Alex (Sandy) Tomlinson
@alexillustrator.bsky.social
Reclusive Illustrator; previously - editorial (Fortean Times etc), mid career - storyboards, concept art. Now it looks like I'm working with my old film friends to make comics/OGN. Also now painting big canvases. Autistic. 🚫NoAI
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Post your most popular art from Twitter. 10 years ago when the Tour de France was in town this sold several hundred fancy A2 giclee prints, t shirts, etc. At one point I was getting an alert saying my printer had sold another print every 2-3 minutes. That was in the days when twitter worked.
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The fundamental problem is that we have no effective regulation of the media here, our public service broadcaster is just very obviously regime media and our major privately run news publications are all owned by billionaires with editorial agendas that distort reality and degrade human rights.
Reading about the rise of Reform while living in the self-immolating US feels like an out of body experience. That anyone outside the US could look at a country collapsing in on itself and say, “Yes, some of that for us please!” is just surreal.
January 27, 2026 at 8:50 AM
The fundamental problem is that we have no effective regulation of the media here, our public service broadcaster is just very obviously regime media and our major privately run news publications are all owned by billionaires with editorial agendas that distort reality and degrade human rights.
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I just want to remind people that when we talk about creating a "British ICE" and a concentration camp as somehow copying America, we already had the previous Tory government set up a concentration camp run by British military personnel for asylum seekers rapidly shut down after legal battles.
The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions.
It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
January 27, 2026 at 8:05 AM
I just want to remind people that when we talk about creating a "British ICE" and a concentration camp as somehow copying America, we already had the previous Tory government set up a concentration camp run by British military personnel for asylum seekers rapidly shut down after legal battles.
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Reminds me of a very similar bit of training female members of the British secret service were given during WW2: "Don't ask a man who works for their government what's happening. Confidently tell him something you know to be inaccurate, and he will be forced to correct you".
stop using AI to do your research. it hallucinates too often. if you want an answer to something, post something arrogant on the appropriate subreddit. something like: "this item performs 10% better than everything else. only idiots deny this." this will bait nerds into doing your research for you.
January 27, 2026 at 9:25 AM
Reminds me of a very similar bit of training female members of the British secret service were given during WW2: "Don't ask a man who works for their government what's happening. Confidently tell him something you know to be inaccurate, and he will be forced to correct you".
86 year old former structural engineer father STILL can't get his head around the concept of 'righty-tighty, lefty-loosey.' We have this every time. "No. I don't think that's right..."
January 26, 2026 at 3:15 PM
86 year old former structural engineer father STILL can't get his head around the concept of 'righty-tighty, lefty-loosey.' We have this every time. "No. I don't think that's right..."
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🙄. This fucking state I swear
A measure is being advanced in the Florida legislature to officially recognise the term “Judea and Samaria” and ban “West Bank” in official state documents:
Florida aims to ban ’West Bank’ from official vocabulary
A measure is being advanced in the Florida legislature to officially recognise the term “Judea and Samaria” and ban “West Bank” in official state documents.
www.newarab.com
January 26, 2026 at 2:34 PM
🙄. This fucking state I swear
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Gift link www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
January 26, 2026 at 3:22 AM
Gift link www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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In addition to all the other things, this is just embarrassing.
These folks are peak mediocrity.
These folks are peak mediocrity.
ICE is leaving Vietnam-style death cards in the wake of their kidnappings because they are the saddest, most embarrassing military wannabes to ever live
coloradosun.com/2026/01/23/a...
coloradosun.com/2026/01/23/a...
January 26, 2026 at 8:01 AM
In addition to all the other things, this is just embarrassing.
These folks are peak mediocrity.
These folks are peak mediocrity.
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stop using AI to do your research. it hallucinates too often. if you want an answer to something, post something arrogant on the appropriate subreddit. something like: "this item performs 10% better than everything else. only idiots deny this." this will bait nerds into doing your research for you.
January 26, 2026 at 7:53 AM
stop using AI to do your research. it hallucinates too often. if you want an answer to something, post something arrogant on the appropriate subreddit. something like: "this item performs 10% better than everything else. only idiots deny this." this will bait nerds into doing your research for you.
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My generation grew up on stories about how state TV would deliver clumsy propaganda for dictatorships, we’re just not ready for the way private capital in a market system can do exactly the same job much more effectively
#TikTok has begun censoring anti-Trump and anti-Ice content
January 26, 2026 at 9:10 AM
My generation grew up on stories about how state TV would deliver clumsy propaganda for dictatorships, we’re just not ready for the way private capital in a market system can do exactly the same job much more effectively
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To summarise BBC reporting on the collapse of the American Republic: "It's unclear who is to blame for the killing, the victim or the people who shot him."
Such 'balance' aids the fascist war on epistemology. Reality does not reside halfway between a lie and the truth.
