Very real & more power to you

Crazy patchwork quilt I made at the end of last year. Given that, in addition to handsewing all the pieces, it is covered with embroidery, I'd expected it to take me months – but I stitched like a demon and completed it in seven weeks!

Various dwellings including tower blocks and townhouses fill a vast flat moody landscape. The blue/white light of mobile phones, tablets and computer screens glow from every window.

‘Screen Time’

Latest painting - acrylic on canvas (130 x 70cm)

In the face of the tide of AI-written slop "weird and gnarly stuff that not too many like to read" feels less and less like a backwater and more and more like a boat.

I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it.

I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”

1/

absolutely adore these. every time i look at them i find they've changed shape.

Cathedral of St Mary, Newcastle Industrial Heritage 2006 Joseph A Nuttgens Ship building - the vessel towering over the worker’s terraced housing as they leave work.

Cathedral of St Mary, Newcastle

Industrial Heritage 2006
Joseph A Nuttgens

Ship building - the vessel towering over the worker’s terraced housing as they leave work.

#StainedGlassSunday

LOUDER LOUDER LOUDER

It's completely beyond me how authorities can continue to ignore this fundamental issue, especially given that we KNOW that with climate breakdown floods will only keep getting worse.

Pay farmers to rewild NOW.

A drawing of a man's head popping out of a guillotine saying "as an entrepreneur you know, I'm always thinking about the long game. Sure this is a setback now, today, but big picture- I've been knocked down before and I get back up, I just gotta figure out how to turn this to my advantage. Success is a mindset."

head 5

"Dog With Rabbit In Mouth, Unharmed" by Beauty Pill, from 'Describes Things As They Are' ("Ain't A Jury In The World Gon Convict You, Baby" also incredible)

glad for you both! congratulations. get dessert.

A pile of books by Samuel Delany, at the top there is a copy of Stars In My Pocket Like Grains Of Sand

There is a brand new episode of SFULTRA, the only book podcast that has ever existed. It is about Samuel R. Delany and his book Stars In My Pocket Like Grains Of Sand. It's free to listen to here right now: www.patreon.com/posts/149597... and will appear in the usual podcast places later today.

my DIY control surface definitely needs some of those giant toggle switches

...and Metallica. amazing episode.

対決

lush rendition of one of my favourite songs. you can really sing!

the AltNPS account is a scam to sell merch, everyone should report it as such, or for misinformation, then block it

i have a late 80s korg drv-1000 reverb (1U) you're welcome to. it was cheap /then/ but it's noisy and dark and a little weird. possibly deserves a recap.

To say that you’re broken means that everyone else is broken too, for we all suffer

There is no prime, unbroken person to heal you, but we can heal ourselves and others

Helping others shows you how to help yourself. Listening to others helps you listen to yourself; aid for others is aid for self

banger of a review, thank you very much for sharing it. +1 subscriber.

this is fucking unreal

I had personally assumed it was something to do with Werner Herzog.

thank you 💙 cloud cover was almost total here, glad you saw it

a palest pink wash gently glows in pale dusky blue like a thought of color and light itself mirrored below somehow brighter still in still waters below the straight inked horizon line open to possibility

solidarity of light

I've been working on that bassline for years. Ever heard 'Rhythm of the Saints'? He's so special.

Written not to shame, but to speak; carrying anger that is measured, thoughtful, & deliberately restrained

It addresses directly this indefensible act of ego fuelled vandalism, but also carries judgement on our own selfish, fleeting acts that have ecological consequences

#poetry
#poemoftheday

He was put in prison and forced to listen to over 300 hangings, before which the prison would sing to soothe the victims. "I learned from them very early that what one does with Nazis is kill them,” he said at a 2023 conference on antinuclear activism in Johannesburg. “I am not a pacifist.”