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FredRIK WORTHam 🎃

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Comics oik. Working class. Union man. Sci comm sometimes. Author of… 📚Pets Tell Tales series 🐈‍⬛ https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15438/9781526366627 📚Eisner-nom’d HOCUS POCUS👻🔮 Rep’d by Watson Little https://www.vanishingincmagic.com/ebooks/hocus-pocus-book/

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FredRIK WORTHam 🎃 @rikworth.bsky.social · Mar 18

NEW BOOK!
Pets Tell Tales: Egypt is the first in a series of non-fiction comics explaining history from the point of view of the animals who helped, hindered, and were downright baffled by, humans

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#kidslit #booksky

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Pets Tell Tales: Ancient Egypt: Book 1

Get yours now:

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FredRIK WORTHam 🎃 @rikworth.bsky.social · 6h

Fitting that Jesus is sharing this as “Turn the other cheek” doesn’t mean forgive your enemy. It means place your enemy in a situation that attacking you is socially embarrassing for them.

Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 10h

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

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FredRIK WORTHam 🎃 @rikworth.bsky.social · 6h

Man goes to doctor. Says he’s depressed. Feels lonely. Lacks identity. Alienated from his labour and needs something to believe in.

Doctor says solution simple. Great political thinker Marx is in town. Go see him.

Man cries. But, Doctor…

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𝔾𝕆ℝ𝔸ℕ @gorangligovic.bsky.social · 8h

100% sure Trump thinks a Nobel Peace Prize is something God takes into consideration when it comes to invites for Heaven 2026

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Jordan Collver @jordancollver.bsky.social · 9h

Updated our bio image with characters from @rikworth.bsky.social's and my upcoming Rome book.

Cartoon illustration of Rik and I. Rik - bearded with luscious hair - leans casually against a desk and a stack of books, while holding a laptop. Jordan - bearded, bespectacled and bald - hunches over a desk and draws a comic page. Molly the dog lies on the floor, a magpie perches on Rik's arm, and a spider dangles from a lamp.

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Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 14h

I'm not a medical expert, but is it a good idea to inject a dangerously large bubble into your veins? Asking for a G20 economy.

Sky News headline from January 2025 reading "
UK to 'mainline AI in the veins' under new plans from Sir Keir Starmer

The government will be hoping the plans - with promises of billions of pounds and thousands of jobs - can help stymie the claims they are mismanaging the economy and stunting growth in the UK."

Futurism headline from October 2025 reading "Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster. The risk of a sharp market correction has increased. The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a “sudden correction” in global financial markets driven by the spending frenzy on artificial intelligence."

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FredRIK WORTHam 🎃 @rikworth.bsky.social · 14h

Because politicians continue to confuse doing unpopular things with being practical and being disliked as proof you must be right and everyone else is wrong.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Thatcher was born 100 years ago and her reign feels a lifetime away. Why is her effect on the country still so huge? | Martin Kettle

Today’s politicians need to learn that she is not the answer to contemporary problems, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

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FredRIK WORTHam 🎃 @rikworth.bsky.social · 16h

Norway is now the most powerful nation on the planet.

Make demands or the prize gets it!

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 17h

Norway braces for Trump’s reaction if he does not win Nobel peace prize

US president may impose tariffs, demand higher Nato contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says * Why is Donald Trump so obsessed with winning the peace prize? With hours to go until the announcement of this year’s Nobel peace prize, Norwegian politicians were steeling themselves for potential repercussions to US-Norway relations if it is not awarded to Donald Trump. The Norwegian Nobel Committee pointedly said on Thursday that it had reached a decision about who would be named 2025 peace prize laureate on Monday, several days before Israel and Hamas agreed to a ceasefire under the US president’s Gaza plan. Continue reading...

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FredRIK WORTHam 🎃 @rikworth.bsky.social · 17h

Flawless and underappreciated

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PJ Holden @pauljholden.com · 18h

Cat believe these are all owned by one guy.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 18h

Experience: I own the world’s largest Monopoly collection

Every set is exciting. I’ve currently got 4,379 different ones. The dream is to hit 4,500, maybe even 5,000

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FredRIK WORTHam 🎃 @rikworth.bsky.social · 18h

Do you think he think it will get him into Heaven, hence the rush?

Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 1d

The Guardian- The US president may impose tariffs, demand higher NATO contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says, if on Friday he is not awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. www.theguardian.com/world/202...

