A deadly dustbin from Emu.

Probably worried about the bill

This has helped me make sense of why I am resisting AI. Of course I keep reading AI as Al which doesn't help 😁

Fancy corridor with mirror reflecting 2 chandeliers

Reflection of the current time period 🤷‍♂️

Looking up into the domed, window ceiling of a stairwell in the Tate Britain. The image is tainted blue and the window is partially reflected in the curved banister of the stairs

I thought posting reflections might be a thing then I forgot. So here's another one

Dios from Pyramids. Hates change and thinks Djelibeybi should stay the same

This is such a terrible loss. 😔 So many people have benefitted form the work of GV over the last 20 years!

New! Cassetteboy vs Keir Starmer.

This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!

Just getting ready to pose for my compulsory UK ID photo.

This Sunday in Colourscape on Clapham Common, 11.30 - 3.30: A more-or-less nonstop feast for at least two of the senses, with Gamelan Lila Cita, Lila Bhawa dancers and @eternity-bleeps.bsky.social

www.eyemusic.org.uk/whatsonevent...

Black and white image of tall converted warehouse building. There are 90 degree angled walls with the windows reflecting each other

I feel like posting a reflection

Duran

Lord of the Rings - The Two Buildings

Smajo Beso • Follow 3d • © I started school in Newcastle in Year 5 without knowing a word of English. I was nine years old and had arrived as a refugee from Bosnia just a couple of months earlier. I was one of those strangers our politicians often speak about. I missed my grandparents and friends. I was having awful nightmares, and I would wake up screaming every single night. I hated going to school. I would sit in my chair, look out of the window, and spend my day daydreaming about ways to run back to Bosnia. I didn't want to be here. After a couple of weeks at school, my teacher, Miss Webster, and my classmates did something special to help me settle, something that made me feel less of a stranger. That was the first day I went home with a smile on my face. I have shared this story before, but as tomorrow is start of the new school year, I thought I would share it again. **

Miss Webster was amazing, but I couldn't understand a word she was saying. She had this ritual where, at the end of each day, we would all sit on the floor around her, she would play the guitar, and we would all sing a song together. I couldn't understand what they were singing, but I could see she would sing one part of the song, then she would say someone's name or point to them. The next part of the song would be sung with that person's name in it, and they would get to go home first. My classmates loved this, but I hated it. It annoyed me because I couldn't understand what they were singing, but if I am honest, l hated it mainly because of how happy they all were. I definitely wasn't happy. I cried myself to sleep nearly every night. I eventually started having separate English lessons, which I enjoyed more because it took me out of the classroom. It was always daunting coming to school because I felt everyone was looking at me or speaking about me. For months, my dad would stand with me outside the school gates in the morning until it was time to go in.

One day I came back into the classroom from my English lesson. We sat down, and everyone was extra-excited, looking at me more than usual for some reason. Of course, I thought it was because I was a refugee, because I couldn't speak English, or because they couldn't pronounce my name. I was bracing myself for another afternoon of my classmates encouraging me to sing. This was probably the closest I came to running out. So we were all sitting on the floor around Miss Webster. She was holding her guitar, ready to sing. I remember the sun shining through the tall, narrow windows as I slowly drifted into a daydream of being back in Bosnia. She began playing the guitar, my classmates joined in, but this time, everything was different. I froze. I understood what they were signing. Not because I had miraculously learned English in one afternoon, but because they were singing in Bosnian for me. I looked around in shock, and they were all smiling at me, and for a moment I thought I was daydreaming.

While I was having separate English lessons, Miss Webster had taught our entire class to sing this song for me in Bosnian. They sang it terribly, but it was the most beautiful thing I had ever heard. I skipped home that day with a huge smile on my face. For the first time, I looked forward to going back to school the next day. I have often imagined Miss Webster and my classmates rehearsing, struggling with the strange Bosnian words and laughing at themselves. For me, that effort was the ultimate recognition, an act of peace that felt like the opposite of everything I had known during the war. It was special. I do not know if they realised it then, but that moment helped to give me back my dignity, my belonging, and, for the first time in a long time, I didn't feel like I was just a refugee or an outsider. I was home.

With alt:

MIGRANTS AREN'T THE PROBLEM INEQUALITY IS Green Party Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

Migrants didn't cut council funding. Migrants didn't cut NHS funding. Migrants didn't close youth centres. Migrants didn't sell off council houses. Migrants aren't filling our rivers with sewage.

Farage and co. will tell you to point the finger at migrants.

Don't fall for it.

Lighthugger space ship from Alistair Reynolds "Revelation Space" series.

Yeah, I loved them as a kid but I haven't gone back there for a long time.

I'm amazed I managed to find another 10! - I've read more than I thought🤔
Steven Erickson
Julian May
Robert Rankin
Aldous Huxley
Stephen King
David Eddings
Ashok K Bankar
Alan Dean Foster
Charles De Lynt
Harry Harrison

Wise words

Wise words

#ott #offtopictuesday

It makes me so happy - the Glasgow Resonate team are brilliant

I absolutely love this

Linda has been a long term participant at our Resonate project in Glasgow - a gamelan orchestra for people living with disabilities. Here's what the project means to her, in her own words. Thank you Linda for sharing your story.
#gamelan #charity

It's etched in to my brain so anything else is subsumed

🗣️It's Small Charity Week and we're happy to celebrate the vital role of small charities in communities across the UK.
Visit the Small Charity Week website's events page for all the free resources and training sessions running this week.
#smallcharity #smallcharityweek

I know we’re all tired 🥱
But let’s see how many reposts we can get across this app
Let’s go ‼️

Part two of my favourite compilations