Neal Curtis
@nihilcurtis.bsky.social
Comics scholar, one-time critical theorist. Interested in science communication & graphic medicine. Enjoys SF. Concerned (to say the least) by climate emergency and fascism. Escaped UK for Aotearoa. Tangata Tiriti. He/him.
Reposted by Neal Curtis
I'd like to think this will finally be the thing to make his supporters turn on him. But I don't know - who he is has been obvious from the start. Yes - he's a monstrous person, but the problem is everyone who sees that, and says I'm ok with that actually...
spinweaveandcut.com/draw-the-line/
spinweaveandcut.com/draw-the-line/
November 12, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I'd like to think this will finally be the thing to make his supporters turn on him. But I don't know - who he is has been obvious from the start. Yes - he's a monstrous person, but the problem is everyone who sees that, and says I'm ok with that actually...
spinweaveandcut.com/draw-the-line/
spinweaveandcut.com/draw-the-line/
Reposted by Neal Curtis
1. Placing these two graphs side by side shows why we have a prisons crisis. They can also be seen as a kind of Authoritarianism Index, showing the trend in state attitudes.
On the left is the Crime Survey for England and Wales.
On the right is the UK prison population.
🧵1/8
On the left is the Crime Survey for England and Wales.
On the right is the UK prison population.
🧵1/8
November 13, 2025 at 6:54 AM
1. Placing these two graphs side by side shows why we have a prisons crisis. They can also be seen as a kind of Authoritarianism Index, showing the trend in state attitudes.
On the left is the Crime Survey for England and Wales.
On the right is the UK prison population.
🧵1/8
On the left is the Crime Survey for England and Wales.
On the right is the UK prison population.
🧵1/8
Reposted by Neal Curtis
Got my copy of the book I designed for two fantastic cartoonists, writers, and people. Making Nonfiction Comics, A Guide for Graphic Narrative by Eleri Harris and Shay Mirk. This Abram’s Comic Arts title has a publication date of November 11, 2025. Preorder for yourself or a cartoonist you love.
October 4, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Got my copy of the book I designed for two fantastic cartoonists, writers, and people. Making Nonfiction Comics, A Guide for Graphic Narrative by Eleri Harris and Shay Mirk. This Abram’s Comic Arts title has a publication date of November 11, 2025. Preorder for yourself or a cartoonist you love.
Reposted by Neal Curtis
Every new bit of info I see reported from these files is something that would've been a month long scandal before.
Now each one gets... moments. On social media. Then... another. And another.
Now each one gets... moments. On social media. Then... another. And another.
November 13, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Every new bit of info I see reported from these files is something that would've been a month long scandal before.
Now each one gets... moments. On social media. Then... another. And another.
Now each one gets... moments. On social media. Then... another. And another.
Reposted by Neal Curtis
Join cartoonists Eleri Harris and Shay Sarah Mirk to celebrate the release of their book, Making Nonfiction Comics: A Guide for Graphic Narrative at Porter Square Books: Boston Edition. Finally, a guide into one of the most transformative ways of creating comics!
November 12, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Join cartoonists Eleri Harris and Shay Sarah Mirk to celebrate the release of their book, Making Nonfiction Comics: A Guide for Graphic Narrative at Porter Square Books: Boston Edition. Finally, a guide into one of the most transformative ways of creating comics!
Reposted by Neal Curtis
Historical: China’s CO2 emissions have now been flat or falling for 18 months
Off-the-charts good
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...
Off-the-charts good
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...
November 11, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Historical: China’s CO2 emissions have now been flat or falling for 18 months
Off-the-charts good
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...
Off-the-charts good
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...
Reposted by Neal Curtis
“There were no political or religious motivations. They were rich people who went there for fun and personal satisfaction. We are talking about people who love guns who perhaps go to shooting ranges or on safari in Africa.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
November 12, 2025 at 4:22 AM
“There were no political or religious motivations. They were rich people who went there for fun and personal satisfaction. We are talking about people who love guns who perhaps go to shooting ranges or on safari in Africa.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
A terrible indictment of MZ voters & the media that informs them. That ppl could still vote for a party so economically illiterate, so beholden to the corporate class at the expense of our democracy, so indebted to vested interests at the cost of the environment; & so blatantly racist depresses me.
