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SK Schäfer
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Sight-impaired queer artist from Bristol, UK. Fundamentally misunderstood the phrase "crying with laughter". More active on Instagram @skschafer
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skschafer.bsky.social
I've read this story a few times since it was posted. It is some really excellent reporting and evocative writing that shows just how a drug price can get so out of control and the damage it does.
propublica.org ProPublica @propublica.org · 4d
Cancer drug Revlimid is one of the bestselling pharmaceutical products of all time, with total sales of over $100 billion.

It’s also extraordinarily expensive, costing nearly $1,000 for each pill, even though that pill costs just 25 cents to make.

By @davidarmstrongx.bsky.social
The Price of Remission: This Cancer Drug Saves Lives — but Costs a Fortune. I Wanted to Know Why.
When I was diagnosed with cancer, I set out to understand why a single pill of Revlimid cost the same as a new iPhone. I’ve covered high drug prices as a reporter for years. What I discovered shocked ...
www.propublica.org
November 28, 2025 at 11:06 PM
skschafer.bsky.social
And boy are their lips tired.
washingtonpost.com The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 13d
Animals have been kissing for over 17 million years, a new study suggests.

Kissing has long perplexed evolutionary biologists, given it has no obvious benefit to reproducing or finding food, while carrying the risk of disease transmission.
When was the first kiss? Over 17 million years ago, a study suggests.
Evolutionary biologists don’t know why we kiss — but new research suggests kissing evolved long before humans existed.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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wearequeeraf.com
🏳️‍⚧️ We’re back with paid opportunities for Trans+ creatives!

Writer? Illustrator? Audio producer? This is for you.

With @transhistoryweek.com we’re investing in 20 Trans+ creatives to make content for Trans+ History Week 2026.

Deadline 2nd Dec 2025, 11:59PM GMT 🗓️
🧵 Details 👇
Graphic on light grey and pastel purple background featuring six Trans+ creatives. Text that reads: Trans+ History Week 04-10 May 2026. Paid opportunities for Trans+ Creatives.
November 11, 2025 at 2:46 PM
skschafer.bsky.social
Going to try and do #Inktober.
Also going to try posting comics to BlueSky finally.
A cartoon based on the Inktober day one prompt "Moustache". Advanced Moustache Techniques. Each style of facial hair is accompanied by a drawing of a blank man's face with the stated style in bolder in. Pencil: a thin wirey moustache like a pencil line. Quill: half of the pencil 'tache but the other end is styled as a feather. Soup Strainer: a bushy moustache covering the top lip. Spaghetti Strainer: an even bushier moustache with sieve holes in. Goatee: a moustache that wraps around the mouth area ending in a point on the chin. Mountain Goatee: a reverse of the Goatee that travels from filtrum to the top of the skull ending in a majestic peak. Handlebar: a long thick moustache that frames down either side of the mouth. Full Bicycle: it looks like a bike.
October 1, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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transportforall.org.uk
Job alert! We're looking for a disabled person to become our Senior Engagement Officer London, working with members to organise events and meet ups focused on accessible transport, support campaigns, and lead on local consultations. Find out more: www.transportforall.org.uk/about-us/wor...
A casually dressed smiling black man with a limb difference. Behind him is a colourful mural. Under the picture the words 'recruiting now' are written in bold black text on yellow tape. Matching yellow arrows point to the man and words. The image has a lurid pink background.
September 4, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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streakofpith.bsky.social
🌟 IT LIVES! 🌟 The UK Comics Creator Survey is BACK, baby!

