K.V. Johansen

Right, need to do some chores before heading off to Off-Farm-Job in advance of the morning's freezing rain.

I find the necks on the electrics act as hygrometers through the wildly changing yearly cycle of humidity. Trying to keep my study vaguely around 50% means less messing with truss rods, though some truss rod adjustment still has to happen twice a year regardless. Makes the fern happier, too!

Looking at the comments catching hold of the idea, it's obviously something that is simmering in the Zeitgeist, trying to force its way out into existence.

St Peter's Church, Monkwearmouth, which was founded in 674.

Mar 7: Feast of Eosterwine (†686), abbot of St Peter’s, Uuiremutha (Monkwearmouth). Noble who, aged 24, became monk at his cousin Benedict Biscop’s foundation. Even as abbot he took part ‘cheerfully and obediently in every monastery chore’. Sigfrith succeeded him. 📸John Armagh #medievalsky

4pm today on BBC Radio 4 Extra it’s the repeat of my adaptation of Iain M. Banks’ The State of the Art, with Sir Antony Sher as the ship. So proud of this amazing production by @nadiamolinari.bsky.social

Maybe you should write this one?

Humidifier is labouring to keep the guitars happy.

On the down side, my chest feels a bit like all the children coughing all over everything at the OFJ have given me something. I shall tell myself it's just the dry air and see whether it goes away. House is very dry after all the -20 even though it's going to rain today.

I've let the MS of Raven rest for a week. Tomorrow I'll give it a glance over and convert to docx and let the publisher know it's finished. Then, we'll see.
Thinking about cover art. Another digital painting by me, in all likelihood.

Cape Cockburn Bathurst Island
A.Y. Jackson
1930

A robed figure considers a horned giant deep within the woods

last of the old gods

#digitalart #rpg #D&D #fantasy #weird

The Gods Must Burn by T R Moore — Runalong The Shelves I would like to thank Solaris for an advance copy of this novel in exchange for a fair and honest review Publisher – Solaris Published – Out Now Price – £18.99 hardback £7.99 ebook War he...

I was impressed too by a tale of gods and a lost soldier in The Gods Must Burn by T R Moore www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2026/3/...

I am puzzled over why, having ordered a book from Blackwell's, every ad-bearing website I look at using the same browser is showing me ads for that book. This is not useful to anyone. (I forgot and ordered it from the 'dirty' browser rather than the 'never remember anything' one.)

a stony path running alongside small trees at different angles. with long grey beard lichen growing everywhere. really unusual to see so much.

Peaceful wideness.
Pastoral mildness.
Inside a little outcrop of blackthorn trees.
Every branch covered in the healthiest grey lichen we'd ever seen.

Episode 76 - Last fields before the sea (35 mins) > bit.ly/LenLiCn

Recorded in April 2021.

Kōkako, a large grey songbird with blue wattles, on Tiritiri

When I headed to Aotearoa, I thought my top target passerine was the South Island saddleback. But I'd badly underestimated the North Island kōkako.

I've never heard such an extraordinary song. And they're so large and marvelous. Sadly I never got a great photo, but what a bird!

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A bit more push and this truck will be on the frontline, helping Ukrainian Special Operations stay fast, mobile, and protected 🙏

Every donation and repost counts, fellas🔥

Very apt.

Yellow bird with black face and red eye, all puffed out and slightly damp.

Let me start a belated thread of Aotearoa New Zealand silvan birds.

To lead things off, a New Zealand Bellbird photographed on Kapiti Island.

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!

An aerial view of a hundred freshly dug graves for the school girls while families gather around

Six days on, a New York Times investigation concludes that the US bombed the school.

175 are dead, 150+ of whom are schoolgirls aged 7-12.

The My Lai massacre for our generation.

The Hague - and Hell - awaits.

WAR CRIME BY THE US.

An unarmed Iranian ship was takIng part in an Indian naval exercise, alongside the US.

The US withdrew and torpedoed the Iranian ship.

THEN the US refused to rescue the sailors, letting them drown.

This is treachery, cowardice, cruelty and a war crime of the highest order.

The FT reports Government is "back to drawing board over destroying creatives copyright". Lords Cttee says "would be a very poor bet for the government to allow changes to copyright that could undermine the UK’s creative industries”.

Lobbying matters but a pause not a victory
#AIIsTheft #AI #ukpol

Full report:

committees.parliament.uk/committee/17...

I guess now we'll see just how much of its soul the Labour party has sold to big tech.

It does occur to me that maybe The Writers' Union of Canada needs, in its occasional letter-writing campaigns, to be encouraging members to write to senators and senate committees as well as MPs and ministers. Like the lords, appointed, and when taking their role seriously, which many do, useful.

The value of a second legislative chamber demonstrated. Repost widely so the UK gov can’t ignore it.
#BookSky

I must stress, this is a campaign which has stopped the Government rushing through what tech lobbyists are asking for. We may or may not win, but sitting on our arses now makes one outcome more likely, doesn't it.

Our senate, too. (Canada - appointed, analogue to the lords.) They do serve a function, the conscientious ones who hold themselves free of party lines and interests and take "sober second thought" as meaning something.

- AI training isn’t ‘learning’ and shouldn’t be treated as such

The House of Lords has been absolutely consistent on this, and they are totally right. Will the government listen?

/end

They say:

- the government must not weaken copyright law, and should instead strengthen licensing, transparency & enforcement
- the government should stop prioritising large multinational tech firms

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