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Neil Davies Illustration @neildaviesart.bsky.social · Nov 18

Hi Bluesky! I'm a freelance illustrator, currently wondering what sort of art to do next, here are a bunch of my alternative poster designs (which I'll probably add to in the future) 😁

#art #illustration #posterart

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Robert Llewellyn @bobbyllew.bsky.social · 2h

Useful comparison

A graphic showing the enormous improvements since the launch of the original Nissan Leaf 14 years ago the new one goes four times further charges three times faster has two times more power and is 36% cheaper than the original

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Neil Davies Illustration @neildaviesart.bsky.social · 2h

Can't be many songs that can do this:
youtu.be/cZnBNuqqz5g?...

Green Day Crowd Singing Bohemian Rhapsody [Live in Hyde Park 2017]

YouTube video by Green Day

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Neil Davies Illustration @neildaviesart.bsky.social · 4h

I mean... they couldn't say "WE ARE FASCISTS" more clearly

How has it come to this

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14h

From Donald Trump's Roundtable on Antifa just now —
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."
— special guest Jack Posobiec

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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 5h

A couple of weeks ago I heard an Israeli Govt spokesperson on Piers Morgan’s show…

He said Israel had killed 20,000 Hamas terrorists

This week we learn:

18,457 children confirmed dead

55,000 children acutely malnourished

So a war on children as much as a war on Hamas.

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Neil Davies Illustration @neildaviesart.bsky.social · 5h

Every day is one day closer to when they start indiscriminately murdering US citizens in the streets. They are literally promising to do it.

darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 11h

"we are going to murder americans without due process"
~pam bondi, US attorney general

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14h

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 10h

Thread on white power dickheads trying to start riots in disguise, because their narrative is empty bullshit.

Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 15h

🧵 Trump is criminally invading states under false pretenses. His supporters are trying to instigate violence by dressing as antifa and committing crimes.

In this clip from Portland, Joey Gibson of "Patriot Prayer" and his fiancée, Lindsey Nichols, tried to cause trouble before being forced away.

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Neil Davies Illustration @neildaviesart.bsky.social · 5h

JFC

The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 10h

Losing my mind and what look like video game assets but instead were used to justify war crimes and genocide in the real world

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war.Our analysis of 43 official IDF videos found recycled 3D environments, spatial inaccuracies, and assets lifted from unrelated artists and institutions.We traced over 30 unique assets to Washington-based 3D creator Ian Hubert, who makes bespoke models created for his sci-fi project Dynamo Dream, available to his Patreon subscribers.

Models of parking lots, antennas, + pipes were repurposed as Hamas and Iranian military sites

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Fascinating work here tracing how the IDF recycled 3D assets from a cyberpunk sci-fi art project, the Scottish Maritime Museum and elsewhere to populate its widely-seen models of supposed enemy locations in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran. One of the most infamous, the alleged underground Hamas command center at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, used to justify an unprecedented assault on the biggest medical center in Gaza, was actually an animation the IDF had used the previous year, saying at the time it was a tunnel beneath a UN school.

Neil Davies Illustration @neildaviesart.bsky.social · 12h

Will some journalist, ANY journalist, just call him on this bullshit? Is there anyone left with a spine?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Neil Davies Illustration @neildaviesart.bsky.social · 13h

*Eternal Screaming*

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

Neil Davies Illustration @neildaviesart.bsky.social · 15h

Fucking hell how spot on is this

MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 5d

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat.
People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

Neil Davies Illustration @neildaviesart.bsky.social · 16h

Brilliant by @theculturaltutor.bsky.social :

youtu.be/tWYxrowovts?...

How Did The World Get So Ugly?

YouTube video by The Cultural Tutor | Sheehan Quirke

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 1d

A bubble so large you can see it from space and it's going to fuck all of us.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 1d

Lords Heseltine & Kinnock seem more alive to these self-evident truths than most members of the Commons. Similarly, I find thinkers with direct lived experience of far right dictatorship, Greeks of a certain age for example, crystal clear about what’s happening now.

BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 1d

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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Michael Maycabre 🎃 @michaelmay.bsky.social · 1d

How to tell if it's okay to go downstairs

thatsbelievable.com/post/7960690...

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Neil Davies Illustration @neildaviesart.bsky.social · 1d

Same

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

glad to be born at a time when i got to see what life was like before the internet and will be dead before AI completely destroys humanity

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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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Neil Davies Illustration @neildaviesart.bsky.social · 1d

Jenrick's comment about "not seeing a white face" is a premeditated lie of course, with the prepared defence of "I meant there should be more integration" when charged with using a racist dogwhitle. But he's signaling to racists that he's their man. Idiotic of course.

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

The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth

Neil Davies Illustration @neildaviesart.bsky.social · 1d

Extraordinary

Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 1d

He’s seen the photos, she’s seen the photos, and there’s nothing else she can do or say. This is textbook, “I will never ask you a question I don’t already know the answer to.”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

NOTABLE -- Pam Bondi refuses to answer direct questions about if the FBI has incriminating photos of Trump with half-naked young women, but instead deflects from them by attacking Sen. Whitehouse

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 1d

IN HONOR OF FRIENDSHIP MONTH:

djt: "We have certain things in common, Jeffrey."

Epstein: "Yes we do, come to think of it."

djt: "A pal is a wonderful thing. Happy Birthday- and may every day be another wonderful secret."

And by "wonderful secret", he means raping children.

#PedoPrez

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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈 @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 1d

vote green.

David Lammy, the deputy prime minister and justice secretary, suggested Jenrick was judging people based on the colour of their skin, while Mel Stride, the shadow chancellor, broke ranks by saying the remarks were "not words that I would have used". Zack Polanski, the Green party leader, said it was racism.

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nicola @gleanniucha.bsky.social · 1d

Please, if good television matters to you, repost or repackage this video until everyone you follow has seen it

#televisionmatters

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Neil Davies Illustration @neildaviesart.bsky.social · 1d

He'll probably be Tory leader at the next election, so hopefully him and Farage will desperately try to out-bigot each other and turn everyone bar the real racists away.

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 1d

I suspect when Jenrick imagined saying the final words "let's build this new order, let's take our country back," his voice BOOMED and the roar of the crowd was DEAFENING. In the event, his voice cracked and was met with the politeness of a local baking contest won by "a not-bad lemon drizzle". ~AA

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 2d

A crucial turning point.
Time to get on board, Keir
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2rz08en2po

Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity

Developing countries lead the historic clean energy charge but the US and EU rely more on fossil fuels than before, a think tank study shows.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Neil Davies Illustration @neildaviesart.bsky.social · 2d

Anyone else had the Photoshop issue where all the tool icons disappear?

Neil Davies Illustration @neildaviesart.bsky.social · 2d

I do love this subject. Whenever Sean or @philipgoff.bsky.social or others discuss it I really enjoy the debate. Always makes you think!

Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 2d

Mindscape 331 | Solo: Fine-Tuning, God, and the Multiverse. In which I shamelessly steal material from the #PhilosophyOfCosmology course I am teaching to talk about some big questions. #MindscapePodcast

www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...

Title card for Mindscape Podcast episode on Fine-Tuning, God, and the Multiverse.