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Lucy Sullivan @lucysullivan.bsky.social · 19h

NB: If you’re a cis-male about to add your opinion on this. Stop. Breathe. Don’t post. This is not yours to answer to. This is yours to go away & consider your choices when you write, read, draw, purchase, consume & commission stories from those without experience or expertise Tell it to them. Ta

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Folarin Akinmade @akingmade.bsky.social · 13h

In comic art, clarity of story is better than stylistic flair. But the ones who are really cooking manage both.

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Folarin Akinmade @akingmade.bsky.social · 13h

There are lots of things happening in the world that require you to only look at them askance from the corner of your eyes because if you really deep it, the idea of living your everyday life feels quite impossible.

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Folarin Akinmade @akingmade.bsky.social · 13h

Randomly reminded of the time I was having a conversation on Twitter about how conversations around race were often derailed by a certain kind of white man who wanted to get involved but had no intention of engaging with the question at hand.

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Lucy Sullivan @lucysullivan.bsky.social · 19h

Everywhere I look lately a cis-Male comic creator is announcing a female-led project whilst my timelines are flooded with accounts of SA, both adult & minor, and I’ve never been more aware of living in a Patriarchal society.

A man walks down a road surrounded by metal fencing. A bare foot steps into panel behind him. Graffiti on the fence reads “ I don’t believe in nothing”

Taken from the comic SHELTER: Early Doors created by Lucy Sullivan
https://lucysullivanuk.com/

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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 16h

Thread on Dan Boultwood's victim who waives her anomity to talk about the experience. For those who didn't see the original reporting, this is the only significant coverage. Maddie says how she's disappointed there wasn't more public introspection and conversation over this, and she's right.

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Dan Boultwood Sentenced After Pleading Guilty To Child Sex Offences

Comic book creator Dan Boultwood was sentenced in court yesterday, after pleading guilty to child sex offences

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026

Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 19h

also thinking a lot about how #MeToo apparently went too far, when it’s quite obvious now that it didn’t go far enough. it didn’t really go anywhere. there were no lasting consequences of that cultural moment beyond people making jokes about it.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 19h

Having real #MeToo flashbacks today, what with various news stories going around, and thinking a lot about how women were encouraged to rip themselves open and show off our trauma, in all its Technicolor glory, so that men might begin to believe us

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RMT Union @rmtunion.bsky.social · 18h

📰 The RMT’s general secretary, Eddie Dempsey, said Roscos were “sucking much-needed money out of the railways and into offshore bank accounts”, adding: “This should be the start of a process of winding up the rolling stock racket once and for all.” rmtunion.org/4hBXa0Z

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Avanti West Coast to be renationalised in March as ministers float public ownership of new trains

Andy Burnham hails nationalisation of much-criticised service between London, Birmingham and Glasgow

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 19h

The raw visceral hatred some men have for women, at least women who step out of line, is shocking. I know it sounds like some sorta "one of the good ones" ploy but I am genuinely taken aback when I see it because I think: I had a fairly normal socialisation as a man in the west, how did I miss this?

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Kenny Meyers @kennym.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We just decided to add a TON of new bundles. 15% of Sweet's proceeds go to BINC to help bookstores because we looove themmm. It's gonna be a spammy couple of weeks but please know I got to move these comics, people! sweetshop.app/bundles

sweetshop.app

Bundles

There’s a comic for everyone.

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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I would like to see more men talking about how to and peer pressuring each other into calling out misogyny and rape culture. Going against social norms is hard, and it helps to share tips and support.

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LiLBaz @lilbazza.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Weird how we can instantly arrest the peaceful protesters on the most extreme of charges but it takes days to arrest the violent racists on the most minimal & penalty free of charges huh

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

bring back shame, combat vice signaling

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Tara O’Connor @taraocomics.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

🤖: Ha! It’s over for you artists!!! AI is gonna replace you!! 🤖: Why is no one hiring me to do AI designs for them? Who’s gonna tell ‘em? 👀 If a company wants AI they’ll use AI and they most certainly aren’t gonna hire a whole-ass person to do it for them. Congrats, y’all just played yourselves.

