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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· Mar 18
Pets Tell Tales: Ancient Egypt: Book 1
Get yours now:
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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: 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
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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.
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?
I was pretty certain the Kitty Genovese Syndrome had been debunked, and yet, here we are.
It’s a sign of how insane the news cycle is these days that this historic failure of government policy got just one day of news coverage this week.
Not saying that’s right or wrong, but it’s astonishing how quickly the agenda moves on these days.
Not saying that’s right or wrong, but it’s astonishing how quickly the agenda moves on these days.
BREAKING: UK’s response to Covid was “too little too late”. Acting faster could have saved 23,000 lives in England according to the public inquiry.
Boris Johnson presided over a “toxic, sexist, chaotic culture” in No10, where rule-breaking seriously undermined public confidence.
Boris Johnson presided over a “toxic, sexist, chaotic culture” in No10, where rule-breaking seriously undermined public confidence.
November 23, 2025 at 4:04 PM
I was pretty certain the Kitty Genovese Syndrome had been debunked, and yet, here we are.
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I genuinely hate having to plug my work on here. I would rather post my cartoons and drawings without a link to my website, but unfortunately social media is an important element of our business, so I have to do it. I do appreciate the reposts and thank you for the support since I came to Bluesky.
November 23, 2025 at 12:21 PM
I genuinely hate having to plug my work on here. I would rather post my cartoons and drawings without a link to my website, but unfortunately social media is an important element of our business, so I have to do it. I do appreciate the reposts and thank you for the support since I came to Bluesky.
Say what you want about the arc, but I got a twofer, Scarlet Spider and Kaine,
Great 90s designs.
Great 90s designs.
November 22, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Say what you want about the arc, but I got a twofer, Scarlet Spider and Kaine,
Great 90s designs.
Great 90s designs.
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Lads, please, the circus music is at an intolerable volume.
November 22, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Lads, please, the circus music is at an intolerable volume.
I don’t know if the Green Ranger was the badass because he looked so cool or he looked so cool because he was a badass.
P.S. The White Ranger, while having that cool black vest, is nowhere near as boss.
P.S. The White Ranger, while having that cool black vest, is nowhere near as boss.
November 22, 2025 at 7:37 PM
I don’t know if the Green Ranger was the badass because he looked so cool or he looked so cool because he was a badass.
P.S. The White Ranger, while having that cool black vest, is nowhere near as boss.
P.S. The White Ranger, while having that cool black vest, is nowhere near as boss.
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Should any of you be contemplating Christmas shopping for graphic novels, we have a cheat code for you! Here are the books of the year compiled by the experts at Gosh! Comics goshlondon.com/the-gosh-blo...
Gosh! Comics Best of 2025 - Adult
You've been asking, and we have answered! Once again, we merry Gosh! crew have trawled through the releases of 2025 to reel in our absolute faves from the past year. While we look into our crystal bal...
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November 22, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Should any of you be contemplating Christmas shopping for graphic novels, we have a cheat code for you! Here are the books of the year compiled by the experts at Gosh! Comics goshlondon.com/the-gosh-blo...
Deal still going!
I don’t usually share Black Friday deals because I’m not a yankee capitalist slave to Mammon but, Hocus Pocus is going cheap and I think it’s both A) normally a touch too expensive and B) occasionally needs a push since you can’t get it in bookshops.
www.vanishingincmagic.com/ebooks/hocus...
www.vanishingincmagic.com/ebooks/hocus...
Hocus Pocus
Professor Richard Wiseman welcomes you into a totally new world unlike anything else the magic community has ever seen with Hocus Pocus.
This...
www.vanishingincmagic.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Deal still going!
The Trump/Mamdani meeting is bizarre. I think the people pointing out Trump must like him are right.
My wife asked why it bothered me so much and half way into saying they are ideologically, diametrically opposed I realised Trump would need beliefs more complex than “me, me, me” for that to be true
My wife asked why it bothered me so much and half way into saying they are ideologically, diametrically opposed I realised Trump would need beliefs more complex than “me, me, me” for that to be true
November 21, 2025 at 11:01 PM
The Trump/Mamdani meeting is bizarre. I think the people pointing out Trump must like him are right.
My wife asked why it bothered me so much and half way into saying they are ideologically, diametrically opposed I realised Trump would need beliefs more complex than “me, me, me” for that to be true
My wife asked why it bothered me so much and half way into saying they are ideologically, diametrically opposed I realised Trump would need beliefs more complex than “me, me, me” for that to be true
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What is happening lol
November 21, 2025 at 10:42 PM
What is happening lol