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mad-swilliams.bsky.social @mad-swilliams.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Very anxious about posting this, but I feel strongly compelled to share. I know it’s a lot to take in for a Saturday morning and I appreciate anyone for taking the time to read it.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

if you’re a dude thinking “i’ve never done anything disgusting” (citations needed) then you’ve more than likely sat there quietly while your friend did something disgusting or bragged about doing something disgusting. you cannot absolve yourself.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

i hope that men notice how whenever a rape story gets widespread coverage, women use it as an opportunity to vent about how fucking disgusting we think many of you are and how many have made our lives measurably worse, and take a few moments to deeply process that.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

the horrific cornell gang rape case has me thinking about emma sulkowicz who alleged she was raped as a student at columbia in 2014 and never got any justice. it has me thinking about the physical and mental weight young women are forced to carry while their safety is subsumed by male potential.

Emma Sulkowicz carrying around a mattress on the Columbia campus in 2014 to raise awareness of her alleged rape and the university's inaction.

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Alasdair Stuart @alasdairstuart.com · 13h

Doing this under two weeks after the show was put out to tender is incandescently stupid and irresponsible. Not just for the inbox issues mentioned above but because every single pitch being worked on right now is going to feel pressure to try this. Even more than they already do.

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Alasdair Stuart @alasdairstuart.com · 13h

Admitting this exists, in any way, opens the flood gates for him to be sent a hundred thousand more. Admitting this exists and he opened it is an invitation for his inbox to drown. The simple fact he doesn't know that shows how terrifyingly out of touch he is. Or that he welcomes it.

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Lucy Sullivan @lucysullivan.bsky.social · 18h

I want to read these stories from any other perspective & I mean that inclusively. I want to read female led stories from the trans, NB, female & inquiry perspective. Any experience that has actual experience to imbue the characters with for genuine depth & better storytelling.

Graffiti on a fence shows three female figures as a woman walks past scraping her claws against the metal. She chants BADBH, MACHA, NEMHAIN (Triune Goddesses of Celtic mythology)

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

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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 15h

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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Lucy Sullivan @lucysullivan.bsky.social · 18h

I guess this is the inevitable result of the decimation of the Me Too movement with convicted rapists in high office & misogyny, femicide & assault on the rise. I’m so tired but so fecking angry. Please buy, commission & read more diverse voices. Halt the slide back into the muck in comics too.

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Lucy Sullivan @lucysullivan.bsky.social · 18h

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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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026

Basically using LLMs and agentic ai is a massive security risk and no one should do so basically ever and these companies should be prosecuted for hacking. Also two-party consent should extend to all electronic communications.

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Paywalls are toll roads to a gated community, one that the average American cannot afford to enter in an era of inflated prices and deflated expectations. Democracy relies on an informed citizenry. Pay-to-play democracy is no democracy at all." sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/gutting-th...

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Gutting the Fourth Estate

The US media were willing cogs in Trump’s machine. Now he’s tearing it down.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's not just that we had two wasted years under Keir Starmer - years in which, with a vast majority and quite a lot of goodwill - he could have turned this country around. On crucial issues, we had two years of spiralling backwards, towards a very dark place. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Ed Miliband to acknowledge Labour’s former stance on Palestine fell short

Foreign secretary will tell party’s conference ‘we are not here to accept the status quo but to change it’

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Arc de Kaiser Don (derogatory) @potrzebiesystem.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Important reminder: atop a long list of reasons why one shld not meet w/ Yudkowski for his advice on AI/AGI, or anything else, is: HE ISN’T A CODER! HE IS’NT A DEV! He literally just dropped out of 8th grade & later posted his Harry Potter fan fic & nonsense mental masturbation online. That’s it!

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Dr Kate Thagrinus 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @katelaity.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

The rich and powerful have always demanded the #liberalarts for their progeny. But they want your kids to get vocational training.

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Lots of pieces in the print media recently about the decline of reading in children. Here's a little thread on ways to help your kids get reading again:

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Matthew Todd @matthewtodd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

‘Not acting on climate change means a certain World War in the lifetime of anybody born from now on.’ Scientists explain that climate change is a far bigger threat than governments are telling you:

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Alison Sampson is working @alisonsampson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A reminder: my SpaceInText art blog from the naughties is still online and most of the material is still there- comic pages, street photography, drawing, painting and book covers, and anything that caught my eye. Lots of Alex Toth. All narrative art. Enjoy. spaceintext.wordpress.com/2011/01/12/f...

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f86 sabre jet – harvey kurtzman & alex toth

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Marīa @solusandra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Sometimes I go back to @alisonsampson.bsky.social & @ianmacewan.bsky.social's project THINK OF A CITY & just appreciate the exquisite corpse art project. Love! Here's #1. Enjoy the cityscape! thinkofacity.tumblr.com/post/6073440...

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THINK OF A CITY

001: Alison Sampson also here Think of a City is a new storytelling project, where a number of artists from around the world build a city, page by page. Feel free to walk our streets and take a coffee...

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Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 26/09/2026

This is grim stuff, but important info for UK indie comic folks. I see several of my mutuals follow this guy on here.

