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Love cats, comics, theatre, politics/news, films, TV. Trained librarian, but now analysing media. Not arbitrary nor a genius. Same tag on twitter. Do Moon Knight, Iron Fist and DCAU podcast. She/Her.
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"Global study shows 54% of Americans receive news from social media, while the UK has highest proportion of news avoiders at 46%" www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j...

Saw about half of "After Words: Visual and Experimental Poetry in Little Magazines and Small Presses, 1960-2025," curated by Granary Books's Steve Clay and M.C. Kinniburgh, at The Grolier Club. This translation of Queneau, _One Hundred Million Million Poems_ (Kickshaws, 1983) was in the first case.

White House Press Sec confirms Trump to leave the G7 early.

With UK heatwave temperatures soaring, homeless people on the streets are at risk. Here's how you can help.

Kind of sad it seems like Iron Man may be finishing with issue #10 (but hoping it's just to restart at #1 even if I usually hate that kind of switch-up). Would like to keep Ackerman for quite some time, been my fave recent run for sure.

Some old Alex Automatic sketches that I threw some colour on

The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) released the guidance today after an investigation by Which? revealed in December that some air fryers, smart TVs and smartwatches are collecting data on their owners. news.sky.com/story/are-yo...

Checking back in on X 🥴

Getting call from friend who's been delayed mid long flight and now needs to spend the night in Tokyo. Am sure I amused my train carriage with the 'book a better flight next time advice. Also kinda jealous though.

After the highs of yesterday, today really hit hard.

Benefit of the post midnight trains are they all end at Milton Keynes so... If I did fall asleep I would still get home. Estimated home time, 1am. Good job I have 2h of work tomorrow.

Star Wars 1977 print. Spectacular. Continuity script exhibit. fascinating but brief. Library display of Star Wars books and photos. A fun surprise. Company. great.

Apparently and thanks to @explodey.bsky.social searching, I was sitting next to the guy who created IMDb for the Star Wars influence talk!

I set an initial contributor deadline for our @brokenfrontier.bsky.social comics and generative AI "art" series of articles but I suspect it will run for a while so if you're coming in late there's definitely leeway. www.brokenfrontier.com/ai-art-and-c...

Also booked for Fantastic Four. Productive day off.

Ready for today's trip to a galaxy far, far away. Just have to make some lunch for train, I think. Actually slept, so hopeful of being able to stay awake till 1am. Luckily just have 2h of work tomorrow and 1h is a meeting :)

Something broke the journalists and now they can’t write anything that isn’t ‘What does this mean for Reform at the next election?’

NEW: What went wrong with Dragon Age: The Veilguard? Why was the writing so tonally inconsistent? Why did it feel so shallow? Why were there so few choices? Really, after ten years of turbulence, it was a miracle that anything came out at all. This is the story: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

An apology. Yesterday, I suggested on this site that sooner or later, Reform's new chairman, David Bull, would make an absolute turnip of himself. I was wrong. There was no "later" to it.

Grabbed the valiant resurgence comics on sale from fp. Now just have to get around to reading sometime

Cancel culture isn't new; we've always had it. We literally write essays about it in high school for the Scarlet fucking Letter. What changed recently is who we cancel - we no longer cancel you for for being queer, using drugs, divorcing & remarrying, but for being abusive, hateful, or a sex pest.

Well, Undead Iron Fist announced. So there’s that

Tuesday.

Immigration is good, actually.

This week, it’s all Marvel and no DC! Not even a hint of Absolute! Joined by our resident Queen of Marvel @arbitrarygenius.bsky.social!

Big week ahead. Luckily only 3 days of it is at work (well, plus 2h on Friday)

www.cnbc.com/2025/06/09/u...

Always forget we have different pronunciations of Godot in UK and US.

intotheknight.libsyn.com/episode-367-... EPISODE 367 The High Priests welcome Moon Knight artists and all 'round great guy, Devmalya Pramanik for an in depth chat about Dev's origins in drawing; his influences and his creative thought processes on THOSE Moon Knight pages!

Sandwiches for dinner. Made challah, and mayonnaise for egg and tuna (not together). Productive!

Protip: are you launching a new comic at this year’s @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social? Is it your first comic? Do you know when is a good day to get in touch with your printer of choice about it? Today. Today is a good day for that. Well, not *today* obviously, it’s a weekend.

Mentioned to Zoe I wanted a 14-inch cheap laptop (to replace clunky big one), she went on ebay and bought me an old, but very nice-specced Zephyrus. Had fun with AniME matrix display (currently a cat, pisces, and starry sky). Laptop is really nice, not worried about age!

Max Verstappen's Sim Racing team getting disqualified for cheating is distilled Max Verstappen.

Dead after late night podcast.