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Alexi Conman

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Writes comics sometimes. alexiconman.blogspot.com

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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 8h
Monster Month Monster Munch #HappyToastMonsterMonth
The classic monster munch monsters
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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 22h
A native of the Kayaye village (Gambia), dressed head to toe in boughs and leaves as part of the Kongcorong ceremony. Featured in Major William Gray's 1825 account of his doomed trip through Western Africa. From our essay on failed colonial expeditions: publicdomainreview.org/essay/f...
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Jennifer C. Wilson @inkjunkie1984.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Special Offer Alert!! For October, to celebrate #RichardIII, Kindred Spirits: Tower of London is just 99p/c in ebook! jennifercwilsonwriter.substack.com/p/a-special-... Come and meet the ghosts of one of England's most famous (infamous?) buildings... #booknews #booksky #historicalfiction
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A special offer for October
(We need to celebrate King Richard III’s birthday, after all!)
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Faye Stacey @pondi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
YOOO AMAZING You can get your copy of Leaf Litter this weekend at LICAF 🥰
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Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 01/10/2026
It all started on this day. Thank you for a wonderful twenty years.
Text in the center reads: 20 Years Oct. 2006 - Oct. 2026, clarkesworldmagazine.com

(right) Cover art for issue 241 by Marcel Deneuve is "Labyrinths of Azarax" and features a blue and white mechanical eye in a circular opening looking at a small, white, glowing humanoid figure standing on a large pipe in the tunnel. Many pipes line the walls, all heading out to the main room. Pipes are yellow and gray. Room beyond is blue.

(left) Cover art for issue 1 by Tomasz Pietrzyk is "The Town of the Towers" and features a surreal town of yellowy white distorted towers with reddish orange roofs that overhang the towers and rise to a point. Mishapen dark windows and doors are scattered about on the buildings. Orange sky gives the entire piece a warm tone.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
One of two Labour gains from Reform in Northumberland by-elections yesterday. Too early to know for sure we've passed peak Reform, but another encouraging sign.
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Fraser Campbell @fraserc69.bsky.social · 23h
The same thing happened at my church when I tried to marry my blender.
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Scifi Art @scifiart.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Art by Roger Garland for the 1984 Tolkien calendar
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 30/09/2026
NEW ANALYSIS: Record wind and solar save UK from gas imports worth £5.9bn during Hormuz crisis 🌤️ wind/solar generation up 14% in 2026 to date 🏭 gas down ~10% 🚢 >100 LNG cargoes avoided
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Public Domain Image Archive @pdimagearchive.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Plate 50, Thuroidea (1904) by Ernst Haeckel, from Kunstformen der Natur. Source: @librarycongress.bsky.social Available to buy as a print. pdimagearchive.org/images/580308dc-… #marine #patterns #lithography #art #publicdomain
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Alexi Conman @alexiconman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The whole 'many bluesky users are humourless WELL ACKSHULLY scolds' dunking has got so out of hand that the folks DOING the dunking apparently cannot themselves recognise (what's at least highly plausibly) a joke. Blueskydunkception. Let's ease off eh? PS this is not a dunk, I actually have v gsoh
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NEW: ‘It’s an implicit threat’. Lord Tom Watson of Palantir writes to one of its biggest critics -Labour MP @labourlewis.bsky.social - to tell him the surveillance firm is watching him. www.thenerve.news/p/clive-lewi...
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They’re saying: we’re watching you’: MP Clive Lewis reveals Tom Watson has warned him over criticising Palantir
In a letter to his former Labour colleague, the peer, who joined Peter Thiel’s AI company this month, writes: ‘You have made the case against the company more or less continuously’. By Carole Cadwalla...
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Alexi Conman @alexiconman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Aside from nightmarish potential of AI agents infesting your life, I'm struck by how the users in this ad come across as absolute melts, zero-personality chumps believing their 'work' (inane interactions with friendly-blob-faced evil robots) justifies their luxury lifestyles. This is aspirational??
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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It is so healing here; the rock is like the womb of the Earth, soaking up and lifting away pain and worry. I love you.
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Alexi Conman @alexiconman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Obligatory posting of my ol' comic on the matter
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bog landlord @pondslurp.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i relate when ai companies build a computer so big that they get scared because ive had similar experiences with sandwiches
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Hari Conner @haridraws.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
hello! Today's the anniversary of my first wee trad published book. So for new followers: a gamebook thread This one's good for the: - ttRPG-curious but can't get a group together - DM who wants a night off - nerdy parent/ relative who wants to induct a young person into dungeon crawling life
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026
A key component of the Cambridge Analytica outrage was your friends subjecting you to data theft without your consent or knowledge. Facebook is running the same playbook on your text messages. Even if you’re not on Meta properties, they’re ingesting your interactions.
Aten installed Muse on both his iPhone and a Mac mini that he uses to test out various Al agents and tech. It took Meta a single day to begin "helpfully" pitching article ideas based on texts he'd sent to a podcast co-host.
When he asked Muse how it got the information, it said that it read banners from incoming texts. But that's not true, either.
After doing a little digging, Aten says Muse synced 187,000 lines from his Messages database, despite Full Disk Access being Off.Unless Aten is the most popular person on the face of the planet, I sincerely doubt he'd gotten 187,000 lines of text in roughly 24 hours. What happened is that, without permission, Muse went into the app and downloaded the information.
He had not given Muse permission to access Messages, and full disk access was not enabled. It just went ahead and uploaded those texts anyway.
Muse can take "unexpected actions" indeed.
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Jonathan Edwards @jontofski.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A private commission from 6 years ago this month. A beautiful garden in Scotland. Watercolour.
A watercolour painting of a garden filled with flowers with a cottage in the background
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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Beautiful everyday Ladybird things Before the blue Smartie Artist: Harry Wingfield (First Picture Book, 1970)
Photo-realistic illustration of a tube of Smarties with Smarties spilling out onto a white background 
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Captain Howdy @captainhowdy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I understand The Pork Board have never been so happy. www.redbubble.com/i/pin/Britis...
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"British Meat" Pin for Sale by captain-howdy
We've all got plenty. Plenty to go round. • Millions of unique designs by independent artists. Find your thing.
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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
ceo of burger king: our burgers have gone rogue again and infected people with e coli
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 24/09/2026
6music playing Franz Ferdinand Take me out and I always think it's somehow a rip off of the South Bank Show theme www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgB4...
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South Bank Show Title Sequences 1978-1992
YouTube video by PoisonedDragon1964
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Alexi Conman @alexiconman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It's kind of tragically comic that so much of the slop fuelling the collapse of UK & US society is being generated by some dudes in Sri Lanka simply looking to make a few bucks out of Facebook's rotten rage-bait economic model. We're a country of absolute idiots, unprepared for tech dystopia.
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Pablo Diablo Bonzo @pablobonzo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Worth a watch if you have anyone in your life who gobbles up AI rage bait videos. youtu.be/zCvPPaIN5Ew?...
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How to rage bait Americans
YouTube video by Christophe
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
1/ People keep saying AI is inevitable. History disagrees. Plenty of technologies were called unstoppable, and societies stopped them or shrank them down to a niche. A thread 🧵
evitable
adjective
uk  /ˈev.ɪ.tə.bəl/ us  /ˈev.ə.t̬ə.bəl/

