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FredRIK WORTHam 🎃

@rikworth.bsky.social

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Comics oik. Working class. Union man. Sci comm sometimes. Author of… 📚Pets Tell Tales series 🐈‍⬛ https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15438/9781526366627 📚Eisner-nom’d HOCUS POCUS👻🔮 Rep’d by Watson Little https://www.vanishingincmagic.com/ebooks/hocus-pocus-book/

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FredRIK WORTHam 🎃 @rikworth.bsky.social · Mar 18

NEW BOOK!
Pets Tell Tales: Egypt is the first in a series of non-fiction comics explaining history from the point of view of the animals who helped, hindered, and were downright baffled by, humans

@jordancollver.bsky.social
@hachettechildrens.bsky.social

#kidslit #booksky

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Pets Tell Tales: Ancient Egypt: Book 1

Get yours now:

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Ben Sledge @bensledge.co.uk · 2h

Went to a boss kitbashing/sculpting/painting retreat in Belgium this weekend and have tabletop pitches out the wazoo. With Rascal currently not taking pitches, anyone know good places for tabletop stuff?

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Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 14h

Found @comicprintinguk.bsky.social’s alt account.

Simon Christiansen @simonchris.bsky.social · 14h

Current main character on Threads. Everyone is now posting knitting projects saying they're none of your business.

Threads thread going:
Sara: "I'm halfway done with my second piece. 4 more to go." Picture of unfinished knitting project.
Fiona: Whatcha makin?
Sarah: None of your business given I don't know you nor do I want to

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FredRIK WORTHam 🎃 @rikworth.bsky.social · 13h

Third day and final of the Pets Tell Tales: Ancient Egypt school tour!

Two schools to go then back to reality… and Leeds.

FredRIK WORTHam 🎃 @rikworth.bsky.social · 1d

Oh my lord. The joy of getting up when you want. I haven’t felt this in years.

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Jordan Collver @jordancollver.bsky.social · 1d

Met up with @rikworth.bsky.social tonight in prep for visiting 2 more schools tomorrow, this time on my turf in Bristol.

Jordan Collver @jordancollver.bsky.social · Mar 18

In the most exciting creative news of my life, I can finally share what @rikworth.bsky.social and I have been hard at work at for the past year.

PETS TELL TALES: ANCIENT EGYPT from @hachettechildrens.bsky.social will be on bookshelves in July & is available to preorder NOW! 👉 geni.us/PetsTellTales

Cover art for Pets Tell Tales: Ancient Egypt featuring a pharoah anxiously holding open the jaws of a hippo with his legs. A falcon swoops between his legs, a cobra snake is wrapped around his arm and a baboon shoots a spit ball at him from behind some reeds - where a dog, ibis bird, cat, and strange dog-like Set creature also look out from. Pyramids are seen in the distance and the sunset sky fades into stars above.

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FredRIK WORTHam 🎃 @rikworth.bsky.social · 2d

People should not ask Alan Moore about Watchmen anymore, but I would love to see what the working class, magical anti-fascist thinks of the billionaire, fundamentalist, libertarian tech bro’s interpretation.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

FredRIK WORTHam 🎃 @rikworth.bsky.social · 2d

I’m off to Bristol!
We’ve got 4 school talks to about 500 students. Looking forward to talking about comics and having the kids make their own story. As so…

A four panel comix of a gladiator meeting a leopard, bear and alligator, then screaming and making them run away.

FredRIK WORTHam 🎃 @rikworth.bsky.social · 2d

Rachel Watches @chrislackey.bsky.social hide in a sewer from a man with tattoo. The new smash hit podcast of a husband introducing his interests to his wife.

FredRIK WORTHam 🎃 @rikworth.bsky.social · 2d

I’m reading Something Wicked This Way Comes but I’ve also been getting through the @strangestudies.bsky.social catalogue. So Will and Jim have become Chris and Chad in my mind. And rather than teenagers, they’re the full grown men whose confused wives wonder why they keep climbing out the window.

