Russell Hicks
@akage72.bsky.social
Up North. Stop motion, 2D animator. Having a go at comics. Autistic, ADHD.
Autobio webcomic
https://stargazinginthecity.wordpress.com/
Stop-mo Telly work
https://vimeo.com/11681775
2D animation work
https://vimeo.com/781060444
Autobio webcomic
https://stargazinginthecity.wordpress.com/
Stop-mo Telly work
https://vimeo.com/11681775
2D animation work
https://vimeo.com/781060444
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This from the latest @bylinetimes.bsky.social in an article by Mic Wright about a Spectator awards bash, where the key awards went to the most far right politicians to honour their racism & intolerance. And yet, there are Labour people attending, validating & normalising this far right publication…
November 21, 2025 at 5:21 PM
This from the latest @bylinetimes.bsky.social in an article by Mic Wright about a Spectator awards bash, where the key awards went to the most far right politicians to honour their racism & intolerance. And yet, there are Labour people attending, validating & normalising this far right publication…
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Zadie Smith.
November 12, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Zadie Smith.
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Closing for the day and even 1 online sale overnight would tip us past the rent line (and honestly no harm in 2 sales just to play it safe!)
littledeercomics.ie
littledeercomics.ie
November 11, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Closing for the day and even 1 online sale overnight would tip us past the rent line (and honestly no harm in 2 sales just to play it safe!)
littledeercomics.ie
littledeercomics.ie
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🎬 The arts aren’t a luxury - they’re an export.
At #Lab25, @aiannucci.bsky.social reminds us that the UK’s Creative Industries make up 6% of our economy and 7% of our workforce - the GDP equivalent of oil + car industries combined.
🎥 Watch more clips from the Creative UK Pavilion hubs.ly/Q03QVhV90
At #Lab25, @aiannucci.bsky.social reminds us that the UK’s Creative Industries make up 6% of our economy and 7% of our workforce - the GDP equivalent of oil + car industries combined.
🎥 Watch more clips from the Creative UK Pavilion hubs.ly/Q03QVhV90
November 5, 2025 at 4:58 PM
🎬 The arts aren’t a luxury - they’re an export.
At #Lab25, @aiannucci.bsky.social reminds us that the UK’s Creative Industries make up 6% of our economy and 7% of our workforce - the GDP equivalent of oil + car industries combined.
🎥 Watch more clips from the Creative UK Pavilion hubs.ly/Q03QVhV90
At #Lab25, @aiannucci.bsky.social reminds us that the UK’s Creative Industries make up 6% of our economy and 7% of our workforce - the GDP equivalent of oil + car industries combined.
🎥 Watch more clips from the Creative UK Pavilion hubs.ly/Q03QVhV90
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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.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
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
October 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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.
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Creative businesses and freelancers outside of London are in line for major government support to help them innovate, up-skill and attract private investment
https://downthetubes.net/six-uk-regions-receive-25-million-to-bolster-creative-industries/
https://downthetubes.net/six-uk-regions-receive-25-million-to-bolster-creative-industries/
October 3, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Creative businesses and freelancers outside of London are in line for major government support to help them innovate, up-skill and attract private investment
https://downthetubes.net/six-uk-regions-receive-25-million-to-bolster-creative-industries/
https://downthetubes.net/six-uk-regions-receive-25-million-to-bolster-creative-industries/
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Refugees are quite often a product of our arms industry - perhaps there should be a special tax on the arms industry to go towards expenses related to refugees ?
September 19, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Refugees are quite often a product of our arms industry - perhaps there should be a special tax on the arms industry to go towards expenses related to refugees ?
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With all the money being thrown at AI nonsense, it's worth sharing an appeal from genuine hand-crafted indie animation.
One6th need help to promote & distribute this fantastic short, based on a poem by Dean Atta. Please take a look & repost.
#StopMotionAnimation
www.indiegogo.com/projects/two...
One6th need help to promote & distribute this fantastic short, based on a poem by Dean Atta. Please take a look & repost.
#StopMotionAnimation
www.indiegogo.com/projects/two...
