PaulXThompson

Honestly why are kids allowed to watch Bluey?

Always amazed when people can paint snow well.

I'm very glad I tabled at @sequential-scot.bsky.social yesterday.
Sold more than expected & ran out of my most recent (partly cos I accidentally packed some faulty copies).

Met inspiring artists, creators, and lovely parent-child relationships amongst the visitors.

My boy's train mesmerised them.

I kinda think the way people use ChatGPT is sort of aspirational because it seems to emulate the way rich people have sycophants lying to them all the time until they lose touch with reality and also their entire minds

I'M GONNA TELL MY KIDS THIS WAS D&D is this month's free 1-page TTRPG.

Bored of not rolling ALL your dice?

Go on adventures! Roll all the dice! All the time!

Design notes on my Patreon here: www.patreon.com/posts/im-gon...

Was that in Strip? I vaguely recall it.

🚨 ONE WEEK TO GO!!!🚨
The maiden voyage of Sequential Scotland is very nearly upon us, make some NOISE!!!! 📣 We would like to say a massive thank you to everyone supporting us and well wishing, it means a lot 🥹💚

See you soon!

#sequentialscotland #scottishcomics #indiecomics #comicon #glasgow

Trusting your own judgement on ‘AI’ is a huge risk Web dev at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland

Trusting your own judgement on ‘AI’ is a huge risk
(9 June 2025 –Baldur Bjarnason )

www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/trustin...

<- There is also a 500w executive summary, but I think this is better.

Getting your devil worship instructions from ChatGPT:
- pathetic
- wastes water
- gives money to the worst people in the world

Getting your devil worship instructions from a local witch:
- cool
- edgy
- learn the names of all the local toads

Petition: Repeal the Online Safety Act We want the Government to repeal the Online Safety act.

Please sign the petition, it's not up to 100,000 yet

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...

Thinking about Janey today ❤️

Remember, pornographers have always been on our side. Brave, ready to fight for our rights. Smut is our friend.

I FEEL THE NEED TO TAP THE JOHN WATERS SIGN REALLY HARD LATELY.

Increasingly convinced the main damage cell phones have done to creativity isn't decreased attention spans or what not but the elimination of productive boredom. Inspiration comes from the mind filling the void inside. Hard to make art when you're constantly silencing the silence with "content."

"while we should absolutely aim for competence in some things (say government), art is very much not one of them."
buttondown.com/monteiro/arc...

Obviously the GDPR angle is like doing Al Capone for tax evasion, but it's a free punch, so I'll take it.

The important thing to understand about this case is that it's not about the crossing.

It's part of a whole slew of cases where the ultimate aim is to establish "gender ideology" as a political/ideological belief so that organisations can be prevented from being trans inclusive.

🧵 1/7

As many have pointed out, this is performative, cruel, stupid, pointless, and very likely a beach of GDPR.

Sex work is hard work that will forever require far more skill and dedication than my shitty job ever will. Show some respect, people.

Normal person: It’s a tapestry

Tapestry expert: It’s an embroidery!

Me, banging table: IT’S A COMIC

Research reveals a paradox: the more people understand AI, the more hesitant they may become to embrace it.

paradox, you say

YouTube video by CUD CUD - Rich and Strange (1992)

Time for Cud. youtu.be/D7ikmVbr8J8?...

Same story with flexible working, UBI, longer weekends and less homework for kids. The evidence is there but the puritans and the boss class who only see suffering as evidence of value just won't see it.

and how does lemur skin reflect the sea?

Optimist: the cup is half full

Pessimist: the cup is half empty

Artist: oh fuck that was the paint water

I’m here in R’lyeth, where Barrister Douglas Green and his wife Judy want to build a house of cyclopean stone that came to them in a dream. Unfortunately, as this blighted land has risen from the abyss, so has the price of their build. Will this dream house become a nightmare?

One for @skippa23.bsky.social

Small Press Day 2025 – How Emerging Creators Can Apply for a Zoom ‘Work-in-Progress’ Meeting with BF’s Andy Oliver as Part of SPD/Our ‘Broken Frontier Connects’ Initiative – Broken Frontier On Sunday, July 20th, 2025 the Small Press Day/Broken Frontier Connects Zoom meetings will return for emerging creators.

Small Press Day 2025 – How Emerging Creators Can Apply for a Zoom ‘Work-in-Progress’ Meeting with @brokenfrontier.bsky.social’s Andy Oliver as Part of #SmallPressDay. Please share! www.brokenfrontier.com/small-press-...

The Languages of D&D Imply a Specific Setting — Prismatic Wasteland If you start from the premise that languages in D&D make sense you can extrapolate a bit about its implied setting.

As a guy who ran a D&D campaign heavily influenced by Umberto Eco, and was* intended to conclude with The Name of the Rose via Beholders this is a very interesting article:

www.prismaticwasteland.com/blog/the-lan...

* difficult to reconvene due to covid and every other mad thing.