Realistically, given the margin of error in this poll and the effect of overhangs, all we can really say is that, right now, the next election is too close to call.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Coalition would hold power but Labour gains points after capital gains tax - poll
But coalition parties would still have a majority, according to a new Curia-Taxpayers Union poll,
www.rnz.co.nz
November 12, 2025 at 4:34 AM
A terrible indictment of MZ voters & the media that informs them. That ppl could still vote for a party so economically illiterate, so beholden to the corporate class at the expense of our democracy, so indebted to vested interests at the cost of the environment; & so blatantly racist depresses me.
Reposted by Neal Curtis
🧵On our revelations today about the BBC Coup and the Prescott Dossier.
The leaked ‘BBC Bias’ memo Trump used to attack the BBC was authored by Michael Prescott — a Hanover lobbyist paid by US tech/media giants tied to Trump. Full story: bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b... 1/12
The leaked ‘BBC Bias’ memo Trump used to attack the BBC was authored by Michael Prescott — a Hanover lobbyist paid by US tech/media giants tied to Trump. Full story: bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b... 1/12
'BBC Bias' Memo Was Authored by Lobbyist Tied to Pro-Trump Tech Giants
The leaked memo that fuelled Trump’s attack on the BBC was written by a lobbyist at a firm paid by US tech giants tied to the President
bylinetimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:19 PM
🧵On our revelations today about the BBC Coup and the Prescott Dossier.
The leaked ‘BBC Bias’ memo Trump used to attack the BBC was authored by Michael Prescott — a Hanover lobbyist paid by US tech/media giants tied to Trump. Full story: bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b... 1/12
The leaked ‘BBC Bias’ memo Trump used to attack the BBC was authored by Michael Prescott — a Hanover lobbyist paid by US tech/media giants tied to Trump. Full story: bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b... 1/12
Reposted by Neal Curtis
Reposted by Neal Curtis
Today in #404DeepDive: People are modding Meta Ray-Bans to spy on you. Already, there are videos with millions of views of men using the glasses to film massage workers, asking for happy endings. What's Meta's response? @evystadium.bsky.social has more.
More here: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/p...
More here: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/p...
November 11, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Today in #404DeepDive: People are modding Meta Ray-Bans to spy on you. Already, there are videos with millions of views of men using the glasses to film massage workers, asking for happy endings. What's Meta's response? @evystadium.bsky.social has more.
More here: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/p...
More here: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/p...
Reposted by Neal Curtis
A page from Lynd Ward's 'Wild Pilgrimage', 1932.
November 11, 2025 at 7:15 AM
A page from Lynd Ward's 'Wild Pilgrimage', 1932.
Reposted by Neal Curtis
‼️ Mexico's first woman president, Claudia Sheinbaum, just announced she's pressing charges after being groped in the street:
“If they do this to the president, what happens to all the women in our country?”
“If they do this to the president, what happens to all the women in our country?”
November 10, 2025 at 4:21 PM
‼️ Mexico's first woman president, Claudia Sheinbaum, just announced she's pressing charges after being groped in the street:
“If they do this to the president, what happens to all the women in our country?”
“If they do this to the president, what happens to all the women in our country?”
Books by Joyce Carol Oates
all of them
in chronological order
www.mostrecommendedbooks.com/series/joyce...
all of them
in chronological order
www.mostrecommendedbooks.com/series/joyce...
All 174 Joyce Carol Oates Books in Order (2025)
Complete list of the Joyce Carol Oates series. Discover all books in this series and find your reading path.
www.mostrecommendedbooks.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Books by Joyce Carol Oates
all of them
in chronological order
www.mostrecommendedbooks.com/series/joyce...
all of them
in chronological order
www.mostrecommendedbooks.com/series/joyce...
Yesterday I went to the book launch of my colleague Erin Griffey's new book, Facing Decay. A brilliant mix of aesthetics, science and medicine in the beauty and skincare recipes handed down since the 1500s. More deets in alt text.
