The world is healing.

✨ LIKKLE LIT SPOTLIGHT: DAPO ADEOLA ✨ We’re proud to shine a spotlight on the brilliant @dapsdraws.bsky.social draws — an award‑winning illustrator, author and character designer whose work continues to shape how children see themselves on the page. For more: outofmanypeople.org.uk/news-events/

"Noiseman" is back for free on Youtube (for a limited time). Koji Morimoto x Masaaki Yuasa x Yoko Kanno (Studio 4°C, 1997). >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOhd...

I've watched thousands of videos from the Jan. 6 riot as part of NPR's reporting and archive project on that day. Here are some of the lesser known videos that have really stuck with me. 🧵

📣 Competition alert! Our brilliant #WriterInResidence Matt Goodfellow has launched his poetry competition for children - and his favourite entries will win a signed bundle of his books! Enter by Friday 30 January - more details here👇 https://bit.ly/3Khwki9

It only took them the best part of a decade. 🥲 Hope all the victims get justice and the people at the publisher who paid off the victims and covered his back are also held accountable.

Currently reading this. I think everyone in the UK who has any involvement with comics - be that making them, publishing them, selling them, loaning them, using them in classrooms - should probably read it. Will post thoughts later.

Just a reminder to support small businesses this time of year!

✨️We’re thrilled to welcome multi-award-winning illustrator and author DAPO ADEOLA @dapsdraws.bsky.social to LIKKLE LIT FEST children’s festival of Black literature 🎟Ticket release: loading soon!👀 A #ROOTED event staged in partnership with @leedslibraries.bsky.social #ACEsupported #LikkleLitFest

Aaay, didn’t even know this was out yet. 😊

#johnvernonlord @stevenlenton.bsky.social @dc-litchfield.bsky.social @robbiddulph.bsky.social #elliesnowdon @sophyhenn.bsky.social @mrsteveantony.bsky.social @dapsdraws.bsky.social

Lots of learning & fun today with #BookWeekScotland 📚. - Travelling Assembly presented by P7’s ✅ - Book quiz ✅ - Live Lesson with @dapsdraws.bsky.social ✅ - Sketching a book character ✅ Well done P3 & thank you P7s! #antoliteracy @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social @mrstoddp7.bsky.social 👫🙌👫

Thought Bubble Festival starts today! A week-long celebration of comics held across Yorkshire! With social events, workshops, talks, and loads of comic goodness for you to enjoy. See the full programme of events here: www.thoughtbubblefestival.com/festivalprog...

The issue is that we've normalized greed and marginalized caring for others. That's it.

some Terror of Mechagodzilla for Goji day

Every time she comes up, I remind you all that Pamela Paul killed a pro trans paragraph in a review I wrote for the New York Times, lied about it in the press, then when I confronted her with receipts, said “Let’s keep this to ourselves.”

Had a little time zone mix up so we’ve moved this to 7:30 pm. Soz for any inconvenience. 😮‍💨

This was proper spiritual. 😮‍💨🥹😭

This Black History Month, we’re celebrating books by Black British authors, favourites in our reading projects. These books reach: ✨ Prison reading groups ✨ Books in the Nick & Books for First Nighters ✨ Family Days ✨ Raising Readers @kitdewaal.com @malorieblackman.bsky.social @dapsdraws.bsky.social

Gonna repost this every time I come across it on socials. 💚

Twice in one day I've seen authors promote their books (on TV and Socials) and not mention the Illustrator. We're all magicians trying to create magic. #PleaseRememberYourIllustrator

Join myself and the insanely talented Matthew Forsythe in convo this October 28th at 7pm (gmt). 🤩 We’ll be talking about his journey from comics to animation to absolutely epic children’s books. It’s gonna be a vibe, be sure to get your drinks and snacks ready and put the date in your diary. ☺️

I’m super excited to be on @streakofpith.bsky.social’s panel giving an early preview of the findings from the 2025 UK Comic Creator’s Survey, alongside the amazing @pondi.bsky.social & @dapsdraws.bsky.social, on Sunday at 13:30! I can’t wait to discuss this!

So excited to join @streakofpith.bsky.social @markbradley.bsky.social and @dapsdraws.bsky.social to talk about the current industry landscape! Can’t promise I won’t go on a rant either 😘

This is music to my ears, and it’s gonna be a feast for my eyeballs too. 🥹

Why? Because your readers do. The literary world is full of people wanting to write children’s books, who haven’t looked at a children’s book since the 60s. Or people who want the sales associated with romantasy (or cosy crime, or sci-fi), but don’t actually know the genre, or want to read any.

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 1579: If you’re going to write in any genre (children’s fiction, SFF, romance, etc), you need to read EXTENSIVELY in that genre. You need to read current authors in the genre. You need to know what’s been done; what tropes exist; how the genre has changed.

I need more artists and creatives to clock this for what it is and stop self identifying with this DEAD trope. It’s bad enough the rest of the world upholds this narrative, you don’t have to willingly do it to yourself.

This is the reason why you won’t be able to reach me today! 😮‍💨

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I laughed a bit too hard at this 😅😭

Coming soon!

“You used to be able to say anything” comedians never been more quiet in their lives

Bemoaning the cost of UK electricity and in the same breath promising to do the one thing guaranteed to cause that cost to stay sky high is the sort of intellectual brilliance you'll only get from the world's leading tech moguls.

It’s great how the people who spent the last 20 years yelling everything that personally offends them is 1984 are now so dedicated to making that book our very dystopian reality.

I do feel like part of the hatred extended toward Bluesky is a function of preferring to think that the alarm about the state of the country that’s common here is misguided or exaggerated. Dismissing the site as liberal doomers allows you to dismiss those concerns, too.

People are demanding we show empathy to a person whose whole career was built on spreading hate for anyone who wasn’t a straight white male. 😮‍💨 I’m just gonna leave this here, cos it sums this thing up better than I can right now.

This explains it better than I can

Daily DBZ 120-2. This guy’s really ticking Frieza off. He hurls some energy at the boy but everything bounces right off. Suddenly the guy transforms into a Super Saiyan, WTF! It really triggers Frieza’s trauma, but not for long because he quickly slices Frieza in half. Rip Frieza again.

Judging by the shamefully opportunistic & politicizing rhetoric of some rightwingers on Twitter, & their cynical use of Charlie Kirk’s horrific murder for political point scoring, it’s almost as if Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman wasn’t murdered by a Trump-voting MAGA maniac just 12 weeks ago.

Soooo…Is it time to take another look at the 2nd amendment yet?

As we work our way into autumn, transport yourself to sunnier weather by checking out our book recommendations from over August! We had quite the reading haul last month, so there really is something for everyone 👀 www.libraries4schools.com/2025/09/05/b... #BookSky #ChildrensBooks #BookReview

Honoured and blessed to be able to help bring people like Joe Sacco to Yorkshire, and Linnea Sterte, and Patrick Horvath, and then sit them next to local comic hero’s Kristyna Bacynski and John Pearson and then sit THEM next to so many more incredible people making the most exiting work around ;-;

“Don’t politicise school shootings” as if it isn’t policy choice to allow gun lobbyists to influence looser gun laws in government.

Let me be clear, Julia makes good books. But an undeniable amount of these sales is also down to the way her books are literally given their own separate shelves and signage in EVERY high street bookstore in the country. These kind of numbers are bound to happen in that kinda set up.