Norway braces for Trump’s reaction if he does not win Nobel peace prize

US president may impose tariffs, demand higher Nato contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says

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FredRIK WORTHam 🎃 @rikworth.bsky.social · 18h

How your email finds me

Marc Laming all singing, all dancing comics guy. @marclaming.bsky.social · 22h

fine art if you ask me

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 1d

A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.

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FredRIK WORTHam 🎃 @rikworth.bsky.social · 1d

Fitting it’s trickle down

Jordan Collver @jordancollver.bsky.social · 1d

The spread of misinformation...

Illustration of four houses connected with hosepipes leading from each resident's phone/computer - the screens of which are blasting torrents of water straight into their faces, flooding their homes as they obliviously go about their business.

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Jordan Collver @jordancollver.bsky.social · 1d

The spread of misinformation...

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FredRIK WORTHam 🎃 @rikworth.bsky.social · 1d

So the ceasefire to be broken with 25 hours of the cabinet approval?

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d

The first phase of the Gaza ceasefire deal was signed by Israel and Hamas in Egypt earlier today.

The ceasefire will begin within 24 hours of Israeli cabinet approval, which meets in 15 minutes.

FredRIK WORTHam 🎃 @rikworth.bsky.social · 1d

In the 70s/80s the Naval Intelligent Service thought that “Dorothy” as in “Friend if Dorothy” was at the centre of a ring of gay military personnel.

Obviously they were wrong. She was at the heart of Antifa!

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 2d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

FredRIK WORTHam 🎃 @rikworth.bsky.social · 1d

Ahh you too?
When will this punt mortals recognise our potential!
We’ll teach them!

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FredRIK WORTHam 🎃 @rikworth.bsky.social · 1d

Dang, didn’t make the interview short list for a dream job.

Need to come up with a new plan.

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FredRIK WORTHam 🎃 @rikworth.bsky.social · 1d

Ventrue Capitalists.

Mikæla @crashannburn.bsky.social · 1d

When I was a kid, I foolishly thought vampires were real.
Then I grew up, became wiser, and learned the proper term was “venture capitalist”.

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Mikæla @crashannburn.bsky.social · 1d

When I was a kid, I foolishly thought vampires were real.
Then I grew up, became wiser, and learned the proper term was “venture capitalist”.

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FredRIK WORTHam 🎃 @rikworth.bsky.social · 1d

Apparently the conspiracy theorists are claiming that antifa (the shadowy organisation that is spectacularly failing to run the world) has its dark origins in the Weimar Republic.

Of course they’ve never stopped to ask why anti-fascism might have been on the rise during Hitler’s run up to power.

a cartoon of homer simpson with a fireball in his mouth and the words " i am so smart " below him

Alt: A gif of Homer Simpson singing “ I am so smart” as his diploma burns

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FredRIK WORTHam 🎃 @rikworth.bsky.social · 1d

A lot of people will say it won’t make a difference, (which I don’t agree with) but at the very least there will be one less fascist old fart ruining things in the world.

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d

The signs are becoming more obvious.

Trump to Get Second ‘Yearly’ Health Screening in Months — TIME

When the President visits Walter Reed on Friday, he’ll do a “routine” annual check-up, the White House said—despite the fact he just did one in April.

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FredRIK WORTHam 🎃 @rikworth.bsky.social · 1d

Tax the rich.
Fix the economy.
Stop the hate.
And mental health improve.

Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Specialist employment advisers will be based in GP surgeries and mental health services as part of government plans to get people back to work.

Work and Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden speaks to #BBCBreakfast about the government’s plan to tackle long-term sickness

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Nigel Auchterlounie @n-auchterlounie.bsky.social · 1d

I really enjoy a good "Bluesky" comment.
Thank you, Bluesky.

Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 1d

Godzilla is triggering?

This is why some people find liberals insufferably annoying.

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FredRIK WORTHam 🎃 @rikworth.bsky.social · 1d

See also novels, painting and music.

The capability is there and the slop is there, but if you think AI is going to change movies, maybe have a look at the creative industries where AI is possible but the cultural response (aka no demand) has really pushed it out already.

FredRIK WORTHam 🎃 @rikworth.bsky.social · 1d

Just occurred to me that arguably you can make AI comics. Not good ones mind. Or ones that anyone wants to read, but it can be done.

The fact the comics space hasn’t been flooded AI books kinds of suggests to me that other, more protected and profitable industries, won’t adopt it either?

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