November 10, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Yesterday I went to the book launch of my colleague Erin Griffey's new book, Facing Decay. A brilliant mix of aesthetics, science and medicine in the beauty and skincare recipes handed down since the 1500s. More deets in alt text.
The only purpose of the US Democratic Party under its current leadership is to do the ideological work that enables autocrats and would-be tyrants like Trump to make out that democracy exists and the US has a functioning opposition. They do nothing but perform theatre on behalf of the powerful.
November 10, 2025 at 2:57 AM
The only purpose of the US Democratic Party under its current leadership is to do the ideological work that enables autocrats and would-be tyrants like Trump to make out that democracy exists and the US has a functioning opposition. They do nothing but perform theatre on behalf of the powerful.
Reposted by Neal Curtis
Luxon thinks we need a "mature conversation" about selling state assets... But I don't think he really means that, because a mature conversation would look at the history of failure and the shortsighted focus on profit ahead of public interest.
He wants a conversation where we agree with him.
He wants a conversation where we agree with him.
November 10, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Luxon thinks we need a "mature conversation" about selling state assets... But I don't think he really means that, because a mature conversation would look at the history of failure and the shortsighted focus on profit ahead of public interest.
He wants a conversation where we agree with him.
He wants a conversation where we agree with him.
PS If you do move to Qobuz don't pay for Soundiiz transfer. I found out Qobuz offers Soundiiz transfer for free.
In the process of leaving #Spotify (a/c will be deleted at end of month). Moving to Qobuz. Transferred playlists via Soundiiz. Lost a few tunes but compensated for by losing the awful feeling every time I opened Spotify.
Twitter
Facebook
Insta
Whatsapp
now Spotify
all gone. Digital detox.
Insta
now Spotify
all gone. Digital detox.
November 9, 2025 at 10:50 PM
PS If you do move to Qobuz don't pay for Soundiiz transfer. I found out Qobuz offers Soundiiz transfer for free.
We are destroying the planet because some obscenely rich ppl want to be richer, and to distract us, they want us turning on each other. National media around the globe are happy to play along, and I find this profoundly depressing.
November 9, 2025 at 7:04 PM
We are destroying the planet because some obscenely rich ppl want to be richer, and to distract us, they want us turning on each other. National media around the globe are happy to play along, and I find this profoundly depressing.
Reposted by Neal Curtis
That humans and the waste we generate can displace other life until we are all that's left in an effectively closed system is suicidal given that "other" is an illusion. We are interdependent as parts of larger whole whose degradation we too suffer from. ideaexplorer.blogspot.com/2024/09/the-...
The World Is Dying and We’re Doing This
Amid the growing certainty and omnipresent evidence that our species will soon drive itself extinct along with many other species, it is har...
ideaexplorer.blogspot.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:47 PM
That humans and the waste we generate can displace other life until we are all that's left in an effectively closed system is suicidal given that "other" is an illusion. We are interdependent as parts of larger whole whose degradation we too suffer from. ideaexplorer.blogspot.com/2024/09/the-...
Reposted by Neal Curtis
no amount of state propaganda will ever convince me this man is my enemy
November 9, 2025 at 3:05 PM
no amount of state propaganda will ever convince me this man is my enemy
Reposted by Neal Curtis
If you read one thing this weekend, read this. The way we treat young people who are a little 'different' is endlessly shocking. With thanks and respect to Kate Szymankiewicz.
From theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
From theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
‘The ward felt like a prison. What had I let them do?’: how my daughter was crushed by a health service meant to help her
Ruth was 14 years old and being treated for an eating disorder when she died after being detained under the Mental Health Act. She wasn’t allowed to see her family for more than a few hours a week. Ho...
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 6:33 PM
If you read one thing this weekend, read this. The way we treat young people who are a little 'different' is endlessly shocking. With thanks and respect to Kate Szymankiewicz.
From theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
From theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Niche post aimed at fans of Bob Mortimer on WILTY. I went to the dentist and heard the word 'Fuji'
November 9, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Niche post aimed at fans of Bob Mortimer on WILTY. I went to the dentist and heard the word 'Fuji'
Reposted by Neal Curtis
November 8, 2025 at 5:47 PM