cpuk (trampoline park connoisseur and occasional comic printer)

@comicprintinguk.bsky.social

Increasingly part-time comic printer (still the best tho). Increasingly full time dad/carer. S-tier trash talker. If you followed for the printing stuff get ready to see a lot about how society fails SEN kids instead. rich@comicprintinguk.com

So, I did a thing. It started with a series of blog posts, that was supposed to turn into a 20 page how to guide and instead became a full sized book because I realise that no one ever talks about how you do this stuff properly and so many small presses manage by trial and error

Book cover for the small press operating manual by Graeme Reynolds.  Blur background white text with a flowchart showing the stages of publication

There's a lot of smack talked about the BBC on The Bluesky at the moment. They are far from perfect, and they are for sure guilty of platforming Farage in a way that's elevated him to the prominence he has today. But it's still an exponentially better establishment than most other UK news sources.

The Empty City@davidallengreen.bsky.social · 2d ago

NEW How the BBC turned the litigation table on Trump The president now faces a dilemma about revealing his business records By me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

And so in another splendid Order in this case, the court sided firmly with the BBC. Nothing in the litigation rules means that disclosure can be delayed. Trump’s lawyers wanted to hide behind an “expert report” at trial setting out the purported damage. But the court said the documents need to be produced now.

Trump’s representatives even contended that producing the business records would be “overbroad” even though they are claiming an astronomical amount of damage to Trump’s commercial interests. Trump and his lawyers essentially wanted it both ways: to mount a wide-ranging damages claim but with the narrowest range of produced documents to support that claim. The court said no.

As with many other things to do with Trump, this case smacks of bluster but little tactical (and still less strategic) thought. What seemed a powerful first move was not really thought through. Trump presumably assumed the BBC, like other entities he has brought suits against, would simply fold. But the BBC also said no.

Conservatives are welcome to post on bluesky. Absolutely nothing is stopping them. They just dont automatically earn engagement for being purposefully incendiary and Nazis arent given special baby treatment for having "different opinions" take your tiki torch and polo shirt elsewhere fucko

Its a lib "bubble" because MAGA can't stick dick opinions in my face without a block. People like bluesky because unlike Twitter you can curate/filter out stupid bullshit. The only reason conservatives hate it is because they cant force you to pay attention to them. That better not fucking change.

The Verge@theverge.com · 2d ago

Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."