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#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Dutch printmaker Jan Hamstra from Cluck: The Eggstaordinary Story of Chickens by Evelien De Vlieger, translated by Michele Hutchison. Magic Cat 5 March. One of the spectacular, elegant & decorative prints in this enlightening non-fiction. @magiccatpublishing.bsky.social

It would be extremely annoying if the thing that finishes off Starmer’s premiership is the media being angry his reticence to commit to a war in Iran rather than all the other dumb stuff he’s been doing for the the last year.

Some personal news...

It can’t be a coincidence the illustration for a piece on Brexit is a dick head

This is from the Roman Britain chapter and is directly followed by Boudica burning Londinium to the ground. If we radicalised just a few kids against imperialism I’d feel like we made some difference.

Happy International Women’s day.

Turns out years of CGI, AI (*spits*) development and the growing furry community is still not enough to beat Milt Kahl and a pencil when it comes to creating a sexy fox.

My brain is refusing to hold in details about Iran. It may be that I’ve hit the too much bad new limit and can’t process more or it may be that it is literally so senseless, aimless and illogical there is simply nothing for my mind to grab on to.
Every headline just translates to “shit is bad”

Cogito ergo dumb

It’s very important to remember that that we knew Brewdog were wankers the monent charged 9 quid for 1/3rd and had a manifesto.

Comic illustration of a magpie quoting Calcagus' "they make a desert and call it peace" speech.

Managed to slip this into our kids book!

Labour just announced energy price cap dropped.
Oil just spiked, completely undoing that.
Given 50% of UK energy is from renewables, now is the time to renationalise and drop the dumbass marginal price system that makes green energy needlessly as expensive as gas.

The complete lack of curiosity about meaning is very telling

Like, who is this for?
Briton’s overwhelmingly don’t want to enter war with Iran. I imagine the kids on Tiktok are a massive part of that.
And if there are reasons why we would, make the argument like an adult. Not just, “war is cool, here is 80’s soft rock”.
Fml we’re doomed.

Propaganda just ain’t what it used to be

There’s a large part of me that wants to go through each franchise here and explain why MAGA entirely misunderstand it.

Except for Iron Man. Fuck Iron Man. The rise of libertarian techbros dabbling with authoritarian politics and the popularity of Tony Stark isn’t a coincidence.

The White House (proudly): Imagine if girls see this!

Normal men (panicking): Imagine if girls see this!

We’re absolutely delighted with the news that ‘Who Killed Nessie?’ by @paulcornell.bsky.social and @rachaelsmith.bsky.social has been shortlisted by the British Book Awards in their brand new Graphic Novel category! Huge congratulations to Rachael and Paul! 🎉

Stripwire Presents A 100 page A4 anthology featuring a selection of classic and some unseen strips taken from Tripwire's Stripwire section.

who wants to be our 100th backer on Stripwire Presents?
just £108 away from hitting £6k now with less than four hours to go on our strip anthology Stripwire Presents now featuring Holmes colour comic strip
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A clown. A ridiculous little man. The quintessence of an oaf.

Zeynep and Kawtar by Luana Saitta. A muscle-bound woman with a sword and a classic pinup beauty with a long braid.

A little sword and sorcery pinup @minillajovovich.bsky.social

How can I be racists?
Some of the best people I’ve bribed to get out of my sight are black.

A fiction author can do anything, we’re bound by the facts science communication, science and society, public understanding of science, science & the media, research

My research is featured on the Public Understanding of Science blog with a brief introduction to our paper published in their journal (here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...) and the toolkit which can be download here: livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/3194747/

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Paying people more than the average national salary to leave rather than letting them work, pay taxes them and but things sounds like wicked smart economics.

Kid dressed as Hilda

Alfur the elf

My wife made an awesome Hilda costume for the kid.
Complete with Alfur!