Threads post reads:
I keep seeing job posts looking for designers with one very specific requirement:
NO Al.
And honestly, I find this attitude fascinating. It sounds to me a little like saying:
Photographers: no Photoshop.
Artists: no drawing tablets.
Accountants: no Excel.
Filmmakers: no editing software.
At some point, we stopped calling these things
"cheating" and started calling them tools. Al is a tool too. A very powerful one, sure.

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Wallace Polsom @wallacepolsom.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Eyvind Earle (1916-2000), concept paintings of Maleficent as the Dragon produced for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Remember when proven liar Keir Starmer got up and did his Island of Strangers speech and spoke of the “incalculable damage” migration had done to the country

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Adult content creators are seen as real people by fans, rebutting years of anti-porn claims that sex work strips creators of humanity. In fact, OnlyFans creators were percieved as having more self-control, free will and capacity for independent thinking than other women.

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Sexual objectification does not erase the perceived humanity of OnlyFans creators, study suggests

People who sell explicit digital content online are heavily sexually objectified by observers, yet they are still viewed as capable individuals with free will. These findings challenge traditional psy...

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Can I have some legitimate concerns please? Hello, UK government, I have a legitimate concern that temperatures will rise to a level that destroys many already-struggling nations, leading us in to an era of food scarcity wars. And now we wait for Andy Burnham to act on my legitimate concerns😎

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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

After a long day at the aquarium, the otters help tidy their toys away. Payment is made promptly and entirely in ice cubes.

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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 29/06/2023

Prepare yourself for the greatest grave inscription you'll ever see.

A photo of a metal plaque on a gravestone in Shetland, which replicates the text carved into the stone but eroded by the elements. It reads:

DONALD ROBERTSON, born 14th January 1785. died 4th June 1843 aged 63 years

He was a peaceable, quiet man and to all appearance a sincere Christian.

His death was much regretted which was caused by the stupidity of Laurence Tulloch in Clothister (Sullom) who sold him nitre instead of Epsom salts by which he was killed in the space of 5 hours after taking a dose of it.

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 26-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 2.4 MILLION people in Sweden found NO EVIDENCE to support a causal link between acetaminophen (the API in Tylenol) use during pregnancy and increased risk of autism, ADHD, OR intellectual disability in children.

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Fiona K.T. Howat @fkth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Signal boosting for the late evening crowd - let’s fund S2 of this fab podcast! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/miracle

crowdfunder.co.uk

Writing + casting I Need A Miracle season 2

I want to pay a pantheon of writers to pen a second season of the micro-fiction podcast I Need A Miracle.

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Leonard Sultana (An Englishman In San Diego) @englishmansdcc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If you're not royalty, then who the fuck are you, really?

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

To celebrate the launch of Sweet Shop, the Comixology We Truly Deserve, ALL Iron Circus ebooks are ONE. DOLLAR. EACH. GET ON THIS.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

the only way to not be involved in this is to make your account private which is very cool when the only reason you're on those terrible platforms is to market your work which you have to do bc marky z and his jerk billionaire friends have ruined the internet and literally everything else

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Man every day another reason to continue hating Mark Zuckerberg bc what the actual fuck

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Andy Oliver @andywpoliver.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

After all those years when GlobalComix platformed copious amounts of AI slop this is fantastic to read on the Sweetshop site.

Screenshot reads: Does that mean no AI bullshit?

Correct. We hate AI comics. We don’t allow AI-generated comics nor AI-translated comics on the platform. Robots can’t translate culture. If you see something that snuck by us, please report it and we’ll take it down.

