Ian Wolf (He/Him)
@ianwolf.bsky.social
Anime & manga critic. Author of CLAMPdown (about manga group CLAMP) & reviewer for animeuknews.net Also administrator, radio guy & #edfringe review collector for comedy.co.uk. Has autism and anxiety.
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Ian Wolf (He/Him)
@ianwolf.bsky.social
· Oct 11
CLAMPdown: The lowdown on the biggest manga group going down written during lockdown: Humorous Guide to Japanese Manga and Anime by CLAMP eBook : Wolf, Ian: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
CLAMPdown: The lowdown on the biggest manga group going down written during lockdown: Humorous Guide to Japanese Manga and Anime by CLAMP eBook : Wolf, Ian: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
www.amazon.co.uk
Now we have pinned posts on BlueSky, I thought it best to set one up with links to my book.
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Audiobook open.spotify.com/show/6wjigmB...
It's certainly true in the case of your son, having to group up with you as the world's least charismatic dad.
Keir Starmer: Growing up as young man 'not easy' says PM in letter to son
Keir Starmer: Growing up as young man 'not easy' says PM in letter to son
The PM urges men to talk openly about mental health in a letter to his son to mark International Men's Day.
www.bbc.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:27 AM
It's certainly true in the case of your son, having to group up with you as the world's least charismatic dad.
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Today, on Transgender Day of Remembrance, we remember the transgender lives lost to violence.
The Green Party stands shoulder to shoulder with transgender people in the face of increasing transphobic rhetoric in our society and politics.
The Green Party stands shoulder to shoulder with transgender people in the face of increasing transphobic rhetoric in our society and politics.
November 20, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Today, on Transgender Day of Remembrance, we remember the transgender lives lost to violence.
The Green Party stands shoulder to shoulder with transgender people in the face of increasing transphobic rhetoric in our society and politics.
The Green Party stands shoulder to shoulder with transgender people in the face of increasing transphobic rhetoric in our society and politics.
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Absolutely fuck these people. Politicians overruling medical professionals is a shit position.
NZ First are actually evil. They don't care how many lives they may ruin to get the anti-trans vote.
November 19, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Absolutely fuck these people. Politicians overruling medical professionals is a shit position.
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This is one of the worst, most horrifying exposures we have ever seen. It is hard to overstate how bad the things that people are using tools like for are, and it's insane to pretend like these tools are anything other than nonconsensual porn machines
www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
Massive Leak Shows Erotic Chatbot Users Turned Women’s Yearbook Pictures Into AI Porn
Chatbot roleplay and image generator platform SecretDesires.ai left cloud storage containers of nearly two million of images and videos exposed, including photos and full names of women from social me...
www.404media.co
November 19, 2025 at 5:11 PM
This is one of the worst, most horrifying exposures we have ever seen. It is hard to overstate how bad the things that people are using tools like for are, and it's insane to pretend like these tools are anything other than nonconsensual porn machines
www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
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Health Secretary Wes Streeting says he is not comfortable with the prospect of families with children being deported - but insists it is the 'right thing' to do.
Appalling
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Appalling
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Wes Streeting admits he is not comfortable deporting kids under new asylum plan
Health Secretary Wes Streeting said he is not comfortable with the prospect of families with children being deported following a backlash - but insisted it is the 'right thing' to do
www.mirror.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Health Secretary Wes Streeting says he is not comfortable with the prospect of families with children being deported - but insists it is the 'right thing' to do.
Appalling
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Appalling
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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Remember when the Mueller Report came out and destroyed Trump for ever?
November 19, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Remember when the Mueller Report came out and destroyed Trump for ever?
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Starmer genuinely loves football, like, there's evidence of him LOVING football for decades. And yet...when he talks about it....he sounds like someone who has never seen a minute of it. He sounds like someone who only just heard the word "football" earlier that day.
November 19, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Starmer genuinely loves football, like, there's evidence of him LOVING football for decades. And yet...when he talks about it....he sounds like someone who has never seen a minute of it. He sounds like someone who only just heard the word "football" earlier that day.
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It hasn't been a good day for Cloudflare:
Shueisha, Kodansha, Shogakukan, Kadokawa Win Copyright Suit Against Cloudflare
Cloudflare ordered to pay about 500 million yen/US$3 million in damages
www.animenewsnetwork.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:32 AM
It hasn't been a good day for Cloudflare:
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December 1980: Not the Nine O'Clock News lampooned the UK media’s positive obituaries of fascist leader Oswald Mosley.
