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ICYMI I made the whole Internet cry today.

I was chatting with some friends the other day about Rebellion and their business practices, their efforts in preserving and collecting British comics history, and their approach to digital media and basically just how very lucky we are that a company like that actually exists in this day and age

James is an incredible editor and would be an asset anywhere. 💜

It's so surreal that this book will be out in the world soon! I'm very proud of it and I hope you guys will like it too <3

"Or risk a public backlash" is such a wild counterfactual to "be candid," as if there wouldn't be a public backlash if the entire global economy implodes due to mass unemployment at levels not seen since the Great Depression.

Hey artists, if you see this, post a dog

and, i think, feeding people (as in climate crisis, crop shortage, new ideas needed)

Look, for my money the absolute game changer technologies right now are batteries and biosciences, not statistically modeling a mid conversation, but you do you.

At this point putting palintir into the nhs system is like shoving a foreign intelligence agency into our secure data (because… er that’s exactly what it is). They shouldn’t be anywhere near uk government systems.

Hartzog said lawmakers need to create more specific rules tailored to the unique threat posed by the combination of facial recognition and nearly undetectable surveillance technology before it becomes ubiquitous. Those laws need to target not only people using the technology, but also the companies behind it, he said. “A lot of these conversations tend to focus on, ‘is it OK to use these glasses or this tool to surveil other people?’” he said. “What often gets lost in this conversation is, ‘is it OK for companies to design these really socially hostile tools in ways that will foreseeably lead to massive violations of privacy?’”

🛎️🛎️🛎️

Point 11 from the article. The limits of soft power.

No it's very much the limits of hard power that have been exposed *this week*.

Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement

Tim Curry in The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Tim Curry in Clue

Tim Curry in The Three Musketeers

Tim Curry in Muppet Treasure Island

Happy 80th birthday to Tim Curry who has always, *always* understood the assignment.

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

Coming soon: How NOT To Break Into Comics! Fifteen years, thirty comics, and everything I got wrong trying to make it in the industry

I’ve shown you how to MAKE your 1st comic.

Then I showed you how to KICKSTART it.

NOW I’m showing you how NOT to break into comics.

16 years. 16 successful Kickstarters. 30 comics. A lot of mistakes.

Funny. Honest. Occasionally painful.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/mat...

Launching soon!

The FT's weekend essay agrees things will be badly broken (already are broken, not fully felt in USA yet, but unstoppable).

Gift article:
The coming global food crisis - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Feminists for ages: we are not just vaginas and baby making parts.

A trans woman enters the room.

Those same feminists: we are only vaginas and baby making parts.

Fucking clowns.

Is AI the greatest art heist in history? New technologies of reproduction are plundering the art world – and getting away with it

www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a...

't wasn't best of the year for nothing #criticismcrush

digital illustration of a woman standing in a large greenhouse surrounded by lots of green trees and plants. the sky outside is pink and the light reflects onto the floor

the greenhouse 🌿

Beginning to wonder if this war is being driven by a cycle of weekly insider dealing oil trades.

Visual development art by Tadahiro Uesugi for Carole & Tuesday (2019), dir. Shinichiro Watanabe, Bones

With @alisonsampson.bsky.social doing the cover art, I need to up my game so I don't let the side down.

So, yeah, that's Antara ibn Shaddad in sketch.

Illustration of PRAGMATA main characters, Hugh (wielding a gun in a big futuristic space suit) and Diana (a childlike android)

Pragmata commission. Thank you Capcom for the trust 🌙

The Reverie.
A dimension where you get whatever you want.

It's true. But I'm not sure it's here either- I'm a they, and my fam are farmers

It is coming. I think it hit hard last time because my parents were trying to run their own business and we had oil heating (I was cold *all the time*), but it also hit everyone who wasn't comfortable middle class- which was most of us.

Not to mention, the adverse effects of an oil price shock. I can't begin to describe what it meant here in the UK, but suffice to say "70s childhood" is also a euphemism for no toys or books, castoff clothes, homegrown food, and never going anywhere. And that wasn't nearly as bad as what's coming.

Also, starvation, widespread famine in africa and south america where farmers have missed the window for buying fertiliser for crops.