Rainbow is still not tall, dark or handsome, unfortunately

Either the guy sitting in front of me is a heavy smoker or he has an open fire at home. Absolutely honks of smoke. Can smell it clearly even through my mask.

#QueerPrompts October 26: National Transgender Children Day & Intersex Awareness Day: Intersex or trans youth rep

All aboard the TrainTok trend: spotters and staff boost rail content online

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

I just don’t understand how MPs are able to claim their utility bills as expenses. In what way is your use of water at home an expense related to your job?

#QueerPrompts October 25: Asexual Awareness Week Begins & International Artist Day: Ace rep or art share

I've saved them the trouble and blocked them first. I use AI to illustrate my characters because I write better than I draw. So AI takes my words and turns them into images. I write all my own words, complete with grammar, spelling and syntax errors.

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None of them would fit in a horror movie.

Adult? Well, they all had to grow up before their time.

He may go out in it on foot. Or he may use the sight of his windblown garden for inspiration.

The Creator is a bit of a slob. Old clothes, grubby, snacking rather than eating proper meals. The stubble becomes a beard. Eats when hungry, sleeps when tired.

Oh my giddy aunt. So much done today!

#QueerPrompts October 23: Free Friday or spooky reading recs

Nationalise utilities immediately with no recompense to shareholders. They've made their pile. They don't deserve any more of our money for doing nothing to improve services.

Britons should use money we haven't got to buy food the country doesn't grow, store it in homes that don't exist, in spare rooms that got taxed away, so we can survive when reservoirs nobody built run dry because of a climate the govt won't protect. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

It struck me that almost every seemingly intractable problem on today's front pages could be substantially alleviated simply by taxing the extraordinarily wealthy people and corporations whose greed, short-termism and pursuit of power we protect at the expense of almost everything else.

The Creator would like the peace but prefers his mod cons. The Writer wouldn't like it, the Seeker would find it brought back memories of being unhoused.

The Creator would do a lot for a stock of his favourite paints and brushes maybe also gardening tools.

Astronomers challenge dating of Van Gogh’s Starry Night

The Creator - being left alone or willfully ignored by someone The Writer - intolerance The Seeker - losing someone (else)

I could be any of them on any given day. The Creator wears premium affordable brands like Polo Ralph Lauren and Hilfiger. The Writer wears combats, cargoes, mens tees, spiky hair and an attitude. The Seeker wears jeans, tops borrowed from his bandmates and second hand sneakers.

The Creator for the Seeker. The Writer for the Creator. The Seeker - at times - for the Writer.

No. The water company needs to be legally required to invest in the infrastructure to clean it up. The wealthy shareholders have made their pile. "The value of your investment may go down as well as up." Not always up and up. Even a balloon has to come down sometime.

Please treat the Seeker gently. He's a very fragile and vulnerable young man.

No, although all of them are happy to provide them on request.

Italy, Spain, Belgium, Portugal: Social unrest spreads across Europe amid soaring energy prices and a housing crisis

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Least favourite part - spotting the mistakes I failed to spot before I published. Favourite part - publishing a new part.

The new InPost lockers in the village are online! I repeat. The new InPost lockers in the village are online! *very happy dance*

When a new piece comes together.

The Writer would. Her sense of direction is nonexistent.

It's a great idea but who will enforce it on buses or trains? There are no conductors or guards any more. They'd be the staff chucking the antisocial gits off, or enforcing compliance, after all. www.samsung-news.com/articles/AVw...

The Seeker can go to the studio.

What's happening in France is hard to justify but easy to understand. In 1981 the UK had riots because 1 in 10 were unemployed and couldn't afford to eat. In 2026, 1 in 5 are IN WORK and can't afford to eat. What happens when AI doubles that number? What levels of policing will control it?

My latest books cartoon for the @theguardian.com

Various people I've met and places I've been.

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At 25, you might dream of studying in Rome. At 45, you might discover a business opportunity in Berlin. At 65, you might want to retire in Spain. Freedom of Movement meant you didn't have to know your future in advance. That's the extraordinary freedom Brexit took away.

The Creator is the only one who really buys into Halloween. He carves a pumpkin then offers it to charity or a local communitu kitchen afterwards. No parties but he always gives candy to the local school to be distributed to the kids.

#QueerPrompts October 18: Do any of your characters like being scared?

The Creator is sketching it. The Writer is kicking it all over the place. The Seeker is remonstrating with her as he was eying it up for warmth.

A hotel bar should not be a sports bar. It's rowdy as heck in here and half the menu has run out. Someone made an almighty blx of the food ordering for this weekend as there was no breakfast left this morning either.

I give up. Elderly Brit in Sweden fears being kicked out of Sweden. Baby Brit in Thailand has the opposite issue and is not being let in. Afro Caribbean prisoners plaque stolen. Barring and stealing. Great.

I think I need to realign my priorities. No one else in this pit seems to care, so I should stop expecting them to.

@actualnames.bsky.social TIL that there is a place in Scotland called Drymen.

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Surviving is stressful for the Writer.

Lots of bad luck and cussing. No curses.