Olivia Wood

This, but also, being a good critic means being selective about what deserves your love 👇

Downpour at The Photographers' Gallery (and how to make a receipt printer thing for an exhibition) On Thursday evening, last week, I went to the launch of the new season of exhibitions at the Photographers' Gallery. I was invited because I am in one of them! Downpour is showing as part of Connecti...

Downpour is showing at The Photographers' Gallery! And I'm running a workshop there on the 31st of March! blog.vbuckenham.com/downpour-at-...

!! Happy Mario to you!!

I installed it for a minute when someone suggested it was also great as a general lightweight self-hosted photo sorting/tagging/gallery system, which i dearly needed, and it was fantastic except that e.g. its conception of "people in this image" meant you have to tag grandma as a "performer"

The best time to stop using Grammarly was years ago. The second best time is right now

The root is different, Mario is named for a specific person and Super Mario Bros. came after Mario Bros., so that was not a link either.

It's a coincidence :)

Interesting! Thank you :):)

Or wait, are you saying actually the root is different? I'm very good at reading. :)

So is it definitely confirmed? Or just so obvious no one ever actually stated it aloud somewere I'd see it?

My pleasure! :)

I was recently in a puppet shop, as one is, talking about puppetry/animation with the owner, when she mentioned supermarionation. I was unaware of the term as I know little about animation.
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but... is Mario named after this? It can't be a coincidence, right?

I have this specific typo programmed into my fingers too. *Weird*

frankly romantasy is currently footing the bill for the rest of us by keeping a crumbling publishing industry afloat a while longer and you don't have to read the stuff to appreciate that it's bringing in readers who will eventually want to read more things, perhaps even in different points of view

I'm too bored of this to try and be clever about it anymore.

If you think that two men kissing, or two women kissing, requires any more explanation than a man kissing a woman, that is homophobia.

It was delightful. :)

Maybe? I’ve made myself breakfast by the fire.
But I was onboard in seconds. Majima, my boy. The silly taken so seriously. it is something that knows exactly what it wants to be and it that, 200%.

Started the Pirate Yakuza and I really don’t know more joyful games. They really are incredible.

We miss you

People Are Calling Meta Ray-Bans "Pervert Glasses" On Bluesky, users quickly embraced the term "pervert glasses" to refer to Meta's Ray Ban smart glasses, following a shocking investigation.

Make it stick.

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

Oh no

… oh.

I guess we’re grasping for things to talk about that aren’t the current hell.

A handsome crow for you, in gratitude.

Why are people suddenly talking about Breaking Bad?

Grace Jones in a Keith Haring dress, wine glass on one hand, mic in the other. Singing.

Grace Jones is an inspiration. 77, drinking wine, eating oysters, headlining a festival.

There used to be an old sign by the path, warning passers-by of the local sleeping willow, which would trap the unwary with fatigue, engulf them while they slept, and release them a hundred years later.

There was a new sign:

"This sleeping willow is full."

And a map of other locations to try.

This is a life and death story for the UK – so why is it being brushed under the carpet? The news that healthy life expectancy is in decline in Britain exposes a serious truth about the state we’re in, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

Powerful oped, not just about public health but the state of our democracies:

"That’s real progress. Not GDP going up 0.1% or Rachel Reeves forecasting an extra couple of billion in fiscal headroom – but whether you live or die, are well or sick"

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

My guess is you keep across the news. You know Andy Mountbatten-Windsor has just had the worst birthday ever; that tall hotels in Dubai don’t make for a great holiday right now; and that Keir Starmer’s engagements diary for 2027 will be remarkably clear. Still, there is one headline I’ll bet you haven’t seen, even though it directly affects your life. It’s about your life, and mine, and those of our families and friends and neighbours. I didn’t spot it either, until a few days ago when the Guardian ran a reader’s letter. It came from Alan Walker, a retired professor at the University of Sheffield. Why, he asked, hadn’t this newspaper made more of the latest “shocking” figures on healthy life expectancy? I looked up the report from the Office for National Statistics, and he’s absolutely right: the findings are indeed “momentous”, and they should be on the front pages, because they expose a serious truth about the state we’re in

The intro is also damning about our media ecosystem and its complicity in the death of democracy (or anything vaguely resembling it)

If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!

Noooooo

joking aside, it's also part of the charm of Kiryu in the Yakuza Games. A punchy man who is beautiful and sweet, but seemingly oblivious to the fact that that isn't normal.