Kevin Hoffin
@khoffin.bsky.social
Comics pedagogist/historian/sociologist/cartoonist. Educational activist. Trains. Tea. Photography. BBQ. Golden Gavel. Married to @alias-agatha.bsky.social #Educomix. Comicunity @kevinhoffin, Insta: @Kevin_Loves_Comics No AI/Crypto/DMs
Reform MP Robert Jenrick: “Rod Liddle said the unsayable truth years before anyone else would come close.” Rod Liddle on child abuse images: “We should not be in the business of putting people in prison for simply looking at things."
Please stop saying invasion when referring to immigrants. An invasion is what Britain did in India or what Britain did in The West Indies or what Britain did in large parts of Africa or what Britain did in…
This is quite horrific. A rare case in which the headline very much underplays the content of the article itself, as 'potentially harmful activity' is not what is described here. Would be good to know what the next steps are, beyond 'a broader conversation'. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
OpenAI and Anthropic models went rogue in cyber tests, UK watchdog says
AI Security Institute warns tools undertook ‘potentially harmful activity directed at real people and organisations’
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people are not being released (having served the normal term) at the same rate and so the prison population will increase. If only the chief inspector of prisons warned the govt in 2017, 2018 and 2019 that there was an absolutely inevitable and unavoidable prison capacity crisis due in 2023-2024.
the number of people being released from long term sentences. You see - if as many people are exiting the prison system for long sentences as are entering it - the prison population stays roughly the same. When you start increasing sentences then there will be a period a few years later where
The Conservative govt (supported by Labour) responded to increasing crime by doing nothing to deal with the poverty+mental health crisis that foments so much crime and instead just increased sentencing tariffs. For years, the number of people being locked up for serious crime was about the same as
This Rod Liddle? The Rod Liddle who beat up his pregnant girlfriend and said that he had accepted the caution but only because it was the quickest way to be released and he hasn't done it? Y'know what? If you want people to be kind to you when you die. Try not to be a total shitheel.
Ben Goldacre@bengoldacre.bsky.social · 2d agoSad to see people posting on social media negatively about Rod Liddle, who died yesterday. If I have disagreed with you very strongly in life - and you die - I hope I'll be either silent, or kind.
Check this out, and for academia's sake. Sign it.
Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 2d agoOpen Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia It's been a year & people tell me they've changed their mind, feel safer now to sign, etc. So I'm sharing it again for them. We're almost at 2k & anybody from anywhere can add their names. openletter.earth/open-letter-...
Once again for those at the back: ‘Don’t speak ill of the dead’ is about your great aunt Elsie, who liked a long gin with a short tonic at elevenses, and blew your inheritance money betting on the horses. Speaking ill of absolute monsters is a moral obligation, actually.
The Mail, call him 'brilliantly funny'. Kemi Badenoch calls his death 'heartbreaking' John Humphries calls him 'wonderful to work with'. Editor of Sunday Times says he had a 'wonderful way with words'. He wrote he "could not remotely conceive of not trying to shag the kids" if he was a teacher
The problem with a written constitution is that it's also extremely open to abuse by bad-faith actors.
NationCymru@nation.cymru · 3d agoA written constitution could be needed for Britain as a ‘different approach’ is taken to running the country, the Prime Minister has said
So... Lemme get this straight. Farage defends his dodgy donations because 'he was a media personality who wasn't yet in politics' and blast Burnham over not inviting him to cross party talks on social care reform even though he's not an MP. ... Ok.
The entire world experienced Covid, in real time, as a direct personal event, a reality, and a horror, barely more than five years ago. And well-connected people have never stopped trying to lie to us about what happened, and why. And to call other people liars for trying to remember.
The problem is that one of the reasons our response to COVID was so shit was that Boris Johnson was in charge of it, and Johnson was a media darling shitehoused into power by our utterly malevolent press. So you see why they wouldn't want to enquire too deeply and prefer easy answers.
Lewis Goodall@lewisgoodall.com · 4d agoYes...but prevention of infection harm was not and should not have been the only harm we were thinking about it. This is my point.
This is the kind of thing that radicalises these guys. A bunch of "legitimate questions" where they're convinced they have the right answer, countered by a load of people who know what they're talking about telling them they're wrong. Expect to see Goodall become Rod Liddle within a decade.
The News Agents@thenewsagents.co.uk · 5d ago“I’m glad we live in a country that is deferential to expertise - but at times in the pandemic, that did go too far.” “I’m not sure school closures were a price worth paying.” Lewis on how ‘legitimate questions’ have emerged - and should be asked - about how we handled Covid.
If the new leader is performing better than the previous Prime Minister, because he’s a politician and the previous PM was a Sooty glove puppet for Peter Mandelson and five guys in a trenchcoat: does that not raise questions about how a talentless glove puppet came to be PM?
It's not going to happen, it's not happening, it's happened now so there's nothing we can do. The three tenses of catastrophe in British English.
Kevin Smith@kevinjgsmith.bsky.social · 6d ago2026 and we are STILL having to endure this crass stupidity.
The Ghost of Christmas Past is feeling really unappreciated right now.
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Thought Bubble Festival@thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social · last wk.It's a big one! 😍 😍 Thought Bubble's 20th Edition is shaping up to be pretty special. And we cannot WAIT to see all these guests AND all of you. See the guests announced so far: thoughtbubblefestival.com/guests And get your tickets booked: thoughtbubblefestival.com/tickets
Dr Jo Taylor in 'Reading for Pleasure' (2026) from the Education Select Committee: “the complexity of the language in a graphic novel will not be the same as the complexity of a language in a traditional novel." No. Just no. Even if we are talking about graphic novels aimed at children. No.
The National Year of Reading being expanded into a decade? Yes please. I really want to hear more soundbites from celebrities talking about reading who clearly haven't read all that much.
Perhaps we shouldn’t have established “far right crackpots squealing in endless fake terror about the online crimes of The Left” as one of Britain’s most immediately urgent and terrifying crises, but we did, so this is just normal now. Well done, everybody.
I'm on the latest episode of @unpackingpeanuts.bsky.social chatting about comics, the role Peanuts has played in what we know about how brains understand comics, and my new graphic novel Speaking in Pictures. It was a very fun conversation so check it out! pod.link/unpackingpea...
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Unpacking Peanuts Podcast@unpackingpeanuts.bsky.social · last wk.We talk with Eisner-nominated cognitive scientist @neilcohn.bsky.social who looks at how our brains perceive comics. His latest book challenges the conventional understandings of how pictures communicate, how people learn to draw, and the nature of language itself. #comics #cartooning #comicstrips