Such 'balance' aids the fascist war on epistemology. Reality does not reside halfway between a lie and the truth.
January 26, 2026 at 8:57 AM
To summarise BBC reporting on the collapse of the American Republic: "It's unclear who is to blame for the killing, the victim or the people who shot him."
Such 'balance' aids the fascist war on epistemology. Reality does not reside halfway between a lie and the truth.
Such 'balance' aids the fascist war on epistemology. Reality does not reside halfway between a lie and the truth.
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I did not know this about him.
My favorite Bob Kane story:
January 25, 2026 at 11:47 AM
I did not know this about him.
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I love honesty boxes and always stop when I see one. This is my all-time favourite, near Applecross 😄
April 2, 2025 at 10:00 AM
I love honesty boxes and always stop when I see one. This is my all-time favourite, near Applecross 😄
I’ll just catch up on our local news site to see what’s the hot topic in the county today...oh.
January 25, 2026 at 11:30 AM
I’ll just catch up on our local news site to see what’s the hot topic in the county today...oh.
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Still nothing on Starmer about protestors being murdered and beaten in America but he was very quick to call this out happening in Iran
January 25, 2026 at 11:23 AM
Still nothing on Starmer about protestors being murdered and beaten in America but he was very quick to call this out happening in Iran
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okay hear me out
January 24, 2026 at 9:34 PM
okay hear me out
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I worked at the White House for 12 years. I heard the expression “special relationship” used to describe relations with about a dozen countries other than the UK
January 25, 2026 at 10:05 AM
I worked at the White House for 12 years. I heard the expression “special relationship” used to describe relations with about a dozen countries other than the UK
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Yall outside of MN need to know that observers are STILL out protecting their neighbors. Right now. They know the news and they’re still out there.
January 24, 2026 at 4:41 PM
Yall outside of MN need to know that observers are STILL out protecting their neighbors. Right now. They know the news and they’re still out there.
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Not the last time this'll happen. Rushing through data centre development at the cost of environmental assessment was always a huge mistake
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
January 24, 2026 at 3:03 PM
Not the last time this'll happen. Rushing through data centre development at the cost of environmental assessment was always a huge mistake
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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live your life in such a way that you aren’t defending kidnapping a 5-year-old
January 24, 2026 at 7:40 AM
live your life in such a way that you aren’t defending kidnapping a 5-year-old
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An excellent, bone-chilling story about a cadre of online racists who stole genetic data from studies on children so they could make specious arguments for the innate inferiority of non-white people, it's embrace by Elon Musk/twitter & how the Trump administration might make it easier to do again.
Genetic Data From Over 20,000 U.S. Children Misused for ‘Race Science’
www.nytimes.com
January 24, 2026 at 3:03 PM
An excellent, bone-chilling story about a cadre of online racists who stole genetic data from studies on children so they could make specious arguments for the innate inferiority of non-white people, it's embrace by Elon Musk/twitter & how the Trump administration might make it easier to do again.
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this is why you still pursue justice after all this time. That shame didn't fuckin go anywhere.
They wheeled this Nazi asshole into court in a wheelchair and he was still trying to hide his face in shame 76 years after World War II ended. That's the kind of commitment I'm looking for.
Ex-Nazi guard, 101, sentenced for role in 3,500 murders
He was sentenced to five years in prison for serving at the Nazis’ Sachsenhausen concentration camp.
www.nbcnews.com
January 24, 2026 at 7:07 AM
this is why you still pursue justice after all this time. That shame didn't fuckin go anywhere.
So much for the RSPB 2026 Big Garden Birdwatch. I sat there like a plum for an hour with my binos, my merlin app, notebook and not one single cunting bird turned up or even flew over and shouted "fuck you!" We've had pheasant and woodpeckers in the last week but today - nada.
January 24, 2026 at 2:44 PM
So much for the RSPB 2026 Big Garden Birdwatch. I sat there like a plum for an hour with my binos, my merlin app, notebook and not one single cunting bird turned up or even flew over and shouted "fuck you!" We've had pheasant and woodpeckers in the last week but today - nada.
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I didn't say it. The Germans did.
January 23, 2026 at 8:42 PM
I didn't say it. The Germans did.
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just to make that clear for the rest of the world, that's -9 degrees *fahrenheit.* -23 degrees *celsius*.
It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing
January 23, 2026 at 8:31 PM
just to make that clear for the rest of the world, that's -9 degrees *fahrenheit.* -23 degrees *celsius*.
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the best day to start a law firm suing the shit out of these fuckers for every excess under the sun was yesterday
This is the first example I’ve seen of an American government using AI to meaningfully misrepresent actual events with the intent to deceive the public. We are at Stalinesque levels of propaganda.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/past-the-b...
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/past-the-b...
January 23, 2026 at 7:34 PM
the best day to start a law firm suing the shit out of these fuckers for every excess under the sun was yesterday