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Jac Bat

@jacbat.bsky.social
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Curator Zineopolis / zines / illustration /Art Education / Future Fantasteek / ✏️ Zineopolis.blogspot.com

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Jac Bat @jacbat.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
On Monday 14th September, MPs are debating whether there should be a referendum on who owns England's water. I've just asked my MP to attend and support giving us a say. Take 2mins to email your MP: weownit.org.uk/act-now/deba... @weownit.org.uk
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Give the public a say on who owns our water - email your MP
Public ownership of water is popular. MPs must give us a say on who owns our water.
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Jac Bat @jacbat.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Sketchbook thoughts from today
Sketchbook page of fake tablets called Anti-timeline meds. A pun on anti anxiety meds. In this case it’s bloody obvious why everyone is so stressed 
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Jac Bat @jacbat.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
We need to show rightwing newspapers that actions have consequences. Add your name: goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1
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Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project
Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.
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Jac Bat @jacbat.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
WTAF!! What is wrong with these people ? ⬇️ Google plans to bulldoze a wildlife haven in Essex – home to rare species – for a data centre. Sign the petition now to help save it before it’s gone forever 🐝🦋 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
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Save Arena Essex- Tell Google to search elsewhere!
  Wedged between the Mar Dyke Valley and Lakeside Retail Park, the former Arena Essex Raceway is not your usual wildlife haven. Where once stock cars and speedway bikes lined up to cross the fini...
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Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @planetx.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Lynda Barry did not squeeze your heart and simultaneously explain the point of all art with the barest of line drawings so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."
HOW TO LOOK AT ART by Lynda Barry

In the first panel, a dog-headed woman, a mother, looks at a painting in the "Madonna with Baby Jesus" vein. A small blobby child is standing next to her.

Mother: IM NOT SURE HOW TO LOOK AT ART.
Child: WHATS SPOSTA HAPPEN?

In the second panel the dog-headed mother holds up her hands (paws?) trying to explain to the child.

Mother: SOMETHING BIG. A REVELATION.
SUDDENLY YOU JUST UNDERSTAND.

In the third panel dog-headed mother goes back to looking at the painting. The child holds up their arms to be lifted.

