Andrew Pope
@apope.bsky.social
Employee of the Month March 2018
Half of Belfast Comic Jam
Editor/Publisher at Local Colour Comics
localcolourcomics.bigcartel.com
Half of Belfast Comic Jam
Editor/Publisher at Local Colour Comics
localcolourcomics.bigcartel.com
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Andrew Pope
@apope.bsky.social
· Nov 25
Since I seem to be actually using this site I should probably introduce myself - I'm Andrew Pope, a cartoonist from Belfast. I'm 1/2 of monthly art night Belfast Comic Jam (with @oxeyedkathryn.bsky.social) & I currently run micropress outfit Local Colour Comics, putting out comics by myself & others
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Quake Brutalist Jam 3 is breathtakingly gorgeous and cleverly constructed. Incredible work by the team and in my opinion - worthy of joining the modding pantheon with Arcane Dimensions
And it's free, you can go play a standalone version, even if you don't own Quake:
www.slipseer.com/index.php?re...
And it's free, you can go play a standalone version, even if you don't own Quake:
www.slipseer.com/index.php?re...
January 4, 2026 at 8:51 PM
Quake Brutalist Jam 3 is breathtakingly gorgeous and cleverly constructed. Incredible work by the team and in my opinion - worthy of joining the modding pantheon with Arcane Dimensions
And it's free, you can go play a standalone version, even if you don't own Quake:
www.slipseer.com/index.php?re...
And it's free, you can go play a standalone version, even if you don't own Quake:
www.slipseer.com/index.php?re...
on repeat lately youtu.be/Hzr-0XIk0no
Matia Bazar - Vacanze Romane • TopPop
YouTube video by TopPop
youtu.be
January 2, 2026 at 12:27 PM
on repeat lately youtu.be/Hzr-0XIk0no
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And right on cue...NI reports another annual first for house price rises. Maybe someone should check how many SF and DUP MLAs own more than 1 property.
January 2, 2026 at 10:04 AM
And right on cue...NI reports another annual first for house price rises. Maybe someone should check how many SF and DUP MLAs own more than 1 property.
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The current big drama in the increasingly stupid western comic book world: DC released cult classic title Warlord on a (more expensive) paperstock that matches original newsprint, giving a more accurate coloring. Collectors are review bombing in outrage because they think glossy = more expensive.
December 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM
The current big drama in the increasingly stupid western comic book world: DC released cult classic title Warlord on a (more expensive) paperstock that matches original newsprint, giving a more accurate coloring. Collectors are review bombing in outrage because they think glossy = more expensive.
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Just a few days left❗️ and then no sales for quite a while I think.
All of my games and comics are on sale on my itch page as part of the Itchio Winter Sale.
Get them for 40-50% off until the end of the year!
itch.io/s/175955/emo...
Get them for 40-50% off until the end of the year!
itch.io/s/175955/emo...
Emo Sludge Winter Sale 2025 by Zach Hazard Vaupen // Emo Sludge
A bundle by Zach Hazard Vaupen // Emo Sludge, $40.00 for 6 games
itch.io
December 29, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Just a few days left❗️ and then no sales for quite a while I think.
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An important story from N. Ireland. UK Gov is choosing not to fund NI according to need.
Almost 10 x times as many people died on hospital waiting lists in 3 yrs in the North vs 30 yrs of conflict.
'Many people are spending their final days in pain & discomfort, without the treatment they need.'
Almost 10 x times as many people died on hospital waiting lists in 3 yrs in the North vs 30 yrs of conflict.
'Many people are spending their final days in pain & discomfort, without the treatment they need.'
‘Something has gone fundamentally wrong with health service’ as 32,000 die while on waiting lists since 2022
Figures revealing up to 32,000 people have died while waiting on procedures in Northern Ireland since 2022 are a sign that “something has gone fundamentally wrong” with our health service, an Oppositi...
