Russell Hicks

Haha, "inspiration"!

I think most adults can hold more than one significant news story in their minds at once

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

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Creative businesses and freelancers outside of London are in line for major government support to help them innovate, up-skill and attract private investment

https://downthetubes.net/six-uk-regions-receive-25-million-to-bolster-creative-industries/

Two Black Boys in Paradise We’ve made the film. Now we need your help to share its message of self-acceptance with the world. | Check out 'Two Black Boys in Paradise' on Indiegogo.

With all the money being thrown at AI nonsense, it's worth sharing an appeal from genuine hand-crafted indie animation.

One6th need help to promote & distribute this fantastic short, based on a poem by Dean Atta. Please take a look & repost.

#StopMotionAnimation

www.indiegogo.com/projects/two...

From Washington Post to Manchester's @millmedia.bsky.social for new investigations editor Cameron Barr

Barr wants to help "restore and revive the kind of investigative accountability, tough minded, rigorous reporting that that we all need" pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/med...

This is utterly superb!

“Static images on a wall that appear #animated as Train moves.”

#Reddit
R\InterestingAF
#TrainSky
#Animation

That's the one with the ABC Warriors story 'Red Planet Blues'. A very bleak, melancholy tale, it still pops into my head once in a while

If you can donate or share it would be most appreciated.
gofund.me/2d92938d

#filmmaker #filmproduction #shortfilm #gofundme #donate #creative #film #director #queer #neurodivergent #adhd #autism

A red banner with black cut out letters reading 'The future is another place. Allow yourself to believe a better life is possible. Say it loud, defiantly to everyone'

A grassroots movement like Arts Emergency rarely lasts or grows as we have.Our work changes lives, but we rely on monthly donations.Those donations are down £50k since 2021. We've cut all we can, now we're appealing to you for £2/month to plug the gap & go on www.arts-emergency.org/donate%F0%9F...

BBC news currently has no article on this. According to organisers, it broke their own records by far and was the biggest trans rights events in the world.

Otoh the BBC does have coverage of far right anti-refugee protests which were much, much, smaller.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Sometimes I'll forget what goes in something I cook regularly. Happens more often than I'd like. Normally it's things I've made so often I can prepare it without thinking about it.

AI translation service launched for fiction writers and publishers prompts dismay among translators UK-based GlobeScribe is charging $100 per book, per language for use of its services, but translators say that nuanced work can only be produced by humans

Whole book “translated” for $100? You get what you pay for, and if you don’t understand what makes human translators valuable, maybe you don’t value the creative work that goes into the writing process either.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

Brit's what?

Get a load of his corpus

"This is just the beginning of the end!"

Hehe, I'd like to think that somewhere there's a mothra model kit that has the same packaging style as Golden Curry too

Blue Labour in the ‘MAGA Square’ – Byline Times Digital / Print Edition

Recent reports show that Peter Thiel Guru Curtis Yarvin met with Labour Peer Lord Glasman and boasted about using the N word.

Why does this matter? Because Glasman claims to have a strong influence on the Prime Minister’s chief of staff Morgan McSweeney

It looks more like the box art for some kind of kaiju model kit. Nice art though!

Excellent work!

Awesome!

Bogling?

So much for 'balance'

Book Buddy Bear pin, a bear with a satchel of books handing one out on a floral tile

I've just realised I've topped 30K followers, thank you all, but as I'm poor I can only do a UK giveaway as a thank you

You have to like, and share this post and be following me to be in with a change to win one of two bear pins

No competition accounts and UK only, end midnight BST 8th June

Christ I'd forgotten about Parris's article. Incredible arrogance and a blithe refusal to engage with the facts of what he's talking about. "Well everyone's a bit stage 3 bowel cancer really"

No. I didn't mention conservatives at all. I'm sure there are many non transphobic conservatives. By the same token, transphobic left leaning people.

If you read back your last post, I think you'll find it's you painting an 'entire conservative voting sphere' as bigots. Happy painting.

Just to counter, I say they do belong. And can you point me to any substantial evidence that others feel violated? Excluding of course the cohort of people that are just performatively masking their groundless prejudice?

So who are the individuals and who are the victims in your opinion?