Neal Curtis

RIP Tetsuya Chiba (Ashita no Joe). He was 87. news.web.nhk/newsweb/na/n...

This is such a fantastic photo: "The Witches' Tea Party" but I want to use it to explain the origin of the tall, pointy witches hat. The real story of this photo: These are residents at the Hospital of the Holy & Undivided Trinity: an almshouse in Castle Rising, Norfolk, England established 1610.

Remember that unprecedentedly large, mass lay-offs are the business model of AI companies. Their "value" lies in the assumption AI will replace human labour at a scale never seen before. Billions are invested solely on that premise.

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

In one day, two politicians - Bolsonaro in Brazil and Vucic in Serbia - with ties to Trump have lost surprise elections thanks to high turnout. The rise of the international far-right is not inevitable.

Your monthly reminder that if you're using ChatGPT to do your science, you're failing your colleagues, community, and all of us. Here, ChatGPT makes up data and presents it as the real thing — then apologizes when confronted.

Advert: What's stopping YOU getting the shingles vaccine? Me: $750, mate! #PublicHealthServiceMyArse

pretty clear evidence that republicans in the US losing any election going forward are going to always beg for a coup if they lose. lots of people will have to go to jail

me: mom, what was I like as a little girl? my mom (completely fucking braindead): hey alexa describe a human kid or something

They called the cops on this 3-year-old Black boy because he was kickin the white kids' ass on the soccer field.

They're still going after him. bylinetimes.com/2026/10/21/j...

Sunday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

On LinkedIn, someone just spoke about an "agentic credit card" that trawls the internet and makes purchases for you. Sounds better than Musk's idea of just giving your credit card to his AI, but my god! Anything to increase consumption.

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stumbled on a set of incredible 1970s illustrations in some government reports, so had to spend a day collecting them into a website to share with my friends on the computer: nickseaver.net/paperwork

Today, the Icelandic Comic Book Society held the award ceremony for our first ever National Comic Contest (for kids and teens). The the comics were fantastic, the turnout was great, folks were in good spirits and I'm thankful to everyone who took part. @atlathewriter.bsky.social

The next Nat/ACT/NZF government will apply a scorched earth approach to public services, institutions and assets, claiming that re-election indicates popular support for the social vandalism clearly on display in their first term. The next iteration will be our own little version of Trump 2. #NZpol

Grok fact-checks its master 👇🏽 👀

Comics & Rhetoric, Week 9: now in the middle of the semester, students are working on their Argument Comics and we are considering the boundaries of what we call "comics" and limits on what we can represent in them #comicsteaching

The Webb telescope sees tiny red dots everywhere. Astronomers can’t agree on what they are, but some believe they may be enormous stars with black holes inside.

The white supremacist and eugenicist that began the attack on Jason Arday is being platformed by Oxford University. This is the goal of Free Speech Unions.

We’re determined to change the story for brain tumour patients, working to increase national investment in research into brain tumours, improve outcomes and find a cure. This International Brain Tumour Awareness Week, share this post and help us spread the word. Together, we will find a cure 💛

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... The social contract was broken in U.K🇬🇧 in 2010 with austerity. The majority of ppl were not disgusted enough to fight against austerity - because it didn’t affect them. We have to all be ok- otherwise society will collapse. And this is exactly what’s happening.

A comic about whole-person health. #GraphicMedicine reasonstobecheerful.world/whole-person...

Composition for the opening spread (really just the right side page) for new chapter. Origin of the moon and how it shaped life on earth. 8x8 grid nestled in there with looping counterclockwise reading path (in red)! Onward! #Nostos #Unflattening 2

“Palantir cofounder and CEO Alex Karp states ‘AI will undermine the influence of highly educated, often female voters and give it to working class men. We have feminine energy running our cities and our courts,’ he complained.”

Fucking thank you @mohanjdutt.bsky.social

Every pronouncement from her only reveals how much she is swimming in a far-right discursive stew, and how idiotic that discourse is. The marginalised are the elite and black is now white.

Saturday! Signing copies of THE DISSIDENTS at Superscript Comics on Cleveland's west side. They have copies of my other books, too. Or bring your copies from home. I'll sign them all. AND I'll be ddoing free title page sketches. The fun starts at 2pm. #ClevelandComics #SuperscriptComics

"A.l. represents a vision of a near-total takeover of the country's economic, social & cognitive lives by tools engineered by just 5 companies, run by 5 particular people, several of whom are widely described as sociopaths." - #AI #DataCentres #nzpol www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/m...

It really knocks you on your ass when you realize the problem is that the fascists are largely made up of a bunch of grown men in arrested development who spend their adult lives playing pretend and making everyone miserable as they LARP through the world.

Great piece on why AI is not conscious, from people who really know what they’re talking about www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Purple-crowned Fairywren Purple-crowned fairywrens can be distinguished from other fairywrens in northern Australia by the presence of cheek patches (either black in males or reddish-chocolate in females) and the deep blue colour of their perky tails. 📸: @jeremyodonnellphotography

This is fantastic.

“Women having to protect themselves from men is nothing new…” Here’s how they used to do it… SOUND UP

Let's be very clear, it is Russia AND the US. They are in partnership and have formed the new Axis powers determined to end any trace of a social democratic project and post-war consensus. united24media.com/war-in-ukrai...

2006: omg new update dropped. Here are ten cool things you’ll want to turn on immediately. 2026: omg new update dropped. Here are ten things you’ll want to turn off immediately.

As I have been saying for who knows how long Climate breakdown is all-pervasive and will impact EVERY aspect of our lives and livelihoods www.theguardian.com/environment/...