Cole Henley

Honestly, bookshop.org was a blessing & helped pay shop bills every month

Someone in a frog costume facing down a line of police in riot gear

George Orwell’s Animal Crossing

'With power comes responsibility' - Hector Bellerin wins BBC Green Sports Award Former Arsenal defender Hector Bellerin talks about his attempts to live a more sustainable life as he wins the BBC Green Sports Award.

A lovely article. More of this please ❤️ www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

zeldawilliams 20m From Create Mode •• Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want. To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough, , just so other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it. Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

I know I share this a lot, but I keep having to remind myself of this, even though I drew this very comic.

Art might not save the world, but it'll certainly make it a more pleasant place to live.

❤️🎨

How would $50M change your life?

You'd have more than enough for yourself, your family, for generations. If you taxed Elon Musk at 99.99%, so he only controlled .01% of the wealth he currently controls—he'd still have $50M.

No one needs or earns $500B. Abolish billionaires. Save democracy. Period.

The Nerve We've got it. Do you?

We're launched! In my newsletter this week, I write about our new female-founded media collective
@thenerve.news,
the fuck you energy that's fuelling it & why the mainstream media's laundering of Tony Blair is *exactly* why you need to read it 👊👊👊
broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-nerve

Treat yo’self!

Beers in Berlin

Had a lovely trek to Berlin for my 50th. Beautiful city, personal connection with a place my family had to flee over 90 years ago and got to enjoy it with the love of my life. Not a bad few days

“This Might Surprise You: A Breast Cancer Story” is out now.

It’s a graphic memoir: comics can do things that no other medium can. I’ve tried to be as honest as possible while also making you laugh. I’ll break your heart while giving you a hug.

Buy it here:

linktr.ee/ThisMightSur...

#cansky

Link to the 4-page comic here: www.sarcoidosisuk.org/wp-content/u...

Instagram screenshot from Sarcoidosis UK

Today is World Lung Day. A pleasant surprise to have the @sarcoidosisuk.bsky.social charity feature my comic about being diagnosed with pulmonary sarcoidosis.

Please spare a thought today for those affected by the range of conditions that affect our lungs, from asthma to COPD to Sarcoidosis.

⏰ Just 4 days left to register as an Arts Emergency mentor!

If you...

🧑‍🎨 work in the creative or cultural industries
💬 can spare just 1 hour a month to chat to an ambitious young person
🫶 believe in making the sector fairer for all

Please sign up today!
👉 www.arts-emergency.org/get-involved...

A photo from the millennial sitcom Spaced. 6 people are sharing a tattered greyish 2 person sofa, sitting on each other, arms around each other, smiling. There is a dog and a little bamboo table for the landline phone.

I remain obsessed by how much this publicity photo from Spaced looks like every British Xennial's First Houseshare Photo. The poses! The sofa! THE LITTLE BAMBOO TABLE FOR THE LANDLINE WITH SPACE BENEATH FOR THE YELLOW PAGES.

“There’s endless money and other resources to build a punishment archipelago, while communities have to beg for food and health care. These things are connected.”
@prisonculture.bsky.social

YouTube video by The Lincoln Project Cancel Culture

Look who’s the snowflake now.

https://youtu.be/L3UPVLrclAk

💯 - incredible live

Useful reminder from Peter Kellner on the problems we refuse to acknowledge are getting better, and the politics of hopelessness that this breeds

open.substack.com/pub/kellnerp...

I absolutely hate making this book

but I want you to ask your local bookshop to order it.
Thanks.

Seeing some of the new arrivals posting about Bluesky being boring.

I hate to break it to you, but if you find Bluesky boring, that's 100% your fault, because the only person working behind the scenes here to make it not boring is… you.

Here's some of the “work” that I've done and recommend… 🧵

Black and white drawing of Batman standing on a gargoyle spout. A big round boy with a moustache is far off in the background.

Old Bats for Old Bats Day.

#batmanday

The debate around what is or isn’t “cancel culture” really just obscures a simple truth that it’s BAD to be massively racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic and it’s GOOD to speak out against injustice. Some things are good and some things are bad and it’s okay to say which you think are which.

Martha!

Jonny’s posts are great - I always enjoy learning more about comics and creators I should be more familiar with

Post for Good Law Project’s ally campaign for Trans+ support by Women Text: I know Trans people are NOT a threat to my safety. So I’ve signed the open letter. Will you? Image: Close crop of photo of Trump with Epstein.

The media and politicians must recognise that there is a large number of women who are supportive of the trans+ community

We call on them to report truthfully about the sources of violence against women and to address the systems that perpetuate harm

SIGN HERE!
notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...

I have now been a journalist for 40 years. The forces ranged against my profession have never been so powerful | George Monbiot Once, I believed that humanity’s problem was an information deficit. Now, I know you can’t speak truth to power if power controls your words, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Monbiot-

“The mainstream media, with a few exceptions, is a single-issue lobby group, whose purpose is to assert the rights of capital.“

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

If you found that Jimmy Kimmel getting pulled due to FCC coercion was a heinous attack on free speech (& it sure as hell is!) wait till you hear about the 10,000 books that have been banned in schools & libraries!

If you're an author, join the fight @authorsabb.bsky.social
We're stronger together!

Anyone out in Bath today. If you spot this bike and tell me where it is I will pay you fuckin handsomely. Pop a lock on it I’ll literally give you £500.