This is an excellent book for our times. (Or any times!!)
I'll post officially on @brokenfrontier.bsky.social soon about how we need the community's help if BF is to continue in the long-term. As of this month I will also be taking on the hosting costs of @smallpressday.bsky.social. Any help rn much appreciated via our Ko-fi! ko-fi.com/andyoliver70...
Last week at Broken Frontier... The Cartoon Museum Conference is Back on February 23rd – Full Details on Guest Speakers Here. www.brokenfrontier.com/cartoon-muse...
This petition has already passed the minimum 10,000 signatures (12,124 at the time of reposting). And has of course been met with the usual bullshit response we’ve come to expect from this government 😒.
Deadline is June 19th. Like OP said “something is always better than nothing”. Come on UK people!
News! Yo Comics! @yocomicsfair.bsky.social, the South London Fair for Kids and by Kids, Returns on Sunday, March 22nd. www.brokenfrontier.com/yo-comics-20...
Leaving the ECHR will not allow you to deport all Asylum Seekers, you can't deport a person without the other country accepting them.
But it will allow the State Pension, Minimum Wage, Paid Holiday, Max Working Hours, Maternity Leave and much more to be cancelled.
What a great idea!
"The 3–30–300 framework recommends every house, school, & workplace has a view of 3 trees, that there is 30% canopy cover in each neighborhood, and each building has a public greenspace within 300 meters."
#PublicHealth
phys.org/news/2026-02...
Couldn’t have put it better!
Is now a good time to remind people that Peter Mandelson was one of the instigators of HS2?
Labour's infatuation with so-called #AI - hugely expensive and damaging
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Genuinely so pleased about this because some of the reasons mentioned for us entering the Hall of Fame are things I or my colleagues have worked on. Everyone works so hard so it’s really well deserved!
Why are there no women on the Board of “Peace” You’d have thought Liz Truss would’ve been a shoe-in for that line up.
How big is Greenland?
Its so big it covers up 99% of the Epstein files.
Also, let’s just pretend for a minute Trump is a Russian asset - he gets Greenland and then lets Russia have it?
I'm not saying Trump is a Russian asset, just that I can't think of anything he'd be doing differently if he were.
As it seems to be rather relevant today here's my piece from two years ago about two working weeks in my @brokenfrontier.bsky.social life and my workload not just on the site but in terms of mentoring, community work, and other outreach.
www.brokenfrontier.com/behind-the-s...
No Direction
'Alright pal, got plans for the #BigGardenBirdwatch?'
'Nah, just the usual... hang out of sight whilst she's doing the count, then touch down once the hour's over. You?'
'Classic. Planning some fly-bys with a few of the boys, but we'll only land one at a time.'
'Niiice.'
Tree bark has a total surface area similar to all of the land area on Earth. It is home to a wide range of microbial species unknown to science, and they can either take up or emit gases that have a warming effect on the climate
The last parliament was overwhelming in favour of a trophy hunting ban; the Labour government had it in its 2024 manifesto - but of course Donald Trump is trying to over-ride the view of the British people on #AnimalAbuse
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
"There’s a freedom people are craving because they’re feeling so constrained, surveilled and, frankly, threatened in so many other spheres."
Zines have made a resurgence as communities seek to share information on everything from ICE raids to local elections.
Yep! And also because it’s so expensive- it’s now got more competition from applications that don’t require a subscription fee or that goes up every year making it barely affordable for its users. And it doesn’t offer any cheaper versions where you could choose not to have the full package.
It is the source of so many of our evils: the astonishing concentration of wealth in the hands of a very few, and the immense political power that gives them. We cannot solve our problems until we tackle it.
This week's column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
“Nazi theory…denies that such a thing as ‘the truth’ exists. There is..no such thing as ‘science’….If the Leader says of…an event ‘It never happened’ — well, it never happened. If he says that 2 and 2 are 5, two and two are five. This prospect frightens me much more than bombs.” - George Orwell
“We in England underrate the danger of this kind of thing, because our traditions and our past security have given us a sentimental belief that all comes right in the end and the thing you fear never really happens…” - George Orwell
and those two conditions no longer exist. - George Orwell
There are..two safeguards. One is that however much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing…the other is that so long as some parts of the earth remain unconquered, the liberal tradition can be kept alive. Let Fascism, or even a combination of several Fascisms conquer the whole world…
#Iran: We are relieved to hear that #ErfanSoltani will not be executed today. However, reports say his death sentence has only been postponed. International scrutiny remains vital as Iranian authorities continue to target protesters and restrict internet access.
2016 vs 2026
Shirley Jackson was right. No live organism can exist sanely for long under conditions of absolute reality.
