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Dear Shabana, I notice today that you referred to me in your speech on immigration at the IPPR think tank. You said: “A party leader should not be on the beaches of France encouraging people to make a perilous crossing on small boats.” I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised especially after the hateful Labour campaign in Gorton and Denton, but this is just the latest in a string of lies peddled by a discredited Government who intentionally fan the flames of racism and division. When I went to Calais, I was not there to encourage people to travel to the UK. I was there to see at first hand the suffering your Government and successive Governments have done in demonising migrants in a pathetic bid to pander to the base instincts of Reform and the flawed strategy of Morgan McSweeney. As you will know, if you even bothered to research my visit instead of taking Reform talking points, I was there to witness the brutality of families living in tents in freezing temperatures. I filled water tanks and picked up litter. What that visit did do is confirm my belief that if we are to smash the boat gangs and stop the boats, we need to offer safer and managed routes for migrants to come to this country. Showing compassion as a politician is not a crime. In fact, we need to see much more of it. It reminded me of a young MP who in October 2015 spent three days in Lesbos helping migrants fleeing war-torn Syria. She posted videos on X, talked about handing out water and croissants to refugees and food parcels. When she returned to the UK, she wrote a very moving piece in the New Statesman. She said “we have to work with our European partners and create new, safe, and legal routes for refugees to get to Europe. We cannot abandon them to their fate, left as prey for smugglers whilst risking death on the seas.” She said “maybe we can make ourselves feel better by saying no-one is making them get on the boats. And again, the Home Secretary is not entirely wrong when …
Dear Shabana,
Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.
Plus new works from Agata Masłowska, Iyad Hayatleh, Meg Bateman and Robert Crawford. Hosted by the project creator, our Makar, Padraig Macaoidh (Peter Mackay).
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Soon, Juana Adcock and I will be sharing our new multilingual collaborative poem at this event...
Our Many-Voiced Country
Saturday 14 March 2026
11.30am - 12:30pm
StAnza International Poetry Festival
Byre Theatre, St Andrews // livestreamed
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Tiffany Babb is launching The Comics Staple, a monthly 12-page magazine devoted to covering the latest in comics from an all-star line-up of writers
Hey everyone it's me, the wrong L piece in Tetris. Fuck you
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At a 2015 party during San Diego Comic Con, a visibly intoxicated Allie sexually assaulted novelist and comics writer Joe Harris, grabbing his crotch and biting him on the ear. Writing about the incident in Graphic Policy, Janelle Assellin—a journalist and former editor at DC Comics who had helped spearhead a multi-staffer HR complaint against Berganza in 2010—gathered accounts from multiple sources at the company noting that he’d behaved that way for years, garnering the nickname “Bitey the Clown”; staffers attempting to go through internal channels invariably received cheerful assurances that the problem was being dealt with. (Dark Horse themselves famously ran a 2006 interview with him—since apparently deleted but archived here—that included the joke “Watch out, he bites.”) Allie issued an apology and remained part of the official masthead until 2017, when he became a freelance editor. Nonetheless, he maintained close ties at Dark Horse, continuing to edit and write for Mignola’s Hellboy. While his behavior remained a topic of open discussion on the comics internet for years, Allie likewise continued to be a fixture at conventions and—sources speaking on background to The Daily Beast confirm—a mover and shaker in comics social circles. His behavior was often explained in those circles as substance abuse: since he was now sober, the standard line went, the issue had gone away.
It had not. On June 24, former Dark Horse editor Shawna Gore, now senior editor at Oni Press, publicly accused Allie of sexual assault. Over the course of 14 years, Gore wrote in a horrific account, Allie engaged in a pattern of “chronic, escalating, unchecked abuse that was not related to his alcohol use.” On one occasion in 1999, in the backseat of a minivan filled with their colleagues, Allie put his hands in Gore’s underwear. “For the next 10-15 minutes I had to quietly, physically wrestle against Scott to prevent him from forcibly penetrating me with his fingers,” Gore wrote. She alleges he repeatedly told her to relax as he groped her.
![In both Allie and Berganza’s cases, higher-ups at both Dark Horse and DC Comics had ample evidence of severe misconduct, and did as little as possible to deal with it. “We did not, and cannot, perform a public flogging, as some might wish,” Dark Horse founder Mike Richardson proclaimed in a response to Asselin’s 2015 piece. “I am extremely sensitive on this subject, being the father of three daughters and having experienced first hand the effects of sexual harassment and gender discrimination…[Asselin’s] assumption that my longevity somehow ‘embeds’ within me an attitude of inappropriate permissiveness is not only wrong, it is insulting.”
