Rik Worth 👻
@rikworth.bsky.social
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/
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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@rikworth.bsky.social
· Mar 18
Pets Tell Tales: Ancient Egypt: Book 1
Get yours now:
geni.us
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
@jordancollver.bsky.social
@hachettechildrens.bsky.social
#kidslit #booksky
geni.us/PetsTellTales
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
@jordancollver.bsky.social
@hachettechildrens.bsky.social
#kidslit #booksky
geni.us/PetsTellTales
I do not know how to write a novel in the little free time I have but also I have decided I must.
What is this torture?
What is this torture?
November 26, 2025 at 8:02 PM
I do not know how to write a novel in the little free time I have but also I have decided I must.
What is this torture?
What is this torture?
Man, I didn’t even know this had happened.
Unban Goran!
Unban Goran!
Hey @bsky.app @safety.bsky.app @support.bsky.team please unsuspend Goran immediately.
Goran is a great person, a great artist, and the whole anti-Palestine thing youre on is one of those "Ford funding Hitler" disasters you remember being shocked and dismayed by when you learned of in middle school.
Goran is a great person, a great artist, and the whole anti-Palestine thing youre on is one of those "Ford funding Hitler" disasters you remember being shocked and dismayed by when you learned of in middle school.
November 26, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Man, I didn’t even know this had happened.
Unban Goran!
Unban Goran!
Kinda of think Starmer/Reeves won’t see much fallout from the budget because it’s kind of boring?
The biggest news is the leaking.
The biggest news is the leaking.
November 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Kinda of think Starmer/Reeves won’t see much fallout from the budget because it’s kind of boring?
The biggest news is the leaking.
The biggest news is the leaking.
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Did I make crashing sounds to myself while drawing the Late Heavy Bombardment's impact on earth? Yes, I most certainly did...
#Nostos #Unflattening 2
#Nostos #Unflattening 2
November 26, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Did I make crashing sounds to myself while drawing the Late Heavy Bombardment's impact on earth? Yes, I most certainly did...
#Nostos #Unflattening 2
#Nostos #Unflattening 2
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All the benefit "fraud" in the entire world doesn't amount to even a fraction of a percent of the taxes multimillionaires don't pay.
Hot take maybe but I actually don’t give a shit about benefit fraud.
I give a shit about multimillionaires and billionaires existing and not paying tax on their actual wealth.
I give a shit about multimillionaires and billionaires existing and not paying tax on their actual wealth.
November 26, 2025 at 3:56 PM
All the benefit "fraud" in the entire world doesn't amount to even a fraction of a percent of the taxes multimillionaires don't pay.
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Hey folks -- Signal Boost time for this week's #TheFullLid. If you have a creative project to promote, leave the details in a reply. Include the title and a link please, so folks can find it. For pre-launch crowdfunders let us know about 2 weeks in advance.
November 26, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Hey folks -- Signal Boost time for this week's #TheFullLid. If you have a creative project to promote, leave the details in a reply. Include the title and a link please, so folks can find it. For pre-launch crowdfunders let us know about 2 weeks in advance.
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The adults are in charge
BREAKING The entire Budget has leaked early
- £22BN of headroom
- £26bn tax rises
- Freeze on tax thresholds
- Pay per mileage confirmed
- Changes to capital gains
- £22BN of headroom
- £26bn tax rises
- Freeze on tax thresholds
- Pay per mileage confirmed
- Changes to capital gains
November 26, 2025 at 12:04 PM
The adults are in charge
Minimum wage increase is good news.
I’ve been banging this drum for years but increasing wages decreases the cost of benefits. 37% of UC recipients are in work. This just subsidises labour costs for Scrooge employers.
I’ve been banging this drum for years but increasing wages decreases the cost of benefits. 37% of UC recipients are in work. This just subsidises labour costs for Scrooge employers.
November 26, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Minimum wage increase is good news.
I’ve been banging this drum for years but increasing wages decreases the cost of benefits. 37% of UC recipients are in work. This just subsidises labour costs for Scrooge employers.
I’ve been banging this drum for years but increasing wages decreases the cost of benefits. 37% of UC recipients are in work. This just subsidises labour costs for Scrooge employers.
Again, speed running a Tory Government. Ousting an incompetent leader with an insane mandate with a corporate sprat with little political spine who the public won’t want.
Only missing a demented, short-lived economic bomb in the middle.