able to be avoided or prevented:
He believes that world war is evitable.
Inevitable suffering due to persecution is to be distinguished from evitable sickness.
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lookcaitlin @lookcaitlin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Tim Finkas #1983 h1.nu/1yCBr
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
All these platforms were originally sold to us as being liberating tools of free speech and expression. Now they're being actively used by their owners to suppress it www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Skippa @skippa23.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Emotional posting
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Moby Dick by French artist Gérard DuBois,
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Alexi Conman @alexiconman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It's the international break in premier league football, which can only mean one thing: I've wildcarded and have started day-trading on FPL player prices #FPL (hoping for those sweet £0.1 profits)
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Jennifer C. Wilson @inkjunkie1984.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Adventures this weekend! A night in Lanchester whilst the other half DJd, then a walk to Consett for Sunday lunch. Glorious weather, heritage, and a spot of modern sculture!
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

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Wide shot of the BRITISH MUSEUM. There are suggestions of fascism around the streets - tanks, barricades, an Orwellian 'Big Brother'-style poster on a wall. A voice of a TOUR GUIDE emanates from the museum:

TOUR GUIDE:
So the Tapestry tells acrucial chapter of our nation's history...

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[Cut to interior of museum. A long Bayeaux-style TAPESTRY is on display, and the Tour Guide is speaking to a tour group]

TOUR GUIDE [smiling]:
How modern fascist Britain was created. 

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TOUR GUIDE:
The Tapestry begins here with the 2008 Crash, then austerity, then the AI Crash...

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TOUR GUIDE:
...and by the end of the room it's just full-on fash. 

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CHILD IN TOUR GROUP [gesturing to the tapestry]:
What's this middle bit?

TOUR GUIDE:
This is the 2026 Battle of Legitimate Concerns 

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TOUR GUIDE:
[show a reporter standing next to the Dover protests]
Here's the media saying the government have got to do something about the legitimate concerns...

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CHILD:
...About the failure of capitalism?

