Rob Jackson

Ireland’s basic income for the arts scheme becomes permanent When piloted, initiative that provided €325 a week to eligible artists recouped more than its net cost, study shows

Now watch Ireland thrive and become world leader in the arts.

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A version of the Wes Streeting 'I never knew Peter Mandelson well' opinion column. Photo is of my cat. Text reads: Ignore the smears: I was never on the kitchen table, and I am deeply concerned about the cultural moral failing of going on tables. I was only in the kitchen in the 1st place to prevent other cats from jumping on the table. That sound you heard was me doing something else. An additional 'linked' headline reads: Scientists study reappearance of mysterious cat-like wet footprints on surface of table, despite assurances that cat ‘knows it’s naughty’ to go on the table.

I tried to take a photo of a grasshopper on my windshield, but now it looks like a gigantic bug destroying the town.

Fancy a little look...?

Every single conference and professional organization should be doing this.

Every one

Soirée chez Castel
(Encre et gouache)

Sunderland Point - Farm Gate on the Track Here's another drawing from my Sunderland Point comic in progress.

Here's another drawing from my Sunderland Point comic in progress robjacksoncomics.blogspot.com/2026/02/sund...

Sunderland Point - Farm Gate on the Track Here's another drawing from my Sunderland Point comic in progress.

Here's another drawing from my Sunderland Point comic in progress robjacksoncomics.blogspot.com/2026/02/sund...

Since #bbclaurak is trending, let’s remind ourselves that ONE MONTH ago, the BBC invited Mandelson on for a soft-ball interview on her show. While HIS CLIENT , Palantir’s Louis Moseley appeared as a pundit

Both, as I wrote at time, were ‘abject failures of journalism’
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Gus Kenworthy: British freestyle skier will not be punished for graphic ICE message Team GB skier Gus Kenworthy will not be punished after appearing to urinate a graphic message about the United States' immigration and customs enforcement (ICE) in the snow, then posting a photograph ...

Amused to hear one of the UK Winter Olympics team, Gus Kenworthy, peed a rude message to Trumper's ICE Gestapo thugs in the snow www.bbc.co.uk/sport/articl...

Show me something more perfect. You can’t x

Post from r/crochet that says "mods are gone. All hail Mr. Nipples" and its a picture of the most disgusting crocheted doll/creature thats pink and has a creepy smile and horns and big pink nipples. It's truly horrifying

I need everyone to know that on the crochet subreddit the mods made a big post about how they're taking a week off because there was too much fighting/political posts. so there's currently no mods on r/crochet and people are being absolutely insane

Unused Monsters, maybe they will turn up somewhere else at some point. Good monsters are hard to find in this economy

A wall is covered in crumbling render, the colour of sand. Where the plaster has fallen, it makes the shape of a cloud. Years of staining and leeching around the patch has streaked the wall below, looking like rain.

Cloudburst.

Looks like Takahashi-sensei made an unannounced visit to the United States for the Art of Manga exhibit in San Francisco this weekend!

Illustration, a group of people with a small dog walk along a yellow road towards a large green towered city.

"Oh, we're almost there! At last! At last! It's beautiful, isn't it? Just like I knew it would be."
Post-It Note art, pencils, marker pens and acrylic gouache.

Reform UK urged to explain why party treasurer named in dozens of Epstein files REFORM UK are under pressure to explain why their treasurer appears numerous times in the Epstein files over more than a decade

Reform UK treasurer Nick Candy named in dozens of Epstein files

Sunderland Point - A Line of Rocks Here's another drawing from my Sunderland Point comic in progress.

Here's another drawing from my Sunderland Point comic in progress robjacksoncomics.blogspot.com/2026/02/sund...

Rope swings are inevitable: if nature and climate have conspired together to create a tree whose bows offer the perfect height for a swing, in a location looking over a river or steep slope, at some point in time one will appear.

Seven year olds have better bowel control too.

@graemeneilreid.bsky.social thanks for the repost!

@ianhagues.bsky.social thanks for another repost!

cover of a comic called The Woodsman

cover of a comic called Merchants

Morning, would anyone want any comics? Cheer yourself up in this miserable weather. There's lots at my shop and I'll give one free comic with any orders, cheers rob-jackson-comics.sumupstore.com and here's my blog robjacksoncomics.blogspot.com

people watch some oni

lanterns at a temple

big crowd at a temple

big crowd watching a play at a temple

Here's some photos from Setsubun 2017 in Nara. I always enjoy a Setsubun.

a shrine in Kanazawa

some geisha and businessmen throwing lucky beans

geisha and businessmen on stage at a shrine

opera singer on stage in Kanazawa shrine

Oh, it's Setsubun today in Japan. Here's some photos of the last one I went too in Kanazawa. We got some free sake from a big barrel and watched.

2020 just before Covid.

people watch some oni

lanterns at a temple

big crowd at a temple

big crowd watching a play at a temple

Here's some photos from Setsubun 2017 in Nara. I always enjoy a Setsubun.

a shrine in Kanazawa

some geisha and businessmen throwing lucky beans

geisha and businessmen on stage at a shrine

opera singer on stage in Kanazawa shrine

Oh, it's Setsubun today in Japan. Here's some photos of the last one I went too in Kanazawa. We got some free sake from a big barrel and watched.

A screenshot of a tweet by Nick Adams (@NickAdamsinUSA), verified, posted about four hours earlier. The tweet claims he overheard several college women at an OrangeTheory gym talking about “Melania” after a workout. He writes that they admired the First Lady’s “class, humanity, and business acumen,” and includes quoted dialogue using slang like “Period sis” and “Slay queen,” saying they were surprised by her intelligence and talent. The tweet continues with a quote claiming the women said President Trump is a good husband and a gentleman and that the media lies about him. It concludes with the author asserting that the film he references has secured the female vote for the GOP in the midterms.

Of all the things in the history of the world that definitely did not happen - this is the pinnacle.