Only missing a demented, short-lived economic bomb in the middle.
"Coronation": the latest thinking on how to overcome the fact the Labour membership would never choose Wesley.
November 26, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Again, speed running a Tory Government. Ousting an incompetent leader with an insane mandate with a corporate sprat with little political spine who the public won’t want.
Only missing a demented, short-lived economic bomb in the middle.
Only missing a demented, short-lived economic bomb in the middle.
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My newest interview is up from Publishers Weekly - honored to be alongside these inspiring librarians! www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
Comics in the Classroom: Teachers and Librarians Share Their Best Practices
We spoke with three educators about the innovative ways they’re utilizing comics and graphic novels to teach visual literacy and create lifelong readers, one panel at a time.
www.publishersweekly.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:24 PM
My newest interview is up from Publishers Weekly - honored to be alongside these inspiring librarians! www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
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I was so pleased JC brought me in on this project.
If you write or are a journalist or do any kind of storytelling (science or not) I highly recommend checking this out. There is so much in the about mechanics and risk/benefits of how you connect to audiences.
If you write or are a journalist or do any kind of storytelling (science or not) I highly recommend checking this out. There is so much in the about mechanics and risk/benefits of how you connect to audiences.
We’ve now produced a toolkit to guide science communicators through (critically) using certain strategies. It has been beautifully illustrated by @jordancollver.bsky.social (in collab with @rikworth.bsky.social) and can be downloaded as a PDF here:
livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/3194747/
livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/3194747/
November 24, 2025 at 1:39 PM
I was so pleased JC brought me in on this project.
If you write or are a journalist or do any kind of storytelling (science or not) I highly recommend checking this out. There is so much in the about mechanics and risk/benefits of how you connect to audiences.
If you write or are a journalist or do any kind of storytelling (science or not) I highly recommend checking this out. There is so much in the about mechanics and risk/benefits of how you connect to audiences.
Ok this died a death. Really hope actual historians get this book for there kids.
I’m very annoy Taylor Swift has forced to to change an ok joke in Pets 2: Rome.
Luckily it isn’t this joke. Which is my favourite.
Luckily it isn’t this joke. Which is my favourite.
November 25, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Ok this died a death. Really hope actual historians get this book for there kids.
INT: A shadowy room. The Syndicate are bathed in cigar smoke and dying light. The have Scully.
Mulder kicks down the door. He has a gun.
MULDER: FREEZE! I GOT YOU, YOU SONS OF BITCHES!
The world’s most powerful men stop trying to convince Scully to play Cards Against Humanity.
Mulder kicks down the door. He has a gun.
MULDER: FREEZE! I GOT YOU, YOU SONS OF BITCHES!
The world’s most powerful men stop trying to convince Scully to play Cards Against Humanity.
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 25, 2025 at 7:37 AM
INT: A shadowy room. The Syndicate are bathed in cigar smoke and dying light. The have Scully.
Mulder kicks down the door. He has a gun.
MULDER: FREEZE! I GOT YOU, YOU SONS OF BITCHES!
The world’s most powerful men stop trying to convince Scully to play Cards Against Humanity.
Mulder kicks down the door. He has a gun.
MULDER: FREEZE! I GOT YOU, YOU SONS OF BITCHES!
The world’s most powerful men stop trying to convince Scully to play Cards Against Humanity.
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Terry Pratchett’s Death, taking a moment for himself at home, by David Wyatt, c.2018.
November 24, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Terry Pratchett’s Death, taking a moment for himself at home, by David Wyatt, c.2018.
I’m very annoy Taylor Swift has forced to to change an ok joke in Pets 2: Rome.
Luckily it isn’t this joke. Which is my favourite.
Luckily it isn’t this joke. Which is my favourite.
November 24, 2025 at 8:19 PM
I’m very annoy Taylor Swift has forced to to change an ok joke in Pets 2: Rome.
Luckily it isn’t this joke. Which is my favourite.
Luckily it isn’t this joke. Which is my favourite.
My reaction after being informed we can’t send the next book to print due to threat of legal action from a billionaire Princess of Pop who may or may not have gone full trad lately.
November 24, 2025 at 5:09 PM
My reaction after being informed we can’t send the next book to print due to threat of legal action from a billionaire Princess of Pop who may or may not have gone full trad lately.
I was so pleased JC brought me in on this project.
