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One of the sad things about AI is that badly drawn photoshop was so much funnier

[We see a close up of a young white male, tanned, white teeth, coiffed hair clearly an influencer on social media. It is an image such as you see when social media posts are shown on the news. In the corner of the screen is named a location: DUBAI. He is staring slightly off-camera for several silent panels of the comic strip. His eyes move slightly. He is having a thought.] From off-screen a newsreader’s commentary comes: NEWSREADER: Extraordinary images here of an expat in Dubai [The influencer’s eybrows raise slightly] …Having their first ever geopolitical thought. [CUT TO a BBC news scene. The BBC newsreader CLIVE MYRIE is talking to an interviewee next to the screen showing the social media influencer’s face. The interviewee’s name is David Jones]. CLIVE MYRIE: To explain the significance of this moment we’re joined by David Jones, our Expat Thoughts correspondent DAVID JONES: Clive, this is momentous It was caught on film at the end of an Instagram post titled: ‘Dubai Is Brilliant’. [Pointing at the screen, the influencer’s expression still the same] You can clearly see in the eyebrows here, the dawning realisation that there *might* be something in the world beyond his dickhead self. It marks a *huge* departure from all the Dubai Expat’s previous thoughts. CLIVE MYRIE: Which are…? DAVID JONES: You've Got To Get Yourself Out Here Mate, Everything Is So Clean, I Don't Have To Pay Taxes, I Am Incurious As To Why I Do Not Have To Pay Taxes, and Spa. CLIVE MYRIE: And might we see an expansion of these new Thoughts in coming days? DAVID JONES: I think we can expect to see: “I Deserve To Be Airlifted By A Country I Pay No Tax To” CLIVE MYRIE: Mmm. [Ends]

Brilliant

Britpop Now or Then? Are you on top of the current state of Britpop? We'll show you ten 90s bands and you must say if Wikipedia currently say they're an is or a was.

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Diagram of the animation career path, illustrated with a winding road on which Cyriak joyfully skips as he navigates his creative journey. Places of note along this circuitous route include "detour via job centre", "boring office job" and "making loads of weird videos". The journey ends with Cyriak striding purposefully into the future, though his hair takes a different path

Diagram of "The Process Rainbow", dividing the creative process into a spectrum of "making it up as i go along". The spectrum ranges from "no idea what I'm doing" (red), to "kind of know what i'm doing" (yellow), to "totally know what i'm doing" (blue). These categories are ordered along a vertical axis according to their "messing about level", from "not much" (blue) to "loads" (red). The horizontal axis measures "weirdness level" with blue being "normal-ish" and red being "crazy shit"

Did a talk recently and thought I should share a couple of slides from my presentation that perhaps warrant further study.

everything from the fit of the jacket to that head tilt as he says it is so completely Brass Eye i actually cannot cope

Sir Oink-A-Lot just 547 votes short of the Tory vote, great result for the Monster Raving Loony Party

We never sampled John's Not Mad. I vaguely remember the thing you mean, but can't remember who did it

Absolutely this. Some people appear to believe Tourette’s is akin to being drunkenly outspoken & that the person is “just saying what they really think”. It is nothing remotely like that.

Never a big Narnia guy but this 6 seconds typifies everything I love about British television.

Paddington at the BAFTAs, but he’s doing Tony Montana’s ‘bad guy’ bit from Scarface.

BAFTA Fallout I want to start this post with a significant caveat – attempting to talk about complex, emotive and highly charged issues within the constraints of the frenzied news cycle is difficult and unpredictab...

This from @touretteshero.bsky.social is well worth a read www.touretteshero.com/2026/02/23/b...

Studio clear-out! My studio is overflowing with prints, so I’ve listed them all as “seconds” here: www.infinitebacon.com/studioseconds

They’re super cheap, limited to the exact quantities shown — first come, first served.

Some have small imperfections, so plz check the descriptions before buying.

No one, apart from you, wants to see that thing you made with AI.

YouTube video by swedemason 2026 Showreel - Swedemason

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A poster that reads: you can’t spell hatred without red hat accompanied by a drawing of a red hat

Everything is awful but the creativity behind some of these handmade posters gives me a glimmer of hope in humanity.

one of the best things ever

Board of Peace - Season 1

A screenshot of an opinion by Oliver Kornetzke from August 18th, 2025. There’s a photo of a tired, bloated Donald trump over the opinion that reads: behold. The festering carcass of American rot shoved into an ill fitting suit: the sleeves of economy, man, the cowardice of a draft dodger, the gluttony of a parasite, the racism of a clansman, the sexism of a back alley creep, and the greed of a hedge fund ghoul – all spray painted orange and paraded like a prize hog at a country fair. Not a president. Not even a man. Just the diseased distillation of everything this country swears it isn’t but has always been – arrogance dressed up as exceptionalism, stupidity passed off as common sense, cruelty sold as toughness, greed, exalted as ambition, and corruption worship like gospel. It is America’s shadow made flesh, a rotting pumpkin idol, proving that when a nation kneels before money, power, and spike, it doesn’t just lose its soul – it shits out this bloated, obscenity, and calls it a leader.

Reupping this cause it’s evergreen and I feel better knowing someone out there called him out like this

This kid is awesome, actual hero.

Not to get all stentorian, but both my grandfathers served in WW2, and one of them died from its lingering sting decades later (chronic injuries). An ocean of fucking blood shed, the highest price imaginable paid to create a world where this shit didn’t happen, undone for *nothing*. Fuck you!

Petition calling for Britain to have a Department of Culture is rejected on the grounds that Britain already has one.

Do we, though?

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I feel I should bang the drum for this post, which hasn't received the love it deserves.

It helps to know that Jenrick's constituency is Newark.

Trump with that Venezuelan woman, holding a giant painting. Of Mrs Mangel from Neighbours.

Trump's second hand peace prize covered in blood (his face removed from the photo because there's too many pictures of him on the timeline)