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@stevemaythe1st.bsky.social

Award-winning children’s book #illustrator & #animation director - agent https://www.arenaillustration.com/artists/steve-may/ https://linktr.ee/stevemaythe1st guitar botherer in Cult Figures https://bsky.app/profile/cultfigures.bsky.social

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My dream involved mainly walking up lots of stairs in a venue, some of the time holding a pint that cost £8.40 which I’d reluctantly bought from a bar in a student union. I recall being somewhat outraged by the price (‘in MY day, student unions had cheap drinks!’ etc.)

21.11.2025 13:38 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The BBC are screening a 90 minute cutdown of the Jon Pertwee classic Doctor Who story The Sea Devils in December...
Doctor Who fans be like...

21.11.2025 10:37 — 👍 14    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
10 panel comic about Dominic Cummings being a terrible children's entertainer who does a puppet show using dog turds and thinks he's a Machiavellian genius rather than a complete failure.

10 panel comic about Dominic Cummings being a terrible children's entertainer who does a puppet show using dog turds and thinks he's a Machiavellian genius rather than a complete failure.

Every time Dominic Cummings spouts forth again I am reminded of @daveyjones.bsky.social's Dogshit Puppet Master from 2021 in @vizcomic.bsky.social

14.02.2025 09:47 — 👍 101    🔁 36    💬 2    📌 3

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."

There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

20.11.2025 17:32 — 👍 10589    🔁 8035    💬 330    📌 793
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Innit!

20.11.2025 19:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

That face! : )

20.11.2025 19:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Chuffed to get my copy of Vintage the collected comic works of the brilliant David Ziggy Greene (@jambookshopuk.bsky.social) through the post today! What a treat!

20.11.2025 17:13 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Cold out innit?

20.11.2025 16:16 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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Numerology, the Bible, Pixies references, Doctor Who & a few silly animals - very much like a slice of my life really... ‘And if the devil is six then God is seven...’

#devil #numbers #noahsark #god #dalek #stevemaythe1st

20.11.2025 11:11 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

You silly c... ; )

20.11.2025 11:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Great disturbance in the Force as somebody drops the C-bomb on Radio 4...

*grabs smelling salts*

20.11.2025 10:54 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0
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In Sandi Toksvig's Hidden Wonders, with Raksha Dave @rakshadigs.bsky.social you'd have seen a Venus figure like this from Magna Roman Fort. I'm running a Lamp & Deity workshop at Magna this Saturday where you'll make your own figurines Roman Lamps. Book here www.vindolanda.com/Event/potted...

19.11.2025 23:27 — 👍 60    🔁 16    💬 3    📌 3
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Watch Stewart Lee Interview The Fall's Steve Hanley Ahead of New Audiobook | The Quietus First published in 2015, Steve Hanley’s memoir The Big Midweek (co-written with Olivia Piekarski) details his 19 years as the ‘backbone’ of The Fall. Perhaps second only to Mark E. Smith himself when ...

Stewart Lee interviewing the The Fall bass legend that is Steve Hanley! Well worth a listen!
@thequietus.com
thequietus.com/news/watch-s...

19.11.2025 17:01 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

And NEVER broomstick drunk!

19.11.2025 15:41 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The man's a pig.

19.11.2025 15:39 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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The pork calling the kettle black?

19.11.2025 12:41 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Some Universal monsters walk into a bar…

(insert applicable punchline)

18.11.2025 17:57 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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a traditional english pub called bollocks just like in great britain

a traditional english pub called bollocks just like in great britain

Right @mbalazo.bsky.social has informed me that in his hometown there's an English-themed pub called Bollocks. This would be like someone here opening a US-style diner and calling it Jerking Off or something.

bollockspub.com

18.11.2025 10:18 — 👍 363    🔁 69    💬 47    📌 13
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‘Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells’

18.11.2025 09:22 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Existential angst.

17.11.2025 19:23 — 👍 60    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 0
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Latest @theguardian.com cartoon

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

17.11.2025 18:49 — 👍 88    🔁 35    💬 4    📌 5

I have dear memories of this thread on Twitter - the woman sporting a new beret in Clontarf & the guys stopping the car to deliver the immortal line ‘ooh la la ye cunt!’

15.11.2025 17:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Excited to be taking part in Newham Festival of Stories this year - expect draw-alongs, quizzes & other nonsense www.newhamfestivalofstories.org/events/steve...

15.11.2025 09:48 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Cult Figures in Smash Hits 1979! (I joined a wee bit later!)

14.11.2025 19:36 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Facebook has reminded me of the 100 plus All Ears illustrations I did for The Guardian a few years ago - what a fun job!

stevemaystuff.blogspot.com/search/label...

14.11.2025 12:36 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Some belated Halloween illustration nerdiness. Looking at the process of adding digital colour & hand coloured versions #illustration
stevemaystuff.blogspot.com/2025/11/more...

14.11.2025 10:15 — 👍 17    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Surreptitious dog smoking a fag whilst driving an unlicensed cab

14.11.2025 09:28 — 👍 11    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 1

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