Dear My Phone, My Computer, My Apps, My Electronic Devices, and so forth: Please stop asking me if I want to enable AI. Or use your janky AI tool. Or load my documents or pictures with a bunch of useless, off-putting, earth-killing AI junk. I don't want it. I SAID I don't want it. Stop offering.

Huge thank you to everyone that came to the Waterstones Piccadilly signing event for Who Killed Nessie? by Paul Cornell and Rachael Smith! Photo credit to Beck Fisher - thank you for the lovely photos! 💕 You can order a copy of the book from us here: averyhillpublishing.bigcartel.com/product/who-...

DO NOT participate in #blueskyblackout2025 I'm nsfw artist and other nsfw artists are asking you to SHOUT! Bsky wants to censor us so the worst thing we can do is censor ourselves! Publicly shame them, use the feedback button, and post about it using the tag #bskycensorship Silence is compliance!

I work with teenagers a lot and can only concur.

I mean it's D, obviously. Except I think my answer might change if I knew more about the food of E and F...

This Saturday, @rachaelsmith.bsky.social and I will be at Waterstones in London Piccadilly to sign your Nessies!

This will be a superb chat & insight into Alison’s craft with advice PLUS off-the-record sneak peeks Join us @comicartfestival.bsky.social 26-28 September in Bowness!

cosign. I wrote a little bit about this one recently: essays.iamdavidbrothers.com/2025/09/dont...

Visa and Mastercard reportedly coming for FAIRIES and CAT EARS Get on the phone and ask them wtf is up because this even made me double take bsky.app/profile/dark...

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".

Tonight's Full Moon is the Corn Moon and it will rise eclipsed. The darkness and red moonlight will make Saturn more visible than usual. #SomethingBeautiful

Shouting “will no one rid me of these troublesome fascists?” at the top of my lungs and hoping a couple of knights overhear me.

I think, in light of all the rotten people out there spreading terf nonsense, today would be a good day to support trans creators. Trans folk, please add your links to this thread for books or crafts or whatever you do!

Nuns

www.kickstarter.com/projects/z2c... @marcmaron.bsky.social: LOCK THE GATE!!

🌟 IT LIVES! 🌟 The UK Comics Creator Survey is BACK, baby! Here to gather up, analyse and disseminate your data to help uplift the comics world, like if Robin Hood was a statistician or something. ukcomicscreators.org.uk

Are you over 16, based in the UK and make comics - or intend to make comics - for public consumption. If so, the UK Comics Creator Survey has some questions for you. All responses to the survey are completely anonymous and will help advocate for better support and more funding in comics.

Reminder: if you are worried about AI replacing you as an artist: don’t use AI voices, If you don’t want composing to be handed over to AI: don’t use it to write text. You get the idea. If you value your job: protect others jobs too.

We stole this from @uncannyxcerpts.bsky.social, but we haven't read their list yet so any matches are coincidental. And yes, since you ask, I should indeed be working on our third quarter VAT return, which is why I'm doing this instead...

We hesitate to lower our odds of getting one, but go check this out...

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This isn't the only reason we don't use Apple stuff, but those of you who do might want to take note.

A major Marvel editorial figure going apologist for using AI “art” apps this week is gross AF. But, hey, we’re fighting the good fight at @brokenfrontier.bsky.social. Read our series ‘Raging Against the Machine’ all in one place here. www.brokenfrontier.com/tag/raging-a...

Another one of the wonderful things you can come and see while you're in Harrogate for @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social - we have an awesome little town here, but the surrounding area has it's fair share of awesomeness too...

Using this piece by @reallygoodwizard.bsky.social in my introductory lectures for my design students.

No quite "last call", but if you haven't asked us for this already, do so soon of you want to be sure of snagging a copy. It looks awesome and it feels like the kind of book that will sell out...

Life in 2025:

"There must be a way for me to make my shitty video game cutscene movies more cheaply! Hey, how about firing the artists and replacing them with plagiarism software?"

Terrible news - but as a community we can come together and help. downthetubes.net/can-you-help...

And, per previous post - internet hivemind, can you recommend some decent not-microsoft-not-AI-riddled-not-google word processing and spreadsheet software? Time, I think to vote with our feet. What's good?

THIS! ALL OF THIS!!!!! Seriously, we are only using @microsoft.com products because they have become the default. This constant pushing of AI down our throats is giving us reason to close our accounts and find some other office software provider.

Ten years ago The Shephard's Crown was released. I bought it and left it on the shelf unread for years as I re-read my way through all of Pratchett's other work but eventually the day came that I read the last page of that last book and there was no new Pratchett left to read. The world shifted. 1/2

The BBC is about to shut its Written Archives to the public. Writers and researchers rely on these archives. They belong to the licence payers. Please sign and share this open letter.

Hey all! The first of a graphic novel trilogy written by Sara Amini, MIXED FEELINGS, is available for pre-order today!!! Set in 1999, it's a coming-of-age story about puberty, friendships, being a first-born daughter of immigrant parents, and finding where you belong. Coming out on April 7 2026!

FRIENDS!! Mary Sue is getting pushed to 10/8 and with that, the FOC is pushed by a week, so you've still got time to get those orders in!!

We're sold out on pre-orders, but will be getting new stock of The Knives in as fast as we can. In the meantime, there's a wealth of Brubaker and Phillips goodness on the shelves to be going on with...

Dearest fans of comics, I write to you after battling for decades to accomplish my first comic UltraMax. Nearing the anniversary of my greatest victory, I ask you, of you, to join me as we charge this hill once more. Please share this missive and our goal www.kickstarter.com/projects/174...

No it can't suffer, you shitwits. Stop anthropomorphising a probability engine. There is some truly fucking dreadful coverage of AI, and the idiot Guardian is one of the worst offenders.

Can I marry my Hoover? Should AI have nipples? Votes for air fryers? What does AI think of crows? Some suggestions for more drivel, should the Guardian require it.

I can save you the effort. Clippy Plagiarism Thirstwater does not suffer. To suffer, you have to be alive, and it's not fucking alive, you daft motherfuckers. If you're so concerned about the suffering of sentients, there's plenty of that going around that you can pour billions into alleviating.

Last day!!! >gulp!< #comics

This is a stupid question. No. It cannot. AI is not sentient. Indeed, it is not even intelligent. Headlines like this are, intentionally or not, part of the tech industry's agenda to make us think that Clippy the paperclip is a person. But AI is just code. It's an algorithm.

Come on folks - let's get this done!

Batgirl

WE LAUNCH TOMORROWW!!! ⚰️⚰️⚰️

The Lakes International Comic Art Festival has announced writer Grant Morrison MBE as a guest at this year’s annual gathering of comic creators, publishers and fans in Bowness-on-Windermere next month

Please support one of the best comics publishers in the world - they're facing an existential threat. blog.fantagraphics.com/the-fantagra...