Ian Martin

I do love a ghost gable like this found near Ancoats in Manchester - but it's rarer still to find the intangible signs of the puff of smoke from the chimney...

topline in the NYT newsletter this morning is Iran Chooses Chaos so let's hope nobody bombs a fucking school

Beauty Banks Charity supporting people in hygiene poverty around the UK.

Beauty Banks helps people across the UK who are in hygiene poverty. They need your help more than ever - any donations are very much appreciated. Thanks!

www.beautybanks.org.uk

An aerial photo shows three diggers excavating the ground for graves. More than 65 graves are already dug. Those not yet dug are marked out by chalk.

Not a single US newspaper will publish this photo. No news channel will broadcast it.

The graves are being prepared for more than 80 young children killed in the US/Israeli strike on the school in Minab, Iran on Saturday.

(📸 Middle East Observer)

ah this is #Mums26 yes?

DRAPIST

man in a hat direction of heat flash if you are caught outdoors in a sudden attack a hat will give you at least some protection from the heat flash, while the other part of your face will melt and burn and blister as you lie there dying while billionaire funded armageddon takes place.

Yes.

It's so hard. Sending love. x

The Board of Peace is a Sack of Bollocks

Starmer is just SO fucking flimsy and suggestible. We'd be better off with Mr Bean in charge, frankly.

Huge congratulations to beloved radio producer @stevedoherty.bsky.social for scooping best stand-up or whatever at the BBC Audio Drama Awards for Meet David Sedaris. Hugely deserved. It's nice when nice things happen to nice people ain't it though?

lot of love for the guy who thinks it's in Dorset

I posted a Crucianelli guitar a while back, and here's another one, an Elite 40-V. This Italian guitar is a solidbody electric with an offset body shape. This specific one is red with a blackpickguard and a white stripe around the side of the body. It's got four pickups, with a gap between each set of two. (They probably could've fit a fifth pickup in there if they weren't cowards.) There are six plastic toggle switches above the strings (helpfully labeled ALL, T, B+T, M, B, and O), and a volume and a tone knob in the normal control area. The guitar also has a Jazzmaster-style trem.

Crucianelli Elite 40-V

that's what I thought it was going to be, another anecdote.

Amen brother.

oh man, you have some LOVELY stuff ahead. xx

oh where have you got to?

This is fantastic writing.

fantastic xxx

Dunno if this will work, but tripped over it on my Facebook. My first-ever TV comedy words spoken by the relatively-unknown Olivia Colman.

www.facebook.com/ian.martin.3...

Could someone pop over to Quant's, just make sure he hasn't had a fall and bumped his head?

how?

IS it? I bloody love the new Observer. Some great, grammatically-correct writing in it.

They've now corrected it online, so it must have been the Observer's mistake.

Yes, yes, I know I shouldn't be on Fail Online but I love seeing celebrities getting "dulled" up for the Brit Awards. 😄

Once again I implore Nigel Farage to consider what he's said to the Mail on Sunday. Then to find a physical copy of it, with all the supplements, then to roll it up very very tightly and push it completely up his racist arse.

"The Gate" by Hans Hofmann showcases his signature bold use of color and dynamic composition through interlocking rectangles that evoke movement and tension. This work reflects Hofmann's pioneering contributions to Abstract Expressionism and his emphasis on balance and spatial tension created through contrasting hues.

The Gate https://www.wikiart.org/en/hans-hofmann/the-gate-1960

Good luck, studio. x

Immigrant reports from a hostile environment. All she wanted was to make a better life for herself.