Mother: NOT SURE HOW TO MAKE IT HAPPEN
Child: HOW BOUT LIFT ME UP SO I CAN SEE BETTER

In the last panel, the dog-headed mother is holding the child, their position mirrored by the Madonna and baby Jesus in the painting.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Nigel Farage is breaking British company law. Missed a deadline to file a confirmation statement with Companies House. Failed to verify his identity, required by law. Failure to comply is a criminal offence. Low attendance in parliament but busy with 2nd jobs, collecting money from foreign donors.
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Revealed: Nigel Farage is breaking British company law
Farage’s personal company has almost £2m in cash but has not filed key documents
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Jac Bat @jacbat.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
💕NHS💕 protect at all costs! These people are amazing.
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Trinket @trinketbirdy.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Love this city. The racists are all stuck in a shit pub rn being yelled at by *checks notes* Fatboy slim?
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Cat Hobbs @cathobbs.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
The brilliant Feargal Sharkey sums it up "The whole industry’s got to go. Absolutely, without exception" Time to end the privatisation rip off diverting 1/3 OF YOUR WATER BILL into shareholder dividends and debt Are you listening DEFRA? www.mirror.co.uk/news/feargal...
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Feargal Sharkey rubbishes key argument for not nationalising water industry
Campaigners have stepped-up pressure on the government to bring the crisis hit water industry back into public ownership
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Andy Oliver @andywpoliver.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
I have described Mereida as having a "genius level understanding of the unique potential of comics" at @brokenfrontier.bsky.social. Far more people should be aware of her work and following her @mereida.bsky.social. #BF6toWatch
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Jac Bat @jacbat.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
How is this not a crime?
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Jac Bat @jacbat.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Work in progress of two postcards that will be rubber stamped. Upgrade / Reboot All human hands and human brain. Did look at a Raphael painting of St.Michael stamping on a dragon for inspiration from a *book *book - folded sections of paper with printing on them sewn or glued into a binding.
Rubber stamp carving
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Jac Bat @jacbat.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
zineopolis.blogspot.com?m=1 Artzines? Why yes, we have lots 💕
zineopolis.blogspot.com
zineopolis
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Jac Bat @jacbat.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
I’m enjoying this Vivaldi browser, none of the rubbish Ai overviews, just a link to the source you want (like in the olden days when it was fun) @vivaldi.com
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Jac Bat @jacbat.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Visual diary Creepy Glasses and Buy More Shonky Shite #womensart #sketchbook #drawing
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Jac Bat @jacbat.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
I just want to say in 20+ years of HE teaching it’s always been the people who bring the joy. Conversations with students, colleagues, so many voices, ideas and possibilities it’s energising and I love it. The saddest thing is seeing is all these folk outsourcing their voices. today’s visual diary.
Rubber stamp being cut of robot hand punchingRubber stamp of robot hand punching, in red on yellow paper
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Jac Bat @jacbat.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Keep Palantir out of our NHS you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
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Stop Palantir taking over our public services!
Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.
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Jac Bat @jacbat.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Current mood Weltschmerz or world-weary aka ‘tired of this shit’ Some (most) days news is too much. Lino print on vintage ledger paper. #Weltschmerz #womensart @womensartbluesky.bsky.social
Lino print in indigo. Of miserable character crying, they have the word Weltschmerz in hair. There is a map of the world on their round head
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Jac Bat @jacbat.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Had to change trains yesterday evening due to some issue with the signalling system, BUT for 5 mins at Worthing we all saw the best sunset ever, people chatting, laughing and taking photos (Nice break from spiralling chaos)
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Jac Bat @jacbat.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
MA illustration, here’s our latest graduate catalogue University of Portsmouth Illustration can visually communicate so many ideas on a range of subjects, this subject is ever changing and a joy to teach. Find your people - these are some of mine. heyzine.com/flip-book/bd...
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Online Flipbook
Created with the Heyzine flipbook maker
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Jac Bat @jacbat.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
heyzine.com/flip-book/ca... You Love Libraries / When All the Books Are Gone Tete beche zine in support of libraries everywhere Batey / Randall (2025)
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Future Fantasteek! No.23 | PDF to Flipbook
Jac Batey (images) & Jessy Randall (text)\nBrighton, UK \/ Colorado Springs, USA (2025)\n297mm x 210mm, 32 x pages, Tête-bêche format\nDigital colour printing on 150 gsm recycled silk paper, \n\nThe p...
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Jac Bat @jacbat.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Still time to join in with this ⬇️🗻
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Jac Bat @jacbat.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
C’mon everyone we just need to be more (more) resilient What do you mean you don’t wanna talk to our AI therapist? (Cost a fortune you betta use it) From Future Fantasteek no.22
Collage made from yogurt pot lids and drawing on vintage paper. Main character looking stressed. Headline reads ‘how to be more flexible and yet be more resilient’ small text reads ‘so we can keep on bullying you’ 
Smaller character is saying ‘are you sweating or crying?, hey have you done our online training?’
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Jac Bat @jacbat.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
You Love Libraries / When All the Books Are Gone Zine will join lots of others in the Fanzinefest in Vienna Austria. This isa collaborative zine by me and @jessyrandall.bsky.social It’s for folk who love books and libraries x