TOUR GUIDE:
No about brown people on boats

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CHILD:
[pointing at boats crossing the sea on the tapestry]
Are these boats the mega-dinghies?

TOUR GUIDE:
Not all of them

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[we see one of the boats  is a giant yacht]
TOUR GUIDE:
That one's a superyacht,
carrying money from the American fascists to the British ones.

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TOUR GUIDE:
You see really it's as much a story of convergence as it is of conflict.

[An alarm sounds in the museum]
DING DING DING DING 

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TOUR GUIDE:
Ok, tour over everyone 

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TOUR GUIDE:
It's time for the Two Minute Hate!

[They all leave the museum]

[ends]
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Leo Healy @ellaitch.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I was recently invited on as a guest on Jay Measures' excellent Counter Measures podcast, we chatted about comics, growing up, an eccentric record/comic shop in the Midlands run by two old hippies, loads of stuff. Give it a listen! youtu.be/qF5Y5tYB7f4?... podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...
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Into the Void Podcast with writer Leo Healy (Counter Measures: Season 02– Ep 03)
YouTube video by Counter Measures
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 18/09/2026
What on earth is happening?
  This had become the new normal. RNLI crew members had been forced to take their permits off their cars after their tyres have been repeatedly slashed. Most of them have been pilloried at the school gates or turned away from local pubs. One man who worked in search and rescue had been beaten unconscious and hospitalised, recognised for TV interviews he had done.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Revolving doors and political auctions. Labour peer and former Labour deputy leader Tom Watson joins Palantir. Palantir is trying to save its £330m NHS contract, wants more public contracts. Nick Clegg, Rishi Sunak, George Osborne and others have taken similar jobs.
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Former Labour deputy leader Tom Watson joins Palantir
Peer takes full-time position at the controversial company as it fends off pressure from both Andy Burnham’s government and Sadiq Khan
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
As former Labour minister Tom Watson joins Palantir, please read this devastating exposé by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social & @lucasamin.bsky.social of how the company, with Peter Mandelson's help, wormed its way into the UK government to sell its dire & dangerous products. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Peter Geoghegan and Lucas Amin · ‘This looks absolutely rubbish’: Palantir and the NHS
A decade ago Palantir was largely unknown in the UK. It now holds public contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds...
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Wow just, wow
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ULTRA💀BLAST @ultrakillblast.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
BATMAN: The Movie (1966)
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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026
Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!
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Alexi Conman @alexiconman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is great - and really resonates. Obsolescence and disposability are a plague on modern stuff.
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Matt Round @mattround.com · 17/09/2026
Follow-up to A Day in the Life of an Enshittificator
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bog landlord @pondslurp.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
ME: i need something insane. i want to be a bolt of lightning BARISTA: i got you, boss (RINGING UP DECAF CARAMEL RIBBON CRUNCH FRAPPUCCINO)
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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
One of the staircases in the City Chambers in Glasgow. Designed by William Young and built in the 1880s, its internal decorations have to be seen to be believed. Luckily, they run regular tours so you can take a peek inside. #glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #glasgowcitychambers
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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Hadrian's Wall ‘Julius Caesar and Roman Britain’ (1959) Artist: John Kenney
Artists impression of the wall in Roman times, with a group of soldiers patrolling along it 
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wrongtom @wrongtom.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Oh go on then. The evolution of Take On Me... 'The Juicy Fruit Song' by Bridges (before Morten Harket joined them www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOhi...
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Bridges - Miss Eerie (The Juicyfruit Song, earliest recording of Take On Me)
YouTube video by The A-ha Archive
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Michael Fry @bigdirtyfry.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Your Grandad Cyclops talks about his school days
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Pumpactionmusket @pumpactionmusket.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Holy shit. All of the submission videos are just being uploaded immediately at the bottom of the webpage without any moderation whatsoever. Somebody is getting fired for this. openforlegends.guitarcenter.com/campaign/ope...
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The Guardian Climate News (unofficial) @guardian-climate.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Climate crisis likely behind devastating Nepal-Tibet floods that killed more than 1,300, first study finds: Scientists say global heating was a destabilising factor in collapse of 200,000 sq metre glacier in August Climate breakdown probably weakened the glacier that collapsed causing cat...
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Climate crisis likely behind devastating Nepal-Tibet floods that killed more than 1,300, first study finds
Climate crisis likely behind devastating Nepal-Tibet floods that killed more than 1,300, first study finds: Scientists say global heating was a destabilising factor in collapse of 200,000 sq metre glacier in August Climate breakdown probably weakened the glacier that collapsed causing cat...
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Gary Bainbridge @garybainbridge.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
When "white sauce" in fish pie Contains cheese, it’s a lie. That’s a mornay.
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