Garry Mac
@queertempo.bsky.social
Writer, artist, comics and queer theorist. PhD graduate from Dundee Uni. Forthcoming book from Routledge: 'Making Time: Queer Temporalities and Chronotopia in Comics' due ~2027
https://www.garrymacart.com
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Garry Mac
@queertempo.bsky.social
· Jun 16
New article finally up on Substack, free for everyone: open.substack.com/pub/obliquec...
A look at Lady Gaga's 'Abracadabra,' the first in a series of articles on pop music and magical thought.
#queer #popmusic #ladygaga #abracadabra #magic #occult
A look at Lady Gaga's 'Abracadabra,' the first in a series of articles on pop music and magical thought.
#queer #popmusic #ladygaga #abracadabra #magic #occult
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10th anniversary today of the graphic novel @eddieargos.bsky.social and I (amongst others) did for Image Comics. 10 YEARS! Actual fulfilment of a teenage Steve dream, still gives me a buzz that my Image shelf has a book that we made on it.
November 11, 2025 at 11:17 AM
10th anniversary today of the graphic novel @eddieargos.bsky.social and I (amongst others) did for Image Comics. 10 YEARS! Actual fulfilment of a teenage Steve dream, still gives me a buzz that my Image shelf has a book that we made on it.
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“Just ask yourself, would the BBC champion a presenter who was consistently asking robust questions about the effect of the recent Supreme Court judgment on trans rights?”
“When I was [at the BBC], at the height of Boris Johnson’s strength, that fear was ubiquitous. Scripts were sometimes written with a view not solely to their impartiality or truth, but the management of perception of impartiality from one side of the spectrum.“ @lewisgoodall.com
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
goodallandgoodluck.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:01 AM
“Just ask yourself, would the BBC champion a presenter who was consistently asking robust questions about the effect of the recent Supreme Court judgment on trans rights?”
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Interested in the MA in Gender & Sexuality? Come talk to me this Saturday at our postgrad open day. (Or just email me, that's cool too.) www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/postgr...
November 11, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Interested in the MA in Gender & Sexuality? Come talk to me this Saturday at our postgrad open day. (Or just email me, that's cool too.) www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/postgr...
I'm so excited about this book, and you should be too! 💖💖💖
I might not be at Thought Bubble this year but I can show you some more sneak peeks of Orlando 👀 here's some coloured excerpts, and some more of my inks x
November 10, 2025 at 12:44 PM
I'm so excited about this book, and you should be too! 💖💖💖
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Genuinely feels like we're losing a solid chunk of the heart of UK indie comics right here - but I know that Eve will go on to do amazing things. Quindrie is an amazing thing in and of itself - so much good work has come through its doors, so many great storytellers finding audiences.
I have made the incredibly difficult decision to close down Quindrie Press at the end of 2026. Please read my full statement, along with information about what's next at Quindrie and an FAQ, here: quindriepress.com/closing
November 10, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Genuinely feels like we're losing a solid chunk of the heart of UK indie comics right here - but I know that Eve will go on to do amazing things. Quindrie is an amazing thing in and of itself - so much good work has come through its doors, so many great storytellers finding audiences.
This was my first time seeing Perfume Genius live and it was exquisite 💖💖💖 what a li'l freak (complimentary)
perfume genius playing eye in the wall and a cover of kangaroo by big star tonight he really said we’re gonna give claire biddles everything she wants
November 9, 2025 at 12:03 PM
This was my first time seeing Perfume Genius live and it was exquisite 💖💖💖 what a li'l freak (complimentary)
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Dismantle the Metropolitan Police.
"The report is the latest to highlight racism within Britain's biggest police force, after Louise Casey's 2023 review - commissioned after the murder of Sarah Everard - concluded that the Met was institutionally racist, misogynistic and homophobic." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Anti-black racism 'baked' into Met Police, review says
The independent review surveyed 40 years of evidence of how racism has affected black communities and black Met Police staff.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Dismantle the Metropolitan Police.
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Everyone deserves to see this video.
November 6, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Everyone deserves to see this video.
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The way some people on the supposed Left continue to worship this soulless moral vacuum...
Don't forget the politicians that are still on there. Like this one. Note that she did not post the same fawning bullshit on this platform.
November 6, 2025 at 3:33 PM
The way some people on the supposed Left continue to worship this soulless moral vacuum...
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Super Sentai 2!! Art Prints and More Available: www.redbubble.com/people/Shann...
November 6, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Super Sentai 2!! Art Prints and More Available: www.redbubble.com/people/Shann...
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The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 2:08 PM
The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.