Mel Smith, Griff Rhys-Jones, Pamela Stephenson (with Rowan Atkinson) perform a punk eulogy to Mosley, interweaving quotes from papers including Times, Telegraph and Guardian
Mel Smith, Griff Rhys-Jones, Pamela Stephenson (with Rowan Atkinson) perform a punk eulogy to Mosley, interweaving quotes from papers including Times, Telegraph and Guardian
November 19, 2025 at 10:24 AM
December 1980: Not the Nine O'Clock News lampooned the UK media’s positive obituaries of fascist leader Oswald Mosley.
Mel Smith, Griff Rhys-Jones, Pamela Stephenson (with Rowan Atkinson) perform a punk eulogy to Mosley, interweaving quotes from papers including Times, Telegraph and Guardian
Mel Smith, Griff Rhys-Jones, Pamela Stephenson (with Rowan Atkinson) perform a punk eulogy to Mosley, interweaving quotes from papers including Times, Telegraph and Guardian
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🎵The Vengabus is coming,
And we are very cunning,
We're driving really close by,
So we can steal its WiFi,
I want to watch my TikToks,
And old Lovejoys on Britbox,
We're using all our gumption,
And saving fuel consumption🎵
And we are very cunning,
We're driving really close by,
So we can steal its WiFi,
I want to watch my TikToks,
And old Lovejoys on Britbox,
We're using all our gumption,
And saving fuel consumption🎵
November 19, 2025 at 9:58 AM
🎵The Vengabus is coming,
And we are very cunning,
We're driving really close by,
So we can steal its WiFi,
I want to watch my TikToks,
And old Lovejoys on Britbox,
We're using all our gumption,
And saving fuel consumption🎵
And we are very cunning,
We're driving really close by,
So we can steal its WiFi,
I want to watch my TikToks,
And old Lovejoys on Britbox,
We're using all our gumption,
And saving fuel consumption🎵
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Something about today I can’t put my finger on. Remember remember 19th of November….
November 19, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Something about today I can’t put my finger on. Remember remember 19th of November….
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Circa 1993, Vernor Vinge wrote that the first working AI would be the last thing that humanity ever invented.
We don't *have* a first working AI, and at this rate—shifting the global economy to run atop spicy autocomplete trained on 4chan—we never will.
But Vernor was right. Just forget "working".
We don't *have* a first working AI, and at this rate—shifting the global economy to run atop spicy autocomplete trained on 4chan—we never will.
But Vernor was right. Just forget "working".
November 19, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Circa 1993, Vernor Vinge wrote that the first working AI would be the last thing that humanity ever invented.
We don't *have* a first working AI, and at this rate—shifting the global economy to run atop spicy autocomplete trained on 4chan—we never will.
But Vernor was right. Just forget "working".
We don't *have* a first working AI, and at this rate—shifting the global economy to run atop spicy autocomplete trained on 4chan—we never will.
But Vernor was right. Just forget "working".
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Puberty blockers are safe and proven - the THIRD PARAGRAPH acknowledges that children WILL still be prescribed them, just not if they're trans
This is an attack on trans children, full stop
This government does not care about children, full stop
This is an attack on trans children, full stop
This government does not care about children, full stop
The Government is banning new patients from being prescribed the most common form of puberty blocker and is explicitly aligning NZ's future policy on this matter to the UK's. PR below.
November 19, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Puberty blockers are safe and proven - the THIRD PARAGRAPH acknowledges that children WILL still be prescribed them, just not if they're trans
This is an attack on trans children, full stop
This government does not care about children, full stop
This is an attack on trans children, full stop
This government does not care about children, full stop
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Yay to Claire Sharpe 🤗
(Note the BBC's subhead. Trans women are also "biological". I fucking hate the way language is weaponised by bigots)
(Note the BBC's subhead. Trans women are also "biological". I fucking hate the way language is weaponised by bigots)
Cyclist turns down trans exclusionary honour for woman cyclists (and you can feel the BBC’s teeth grinding about it).
"If they don't want to ride with all women, then it's not the kind of ride I want to be part of".
"If they don't want to ride with all women, then it's not the kind of ride I want to be part of".
Woman refuses Cycling UK award over trans women being left out
Claire Sharpe says she disagrees with Cycling UK only naming biological women in their top 100 list.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Yay to Claire Sharpe 🤗
(Note the BBC's subhead. Trans women are also "biological". I fucking hate the way language is weaponised by bigots)
(Note the BBC's subhead. Trans women are also "biological". I fucking hate the way language is weaponised by bigots)
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This is an attack on trans kids, who are some of the most vulnerable children in society.
