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‘Sorry, Keir Starmer pretending to be Nigel Farage is not what I ordered’: the Stephen Collins cartoon

Wrote about Pride, and about anger. Also made a shirt about it rowanrookanddecard.com/on-pride-and...

sensational

Bring on Labour 2

Every guy with a tragic backstory (in a movie):

Genuinely surprised by the hostile reaction this has engendered. I guess he’ll be pleased with the impact he’s made on people’s lives. Sometimes when you’re right about someone, you’re really right about them.

If you take away the “Don’t Knows”, then, of those who have reached a view: - by 64.4% to 35.6%, the British public think it was wrong to leave the EU - by 62.2% to 37.8%, they want to rejoin the EU And this even despite no leading politician (yet) making the case to rejoin…

ik a lot of ppl are loathed to give stephen fry any due but this, i think, is the first time a mainstream figure has been all over the british press straight-up saying jk rowling has been radicalised. this is actually unusual, and blanket, coverage.

One of the funniest things I've seen I must say

Pity the poor retail worker who somehow ended up volunteering to run two demo RPGs in the shop on the hottest day of the year on his day off 🥵

LinkedIn just suggested I connect with Lembit Öpik.

He's not wrong www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/step...

This is a vital message: one of the larger reasons BlueSky is refreshingly free of alt-right shitlords is because in the early days we made a gentleperson’s agreement to starve these fuckos out and it worked. No likes, no quotes, no engagement. They got bored and left. Please keep the Old Ways.

the annoying thing about “Dunning-Kruger” is that the actual paper starts with a perfect anecdote that ends with the perfect colloquial phrase for the delusion, and yet everyone still insisted on using “Dunning-Kruger” instead

Nothing says freedom quite so much as the state scrutinizing your every offhand remark for wrongthink.

I was planning to go to this anyway but for reasons it has turned into a family trip! If you can make it next week please come to the Unite for Trans Rights lobby on Parliament next Wednesday: www.transsolidarityalliance.com/about-7

Remember, it's only an echo chamber if the echos aren't constantly wishing death to people who have the audacity to be different and/or vulnerable. Otherwise, it's just sparkling discourse

I know we all know this but it’s always so important to remember that transphobes who claim to fight for women’s equality generally proceed from the belief that women are inferior to men across the board they wouldn’t treat trans women like they had cheat codes if they respected cis women’s skills!

I honestly didn't think there were any new angles left for the "Bluesky is for losers" subgenre, once again I underestimated the haters

This is who runs this account

I'm tempted to briefly abandon my total refusal to engage with AI because this sort of implies that turning purple is something they just do sometimes.

Transphobes: we DON'T just hate trans people! We just want to protect women! Also transphobes:

i will be mean to The Spectator no matter what site i'm on xxx

From the permanent collection of @cartoonart.bsky.social, on the occasion of Wally Wood's birthday, here's 22 Panels That Always Work!! This guide was assembled by none other than Larry Hama, who worked as Wood's assistant in the early '70s.