Colin Shelbourn
@radiocartoonist.bsky.social
Cartoonist and nuisance
Time to wander off BlueSky again as there are far too many photos of Farridge on here and I'm about to have lunch.
September 5, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Time to wander off BlueSky again as there are far too many photos of Farridge on here and I'm about to have lunch.
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November 24, 2024 at 10:31 AM
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Fact of the Day: The Viggen airplane is made by Volvo and is the world's only biofuel jet fighter running on fuel made from a secret mix of used cooking oil and Irn-bru. The name Viggen derives from Viggen, the Swedish word for Vegan
Photographed from a Canberra
Photographed from a Canberra
November 24, 2024 at 11:04 AM
Fact of the Day: The Viggen airplane is made by Volvo and is the world's only biofuel jet fighter running on fuel made from a secret mix of used cooking oil and Irn-bru. The name Viggen derives from Viggen, the Swedish word for Vegan
Photographed from a Canberra
Photographed from a Canberra
Anyway, you should subscribe to @iandunt.bsky.social 's newsletter immediately and then I wouldn't have to keep doing this.
September 5, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Anyway, you should subscribe to @iandunt.bsky.social 's newsletter immediately and then I wouldn't have to keep doing this.
I only ever seem to come on here to praise @iandunt.bsky.social 's latest newsletter and he's not even paying me. His latest contains the sentence "I've had sandwiches in the 90s I remember better than the prime minister's conference speech in 2024." And the rest of it is equally brilliant.
September 5, 2025 at 12:10 PM
I only ever seem to come on here to praise @iandunt.bsky.social 's latest newsletter and he's not even paying me. His latest contains the sentence "I've had sandwiches in the 90s I remember better than the prime minister's conference speech in 2024." And the rest of it is equally brilliant.
An excellent if chilling article from @brianklaas.bsky.social
Early reports of a school shooting this morning at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis (I was baptized at the church there). As always: it's the guns. The US is the only country in the world that politically tolerates and legally ensures the routine mass slaughter of its own citizens.
It's the Guns.
America is the only rich democracy that features the routine mass slaughter of its citizens with guns. Why does this happen? The data show a really clear picture: It's the guns. Yes, it's that simple.
www.forkingpaths.co
August 28, 2025 at 12:23 PM
An excellent if chilling article from @brianklaas.bsky.social
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Here's how the real two-tier Britain works:
1. Whatever Nigel Farage says, however stupid, is looped and discussed by the media, while left-wing voices are treated as noises off.
2. Tiny far-right protests get massive airtime, while 10s of 000s gathering for Palestine or green causes are ignored.🧵
1. Whatever Nigel Farage says, however stupid, is looped and discussed by the media, while left-wing voices are treated as noises off.
2. Tiny far-right protests get massive airtime, while 10s of 000s gathering for Palestine or green causes are ignored.🧵
August 27, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Here's how the real two-tier Britain works:
1. Whatever Nigel Farage says, however stupid, is looped and discussed by the media, while left-wing voices are treated as noises off.
2. Tiny far-right protests get massive airtime, while 10s of 000s gathering for Palestine or green causes are ignored.🧵
1. Whatever Nigel Farage says, however stupid, is looped and discussed by the media, while left-wing voices are treated as noises off.
2. Tiny far-right protests get massive airtime, while 10s of 000s gathering for Palestine or green causes are ignored.🧵
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Next week we will open submissions for our 2026 Society of Authors' Awards.
This week, we'll be looking back at our 2025 winners, and find out what the awards meant to them.
This week, we'll be looking back at our 2025 winners, and find out what the awards meant to them.
August 26, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Next week we will open submissions for our 2026 Society of Authors' Awards.
This week, we'll be looking back at our 2025 winners, and find out what the awards meant to them.
This week, we'll be looking back at our 2025 winners, and find out what the awards meant to them.
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I am flattered to be on this starter pack. Please consider following the other humanists.
Here you go: an absolute beast of a starter pack, with many of the UK's most prominent humanists on it. Includes scientists, historians, philosophers, public figures, the New Humanist editorial team and Humanists UK staff. A network for reason and decency.
go.bsky.app/PTC4j2d
go.bsky.app/PTC4j2d
May 29, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I am flattered to be on this starter pack. Please consider following the other humanists.
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Why TidBITS Will No Longer Post to X/Twitter or Facebook
Why TidBITS Will No Longer Post to X/Twitter or Facebook - TidBITS
In keeping with our desire to model the behavior we want to see in the world, we have stopped posting TidBITS to X/Twitter and Facebook in protest against the harm they cause to civil society. Many other...
tidbits.com
April 25, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Why TidBITS Will No Longer Post to X/Twitter or Facebook
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It's hard to get your head around the scale of the environmental vandalism the Labour government is hoping to unleash. The Planning and Infrastructure Bill is up there with Trump's executive orders. And the reason is the same: corporate power.