After Gore’s statement, however, Richardson struck a more conciliatory (though still martyred) tone. “I tend to think I can fix the behavior of people,” he wrote. “I thought this with Scott, that I could in some way fix him and change his behavior. A horrible mistake on my part that caused harm that can never be undone.” The set of reforms he proposed going forward—which included adopting an official No Tolerance policy for harassment and promises that there would be no retaliation for reporting abuse—were met with blanket scorn. As Graphic Policy incredulously noted, several of them may already have been legal requirements.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:efx3llkdwipqoz4ie37tego6/bafkreigxnxkogc44kiumhvur7kdwzh5yhuuq5ydzkd5eiflizie45srk3u)
In both Allie and Berganza’s cases, higher-ups at both Dark Horse and DC Comics had ample evidence of severe misconduct, and did as little as possible to deal with it. “We did not, and cannot, perform a public flogging, as some might wish,” Dark Horse founder Mike Richardson proclaimed in a response to Asselin’s 2015 piece. “I am extremely sensitive on this subject, being the father of three daughters and having experienced first hand the effects of sexual harassment and gender discrimination…[Asselin’s] assumption that my longevity somehow ‘embeds’ within me an attitude of inappropriate permissiveness is not only wrong, it is insulting.” After Gore’s statement, however, Richardson struck a more conciliatory (though still martyred) tone. “I tend to think I can fix the behavior of people,” he wrote. “I thought this with Scott, that I could in some way fix him and change his behavior. A horrible mistake on my part that caused harm that can never be undone.” The set of reforms he proposed going forward—which included adopting an official No Tolerance policy for harassment and promises that there would be no retaliation for reporting abuse—were met with blanket scorn. As Graphic Policy incredulously noted, several of them may already have been legal requirements.
Dark Horse Comics founder Mark Richardson has been fired from the company after 40 years. The news has occasioned a lot of tributes. Feels important not to forget, however, that for years he enabled — if not actively protected — Scott Allie, a really hideous sexual harrasser.
Shout out to all the lovely respectable people who gave me such affirming compliments and sat through the nasty parts 🤘
Back in the storytelling game! On my way home now from London, bc last night I was telling stories about Hawaii's volcano goddess Pele at the British Museum - part of a members' event around their Hawaii* & samurai exhibits
*curated in collaboration w/Native/Kanaka Maoli orgs & people
Hot damn this is EXACTLY it 🔥
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OH MY GOD PERCY SHELLEY WAS THE ORIGINAL FOX MULDER
Sorry for being nosy but I’m in a pretty quiet airport. a woman sat down next to a much older pilot here in the food court and started very obviously flirting with him but he absolutely cannot stop listing off aviation facts to her regardless of whatever question she asks him
Palestinian Uncles doing freestyle poetry battles coming with some of the hardest lines I’ve heard in a long time.
every wiki article about classic UK comedy like "Father and Sons was a comedy duo comprised of Reg Father and Tommy Sons, who appeared on a record breaking 18,450 episodes of The Light Applause Hour. Reg Father died in 1988 of Cigarette Fever. Tommy Sons remains alive in prison since 1997"
Absolute Martian Manhunter, the twelve covers. #absolutemartianmanhunter #absolutecomics #denizcamp #javierrodriguez #dccomics
Judge Dredd pointing his baton at you. In the background, a trash heap comes to horrifying life.
Stand clear, citizen. This garbage dump is hostile.
House to Astonish Episode 217 is now live, with me and @ifdestroyed.bsky.social talking Tatjana Wood, 3 Worlds 3 Moons, Hulk War, Terminal, Skate Ali, Concrete, the scourge of blind bags, JLA/Avengers facsimilies, The Punisher and The Peril of the Brutal Dark: An Ezra Cain Mystery bit.ly/astonish217
If people were good at conversations we wouldn’t have had to invent therapy
Courtesans would rather pretend to despise their boyfriends for their (the boyfriends') own good than go to therapy
Paquette is so unashamedly horny that it doesn't need to be subsumed into some other layer of depiction. No porn tracing or impossible butt angles. Just "what if a lady superhero was sexy AF but still in character"
La Traviata made me cry even though it's one of those plots that would be solved in like 5 minutes if the main characters had just one (1) conversation
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Don't like it? Make your own, you fucks!
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@MadocCairns - 22 Nov 22 me in 1562 having a friday night flagon of sack with my fellows: i will notte be seen Deade at Chapell now the Protestantes hath done a Numbre on it me on Saturday morning when the constable asks me if he'll see me at church: Most certinly Sir. Chapell gets bettre every Week Sir @MadocCairns (the monarch has just died) lets raise prayer most Ardent that the next Soverig'n will be a right godly one (my catholic wife glares at me) ande thatte they return to the faith catholick (i see the constable passing by my window) *“sweating* which is alfo in Truth reformede,
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roadhouseendgame i was talking to my mom about cardassians and said something along the lines of what must it be like to be a cardassian civilian. like abstractly knowing the rest of the galaxy thinks of your species as 'the evil ones' and kinda sorta knowing your government runs labor camps and torture prisons and is a military empire, and it's a huge deal for everyone else in the galaxy, but you just like run a restaurant so it's not a big part of your daily life, so you just like, go about your day and make soup and don't think about it' and then halfway through my sentence i actually heard myself and then had to go sit down for like ten minutes. like sat down in a chair and stared at the floor for ten minutes
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Amid the discussions about how to get kids reading, I am remembering how many comics and other periodicals I read as a kid - The Funday Times, Oink, The Puffin Post, Private Eye (I was a precocious little shit), The Beano, 2000AD etc etc. Reading in tiny little bits can be v appealing.
