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Director / Animation Generalist / Senior Lecturer
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Small boats: TV coverage - day after day after day after day....
PPE scandal: TV coverage - let's stick this powerful, enraging documentary on at quarter past ten on a Sunday night.
PPE scandal: TV coverage - let's stick this powerful, enraging documentary on at quarter past ten on a Sunday night.
The Covid Contracts: Follow the Money review – a devastating picture of the biggest spending scandal ever
This rigorous look at the Tories’ ‘VIP lane’ for PPE suppliers during Covid raises questions about the motivations of those involved – ones that are almost too disgusting to contemplate
www.theguardian.com
September 22, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Small boats: TV coverage - day after day after day after day....
PPE scandal: TV coverage - let's stick this powerful, enraging documentary on at quarter past ten on a Sunday night.
PPE scandal: TV coverage - let's stick this powerful, enraging documentary on at quarter past ten on a Sunday night.
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They lied about it. They misrepresented anecdotes, cherry-picked bad behaviour from unrepresentative individuals and whipped up a moral panic about a free speech crisis. The right invented McCarthyism: they invent whatever excuses they need
September 18, 2025 at 7:51 AM
They lied about it. They misrepresented anecdotes, cherry-picked bad behaviour from unrepresentative individuals and whipped up a moral panic about a free speech crisis. The right invented McCarthyism: they invent whatever excuses they need
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I really think it's important to constantly emphasise that Farage wants to help the Taliban murder and torture people.
August 23, 2025 at 11:53 AM
I really think it's important to constantly emphasise that Farage wants to help the Taliban murder and torture people.
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Anime was popular in the Soviet Union -- even Andrei Tarkovsky watched it. And animators in the USSR wanted to compete.
The recently restored Mystery of the Third Planet was an odd, wonderful attempt to do so. We explore its story: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/soviet-anime
The recently restored Mystery of the Third Planet was an odd, wonderful attempt to do so. We explore its story: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/soviet-anime
June 30, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Anime was popular in the Soviet Union -- even Andrei Tarkovsky watched it. And animators in the USSR wanted to compete.
The recently restored Mystery of the Third Planet was an odd, wonderful attempt to do so. We explore its story: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/soviet-anime
The recently restored Mystery of the Third Planet was an odd, wonderful attempt to do so. We explore its story: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/soviet-anime
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2000 years ago: the Romans would let an aqueduct destroy the Gardon Valley. We need clean water, but at what cost?
July 14, 2025 at 8:40 AM
2000 years ago: the Romans would let an aqueduct destroy the Gardon Valley. We need clean water, but at what cost?
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"This...waddya call it? Chat, er, Chat GPT? Am I getting that right? Jeez. My wife, she loves this tech stuff. Goes nuts for it. Me, I'm a little old fashioned I guess. Do you mind if I smoke? Boy, that's a lot of...you do have permission to use all this data, right? I'm sure you do. Just checking."
July 1, 2025 at 11:40 AM
"This...waddya call it? Chat, er, Chat GPT? Am I getting that right? Jeez. My wife, she loves this tech stuff. Goes nuts for it. Me, I'm a little old fashioned I guess. Do you mind if I smoke? Boy, that's a lot of...you do have permission to use all this data, right? I'm sure you do. Just checking."
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One of the great contests in world affairs is now between the attention span of the US president and the attention spans of those following the news.
June 24, 2025 at 7:23 AM
One of the great contests in world affairs is now between the attention span of the US president and the attention spans of those following the news.
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Plastic bag recycling bin it converses with a man
![Cartoon by Stephen Collins for the Guardian, here's the script:
[Scene is outside a SUPERMARKET with a SOFT PLASTICS RECYCLING BIN out the front. A MAN is approaching the bin with a bunch of plastic bags.]
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BIN [the bin is a talking bin]:
Hello sir
MAN:
Hi
2
MAN:
Will you recycle these plastic bags please?
3
BIN:
Well, I am a green bin!
4
MAN:
And you’ll recycle them?
BIN:
Well, I do have a recycling logo on me!
5
MAN:
Will you recycle all of them?
BIN:
Well, I will recycle some of your bags!
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MAN:
Will you recycle them.
BIN:
Well, I won't burn all of them Turkey!
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MAN:
That sounds like something you'd say if you were going to burn most of them in Turkey
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BIN:
I will recycle most of them in Turkey!
MAN:
Into what
BIN:
Energy!
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MAN:
Does that mean burning them in Turkey
BIN:
NOW LOOK HERE
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[The BIN has now sprouted ARMS and has aggressively grabbed the MAN by the shirt, pulling his face close]
BIN:
You're going to put them BAGS in my SLOT, right
MAN:
Oh my God you’ve got arms
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BIN:
Your gonna put them bags in my slot…
You're gonna feel good about it…
Then you're gonna go in that supermarket and SHOP.
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BIN:
Understood?
