Worth a read #Palantir fails to woo Swiss gov with its bullshit

Six newly-created accounts made a profit of $1 million by correctly betting that the U.S. would strike Iran by February 28.

Tommy Robinson’s insistence that he is a destitute family man living hand‑to‑mouth becomes rather harder to swallow when his son pops up bragging that he is living the lifestyle of a minor oligarch. searchlightmagazine.com/2026/02/sons...

I've been harrowed my own easy familiarity with the harrowed, again.

Apparently you no longer need to have studied art to do an masters in it. While that might be the case practically (I agree with the sentiment and practice it) I resent it as a recruitment strategy advertising a discount on fees. Ffs

Just got this ARC of Emily LaBarge's upcoming book. Stoked. She's a brilliant thinker and writer.

these bigots just sit on discord and WhatsApp all day radicalising each other with complete fake bullshit and using AI to draft censorship threats to any org that even hints at trans people being part of society. even if their own families desert them, they double down. It’s like BSE 2.0

A reminder, one day ahead of a by-election in which the Greens are favourites to defeat Reform, that the Daily Mail owner's wife recently donated £50,000 to Nigel Farage's party

Nothing puts my poodle asleep quite like Bon Iver's emotive simple nonsense zzzzz

our common life depends upon each other's toil

Claude Cahun’s Survival Guide for the Ages (Joyelle McSweeney - Hyperallergic) A new translation of the French artist’s 1930 memoir is a kaleidoscopic collection of dialogues, sketches, and Blakean proverbs. #ClaudeCahun #Surrealism hyperallergic.com/claude-cahun...

Just had my first audition tape come in. Starting to feel very real...

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I like doing things and not talking about them.

For #wildflowerhour it’s Red Dead-nettle aka purple archangel, bumble-bee flower or bad man’s posies from me

Rene Matic was best in show

Tony Blair, dangerous creep

"I’m not the first translator to say that translation can feel like a seance. There are all these voices and references at play in the text, and then you channel them like a medium – what do you hear, what do you mishear?" Michelle & I interviewed by English PEN pentransmissions.com/2026/02/19/n...

Writing convoluted captions to Instagram image pausing, instead writing convoluted reflection on bsky, pausing, writing convoluted synthesis on new image for Instagram, pausing recognising that I am over stimulated. Pressing send. Closing eyes.

From John Lennon Airport to John Lennon Art & Design Building (not related)

Angst by Hélène Cixous @foylesforbooks.bsky.social, 17 March Sophie Lewis, Juliet Jacques & Emily Labarge discuss écriture féminine and its influence. They explore Lewis’s translation of ANGST & the demand for freedom at the heart of Cixous's novel. www.foyles.co.uk/events/angst...

In the Todd Haynes Velvet Underground doc John Cale talks about playing with La Monte Young in the Dream Syndicate and them tuning the drone to the fridge in the flat he shared with Tony Conrad. “The 60 cycle hum is the drone of western civilisation” — Cale www.theguardian.com/music/2026/f...

"Donald Trump's name is all over these files. I saw a reference today of a 9-year-old girl " Jamie Raskin after reading the unredacted Epstein Files

Been away from home since Monday night and sudden urgent need to have my moon calendar-diary-notebook thing I made with the postman's elastic band and look at it, but at home.

God Speed You Black Cab Emperor (Me, according to Dale)

Everyone needs to know this diabolical revelation It's hard to articulate even to myself how this makes me feel and how it relates to all the boring ways I am made illegible in social reality

I'm reading a really dreadful book for a kind of morbid pleasure slash research. The cardboard gun-slinging hetro-petro-authoritarian world of white man america, dead on the inside, focused on national security on the outside, always right and loves a cig www.goodreads.com/book/show/49...

On my way to Limerick to pay EVA International as visit in my capacity as Adjunct Artist Researcher. