Becky Barnicoat
@beckybarnicoat.bsky.social
Cartoonist and writer for The New Yorker, The New Statesman, The Guardian and more. My debut graphic memoir Cry When the Baby Cries is out now.
Here's @beckybarnicoat.bsky.social with your new look for Hot Binface Summer! (Just don't mind the smell...) The @countbinface.bsky.social Comic Book is out in 2 DAYS! Pre-order now - or it's into the trash with you! #countbinface #selfmadehero #indiecomics #ukpolitics #clacton
Preview: The Count Binface Comic Book – 30-Plus Indie Creators Bring the Extraterrestrial Politician to Comics in SelfMadeHero’s New Anthology. @selfmadehero.bsky.social www.brokenfrontier.com/count-binfac...
Preview: The Count Binface Comic Book - 30-Plus Indie Creators Bring the Extraterrestrial Politician to Comics in SelfMadeHero's New Anthology – Broken Frontier
Steven Appleby, Woodrow Phoenix, Anna Readman and Mark Stafford are just some of the artists in 'The Count Binface Comic Book'.
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🚨🗑️ new @countbinface.bsky.social comic drops 06.08.26 🗑️🚨 from @selfmadehero.bsky.social with 10% going to @sheltercharity.bsky.social Pre-order NOW from @goshcomics.bsky.social Crafted from contributions by 36 comic creators, including…
There are only 50 of each exclusive Very Tiny Comic in the Monsters Anthology. Including Jamie Smart’s ‘Swears’ @jamiesmart.bsky.social, Warwick Johnson-Cadwell’s @wocco.bsky.social ‘Boo', & Becky Barnicoat’s ‘Awkward’ @beckybarnicoat.bsky.social. Come along to Gosh on Small Press Day to grab one.
Market manipulation for sale - Truth Social to sell trading firms 'fastest' access to Trump's posts www.reuters.com/technology/t...
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Reform UK's Zia Yusuf is currently delivering a speech accusing his party's critics of using language that will put his colleagues' lives at risk. In other news, here's Zia Yusuf two months ago
"Protect me from violence" says the man who last month called for people to respond with "pure, cold rage" 🙃
The collapse of liberal European democracy is a Russian project
Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · last mo.Your regular reminder that the Far Right is a global endeavour.
Care homes charging councils up to £28,000 a week per child. The Times reports that a part-time bouncer and a recruitment magnate are among the directors demanding ‘mind-boggling’ sums, as local authorities battle a shortage of homes. www.thetimes.com/article/care...
Care homes charging councils up to £28k a week per child
A part-time bouncer and a recruitment magnate are among the directors demanding ‘mind-boggling’ sums, as local authorities battle a shortage of suitable homes
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Heatwave halts Reform bid to scrap climate emergency A council debate on scrapping West Norfolk's climate emergency was postponed after extreme heat made the chamber unusable | Henry Durand
Heatwave halts Reform bid to scrap climate emergency
A council debate on scrapping West Norfolk's climate emergency was postponed after extreme heat made the chamber unusable
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This week the full reality of what we’re now up against because we took a principled stand against generative AI at BF became very apparent. I have to hope that for every door now being slammed shut on us because of that stance there’s another one opening. Your support is so appreciated right now!
Old friends and new (or at least new in person) at Hay! @beckybarnicoat.bsky.social @neillcameron.bsky.social @misterabk.bsky.social @tibolota.bsky.social @hayfestival.bsky.social
Did you know that Weds 27 May is jam packed with comics at @hayfestival.bsky.social ? Come and see me @myfanwytristram.bsky.social, @rickardsisters.com, @beckybarnicoat.bsky.social @gemmacorrell.bsky.social @neillcameron.bsky.social and more! Plus relax with a comic at @gnrr.bsky.social 🥰
Wes Streeting is not going to solve that likeability problem
We’re all preppers now: the Becky Barnicoat cartoon
We’re all preppers now: the Becky Barnicoat cartoon
One person’s clutter …
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Morgan McSweeney always looks like he's just been crying
Yes! Until you become someone who *needs* a bench (for me this was having kids), you don't see how the world excludes, denies, blocks access, with stairs, high curbs, no benches. Capitalist landscaping that intentionally welcomes the strongest members of society and excludes the rest.
rom comrade@savasavasava.myatproto.social · 4mo agoit is devastating to notice how few benches there are in the world and how some benches have been replaced by weird "leaning" things. the world is incredibly cruel to disabled, elderly, poor, pregnant, tired, homeless, and all people. there should be benches fucking everywhere for everyone
it is devastating to notice how few benches there are in the world and how some benches have been replaced by weird "leaning" things. the world is incredibly cruel to disabled, elderly, poor, pregnant, tired, homeless, and all people. there should be benches fucking everywhere for everyone
Places Journal@placesjournal.bsky.social · 4mo ago"Benches are where optimistic visions of civic life meet reality. To remove them, or to curate who gets to sit, is to abandon the work of defining a civic ideal and determining, together, how to live up to it." NEW: Why benches are slowly disappearing from public spaces — and why we need them back:
Always nice to get a letter from school threatening you with fines and custodial sentences! A mood lifter. "Money raised from fines goes towards aggressively pursuing parents with threats and fines" – a circular economy!
I’ve known Lebanon for three decades. What’s happening now is an invasion. This is Gaza 2.0 – and the world is barely paying attention. @CaroleCadwalladr for the Nerve Link 🔽
Lisa Kudrow’s stoney face as Jimmy Carr says he has a whiskey company called Muff Liquor 🤢 He’s Walliams stock.
Can we cancel Jimmy Carr please 🤢 #theclaudiawinklemanshow
A “crisis tax” where the govt can tax energy firms making a vast profit during energy crises, with money put into a support fund for businesses and the public affected by spiralling energy costs.
