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Graeme McGregor @graememcgregor.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

You might enjoy the long-running comic book FABLES, though you may want to ignore some of its author's political views...

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Graeme McGregor @graememcgregor.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

It's not part of a series, though. It's a standalone film.

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Graeme McGregor @graememcgregor.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

It's far right, arch conservative bullshit imported from the Christian Right in the US. It's empty, moralising nonsense, and pretty wrong-headed in terms of voter support, because I'd be surprised if Reform voters don't include at least a representative number of single or unmarried parents.

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Graeme McGregor @graememcgregor.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I remember being infuriated by that outcome at time. It felt like such a huge waste, and damaging to the left as a movement. See Your Party as well.

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Graeme McGregor @graememcgregor.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I remember it happening and having a lot of doubts about its longevity. If I remember right, it didn't have a clear, positive proposal to make - more opposition to the status quo. Which is fine to engage people for a while, but doesn't tend to be sustainable.

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Graeme McGregor @graememcgregor.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

On a more serious note, he's not wrong: British people love making entertainment from some of our worst horrors - WWII video games, Jack the Ripper, the London Dungeon...

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Graeme McGregor @graememcgregor.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I want there to be a wee girl lying on a big wooden door, telling the other kids there's no room for them.

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Graeme McGregor @graememcgregor.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

You need to see Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma.

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Graeme McGregor @graememcgregor.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I think they were making some kind of joke.

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Graeme McGregor @graememcgregor.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I know this isn't the point and I understand the racist bullshit behind the term, but it also baffles me because that's phonetically how everyone says "U.K.", isn't it? How else would one pronounce it?

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Graeme McGregor @graememcgregor.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Since I'm not working now, here's some recent sketches.

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emmylou harris's baseball pager 🗽🫱🏿‍🫲🏻 @baseballmad.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I think LLMs are genuinely transformative for writing code. and also that a lot of software people, especially the higher-ups in big-name tech companies - because they are incurious idiots - assumed LLMs would be transformational for everyone else's lives too. nope. mainly yours, actually

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Graeme McGregor @graememcgregor.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

After a very challenging few weeks, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma has cheered me up no end. Long live queer horror weirdness and hilarity.

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Spotlight on Corruption @spotlightcorruption.org · 21/08/2026

We're hiring a Legal Fellow! This 1-year fellowship is an opportunity for an aspiring barrister or solicitor to gain practical legal experience & specialist policy expertise in the fight against corruption & economic crime. London-based. Deadline: 13 Sep. www.charityjob.co.uk/jobs/spotlig...

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Graeme McGregor @graememcgregor.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

On a more positive note, how much more impressive is it to climb a mountain with a bag of rocks on your back?

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Graeme McGregor @graememcgregor.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Agreed. But I've learned the hard way that many people still, fundamentally, don't understand and can't relate to that experience, and it shows in how they respond to the disruptions these conditions cause. 50+ per cent of the labour of mental illness is anticipating its effects in day-to-day life.

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Graeme McGregor @graememcgregor.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Also, the film Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma comes out this Friday, which I am super looking forward to.

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Graeme McGregor @graememcgregor.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The ULEZ report about the positive health effects for children - genuinely great to see a clear, positive outcome of public health policy that also benefits the environment. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

theguardian.com

Ulez led to better lung size and function among London children, study finds

Researchers find capacity stunted by pollution restored after introduction of ultra-low emission zone

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Queen Mary University of London @qmul.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Air pollution stunts children’s lung growth. New Queen Mary research found that improvements in air quality after the introduction of London’s ULEZ are associated with accelerated lung growth in children. Read more: shorturl.at/Jx86o

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Kenan Malik @kenanmalik.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Grenfell Tower cladding firm Arconic paid almost twice as much compensation to its shareholders for economic loss from misleading statements about the cladding than to the estates of the victims and to survivors of the fire: Report from @cmmonwealth.bsky.social: www.common-wealth.org/publications...

common-wealth.org

Unpunished and Undeterred: Corporate Accountability After Grenfell

Legal frameworks governing corporate malpractice are not fit for purpose.