Two Black Boys in Paradise
We’ve made the film. Now we need your help to share its message of self-acceptance with the world. | Check out 'Two Black Boys in Paradise' on Indiegogo.
www.indiegogo.com
September 10, 2025 at 10:08 AM
With all the money being thrown at AI nonsense, it's worth sharing an appeal from genuine hand-crafted indie animation.
One6th need help to promote & distribute this fantastic short, based on a poem by Dean Atta. Please take a look & repost.
#StopMotionAnimation
www.indiegogo.com/projects/two...
One6th need help to promote & distribute this fantastic short, based on a poem by Dean Atta. Please take a look & repost.
#StopMotionAnimation
www.indiegogo.com/projects/two...
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From Washington Post to Manchester's @millmedia.bsky.social for new investigations editor Cameron Barr
Barr wants to help "restore and revive the kind of investigative accountability, tough minded, rigorous reporting that that we all need" pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/med...
Barr wants to help "restore and revive the kind of investigative accountability, tough minded, rigorous reporting that that we all need" pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/med...
September 4, 2025 at 8:00 AM
From Washington Post to Manchester's @millmedia.bsky.social for new investigations editor Cameron Barr
Barr wants to help "restore and revive the kind of investigative accountability, tough minded, rigorous reporting that that we all need" pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/med...
Barr wants to help "restore and revive the kind of investigative accountability, tough minded, rigorous reporting that that we all need" pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/med...
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This is utterly superb!
“Static images on a wall that appear #animated as Train moves.”
#Reddit
R\InterestingAF
#TrainSky
#Animation
“Static images on a wall that appear #animated as Train moves.”
R\InterestingAF
#TrainSky
#Animation
September 3, 2025 at 9:49 AM
This is utterly superb!
“Static images on a wall that appear #animated as Train moves.”
#Reddit
R\InterestingAF
#TrainSky
#Animation
“Static images on a wall that appear #animated as Train moves.”
R\InterestingAF
#TrainSky
#Animation
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If you can donate or share it would be most appreciated.
gofund.me/2d92938d
#filmmaker #filmproduction #shortfilm #gofundme #donate #creative #film #director #queer #neurodivergent #adhd #autism
gofund.me/2d92938d
#filmmaker #filmproduction #shortfilm #gofundme #donate #creative #film #director #queer #neurodivergent #adhd #autism
August 23, 2025 at 4:53 PM
If you can donate or share it would be most appreciated.
gofund.me/2d92938d
#filmmaker #filmproduction #shortfilm #gofundme #donate #creative #film #director #queer #neurodivergent #adhd #autism
gofund.me/2d92938d
#filmmaker #filmproduction #shortfilm #gofundme #donate #creative #film #director #queer #neurodivergent #adhd #autism
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A grassroots movement like Arts Emergency rarely lasts or grows as we have.Our work changes lives, but we rely on monthly donations.Those donations are down £50k since 2021. We've cut all we can, now we're appealing to you for £2/month to plug the gap & go on www.arts-emergency.org/donate%F0%9F...
June 5, 2025 at 11:23 AM
A grassroots movement like Arts Emergency rarely lasts or grows as we have.Our work changes lives, but we rely on monthly donations.Those donations are down £50k since 2021. We've cut all we can, now we're appealing to you for £2/month to plug the gap & go on www.arts-emergency.org/donate%F0%9F...
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BBC news currently has no article on this. According to organisers, it broke their own records by far and was the biggest trans rights events in the world.
Otoh the BBC does have coverage of far right anti-refugee protests which were much, much, smaller.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Otoh the BBC does have coverage of far right anti-refugee protests which were much, much, smaller.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
July 27, 2025 at 5:17 AM
BBC news currently has no article on this. According to organisers, it broke their own records by far and was the biggest trans rights events in the world.
Otoh the BBC does have coverage of far right anti-refugee protests which were much, much, smaller.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Otoh the BBC does have coverage of far right anti-refugee protests which were much, much, smaller.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Whole book “translated” for $100? You get what you pay for, and if you don’t understand what makes human translators valuable, maybe you don’t value the creative work that goes into the writing process either.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
AI translation service launched for fiction writers and publishers prompts dismay among translators
UK-based GlobeScribe is charging $100 per book, per language for use of its services, but translators say that nuanced work can only be produced by humans
www.theguardian.com
July 9, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Whole book “translated” for $100? You get what you pay for, and if you don’t understand what makes human translators valuable, maybe you don’t value the creative work that goes into the writing process either.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
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Recent reports show that Peter Thiel Guru Curtis Yarvin met with Labour Peer Lord Glasman and boasted about using the N word.
