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Woodrow Phoenix

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Stashes pens around the house like drinkers stash bottles. Comics for cash. Where applicable. Artist/Author: Crash Course, Rumble Strip, Donny Digits, Sugar Buzz!, Plastic Culture, etc https://woodrowphoenix.co.uk/

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Woodrow Phoenix @mrphoenix.bsky.social · 3h

From the Sea to the River.
Whitehall.

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Woodrow Phoenix @mrphoenix.bsky.social · 4h

2 YEARS OF GENOCIDE
76 YEARS OF COMPLICITY

Woodrow Phoenix @mrphoenix.bsky.social · 5h

Arachnid update: entrances and exits now overlooked by sky spiders. Which is okay. As long as they stay up there.

Looking up at a spider suspended about three metres above the ground, silhouetted against a cloudless blue sky. The top of the house opposite is visible, as are telephone wires from the telegraph pole at left, hidden behind a tree.

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Woodrow Phoenix @mrphoenix.bsky.social · 8h

MARCH FOR PALESTINE:
ROUTE MAP
11 OCTOBER 2025

The march starts at 12 pm on Victoria Embankment. It goes down alongside the river to Big Ben to cross Westminster Bridge, along York Road and across Waterloo Bridge, down the Strand to Trafalgar Square and then down Whitehall to end outside Downing Street around 4.30pm.

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Present & Correct @presentcorrect.bsky.social · 3d

New Ryoji Ikeda opens at 180 Strand next week. You can book here www.180studios.com/data-cosm

Data, intense sound, graphics, maths.

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Woodrow Phoenix @mrphoenix.bsky.social · 1d

Yes! I loved to see 3 in space with 5 and get a longer look at what went on up there when the boys changed over.
5 is such a collection of disparate shapes it’s the only one that never seems to look quite right in toy form, like the proportions are wrong somehow

Woodrow Phoenix @mrphoenix.bsky.social · 1d

I was continually switching allegiances between all 5 throughout my childhood, including periods where the Mole was my fave :) … but I always ended up back at 2. In a way it’s the best value fave because 4 lives inside 2 innit?!

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Woodrow Phoenix @mrphoenix.bsky.social · 1d

Just FYI, you put ‘3’ there when you meant to write ‘2’ but they are right next to other on the keyboard so it’s quite understandable

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Woodrow Phoenix @mrphoenix.bsky.social · 1d

It wasn’t till I discovered Nutrageous bars (lifechanging find) that I tried Peanut Butter Cups and found I liked them too. I’ve still never had a PB&J sandwich tho

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Woodrow Phoenix @mrphoenix.bsky.social · 1d

You’re heading into Fougasse territory!

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 2d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Woodrow Phoenix @mrphoenix.bsky.social · 3d

You should make one!

Woodrow Phoenix @mrphoenix.bsky.social · 3d

Hazelnut bits. Mmmm!

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Woodrow Phoenix @mrphoenix.bsky.social · 3d

AmbassaDOR

Woodrow Phoenix @mrphoenix.bsky.social · 3d

Very short run, riso printed, unexpectedly beautiful thing

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Woodrow Phoenix @mrphoenix.bsky.social · 3d

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Esther McManus

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Woodrow Phoenix @mrphoenix.bsky.social · 3d

Tove Jansson, writing about herself for Puffin Post magazine, 1967

“Most of my books I have written on a small island in the gulf of Finland. My mother and brother and I were the only inhabitants there, and it's an hour's row to the nearest island. The cabin is only one room…”

The first Moomin was drawn at the beginning of the thirties, just for fun, to tease my little brother by drawing the ugliest creature 1 could think of - later on Moomin developed a nicer snout and character. Then Moomin was used as a sort of signature in the corners of illustrations or funny cartoons in a Finnish comic paper called Garm. His name he got in 1939 when I started the first Moomin story, just to do something else for fun, to escape reality. I did this just for myself without thinking about children, and put the story in a drawer. Many years later I illustrated it.

Moomin-Mamma is wholly a picture of my own mother. She has always had the gift of letting her family develop its foolishness without comments and at the same time getting it well brought up without the family even noticing it. Also my father - or a bit of him - appears in Moomin-Pap-pa, but Moomin himself' is a mixture of all my friends. Of course, I've borrowed a lot from my neighbourhood for my characters - but I only noticed I had done so afterwards. Part of the books are a picture of my own childhood which was very happy, but Moomin Midwinter, for example, is taken from my grown-up life.

Moomin is looking at the world around him with astonishment,but in no way with distrust or disapproval. He is gullible, naive and terribly benevolent. His predisposition to romance (making everything romantic) and compassion, often puts him in confusion. Sometimes he reacts against his meekness with short, astonishing fits of anger, scaring both himself and the people surrounding i him. His friendly, happy-go-lucky attitude is curiously mixed with feelings of responsibility. His life is overshadowed by a faint, constant anxiety: that all around him can't be happy and get on with one another.

TOVE JANSSON

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Woodrow Phoenix @mrphoenix.bsky.social · 3d

I recognise this scenario very well, unfortunately

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Small Publishers Fair @smallpublishers.bsky.social · 4d

"Mark paid careful attention to the small things in the world around him and he made each of us complicit in his process."

Erica Van Horn on the much-missed artist Mark Pawson, a mainstay of the Fair, who passed away earlier this year. Read more about Mark:
smallpublishersfair.co.uk/mark-pawson-...

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Woodrow Phoenix @mrphoenix.bsky.social · 4d

A bowl of Lucky Charms with a generous dollop of spraycan cream on top

Woodrow Phoenix @mrphoenix.bsky.social · 4d

BRADLEYYYY!!

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Woodrow Phoenix @mrphoenix.bsky.social · 6d

I’m not going to win because I only recognise Twin Peaks

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Alice Stollmeyer @stollmeyer.bsky.social · 7d

🔥 Finally an EU leader says it out loud:

“We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies.”

Defend Democracy @defenddemocracy.bsky.social · 7d

President Macron: “Europeans, let's wake up!

We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”

defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...

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Woodrow Phoenix @mrphoenix.bsky.social · 6d

I can go with that