@buffybatik.bsky.social
๐นArtist & socialist๐น Art, nature, ecology, politics, social history, photography & border collies hEDS & deafness Batik Artist http://buffyrobinson.co.uk Mum of the @rickardsisters.bsky.social Creators of graphic novels
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17.10.2025 10:06 โ ๐ 159 ๐ 61 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 2
Black and white photo of a man and woman at a dining table. The man is a miner and his face is black with coal dust. The woman has a look of resignation. Hanging on the wall behind is a picture of someone partially hidden behind washing so he looks like he is peeping around it.
โNorthumbrian miner at his evening mealโ 1937 by Bill Brandt. Itโs an image which generates fascination and outrage in equal measure.
18.10.2025 07:48 โ ๐ 13 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0We have such a good time with this sort of thing, so much of our work is just trying to make each other laugh
18.10.2025 07:00 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0If you like Whereโs Wallyโฆ
โฆ you might like this tragic tale of working life in East Lancashire with sparks of proto-feminism that set capitalism on fire ๐ฅ AND has loads of fun details to snigger at
A page torn from the NEU magazine featuring a poem about Gaza by Michael Rosen illustrated by Dan Berry
Weekending with a young Rickard and found this magnetted to the fridge ๐ @thingsbydan.co.uk @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social
17.10.2025 17:13 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Crowdsourcing, sibling style
18.10.2025 06:38 โ ๐ 7 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0An actual, real life, nuanced discussion about Brexit!!
17.10.2025 11:49 โ ๐ 532 ๐ 221 ๐ฌ 30 ๐ 13Reposting because I love it.
I'm the son of a dark skinned South East Asian mother. My family includes English, Singaporean, Chinese, Indian & many more.
My mother sometimes called me Heinz 57 because of all my ethnic ingredients.
I am the result of them all & fiercely proud of it.
If you want some *hope* emerging from a bleak political landscape, watch this video but also read the many quote-posts of it.
17.10.2025 09:42 โ ๐ 79 ๐ 15 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Thank you Zack๐๐ Hope at last!
17.10.2025 12:29 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0This is so great and I want to be part of the adventure, which is why I've just joined the Green Party!
#Hope
join.greenparty.org.uk
Beautiful job. This is what just we need Zack.
So impressed I've just joined the Green Party!
British.
16.10.2025 17:03 โ ๐ 6335 ๐ 2293 ๐ฌ 253 ๐ 509
Earlier this week, Zack Polanski predicted that the Green Party would 'replace Labour'. He might be on to something...
16.10.2025 15:57 โ ๐ 220 ๐ 40 ๐ฌ 8 ๐ 2I try not to do politics on here, but this absolutely needs sharing โค๏ธ
16.10.2025 21:34 โ ๐ 91 ๐ 20 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 2Why can I remember no Labour politician making this point, this well?
Everybody except the Greens seems to think the best way to fight Reform is to agree with Farage about everything.
This, right here, is brilliant. And genuinely patriotic. And so, so true.
Congratulations to @zackpolanski.bsky.social and the Green Party of England and Wales! This is what happens when you offer voters a compelling, inspiring vision. www.owenjones.news/p/greens-pul...
16.10.2025 23:39 โ ๐ 198 ๐ 48 ๐ฌ 7 ๐ 4
@ladysusanvernon.bsky.social A trip round Jane's house, where I'm sure you've already been, but tagging you anyway as the Rickard Sisters' graphic novels are also well worth checking out!
16.10.2025 08:19 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0@museumbums.bsky.social can you and your friends help us with this vital question?
15.10.2025 06:48 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0Scarlett acknowledges that she has a problemโฆ
15.10.2025 07:05 โ ๐ 8 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1Who wants to come round Jane Austenโs house, try her soup, look at her uncleโs tiny hands, and fondle her handsome knob?
16.10.2025 07:19 โ ๐ 151 ๐ 24 ๐ฌ 8 ๐ 1Some people will create 3x 360+ page graphic novels rather than go to therapyโฆ
14.10.2025 06:37 โ ๐ 31 ๐ 5 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0
A screenshot of an Instagram story showing an annotated still image from This Slavery graphic novel, labelling the furniture with its style and provenance
A screenshot of an Instagram story showing an annotated still image from This Slavery graphic novel, showing writing materials on the mantlepiece and explaining about dippy pens
A screenshot of an Instagram story showing an annotated still image from This Slavery graphic novel, showing a chamberstick on the mantlepeice and explaining about lighting your way to bed
History chicks might enjoy our Instagram stories (@theRickardSisters) where today Scarlett has shown us round a room with loads of fun facts
13.10.2025 08:10 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.
The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.
Read that back.
When 400 people control more wealth than half a countryโs population, we have a very serious problem.
The 1st installment of the Canary's exclusive serialisation of Paul Holden's book The Fraud looks at the rise of Labour Together, & we reveal that what the group publicly said about its creation wasn't strictly true.
You can read our serialisation every day at 9am.
www.thecanary.co/the-fraud/20...
Just imagined what would happen if every UK bookshop eventually became a Waterstones & one day a government said that certain books shouldn't be sold.
13.10.2025 08:04 โ ๐ 23 ๐ 8 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 1
'Nigel Farage could never be trusted to run Britain after getting Brexit so wrong'
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
๐ We've done it. We've passed 100,000 Green Party members!
๐ But we're not stopping there.
๐ Let's make hope normal again! Join the Green Party today!
