're still accepting pitch submissions for the next couple of weeks!

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Happy birthday, George Harrison!

I made an app. play.google.com/store/apps/d... Nearby Glasses is here to warn you when smart glasses are nearby. I hope it's useful for someone. Nearby Glasses's open source, free and rather simple github.com/yjeanrenaud/... It's also downloadable outside the Play Store. iOS port is in the making

I went a little overboard with this and a little bit insane. moultano.wordpress.com/2026/02/22/t...

The dark breakfast has been made!

The harm done by #GenAI to human creativity develops in ways we least expect as well as the obvious ones ... cheating has always been a factor in competitions for those who would rather win than grow, but it disrespects and damages the role of the judge as well as the skills of other competitors.

1,200+ people became sick after swimming in designated bathing waters in England, 75% of those official swimming spots rated “good” or “excellent”. Sewage dumping continues. No penalties on water company execs. The state can't guarantee clean water. archive.ph/QGyF2

Love seeing this (feels rarer to see than time-lapse of single big fancy pieces?) Even in a four-panel gag with deceptively clean style, there's SO MANY creative decisions - *intentions* about communicating with the reader - along the way. AI slop has none of that, it's the opposite of art.

Reform UK for sale. It had to return over £200,000 in donations from 18 ineligible overseas donors. It received £9m from a person in Thailand. Its former Wales leader received 10.5 yrs prison sentence for accepting bribes to promote pro-Russian narratives. Elon Musk promised $100m.

AI is going to trash every single way that we had modernised university teaching and send us back to handwritten exams and vivas for every assessment. Which will bring back every problem with those assessment models (and make us seem even more out-of-touch even as we just try to do meaningful work).

Sal Buscema (1936-2026)

Brainwashing, 2026 edition. This paper shows how X's algorithmic feed shifts people's views rightwards. It's a sophisticated, highly effective form of reorientation. And it is utterly chilling. If you're still on that platform, unhook yourself now. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

If you weren't around in the mid 90s, it's maybe hard to imagine how culturally *huge* a weird dark film about drug addicts was. Interesting to hear Boyle talking candidly about that disconnect at time of release.

Not to sound too clickbait-y but if you thought a Mortal Kombat themed ice skating routine to Techno Syndrome was unexpected, that still does not prepare you for (and I genuinely bet you will not predict) what they then segue into. Bonkers excellent.

Georgia was skating to MORTAL KOMBAT at the Olympics exhibition gala

I should change my number

One of the greatest bollard walks in history. #WorldBollardAssociation

This is exactly what I imagine when I hear Holsts's Planets...

Me & @inkjunkie1984.bsky.social were struck down with cold yesterday afternoon so continued final run-in of Trying To Watch As Many Disney & Pixar Animated Features Due To Having Disney Plus Accidentally. Had inadvertent excellent triple bill of proxy father figures - CAN YOU GUESS WHAT WE WATCHED?

In 1979 while some friends were playing football and getting into fights, I was quietly illustrating a Doctor Who fanzine for my fellow nerds

Drew #bjbarham of @americanaquarium.bsky.social as he did a wonderful set at #GatesheadLittleTheatre #urbansketch #gigzine #gateshead #jumpinhotclub

This is extremely fun and I'm grateful there's a translation for the ending, because by 1100 I really couldn't have worked it out myself

Had a good breakfast in the Little Chef on the way down, cost £3.52. Richard moaned. We are both feeling full on life.

50 YEARS AGO TODAY: the infamous, long thought lost Nationwide report on the Hexham Heads, two weird stone carvings linked to werewolf-like visions and poltergeist effects. Sleep well.

Here's what TikTok has been doing to our work & art without our consent.

Stop eating chickens, they probably can't even technically call them that now anyway.