Alan Ryan (Slowed & Reverbed)

Jesus Christ.

Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all:

“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”

Israel just killed him.

As someone who works in the children’s comics industry I would like to share my thoughts on this: Fuuuuuuuck offffffff.

Also can't believe this was almost 20 years ago. Still think of it as new music ☠️😬

Did you ever hear a band or a piece of music that sounds like it was made *just for you*, perfectly attuned to you? Burial is that for me. Couldn't believe what I was hearing. Still can't.

New BURIAL klaxon 😭 🤗 😊 🤩

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen.

By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

Check out the colossal array of great Murphs in the replies.

I only drop in here now and again because I'm just not pure enough for it. #Bluesky

logging onto Bluesky

An interior view of a shoe store or department featuring a sign that reads "DON'T Enter Mirror" on a mirror covering a wall.

no one ever comes back

Recently posted that people who say they can't draw can actually draw, they just need to practice.
The reaction from people who insist they can't draw was that it's bollocks & practice will never make you better at skills you don't have.
Then I had to explain that desire to practice is also crucial.

Bagel store sign ALL BAGEL VARIETIES MAY COME IN CONTACT WITH THE EGG BAGEL.

manager: you make that allergy warning sign for the counter?

employee: sure did boss, real fuckin ominous just like you asked

manager: what

I sat in one at Bloom last weekend and I can't wait to get one. #Ami

We should all be driving these:

The Beano *routinely* sells out where I live. I got the very last one on the shelf in Easons last week. Big appetite for comics out there.

@markbradley.bsky.social makes an important point here. For a medium which has been (and still is by some parents) REALLY looked down upon, children’s comics are engaging readers again in a big way. That’ll keep going if, as a country, we could just give comics a bit more space and prominence.

100% this 🙌🙌🙌

I never, ever want to hear again that women are too emotional to be leaders.

Grandaddy opening for the Super Furry Animals in the Olympia. They only played six songs but blew the roof off the place and nobody wanted to hear SFA after that.

Massive Attack statement regarding barclays

Statement page 2

Massive Attack are absolutely having none of it with Barclays.

Also bravo MA - all arena food will be plant based.

I first posted this on Twitter over a year ago. Since then, Copenhagen has approved construction of its fifth urban metro line.

Meanwhile, Dublin continues to see minimal progress on its first.

The contrast could barely be starker.

Only seen this photo shared by @tbretc.bsky.social, but it looks like the Chicago Sun Times had AI write about summer books…and it included some that don’t exist. Cool, cool. Could’ve paid me or someone else, you know? This is what I do. But yeah, go with AI slop. Do you.

Here we go. Wish me luck 🐦‍⬛

Compare Vonnegut buying an envelope with this tech bro running from his life

Maybe boycott the singing competition platforming propaganda by a state committing an ongoing genocide, perhaps. A little proposal for the bare minimum. Something to consider.

I don't 'refuse to use' AI, I just don't use AI; in the same way that I don't shoplift, or plagiarise other people's books - it requires no effort of will, it's just not something I would think of doing

Habemus Papam

I went to art school because I already loved making art. I don’t learn much at art school, I just spent the time working really hard making art. Because I already loved it. This is what the AI art bros don’t understand. You put the hours in because you care about the results.