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Just wrote a panel description in this script about a character doing sad pelvic thrusts while a single tear rolls down his cheek, a productive day at the office.

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John Lees @johnlees.bsky.social · 1h

This is just outright saying, “Why listen to important advice informed by knowledge and research and scientific fact when you can have a sycophant in your pocket that will tell you whatever you want to hear that you can listen to instead?”

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Heather Palmer @heatherpalmer.bsky.social · 20h

FantasyCon is just around the corner and I am very excited to be on such cool panels with such brilliant people!

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John Lees @johnlees.bsky.social · 21h

Fuck WWE, man. An evil company.

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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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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 23/01/2026

Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step. 1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish. 2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.

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John Lees @johnlees.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

How is it that every time I crack an egg over a pan to fry it, I always fuck it up and the yolk bursts, making my fried egg a mess, but whenever I crack an egg into a bowl to mix, they are always flawless?

Three perfectly formed egg yolks in a glass bowl.

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Tom. @notthattomgreen.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Someone was talking about PAC being stoic at meet & greets on Twitter, so it reminded me of this anecdote.

Small child in red flannel and blue jeans standing next to PAC with long hair, wearing black AEW hoodie and shorts. Both are wearing facemasks.

Nolie met PAC at a Dynamite, when AEW was still doing preshow meet and greets.

They both looked each other up and down. Then PAC stoically says “How is your day, little child?”.

When it was picture time, he plainly said “Stand with me in battle” to Nolie.

It was perfect.

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dearbhla @dearbhlala.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

ok i've changed my mind and i would like more comics work, hire me please dearbhlala.com

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Dearbhla Kelly | Design and illustration

Portolio website of comic colourist Dearbhla Kelly.

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

But then, PAC was one of those performers who didn't need a belt to be an attraction. I never saw anyone in the crowd bored by a PAC match. He was always over, always totally believable. You never thought, "Man, he's just treading water in the midcard here."

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *inclusion*, it would be all over the Times, Telegraph, Mail etc. This last weekend, attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *exclusion*. Crickets.

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John Lees @johnlees.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I am stunned and heartbroken to wake up to the news that pro wrestler Pac has died. An immense talent, one of those guys who was your favourite wrestler’s favourite wrestler, and actually my first favourite in AEW back when I first started watching. I can’t believe this.

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Gabby HC @scriblit.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The British Opinion Columnists make sense when you realise they're a clique of Year 10 girls who've all decided to call Kelly From Maths a bitch and a crybaby and a virgin and a slag until she leaves school (one way or the other), except they're 55.

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John Lees @johnlees.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

One thing I’ve sadly been noticing more lately is the visual pollution of AI slop on the street. Flyers on walls and windows, shop posters, restaurant menus, all increasingly rife with that AI piss filter and the same fonts and compositions. It’s a certified vibe-killer.

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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Happy Stanislav Petrov Day He passed in 2017. As Encyclopedia Britannica puts it, “He is survived by his two children, two grandchildren, and the entire human race.” If you don't know his story, please take 3 minutes now to learn it. @gchalliance.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.social

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Happy Stanislav Petrov Day

Take five minutes to not destroy civilization

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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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John Lees @johnlees.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

On my last swim to Castle Stalker - the iconic island-based medieval castle only accessible at high tide by boat or a plucky wild swimmer - I took a bunch of selfies and shots of the shore but no pictures of the castle itself from on the island. So, four years later, I amended that error.

The approach to Castle Stalker, via a stairway rising out of the water built into the side of the island.

Me in my wetsuit lounging by an ancient-looking castle door.

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John Lees @johnlees.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It took hours of delays, two fucked buses and a stress nightmare to get there, but I did manage to fit a swim into my Oban trip. And this might be the least fat I’ve looked in a wetsuit this decade!

Me in a wetsuit, yellow swim cap and goggles standing on an island off the coast of Appin, flashing a thumbs up and cheeser grin.

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John Lees @johnlees.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I’ve come up with an amazing invention, let me know if you think it would take off. An app that lets you track where your bus is and find out if it’s delayed or cancelled, where you can actually search for your stop and you’re not bombarded with a sea of irrelevant other services.

