After all these years part of me still finds it amazing I can load and run programs without having to listen to them on cassette for 20 minutes.

So I accidentally joined a "boy band" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayOgvrKAkdM&list=RDayOgvrKAkdM

Jasmine Saunders is a ceramicist and Natural Science student who loves supporting people in learning through tactile creativity. Together, we will get our hands stuck in carving and moulding clay to each make small moth sculptures. Using plant imprint […] [Original post on social.thentrythis.org]

Melanie Hyo-In Han will be working on a poetry pamphlet about moths and the viruses that affect them. In Korean culture, moths have long been associated with spirits and memory; drawing on these symbolisms, as well as her own experiences with migration […] [Original post on social.thentrythis.org]

Charlotte Evans lost her dad 4 years ago to Motor Neurone Disease - she’s done a lot of thinking over the past few years on freedom, movement and illness. Charlotte looks to draw a comparison between humans and moths with the aim to educate people […] [Original post on social.thentrythis.org]

Now is not the time, politically or socially, for high production values.

Just remember: the hateful claims made against Muslims today were previously made against Jews (and often still are). Sometimes word-for-word. Same hate, different targets. We all stand together against hatred, or we will be picked off one by one.

An essay on illustrating complex information, from graphs to graphic novels https://thentrythis.org/notes/2026/03/16/illustrating-complexity/

the FT reports today that the US Military is using an AI kill chain, built by Anthropic and Palantir. They use it to launder inadequate evidence into kill decisions no-one can be blamed for, to perpetuate a terror program where it's impossible to tell who counts as a "combatant". And they will […]

Like clockwork - he got the epstein headlines off the front page again.

🐜 0023: Found something sticky. 🐜 0536: Where?? 🐜 0023: Ugh just ping me right here. 🐜 3045: Is it pepsi? 🐜 0536: Where?? 🐜 0034: Please made a channel for this conversation don't clutter the public feed. 🐜 0023: It's not "clutter" this is an network for ants how can this be "clutter" 🐜 0536 […]

[uk pol] Apart from anything else, it's going to be great to see Reform lose their badge of the "new insurgents" in UK politics. I kinda feel that's pretty much all they have.

Here’s a photo of a racist prick losing and a good morning to everyone

Instead of defending the use of LLMs for polishing up your writing, we could be advocating for unpolished writing. Blog posts with spelling errors and awkwardly repeated words. Emails that sound a bit less warm and professional because you forgot the preamble of "Apologies for the late reply […]

Deadline is just over 2 weeks away for our funded Cocoon residencies. You can be from any background, and these are themed on moths and the viruses that infect them, very niche, but you can take it in any direction you like. 1-4 weeks long, up to […] [Original post on social.thentrythis.org]

So much khipu documentation is paywalled, copyrighted or otherwise owned (not often by Andean people, of course) so we've been doing some drawing for this workshop to explain how to make your own khipu. All the workshop materials will be creative commons CC-BY.

Little workshop this weekend in Falmouth on behalf of The Poly. Come play with Andean/Inca knotted string records (called Khipu), and walking robots made from braided textiles which you can control with more knots […] [Original post on social.thentrythis.org]

Good feeling being invited to talk about your project by a funder to newly funded projects, must have done something ok

Bit of a long shot this - but I'm looking for science/social science researchers who might be willing to give some thoughts on how their field of research might have shaped their views on life, death and grief. I've made a short survey here which can be done […] [Original post on mastodon.green]

Bits and bobs from the week. Big quick jellyfish sketch with Sumi ink (over a metre), a 10 min hand from 2h life drawing session just on hands, and some etching tests swatches learning spit bite, white ground and sugar lift.

Refurbishing this pattern matrix for Ellen Harluzius-Klück, who we worked with on her Penelope project. Getting it working with the browser based warp weighed loom simulation. #weaving

Little wood engraving carved for a friend's very loved whippet Colin who left our world this week, now flying amongst the stars. Hoping to print from it in a few days. #dogsofmastodon #printmaking #printmaker

⭐ Cocoon Residences - Open Call ⭐ We have funded residencies for autumn, themed on moths and their viruses. These are based at our studio in Cornwall, with our support, and working with our long-term collaborator @b_longdon We have tried to make the […] [Original post on social.thentrythis.org]

New rockhounding phrase for me: "heft in the hand": the apparent density of a material.

Got approximately two minutes today to play with someone's airbrush, hooked.

Still providing support for people using Betablocker DS - if you want to make software with longevity, make it work on the oldest tech you can get your hands on! #permacomputing https://thentrythis.org/projects/betablocker/

people trying to convince me that "you have reached your token limit" is an expected and normal state of affairs; smh

Head of UK Palantir is "the grandson of Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Union of Fascists in the 1930s" https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/17/has-peter-mandelson-finally-run-out-of-spin

I forgot I had an "AI project", it ran on ZX Spectrum, I should perform it some time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pt7JqoPInlg

Having a bit of a local situation after 110mph winds, lots of power and water problems, towns cut off by fallen trees (& no reporting on this nationally). Our MP is talking about the fragility of digital comms, which is something I've wondered about over the last couple of days: "what is […]

Ok gang ideas needed. This microwolf lost her little bestie just over a year ago after his long decline with dementia. As he got very unwell and then after we lost him, she started getting very anxious and aggressive with other dogs, she was fine up until then […] [Original post on mastodon.green]

Made a series of prints, one for each chapter of an essay submitted today on 'illustrating complex information'. Still hate writing papers, still love making prints. Turns out I really like doing spot illustrations in an editorial style to fit with the text 🖤 This first one is the cover pic...

Happy solstice! Little wood engraving made this morning ✨

Final mailout of the year is set to go out at noon UK time, get yourself on there if you fancy receiving (roughly quarterly) studio news and info on open calls as and when they happen 💫 https://view.flodesk.com/pages/63c07d7c2fd941fe62206344

Noting the wealthy local university advertising residency positions paid at less than HALF the artist union suggested rates https://www.artistsunionengland.org.uk/rates-of-pay/

!!!Album release!!! "220 under adit (techno from mine waste)" All proceeds will go to the Panzi Foundation, supporting victims of sexual violence in conflict mining areas in the Democratic Republic of Congo, an illegal exploitation that ends up filling our laptops and mobiie phones. Please […]

Just had a contract from a university that bans the use of any open source software. Have flagged it - new one on me.

With at least one powerful acceleratorist ai corporation looking to fund/partner with open source live coding projects, I wonder if anyone will take the bait

Sometimes I just get an idea and it won't go away

If you consistently downplay the importance of understanding the world via material, non-human entities and scientific process - you lose perspective and get an unhinged kind of world where AI has a future.

A little bit smug about finally getting round to animating our logo 😎 https://thentrythis.org/

Took a while to find this, and it's affected me somehow. A hidden and forgotten place that could instead be an important destination to explore what it means to be part of human society. In 1967 an oil tanker sank off the coast of Cornwall called the Torrey […] [Original post on post.lurk.org]

Spotted today in a freezing cold outdoor toilet block that smelled of old cigarettes

SmogOff in the news (only just found out about this from June, but good seeing them out in the wild being used and people taking ownership!) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y8y18m88xo

Set myself up a little printing press out of a slightly modified old pasta machine, kind of works! Not the result you'd get from the tonnes of pressure from the real presses, but still not too shabby :)

Our new studio looking exactly as cosy as it is this evening

Writing an absurd amount of scheme code to simply try and figure out how to continue this pattern I started a few months ago (and after several studio moves) lost an important piece of paper... #weaving #tabletweaving