Mike Smith
@blogshank.bsky.social
Illustrator, author of The Hundred Decker Bus and others. Founded The Procrastination Society in 1988 (inaugural meeting date TBC)
Reposted by Mike Smith
Happy 40th birthday to Bill Waterson’s ‘Calvin and Hobbes’. A work of consummate, stubborn, human, and more-than-human art.
November 18, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Happy 40th birthday to Bill Waterson’s ‘Calvin and Hobbes’. A work of consummate, stubborn, human, and more-than-human art.
Reposted by Mike Smith
I do not understand authors, broadcasters, voice artists, YouTubers, ANY creative artists using quick and cheap AI for their cover images and not realising: it will be you next.
November 18, 2025 at 8:11 AM
I do not understand authors, broadcasters, voice artists, YouTubers, ANY creative artists using quick and cheap AI for their cover images and not realising: it will be you next.
Reposted by Mike Smith
Is the Telegraph finally acknowledging that Thatcher wrecked British society?
November 14, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Is the Telegraph finally acknowledging that Thatcher wrecked British society?
Reposted by Mike Smith
If we're talking about bias, why do BBC politics programmes, from Politics Live to the Laura Kuennsberg Show, still always begin with a look at the newspaper front pages, which are overwhelmingly biased in one direction. Helps frame the entire news agenda and debate in their favour
November 11, 2025 at 1:09 PM
If we're talking about bias, why do BBC politics programmes, from Politics Live to the Laura Kuennsberg Show, still always begin with a look at the newspaper front pages, which are overwhelmingly biased in one direction. Helps frame the entire news agenda and debate in their favour
Reposted by Mike Smith
Reposted by Mike Smith
Dutch libraries have invented an AI chatbot that can recommend books to you
You know what else can recommend books to you
~a fucking librarian~
You know what else can recommend books to you
~a fucking librarian~
October 27, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Dutch libraries have invented an AI chatbot that can recommend books to you
You know what else can recommend books to you
~a fucking librarian~
You know what else can recommend books to you
~a fucking librarian~
I've never had a good experience with any Microsoft software.
October 23, 2025 at 7:10 PM
I've never had a good experience with any Microsoft software.
Reposted by Mike Smith
The bus-stop (1956)
(Vignette from ‘Tootles the Taxi’)
Artist: John Kenney
(Vignette from ‘Tootles the Taxi’)
Artist: John Kenney
October 20, 2025 at 7:17 AM
The bus-stop (1956)
(Vignette from ‘Tootles the Taxi’)
Artist: John Kenney
(Vignette from ‘Tootles the Taxi’)
Artist: John Kenney
Reposted by Mike Smith
From Facebook.
I was thirty when I first accessed the Internet, forty when I first had a smartphone and Social Media. And both were such incredible discoveries, making life easier, and adding friends, and communities, and insights, and learning, and information, from all over the world...
I was thirty when I first accessed the Internet, forty when I first had a smartphone and Social Media. And both were such incredible discoveries, making life easier, and adding friends, and communities, and insights, and learning, and information, from all over the world...
October 22, 2025 at 6:20 AM
From Facebook.
I was thirty when I first accessed the Internet, forty when I first had a smartphone and Social Media. And both were such incredible discoveries, making life easier, and adding friends, and communities, and insights, and learning, and information, from all over the world...
I was thirty when I first accessed the Internet, forty when I first had a smartphone and Social Media. And both were such incredible discoveries, making life easier, and adding friends, and communities, and insights, and learning, and information, from all over the world...
Reposted by Mike Smith
If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.
October 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.
Reposted by Mike Smith
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.
Reposted by Mike Smith
I still don’t understand why Boris Johnson isn’t in prison meanwhile a national newspaper still thinks it appropriate to employ him to apply posh boy humour against people rightfully protesting genocide . The moral depravity of the man & our media on full display.
“Dishcloths”?
Boris Johnson was always an arrant racist.
Boris Johnson was always an arrant racist.
October 4, 2025 at 8:15 AM
I still don’t understand why Boris Johnson isn’t in prison meanwhile a national newspaper still thinks it appropriate to employ him to apply posh boy humour against people rightfully protesting genocide . The moral depravity of the man & our media on full display.
Reposted by Mike Smith
Sky News and the BBC repeatedly mention the "migrant crisis" in doing so they are normalising and legitimising far right talking points. There is no "migrant crisis", there is only migrant hysteria, which the British media is feeding into instead of countering.
September 27, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Sky News and the BBC repeatedly mention the "migrant crisis" in doing so they are normalising and legitimising far right talking points. There is no "migrant crisis", there is only migrant hysteria, which the British media is feeding into instead of countering.
Reposted by Mike Smith
New post: Farage and the BBC
mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/09/fara...
On Monday 22nd September I watched a party political broadcast on behalf of Nigel Farage’s Reform Party. It was on the BBC, and it was entitled ‘News at Ten’.
mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/09/fara...
On Monday 22nd September I watched a party political broadcast on behalf of Nigel Farage’s Reform Party. It was on the BBC, and it was entitled ‘News at Ten’.
Farage and the BBC
On Monday 22nd September I watched a party political broadcast on behalf of Nigel Farage’s Reform Party. It was on the BBC, and it was en...
mainlymacro.blogspot.com
September 24, 2025 at 8:13 AM
New post: Farage and the BBC
mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/09/fara...
On Monday 22nd September I watched a party political broadcast on behalf of Nigel Farage’s Reform Party. It was on the BBC, and it was entitled ‘News at Ten’.
mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/09/fara...
On Monday 22nd September I watched a party political broadcast on behalf of Nigel Farage’s Reform Party. It was on the BBC, and it was entitled ‘News at Ten’.
