Cat Finnie

Freelance illustration & design for animation
[email protected] @usfolk

[Cat Finnie @CatFinnie]

Hello #PortfolioDay!
I'm Cat Finnie, a freelance illustrator working in illustration for editorial, publishing, advertising, and design for animation - currently available for projects!

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[Cat Finnie @CatFinnie]

So, I don't really know what the solution is, but 1/ the law preventing misuse of NDAs could be expanded to all NDAs and not only employee ones, and 2/ some sort of independent org that can keep track of allegations might be useful

[Cat Finnie @CatFinnie]

Many people are drawing attention to the lack of an HR department to report to, and use of NDAs to cover up scandal, in the recent TV star allegations, but the thing is, it's often HR that performs this exact function

[Philip Ralph @PhilipRalph9]

So, the existential level crisis in UK TV production that many folks have been warning about for *checks notes* YEARS is here with a vengeance. Now would be a great time to hear from @lisanandy and @DCMS about the crisis talks they’re planning at the highest levels…

[Cat Finnie @CatFinnie]

Ffs?!

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: A second unnamed male celebrity has secured an injunction stopping him from being named over sexual abuse allegations

[Cat Finnie @CatFinnie]

@svershbow He's so smol! We need Simon for scale to appreciate, lol

[Cat Finnie @CatFinnie]

Absolute scenes

[Jessica Valenti @JessicaValenti]

It’s called the Don’t Flush Babies Act (I shit you not)

It would also require warnings labels on every box of abortion pills reading DO NOT FLUSH THE FETUS—with an image that needs to be seen to be believed.

[Cat Finnie @CatFinnie]

Utterly bleak

[pablo @paulderokha]

there are no words to describe how evil David Walliams is. he tried having sex with a 15-year old girl after she told him she was a victim of child sexual abuse

[frank. @franksincensed]

"look, we need to keep exposure to a minimum, okay?"

HarperCollins' policy for its women employees.

[Cat Finnie @CatFinnie]

@judysquirrels I'm not sure, but if you figure it out, please let us know!
I think maybe just try to focus on one small thing at a time, something something

[Cat Finnie @CatFinnie]

@LFFstubs I'm disgusted by his alleged actions, but I'm not sure what your point is? Suic*dal people can also go about their normal lives, let's not bolster the myth that they can't just bc it's him. It's out now and really should be left to police and courts to sort through

[Mark Carney @MarkJCarney]

A country that values art empowers its artists.

[Cat Finnie @CatFinnie]

Great point here - the UK gov's work on banning use of NDAs to cover abuse needs to be extended beyond just employees, because, as we can see, they're being used outside of that context for the same purpose

[Eleanora (formerly LeftieStats) 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @LeftieStats]

@CatFinnie This also would only apply to employees, and in the entertainment industry companies often do a lot of careful fudging to ensure people who work on TV shows are not legally "employees" but still shove open-ended NDAs in their faces

[Cat Finnie @CatFinnie]

@LeftieStats Extremely good point! Yes. End all of this, period.

[Cat Finnie @CatFinnie]

@LeftieStats They're supposedly doing it, but I agree, it's taking too long. I believe California and other US states and countries have moved much more swiftly than the UK
https://t.co/PYdgIDKr4e

[Cat Finnie @CatFinnie]

We need to know who all was on Sean Lock's sh*tlist and have them all urgently investigated

[Tulip 💐 @cutelipssx]

With David Walliams in the news for assorted anticipated iniquities, I think it's important that we remember the late, great Sean Lock and his perhaps prophetic hatred of him.

Lock threw perhaps one of the greatest insults of all time at Walliams during a break in filming 8 Out Of 10 Cats. Sean had turned to speak briefly to a writer when Walliams, already on everyone's nerves, gave him a flouncy slap on the shoulder. Lock simply whirled and spat:

“Don’t fucking touch me, you pink minstrel.”

[Cat Finnie @CatFinnie]

https://t.co/PYdgIDKr4e

[Cat Finnie @CatFinnie]

Interesting points with the nefarious use of NDAs once again being raised - am I right in thinking there has been a law passed that renders use in silencing crimes illegal fairly recently?
Very similar parallels to the injunction used by Brand & Goldsmith with its overreach...

[Cathy Newman @cathynewman]

Many have been asking for a link to my interview with comedian Lucy Beaumont about the #Walliams allegations (which he denies). Here it is:
https://t.co/dF0vrnb76i

[Cat Finnie @CatFinnie]

... banning the recipient from speaking even to family or a therapist about her experiences.

Looking it up, the law is in progress - it should be a priority, this comes up over and over again in these cases

[Cat Finnie @CatFinnie]

Also, v probably was knifed up, seeing as there'd been a stabbing not far away just days prior, and of another guy earlier this year (my whole street got cordoned off).

[Cat Finnie @CatFinnie]

Yeah, I mean, it requires constant emotional processing and it's literally physically wearying.
Low key survival under an oppressive regime - the threat of physical violence is never that far away

[Robert Jessel @robjessel16]

Reading the Russell Brand comments, and I can't even imagine what's it like to be a woman going around knowing your enemies are walking among you.

[Cat Finnie @CatFinnie]

Allowing myself to sound a bit dramatic, but literally a kid told me he "should cut me" while I was walking home at about 8:30pm the other week - not even late.
Anyway, I've had enough this week. It's a lot.