John Lees

Exactly this. Every UK government in my lifetime has paid lip service to the arts while, in every tory case at least, slashing funding to the bone. They want our kudos, but they don't want us to be able to eat.

Yep, I had the exact same response. Started with zero interest, then started to get won over by all the positive buzz to the point I was intrigued to look into some of the promo material. Then I saw the AI piss-filter and my interest reverted straight back to zero.

Palantir's Swiss Exit Highlights Global Data Sovereignty Challenge | NewsCase Switzerland's military has terminated its contract with Palantir Technologies Inc. following a security audit. The review concluded that U.S. intelligence ag

"Switzerland’s military has terminated its contract with Palantir… following a security audit… concluded that U.S. intelligence agencies could potentially access sensitive Swiss defense data… significant reputational warning for the data analytics firm"

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Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.

“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?”

There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.

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A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years

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i think a lot of people who are not in minnesota and/or are stuck in mainstream media bubbles don’t understand how little actual immigration status matters right now. none of this is “immigration enforcement” in any practical sense, and the media either doesn’t know or is choosing not to tell them.

Simple, really. To create good art you need to have empathy for other people.

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

drawing of a large muscular bald white (as in snow) skinned woman wearing animal skins and a fur pelt.

Maiden of the Mountain

Smoke in the Nether Garden, by Helen Thundre.

Orla Bard, looking radiant, cackles while reading Smoke in the Nether Garden.

Orla Bard, looking radiant, is engrossed in The Peach Field by Helen Thundre.

Yeah, yeah, we know Heated Rivalry is a big deal, but have all you smut-lovers been keeping up with the bodice-ripping oeuvre of Orla Bard’s favourite author Helen Thundre?

Art by @sallycantirino.bsky.social, colours by @dearbhlala.bsky.social.

Orla! is released on 21st April.

Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

Watching Jason Sudeikis in Ted Lasso then watching him in this immediately afterwards hits like whiplash.

Today I spent over an hour writing a piece for my Patreon, only to get such a sense of déjà vu at one point I was driven to look back and discover I had already written a piece on this exact topic back in October, near word-for-word. So much was going on back then I must have memory-holed it. 🙃

If we’re not careful we’ll end up in a situation where being a friend of ANY paedophile is disqualifying for public office. It’s a slippery slope.

"It's not accurate to say that Puerto Rico has no value to us. It actually has negative value. We support it with our tax dollars. It does basically nothing for us in return. A total parasitic relationship."

The US extracted the wealth from Puerto Rico through sugar/tobacco plantations for decades while paying farm laborers almost nothing. The Jones act has taxed Puerto Ricans to prop up a US shipping cartel for a century. The only parasites are the wealthy Americans extracting wealth from the island.

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The only findings they draw from these will continue to be “the search for a study that concludes UBI doesn’t work and AI makes everything better that we can then disregard all other studies in favour of continues!”

I think I'd be afraid to put together a similar chart for myself!

A pie chart that shows my success percentage in comics pitching.

Nobody talks about failures.

I tracked every comic pitch I sent.
98.2% failure.

Every book I’ve made came from that tiny green slice.

Persistence isn’t strength.
It’s a flaw that sometimes pays off.

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Too afraid to risk asking for something substantial and meaningful and being told to fuck off, Dems have instead opted to ask for basically nothing and be told to fuck off regardless.

“I was never a close friend of Pedo Pal, we just posed for photos together” and “I shared my most intimate fears and anxieties with Pedo Pal and feel shocked and betrayed” are each lines of defence that are pathetic but somewhat workable. But doing BOTH at once is truly desperate stuff.

Dismissed because of jurisdictional confusion, it should be stressed, rather than any new revelation that would discredit the survivors of sexual assault who have come forward.

Schumer: ball’s in your court

Republicans: stab the ball, tear it apart, set it on fire, rip up the court and sell the turf to Bahrain

Schumer: hey you guys are out of balls

Republicans: we’re gonna kill your families

Schumer: ok we’ll pass funding for new balls but you’ve GOT to read the rules

Channel 4's 'Palestine Action, The Truth behind the ban' reveals that despite all the things the govt claimed & implied about PA (Iranian backed, violent, secret intel etc), the real reason they proscribed the group as terrorists was because PA was damaging property. Thats it.

Weird, because I seem to recall proscribing these people as equivalents to Al Qaeda or ISIS was justified by senior politicians claiming they had Sekrit Damning Evidence Of Terrorisms that they couldn’t disclose. Perhaps it was too Sekrit for Channel 4?

Smoke in the Nether Garden, by Helen Thundre.

Orla Bard, looking radiant, cackles while reading Smoke in the Nether Garden.

Orla Bard, looking radiant, is engrossed in The Peach Field by Helen Thundre.

Yeah, yeah, we know Heated Rivalry is a big deal, but have all you smut-lovers been keeping up with the bodice-ripping oeuvre of Orla Bard’s favourite author Helen Thundre?

Art by @sallycantirino.bsky.social, colours by @dearbhlala.bsky.social.

Orla! is released on 21st April.

It's just another manifestation of this thing I hate in politics whenever it surfaces: the old stealing the future from the young. All these old people happy to dictate how younger adults should work, or how kids should be forced to do military service, because it doesn't affect them.