Why does this matter? Because Glasman claims to have a strong influence on the Prime Minister’s chief of staff Morgan McSweeney
Why does this matter? Because Glasman claims to have a strong influence on the Prime Minister’s chief of staff Morgan McSweeney
Blue Labour in the ‘MAGA Square’ – Byline Times Digital / Print Edition
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June 15, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Recent reports show that Peter Thiel Guru Curtis Yarvin met with Labour Peer Lord Glasman and boasted about using the N word.
Why does this matter? Because Glasman claims to have a strong influence on the Prime Minister’s chief of staff Morgan McSweeney
Why does this matter? Because Glasman claims to have a strong influence on the Prime Minister’s chief of staff Morgan McSweeney
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I've just realised I've topped 30K followers, thank you all, but as I'm poor I can only do a UK giveaway as a thank you
You have to like, and share this post and be following me to be in with a change to win one of two bear pins
No competition accounts and UK only, end midnight BST 8th June
You have to like, and share this post and be following me to be in with a change to win one of two bear pins
No competition accounts and UK only, end midnight BST 8th June
June 6, 2025 at 7:03 PM
I've just realised I've topped 30K followers, thank you all, but as I'm poor I can only do a UK giveaway as a thank you
You have to like, and share this post and be following me to be in with a change to win one of two bear pins
No competition accounts and UK only, end midnight BST 8th June
You have to like, and share this post and be following me to be in with a change to win one of two bear pins
No competition accounts and UK only, end midnight BST 8th June
And now, another blue drawing. Ongoing thing. Going to lie down now #indiecomic #drawing
June 4, 2025 at 11:30 AM
And now, another blue drawing. Ongoing thing. Going to lie down now #indiecomic #drawing
As a salve to my previous, money grubbing outburst, here's a picture of a little cat enjoying the sunset. #cats #pondering
June 4, 2025 at 10:11 AM
As a salve to my previous, money grubbing outburst, here's a picture of a little cat enjoying the sunset. #cats #pondering
No idea how much reach I'll get with this, but here goes! As I'm approaching the end of my treatment for the old 'Tiny Dancer' I'm up for getting back into the world of paid employment. I'm a long time (25yrs) stop motion animator and a keen 2d animator with some studio experience. /1
June 4, 2025 at 8:43 AM
No idea how much reach I'll get with this, but here goes! As I'm approaching the end of my treatment for the old 'Tiny Dancer' I'm up for getting back into the world of paid employment. I'm a long time (25yrs) stop motion animator and a keen 2d animator with some studio experience. /1
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Brilliant …https://youtube.com/watch?v=vG7CvbccdVM
Carole Cadwalladr - Broligarchs, AI, and a Techno-Authoritarian Surveillance State | The Daily Show
YouTube video by The Daily Show
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June 4, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Brilliant …https://youtube.com/watch?v=vG7CvbccdVM
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the smart toilet's number-two factor authentication is the real hassle
May 29, 2025 at 5:31 PM
the smart toilet's number-two factor authentication is the real hassle
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Not sure how to do this. My partner and light of 19 years, @mitzistarkweather.bsky.social has been diagnosed with metastatic (stage 4) breast cancer.
We are hopeful that modern treatment can give her many more years of changing the world.
If you’re able, we could use your help.
gofund.me/99a35bf2
We are hopeful that modern treatment can give her many more years of changing the world.
If you’re able, we could use your help.
gofund.me/99a35bf2
May 27, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Not sure how to do this. My partner and light of 19 years, @mitzistarkweather.bsky.social has been diagnosed with metastatic (stage 4) breast cancer.
We are hopeful that modern treatment can give her many more years of changing the world.
If you’re able, we could use your help.
gofund.me/99a35bf2
We are hopeful that modern treatment can give her many more years of changing the world.
If you’re able, we could use your help.
gofund.me/99a35bf2