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Led By Donkeys

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Farage: epic grifter

October 27, 2025 at 12:45 PM

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Tom Gauld

@tomgauld.bsky.social

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

A hi tech laboratory. Technicians work at computer work stations. A glass cylinder contains an unhappy bespectacled figure in a striped top and hat. A scientist explains to two colleagues:
"The subject will be returned to his natural habitat. But now, thanks to our implanted tracking device, we can answer the question 'Where's Wally?' in microseconds rather than hours. "

October 26, 2025 at 3:22 PM

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Stephen Collins

@stephencollins.bsky.social

October 26, 2025 at 12:19 PM

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Jon Biddle

@jonnybid.bsky.social

Important piece from @booktrust.org.uk and @openuni-rfp.bsky.social about the value of book choice for pupils and how to help promote it in the classroom. Do have a read! files.booktrust.org.uk/docs/documen... @teresacremin.bsky.social @richardruddick.bsky.social

October 26, 2025 at 7:21 AM

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Gail Brodholt

@gailbrodholt.bsky.social

Here’s a great view from the passenger footbridge at Wandsworth Road Station. Sadly the gas holder was demolished to make way for blocks of flats and Battersea Power Station has been engulfed by, as I'm sure you've guessed, more flats, only now they're called luxury apartments 🫤
#printmaker #art

October 14, 2025 at 6:18 PM

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Jack Wallington

@jackwallington.com

Stepped outside to put the chickens away - life on the edge of Wuthering Heights moor

October 3, 2025 at 3:45 PM

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Paintings of London

@paintingsoflondon.bsky.social

'Full English’, Rock Steady Eddie's, Coldharbour Lane, Camberwell (2006) by Ed Gray
edgrayart.com

September 30, 2025 at 6:43 AM

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Edward Elderman

@elderman.bsky.social

This only happens to you once

September 26, 2025 at 7:39 PM

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Richard Morris

@ahistoryinart.bsky.social

After an exhibition of John Nash's work in 1922, a critic wrote: 'A painting by John Nash is like a sentence spoken by a gentleman, perfectly enunciated, quiet, complete, yet with a certain reserve about it as of things left unsaid.'

September 23, 2025 at 6:19 PM

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London Review of Books

@lrb.co.uk

‘There is a fine line between genius and insanity. For nearly two hundred years, literary scholars have been driven out of their wits trying to torture more information from this small, inexplicable manuscript.’

@tomlukejohnson.bsky.social on the Pearl Manuscript: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Tom Johnson · Supereffable: Mysteries of the Pearl Manuscript

Any book made by hand is unique, but the Pearl Manuscript’s claim to uniqueness is unparalleled: the manuscript...

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September 21, 2025 at 3:14 PM

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social

@womensartbluesky.bsky.social

'Resting Fox' by UK printmaker Sarah Bays #WomensArt

Print featuring a curled up sleeping fox on leaves and among branches of a bush

September 21, 2025 at 6:13 AM

Looby Loo

@loobyeleanor.bsky.social

Reposting again. I love this.

Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · Sep 19

A message to every Londoner, and anyone who talks our city down.

September 19, 2025 at 8:14 AM

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan

@london.gov.uk

In London, hate will never win.

September 17, 2025 at 6:10 AM

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Stephen Collins

@stephencollins.bsky.social

Not many words in this cartoon - it's a mostly silent story of two crusading knights on horseback who travel through a series of wild fantasy landscapes, basically like a Lord of the Rings type quest, and then they eventually get to a modern british town, and they walk up a bleak British overpass, and then one of them climbs up a lamp post and sellotapes a sad little St George's flag to it, and the other one takes a photo on his phone, and then he climbs back down, and all the panels so far are reversed - back through all the different landscapes, their quest over. On the last panel knight 1 finally speaks asking "how many likes?" and the other one says "22".

September 16, 2025 at 2:49 PM

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Claire Willett

@clairewillett.bsky.social

reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle

One thing that has become really clear since yesterday is that we live in at least two different realities. Talking to a friend who only knew Charlie as a Christian motivational speaker because that's all that ever came across her feed. Showed me videos I've never seen before of him saying perfectly reasonable and empowering things.

I showed her videos she'd never seen before of his racism, misogyny, homophobia, advocating for violence against specific groups of people. She was horrified by his remarks about Pelosi's husband's attacker being bailed out and celebrated for his violent act. She was horrified by a number of things that he said, but she had never seen or heard them before, the same as I had never seen or heard the generalized clips of him sounding like a perfectly nice loving man and father.

Neither of us had a whole picture of this man. I mentioned he was a known white supremacist and she thought I was joking.

She talked about him giving a speech about finding your purpose and doing good in the world and I thought she was joking.

I saw why this friend was mourning the loss of a person she thought was a good person.
My friend, bless her, saw why I feel the way I do about him. We understood each other better. In spite of a multi-billion dollar internet machine specifically focused on keeping us apart. Because we talked to each other with the desire to listen and to learn rather than the desire to change someone else's mind or to be "right".

None of those motivational things he said change my opinion about him because they don't erase the negativity, the subtle calls for violence, the belittling and denigrating of other races religions genders etc. His negative and blaming comments about homeless people, the poor, and victims of domestic violence. His comments about rounding up people who didn't think like him and putting them in camps where their behavior could be corrected. That time he said empathy was a made-up word he didnt believe in. That other time he said the Civil Rights Act was a mistake. The time he said most people are afraid when they get on a plane and see that there's a black pilot. His anti-vaccination rhetoric and his active campaigning against people being allowed to wear masks for their own health. His open support of fascism and white supremacy. To me, all of those are fully unchristian sentiments. Those are undeniable and just one of them would be a deal-breaker for me. All of them together are a picture of a man who was polarizing,

enraged a lot of people and rightly so, but even with all of that I would never wish upon him or especially his children the end that he got.
Oh, and my friend had never heard, and God help me I don't know how she escaped the news, but she had never heard of the Minnesota legislators who were shot in June. The husband and wife and dog who were killed, one after throwing themselves over their child to protect the child. The other couple who somehow survived.

Politically motivated attacks specifically because they were democrats. She learned about those shootings that happened months ago because I showed her Charlie Kirk's comments about them. The kidnapping plot against a female Midwestern Democratic governor. The assassination attempt against Pennsylvania's democratic governor. All things Charlie had plenty to say about while supporting the Second Amendment and bashing the Democratic party. She didn't know about any of it because we're all living in two different worlds and none of us have the whole story.

September 13, 2025 at 9:24 PM

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SJ Bradley

@bradleybooks.bsky.social

i'm too tired to think of anything funny and original, so please enjoy this treasure out of my screenshots folder

four pictures of a panda being an absolute derp: doing the yoga 'cat' pose, falling haplessly over a beam, and face-planting off a bannister onto a handrail

September 8, 2025 at 6:19 PM

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Phoenix🔥

@fivetimessix.bsky.social

#caturday

September 6, 2025 at 2:51 PM

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Russ Jones

@russincheshire.bsky.social

Angela Rayner accidentally pays less tax than she should have, resigns, and the media gives her hell.

Nigel Farage deliberately pays less tax than he should have, and the media gives him a free pass.

That, right there, is the problem.