Tom Graham 🫘

Thomas was raised by books in much the same way that Tarzan was raised by apes but with much less dramatic results. He got his first professional illustration gig when he was thirteen and has been working in the field since then. (Taking time out for meals and such.)

Hullo. I've illustrated games, comics, books, albums, magazines, etc. Been an illustrator since age 13. (And a lunatic since birth) The world needs enchantment, and I'm here to do my best to provide it. If you have a project I'd be suited for in 2026, I'd love to talk with you. thomassbrown.com

To join a threat to the Right that they never saw coming is a dream come true!
Count me in!

AND I’VE JUST GOOGLED BABA GANOUCH (and it looks great!).

A cabbage engrossed in a very brainy looking leather bound tomb.

I think I love this one TOO much!

A defining feature of an emerging authoritarian regime is that it makes the opposition feel like shit on a daily basis. Every day, there is some new atrocity committed; some new institution attacked; some new democratic norm demolished. Some of it -- much of it -- we have little ability to stop in the moment. But that’s not how to measure the health of an anti-authoritarian movement. Instead, we should measure it this way: Are we more unified than we were before? Are we bigger than we were before? Are our tactics proliferating? Is the regime’s popularity falling?

I find this encouraging, from @indivisible.org:

That’s actually quite amazing!

“Velcome, Mr Harker, to my house…”

You mean HE didn’t grandstand or sermonize. Trump repeatedly made clear that Immergut is a “he”. And Trump, having appointed him, would know.

She’s rubbish, but I don’t think that’s the point here. The Greens need to be treated as serious players, not also-rans.

Make eternal diaper rash infected with fecal matter great again!

Sorry, knight, but I’m with the snails on this one.
Go snails!

« The Snails Attack », c. 1310

Unknown artist
Grotesque knight being attacked by two giant snails, from "The Queen Mary Psalter"
England, 1310-1320, Royal MS 2 B VII

#vintagefantasyart #fantasyart #fantasyillustration #MedievalFantasy #GiantSnails #Marginalia #MedievalIllumination #MedievalArt

A Tweet positively self-identifying MAGA with the Death Star from Star Wars.

And their confused pop culture appropriations aren’t anything new!

That’s a really stunning bit of work. The hot and cold colours, the dramatically graphic design mixed with hazier and more sketch-like details - it’s really compelling!

Entrance to the Kasbah

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection © 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris

Fragments by Vasily Kandinsky, 1943
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137846

A note for the brain: when you get to my age, you’re better off in the floaty-vat than in the creaky clapped-out body.

Forgive my lack of Ukrainian, but what does it say on the cup?

a close up of a man 's face with his finger pointing Alt: a close up of a man 's face with his finger pointing

Real life isn’t quite the same as the movies in their little heads.

a man wearing a helmet and a microphone is sitting in a car with the words stay on target written on the screen . Alt: a man wearing a helmet and a microphone is sitting in a car with the words stay on target written on the screen .

Now this is DEFINITELY a distraction from Epstein.
Ignore it, folks.

You Vatican’t say that, Mr Pope.

If anyone needs a freelance researcher in London (or across the UK), I'm your person!
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For what it’s worth, I’ll repost this - as a fellow Birkbeckian it’s the very least I can do!
🦉

They’re classic abuser responses. A tu quoque, a blanket denial, and some general “it’s all in your head” gaslighting.

@tomsbrown.bsky.social
Soul food.

“Normalize” is absolutely the key word.👍

There’s an extensive literature on the sexual masochism intrinsic to fascism (certainly in Nazism), so in a way this is not weird but bang on message. The faithful WANT daddy to hurt them.

TFW you're sent to AIHR for using AI at work

Reviews of the film Cielo

More lovely comments/reviews coming in for Cielo from the Calgary International Film Festival/

It's so gratifying to see that it's moving and inspiring people, and that we managed to create something that feels both visceral and magical!

Many more festival showing to be announced soon!

three miles west - hills fields / little woods / brown a whole bunch of crows flying with blobs of sound left to right - right to left keep coming low over the road

2/10/25