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Here’s your first look at Nova, the villain of Killtopia: Phantoms. She’s the heiress to a Yakuza clan who’s gone rogue - working with a mass mind hacker to terrorise Neo Tokyo.
She has 3D hard light printers in her palms, which let her create weapons, tactical gear and more.
Credits below👇
She has 3D hard light printers in her palms, which let her create weapons, tactical gear and more.
Credits below👇
November 6, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Here’s your first look at Nova, the villain of Killtopia: Phantoms. She’s the heiress to a Yakuza clan who’s gone rogue - working with a mass mind hacker to terrorise Neo Tokyo.
She has 3D hard light printers in her palms, which let her create weapons, tactical gear and more.
Credits below👇
She has 3D hard light printers in her palms, which let her create weapons, tactical gear and more.
Credits below👇
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Here's an interesting new study exploring whether LLMs are able to understand the narrative sequencing of comics and... even the best AI models are *terrible* at it for pretty much all tasks that were analyzed aclanthology.org/2025.finding...
Beyond Single Frames: Can LMMs Comprehend Implicit Narratives in Comic Strip?
Xiaochen Wang, Heming Xia, Jialin Song, Longyu Guan, Qingxiu Dong, Rui Li, Yixin Yang, Yifan Pu, Weiyao Luo, Yiru Wang, Xiangdi Meng, Wenjie Li, Zhifang Sui. Findings of the Association for Computatio...
aclanthology.org
November 4, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Here's an interesting new study exploring whether LLMs are able to understand the narrative sequencing of comics and... even the best AI models are *terrible* at it for pretty much all tasks that were analyzed aclanthology.org/2025.finding...
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Me & my comics pal @fraserc69.bsky.social were adding our unused TFTQ page to this but the con artist AKA Frazer Brown has put that on hold for now.
Instead Fraser (good one) & I are creating a brand, spankin’ 1 pager for A1 DEADLINE so please…
BACK IT NOW!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/dee...
Instead Fraser (good one) & I are creating a brand, spankin’ 1 pager for A1 DEADLINE so please…
BACK IT NOW!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/dee...
A1 DEADLINE SPECIAL
A1 and DEADLINE, two landmark UK comic book publications ARE BACK! The heart of UK counterculture returns to print.
www.kickstarter.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Me & my comics pal @fraserc69.bsky.social were adding our unused TFTQ page to this but the con artist AKA Frazer Brown has put that on hold for now.
Instead Fraser (good one) & I are creating a brand, spankin’ 1 pager for A1 DEADLINE so please…
BACK IT NOW!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/dee...
Instead Fraser (good one) & I are creating a brand, spankin’ 1 pager for A1 DEADLINE so please…
BACK IT NOW!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/dee...
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Meanwhile, the UK government just huff and try to be as horrible as they can to minorities to out-Farage Nigel. They tank in the polls and assume all the left-leaning voters will “come home”. Their sole learning from this election will probably be to make Hot Girls For Starmer t-shirts
Mamdani: Whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community, one of the many black women that Donald Trump has fired from a federal job, a single mom still waiting for the cost of groceries to go down, or anyone else with their back against the wall—your struggle is ours too
November 5, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Meanwhile, the UK government just huff and try to be as horrible as they can to minorities to out-Farage Nigel. They tank in the polls and assume all the left-leaning voters will “come home”. Their sole learning from this election will probably be to make Hot Girls For Starmer t-shirts
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Me aged 15, with short hair gelled into spikes, sporting baggy denims and a bowling shirt out of Flip: I am the height of fashion and coolness
Loved by Glasgow's youth for nearly 3 decades, Flip brought American clothing to the city after being set up as a franchise arm of Flip on London's King's Road by Jean Brown and Colin McNaught in 1980.
#glasgow
#glasgow
November 5, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Me aged 15, with short hair gelled into spikes, sporting baggy denims and a bowling shirt out of Flip: I am the height of fashion and coolness
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Who could this gang of men walking through Govanhill singing Rule Britannia on a day Rangers are playing at Hampden possibly be?
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2559277...
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2559277...
Man assaulted as group of masked men march through Govanhill
Video evidence shared with The Herald shows several dozen men wearing all black walking down the middle of Victoria Road through the Southside…
www.heraldscotland.com
November 4, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Who could this gang of men walking through Govanhill singing Rule Britannia on a day Rangers are playing at Hampden possibly be?
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2559277...
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2559277...
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Thisthisthisthisthis
Excellent thread, highlighting some of my complaints with a 'numerical diversity' approach to DEI work.
Counting the number of people from a minoritised background (e.g. in TV adverts, company boards, universities) is a flawed method that creates opportunities for the misuse of diversity data 🔢
Counting the number of people from a minoritised background (e.g. in TV adverts, company boards, universities) is a flawed method that creates opportunities for the misuse of diversity data 🔢
Let’s take a look at the whole “there are too many black people on TV” thing, shall we?