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Jac Bat @jacbat.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Someone’s calling
Collage onto vintage bookcover of distressed woman with blue head and hands. A pink arm is coming out of her chest holding a vintage telephone
The words ‘tension ease’ are coming out of her head
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Jac Bat @jacbat.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Reprint of ‘Computers Apps and Smartphones’ drawings mostly drawn on my commute. Thoughts about our uneasy relationship with technology that we use daily. Drawings are taken from the first 16 issues of Future Fantasteek! A5, 40pages, saddle-stitched, colour printing on recycled silk paper.
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Jac Bat @jacbat.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Do you love libraries?
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Jac Bat @jacbat.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Is this the best mushroom? I think it is. Whopper!
Fly agaric mushroom very large and beautiful
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Jac Bat @jacbat.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Autumn is here so I can welcome back new students and pack away the antihistamines - finally
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Jac Bat @jacbat.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
zineopolis.blogspot.com?m=1 Artzine collection in Porstmouth UK We have lots of content, research and zine related material 📚📓📝✂️🖍️✒️
Selection of artzines
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Jac Bat @jacbat.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Small wins: Top seat of the bus
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Jac Bat @jacbat.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
How confident are we that we’re not ‘the mark’ ?
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Jac Bat @jacbat.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Do you love libraries? Seems the UK doesn’t 😢 A free resource for us all to knowledge, support and community - why would our councils limit access to that?
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Jac Bat @jacbat.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Just numbering and getting another batch ready to post. If you want one for your library or library zine collection, message me 📚
Future Fantasteek no.23Future Fantasteek no.23 All About libraries
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Jac Bat @jacbat.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Excited by the new photo ‘clean up’ feature, you can take a photo and AI will take out the crappy bits. Awesome a perfect photo (right)
A photo of arundel castle with a traffic cone in the wayAn edited photo of the traffic cone with arundel castle photoshopped out
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Jac Bat @jacbat.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
heyzine.com/flip-book/ca... The easy to read version (second zine rotated here so you can see it the right way up) You Love Libraries / When All the Books are Gone Jessy Randall / Jac Batey Future Fantasteek no.23
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Future Fantasteek! No.23 | PDF to Flipbook
Jac Batey (images) & Jessy Randall (text)\nBrighton, UK \/ Colorado Springs, USA (2025)\n297mm x 210mm, 32 x pages, Tête-bêche format\nDigital colour printing on 150 gsm recycled silk paper, \n\nThe p...
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Jac Bat @jacbat.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Future Fantasteek! No.23 We have some FREE copies for libraries/special collections DM me if you’d like this zine for your library. You can read here: lnkd.in/eas-aqE9 a gift to libraries for all that libraries do. Words Jessy Randall, illustrated by me. @jessyrandall.bsky.social #zines
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Jac Bat @jacbat.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Explains a lot
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Jac Bat @jacbat.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
This book could have been edited by 50%
Ginger cat looking disgruntled reading ‘Puppies and Kittens’ ladybird book.
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Tom Scott @tom--scott.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
The Greens now have nearly 200 more councillors than Reform. This is not something you'd be likely to guess from all the copiously salivating media coverage of Farage & his crew of billionaire-backed far-right chancers.
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Jac Bat @jacbat.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Hooman need more cushions!!
Ginger cat on chair on a pile of 5 cushions, reminiscent of the ‘princess and the pea’ story.
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Jac Bat @jacbat.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
So, it seems Hanni is not impressed with this drawing
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Jac Bat @jacbat.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Does anyone use a nice alternative to Goodreads? Preferably that I can upload a Goodreads csv file to?
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Jac Bat @jacbat.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Meanwhile in the U.K. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Swan on the rail line leads to train cancellations in Hampshire
Network Rail says the bird made it onto the railway line near Hilsea on Thursday morning.
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Jac Bat @jacbat.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Some days feeeeeel longer than others. Hannibal agrees.
Ginger cat yawning
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Jac Bat @jacbat.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
‘World book night’ details from latest project
Close up of old book cover collage
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Jac Bat @jacbat.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Trump has been invited to a state visit to the UK. Prefer not? Add your name to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/no...
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No second state visit for Trump
Unbelievable. Keir Starmer has handed Donald Trump a letter from King Charles, inviting him for a second state visit to the UK. It’s totally unprecedented, and should not go ahead.  This is the...
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Jac Bat @jacbat.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Some work-in-progress for World Book Night 2024 Playing round with collage of vintage trade catalogues and withdrawn library books
Collage of old book coverCollage odd old book cover with cut out of a hammer from a trade cataloguePink stationery dot on old book cover
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Jac Bat @jacbat.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Oh dear
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Jac Bat @jacbat.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Leeds who knew there were all these Victorian arcades? Well, I do now 👏
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