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Seth Masket @smotus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Interviewing the inventor of napalm about his hats

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Alison Sampson is working @alisonsampson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

this is it, isn't it? the attention span has gone and now people are not capable of doing long form boring things. it's all intelligent dogs now.

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Alison Sampson is working @alisonsampson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Seems weird given that these are not Lichtenstein 's visions

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Bhanu pratap @bhanupratap.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Coupe Claire

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

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decadencecomics.bsky.social @decadencecomics.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A Goblin army has been assembled @goshcomics.bsky.social 👺👺👺👺👺🦎

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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

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Mentorship — Helioscope

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Cartoonists United @cartoonist.coop · 18/08/2026

@newbabyfly.schism.org 's event “Intro to HTML / CSS” is now live on youtube for you to enjoy! Give it a watch, then get started building your own awesome website!!!

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Intro to HTML & CSS w/ Newbabyfly

YouTube video by Cartoonists United

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

General reminder, gang: @cartoonist.coop has multiple pages of tutorials on building your own site. Do not sign your productive output over to corporations who consider you acceptable collateral damage in their pursuit of profit. cartoonist.coop/resources/

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RESOURCES – CARTOONISTS UNITED

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KateW @kateweb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

New Susannah Clarke! Fans of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, and Piranesi - this may be news to you, it was to me.

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A Freak Like Me Needs ElNarez @elnarez.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It's not just that CNN is gonna go the way of CBS, which hey, bad enough on its own; it's that soon enough it becomes the only way to get jobs in the news business; you thought the right-wing radicalization of elites was bad wait until being a right-wing hack is the only way to get a job

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Alison Sampson is working @alisonsampson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

And pardon me for mentioning it, but it has been a lifetime now and things do not seem to be getting better. Pardon my lack of patience. Sorry for mentioning it. Sorry for being political. I'll do back and put my marigolds on and get scrubbing your floor. F### off, we *all* deserve more than this.

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Alison Sampson is working @alisonsampson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Absolutely no one here is embarrassed by this photo. What's missing from the picture, and why do you think that is? A question for the men reading this.

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gossip göre @britneyspheres.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

German Peralta

A viking's ship heading through a blood-red sea, leaving images of dead warriors in its trail

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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 19/09/2026

OH SHIT EUROPEANS, YOU CAN PREORDER MY BOOK!!!

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The Life of Sharks @thelifeofsharks.com · 19/09/2026

When our book was being pitched to publishers, I had a lot of self-doubt. My mum said to me, "David Walliams sells loads of books. If that creepy fuckin shitehawk can get published, so can Our book, "The World According to Sharks" is in bookshops now. Unlike David's.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Reply to me with your most inappropriate Bellingcat themed merch.

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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 17/09/2026

One of the many specific reasons I cited to students about why we were doing a paper-only course packet this semester. Nobody has the willpower to resist that flashing button under a time crunch.

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Alison Sampson is working @alisonsampson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It's time for a @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social thread on the portfolio reviews :) www.thoughtbubblefestival.com/portfoliorev... The Thought Bubble comic convention is 14 + 15 November in Harrogate, UK. All you need is turn up and have a convention ticket (kids <12 are free)- also bring your comics 1/?

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Portfolio Reviews 2025 — Thought Bubble Comic Art Festival

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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Crucially for many, this includes an answer to "I am not a US resident and I don’t have a US SSN or taxpayer number as demanded, what shall I do?"

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The Edinburgh Bookshop @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

We've had so much focus on the Odyssey this year (rightly so!), but what of the ancient lore of our own islands? The Mabinogion contains some of the core tales of our ancient land, including Arthur. If you loved Lord of the Rings, this is essential reading. #books #livres #mythology #mythologie

A paperback, Oxford University Press classics edition of The Mabinogion

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Alison Sampson is working @alisonsampson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The context is super relevant. - she steps out under Nelson's gaze and does it anyway.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The fallacy that University leaders pushing AI are falling into is thinking that the point of undergraduate research is to find things out. It isn't. What students find out is typically already generally known. The point of undergraduate research is to learn how to find things out.

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The emboldening of these fucking dickheads including Labour government ministers saying it is right to protest against people seeking asylum (but not against genocide of course) has led to this absolute shitshow

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 17/09/2026

i’ve worked with the poet lemn sissay a lot and one of our radio series - lemn sissay’s origin stories - started from the idea of how much kids in the care system relate to superheroes. lemn also did an installation on this theme at london’s foundling museum: foundlingmuseum.org.uk/event/superm...

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Superman was a Foundling - Foundling Museum

A striking visual exploration of fostering and adoption in popular culture by Foundling Fellow Lemn Sissay.

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raycorrigan.bsky.social @raycorrigan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"We have to be smart to be critics of this disgusting, harmful, anti-worker, fascist project, so that we attack it at its material roots and detonate it as quickly as possible." @doctorow.pluralistic.net 16m 49s www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTqC...

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Cory Doctorow on the Big AI Lie | Downstream with Michael Walker

YouTube video by Novara Media

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