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk
December 29, 2025 at 6:47 AM
An important story from N. Ireland. UK Gov is choosing not to fund NI according to need.
Almost 10 x times as many people died on hospital waiting lists in 3 yrs in the North vs 30 yrs of conflict.
'Many people are spending their final days in pain & discomfort, without the treatment they need.'
Almost 10 x times as many people died on hospital waiting lists in 3 yrs in the North vs 30 yrs of conflict.
'Many people are spending their final days in pain & discomfort, without the treatment they need.'
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Completely correct; O'Callaghan has in reality achieved the square root of fuck all but he's done a lot of anti-migrant rhetoric and inside baseball bullshit so that'll do I guess?
Also, "no obvious winners"? Catherine Connolly???
Also, "no obvious winners"? Catherine Connolly???
With my tinfoil hat on, I detect an effort to normalise talk on immigration that would have been considered extreme a few years ago. No mention of any achievements or the like, just wishy washy statements like "he hasn’t shied away from the thorny issue of immigration"
December 27, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Completely correct; O'Callaghan has in reality achieved the square root of fuck all but he's done a lot of anti-migrant rhetoric and inside baseball bullshit so that'll do I guess?
Also, "no obvious winners"? Catherine Connolly???
Also, "no obvious winners"? Catherine Connolly???
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another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
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That time of year again!
December 26, 2025 at 8:09 PM
That time of year again!
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Love these shots that make Pee Wee's Big Adventure look like the coolest 70s paranoid mystery
December 25, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Love these shots that make Pee Wee's Big Adventure look like the coolest 70s paranoid mystery
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The UK is effectively criminalising a sentence because has an Arabic word.
Intifada just means uprising. The Warsaw Uprising, for example, is just ‘Intifadat Warsaw’ in Arabic.
Our very identities are being effectively criminalised.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Intifada just means uprising. The Warsaw Uprising, for example, is just ‘Intifadat Warsaw’ in Arabic.
Our very identities are being effectively criminalised.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Police forces will make arrests over intifada chants
The Metropolitan and Greater Manchester forces say they will make arrests over 'globalise the intifada' chants.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 17, 2025 at 6:00 PM
The UK is effectively criminalising a sentence because has an Arabic word.
Intifada just means uprising. The Warsaw Uprising, for example, is just ‘Intifadat Warsaw’ in Arabic.
Our very identities are being effectively criminalised.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Intifada just means uprising. The Warsaw Uprising, for example, is just ‘Intifadat Warsaw’ in Arabic.
Our very identities are being effectively criminalised.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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This wonderful made video by Rón Maguire highlights how integral The Complex has been for DCAF's growth #SaveTheComplex
December 16, 2025 at 12:23 PM
This wonderful made video by Rón Maguire highlights how integral The Complex has been for DCAF's growth #SaveTheComplex
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The key facebook group which was helping narrow down a list of houses to attack and has been unrepentant in supporting the rioting is run by people from Ballymena.
It is still up and nobody behind it facing any charges, of course.
It is still up and nobody behind it facing any charges, of course.
During the racist rioting in Ballymena some politicians claimed the trouble was coming from outsiders. Odd how the addresses being listed in court for these cases are all of people from the Ballymena area.
December 16, 2025 at 11:35 AM
The key facebook group which was helping narrow down a list of houses to attack and has been unrepentant in supporting the rioting is run by people from Ballymena.
It is still up and nobody behind it facing any charges, of course.
It is still up and nobody behind it facing any charges, of course.
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A fascinating article about the attempted murder of the not-even-very-shocking game HORSES that gets at why it was deplatformed based on the same "rules" that no one in the industry remembered in the case of many other games.
aftermath.site/horses-indie...
aftermath.site/horses-indie...
