Some MFers don't believe me when I talk about how deeply ingrained anti-Arab sentiment is in the comic book industry. Here's the guy who made HOLY TERROR & a public Islamophobic tirade, being celebrated w/ a guy who's inferring he ACTUALLY tortured Arabs, while a 3rd giggles like a buffoon about it

You'll get chinstrokers saying this type of campaigning is naïve and ineffective (let's see) but many people who vote for Reform don't know what they actually plan to do beyond the big headlines. It's not as if the BBC and the press tell them, so probably right that somebody does.

I literally cannot tell you how I (allegedly) feel about this because Labour made that illegal so I’ll let you reach your own conclusions Allegedly/theoretically/etc

I’ve been frustrated to see so much of the ongoing story about asylum seekers and the protests against them covered without hearing from those seeking asylum and now being met with hostility and hatred I set out to speak to those directly affected to find out about the impact this is having 👇

Landlords don't provide homes, they hoard them so others can't buy them. Rent costs are higher than mortgage costs, so it's essentially people with deposits buying up properties then getting other people to pay their mortgage for them whilst making profit. That is parasitic behavior.

This really does matter. Sign this not because you want to buy inappropriate smutty things from the internet, but because if you let people tell you what legally available things you can or cannot buy you are at the mercy of somebody else's definition of "inappropriate".

i know to many it's a job, but comics demand a nuclear amount of energy, usually provided by one person working alone, that is so misunderstood and unmatched lol

Labour's next biggest losses are to left-liberal parties (Liberal Democrats and Greens). Reform's growth in support has mostly come from the Conservatives and non-voting (much less from Labour). These reflect patterns of party-bloc voting that we saw in the 2024 UK GE: tinyurl.com/y5pv7thw

It’s Wallace Shawn Wednesday

🎉BREAKING: Scotland has joined the global movement to boycott Israel! The proposal put forward by Green MSP @patrickharvie.bsky.social was supported by a majority of members in the Scottish Parliament.

Amazing how such small numbers have been identified as the voice of the nation when, for comparison, 100,000 turned out for trans pride last month in London.

this is tonight at 8:20pm!

So great to see this in a mainstream outlet, credit where it's due to Neil and of course Rebecca

You can tell which politics the papers support just by which marches and protests they cover. 100,000 people for trans rights? Zero coverage. Max 250 people for racism? Breathless daily coverage, multiple articles and thinkpieces, talking heads going on TV to discuss ‘legitimate concerns’.

How many hunks can one table hold? From 5-6, find @seanazz.bsky.social, @grthink.bsky.social, @marxtafford.bsky.social, @danwhite.bsky.social, @frasergeesin.bsky.social, @patrickwray.bsky.social, @johnnyriordan.bsky.social and this guy. Get to @goshcomics.bsky.social on the 30th of August!

East London rapper, producer and poet John Glacier speaks to Claire Biddles about childhood poems about the failure of humanity, the enduring influence of her native Hackney, disability, self-advocacy, grime and more The Model is You: An Interview with John Glacier buff.ly/LRsdp51

i am begging everyone to stop repeating the myth that brains are underdeveloped until 25 www.sciencefocus.com/comment/brai...

Last few days to chuck me your portfolios for this! You have til Sunday!

People in the UK: Remember you can legally and easily download the entirety of Wikipedia! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download I strongly recommend you do if you live there, specially if you're a minor

I have updated my zine shop! ⚰️ #InterviewWithTheVampire zine +sticker 💦 james spader fanzine w @julesscheele.bsky.social 🤘 metal logo zine 🌺 cosey fanni tutti gardening zine ⚔️ gerard way zine + prints + more! postage uk only for the moment – have a look + purchase! fwyl.bigcartel.com

Friends, I might be involved with a new paid project that's lookin for queer POC who make comics. If you are interested in adapting stories about sexual health in the UK during the 50s, drop me a reply here or email teahermit at hotmail dot co dot uk and I will forward your links!!

Stayed up too late working to be free for plans that fell through today and now I don’t know what to do with myself and am considering more working. This is a bad idea right

My latest newsletter is out. Covered: Grok's meltdown, cognitive offloading, neo-luddism, resistance and Iain Softley's 1995 classic, Hackers! grave-offerings.ghost.io/trust-your-t...

