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A THREAD, which I have decided to call 'Bloody Hell, Aren't Doors On Old Walls Fucking Brilliant?' You will find the all-important captions to each photo in the alt text.

Despair in these times nears paralysis. We’re sclerotic. Each impulse to resistance, rage, even to despair itself, feels withered, a nothingness. Yet there’s art. Music. At best it reminds us what’s possible, how miraculous human beings can be, even when the world & those who run it bellow otherwise

Just a regular reminder to please support your local theatre, café, bookstore, bakery, and library. We breathe life into these places when we support them. Without us, they can't survive, and truthfully, without them, neither can we.

The 20 Best Interdimensional Portals I Have Photographed On Walks In The British Countryside. Including arguably the best portal of all (the one leading to Jim). www.tom-cox.com/the-20-best-...

THREAD. A collection of photos I have taken of excellent cats I have met on walks. You will find the all-important captions to the photos in the alt text.

When a novelist starts writing poetry

some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing

This entirely innocent sounding website reminds me of one of my own paintings.

Had my royalty cheque from the amazing @ogre.red. If anyone wants a copy of The Usual Apologies, contact them, as I am out of mine :) They did a fantastic job (and it's a thrill to, er, get paid)! Check out their back catalogue and help them support other authors xx www.amazon.co.uk/Usual-Apolog...

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is a type of depression that affects people during winter months. SAD begins to emerge as the days get shorter and colder, and people get less exposure to sunlight. Daylight and Sleepio are free apps for people in Scotland and both can support with SAD.

21 February will mark 200 years since the death of John Kay, the renowned Scottish caricaturist and engraver. Read our blog post to find out more about his life and a new Capital Collections exhibition showcasing around 360 of his portraits and caricatures - zurl.co/Hq5ZS

The good news is the astronauts have arrived safely, the bad news is that no one on Earth has any record of sending them and when the other astronauts on the station try to talk to them or read the patches on their oddly-designed suits, they're striken with visions of the unending void.

Every now and then, when I want a little break away from the turmoil of *everything* going on in the world right now, I revisit this article which, as the title suggests, provides 69 dumb-fuck reasons people gave when voting Leave during the Brexit Referendum. medium.com/extra-extra/...

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THREAD. A selection of notes I have made in my notebook about my dad, and the things he does. 1. The Public Swimming Pool

So as I hate myself and my best work remains crap, I need to hate myself more. No, more. More than that.

The British Museum posted Al slop and quietly deleted it. Here's what it was and why it matters. #archaeology🏺#musuem #culture #heritage #history

One door closes and another door opens. Must get those cupboards fixed.

Mass humming like at school.

Preliminary reports are coming out stating that "his soul weighs way more than the feather of Maat, it's at least 12 feathers" and that it "will be devoured by the Goddess Ammit immediately, she's been waiting for this"

First cup of tea: and then I woke up and it definitely wasn’t a dream.

The Guardian view on Poems on the Underground at 40: public art to be proud of | Editorial www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

If you want to publish a bestseller, you might have to do things with a violin that you'd rather not.

A personal thread about using rhyme in poetry🧵 Despite once being a mainstay of form & despite its persistence in popular song, rhyme has lost favour with many poets. Some eschew it on principle. Others, even those who use it, are nervous of it. To many it seems old-fashioned, trivial, nursery stuff

I wouldn't normally post sad stuff online, but JJ is making his last trip to the vet this morning after long and difficult conversations. The kids came home to say goodbye. After a weekend of love and snuggles, he woke us up at 2.30am by peeing in @hulots-bassoon.bsky.social 's suitcase, #King.

"I once gave my Nobel Peace Prize to a man who was about to start a war with his European allies by invading Greenland"

THREAD. A Deconstruction Of Ladybird's Well-Loved Tales Books, 1964-74. You will find the analysis of these beloved books in the alt text below. 1. The Gingerbread Boy.

The world is confusing and dark so I made an elephant keyring. #WhenWordsFallSilent

Music, circus acts and pantomime entertainment hosted by #JacquesTati 🎪 PARADE (1974) 11am comedy #TPTVsubtitles

I think Nigel Kneale might have had a field day with ‘acoustic jars’ - centuries of choral singing trapped, then separated, as the church is abandoned, then reshaped into a open living space for a new couple from the city. The Acoustic Jar seems a title waiting for a story.

We're all trying to get by, in our own way. And if your way involves ancient books of magic, dark spirits, and secret meetings with the old gods in the forgotten end of the forest, so much the better.

THREAD. A collection of random dogs I have met on my adventures in the British countryside. You will find the captions to the photos in the alt text.

A #PoetryCommunity starter pack. Please follow these brilliant #poetsonbluesky and repost the pack

As a New Year lift for people who have been kind to me on here, a thread featuring all my starter packs. First up, a starter pack of Writers Looking for an Agent. Please follow the writers here and repost the pack #booksky #writingcommunity

If you haven't seen it, Bill Watterson gave a speech in 1990 to his alma mater, Kenyon college Full speech is here and it is absolutely worth your time: www.neil.blog/full-speech-... This is my favourite part

Corbridge. There’s a plaque.

Stages in Picasso’s depiction of a bull, with progressively increasing degrees of simplicity and abstraction (from ‘Bull’, lithograph, 1945/6)

Note from my notebook (2016). Nothing has changed.

HURRAY

I have had a rejection saying I should increase my social media presence if I want to be published. It makes me tired.

Ooh fingers crossed xx

I've decided to make this piece free to read in full for the next 24 hours. It's about the dangers of AI and the difficult decisions the digital world forces us to make, especially if we earn a living via our creativity. It's also a love letter to human thinking: www.tom-cox.com/thinking-abo...

My mum bought me a cheese scone, does that count?