Iain Clark
@iainjclarkart.com
(He/Him)
Fan artist / 6x Hugo loser / Designer of the 2024 Hugo Trophy. Vocal about diversity, inclusion, feminism, trans allyship; tell me if I get it wrong.
No AI art.
https://iainjclarkart.com
Fan artist / 6x Hugo loser / Designer of the 2024 Hugo Trophy. Vocal about diversity, inclusion, feminism, trans allyship; tell me if I get it wrong.
No AI art.
https://iainjclarkart.com
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Iain Clark
@iainjclarkart.com
· Nov 13
On gender
“Cis dude talks about gender” alert. I’ve been thinking a lot about gender recently. I mean a lot. This is not a coming out post. I’m still a straight cis dude. But the more…
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Some thoughts about gender. Be kind, it's sort of personal and very well meaning. iainjclarkart.com/2024/11/13/o...
Keir Starmer checks with a focus group before telling his kids it's time for bed. Fact.
January 3, 2026 at 9:57 PM
Keir Starmer checks with a focus group before telling his kids it's time for bed. Fact.
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I don't normally post doodles but I thought this Andrew Garfield I did was very lively.
January 3, 2026 at 9:29 PM
I don't normally post doodles but I thought this Andrew Garfield I did was very lively.
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With 10 minutes to spare, I just fired off to my editor my revisions for TO DEFY FATE, my #StarTrekPicard novel that's due out on April 28th.
Now I can watch the Bucs-Panthers game while working on the next thing.
#StarTrek
#WritingLife
Now I can watch the Bucs-Panthers game while working on the next thing.
#StarTrek
#WritingLife
January 3, 2026 at 9:23 PM
With 10 minutes to spare, I just fired off to my editor my revisions for TO DEFY FATE, my #StarTrekPicard novel that's due out on April 28th.
Now I can watch the Bucs-Panthers game while working on the next thing.
#StarTrek
#WritingLife
Now I can watch the Bucs-Panthers game while working on the next thing.
#StarTrek
#WritingLife
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Today January 3rd marks 33 years since my favourite Star Trek show Deep Space Nine premiered. The pilot episode Emissary was absolutely brilliant. #StarTrekDeepSpaceNine
January 3, 2026 at 10:17 AM
Today January 3rd marks 33 years since my favourite Star Trek show Deep Space Nine premiered. The pilot episode Emissary was absolutely brilliant. #StarTrekDeepSpaceNine
Find it weird to see instagram accounts with genuine paintings or movie clips where the text waxing rhapsodic about the image is clearly generated by an LLM, with that overblown elegaic quality.
January 3, 2026 at 6:09 PM
Find it weird to see instagram accounts with genuine paintings or movie clips where the text waxing rhapsodic about the image is clearly generated by an LLM, with that overblown elegaic quality.
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Best thing I’ve read this morning, from a human rights lawyer in Mexico. Translation is in the ALT-text.
January 3, 2026 at 2:16 PM
Best thing I’ve read this morning, from a human rights lawyer in Mexico. Translation is in the ALT-text.
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When I worked in public libraries the amount of parents who asked me "What should my children be reading?" always surprised me.
I surprised them more by replying "Whatever they want." The more you tell children what to read, the more they push against it.
I surprised them more by replying "Whatever they want." The more you tell children what to read, the more they push against it.
In this Year of Reading, a gentle reminder:
The best way to get your kids reading is to let them see *you* reading. The way to *stop* your kids reading is to criticize their choices, or to make reading a competition, or a punishment, or a race, or a learning tool. Let it be fun. Let them read.
The best way to get your kids reading is to let them see *you* reading. The way to *stop* your kids reading is to criticize their choices, or to make reading a competition, or a punishment, or a race, or a learning tool. Let it be fun. Let them read.
January 3, 2026 at 12:14 PM
When I worked in public libraries the amount of parents who asked me "What should my children be reading?" always surprised me.
I surprised them more by replying "Whatever they want." The more you tell children what to read, the more they push against it.
I surprised them more by replying "Whatever they want." The more you tell children what to read, the more they push against it.
I'm going to be that guy and say that as a kid I HATED Rentaghost. Like watching aimless improv theatre in your local school hall.
I think the only show I disliked more was that Scooby Doo spin off where Shaggy, Scooby and Scrappy had short 'comedy' adventures with actual monsters.
I think the only show I disliked more was that Scooby Doo spin off where Shaggy, Scooby and Scrappy had short 'comedy' adventures with actual monsters.
January 3, 2026 at 12:20 PM
I'm going to be that guy and say that as a kid I HATED Rentaghost. Like watching aimless improv theatre in your local school hall.
I think the only show I disliked more was that Scooby Doo spin off where Shaggy, Scooby and Scrappy had short 'comedy' adventures with actual monsters.
I think the only show I disliked more was that Scooby Doo spin off where Shaggy, Scooby and Scrappy had short 'comedy' adventures with actual monsters.
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My earliest hot take is that the current administration has not performed the required pre-war propaganda ritual correctly to get most Americans behind this action/war/thing.
January 3, 2026 at 11:59 AM
My earliest hot take is that the current administration has not performed the required pre-war propaganda ritual correctly to get most Americans behind this action/war/thing.
It days something that it doesn't feel entirely ridiculous to imagine Trump staging a military coup in the UK saying it has fallen to Islamic influences and installing Elon Musk as caretaker Prime Minister.
January 3, 2026 at 12:14 PM
It days something that it doesn't feel entirely ridiculous to imagine Trump staging a military coup in the UK saying it has fallen to Islamic influences and installing Elon Musk as caretaker Prime Minister.
