normally I am a news junkie, swallowing pods of analysis whole, gobbling the BBC News and Al Jazeera updates. This last week, I have choked on horrors.
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normally I am a news junkie, swallowing pods of analysis whole, gobbling the BBC News and Al Jazeera updates. This last week, I have choked on horrors.
We need a term for the when IT dudes presume nobody has ever thought about a concept humans have been putting a lot of effort into for centuries...........
We've noticed a significant uptick in corpse outlines at places believed to haunted. It's hard to tell if these ghost-markers are warning or warding. They often seem to memorialise the dead as appeasement. – Sophie Morley of Woden College's Graffiti Research and Formalisation Team (GRAFT), 1981
But when is it World putting a book open face down on the table next to you while you listlessly scroll on your phone Day?
teams meet with one job, followed by telehealth to get ND medication while parenting and meal planning, and I am lucky to be this busy and not in a terrifying war zone
Whenever I feel like illustrating some sword and sorcery I think of this analysis of Frazetta's style, written by the late great Jesse Hamm
sirspamdalot.livejournal.com/68226.html
Steve-O was on Joe Rogan's show trying to defend trans people and Rogan went off, he called trans people "fucking perverts" and "mass shooters" who have done the majority of school shootings.
Completely unhinged bigotry paid for by your Spotify subscriptions.
Image of a black cat in a cardboard box from directly above. The box seems to contain a deep blackness, with only the cat's yellow eyes staring out of the image, exuding feline disdain
this is Percy, gone but always with me:
they have an extra layer of cat, I think.
oh wow. Black beast, like my old familiar Percival. Gorgeous, and pokes my heart.
this makes me want to scratch off an entire layer of skin
i'm exhausted and the news is a giant crab
What the Western media isn't showing you. Footage from Al Jazeera. www.youtube.com/shorts/kpzhy...
Jessie... No...!
I really hate substack and I'm going to unsubscribe from everyone. Sorry anyone who's there who I've stayed subbed to bc your work is so good, but the company you chose to work with just forced me to install their app to claim a gift article and I'm done.
Predatory, amoral, unscrupulous cancer.
I have a list of words and phrases that I have named as cliches for writing about art.
An example:'liminal' . Liminal is now so thinly spread I expect it to turn up in advertising copy any second now.
I have just nailed a new one:
"Deep Time".
There's something faintly racist in there too.
I'm wanting a paperback to sit handsomely on my shelf, thanks and please you
Buy this when it comes out again. It's a great book, and Joel's a great bloke, and this is one of many books that was completely fucked by Unbound stealing all their authors' money.
This show was very dear to my heart. Very funny and I learned a lot.
Simply evil
‘The plane flew and started spraying’: Israel accused of poisoning Syrian farmland with chemicals
Villagers report dying fields, damaged livestock and fears for their livelihoods
www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...
My husband @mjowen174.bsky.social is very down and it’s difficult to see.
He had a thriving writing business until AI came along but now he’s struggling to find work.
Please repost this far and wide in the hope that he can find some writing work.
www.mathew-owen.co.uk
“A screenshot of a news article from The Times website. The headline reads: ‘Children taking DIY cross-sex hormones before going to gender clinics.’ The subheadline states: ‘Hundreds of young trans people are buying puberty blockers, oestrogen and testosterone without prescription from websites and even recreational drug dealers.’ The page header includes navigation links, a log-in button, and a ‘Start trial’ button.”
What did you think would happen when you restricted access to care?
Under a Reform UK government, only British citizens will be able to vote. FARAGE: Letting non-British citizens vote in UK threatens democracy
Farage and Reform are bad losers.
Their failure to secure the seat was down to the vast majority of voters roundly rejecting their hate because Gorton and Denton is a progressive place.
68% of voters in the constituency voted Green, Labour or Lib Dem.
Don't let them use lies to twist the truth.
Still true
oh now this is just exactly what you'd think. Which is AWFUL.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Boris with Merzbow Live - 2026-02-27 Hindley Street Music Hall, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia https://archive.org/details/boris-with-merzbow-2026-02-27
Merzbow with Lawrence English Live - 2026-02-25 Oxford Art Factory, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia https://archive.org/details/merzbow-with-lawrence-english-2026-02-25
Apparently prominent Australian psychiatrist and anti-trans commentator Dr Andrew Amos is now subject to AHPRA conditions which prevent him from either talking about trans people on social media or having any patient contact at all. Get fucking wrecked
Some thoughts on the Berlinale, on film festivals as political spaces, and reviews of YELLOW LETTERS and SALVATION, the two films by Turkish directors that took Berlin's two top prizes. www.vulture.com/article/film...