This week's column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This week's column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Labour’s great nature sellout is the worst attack on England’s ecosystems I’ve seen in my lifetime | George Monbiot
The horrifying planning bill, which rips up environmental protections, was drafted with CEOs in mind. We know because Keir Starmer told us, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
April 24, 2025 at 6:34 AM
It's hard to get your head around the scale of the environmental vandalism the Labour government is hoping to unleash. The Planning and Infrastructure Bill is up there with Trump's executive orders. And the reason is the same: corporate power.
This week's column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This week's column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic
www.crabmuseum.org/visit
🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀
www.crabmuseum.org/visit
🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀
April 22, 2025 at 9:16 PM
This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic
www.crabmuseum.org/visit
🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀
www.crabmuseum.org/visit
🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀
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Bluesky is collegial and interesting, the way Twitter used to be. Bonus: most people can spell.
April 23, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Bluesky is collegial and interesting, the way Twitter used to be. Bonus: most people can spell.
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Another typically excellent piece on the current constitutional crisis in the US. We worth a read, not least for the inclusion of the "unpleasant and crass and infantile" tweet from the White House, which I hadn't seen before, and which actually made me gasp
NEW
How Trump's "shock and awe" approach has resulted in his government's litigation being shockingly awful
The US government is on the back-foot because it is not thinking strategically
By me
Substack:
emptycity.substack.com/p/how-the-tr...
Personal blog:
davidallengreen.com/2025/04/how-...
How Trump's "shock and awe" approach has resulted in his government's litigation being shockingly awful
The US government is on the back-foot because it is not thinking strategically
By me
Substack:
emptycity.substack.com/p/how-the-tr...
Personal blog:
davidallengreen.com/2025/04/how-...
How the Trump administration's "shock and awe" approach has resulted in its litigation being shockingly awful
The US government is on the back-foot in its own courts because it is not thinking strategically
emptycity.substack.com
April 23, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Another typically excellent piece on the current constitutional crisis in the US. We worth a read, not least for the inclusion of the "unpleasant and crass and infantile" tweet from the White House, which I hadn't seen before, and which actually made me gasp
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I am looking forward to playing Siddington in Cheshire tonight - I have written two Siddington specific poems and one Macclesfield specific poem - I will write site specific poems for all the other Cheshire villages I am playing this week
www.cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk/news/cheshir...
www.cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk/news/cheshir...
Cheshire Rural Touring Arts Spring programme
Cheshire Rural Touring Arts is back this Spring with a variety of high-quality professional shows for everyone. From Indian mythology to Greek mythology, folk inspired classical music, witches and pup...
www.cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk
April 23, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I am looking forward to playing Siddington in Cheshire tonight - I have written two Siddington specific poems and one Macclesfield specific poem - I will write site specific poems for all the other Cheshire villages I am playing this week
www.cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk/news/cheshir...
www.cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk/news/cheshir...
I missed this - I hope it went well.
Good morning #comicsky!
Today we’re talking about You’re So Clumsy Charley by Jane Binnion and @radiocartoonist.bsky.social today in the Comic Rex Club Discord. Join the chat!
discord.gg/FNf6Uh8D3J
Today we’re talking about You’re So Clumsy Charley by Jane Binnion and @radiocartoonist.bsky.social today in the Comic Rex Club Discord. Join the chat!
discord.gg/FNf6Uh8D3J
April 21, 2025 at 8:30 AM
I missed this - I hope it went well.
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NEW
The significance of the Wisconsin court election result
Another setback for the illiberals in a skirmish
By me
Substack
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-signif...
Personal blog
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-signif...
The significance of the Wisconsin court election result
Another setback for the illiberals in a skirmish
By me
Substack
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-signif...
Personal blog
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-signif...
The significance of the Wisconsin court election result
Another setback for the illiberals in a skirmish
emptycity.substack.com
April 2, 2025 at 10:47 AM
NEW
The significance of the Wisconsin court election result
Another setback for the illiberals in a skirmish
By me
Substack
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-signif...
Personal blog
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-signif...
The significance of the Wisconsin court election result
Another setback for the illiberals in a skirmish
By me
Substack
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-signif...
Personal blog
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-signif...
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When did magic die for you?
I always believed in magic.
I mean, *really* believed in it.
Then suddenly it died one day in a dull and dusty maths lesson.
thecrone.co.uk/2022/11/27/t...
I always believed in magic.
I mean, *really* believed in it.
Then suddenly it died one day in a dull and dusty maths lesson.
thecrone.co.uk/2022/11/27/t...
The Death of Magic
When did magic die for you? I always believed in magic. I mean, really believed in it. Aged 9 I thought if I wished hard enough my cat would talk to me. That he was only hiding his secret…
thecrone.co.uk
April 2, 2025 at 10:35 AM
When did magic die for you?
I always believed in magic.
I mean, *really* believed in it.
Then suddenly it died one day in a dull and dusty maths lesson.
thecrone.co.uk/2022/11/27/t...
I always believed in magic.
I mean, *really* believed in it.
Then suddenly it died one day in a dull and dusty maths lesson.
thecrone.co.uk/2022/11/27/t...
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Today's the release day for @scottmccloud.bsky.social and @goraina.bsky.social new book.
It's an exceptional work of comic mastery.
If you're not sure if you really need to buy a Middle Grade Graphic Novel about kids making their own comics... Let me help you decide.
www.youtube.com/live/aMaZJS1...
It's an exceptional work of comic mastery.
If you're not sure if you really need to buy a Middle Grade Graphic Novel about kids making their own comics... Let me help you decide.
www.youtube.com/live/aMaZJS1...
April 1, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Today's the release day for @scottmccloud.bsky.social and @goraina.bsky.social new book.
It's an exceptional work of comic mastery.
If you're not sure if you really need to buy a Middle Grade Graphic Novel about kids making their own comics... Let me help you decide.
www.youtube.com/live/aMaZJS1...
It's an exceptional work of comic mastery.
If you're not sure if you really need to buy a Middle Grade Graphic Novel about kids making their own comics... Let me help you decide.
www.youtube.com/live/aMaZJS1...
I recommend my follower reads this. It's an important indicator of why we are where we are in politics today.
Want to know how Trump gets in? Just look at the coverage of Le Pen iandunt.substack.com/p/want-to-kn...
Want to know how Trump gets in? Just look at the coverage of Le Pen
The press takes a leading role destroying the rule of law
iandunt.substack.com
April 1, 2025 at 12:48 PM
I recommend my follower reads this. It's an important indicator of why we are where we are in politics today.
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Illiberals: With rights come responsibilities!
> Embezzlement of public funds means five year suspension from running for public office.<
Illiberals: No! Not like that!
> Embezzlement of public funds means five year suspension from running for public office.<
Illiberals: No! Not like that!
April 1, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Illiberals: With rights come responsibilities!
> Embezzlement of public funds means five year suspension from running for public office.<
Illiberals: No! Not like that!
> Embezzlement of public funds means five year suspension from running for public office.<
Illiberals: No! Not like that!
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Listen, Broligarchy is not some cute synonym for oligarchy. It's genuinely different & WAY more dangerous.
I'm a sociologist who's been studying the ultra-rich globally for 17 yrs, entering their world as an offshore wealth mgr. Published 2 books abt them.
🧵Broligarchs are distinct in 3 ways:
I'm a sociologist who's been studying the ultra-rich globally for 17 yrs, entering their world as an offshore wealth mgr. Published 2 books abt them.
🧵Broligarchs are distinct in 3 ways:
There’s a sort of Trump apologist, a relatively small but loud subset, who probably don’t realize or intend to be, but are so attached to a previous hyperbolic claim that they deny anything important changed.
-US was already an oligarchy
-US was already fascist
-Biden gave Israel a blank check
-Etc
-US was already an oligarchy
-US was already fascist
-Biden gave Israel a blank check
-Etc
November 15, 2024 at 9:01 PM
Listen, Broligarchy is not some cute synonym for oligarchy. It's genuinely different & WAY more dangerous.
I'm a sociologist who's been studying the ultra-rich globally for 17 yrs, entering their world as an offshore wealth mgr. Published 2 books abt them.
🧵Broligarchs are distinct in 3 ways:
I'm a sociologist who's been studying the ultra-rich globally for 17 yrs, entering their world as an offshore wealth mgr. Published 2 books abt them.
🧵Broligarchs are distinct in 3 ways:
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Now would be a hugely appreciated time to discover my Gerry Anderson writings. Essay anthologies, series guidebooks, and TV21 blogs - something for everyone!
telos.co.uk/shop/cult-tv...
gerryanderson.com/collections/...
ko-fi.com/sequential21
telos.co.uk/shop/cult-tv...
gerryanderson.com/collections/...
ko-fi.com/sequential21
January 28, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Now would be a hugely appreciated time to discover my Gerry Anderson writings. Essay anthologies, series guidebooks, and TV21 blogs - something for everyone!
telos.co.uk/shop/cult-tv...
gerryanderson.com/collections/...
ko-fi.com/sequential21
telos.co.uk/shop/cult-tv...
gerryanderson.com/collections/...
ko-fi.com/sequential21