Reposted by Mike Smith
'Join us later on BBC News when I'll be thoroughly grilling Ed Davey on the costings of Lib Dem policies, but first here's a slavish acceptance of the latest Reform press release.'
September 22, 2025 at 7:56 AM
'Join us later on BBC News when I'll be thoroughly grilling Ed Davey on the costings of Lib Dem policies, but first here's a slavish acceptance of the latest Reform press release.'
Reposted by Mike Smith
The main story on BBC 6 Music News this morning is that a ‘boat carrying migrants is on its way to France’
Delivered in the same upbeat tone as England winning the women’s Euros.
The migration ‘debate’ in this country is unmoored from reality, and the media-political complex is feeding it
Delivered in the same upbeat tone as England winning the women’s Euros.
The migration ‘debate’ in this country is unmoored from reality, and the media-political complex is feeding it
September 19, 2025 at 6:32 AM
The main story on BBC 6 Music News this morning is that a ‘boat carrying migrants is on its way to France’
Delivered in the same upbeat tone as England winning the women’s Euros.
The migration ‘debate’ in this country is unmoored from reality, and the media-political complex is feeding it
Delivered in the same upbeat tone as England winning the women’s Euros.
The migration ‘debate’ in this country is unmoored from reality, and the media-political complex is feeding it
Reposted by Mike Smith
so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining
September 17, 2025 at 11:10 PM
so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining
Reposted by Mike Smith
You know, for those of us who grew up watching this - on Saturday afternoon TV in the 70s and 80s - well, this is Robert Redford now, then and always will be.
two men are laying on the ground and looking at each other
ALT: two men are laying on the ground and looking at each other
media.tenor.com
September 16, 2025 at 1:45 PM
You know, for those of us who grew up watching this - on Saturday afternoon TV in the 70s and 80s - well, this is Robert Redford now, then and always will be.
Reposted by Mike Smith
The leading, indispensable accomplice to this world historic evil will tomorrow be given all the honours of a state visit to the UK by one of the other key accomplices.
I know that reads as somewhat polemical but it really is just a bald statement of fact.
I know that reads as somewhat polemical but it really is just a bald statement of fact.
September 16, 2025 at 7:38 AM
The leading, indispensable accomplice to this world historic evil will tomorrow be given all the honours of a state visit to the UK by one of the other key accomplices.
I know that reads as somewhat polemical but it really is just a bald statement of fact.
I know that reads as somewhat polemical but it really is just a bald statement of fact.
Reposted by Mike Smith
Given the context and the crowd, despite Musk’s weasel words, this was a call for violence against the British state, from a foreign national who controls a major propaganda engine, and has engineered it to monetise hate
September 13, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Given the context and the crowd, despite Musk’s weasel words, this was a call for violence against the British state, from a foreign national who controls a major propaganda engine, and has engineered it to monetise hate
Reposted by Mike Smith
I think today has demonstrated that, if anyone thinks the media is not the driving force behind the rise of fascism in the UK, they are either dishonest and culpable themselves or total deludinoids.
100,000 trans people: crickets
100,000 fascists: max publicity.
100,000 trans people: crickets
100,000 fascists: max publicity.
September 13, 2025 at 9:44 PM
I think today has demonstrated that, if anyone thinks the media is not the driving force behind the rise of fascism in the UK, they are either dishonest and culpable themselves or total deludinoids.
100,000 trans people: crickets
100,000 fascists: max publicity.
100,000 trans people: crickets
100,000 fascists: max publicity.
Reposted by Mike Smith
Don’t whitewash genocide.
Collective punishment is a war crime and a key tactic in Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
1/3🧵
Collective punishment is a war crime and a key tactic in Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
1/3🧵
![Photo of Keir Starmer and Israeli President Isaac Herzog shaking hands outside Number 10 Downing Street on 10th September with a quote from Herzog from 12th October 2023 which says: “The entire [Palestinian] nation out there … is responsible. It is not true this rhetoric about civilians not aware, not involved.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:swklcpa5n3k32kixcdzomebs/bafkreiackyeoyakgopicb2hglsosy2iptxc7ai35flttnoowqf2tdewh2q@jpeg)
September 11, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Don’t whitewash genocide.
Collective punishment is a war crime and a key tactic in Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
1/3🧵
Collective punishment is a war crime and a key tactic in Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
1/3🧵
Reposted by Mike Smith
You guys put podcast hosts in charge of the FBI and fired all the competent agents because you thought they were woke.
September 11, 2025 at 3:04 AM
You guys put podcast hosts in charge of the FBI and fired all the competent agents because you thought they were woke.
Reposted by Mike Smith
I cannot stomach this ongoing pattern of women, especially working class women and WOC, facing consequences for corruption, and rich white men who have been born with only the best untarnished silver crockery rammed into every orifice prancing away scot-free.
September 5, 2025 at 11:25 AM
I cannot stomach this ongoing pattern of women, especially working class women and WOC, facing consequences for corruption, and rich white men who have been born with only the best untarnished silver crockery rammed into every orifice prancing away scot-free.
Reposted by Mike Smith
fundamentally the problem is that if you think "hotels are where I stay on holiday and I like being on holiday so living in a hotel must be fun and it's not fair others get to do it and not me" then you have the intellectual reasoning of a little child and it's going to be hard to engage with you
August 21, 2025 at 12:23 PM
fundamentally the problem is that if you think "hotels are where I stay on holiday and I like being on holiday so living in a hotel must be fun and it's not fair others get to do it and not me" then you have the intellectual reasoning of a little child and it's going to be hard to engage with you