If you write or are a journalist or do any kind of storytelling (science or not) I highly recommend checking this out. There is so much in the about mechanics and risk/benefits of how you connect to audiences.
If you write or are a journalist or do any kind of storytelling (science or not) I highly recommend checking this out. There is so much in the about mechanics and risk/benefits of how you connect to audiences.
We’ve now produced a toolkit to guide science communicators through (critically) using certain strategies. It has been beautifully illustrated by @jordancollver.bsky.social (in collab with @rikworth.bsky.social) and can be downloaded as a PDF here:
livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/3194747/
livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/3194747/
November 24, 2025 at 1:39 PM
I was so pleased JC brought me in on this project.
If you write or are a journalist or do any kind of storytelling (science or not) I highly recommend checking this out. There is so much in the about mechanics and risk/benefits of how you connect to audiences.
If you write or are a journalist or do any kind of storytelling (science or not) I highly recommend checking this out. There is so much in the about mechanics and risk/benefits of how you connect to audiences.
What I don’t quite understand is why if billionaire tax goes up by 2% they’re so quick to admit “well, I don’t need the remaining 98% of what was already pocketing”.
It’s not a matter of profit for them. The profit is meaningless, obviously. It’s the principle that they should be beyond us mortals.
It’s not a matter of profit for them. The profit is meaningless, obviously. It’s the principle that they should be beyond us mortals.
Steel billionaire latest to leave UK ahead of proposed tax squeeze on the ultra-rich
Steel billionaire latest to leave UK ahead of proposed tax squeeze on the ultra-rich
Steel billionaire latest to leave UK ahead of proposed tax squeeze on the ultra-rich
www.independent.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 10:09 AM
What I don’t quite understand is why if billionaire tax goes up by 2% they’re so quick to admit “well, I don’t need the remaining 98% of what was already pocketing”.
It’s not a matter of profit for them. The profit is meaningless, obviously. It’s the principle that they should be beyond us mortals.
It’s not a matter of profit for them. The profit is meaningless, obviously. It’s the principle that they should be beyond us mortals.
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Reposting my take on Beorn n' Bilbo
November 23, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Reposting my take on Beorn n' Bilbo
I had to buy a new 1818 Frankestein and it was surprising difficult.
Why do publishers think a dumbass Netflix sticker that ruins a cover is going to improve sales of Frankenstein?
Frankenstein.
Not exactly a self-published, cult-classic scrambling for a audience.
Why do publishers think a dumbass Netflix sticker that ruins a cover is going to improve sales of Frankenstein?
Frankenstein.
Not exactly a self-published, cult-classic scrambling for a audience.
November 23, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I had to buy a new 1818 Frankestein and it was surprising difficult.
Why do publishers think a dumbass Netflix sticker that ruins a cover is going to improve sales of Frankenstein?
Frankenstein.
Not exactly a self-published, cult-classic scrambling for a audience.
Why do publishers think a dumbass Netflix sticker that ruins a cover is going to improve sales of Frankenstein?
Frankenstein.
Not exactly a self-published, cult-classic scrambling for a audience.
What fictional creature/villain traumatized you as a child?
November 23, 2025 at 5:28 PM
What fictional creature/villain traumatized you as a child?
I have been referred to as Unc more than once in work and I do not know how to feel about it?
I cannot decipher if it’s respectful, teasing or both.
I cannot decipher if it’s respectful, teasing or both.
November 23, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I have been referred to as Unc more than once in work and I do not know how to feel about it?
I cannot decipher if it’s respectful, teasing or both.
I cannot decipher if it’s respectful, teasing or both.
This is generally good advice.
Also worth remember the banality of evil. I assume the wealthy and well connected have reasons to speak to others beyond sex trafficking?
Also worth remember the banality of evil. I assume the wealthy and well connected have reasons to speak to others beyond sex trafficking?
No gods, no masters.
Including the people who tell you "no gods, no masters."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Including the people who tell you "no gods, no masters."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Chomsky had deeper ties with Epstein than previously known, documents reveal
The philosopher and the sex trafficker were in contact long after Epstein was convicted of soliciting prostitution from a minor, documents reveal
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:54 PM
This is generally good advice.
Also worth remember the banality of evil. I assume the wealthy and well connected have reasons to speak to others beyond sex trafficking?
Also worth remember the banality of evil. I assume the wealthy and well connected have reasons to speak to others beyond sex trafficking?