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My sister got me this for Christmas because she couldn’t believe they made an action figure of “Dirt Farmer Picard”
January 1, 2026 at 10:15 AM
My sister got me this for Christmas because she couldn’t believe they made an action figure of “Dirt Farmer Picard”
Started watching the first series of #TheNightManager, having not seen it before. Practically every cast member is distractingly "Oh it's them off of that thing."
January 2, 2026 at 9:41 PM
Started watching the first series of #TheNightManager, having not seen it before. Practically every cast member is distractingly "Oh it's them off of that thing."
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Call for submissions!
We'd like to expand the diversity of our Archive authors, and are looking for proposals for any available story from anyone meeting the criteria of being disabled or a person of colour.
obversebooks.co.uk/blackarchive...
Closing date for subs 30/06/26
Please share! #booksky
We'd like to expand the diversity of our Archive authors, and are looking for proposals for any available story from anyone meeting the criteria of being disabled or a person of colour.
obversebooks.co.uk/blackarchive...
Closing date for subs 30/06/26
Please share! #booksky
Black Archive Submissions – Obverse Books
obversebooks.co.uk
January 2, 2026 at 11:55 AM
Call for submissions!
We'd like to expand the diversity of our Archive authors, and are looking for proposals for any available story from anyone meeting the criteria of being disabled or a person of colour.
obversebooks.co.uk/blackarchive...
Closing date for subs 30/06/26
Please share! #booksky
We'd like to expand the diversity of our Archive authors, and are looking for proposals for any available story from anyone meeting the criteria of being disabled or a person of colour.
obversebooks.co.uk/blackarchive...
Closing date for subs 30/06/26
Please share! #booksky
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Finished up this delightful book nook build that spouse got me for Xmas. It was soothing blend of Lego building and puzzle making that I found extremely satisfying, promoting extreme focus and deep work that magically settled anxiety. Now I understand the "old people working on puzzles" stereotype.
January 1, 2026 at 11:59 AM
Finished up this delightful book nook build that spouse got me for Xmas. It was soothing blend of Lego building and puzzle making that I found extremely satisfying, promoting extreme focus and deep work that magically settled anxiety. Now I understand the "old people working on puzzles" stereotype.
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Enthusiasm from Cultbox for this year’s @bigfinish.bsky.social Paul Spragg competition winner (which is available for FREE now).
cultbox.co.uk/reviews/the-...
cultbox.co.uk/reviews/the-...
January 2, 2026 at 7:51 PM
Enthusiasm from Cultbox for this year’s @bigfinish.bsky.social Paul Spragg competition winner (which is available for FREE now).
cultbox.co.uk/reviews/the-...
cultbox.co.uk/reviews/the-...
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I cannot emphasize enough that the attempts to anthropomorphize an algorithm is a fundamental act of journalistic malpractice and an intentional act to shield the people responsible for this. It's fucking shameful.
Musk's Grok AI bot is fixing safeguard 'lapses' after posting of sexualized images of children
Musk's Grok AI bot is fixing safeguard 'lapses' after posting of sexualized images of children
Users on X raised concerns over explicit content of minors being generated using Musk's Grok tool.
cnb.cx
January 2, 2026 at 5:03 PM
I cannot emphasize enough that the attempts to anthropomorphize an algorithm is a fundamental act of journalistic malpractice and an intentional act to shield the people responsible for this. It's fucking shameful.
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A picture is worth 1000 words...
This appeared on the BBC News today, showing the increase in solar electric generation in the UK.
Not sure who produced it, but genuinely think this is a genius piece of scientific communication - the construct and choice of colour scale is near-perfect.
Chapeau!
This appeared on the BBC News today, showing the increase in solar electric generation in the UK.
Not sure who produced it, but genuinely think this is a genius piece of scientific communication - the construct and choice of colour scale is near-perfect.
Chapeau!
January 2, 2026 at 4:53 PM
A picture is worth 1000 words...
This appeared on the BBC News today, showing the increase in solar electric generation in the UK.
Not sure who produced it, but genuinely think this is a genius piece of scientific communication - the construct and choice of colour scale is near-perfect.
Chapeau!
This appeared on the BBC News today, showing the increase in solar electric generation in the UK.
Not sure who produced it, but genuinely think this is a genius piece of scientific communication - the construct and choice of colour scale is near-perfect.
Chapeau!
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Wonderful. This is one of the best comics panels ever drawn. It - and the pages around it - rewired my brain and changed the way I talked about and understood art and storytelling. If there is any book I would recommend unreservedly to creative people, it’s Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics.
January 2, 2026 at 5:55 PM
Wonderful. This is one of the best comics panels ever drawn. It - and the pages around it - rewired my brain and changed the way I talked about and understood art and storytelling. If there is any book I would recommend unreservedly to creative people, it’s Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics.
Constantly baffled by the scores on Pointless.
Only 64 of 100 people could supply the final word in "(ASAP) As Soon As ________"?
Who ARE these people?
Only 64 of 100 people could supply the final word in "(ASAP) As Soon As ________"?
Who ARE these people?
January 2, 2026 at 5:52 PM
Constantly baffled by the scores on Pointless.
Only 64 of 100 people could supply the final word in "(ASAP) As Soon As ________"?
Who ARE these people?
Only 64 of 100 people could supply the final word in "(ASAP) As Soon As ________"?
Who ARE these people?
Wife is watching #Fallout Season 2. I am doing art and half-listening. I did enjoy parts of Season 1 but I find its combination of arch tone, brutality and comedy gore quite offputting.
January 2, 2026 at 4:41 PM
Wife is watching #Fallout Season 2. I am doing art and half-listening. I did enjoy parts of Season 1 but I find its combination of arch tone, brutality and comedy gore quite offputting.