Horses Is Tame
Horses, the indie game that is too scandalous for either Valve or Epic, is only beyond the pale if you're not familiar with any other art form.
aftermath.site
December 16, 2025 at 10:01 AM
A fascinating article about the attempted murder of the not-even-very-shocking game HORSES that gets at why it was deplatformed based on the same "rules" that no one in the industry remembered in the case of many other games.
aftermath.site/horses-indie...
aftermath.site/horses-indie...
Doing my annual thing of telling everyone I know to buy and play one particular PC indie game, in this case Metal Garden by @aleksandraht.bsky.social - a really fun, atmospheric little FPS with some great level design
December 14, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Doing my annual thing of telling everyone I know to buy and play one particular PC indie game, in this case Metal Garden by @aleksandraht.bsky.social - a really fun, atmospheric little FPS with some great level design
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I wonder if real Irish filmmakers know that Udárás na Gaeltachta are not only running a competition for “AI filmmaking”, but have decided to name it after “storytelling”. Ffs.
filmfreeway.com/AnTograScealai
filmfreeway.com/AnTograScealai
An Togra Scéalaí - Project Scéalaí
Tugaimid cuireadh duit iarratas a chur isteach ar an gcomórtas físeáin AI, an chéad cheann dá leithéid don Ghaeilge.
Fáiltímid roimh iarratais ó dhaoine 1...
filmfreeway.com
December 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I wonder if real Irish filmmakers know that Udárás na Gaeltachta are not only running a competition for “AI filmmaking”, but have decided to name it after “storytelling”. Ffs.
filmfreeway.com/AnTograScealai
filmfreeway.com/AnTograScealai
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What if instead of killing millions of people in pointless war we just kill the handful of guys constantly trying to force us into it
I stood at the grave of my great grandfather in Flanders. His grave is one of millions from WWI in Belgium alone. We must take the lessons from history and resist this march to mass slaughter and warmongering by the likes of Mark Rutte.
December 12, 2025 at 9:25 AM
What if instead of killing millions of people in pointless war we just kill the handful of guys constantly trying to force us into it
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Elon Musk is worse at hiding it but this is the problem with all billionaires: they are a threat to democratic governance. They have an insatiable need to own and control everything. If you want to be free you have to curb their power, and demand political leaders who understand that
Elon Musk is against the European Union being the European Union —he posted this after X (fka Twitter) was fined for violations of the EU’s Digital Services Act.
December 6, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Elon Musk is worse at hiding it but this is the problem with all billionaires: they are a threat to democratic governance. They have an insatiable need to own and control everything. If you want to be free you have to curb their power, and demand political leaders who understand that
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I dunno man the concept of actually owning something you pay for must be like a drug if you're under 30
Why do Gen Z have a growing appetite for retro tech?
Why do Gen Z have a growing appetite for retro tech?
Gen Z are going retro, with studies showing a resurgence in people buying tech in the modern age that can be dated back decades.
www.bbc.com
December 7, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I dunno man the concept of actually owning something you pay for must be like a drug if you're under 30
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can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
December 8, 2025 at 9:29 AM
can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
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This is such a powerful image
November 8, 2023 at 5:16 PM
This is such a powerful image
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This government loves to redo an independent reivew that was too independent and didn't produce the result they wanted
An independent taskforce *just* did a huge review of ADHD in England, and the conclusion was that it's "under-recognised, under-diagnosed and under-treated."
www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/re...
www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/re...
NHS England » Report of the independent ADHD Taskforce: Part 1
April 2025
www.england.nhs.uk
December 5, 2025 at 11:33 AM
This government loves to redo an independent reivew that was too independent and didn't produce the result they wanted
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Poster for 1980s re-release in Poland of the film, UN CHIEN ANDALOU (1929), directed by Luis Buñuel. Poster art by Wiesław Wałkuski (b. 1956).
December 4, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Poster for 1980s re-release in Poland of the film, UN CHIEN ANDALOU (1929), directed by Luis Buñuel. Poster art by Wiesław Wałkuski (b. 1956).
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