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John Lees @johnlees.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I hate that the Threads algorithm has shoved the iced coffee job interview discourse into my face over and over for the past couple of days until now, against my will, I have formed opinions on it.

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Andrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A couple went on a Fox News podcast and claimed the state of #Massachusetts took away their teen because they won't help the teen transition. But it's actually because the father was charged with beating and threatening to kill the teen and the mother was charged with witness intimidation.

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Mass. parents' story about child's gender transition complicated by court records

Joseph Kutzko was charged with assaulting the child in January 2025, not long before the child was removed from the family’s home. Mother Arlene Kutzko was charged with witness intimidation in connect...

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Rob @robosullivan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It's still happening. 2 more this week. Obviously I'm angry as a dog lover, but I'm even more angry at this relentless class warfare. This is punishing people for being disadvantaged. Social housing is just housing. It's your home. You should be allowed to live in it and fill it with joy #spéirgorm

Text from an animal welfare listing: Here's another poor girl who has been forced to leave her beloved family, simply because of her breed... The local housing authority found out about Nova and she now needs to find a new home ASAP. Can you please give this beautiful girl a share and help us find her a new family?

A beautiful white staffy with a grey patch on one side of her face

Text from animal welfare charity: We can't believe it. Yet ANOTHER beautiful adorable Staffy has been kicked out of the only home he's ever know, because his breed isn't allowed in social housing

A beautiful staffy that's brown all over with white patches

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John Lees @johnlees.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

In the last week of my 30s. 😭

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John Lees @johnlees.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Every time this pops up on my feed I’m reminded of what a stark contrast this is to Macklemore starting his statement by stressing he isn’t the victim in all this.

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Johnny Mains @johnnymains.co.uk · 21/09/2026

Someone from Exeter was buried on Friday and one of their wishes was to have dinosaurs and the Grim Reaper present. Legend. Photo source: Exeter & Devon Crematorium and Memorial Gardens

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John Lees @johnlees.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I just backed Death of Comics Bookcase - Reign of the Comics Bookcases on @kickstarter.com. I got to check this out and it's even better than the first volume. Randy Ryder: Buff Guy Comics Pro and The Responsibiliteen are my faves! www.kickstarter.com/projects/zac...

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Death of Comics Bookcase - Reign of the Comics Bookcases

A sci-fi comics romp though six unique, fantastical worlds.

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John Lees @johnlees.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Sandie Peggie is still around for these breathless, simpering media puff pieces, despite being exposed as not just a transphobe but a racist, while the target of her abuse, who was cleared of any wrongdoing at the tribunal, was driven not just from her job but the country by relentless harassment.

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John Lees @johnlees.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Today's free Patreon update discusses two of the most blood-curdling, hard-to-watch horror movies of the year: Obsession and The Drama. www.patreon.com/johnlees/pos...

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OBSESSION and the Horror of Other People | John Lees

I love a horror cinema success story, so I've been so pleased to see the response to Obsession since its release. It grossed $516 million do

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John Lees @johnlees.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This seems to be happening in political coverage across Europe. Fascists coming to power is inevitable, until it doesn’t happen, at which point we quickly brush it under the rug. I’ve been hearing how Le Pen will DEFINITELY win the French elections THIS time across two generations of Le Pens.

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The question is, why will the AfD being comprehensively *crushed* by the left in Berlin not be reported in the media nearly as much as the AfD “success” in Sachsen-Anhalt…?

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18 Uhr Prognose
Abgeordnetenhauswahl Berlin
20. September 2026 | Forschungsgruppe Wahlen für das ZDF
Änderungen zum Wahlergebnis von 2023
26,0%
(+13,8)
20,0%
(-8,2)
15,5%
(-2,9)
12,0%
(-6,4)
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(+4,4)
5%
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Senat
2023: 28,2%
SPD
S&D
Senat
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GRÜNE G/EFA
18,4%
LINKE LINKE
12,2%
AfD
ESN
9,1%
BSW
NI
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Prognose
Partei
EP-Fraktion
Letzte Wahl
8,0%
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Sonstige
13,6%

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ukjarry.bsky.social @ukjarry.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Have you seen the original artist Russ Heath's comic strip reply to Lichtenstein:

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Do you notice how you heard nothing out of these dorks for decades, until they started repeating and endorsing the newspapers’ nasty bullshit

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Russell Mark Olson @russellmarkolson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Do we need to organize an RNLI charity comic? If I can find the time I'd do the organizing.

