Can see my becoming insufferable with this book.

Without saying your age, what’s your favourite film that came out when you were 18?

20 yrs ago this week, still in remission and in post heat wave temperatures v similar to these, me and C drove down to sunny Beds for some soulful recuperation. This 20p car boot purchase cassette was our soundtrack. I write about it lovingly in Ad Lib. Context is all. Lengthy extracts in the Alt.

Someone has acquired a badge machine and is very not sorry.

Good morning from the sunflower maze.

Next few minutes on a knife edge; want to see Argentinian tears but need to switch off before Trump slithers into view.

Mephisto, by Joaquín Espalter y Rull, 1872, 📸 by Dan Mullan

Thank fuck.

Britain’s response to America attempting to yassify the world cup has made me feel patriotic for the first time in a long time

Anyone know if Al Qaeda are recruiting rn? #WorldCup2026

“Why do they hates us?”

E. A. Mattila, "Lost Horizons," 1971

Say what you want about those dirt dogs Argentina, that flags a beauty. 🌞

It’s taken about a month of tinkering and ordering a replacement part from China but today I replaced the broken carburettor on a petrol lawnmower and MY GOD I’ve never felt so alive.

For the @theobserveruk.bsky.social this weekend I wrote about the grail quest for the one and only Reader's Digest book of Folklore, Myths and Legends of Great Britain. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

FRIDAY SHOP PLUG! Folklore themed linocut prints. 🌾💀🌞 RTs are positively encouraged. Thanks! x matpringleillustration.bigcartel.com

Sometimes [often] at PRINT SOCIAL there’s not much printing. There’s not a lot of carving. But from time to time someone [ @haggytea.bsky.social ] will bring in an unusual activity for us to have a go at. So we did some foil embossing. It was fun.

Gonna boost this new guy for my Friday Shop Plug... 👁️ slipperyjack.bigcartel.com

In Science & Magic 29 I go on a walk through the woods with my friend Ed Rimmer and think about the harvesting of ice, strange warning signs and silence. You can read it here: www.violetterecords.com/science-and-...

FRIDAY SHOP PLUG! Folklore themed linocut prints. 🌾💀🌞 RTs are positively encouraged. Thanks! x matpringleillustration.bigcartel.com

This morning; Om. #nowplaying Can we have a new Om album please? IT’S BEEN FOURTEEN YEARS FOR CHRIST’S SAKE.

Sometimes [often] at PRINT SOCIAL there’s not much printing. There’s not a lot of carving. But from time to time someone [ @haggytea.bsky.social ] will bring in an unusual activity for us to have a go at. So we did some foil embossing. It was fun.

In my Discogs shop now. www.discogs.com/seller/MatPr... If I know you on here or we have mutuals I'm happy to sell directly and open to offers on most of these. And swaps!

This afternoon; Gravediggaz. #nowplaying

"No one ever stopped to consider that if you released 2 million copies of Moby's Play into the wild, one day... they might come back."

Len Linoleum

Clifford Webb #illustration #printmaking #woodcut #CliffordWebb

This morning; Henry Cow. #nowplaying This is a pivotal cull play and it’s not going well; proto Black Midi wanky nonsense.

The first grindcore band at the Tiny Desk HAD to be the founding fathers. Circle up, y'all, I brought freaking NAPALM DEATH to the Desk @npr.org www.youtube.com/watch?v=e81L...

This afternoon; Gabor Szabo. #nowlistening

This morning; Living Body. #nowplaying

Timothée Mallette

I'd very much appreciate it if you took a moment to read the alt text on this. www.tom-cox.com

More details about 'Stage Fright!' – the bonus reward for backing both my campaign & the @alewoodgames.bsky.social ARKYVR campaign! '... It's time for the climax of your unlikely documentary production – the London premiere of 'Entity – the Stage Adaptation'!' www.backerkit.com/c/projects/p...

This morning; King Sunny Ade and his African Beats. #nowplaying

This morning; Rumble in the Jungle compilation. #nowplaying

I've been adding some work to my website – a reminder of some older stuff that I'd forgotten about. Here's one of my favourites – a commission from the dark, dark winter of 2020. Swifts flying over a lovely vintage French map of the Cognac area: katiefuller.co.uk/portfolio/

BLOCTOBER linocut prints.

Somebody in Margate is writing their favourite Slayer joints in chalk on pavements and honestly I cannot fuck with their choices.

BLOCTOBER linocut prints.

9/7/26 - nocturn

Deep in the carve. My favourite bit.

New lino underway featuring oversized mammals of folklore.

This morning; These Trails. #nowplaying Heatwave appropriate synth-heavy acid folk from Honolulu. One of my favourites.

BIG NEWS: I have a new short story collection coming out in September & I'm doing it a different way, publishing it in collaboration with the new collective @breakthroughbook.bsky.social. You can read about it - & assist with printing costs by ordering a copy - here: www.tom-cox.com/my-next-book...

This morning; Rich Ruth. #nowplaying Lock-down DIY kosmiche spiritual jazz.

Digital rework of a linocut corn maiden I carved. ‘Crying the neck’ is a harvest tradition where the last sheaf of wheat is venerated with song by the local community and turned into corn dolly to be displayed in a prominent place in a village, representing the end the harvest cycle.

Babe wake up, incredible new (1976) Romanian illustration of Smaug just dropped