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Edit 2023-07-24: I’m including this post here so I can link to it. Did I make this poster when I was like 19? Yes. Would I make it and distribute it today? No. A lot has changed in the world, and in me.

A poster I designed for Warwick Atheists to advertise a series of talks promoting and exploring topics in atheism, agnosticism and antireligion. This poster got the society into some trouble.

A poster I made while I was the publicity officer of the Warwick Atheists Society recently got some coverage in The Guardian’s Comment is Free section.

I just watched the compelling documentary Taking Liberties, which prompted me to finally send my complaint to the IPCC, and finish off this draft.

I was travelling Oxford to Cambridge, and had missed my connection at Paddington Station, London. With insufficient money for a hotel, I decided to just sleep in the station and catch the first train back to Cambridge. It was a cold night, so I plugged my headphones into my iPod, switched it to Pseudopod, pulled my Warwick Atheists hoodie tight around me, and sat on a light for warmth. For the next hour or so, I moved between sitting on lights and sitting with my back to a lit sign on a stall, trying to get most warm and most comfortable. There were a few other people in the station — perhaps in similar circumstances, perhaps homeless and seeking shelter from the outside wind. After some time I was dosing and listening to Pseudopod still, when I was woken (about 01:45 am) by a couple of officers in uniform who informed me that they were conducting “random” stop-and-searches under new anti-terrorism regulations. They asked me why I was there, and various other circumstantial questions. They asked to look in my backpack (which contained clothes, university work, laptop, wires).

This…

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…looks a little familiar…

Everything on this site is copyrighted, so permission or even attribution would have been nice. While the source images for my design are all pubic domain, what I did is clearly parody and thus is protected. Don’t suppose there’s much I can do about this since it’s no specific person doing this.

I guess now I have to go through and watermark every image on here? Thanks a lot, internet.

Thanks to Will Wybrow for pointing this out.

What with the way the world is at the moment, I've been thinking a lot about social justice. I find myself confronted with sexism, homophobia, and even racism, with increasing frequency both offline and online. Possibly it's just because I'm becoming more conscious of these things as I become more educated about the world, myself and the power dynamics therein. But even empirically it seems like the dark forces are massing.