Jonti Eccles-Swinglehurst

Most broadly, they struggle to convince people that they need to convince that they can and will help them.

I think that is a communication problem and a relating problem. I think it is those things more than simply a 'not the right policies' problem.

Progressives (socially supportive, democratically minded people) are not relating to our intended or hoped for audiences.

That's bad, because dangerous populists, globally, relate exceptionally well to their audiences.

But it's also not bad, because it means we can do something about it.

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The UK local and mayoral election results of last week have brought me back to an inescapable reality.

Progressives (I'm using that label as broadly as i can), as a group, are incredibly bad at communicating.

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Plastic name card saying "Dipper" for the Storm in a Teacup café at Watermouth harbour, Devon, and a small rub of vegan chocolate coconut ice cream. Bith placed on a grass verge level next to the top of a stine harbour wall.

View out over Watermouth Harbour, Devon, at low tide. A bright blue sky, speckled and smeared with white clouds fills the top half of the photo. Green, tree-lined spits of land flank the harbour (more shown to the right of the photo, which is framed in the left half side). The harbour has 3 loose 'rows' of sail boats moored by the waters edge. A slightly stoney sand beach fills the foreground.

Loved these table cards to get your order at the Storm In A Teacup boat café at Watermouth Harbour.

Coffee and ice cream stop along today's Devon coast walk.

Everyone Wants to Have a Nice Time Robin Ince on his love for his audience

About loving your audience rather than fearing them

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Jonti Eccles-Swinglehurst smiling in front of a sign that says, "PollingStation".

#JustVoted in Bristol's mayoral election.

Polling stations are usually open until 10pm on the day of the election.

You need to:
- be registered to vote before the day
- have photo ID with you

It is somewhat restrictive. 🫤

Thank you, kind friend.

Incidentally, it's Mullholland Drive time.

I'm hugely looking forward to understanding it perfectly.

Being on a low FODMAP diet ain't all bad I guess.

Can still have chips!

*_eats chips for 4 weeks for 'health reasons'_ 😆

tagging @curiousscutter.bsky.social

I'm starting a low FODMAP diet today. I'm dreading the restriction.

But I am at last accepting it as the best way to investigate whatever is up with my gut.

But, as a patient, the support and delivery of info around gut health problems is… baaaad.

One of these days, I'm going to want to talk about David Lynch's particular use of light and sound.

Specifically, why I think it's different from how other filmmakers use them.

I'm about to see David Lynch's Inland Empire for the first time, at a packed Watershed Cinema.

Wish me luck!

#WhatImReading, this week:

- The Scarlett Circus, a collection of short stories by Jane Yolen.

- 100 Things Every Designer Needs To Know About People, by Susan Weinschenk.

Boke 🤢

Practically, all Dyson products are bad design.

There. Said it.

And it feels good to acknowledge some objective reality.

#DearDiary

I've just watched Blue Road: The Edna O'Brien Story.

'Twas magnificent.

I'm Jonti, and I love stories—

watching them, reading them, hearing them… inferring them!

Telling stories, mind you, well, I'll need a little time—to get my words in order. You understand.

How do there Bluesky people?

If I may, let's start again.

a man in a robe is talking and saying `` i am angry . i am very tired . '' ALT: a man in a robe is talking and saying `` i am angry . i am very tired . ''

Home rental markets in the age of the Home of Multiple Occupancy…

Ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

A thousand times yes!

If I could have done it on your website, I would have done it on your website. I will not call you unless you have forced my hand.

Jonk's New Photo Book Explores Nature Unfurling in Abandoned Architecture Around the world, Jonathan Jimenez, a.k.a. Jonk, has visited more than 1,500 abandoned sites in nearly 50 countries.

Make me happy. www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/10/jonk...

A fun fact about Pringles.

An even more fun fact about them is that they went to court to argue (successfully!) that Pringles don't contain enough potata to be a potato crisp (or chip), so they could pay less tax.

I do love that moustache though.

But who do I blame for hiding the cables? No one kept them but I. Yet I did not keep them for myself!

Lee Miller: the model-turned-photographer who brought the horrors of war to Vogue Who was Lee Miller, the subject of Kate Winslet’s new biopic?

I was motivated to see the film Lee after reading this in The Conversation.

It reminded me of first learning about Lee Miller's photography aged 18, wanting to record the world I saw.

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I've just been to see the wonderful film Lee.

About the extraordinary photographer and photojournalist Lee Miller, it is moving, captivating, resolute.

I didn't expect to cry. But that's the wondrousness of art that makes things feel real.

A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #1,186,864, Jonti Eccles-Swinglehurst ‪@contentjonti.bsky.social‬, joined on Sep 23, 2023"

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,186,864!

An Ecology of Intimacies At its best, an intimate relationship is a symbiote of mutual nourishment — a portable ecosystem of interdependent growth, undergirded by a mycelial web of trust and tenderness. One is profou…

Because I'm a wistful romantic at heart, I love this — www.themarginalian.org/2024/03/27/a...