Joe B

Shame on the uk media

Every single non-disabled person who is supporting the PIP cuts should be handed a £15k “disability costs” bill each year and asked how they plan on paying it. Because people don’t really need benefits? You’ll be able to find £15k on top of rent, food, utilities and your summer holiday? Right?

🔴 REVEALED: Palantir led closed-door review of how MoD buys software The review was presented to defence minister Luke Pollard by Palantir UK boss Louis Mosley in Feb and has mostly been implemented None of this was made public New investigation🧵 democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-p...

‘Pure arrogance’: anger in Finland as Google illegally fells 250,000 trees for datacentre

The Govt claiming we must drill more fossil fuels so we can use the tax revenues to fund the green transition is about as logical as a doctor telling you to smoke 2 packs a day to raise the money for your lung transplant You don’t put out a fire by pouring on more fuel 🔥#Jackdaw

Reckless for the climate, useless for energy security this decision shows the UK is prepared to gamble with our future and it sends a message out globally that others can do the same 🔥🌍

It's nice, isn't it? The quiet

“WE ARE THUNDERWING!” #Transformers

"It is clear that Labour needs the Greens to keep them in check everyday to push them towards the real transformation this country needs." @zackpolanski.bsky.social reacts to the Prime Minister's speech at Labour conference.

There's a new Halloween Special next month from @2000ad.bsky.social and I won't lie... I mainly look forward to these for the next Thirteenth Floor instalment. They'll always be great. Plus, you know the rest will be entertaining too. Need more multi-part Thirteenth Floor stories, though

Foreign sec Ed Miliband tells people angered by Labour's past approach to Gaza: "We hear you. You were right." (It doesn't, of course, speak to those still concerned about the continued ban and mass arrests re. Palestine Action)

Me lately

Ok, an update on this. It's made. It works. Now I'd value your input on what people think it should actually DO. I currently have a shortlist of 3 ideas. Welcoming more! Would appreciate a boost from UK #comics folk to get this in front of as many people as possible. #indiecomics #webcomics

It's hard to read this as anything other than complaining bitterly about having to do one's job.

If every statement about Extinction Rebellion had opened with "Climate change is the single biggest issue facing humanity, and we understand why people have legitimate concerns the world isn't doing enough to tackle it…" this approach might be *faintly* defensible. But they didn't, and it isn't.

I want the Prime Minister to look into a TV camera and say the RNLI are heroes, that we do not change policy by street violence in this country, and that he expects any criminal action to face the full force of the law. That's it. That's all he has to do.

When I lived in the UK none of my concerns e.g. affordable housing, climate action, increases in welfare spending, scrapping tuition fees, an ethical foreign policy, were ever framed as legitimate concerns. lnstead I was routinely told to fuck off by most political parties for having such concerns.

Monday morning memorandum

Thank you Peter Cullen. You made countless lives better through being empathetic, kind, and awesome. RIP.

So the ultra-rich will continue to own our politics, and our country. Disappointing to say the least. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Amazing thread, and at its core is yet another example of why copyright should be modified back to people over corporations.

I have written to the Cabinet Secretary to seek assurances that the Prime Minister’s Chief of Staff, who was lobbying for the privatised water industry until recently, has had no involvement in talks about the future of Thames Water.

This is absolutely shocking. This is our fucking planet that we're treating like this, all for what? Shitty gen AI and a technofeudalist future? Fuck all of that into the sea, right now. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Super proud of this video. After 10+ years I finally started selling my comics to the public again, and you know what? It hasn't been all bad. Full story here: youtu.be/WrbTStuMuiw #comics #indiecomics #makingcomics #smallpressday

Leveson 2.

Megatron eBay auction is now live 🔥 www.ebay.co.uk/itm/32730245... Never done an auction so will see how it goes. Sb £2 (gbp) Shares very much appreciated ✨ #transformers

“Neither the Starmer government, nor Andy Burnham’s, can say it didn’t know”: former Green party leader @carolinelucas.bsky.social on the shocking climate reports the UK government didn't want you to see www.thenerve.news/p/caroline-l...

Which group of shitbags funded this?

If *you* want to pick up the DOPE MEAT Comics #SmallPressDay special edition then this is where to head 👇

1/ 🧵 It’s almost Small Press Day! 🎉 Here are some of the brilliant events happening this Saturday, 25 July, across the UK, Ireland and beyond. Whether you’re into comics, zines, workshops or creator signings, there’s something to discover👇

Summary of Cabinet Changes that doesn't require you to read a whole article behind a paywall :)

Without saying your age, what’s your favorite movie that came out when you were 18?

Ian Wright saying we shouldn’t forget the way the Iranian team and the Somali referee were treated. Correct.

you embarrassed me in front of vanessa

it looks like zendaya has a really long inspector gadget arm

The best edit I’ve seen in weeks, you absolutely have to turn the sound on for this one.

What Trump achieved is remarkable. Having previously been completely indifferent to the US football team, I felt the kind of relief when I saw they'd lost to Belgium as I normally feel when I wake up and see Reform have lost a by-election.

I have to say, it's making me feel a little insane hearing commentators say Ed Miliband shouldn't be chancellor because of his "ideological zeal" for Net Zero, in a week where temperatures are so extreme that my kids are being sent home early every day and it's regularly 30 degrees inside my house

When I won't shut up about Starmer's misuse of anti-terrorism powers setting up an awful future for us all? This. This is why.