Here to gather up, analyse and disseminate your data to help uplift the comics world, like if Robin Hood was a statistician or something.

ukcomicscreators.org.uk
A promotional image for the survey, reading “we’ve got questions; we need answers. Who’s in?” Above a series of illustrated raised hands in various styles. At the bottom is the url ukcomicscreators.org.uk
September 5, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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transportforall.org.uk
We’re hiring!
Transport for All is looking for:
- Senior Communications and Engagement Officer
- Admin Assistant (Policy, Public Affairs and Campaigns team)
Passionate about accessible transport? Apply now: www.transportforall.org.uk/about-us/wor...
Work with Transport for All
Find the latest jobs and vacancies at Transport for All, a proudly disabled-led group breaking down barriers and transforming the transport system
www.transportforall.org.uk
July 22, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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letsnotdate.bsky.social
Don’t send me an unsolicited picture of your peewee cocktapus unless you want me to…
A: find your mom’s Facebook
B: find a picture she uploaded of you reminiscing about what a nice young man you were
C: badly photoshop that into a locket
D: convince you I’m your daughter.

Happy Father’s Day Daddy.
June 15, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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pigeonface.bsky.social
I’ll be wrapping up a freelance gig in May and so I’m open for work from June onwards!
Hit me up for:
🌱Character and ornament focused illustration
🌱Cover art
🌱Comics
Portfolio: pigeonmakesart.co.uk
Contact: [email protected]
Cover design for my upcoming comic „The Ecstasy of Jenny D”. Merging medieval ornaments with the vibes of a teenager’s diary decorated with stickers. The nun in ecstasy on the cover is inspired by the sculpture Ecstasy of Saint Theresa. A pagan folky lady adorned with flowers for the band Ophelia’s Beard A book cover of a folk tale story „Selkie Song - The Mermaid of Scottish Sea” Moody, dark comic page set in the woods. A young girl sits on the ground among red mushrooms. She’s looking up onto a tall house on a chicken foot which is towering over her and staring at her intensely with a single bright yellow eye.
April 9, 2025 at 8:40 AM
skschafer.bsky.social
Happy Shrove Tuesday everyone! #PancakeDay
A cartoon version of the Disaster Girl Meme where the girl is Guy Fawkes coyly smiling to camera, flipping a burnt pancake in a pan whilst a diner burns to ash in the background. Textreads: remember to burn your first lancake in honour of when Guy Fawkes tried to burn down that Pancake House.
March 4, 2025 at 10:29 AM
skschafer.bsky.social
Would play.
Would build a PS2 out of sticks and mud in order to play.
firstmadekit.uk Kit Frith @firstmadekit.uk · Feb 28
@skschafer.bsky.social and @edinsnicestboy.bsky.social dearly wanted the Japanese PS2 Columbo game to exist, so I did my best...
Cover art concept for a PS2 Columbo inspired game. Screenshot mock up of a PS2 Columbo inspired game.
February 28, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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skschafer.bsky.social
Happy smooching season.
Here is a comic about dating, kissing, and how Mike Love of The Beach Boys is music's greatest monster.
Third comes marriage. I've been on many bad dates: such as going to a cat cafe full of rescues who were all terrified of human beings so the whole place had an air of tragedy & trauma. A furious ginger cat with their heckles up screeches "so how did you two meet?". Or the time we had three bottles of port in four hours simply because it was "five weeks 'til Christmas". Turns out neither of us actually liked port. A phone scrolls through endless dating profiles of gradually emptying bottles of port. One time a woman asked me out after seeing me do stand-up. We went to dinner and 20 minutes in she said "Oh fuck you're like this off-stage too". Your author SK is pictured as a fat man with glasses and wild brown hair and beard, he is dressed nicely but slumped disappointedly at a dinner table as his date a put together woman awkwardly sips from a bottle of "not port". She thought I was doing a clever character act about a type of person we both hate, when in reality I am just a person we both hate. However my worst choice of date was when I went on a third date to a wedding fayre. The phrase "third date to a wedding fayre" is presented on an elaborate wedding invitation. Our second date was to a graveyard and death didn't do us part so our choice of next date was limited. A row of headstones read: wedding fayre, retirement home, antenatal class, coffee. While at the graveyard my date made a CREATURE out of discarded trash we found including: headless teddy bear, plastic flowers from a bin, weird cross from a grate, burnt out noseless doll's head covered in swastikas. There is then a drawing of that creature which be thankful you cannot see. We thought we'd have fun at the fayre, blend in with the crowds, make bets on which couples would divorce first, drown ourselves in free samples, use those samples to create a new monster. An artist's impression of what such a monster would like with the decapitated teddy bear being encased inside a wedding cake, holding sugared almonds, and wearing a veil over a head of roses. But when we arrived we were the only ones there. Me and my date are pictured tiny and still at the end of long rows of vendors clammering to get to us. All eyes were on us immediatedly & intensely, like a puppy getting on a train, overwhelmed by the attention and unable to comprehend the speed we're moving at. A drawing of said puppy, shy and retreating from many grasping hands. We were not prepared for this. We didn't even know each other's last names. So I just started answering questions antagonistically; "do you have a date yet?" was met with an aggressive "I like December but SOMEONE doesn't think winter is romantic." Me and my date argue in front a dejected staller "I just think it's too cold to have it outdoors" my date pleads while I sassily snap "I keep telling you you can't get frostbite twice!". Our second mistake was not eating beforehand, they had enough free champagne for hundreds of guests, also my date didn't drink, so we were three stalls deep and I'd already drunk my weight in free booze, and in champagne terms my weight is a magnum (heavy on the bottom with a breakable neck). I am pictured next to a champagne bottle labelled "not port", I am very curvy and doing a silly little sexy pose showing off said heavy bottom. So I was making increasingly ridiculous requests like having a giant bowl of spaghetti because it's MY wedding and thus my God-given right to Lady & Tramp the guests. I am sat cross-legged beneath a bowl of spaghetti & meatballs the size of a small house, I am dressed in a tux and have hearts in my eyes as a noodle dangles from my mouth and a queue of wedding guests line-up to enjoy their meal/smooch.
February 14, 2025 at 5:14 PM
skschafer.bsky.social
Happy smooching season.
Here is a comic about dating, kissing, and how Mike Love of The Beach Boys is music's greatest monster.
Third comes marriage. I've been on many bad dates: such as going to a cat cafe full of rescues who were all terrified of human beings so the whole place had an air of tragedy & trauma. A furious ginger cat with their heckles up screeches "so how did you two meet?". Or the time we had three bottles of port in four hours simply because it was "five weeks 'til Christmas". Turns out neither of us actually liked port. A phone scrolls through endless dating profiles of gradually emptying bottles of port. One time a woman asked me out after seeing me do stand-up. We went to dinner and 20 minutes in she said "Oh fuck you're like this off-stage too". Your author SK is pictured as a fat man with glasses and wild brown hair and beard, he is dressed nicely but slumped disappointedly at a dinner table as his date a put together woman awkwardly sips from a bottle of "not port". She thought I was doing a clever character act about a type of person we both hate, when in reality I am just a person we both hate. However my worst choice of date was when I went on a third date to a wedding fayre. The phrase "third date to a wedding fayre" is presented on an elaborate wedding invitation. Our second date was to a graveyard and death didn't do us part so our choice of next date was limited. A row of headstones read: wedding fayre, retirement home, antenatal class, coffee. While at the graveyard my date made a CREATURE out of discarded trash we found including: headless teddy bear, plastic flowers from a bin, weird cross from a grate, burnt out noseless doll's head covered in swastikas. There is then a drawing of that creature which be thankful you cannot see. We thought we'd have fun at the fayre, blend in with the crowds, make bets on which couples would divorce first, drown ourselves in free samples, use those samples to create a new monster. An artist's impression of what such a monster would like with the decapitated teddy bear being encased inside a wedding cake, holding sugared almonds, and wearing a veil over a head of roses. But when we arrived we were the only ones there. Me and my date are pictured tiny and still at the end of long rows of vendors clammering to get to us. All eyes were on us immediatedly & intensely, like a puppy getting on a train, overwhelmed by the attention and unable to comprehend the speed we're moving at. A drawing of said puppy, shy and retreating from many grasping hands. We were not prepared for this. We didn't even know each other's last names. So I just started answering questions antagonistically; "do you have a date yet?" was met with an aggressive "I like December but SOMEONE doesn't think winter is romantic." Me and my date argue in front a dejected staller "I just think it's too cold to have it outdoors" my date pleads while I sassily snap "I keep telling you you can't get frostbite twice!". Our second mistake was not eating beforehand, they had enough free champagne for hundreds of guests, also my date didn't drink, so we were three stalls deep and I'd already drunk my weight in free booze, and in champagne terms my weight is a magnum (heavy on the bottom with a breakable neck). I am pictured next to a champagne bottle labelled "not port", I am very curvy and doing a silly little sexy pose showing off said heavy bottom. So I was making increasingly ridiculous requests like having a giant bowl of spaghetti because it's MY wedding and thus my God-given right to Lady & Tramp the guests. I am sat cross-legged beneath a bowl of spaghetti & meatballs the size of a small house, I am dressed in a tux and have hearts in my eyes as a noodle dangles from my mouth and a queue of wedding guests line-up to enjoy their meal/smooch.
February 14, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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barrstard.bsky.social
Similar to the 'defcon' system, the Mambo scale decreases with severity. Contrary to expectation Mambo No. 5 indicates, in fact, a normal state of Mambo - the most severe would be Mambo No. 1.
February 4, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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seanmorl.com
Club Wormhole is the real deal. The UK only allows about 3-4 cities to have a healthy alt comedy scene at any one time and right now Nottingham's is the place to be.
sionmillsscion.bsky.social Lee Kennedy, idiot @sionmillsscion.bsky.social · Dec 3
Cannot believe what a job the rest of The Club Wormhole Gang™️ did rewriting Macbeth as a Panto in 3 weeks
December 4, 2024 at 3:21 PM
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catsinook.bsky.social
Ok! My twitch stream anniversary is around this time so I’ma do a longer stream of random stuff! Schedule below, Wednesday 27th November! Would be cool if you popped by 💜
twitch.tv/catsi_nook #artistsontwitch #streamanniversary #bmovie #coop
CATSIVERSARY - 4 years on twitch 9am- Needle felting 11am - Doodle requests 12pm - Supermarket Together with ENB 2pm - Loco Motive 4:30pm Watch/DrawAlong : Legends of Dinosaurs and Monster Birds 6pm - Finish! 1 Sub or Kofi over £4 = 1 Christmas dec on tree
November 24, 2024 at 5:02 PM
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skschafer.bsky.social
A comic of pre-cursors to roller disco. The "hot-rod lindy hop" has two 1950s teenagers dancing on the roof of a classic car. The "bi-plane charleston" has a flapper girl and her escort jiveing on the wings of a flying plane. The "penny farthing two step" has two victorian lovers embracing atop duelling penny farthings. The "horseback waltz" is a regency couple atop upright bipedal horses attempting an elegant waltz. The "riverboat bangle walk" has three women of ancient egypt on a long riverboat doing the famous waitress dance from The Bangles' 1980s hit song.
November 23, 2024 at 10:11 AM
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skschafer.bsky.social
A comic of Faux Pas: things that I have mistaken for my father. An old jumper that smells of ash. A stack of military history novels. Angry static from an AM radio. A golf club with a moustache. A hammer I haven't seen in years. An emotionally distant ship in a bottle. An oil spill in the shape of a frown. Any man that refuses to hug me.
November 23, 2024 at 10:04 AM
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skschafer.bsky.social
Going to post a few old comics for this app.
A cartoon of hard to swallow pills. One is too spiky. One is literally on fire. One is far too long. One is made of glass. One is always flying. And one seems normal but is the size of an elephant and very far away.
November 23, 2024 at 10:01 AM
skschafer.bsky.social
Going to post a few old comics for this app.
A cartoon of hard to swallow pills. One is too spiky. One is literally on fire. One is far too long. One is made of glass. One is always flying. And one seems normal but is the size of an elephant and very far away.
November 23, 2024 at 10:01 AM