Eeeeeeeeee! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"Racist people are firing and laying off Black women at three times the rate of other women." 😬Yikes! It sounds bad when you say it like that! "Black women are losing jobs at 3 times the rate." Much better! Makes it sound like the Black women just need to be more careful or better at their jobs!

Delete TikTok now.

My brilliant friend @dannirowan.bsky.social decided to take up standup literally last month and like, instantly nailed it?! Check it out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkOq...

We put on an all-Yiddish community production of fiddler on the roof in Philadelphia and cast member and local artist Sofie Rose Seymour created the most amazing show poster that ever was

The quality of art is not the quality of the art; if it were, art would begin and end w/photorealism. The quality of art is in the quality of the artist's observations. Some of the greatest novels have workmanlike prose; they are carried by jaw-dropping truths about human life. Or take cartooning--

I apologise profusely for all the trouble I caused to you. I am prepared for the required punishment.

"By the end of the two-year period, 94% of participants reported they were housed." A million pilot programs show the same thing: when people are given enough money to afford housing, homelessness ends. Other supports matter, but housing comes first. Not policing. Not moralizing. Homes.

The idea that the 'mere presence' of a trans woman in a female prison automatically breaches others’ human rights 'should be rejected', Scotland’s human rights agency has told a court

I have something I call The Harry Redknapp Rule, which goes thus: if someone is caught, by fluke, doing something wildly, intricately illegal - in Redknapp's case, placing dodgy cash in a Monaco bank account in his dog's name - then it is vanishingly unlikely that this is their first such crime.

There's genuinely a study on the government website commissioned in 2018 but only published in 2025, which is like: the UK is probably really corrupt but there's so little transparency and such poor data that it's impossible to say how bad it is www.gov.uk/government/p...

We have immunity theft not debt!

Secure your own squid first before helping others. (I'm disproportionately proud of this drawing.)

Labour's dark soul has been exposed. Why does it refuse to confront wealthy elites - even though that's popular? For two reasons: ideology and money. New column 👇 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I do wonder what other absolutely brilliant music there is in the world, given that I didn't find out about Talking Heads until I was in my 40s...

Weird Pride is a celebration, but also, always, an act of defiance - perhaps now more than ever.

Happy February! Welcome to most underrated and fastest improving month. You start in the depths of winter and end waking up in the light to the sound of birds singing, to the sight of snowdrops, daffodils and early blossom in the trees #BigFebruary

"Our standing rule is: If one of us brings up using GenAI in any of our work, then it's safe to assume we've been assimilated by The Thing and should be burned alive by Kurt Russell," said a game design consultant in the US.

I wonder if they will now be threatened with financially devastating legal action for this announcement.

Write to your MP. It can be your Civic Engagement of the Day. www.writetothem.com

My friend Danni is doing a stand up show! Check out this preview and marvel at how adorable she is! Also I'm fairly sure that guy didn't play Pike...https://youtu.be/y1hf4l3mS2c?si=uXmp6KeU9XPFe64w

Just finished reading Fun Home. Man, so good. Wish I'd read it when it came out - that would have sped up my understanding of my own mental health by like a decade.

Attacking trans rights was never really about "protecting women." That rhetoric was just a convenient way to make cisgender women complicit in their own oppression, and to make cisgender men feel like "good guys" while oppressing cisgender women and people who are trans.

I don't know if becoming a parent rewires your brain, but in my case there was an immediate certainty that I'd do anything to protect my kid no matter what then happened to me personally. I think a lot of parents feel this way. And seeing stuff like this done deliberately activates that same feeling

Nowadays, we are more than 90% certified sustainable palm oil in UK! There are a number of tools you can use to find out who is using sustainable palm oil. Choose #Sustainable #PalmOil and Save #Orangutans! www.orangutanlandtrust.com/post/choosin...

We're excited to reveal Thought Bubble's 20th festival image, drawn by the amazing Núria Tamarit. Thank you so much Núria! Check back tomorrow when we'll be announcing our 2026 dates and opening our exhibitor applications!

Today's Interesting Fact: palm oil is... good?! It uses 4-10 times less land than any other oil, so replacing it would be environmentally catastrophic. Instead, we should choose RSPO certified oil, and 70% of UK palm oil already is! www.wwf.org.uk/updates/8-th...

Now this is intriguing. Ulli Lust's exploration of prehistoric humankind, focused on the role of women throughout history. #ComicsIn2026 #comics

Had an intriguing editorial discussion recently: how did people in the past talk about 'minutes' when they didn't have watches or standardised times? How does that affect your thinking? Come down an Elizabethan/Jacobean rabbit hole with me. 1/

Oh wow 48 hours of torture and he still dictated a confession knowing it would be read in court and his comrades would be able to get the info. Wow.

I've never had a Spotify account, now it seems I never will. Like genAI, their mission is to reduce the value of creativity so far that the only way to make money from it is to sell it on a mass basis for micro money, ensuring that only a tiny number of artists can ever make money from their work.

Amnesty International also lists all kinds of writing campaigns they need people for: www.amnestyusa.org/get-involved...

These are the days of miracles and wonder.... 🦣🧬

Found what looks to be an awesome newsletter service! Explicitly no hate speech allowed, and when I asked for a feature they didn't have, it had been implemented like 3 hours later! joyful.to

@lasky.io This looks so good! I am very excited to try it out. Do you have a policy about not platforming hate speech? I would feel much safer setting up a newsletter on your platform if so.

Hello #PortfolioDay! I'm a freelance illustrator from France who likes historical fantasy and monsters~ ✨🕯️I just started working on book covers and looking for more interesting projects! 🔹 violettenouvel.carrd.co ✒️ [email protected]

I love portfolio day.

I want to start a newsletter. Can anyone recommend a good platform? Something simple, free, non-evil. I'd just be putting a blog on my website if that weren't passe.

One of the many, many ways people are fighting ICE in Minneapolis is helping neighbors safely shelter at home during a time when abductions are genuinely rampant. People in Minneapolis are doing *so much* great work

Folks, a website is not the same thing as a town you live in or an ancestral piece of land you fight for because it's yours. A site is a service. You don't keep eating at a restaurant that gives you the runs or shop at a store who rung up false charges on your credit card. Same principal with X

‘A good society feeds its people well’ I talk to Scotland’s inaugural Food Tsar as she launches the nation’s new Food Commission about ‘public food’: the meals in schools & hospitals. She says we must double the money spent if people are to get the food they deserve In @heraldscotland.bsky.social

2026 progress on my novel: decided I couldn't draft any more characters until I knew what percentage of the adult population of Elizabethan England was widowed and single. It's about 14.8%, in case that saves anyone else 4 hours of wheat googling.

Long shot, but does anyone know of any UK triathlon competitions that don't have exclusionary gender politics? The one I raced with two years ago seems to have fallen into line with British Triathlon.

I've noticed more posts missing alt text lately, i suspect because of the influx of newcomers from other sites where alt text isn't the norm. I'd recommend enabling this setting to add a reminder to do alt text before posting. If you want advice/help writing alt text, I'm happy to lend a hand!

you're using a tool that fascism wields like a blunt instrument you're using a tool that guzzles more water than the entire bottled water industry you're using a tool that is turning your brain to mush, even if you don't realise it you're using a tool that is designed to fucking REPLACE YOU

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Open up this picture fully. Then look at the surface of Mars. Then look up to the top right. Spot Mars' moon Phobos high in the sky. Then notice the bright spot beside Phobos. That's Earth.

Holy shit!!! Rian Johnson, you magnificent bastard! You cinematically rickrolled us in 2025!!!!

That time of year again!