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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

I'm never actually going to need to write another comment piece again am I?

The right wing shit rags are just going to keep recruiting for us.

Folks - want a better country?

Join.greenparty.org.uk

The party even more dangerous than Starmers labour - UK's answer to Putin's communists

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Fraser Campbell @fraserc69.bsky.social · 19h

Wow, if the Express are concerned about Putin's flatly obvious influence on a UK political party, can I suggest they look at a different party? You know, the one whose founders engineered a disastrous Brexit and whose former Welsh leader just got done for taking Russian bribes?

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

I'm never actually going to need to write another comment piece again am I?

The right wing shit rags are just going to keep recruiting for us.

Folks - want a better country?

Join.greenparty.org.uk

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John Lipponen 🇫🇮 🇦🇹 @lippoenen.bsky.social · 1d

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 21h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Fraser Campbell @fraserc69.bsky.social · 19h

I've been very quiet for a few years really. But the urge is taking me again! Gahh!

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Fraser Campbell @fraserc69.bsky.social · 19h

Working on the last three issues of a comic series and an outline for another!

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Fraser Campbell @fraserc69.bsky.social · 22h

Badenoch, like all privileged elitists with no business being in politics, hates the idea of an educated population.

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 23h

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 23h

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Corey Brotherson - ready for my close up--NOOO TOO CLOSE! @coreybrotherson.bsky.social · 22h

Hey kids!

Remember when the pandemic struck and eventually the (Tory) government told everyone to stay at home, and the arts and entertainment industries were one of the few things keeping everyone from pulling our own eyes out of our skulls from abject fear and boredom?

Remember that?

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 23h

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Fraser Campbell @fraserc69.bsky.social · 23h

At hospital for my regular check up. The only part of it I genuinely dread? Parking in their always mobbed tiny space car park. Any landing you walk away from, I suppose.

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Fraser Campbell @fraserc69.bsky.social · 23h

Yeah it’s pretty standard. Workplaces seem generally quite happy to continue to work people into serious illness and burnout.

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Fraser Campbell @fraserc69.bsky.social · 23h

Both lead to people just burning out, but that's rarely considered a factor, just bottom lines, be they profits or targets. Workplaces don't care about people in the main, and the care they do exhibit has been forced upon them by unions and laws created via union pressure.

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Fraser Campbell @fraserc69.bsky.social · 23h

For me it's a prevalent experience in most workplaces. Two major work cultures in play. Grind culture in private enterprise where doing more is seen as standard to get noticed/promoted (not necessarily doing good work) and in public services, where staffing is a joke so people have to take on more.

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Fraser Campbell @fraserc69.bsky.social · 1d

It's so moreish.

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Fraser Campbell @fraserc69.bsky.social · 1d

an elderly woman says it 's been 84 years ...

ALT: an elderly woman says it 's been 84 years ...

media.tenor.com

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ComicBuzz @comicbuzz.bsky.social · 1d

We want you!
#comics #comicbooks #movies #films #gaming #videogames

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Fraser Campbell @fraserc69.bsky.social · 1d

I look forward to being re-elected.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

Health Experts Recommend Standing Up At Desk, Leaving Office, Never Coming Back https://theonion.com/health-experts-recommend-standing-up-at-desk-leaving-o-1819577456/

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John Lees @johnlees.bsky.social · 1d

Anyone else been feeling like this a lot lately?

ORLA! #3, from me, @sallycantirino.bsky.social, @dearbhlala.bsky.social, letteringbear.bsky.social & @madcavestudios.com, is set for release on 22nd October.

Orla Bard, looking radiant, is in the midst of a transformation into monstrous alter ego The Ick, apparently struggling to hold it in, screaming, "NNNNG... FUCK OFF!!!!"

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John Lees @johnlees.bsky.social · 1d

Incredible! DAY ONE, and SINK: Halloween Special is already over 200% funded! Let's keep it going!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/com...

SINK: Halloween Special #1 | Crime Horror Deluxe Edition

It's HALLOWEEN night in Glasgow! Kids, crooks, clowns & killers collide in a terrifying new 48-page Glow-in-the-Dark one-shot!

www.kickstarter.com

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

The UAE is an authoritarian autocracy, a petro-state with no income tax for citizens, to bribe them for the lack of democratic voice or free speech

It is 85% migrant, a segregated society with a ban on integration in principle and practice, few rights, equal opportunities, nor voice for incomers

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Fraser Campbell @fraserc69.bsky.social · 1d

You mean you don’t want your home to look like this?

A small section of my comics room. My God, what has become of me?

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cpuk (trampoline park connoisseur and occasional comic printer) @comicprintinguk.bsky.social · 1d

People often ask me when the deadline for Thought Bubble is. And I tell them *aggressive hissing*. But if you would actually like to know it is 11am on November 6th for anything perfect bound (with a spine) and 11am on November 7th for anything stapled.

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Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 1d

Looking at you, Scotland. Also, have a look if you have not already, @zackpolanski.bsky.social !

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 2d

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 2d

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