Jac Bat
@jacbat.bsky.social
Curator Zineopolis / zines / illustration /Art Education / Future Fantasteek / ✏️ Zineopolis.blogspot.com
On Monday 14th September, MPs are debating whether there should be a referendum on who owns England's water. I've just asked my MP to attend and support giving us a say. Take 2mins to email your MP: weownit.org.uk/act-now/deba... @weownit.org.uk
Give the public a say on who owns our water - email your MP
Public ownership of water is popular. MPs must give us a say on who owns our water.
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We need to show rightwing newspapers that actions have consequences. Add your name: goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1
Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project
Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.
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WTAF!! What is wrong with these people ? ⬇️ Google plans to bulldoze a wildlife haven in Essex – home to rare species – for a data centre. Sign the petition now to help save it before it’s gone forever 🐝🦋 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
Save Arena Essex- Tell Google to search elsewhere!
Wedged between the Mar Dyke Valley and Lakeside Retail Park, the former Arena Essex Raceway is not your usual wildlife haven. Where once stock cars and speedway bikes lined up to cross the fini...
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Lynda Barry did not squeeze your heart and simultaneously explain the point of all art with the barest of line drawings so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."
Olivia Hill@machineiv.bsky.social · 4mo agoSam Raimi didn't strap a Super 8 camera to a 2x4 so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."
Nigel Farage is breaking British company law. Missed a deadline to file a confirmation statement with Companies House. Failed to verify his identity, required by law. Failure to comply is a criminal offence. Low attendance in parliament but busy with 2nd jobs, collecting money from foreign donors.
Revealed: Nigel Farage is breaking British company law
Farage’s personal company has almost £2m in cash but has not filed key documents
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Love this city. The racists are all stuck in a shit pub rn being yelled at by *checks notes* Fatboy slim?
The brilliant Feargal Sharkey sums it up "The whole industry’s got to go. Absolutely, without exception" Time to end the privatisation rip off diverting 1/3 OF YOUR WATER BILL into shareholder dividends and debt Are you listening DEFRA? www.mirror.co.uk/news/feargal...
Feargal Sharkey rubbishes key argument for not nationalising water industry
Campaigners have stepped-up pressure on the government to bring the crisis hit water industry back into public ownership
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I have described Mereida as having a "genius level understanding of the unique potential of comics" at @brokenfrontier.bsky.social. Far more people should be aware of her work and following her @mereida.bsky.social. #BF6toWatch
Mereida ✸@mereida.bsky.social · 5mo agoIt's been incredibly rewarding working with Aysha Haddington-Ahmed and Elizabeth Evens on this comic about clinical staff working in healthcare with patients that have experienced sexual violence. The comic explores the barriers that both patients and staff may face in addressing these issues. 1/3
Work in progress of two postcards that will be rubber stamped. Upgrade / Reboot All human hands and human brain. Did look at a Raphael painting of St.Michael stamping on a dragon for inspiration from a *book *book - folded sections of paper with printing on them sewn or glued into a binding.
I’m enjoying this Vivaldi browser, none of the rubbish Ai overviews, just a link to the source you want (like in the olden days when it was fun) @vivaldi.com
I just want to say in 20+ years of HE teaching it’s always been the people who bring the joy. Conversations with students, colleagues, so many voices, ideas and possibilities it’s energising and I love it. The saddest thing is seeing is all these folk outsourcing their voices. today’s visual diary.
Keep Palantir out of our NHS you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
Stop Palantir taking over our public services!
Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.
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Current mood Weltschmerz or world-weary aka ‘tired of this shit’ Some (most) days news is too much. Lino print on vintage ledger paper. #Weltschmerz #womensart @womensartbluesky.bsky.social
Had to change trains yesterday evening due to some issue with the signalling system, BUT for 5 mins at Worthing we all saw the best sunset ever, people chatting, laughing and taking photos (Nice break from spiralling chaos)
MA illustration, here’s our latest graduate catalogue University of Portsmouth Illustration can visually communicate so many ideas on a range of subjects, this subject is ever changing and a joy to teach. Find your people - these are some of mine. heyzine.com/flip-book/bd...
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heyzine.com/flip-book/ca... You Love Libraries / When All the Books Are Gone Tete beche zine in support of libraries everywhere Batey / Randall (2025)
Future Fantasteek! No.23 | PDF to Flipbook
Jac Batey (images) & Jessy Randall (text)\nBrighton, UK \/ Colorado Springs, USA (2025)\n297mm x 210mm, 32 x pages, Tête-bêche format\nDigital colour printing on 150 gsm recycled silk paper, \n\nThe p...
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Still time to join in with this ⬇️🗻
Sarah Bodman@sarahbodman.bsky.social · 8mo agoWorld Book Night 2026 The Mountains Are Calling… We invite you to send something inspired by mountains for an exhibition and mail art swap. Deadline 3rd March 2026. Download the brief www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/news/#wbn2026 Images here by @tofuart.bsky.social, Lizzie Brewer, Terrie Reddish, Carol Wood.
C’mon everyone we just need to be more (more) resilient What do you mean you don’t wanna talk to our AI therapist? (Cost a fortune you betta use it) From Future Fantasteek no.22
You Love Libraries / When All the Books Are Gone Zine will join lots of others in the Fanzinefest in Vienna Austria. This isa collaborative zine by me and @jessyrandall.bsky.social It’s for folk who love books and libraries x
Reprint of ‘Computers Apps and Smartphones’ drawings mostly drawn on my commute. Thoughts about our uneasy relationship with technology that we use daily. Drawings are taken from the first 16 issues of Future Fantasteek! A5, 40pages, saddle-stitched, colour printing on recycled silk paper.
Do you love libraries?
Sarah Bodman@sarahbodman.bsky.social · 12mo agoWe have a new display in the library vitrines of Future Fantasteek! #23 – You Love Libraries – When All the Books Are Gone by @jacbat.bsky.social & @jessyrandall.bsky.social Find out more about their project at: www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/ff23libraries/ Pics by Shaun Oaten at Bower Ashton Library.
Autumn is here so I can welcome back new students and pack away the antihistamines - finally
