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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 · 20m

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 · 8h

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 · 36m

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 · 9h

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 · 10h

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 · 11h

What a scene.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 12h

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

Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 12h

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 · 12h

Taking it well then

Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 14h

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

This is INSANE

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Rebecca Watson @skepchick.org · 15h

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…

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Neil Davies Illustration @neildaviesart.bsky.social · 19h

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 · 1d

several Watergates-per-day

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

Can't be many songs that can do this:
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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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Neil Davies Illustration @neildaviesart.bsky.social · 2d

Every day is one day closer to when they start indiscriminately murdering US citizens in the streets. They are literally promising to do it.

darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 2d

"we are going to murder americans without due process"
~pam bondi, US attorney general

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

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 2d

Thread on white power dickheads trying to start riots in disguise, because their narrative is empty bullshit.

Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 2d

🧵 Trump is criminally invading states under false pretenses. His supporters are trying to instigate violence by dressing as antifa and committing crimes.

In this clip from Portland, Joey Gibson of "Patriot Prayer" and his fiancée, Lindsey Nichols, tried to cause trouble before being forced away.

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

JFC

The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 2d

Losing my mind and what look like video game assets but instead were used to justify war crimes and genocide in the real world

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war.Our analysis of 43 official IDF videos found recycled 3D environments, spatial inaccuracies, and assets lifted from unrelated artists and institutions.We traced over 30 unique assets to Washington-based 3D creator Ian Hubert, who makes bespoke models created for his sci-fi project Dynamo Dream, available to his Patreon subscribers.

Models of parking lots, antennas, + pipes were repurposed as Hamas and Iranian military sites

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Fascinating work here tracing how the IDF recycled 3D assets from a cyberpunk sci-fi art project, the Scottish Maritime Museum and elsewhere to populate its widely-seen models of supposed enemy locations in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran. One of the most infamous, the alleged underground Hamas command center at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, used to justify an unprecedented assault on the biggest medical center in Gaza, was actually an animation the IDF had used the previous year, saying at the time it was a tunnel beneath a UN school.

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

Will some journalist, ANY journalist, just call him on this bullshit? Is there anyone left with a spine?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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

*Eternal Screaming*

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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

Fucking hell how spot on is this

MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 6d

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat.
People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

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