Puberty blockers are safe and proven - the THIRD PARAGRAPH acknowledges that children WILL still be prescribed them, just not if they're trans
This is an attack on trans children, full stop
This government does not care about children, full stop
This is an attack on trans children, full stop
This government does not care about children, full stop
The Government is banning new patients from being prescribed the most common form of puberty blocker and is explicitly aligning NZ's future policy on this matter to the UK's. PR below.
November 19, 2025 at 4:44 AM
This is an attack on trans kids, who are some of the most vulnerable children in society.
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When even Alistair Campbell is calling out the BBC's constant blatant prejudice and discrimination against transgender people, maybe it's time call out the BBC & it's journalists have become.
action.goodlawproject.org/tell-the-BBC...
action.goodlawproject.org/tell-the-BBC...
November 14, 2025 at 12:53 PM
When even Alistair Campbell is calling out the BBC's constant blatant prejudice and discrimination against transgender people, maybe it's time call out the BBC & it's journalists have become.
action.goodlawproject.org/tell-the-BBC...
action.goodlawproject.org/tell-the-BBC...
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He lived until 1980. A "misunderstood victim and hero" in his own mind to the end, and when he died, the obituaries in some quarters were downright gushing.
A truly appalling human being.
A truly appalling human being.
#OnThisDay 1943: wonderfully acidic Zec cartoon on the news that the British fascist leader, Oswald Mosley, was being released from prison on the grounds of ill-health...
November 19, 2025 at 9:45 AM
He lived until 1980. A "misunderstood victim and hero" in his own mind to the end, and when he died, the obituaries in some quarters were downright gushing.
A truly appalling human being.
A truly appalling human being.
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Curious about the future of manga?
@forbes.com sat down with Kodansha USA CEO Alvin Lu—the publisher of Attack on Titan—to explore how manga is expanding into new formats, new platforms, and vast global audiences.
📖 Read the full Forbes interview here: ow.ly/56I350XtMx7
@forbes.com sat down with Kodansha USA CEO Alvin Lu—the publisher of Attack on Titan—to explore how manga is expanding into new formats, new platforms, and vast global audiences.
📖 Read the full Forbes interview here: ow.ly/56I350XtMx7
November 19, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Curious about the future of manga?
@forbes.com sat down with Kodansha USA CEO Alvin Lu—the publisher of Attack on Titan—to explore how manga is expanding into new formats, new platforms, and vast global audiences.
📖 Read the full Forbes interview here: ow.ly/56I350XtMx7
@forbes.com sat down with Kodansha USA CEO Alvin Lu—the publisher of Attack on Titan—to explore how manga is expanding into new formats, new platforms, and vast global audiences.
📖 Read the full Forbes interview here: ow.ly/56I350XtMx7
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The latest film adaptation of the “Demon Slayer” manga series has become the first Japanese movie to gross more than ¥100 billion worldwide.
New ‘Demon Slayer’ film becomes first Japanese movie to break ¥100 billion
Released outside of Japan in August, including in North America and China, the film has attracted 89.17 million viewers internationally.
ebx.sh
November 18, 2025 at 10:28 PM
The latest film adaptation of the “Demon Slayer” manga series has become the first Japanese movie to gross more than ¥100 billion worldwide.
Every football fan in Scotland going to the USA - YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO!
November 18, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Every football fan in Scotland going to the USA - YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO!
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The only shocking thing about this is that it isn't more widely known
Exclusive: ‘Deeply shocking’: Nigel Farage faces fresh claims of racism and antisemitism at school
Bafta-winning director among contemporaries urging contrition and apology from Reform UK leader, who denies the allegations
w/ Dan Boffey and @drblacklock.bsky.social
Bafta-winning director among contemporaries urging contrition and apology from Reform UK leader, who denies the allegations
w/ Dan Boffey and @drblacklock.bsky.social
‘Deeply shocking’: Nigel Farage faces fresh claims of racism and antisemitism at school
Bafta-winning director among contemporaries urging contrition and apology from Reform UK leader, who denies the allegations
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:20 PM
The only shocking thing about this is that it isn't more widely known
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Roads 'the cost will be what the cost will be'
National on various policy areas:
Health: costs too much. Cut it.
Climate action: Costs too much. Cut it.
Pay equity: Costs too much. Cut it.
Prisons. "The cost will be what the cost will be"
Health: costs too much. Cut it.
Climate action: Costs too much. Cut it.
Pay equity: Costs too much. Cut it.
Prisons. "The cost will be what the cost will be"
November 18, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Roads 'the cost will be what the cost will be'
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Kickstarter union has won a 4 day work week, minimum salary and protection against AI replacing workers!! Unions get amazing things done!!
November 13, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Kickstarter union has won a 4 day work week, minimum salary and protection against AI replacing workers!! Unions get amazing things done!!