Mark Dormand 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

sketch book with cute garden doodles featuring bees, worms, insects, cats and humans being in the garden and having a good time on a background of daisies.

feeling excited to start gardening again! 🌱

A digital illustration of a small, fluffy baby dinosaur sitting in a person’s cupped hands.

It’s dangerous to go alone.
Take this.

#portfolioday, I'm trying my luck again with my very old illustrations ⚡️⚡️⚡️

I do tend to forget this place exists, despite it being less evil (it’s still less evil right?) 🥲

Possible cover for a Zine of my Spaceship illustrations. Showing a teal, twin hulled spaceship, with orange text overlaid.

Working on a thing…

#Spaceships

The historically pivotal court case, that is critical to the future UK Trans+ rights Christine Goodwin v UK, changed the lives of Trans+ people across Europe, leading to the UK Gender Recognition Act. But it continues to be misunderstood

Over twenty years ago, a court ruled that forcing trans people to live “in an intermediate zone as not quite one gender or the other is no longer sustainable”.

That decision became the foundation for the UK’s Gender Recognition Act.

Here’s how ✍️ @jessothomson.co.uk

Almost 10,000 authors have come together to publish an empty book protesting the theft of books by tech companies to train AI models.

Titled Don’t Steal This Book, it is empty of text except the names of the authors involved.. 🧵

probably my favorite illustration I did for Scholar's Codex, for the Elden Ring section @tuneandfairweather.bsky.social

"Marika bathed the village of her home in gold,
knowing full well that there was no one to heal."

5x7" ink on claybord

Let's Normalise 👀
✔️ Women charging what they're worth
✔️ Women saying no without explaining why
✔️ Women leading creative industries loudly
✔️ Women taking up exactly as much space as they deserve

#InternationalWomensDay2026

A grid of nine images featuring a photo of Gail and the designs she creates.

Running a business on your own can be challenging at times.

Today feels like a good day to say that I'm proud of what I've built. And I'm proud to be part of a community of women who are out there doing the same.

Happy International Women's Day.

www.gailmyerscough.co.uk

Fruit Salad writing evening Join us at Fruit Salad, a queer community writing group. We offer a friendly, low-pressure writing environment.

We’re back Friday 20th March 2026! 6pm – 9pm details + free tickets below 🙂

Please book a ticket if you’re coming along it’s useful to know how many of us there are 😊 Please remember to cancel if you're no longer able to attend so others can grab your space!

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1984548784...

Still a few tickets left for tonight 😁 #writers #manchesterwriters #queerwriters

Three figure studies of a man with long dark hair in different poses

Mandarins
2025

Digital painting, tugboats at dockside

HOPE IS HERE 200K GREEN PARTY MEMBERS Green Party Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE169GQ

🚨 BREAKING 🚨 The Green Party has over 200,000 members.

More members, more councillors, more MPs.

The Green Party just keep growing.

Join us ⤵️

Fruit Salad writing evening Join us at Fruit Salad, a queer community writing group. We want to create a friendly, low-pressure writing environment.

We’re back Friday 6th March 2026! 6pm – 9pm details + free tickets below 🙂

Please book a ticket if you’re coming along it’s useful to know how many of us there are 😊 Please remember to cancel if you're no longer able to attend so others can grab your space!

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Text reads: Not just research. This is consultation for change. Shape research priorities. Guide research funding. improve care. Find out more wp.lancs.ac.uk/transadultspsp

Text Reads: We want to hear from: -Adults (18+) who have accessed, are accessing or are seeking access to transition-related care. -Healthcare Professionals -Support networks, including family, friends, carers, or partners

Text reads: Take part- Have Your Say. Survey open until May 10th

Help shape future transition-related healthcare research! This Priority Setting Partnership, delivered by@lancasteruni.bsky.social and funded by @genderedintelligence.co.uk, works with trans, non-binary & gender diverse communities

Heard an interview today where a guy said (and I'm paraphrasing) "LLMs have had years to train on every aspect of chess, read every book and article about it, review every match, but when they play, they STILL makes illegal moves. That tells you everything."

And.

Yup.

The Indisputable Maths of Migration How Demography, Not Dinghies, Will Decide Britain’s Future

Jim Radcliffe pissed me off, so I wrote this about the inconvenient truth of migration.

tl:dr - no, just fucking read it. Some basic mathematics - you know, COUNTING THINGS - might make you reconsider, you stupid twats.

(I'm not trying to make friends)

open.substack.com/pub/russinch...

Spider Pot 049

Fruit Salad writing evening Join us at Fruit Salad, a queer community writing group. We want to create a friendly, low-pressure writing environment.

We’re back Friday 30th Jan 2026! 6pm – 9pm details + free tickets below 🙂

Please book a ticket if you’re coming along it’s useful to know how many of us there are 😊 Please remember to cancel if you're no longer able to attend so others can grab your space!

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I know we're all seeing 87 unhinged things per day, but "guys if our multi billion dollar product doesn't start being useful for something, literally anything, the people might not appreciate us wrecking the planet over it anymore" is a truly bananapants thing to say out loud

Fruit Salad writing evening Join us at Fruit Salad, a queer community writing group. We want to create a friendly, low-pressure writing environment.

We’ll be back in 2026! Friday 16th Jan 2026! 6pm – 9pm details below 🙂

Our tickets (all free) will be released Jan 1st - and January 2026 is our 2nd birthday! 🎂

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I've loved Sigourney Weaver ever since one of my all-time favorite movies, ALIEN. Couldn't resist going all fanboy on her yesterday & asking for a photo. She told me she's now in the cast of The Mandalorian. Talk about bad timing: she's now in that galaxy far, far away, years after I checked out! 💔

The image is of a comic. Panel one depicts Santa Claus. He says, "Have you been naughty or nice?" Panel two depicts a happy dog. He says, "I am ALWAYS a good boy." Santa responds "Very nice!" Panel three depicts Santa again. He says "...And you?" Panel four depicts an orange cat climbing a Christmas tree, turning his head to look back at Santa.

Farage turns on broadcasters over racism allegations as number of claims hits 28 Reform leader suggests he would boycott BBC, saying he has had letter from Dulwich pupils defending him

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, you have heard from the 28 people my client definitely burgled, but in mitigation I have a letter from one person my client DIDN'T burgle.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Digital sketch, Fortress of Ultimate Darkness for Time Bandits tv show

Fortress of Ultimate Darkness sketch for Time Bandits tv show

screenshot of a tumblr post from user “wildmansters” The thing that really boils my potatoes about Al in general is that I have been a creative professional for over a decade now and the devil has ALWAYS been in the details. Big and small, I've had single-person businesses rip me to shreds over how their colors turned out on newsprint, and have worked with huge companies with THICK brand guidelines with every detail of their brand identity laid out and enforced with an iron fist. But I guess all of that stuff doesn't matter anymore? Who gives a fuck if this Al generated baby has six fingers, that mom-and-pop shop is still going to use it. That rug from Temu says Happy Thanksgivirg? Oh well haha it's just a silly funny thing now (nevermind that you never would have given a B-grade item from a craft show the same consideration). I don't actually care that the Al Coca-cola ad has a truck that changes size every scene, but I can't help but think about how, if it had been some poor underpaid artist, they would have been laughed out of the building. I don't really know how to put it in a succint way but it just feels all the more obvious how much more grace and flexibility has always been possible but never offered.

i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao