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Neil Davies Illustration @neildaviesart.bsky.social · Nov 18

Hi Bluesky! I'm a freelance illustrator, currently wondering what sort of art to do next, here are a bunch of my alternative poster designs (which I'll probably add to in the future) 😁

#art #illustration #posterart

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Neil Davies Illustration @neildaviesart.bsky.social · 1h

Insanity for any institution, but one with a global history of child abuse on an industrial scale? Criminal.

Hemant Mehta @friendlyatheist.com · 2h

Washington officials caved.

Priests who hear confessions of child abuse no longer have to report them to law enforcement.

Religious leaders fought to protect predators over children—and they got what they wanted.

www.friendlyatheist.com/p/after-sett...

After settlement, Catholic priests in Washington can keep sex predators' confessions secret

Years of effort to safeguard children were undone by religious leaders who worship secrecy more than justice

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Neil Davies Illustration @neildaviesart.bsky.social · 4h

Can someone tell Trump that Obama has the world record for holding your breath underwater, or jumping more cars on a rocket-powered unicycle? Y'know, something, like, dangerous

Neil Davies Illustration @neildaviesart.bsky.social · 4h

If I were a parent and found out my kid's work was being graded by AI I would throw a fucking fit for the ages

Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 6h

Primary schools are doing this. Makes me feel sick. To remove individualised insight into a pupil’s progress and skills at such a formative age is lunacy.

Dr Surekha Davies (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 6h

Vital words on why educators should push back against using plagiarism-slop machines for grading: "grading written responses is messy by design. It’s also one of the most human activities we can do within teaching." 1/2

Neil Davies Illustration @neildaviesart.bsky.social · 7h

I'm in, just joined @greenparty.org.uk .

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 8h

Greens growing. Reform ratttled.

PS - I changed my name back to my family's original Jewish name because I'm proud of being Jewish. If Tice think that makes me a weirdo, I think that makes him an antisemite.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Tice "green party leader Zack Polanski is a weirdo. Changed his name, claimed hypnosis could increase women's breast size, thinks me should compete in women's sport, thinks women can have a penis. Other than that he's fine. Vote Green. Get weirdo."

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Person 23 @hibernaculum.bsky.social · 7h

Of all the reasons to steer clear of AI, this is my favourite so far. Let's use our own tools.

Ela Bambust 🏳️‍⚧️ @ela-bambust.bsky.social · 7h

Trying to use AI to ridicule the right is so fucking stupid.
Like the disinfo is the point.
Master's tools, etcetera

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 9h

Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack.

Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.

Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.

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Neil Davies Illustration @neildaviesart.bsky.social · 9h

This is so far beyond any lie I've seen. It's like our PM saying Bristol is being burnt to the ground. We'd all just go "Mate, no it isn't" and call the men in white coats.

America, where are your sane people? How can it be so hard to refute this insanity?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

Neil Davies Illustration @neildaviesart.bsky.social · 9h

They are constructing an alternate reality where they are at war with a terrorist army that is literally burning cities to the ground.

I find I hard to understand how anyone can believe it in this day and age. Maybe no one does, it doesn't really matter.

Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 18h

These aren't random lies—they're part of the relatively short runway the Trump administration will use to illegally invoke the Insurrection Act and soon after declare martial law and end our democracy

I'm unsure if we have days or weeks left, but I suspect it's one of those two rather than months

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

Neil Davies Illustration @neildaviesart.bsky.social · 20h

What a scene.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 21h

Retweet as this, in two crisp sentences, is the platonic ideal of a social media post:

Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 22h

Tragedy is when I am criticized on social media. Comedy is when you are dismembered with a bone saw and die.

Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 1d

With receipts!

www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/o...

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Neil Davies Illustration @neildaviesart.bsky.social · 21h

Taking it well then

Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 23h

Trump thanks Putin for saying he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize.

This is INSANE

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Rebecca Watson @skepchick.org · 1d

A new study claims to show that erecting Confederate monuments decreased the number of lynchings, and removing them during Black Lives Matter protests increased racist violence. I'm unconvinced! Stay to the end for compelling research that better explains the data >_> 🧪 skepchick.org/2025/10/stud...

Study: Do Confederate Statues Make Racists Less Violent?

Transcript: Let’s talk about statues of famous racists. If you’re outside the US, this may seem like a trivial worry: who cares if there’s a statue of a “problematic” guy in the park somewhere? I’v…

skepchick.org

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Neil Davies Illustration @neildaviesart.bsky.social · 1d

He's guilty

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David Whitman @davidwhitman.bsky.social · 1d

One hundred percent.

That’s why we know with certainty they are covering it up.

When these files are finally released, pedophile protecting Trump supporters will pretend it’s all fake.

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Neil Davies Illustration @neildaviesart.bsky.social · 1d

Every garbled words this idiot says is dumber than the last. I actually don't know if it's all bullshit or if they ate deciding US policy based on what someone shows them on TikTok. It could easily be the latter, especially in Trump's case

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

"Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman eight months pregnant—she is an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School—and she is saying 'eff Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta."

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Neil Davies Illustration @neildaviesart.bsky.social · 1d

This is going to be really, really bad.

Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 1d

A friend sent me this article and genuinely it’s f***ing insane and I can strongly recommend reading it. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

futurism.com

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Neil Davies Illustration @neildaviesart.bsky.social · 1d

Monumentally stupid

Neil Davies Illustration @neildaviesart.bsky.social · 1d

The Nobel Peace prize winner is announced tomorrow and I'm not saying that this makes the news about Middle-East somewhat suspect, but it will be interesting to see Trump's reaction when he doesn't win.

Assuming he doesn't of course

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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 2d

several Watergates-per-day

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d

Apart from helping Comey's selective prosecution defense, this also means the president of the United States uses direct messages on Truth Social to communicate with cabinet officials.

I didn't know that, but we can be sure intelligence agencies all over the planet already did.

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Rebecca Watson @skepchick.org · 2d

Thinking about Jane Goodall, and how her legacy is inextricably tied up with the legacy of colonialism. Also: Bigfoot. 🧪 skepchick.org/2025/10/jane...

Jane Goodall and the Legacy of Colonialism

Transcript: Last week, English primatologist and anthropologist Jane Goodall died peacefully in her sleep at the age of 91, and so while sad, this news offers me a unique opportunity: to make a sec…

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Robert Llewellyn @bobbyllew.bsky.social · 2d

Useful comparison

A graphic showing the enormous improvements since the launch of the original Nissan Leaf 14 years ago the new one goes four times further charges three times faster has two times more power and is 36% cheaper than the original

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Neil Davies Illustration @neildaviesart.bsky.social · 2d

Can't be many songs that can do this:
youtu.be/cZnBNuqqz5g?...

Green Day Crowd Singing Bohemian Rhapsody [Live in Hyde Park 2017]

YouTube video by Green Day

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Neil Davies Illustration @neildaviesart.bsky.social · 2d

I mean... they couldn't say "WE ARE FASCISTS" more clearly

How has it come to this

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2d

From Donald Trump's Roundtable on Antifa just now —
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."
— special guest Jack Posobiec

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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 2d

A couple of weeks ago I heard an Israeli Govt spokesperson on Piers Morgan’s show…

He said Israel had killed 20,000 Hamas terrorists

This week we learn:

18,457 children confirmed dead

55,000 children acutely malnourished

So a war on children as much as a war on Hamas.

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