Pee-wee as Himself is glorious, an incredibly familiar story of homophobia - internalised, and institutional - in a lot of ways, but a portrait of a real, queer, punk artist working in the medium of children's TV, an incredible talent who could walk between worlds, I wept like a baby

- it’s genocide - our leaders have been actively facilitating it - everything else is downstream from these two things

Issue nine of our newsletter is out now, ft. Comedowns, Babe: Pig In The City, James Joyce relitegated, the warrior cult, The Beach Boys, terms and conditions, and Perfect Blue.

Also if you have any spare cash this is Osama’s fundraiser. He is a wonderful human and throughout this genocide he has worked tirelessly to feed not only his own family but his entire community. He is a generous and loving man who has been through so much. chuffed.org/project/1204...

Oh this looks great! If you were planning on picking up/reading Suzanne and hadn't gotten around to it, this is a nice excuse to do so and join the @goshcomics.bsky.social reading group!

Instead of just standard corpo-IP, I’m trying a new thing where I commission artists I like to do pieces based on songs I like, however the artist might interpret the vibe. Here’s one of the first pieces I got—Leo Fox, one of the best cartoonists right now, inspired by “Vesuvius” by Sufjan Stevens:

Just a small wave at anyone caught up in the Unbound/Boundless mess that you can get advice from the Society of Authors on contracts if you're a member. It's £32 a quarter, cheaper if you're over 65/under 35. Pretty much anyone at any stage of a writing career can join as an associate member.

You think that was bad, this one is really shocking

Ok then, I only have a tiny Unbound/Boundless story but it was pretty upsetting nonetheless. Already told this on insta but here we go

Authors published by the crowdfunding publisher Unbound will not receive historic royalty payments for sales of their books, unless Boundless, the new publisher founded following Unbound going into administration, "survives and thrives" 👇 #BookSky

EHRC Opens Shortened Consultation as the UN Raises the Alarm 👇 https://www.wearequeeraf.com/ehrc-opens-shortened-consultation-as-the-un-raises-the-alarm/

Finally listened to the Kate Nash track, and it's all round pretty good youtu.be/q2MoQJP-PhA?...

The obvious one is 💦Closer💦, otherwise I can't decided between The Hand That Feeds or March of the Pigs

I made a new zine! It's full of advice on how allies can work alongside trans people to take action in the current moment, lovingly cut-and-pasted over the words of my enemies. Plus lots of nice pictures and memes. Available as a free PDF! Read online or print your own copy! Share with everyone!

⭐Calling cisgender women!⭐ I'm so proud of this open statement from #NotInMyName speaking up for our trans siblings. Far too often, the only women’s voices we hear seem intent on stoking the flames. Sign & share to build the inclusive world we actually want to live in. www.change.org/p/not-in-our...

Much to think about, in Galley Beggar’s piece for the Society of Authors on how much it costs to make a book. Seeing some cold hard numbers really does, uh, focus the mind on the positives and negatives of charging hourly versus project fees…

“Reuters examined the data from the Gaza Health Ministry to look more closely at those who have died. It found that more than one-fifth of those killed in the territory were children under the age of 12. More than 1,200 families were completely wiped out”

Glasgow Times have a story on the Trans Kids Deserve Better protest outside the EHRC offices, including a statement from the protesters, and footage of supporters blocking police vans.

Gonna keep banging on about Tom's newsletter until we live in a lush dystopia where his images are beaming out of every smart device in the land.

I finally have photos of me actually doing the live illustration I do, as @queertempo.bsky.social is my lovely assistant now - here's one I did for the @inspiringscotland.bsky.social Creative Communities Programme back in March. It was a quick one, just an hour and a half to listen and draw!

Erika is responsible for some of the most unforgettable images in comics right now - if you're not reading her work already that's okay, you can still sort that out!

This is a fantastic breakdown of the broader implications of the current spectacle in comics culture.

Our fifth newsletter is out, ft. Andor, attractive brothers, the @blackcasebook.bsky.social interview, The Blob, hip-hop as the Marvel universe, Pagans Against A.I. and Suede.

It is my 24th birthday today and I am trying to get top surgery soon. If me or my work has ever meant anything to you please consider sharing or donating 🫶 thank u !!

Now that I'm moved I really need to do a big social media and website update of all the work I've been doing! For now here's some little illustrations I made for OUTpatients UK and Ovacome on ovarian cancer awareness for transmasc people - more details here: www.ovacome.org.uk/ovacome-and-...