Deborah Shaw

making a living vs making a life or "can you earn money from your art?" (and is that even the right question?)

making a living vs making a life

here is the best advice I have about making your life in the creative arts. it's advice from my mum. it has made my whole life better and if you want to be an artist I think it'll make yours better too:

naomialderman.substack.com/p/the-best-a...

genuinely can't remember the last time I saw a politician who isn't endlessly blaming my wife and my friends (online and off) for the ills of the nation. and that's why we will both be voting green

A new Portland character has entered the chat at the ICE facility….meet The Unipiper!

Environmental defenders are being killed for protecting our future – the law needs to catch up
theconversation.com/environmenta...

There are parts of the country where you only see white faces. Clearly they have integration problems!!

Lavender scare is back.

Farage, Trump, Musk: your boy Javier Milei just took one hell of a beating. Why so quiet? | Aditya Chakrabortty The wild politics and chainsaw made Argentina’s president an economic hero for the right. And now, with his nation’s finances in chaos: silence, writes Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

Elon Musk: “I love Javier Milei.”

Kemi Badenoch: “Javier Milei is the template.”

Donald Trump: “My favourite president.”

Nigel Farage: "Amazing. Cutting and slashing … doing all the things he’s done … that’s leadership.”

Meanwhile... in Argentina

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Trump has dragged the US to the abyss and Nigel Farage would do the same to Britain. Here’s how to stop him | Jonathan Freedland It’s not too late to puncture the Reform leader’s populist myth. His ‘make Britain great again’ act is out of step with the British people, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

"It’s not too late to puncture the Reform leader’s populist myth. His ‘make Britain great again’ act is out of step with the British people" 🎯

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/19/donald-trump-us-abyss-nigel-farage-britain

UK ministers told: Block ‘dangerous’ Elon Musk power supply bid Musk is “far too dangerous to be trusted with something as important as people’s energy supply,” the Lib Dem opposition said.

This past weekend once again showed:

Elon Musk is not fit and proper to be given a foothold in our essential services. 🚨 ⚠️

https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-minister-block-dangerous-elon-musk-tesla-power-supply-bid-tommy-robinson/

Implausible deniability

A Labour government that does not fight back against the far right, racism and extremism fundamentally misunderstands the nature of its electoral support.

Many people are convinced, because of what they’ve seen online, that the know what motivated the accused killer of Charlie Kirk.
The truth is we don’t have a motive and in some ways the picture is murkier than it was this morning.
Powerful people have blamed the “Left” - without evidence…

Well, gosh.

www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-... - one of many sources confirming this story.

168 years ago...

No analysis of their actual policies (or lack of them); very poor journalism

In further news, I’ll be speaking in Vienna at the end of this month, and I’m delighted to learn from them that I’m a philosopher of technology.

www.humanitiesfestival.at/alderman

Free speech as my speech

Worried about being criticised, ostracised or blacklisted because you used genAI tools in your writing? Here's a great hack to make sure it never happens to you:

Do the writing yourself, like a grown-up.

Tories pledge to get 'all our oil and gas out of the North Sea' The government warns Kemi Badenoch's plans would "only accelerate the worsening climate crisis".

Why on earth do the Tories want to keep people locked into high energy bills? And, come to that, why is the BBC citing Reform but saying nothing about climate science or renewable alternatives?
Complete madness - except for the fossil fuel industry of course

Bland, easy to follow, for fans of everything: what has the Netflix algorithm done to our films? When the streaming giant began making films guided by data that aimed to please a vast audience, the results were often generic, forgettable, artless affairs. But is there a happy ending?

Fascinating. Why films made by Netflix are so awful. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/a...

The BBC's Plan to Appease Nigel Farage News that BBC executives plan to alter their programming in order to win over Reform voters is the latest sign of a corporation that has become dangerously cowed by the right

“I don’t remember anyone ever saying to us ‘Oh I just don't think we're properly reflecting the Green Party view, or the liberal-left view on this story’,” one former BBC journalist told me.

“It was always just slanted in one direction – which was basically the nativist, authoritarian direction.”

BREAKING: Award-winning Scottish screenwriter Paul Laverty has been arrested after wearing a T-shirt reading 'Genocide in Palestine, time to take action'

Police arrested the I, Daniel Blake writer in Edinburgh this morning

F**k’s sake @bbcnews I really don’t care what Reform’s policies are on asylum seekers or how they want to harm vulnerable people. Why is this the second item on the news? Why don’t you report their policies on the NHS? Or how they want to defund councils. I have had to stop listening to BBC news

The cemetery of living men: Trump deportees tell of abuse in secretive mega-jail - BBC News Venezuelan migrants deported from the US to El Salvador's mega-jail speak of what life was like inside

we are in a post human rights era. Funny how we don’t press governments to ask the US about human rights www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...

Dolly even helps Scottish kids access books. Those Bookbug bags that tiny munchkins get from nurseries, libraries, and schools? Dolly's Imagination Library is part of that.

‘A whole spectrum of hatred’: women face increased violence in Milei’s Argentina as rights are eroded In a country once lauded as a progressive bastion in Latin America, protections are being dismantled by a populist leader, and gender-based offences are on the rise

‘A whole spectrum of hatred’: women face increased violence in Milei’s Argentina as rights are eroded

Only allow young people to vote if they have basic political education. Can be done neutrally. Start with basic history of each party, their funders, manifestos, positions on each key issue. Invite leaders of each, encourage debate etc. Take the power from the ignorant and right wing media control

This is sick.
We’ve literally killed the solution to create a market for “treatments.”