Happy birthday, America! Comic from almost 20 years ago, sadly still relevant.

I tried @sweetlosicecream.bsky.social’s Orange Julius recipe and, Madeleine-like, it took me back to the Esquimau ices I liked to get when we holidayed in France when I was a boy. I didn’t trust the structural integrity of my homemade cones. Sorry about the visual impact.

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

Doktoranden Ernst Cederholm @ernstcederholm.bsky.social har utvecklat en digital valkompass som ska ge väljare en annan bild av svensk politik än traditionella valbarometrar. Plattformen minDemokrati bygger inte på partiernas vallöften utan på hur de har röstat i riksdagen. www.su.se/nyheter/nyhe...

Seriously though, whoever thought of calling Andy Burnham “The Mancunian Candidate” deserves the Freedom of the City of Manchester

I was looking at the Wikipedia entry for actor Peter Boyle (1935-2006) and found out that amongst many other things, he appeared in three completely unrelated films titled Joe (1970), Crazy Joe (1974) and Tail Gunner Joe (1977)

Buster Keaton didn't stand still while a two-ton housefront collapsed on top of him with a window cut out to barely clear his shoulders on each side so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

A cartoonist named Daniel "Des" Rolando Sanchez Estrada was tried as a terrorist and sentenced to 30 years in prison for having anti-Trump comics in his car. Prosecutors connected him to a 2025 anti-ICE protest he didn't even attend because he was in the same book club as others who were.

I earn my living through tech platforms now, and when I look at the deductions taken by the Very Worst People On Earth from my earnings for doing the square root of fuck all (“platform fee”) compared to what I do (all of it) and realise this money just vanishes, it makes taxes seem rather noble.

OTD in 1979, THE MUPPET MOVIE opened in theaters across the United States. Jim Henson noted (with typical understatement) that its reception was "Great!" and it was one of the most profitable films of the decade. But getting the Muppets to the big screen in the first place was hard work.

I spent about half an hour on Threads today and sod that for a lark

I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

This Makerfield voter sums up British politics in less than 70 seconds 🔥🔥🔥

The sheer disappointment of waking up this morning thinking it was Wednesday and then realising I still have a whole day to wait for this

It’s not every day I buy fruit on the grounds that it’s adorable

This is the idea that could actually get me to play a TTRPG

This #StreetArt calls you to take part! A C21st ready-made photo backdrop!🤳 “The Viceroy Glass” by Bobby Rogueone depicts a woman holding a transparent glass, so a real person is able to pose inside the illusion!😊 Located behind The Viceroy Bar & Club, Paisley Road West, Glasgow!🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #StreetArt🎨🫟

I think we are in danger of underestimating quite how evil Elon Musk is. 🧵

I love writing. I love drawing. I love coding. Fortunately, thanks to AI, now I don't have to do any of these things! 🤗

British solo comics maverick self-publisher Hroge's serialisation of his 15-issue, already-completed graphic novel reaches issue 11 - and there’s still time – just! – to back the project on Kickstarter, the latest campaign including this, plus digital bundles of previous issues, and much more

Or to put it another way, Man sentenced after walking up to woman on train and grabbing her by the hair, if you want to stick to the facts, BBC

I once mentioned Buffy the Vampire Slayer to an older friend of mine and he said “Oh yes, the thing with Head’s brother” and that’s how I found out he went to school with Murray Head

The Phrenologist’s Head would make quite a nice name for a pub

I saw Marjane Satrapi speak about her work at Smith College 19 years ago, and she said something I have thought about and taught ever since when I teach comics. “I draw what I can’t write and I write what I can’t draw.“

Grupperna i fotbolls-VM ordnade efter hur många produkter Systembolaget har från respektive land, borträknat "Internationell", "EU" osv. Grupp A Sydafrika 709 Mexiko 204 Tjeckien 130 Sydkorea 15 Grupp B Kanada 71 Schweiz 55 Bosnien & Hercegovina 3 Qatar 0 >>

The Instagram page of Marjane Satrapi (1969-2026) as it appeared after the death of her partner Mattias Ripa last year. Satrapi’s family announced that she died of sadness

@karenhao.bsky.social: “AI is a political project. The central feature of that political project is taking agency away from everyone, and [Tony Blair] has successfully continued to propagate this idea, that no one has agency in this, which is, I think, deeply undemocratic.”

An AI just made Nintendo tell all of Japan to go catch Pokemon. In an ad for a game that isn't Pokemon.

Lately I’ve been in an indie team making stop-motion animation. It’s just 4 of us (animator, writer, voice actor, sound designer). The show’s called The Tiny Angry Witch. It’s all basically hand made. No AI. It’s tiring, but we love what we do. So, anyway, here’s a Witch making rude noises:

This photograph of me was taken about thirty years ago in Stockholm and I don’t really know what else to tell you

Newcastle Cathedral to showcase what it’s really like to seek asylum in the UK The harsh reality of life in the asylum system is being revealed to Newcastle Cathedral visitors northeastbylines.co.uk/business/vol...

Get a load of this minute of silence

This is for the people who BUY interpreting from TransPerfect. Hospitals. Courts. Insurers. Government agencies. Enterprises. Read this carefully, because it is about you.

#humansofbluesky #urbangaze #eastcoastkin Dancing Street Lions #imaginarybattles #stepoutintothesunshine #chasingawayevilspirits

I just had a quick nap to cope with the heat and when I woke up there was a bloke from NASA on the telly talking about the lunar economy

One of my favourite public monuments is the statue that was erected at the spot in Stockholm where a JAS fighter jet crashed during an air show in 1993 (there were no casualties)

Here’s a pic of one from a year I tried painting pumpkins rather than carving

The Swedish 🇸🇪 Parliament just approved a law that would create a tiered citizenship scheme, with a 1st class (mostly for the native born) that cannot be revoked and a 2nd class (mostly for the naturalized) that can: www.svt.se/nyheter/inri... Only two parties (Left and Green) voted against.

RTing an EPIC comics history thread by our late studiomate Jesse Hamm. Jesse, an artist and educator. This was one of Jesse's best & it shouldn't be left to languish on twitter. It's long though, so if not interested, mute #hammthread.

#LesIrresponsables sont aussi ceux qui osent mettre un signe égal entre une gauche radicale républicaine, humaniste et universaliste et les fascistes héritiers de Vichy du RN.

Being anti-immigrant is immoral, inhumane, economically illiterate and politically catastrophic for a party supposedly on the left. Not really that difficult. Too difficult for Labour.

Är alltid mycket prat om att höjda räntor förstör hushållens ekonomi men när det gäller chockhöjda hyror för miljoner hyresgäster så verkar ingen högerpolitiker ens tänka tanken att detta får negativa effekter på hela ekonomin.

Remembering the day I pocket texted my putative mother-in-law during a run

"A journalistic approach to intimate aspects of life in Israel and Palestine." — Kirkus Love and Desire in the Promised Land: The Private Lives of Israelis and Palestinians by Salomé Parent-Rachdi and Deloupy is out 6/9. https://ow.ly/b3s250YWmsC

🧵A somewhat niche thread. Film posters inadvertently photographed by postwar town planners. I found most in the Manchester Archives+ and Manchester Libraries archives. #1: Dr. No #cinema #socialhistory

(je repense à un passage, je crois de Michaux ou de Valéry, quelque chose comme « les savants n'ont pour décrire le cosmos que les pauvres descendants des cris des bêtes », mais impossible de retrouver de quel bouquin c'est tiré)

Here are some drawings from RAT FACE, a 32-page one-shot I've been working on, which tells the origin story of the aptly-named villain from my PARANORMAL trilogy. Hoping to finish before the end of 2026. #paranormal #ratface #noir #retronoir #supervillains #comics #comicscommunity #blackeyebooks

Journalistic independence is now seriously under threat in the UK. Mathias Dopfner, owner of the Telegraph and Politico, told his journalists they must back Israel or resign. Time to wake up to what is happening.