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BedWords @snacklesbian.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i'm still seeing this get shared so just a reminder, this article is wrong in many places and london daily is one of those fake ai newspapers

screenshot of the london daily about page. it says:

Welcome to London Daily, an innovative and unique news experiment driven by advanced artificial intelligence (AI) technology. Our AI system conducts extensive research and fact-checking, presenting a non-biased and diverse perspective on each topic.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring

en.wikipedia.org

Iron Ring - Wikipedia

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

When I first got out of school, I worked for a few months at a place that specialized in user interface design. We had human factors experts on staff as well as graphic designers. This is the kind of thing they paid us to stop from happening, so it's funny to see them now do this shit on purpose

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Comic Book Yeti @comicbookyeti.com · 24/09/2026

Our friends at @sweetshop.app officially launched today! As a beta tester myself, I've been expectantly looking forward to the platform going public. If you are looking for a new digital comics option, they are now the go to operators in the space. Big fan. 🎉 sweetshop.app

sweetshop.app

Sweet Shop

Find your comic. Sweet Shop is the digital comic book marketplace for readers and creators.

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Steve Lieber @stevelieberart.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My comics art studio, Helioscope @helioscopepdx.bsky.social, is now accepting applications for our mentorship program, January- April 2027. We're in Portland, Oregon. Details at: helioscopepdx.com/mentorship #pdxcomics

helioscopepdx.com

Mentorship — Helioscope

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 24/09/2026

lol lol lol lol lol lol lol

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Excellent analysis. There is no sugarcoating what is happening here in Germany. Most of the political centre is enabling if not actively supporting the rise of fascism. The Left‘s remarkable performance in the Berlin elections is not being heralded as an earthquake but treated as a threat.

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Folarin Akinmade @akingmade.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My favourite Miyazaki movie. Until I remember Spirited Away. And Princess Mononoke. And The Wind Rises. And then I give up trying to choose a favourite.

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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

So, Banksy bought a used yacht, repaired it and retrofitted it to serve as a rescue boat to save migrants in the central Mediterranean. The whole project cost the artist $860,000. Since 2020, the boat has saved more than 3,800 people. londondaily.com/banksy-funds...

londondaily.com

Banksy funds refugee rescue boat operating in Mediterranean - London Daily

Exclusive: UK artist finances bright pink motor yacht that set sail in secrecy to avoid being intercepted by authorities

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This fucking headline what level of bullshit is this

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 24/09/2026

Phenomenal stuff. Keep this up and we could be looking at a convoluted headline singularity before EOD.

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John Lees @johnlees.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I am agog seeing footage of lifeboats being attacked at sea and ambulances being blocked from answering calls presented as a both- sides social issue rather than crimes with serious sentences caught on film. Government agonising between enforcing the law and avoiding racists being angry at them.

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 24/09/2026

Current leading figure of the far-right international (still growing, btw) is a guy who deliberately hamstrung California rail projects to sell his cars, thinks his businesses should supersede the US state, and got so mad someone else rescued some cave divers he smeared someone as a paedophile.

Joe @manicpixel.bsky.social • 10h
One of the real problems with "The Left" from the centre to the fringe is the fixation that it is more important that I save the world than the world gets saved
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Fabio Chiusi @fabiochiusi.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

AI Exec: We May Have Pulled Off “The Largest Theft of Labor in Human History” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I suppose it takes a bit longer to arrest someone stabbing a dinghy so that anyone in it could drown than it takes to arrest the REAL criminals: climate change activists who are planning a protest or lussing a bit of orange flour on some rocks.

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Folarin Akinmade @akingmade.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

And this is the Tory party who believe in small government and reject the "nanny state", is it?

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 23/09/2026

Some old drawings of a young Wonder Woman I did while working on my Black and Gold short story.

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Quinns @itsquinns.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Rounding out my Summer Reading posts on Quinns Quest with an absolutely electric final brace of releases. I've been reading Infinite Revolution, City of Espers, Asher's Ridge and Girlframe. They are all SO GOOD. www.patreon.com/qquest/posts...

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