MAN:
How did you get arms](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreihswcus3pthx5beoiq4m5c7fknrdn43t7b6q2sen2fuy3asftyknq@jpeg)
June 8, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Plastic bag recycling bin it converses with a man
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Men are extremely keen to explain to me that Britain *needs* a domestic steel production plant and doesn't necessarily *need* universities. Okay. Steel contributed about £1.7bn to the UK economy in 2024. Universities contributed more than £200bn.
May 29, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Men are extremely keen to explain to me that Britain *needs* a domestic steel production plant and doesn't necessarily *need* universities. Okay. Steel contributed about £1.7bn to the UK economy in 2024. Universities contributed more than £200bn.
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I've realised all my good male role models are Octonauts.
May 8, 2025 at 6:52 AM
I've realised all my good male role models are Octonauts.
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Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns
May 6, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns
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The Green Party don’t get as much media coverage as Reform because the continuation of civilised human life on the planet isn’t as interesting as cunts.
May 2, 2025 at 7:15 AM
The Green Party don’t get as much media coverage as Reform because the continuation of civilised human life on the planet isn’t as interesting as cunts.
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are you tired of hearing the most annoying, ill-informed, rumour mill takes on animation, film, and media in general?
do you wish you had SOMETHING to explain and debunk it all, made by industry pros??
WELL YOU GOT IT. AND IT'S SOOOO CLOSE TO BEING FUNDED.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/jel...
do you wish you had SOMETHING to explain and debunk it all, made by industry pros??
WELL YOU GOT IT. AND IT'S SOOOO CLOSE TO BEING FUNDED.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/jel...
May 1, 2025 at 4:11 AM
are you tired of hearing the most annoying, ill-informed, rumour mill takes on animation, film, and media in general?
do you wish you had SOMETHING to explain and debunk it all, made by industry pros??
WELL YOU GOT IT. AND IT'S SOOOO CLOSE TO BEING FUNDED.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/jel...
do you wish you had SOMETHING to explain and debunk it all, made by industry pros??
WELL YOU GOT IT. AND IT'S SOOOO CLOSE TO BEING FUNDED.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/jel...
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Feels like ‘the world’ is thanking the creative industries for entertaining them through the pandemic by hollowing them out
The TV & film industry is on its ass. Copyright is being sacrificed at the altar of AI. And the average wage hasn’t gone up in real terms in 15 years across the board.
The TV & film industry is on its ass. Copyright is being sacrificed at the altar of AI. And the average wage hasn’t gone up in real terms in 15 years across the board.
April 11, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Feels like ‘the world’ is thanking the creative industries for entertaining them through the pandemic by hollowing them out
The TV & film industry is on its ass. Copyright is being sacrificed at the altar of AI. And the average wage hasn’t gone up in real terms in 15 years across the board.
The TV & film industry is on its ass. Copyright is being sacrificed at the altar of AI. And the average wage hasn’t gone up in real terms in 15 years across the board.
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Castle in the Sky (1986, Miyazaki)
March 31, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Castle in the Sky (1986, Miyazaki)
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If anyone wants to actually learn how to paint a ghibli picture, I have a tutorial for beginners that’s only £1 🩵
tobyfoxart.gumroad.com/l/intro-to-d...
tobyfoxart.gumroad.com/l/intro-to-d...
Intro to digital painting - Ghibli-style landscapes
In this 36 page PDF you'll be guided through the process of painting digitally. This tutorial takes you from opening photoshop for the first time to creating a finished illustration. Tools and techniq...
tobyfoxart.gumroad.com
March 28, 2025 at 3:54 PM
If anyone wants to actually learn how to paint a ghibli picture, I have a tutorial for beginners that’s only £1 🩵
tobyfoxart.gumroad.com/l/intro-to-d...
tobyfoxart.gumroad.com/l/intro-to-d...
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Consistently abysmal to remember this is happening because a husk of a nepo baby couldn't stand to be shamed by a Black president being cooler than him and found tens of millions of Americans who agreed with him.
March 28, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Consistently abysmal to remember this is happening because a husk of a nepo baby couldn't stand to be shamed by a Black president being cooler than him and found tens of millions of Americans who agreed with him.
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CNBC is calling it the Tesla Chain Saw Massacre.
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March 12, 2025 at 6:14 PM
CNBC is calling it the Tesla Chain Saw Massacre.
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Ultraman throwing hands with some Kaiju 💥
March 9, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Ultraman throwing hands with some Kaiju 💥
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We are discussing Finnish politics at school today. So it's time to dust off my favourite political compass:
March 7, 2025 at 10:28 AM
We are discussing Finnish politics at school today. So it's time to dust off my favourite political compass:
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Two types of digital artists. I hope I can animate this stupid joke someday.
February 21, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Two types of digital artists. I hope I can animate this stupid joke someday.
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The Busy World of Doctor Who
February 15, 2025 at 8:27 AM
The Busy World of Doctor Who