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Cos! @algernonentity.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

idly reading about the rutherglen pigeon war

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

They get so pissy about us not accepting trans sports bans and the like cause they really have bought in to the idea trans rights are new and went too far and we are asking “too much“, despite actually losing rights right now. They see trans rights as a luxury

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Cos! @algernonentity.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

a primary school kid designed the pigeon mascot, dougie, for rutherglen's 900th anniversary. it's a cute pigeon. it's got wings! he's the perfect mascot for a quintessential scottish burgh. cute, right? and well, not every day your town turns 900 years old.

a child's drawing of a pigeon with a grey body, blue head, and a round yellow tummy with the words "Rutherglen 900" written on it.

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John Lees @johnlees.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Given that this AI “actor” is again being shoved in our faces with another media blitz, this time with a round of TV “interviews,” again I ask, what films has it been in? That’s generally when actual actors get interviewed, right? When they have an actual thing to promote?

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026

The AI industry wants you to say "the AI just did that thing on its own!" Like, United Health's AI that's denying a shitload of claims with a 90% error rate? They wanted you to think it's just the AI.

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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Here’s the thing, I’m looking at all the books I have - too many and yet never enough - and all of them are an opportunity to commune with another human across time & space, to know their thoughts and wrestle with our own. Why would we trade this away in the name of efficiency? Of product?

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Trevor Henderson 🍉 (commissions closed) @slimyswampghost.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

RESIDENT EVIL was perfect. I'm a complete sucker for shoving a guy who kinda sucks into a meat-grinder for an hour and a half, and this does that admirably. Felt like an RE sequel I wish I could play. Going to have it playing in the background constantly. I need to see it ten more times right now.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I reviewed TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA, a movie that struck so close to my heart I found it hard to put my feelings about it into words. Weird, personal, intimate, sleazy, and beautiful. www.patreon.com/scumbelievab...

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Hal Duncan @halduncan.com · 20/09/2026

the One Job of a party selling itself as liberal is to BE liberal--defending individual rights, freedoms, & equality--and that means saying "no, fuck off" to all the weirdos spouting their curtain-twitcher issues with Those People. if you throw any Those People under the bus, you failed that One Job

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 20/09/2026

(guy who has only ever seen Camp Miasma, walking out of Resident Evil) a lot less fingering in this one

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John Lees @johnlees.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Happy Batman Day! I haven’t drawn any good Batman art to share, so please instead enjoy this pic of me dressed as Batman for Halloween last year.

Me dressed as comic book Batman, attempting my best recreation of the Batman: Year One promo image pose.

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John Lees @johnlees.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I liked this post when it popped up a few days back, but had to revisit it now, as since this went out, Farage has been on TV openly laughing at this woman, and now her address has been doxxed with Pink Ladies turning up at her door and Tommy Robinson whipping up threats against her online.

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Alasdair Stuart @alasdairstuart.com · 16/09/2026

Absolutely, solidarity. She's visibly furious, and terrified, and has reason to be both. This is the knife that slides in under the 'ho ho ho Piddington' jokes. This is where we are right now. It feels like a beach head. I hope it's not.

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John Lees @johnlees.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It seems the same story is playing out in multiple fields: shops, banks, universities. Job cuts stripping staff to the bone, departments reduced to one person juggling multiple jobs, overseeing unreliable automation, taking the brunt from customers whose experience has been intentionally made worse.

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Leonard Sultana (An Englishman In San Diego) @englishmansdcc.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

From one frame. I know this film from this one innocuous frame. It's a masterpiece, I'd say my favourite Mann film. Yes, even above Heat.

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John Lees @johnlees.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

If the British media had anything about them, the headlines would be “Reform to make it illegal for lifeboats to save drowning people at sea.” But if the British media had anything about them, we’d still be on that sting that exposed Farage’s corruption rather than letting him set the news agenda.

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

You can’t have it both ways. You can’t be “It’s simple math, vote blue no matter who, grow up” and ALSO believe you are fighting fascism by making calculations as to who’s expendable. The world we’re in now demands more from us. More from everyone.

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