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CHATGPT SUICIDE MACHINE

New anti-chatbot ad that has started appearing on the London transport network. LLM chatbots like ChatGPT have been responsible for dozens of confirmed suicides, murders and serious mental health crises, particularly involving children and young people. Any product that is this dangerous to young people would normally be nowhere near a classroom. And would likely be banned outright. But thanks to the cult-like AI-hype that has consumed the brains of our government and corporate leaders, they only want more integration of these products into education, not less. If you’d like to print a copy or two of this poster you can download the file below:

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OCCUPATION

Football is incredibly popular in Palestine but the occupation makes it difficult to flourish. The Palestine national team faces restrictions on travel and dozens of its most promising players have been frequently imprisoned, injured, permanently disabled, and killed after attacks and raids by Israeli forces. In 2014 two young national team players Jawhar Nasser and Adam Halabiya were shot repeatedly in the feet and legs near an Israeli checkpoint in occupied Palestine. Palestinian football stadiums and fields have been bombed by Israeli forces and sections of the separation wall were built down the middle of the pitch at Abu Dis campus of Al-Quds University.

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Nestle

Yesterday Nestle won a case in the US Supreme Court that says they cannot be sued by former child slaves who were forced to farm the cocoa used in Nestle products. You can download a print file of this here: Nestle Child Slave.pdf Download PDF • 12.32MB

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SUVs

An anti-SUV poster I drew before the lockdown. ⁠ It seems a lot of people buy SUV’s under the impression these giant city-tractors will protect their children on the school-run, but that comes at the cost of pedestrian safety. You’re twice as likely to die being hit by an SUV than you are by any other car.⁠ Their height also creates a blind spot around the car which has caused countless horrific accidents involving small children.⁠ ⁠ The safety for the occupants of SUVs is also an illusion. They’re twice as likely to roll in crashes and you’re 11% more likely to die in a crash in a SUV than a normal car. ⁠ ⁠ In Europe, sales of SUVs continue to increase; from 7% of the market in 2009 to 36% in 2019. They are forecast to reach nearly 40% by 2021.⁠ ⁠

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THE OTHER ART FAIR

Had a great time at The Other Art Fair last week. Massive thanks to the organisers for getting me involved, especially Sophie, Gina, Ryan and Jessica and for the life-saving and ridiculously generous help from Justin Carroll, Alison Johnson and Hannah Logic, and also hello to all the amazing people I met (including the brilliant Pandemonia, see below) and all the advertisers I tried to convince to quit their jobs. #PocketMoneyLoans

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POCKET MONEY LOANS: NEWCASTLE

Last weekend saw Pocket Money Loans setting up shop in the middle of Newcastle city centre. The reactions were mixed to say the least. I’ve done this project in five different locations now. Like the first installation at Atom Gallery (London) and the store at Roskilde festival, the Newcastle store was intended to appear as if this might actually be happening, mixed in among the shops. Whereas Dismaland and Glastonbury were both set up in areas where people expected sarcastic art around every corner.

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POCKET MONEY LOANS @ GLASTONBURY

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Many thanks to everyone who came to the Pocket Money Loans store at Shangri-La, Glastonbury 2016. Also massive thanks to everyone on the Shangri-La crew, especially Simon Vaughan, Kaye Dunnings, Moses, Willy, and the utterly brilliant Spider. Met some absolutely superb human beings and had an impossibly great time amid the mud and the misery. And of course gigantic super-thanks to everyone on the Pocket Money Loans staff who saved my life and my sanity on several occasions, David Jones, Hannah Logic and Justin Carroll. Smashed it. MORE PHOTOS

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ROSKILDE FESTIVAL, DENMARK

​Just two days after Glastonbury, Pocket Money Loans opened a new store at Roskilde Festival, Denmark, which has also unfortunately just had to close due to lack of child-customers interested in mindlessly expensive financial products. That said, it was a fantastic festival in a brilliant country. I can’t tell if I’m more tired from work, booze or laughing. Massive thanks to everyone who visited and especially those who helped run the shop and kept me on the verge of sanity especially David Matthew Jones, Gary Barber and Kirstie Fleck off of Is Tropical and her brother Tom Fleck. MORE PHOTOS #PocketMoneyLoans #Exhibitions

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ACTION MAN: BATTLEFIELD CASUALTIES

Three short films made in collaboration with Veterans for Peace UK to draw attention to Britain’s policy of recruiting 16 and 17 year olds into the armed forces and targeting children with recruitment propaganda. The Action Man: Battlefield Casualties film I wrote for Veterans for Peace UK, directed by Price James (Agile Films) and featuring Matt Berry was released in June 2015. It directed viewers to a purpose-built website battlefieldcasualties.co.uk which contained all the facts about child recruitment in the British armed forces and details about our MP letter writing campaign to try and end it. TABLE OF CONTENTS Action Man poster and postcards available. The films are based on the below fake toys I made while drawing Join the Army, an anti-army recruitment comic. The toys were included as a poster in the “Deluxe” edition. JOIN THE ARMY LINK

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The Must-Have Toy This Christmas

Multicoloured Bits of Plastic (2014) – I drew this poster as part of my Pocket Money Loans project and eventually turned it into a real toy. ⁠ ⁠ Posters and postcards of this are available from my website shop (link in bio) and I’m considering doing a run of the toys later in the year.⁠ ⁠ “From the movie of the TV show of the book of the board gamer of the rollercoaster of the ice cream”⁠ – that line was inspired by the fact that Pirates of the Caribbean was based on a ride at Disneyland and you can now buy novels based on a film that was based on a ride.⁠ ⁠ Available as a poster and as part of a postcard pack.

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POCKET MONEY LOANS

Today I opened the Pocket Money Loans shop in Finsbury Park I’ve been working on for the last few months or a year or something I’m not sure. I’ll be sat behind the counter giving out child loans for the next two weeks, Monday-Saturday 10am-6pm. It’s at the new Atom Gallery, 77 Stroud Green Road, N4 3EG. There’ll be a closing exhibition evening next Friday the 7th from 6pm. Here’s the facebook event. #PocketMoneyLoans #Children

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POCKET MONEY SOON

On Monday 27th October I’m going to be opening my very own payday loan shop just for kids, called Pocket Money Loans. Giving kids an advance on their pocket money at eye-watering interest rates. The shop itself will be at 77 Stroud Green Road, London N4 3EG. There’s a Facebook event with all the details, and if you’d like to come to the closing exhibition private view, the details for that are here. #PocketMoneyLoans

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