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 2d

There is a genuine mental block amongst the elites in capitalist societies. Everything is collapsing and the hegemon is autocannibalising, but if that were true then they'd have to do something about it, and so they are doubling down on "everything is fine and normal."

Max Bernhard @mxbernhard.bsky.social · 2d

Seems like the worst time to start sharing your citizens' biometric data with the US government

Matthias Monroy @matthimon.bsky.social · Aug 29

The EU-Commission wants to negotiate a very sensitive agreement that would allow US authorities direct (!) access to police-stored fingerprints & facial images in Europe.
Potentially, all travelers could be affected by this #EBSP – and people in need for protection.
digit.site36.net/2025/08/29/e...

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FredRIK WORTHam 🎃 @rikworth.bsky.social · 3d

Rather bizarrely, just yesterday I was reading about an inmate a Wakey who has a history of killing paedophiles.

Seems unlikely its the same guy.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_...

FredRIK WORTHam 🎃 @rikworth.bsky.social · 3d

Whaaaa!

Mark Bradley @markbradley.bsky.social · 3d

I am absolutely fascinated to see how this goes - Harper are attempting to launch a 32 page monthly children’s comic for 8-12 year olds in the US.

www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

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Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 3d

In case people need something to look forward to, I have the honour of collaborating with @hookland.bsky.social on a light novel. Initial discussions began in a necropolis and then moved onto a pub. Will begin in earnest early 2026.

Creature formed of woven willow and hagstones. Fearful in appearance. Pencil drawing with some tones.

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Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 3d

Jared Leto? More like Jared Lets-not-go-to-the-cinema, eh readers?

Cosmic Marvel @dailycosmicmarvel.bsky.social · 3d

‘TRON: ARES’ has earned $14.3M in its opening day at the domestic box office.

For comparison, ‘MORBIUS’ opened to $17.3M.

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FredRIK WORTHam 🎃 @rikworth.bsky.social · 3d

What if we made a Tron movie but instead of having Daft Punk in it, Jared Leto is in it?

Disney. For some reason.

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FredRIK WORTHam 🎃 @rikworth.bsky.social · 3d

Better yet. Report, then block.

Screen cap of Bluesky’s report options highlighting “Misleading Post” and AI Imagery Labeler

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FredRIK WORTHam 🎃 @rikworth.bsky.social · 3d

Oh my I was joking.
As if I have the money to do that in this economy!

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FredRIK WORTHam 🎃 @rikworth.bsky.social · 3d

Excuse me.
How do I “short” the AI industry?
Asking for someone who hates AI and feels nuts that people just go along with it.

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 4d

“Concerns over an AI bubble bursting have grown lately, with analysts recently finding that it’s 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis.”

Hang onto your butts. This “correction” is gonna hurt.
futurism.com/artificial-i...

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

futurism.com

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 3d

Gale Of Wind, by John Hoppner, 1795.

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 3d

Liverpool Street Station, 1960, by Edward Bawden.

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FredRIK WORTHam 🎃 @rikworth.bsky.social · 3d

Better yet. Report, then block.

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FredRIK WORTHam 🎃 @rikworth.bsky.social · 3d

You don’t have to share AI disinformation.
Just block it and move on.

FredRIK WORTHam 🎃 @rikworth.bsky.social · 4d

Fitting that Jesus is sharing this as “Turn the other cheek” doesn’t mean forgive your enemy. It means place your enemy in a situation that attacking you is socially embarrassing for them.

Reverend Jesus "Ł" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 4d

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

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FredRIK WORTHam 🎃 @rikworth.bsky.social · 4d

Man goes to doctor. Says he’s depressed. Feels lonely. Lacks identity. Alienated from his labour and needs something to believe in.

Doctor says solution simple. Great political thinker Marx is in town. Go see him.

Man cries. But, Doctor…