After Pochin claimed Black people in TV adverts “made her mad”, all her supporters tried to use 👇🏼 as their excuse for why she was somehow justified in her overt racism.
Spoiler - she isn’t! 🤨
🧵
1/22
After Pochin claimed Black people in TV adverts “made her mad”, all her supporters tried to use 👇🏼 as their excuse for why she was somehow justified in her overt racism.
Spoiler - she isn’t! 🤨
🧵
1/22
November 4, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Thisthisthisthisthis
Hard same, tho in the 80s. Sadists, drunks and inadequates across the board (Catholic "education"). Add in latent queerness for an extra dose of "let's humiliate this boy straight". While I don't advocate for home schooling per se, the idea that we just "trust" teachers implicitly is shite.
I grew up in the 70s, and was educated by a smattering of people who liked children alongside drunks, inadequates and sadists who had no business being anywhere near children. Many tried to beat or isolate individuality out of me. This kind of treatment does nothing to build a child's character.
November 4, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Hard same, tho in the 80s. Sadists, drunks and inadequates across the board (Catholic "education"). Add in latent queerness for an extra dose of "let's humiliate this boy straight". While I don't advocate for home schooling per se, the idea that we just "trust" teachers implicitly is shite.
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I always like when a hit-piece review makes me think I'll love a book (new Danielewski!)
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
Tom’s Crossing by Mark Z Danielewski – House of Leaves author returns with a 1200-page western
A quarter century after that landmark cult novel, this new epic has aspects of brilliance but seems designed for academic study rather than readerly enjoyment
www.theguardian.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:01 AM
I always like when a hit-piece review makes me think I'll love a book (new Danielewski!)
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
More (substantial) job losses on top of 500 already gone. What a fucking joke, this uni has been totally mismanaged - it had already smashed Law, Humanities and Social Sciences together *prior* to these cuts. What's even left to lose?!
Nigel Seaton has confirmed that there will be further substantial job losses at the University of Dundee. We’ve already lost over 500 colleagues in a year.
If you are academic or academic-related staff you can join Dundee UCU. We’re fighting to save jobs and improve our working conditions.
If you are academic or academic-related staff you can join Dundee UCU. We’re fighting to save jobs and improve our working conditions.
November 4, 2025 at 12:38 PM
More (substantial) job losses on top of 500 already gone. What a fucking joke, this uni has been totally mismanaged - it had already smashed Law, Humanities and Social Sciences together *prior* to these cuts. What's even left to lose?!
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i visited the palestine museum in edinburgh for @tribunemagazine.bsky.social and spoke to founder faisal salah about showcasing the vibrancy + diversity of palestinian culture in the midst of genocide, witnessing via children's drawings, and the solidarity he has seen from the people of scotland
Scots have afforded a warm welcome to the newly opened Palestine Museum in Edinburgh, which showcases the joy, vibrancy, and unavoidable horror of Palestinian diaspora art.
tribunemag.co.uk/2025/11/scot...
tribunemag.co.uk/2025/11/scot...
Scotland Says No to Genocide
Scots have afforded a warm welcome to the newly opened Palestine Museum in Edinburgh, which showcases the joy, vibrancy, and unavoidable horror of Palestinian diaspora art.
tribunemag.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 12:10 PM
i visited the palestine museum in edinburgh for @tribunemagazine.bsky.social and spoke to founder faisal salah about showcasing the vibrancy + diversity of palestinian culture in the midst of genocide, witnessing via children's drawings, and the solidarity he has seen from the people of scotland
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This Thursday, me & @benpester.bsky.social at Mount Florida books in Glasgow, won’t you join us please?
Glasgow loves please join me & @benpester.bsky.social at Mount Florida Books on the 6th of November to talk about the marvel that is The Expansion Project.
Everyone* is saying it’s going to be the real fireworks night
*No one is saying that. But it will be good
mountfloridabooks.com/products/the...
Everyone* is saying it’s going to be the real fireworks night
*No one is saying that. But it will be good
mountfloridabooks.com/products/the...
November 3, 2025 at 12:31 PM
This Thursday, me & @benpester.bsky.social at Mount Florida books in Glasgow, won’t you join us please?
Went as a short king leather daddy vampire for Halloween (bonus photobomb by @julesscheele.bsky.social as the Emcee from Cabaret! 😄💖💕)
November 3, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Went as a short king leather daddy vampire for Halloween (bonus photobomb by @julesscheele.bsky.social as the Emcee from Cabaret! 😄💖💕)