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Graeme McGregor @graememcgregor.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I don't know what to do with this kind of question. I've seen a huge amount of coverage of Farage's lies and dubious claims and financial scandals. Not from the Telegraph or the Mail, who back Reform, but elsewhere. Does it make any sense to refer to "the media" as a monolith in this way?

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Graeme McGregor @graememcgregor.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

What a bizarre, oppositional conclusion to reach. Describing how something functions in reality is not an endorsement. I'm saying that I think this issue is more complicated than simply blaming racist journalists, and that simply blaming racist journalists will not address the problem.

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Graeme McGregor @graememcgregor.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The bad actors are on the hunt for a new target, it seems.

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Graeme McGregor @graememcgregor.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Depends. What drives political apathy? I don't see how citizenship education will stop people feeling - rightly - that politics is in the service of big business and billionaires.

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Graeme McGregor @graememcgregor.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

We're talking about the Arday case. I'm disagreeing with the claim that newspapers would publish these pieces (and especially keep on publishing them) if they didn't drive engagement. I don't see any evidence that the Arday stories were published in order to show up on Newsnight or Today.

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Graeme McGregor @graememcgregor.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I'm not sure it's that simple. I imagine some editors and journalists made a conscious, enthusiastic choice to go after Arday. I imagine others instead felt pressured to do so because of the pressure to drive reader numbers / engagements. I imagine others were instructed to write the stories.

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Graeme McGregor @graememcgregor.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

My favourite lefty art is the degenerate stuff.

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Graeme McGregor @graememcgregor.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

That is ridiculous - I totally agree. The scale and tone of a lot of the coverage was unjustified, bad faith, and deeply racist. And I think that the structure of our media industry - based on clicks, endless analysis, rapidity, hot takes, scarce resources, financial instability - also contributed.

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Graeme McGregor @graememcgregor.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

There's not many people watching Newsnight or listening to the Today programme.

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Graeme McGregor @graememcgregor.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Who will they complain about next, Ken Loach?

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Graeme McGregor @graememcgregor.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Why do you think that? In the midst of the coverage, 5 of the 10 most read articles on The Guardian website were about Arday.

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Graeme McGregor @graememcgregor.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Banksy has been around for decades; why is he now suddenly a harbinger of the apocalypse?

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Graeme McGregor @graememcgregor.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I agree that a significant amount of the news coverage of the Arday case was malicious and racist. But a certain amount was not, and some was *about the news coverage itself*. That cycle of real and manufactured outrage all drove reader engagement, and it all contributed to the harmful media circus.

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Graeme McGregor @graememcgregor.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

News media relies on advertising, which relies on clicks. Articles with more engagement attract more advertising. At the same time, many news outlets are under-resourced and struggling financially, and losing readers to social media. Did you read any of the stories about Arday? How many?

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Graeme McGregor @graememcgregor.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

How do we distinguish malicious journalists and editors from those who were taking a more neutral approach to the story? I'm seeing a lot of blanket condemnation of "the media", but little nuance about the role of readers, of clicks and engagement, and of the business model of modern news media.

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Graeme McGregor @graememcgregor.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Does it not currently apply to opinion pieces? It seems to, based on what I've read on the IPSO site.

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Graeme McGregor @graememcgregor.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Genuine question: how would that regulation function? What would it disallow and what would the thresholds be?

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Graeme McGregor @graememcgregor.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Perhaps people should just learn to admit when they don't know something. Somehow they'd end up looking less ignorant.

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Graeme McGregor @graememcgregor.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

His rapid rise to a senior academic position is part of the wider story.

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Graeme McGregor @graememcgregor.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

In UK academica, "Professor" is generally considered a senior position. Most university faculty are not at that level. The recency of his PhD is part of the wider story.

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Graeme McGregor @graememcgregor.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

It's been fairly widely reported outside of the right-wing press.

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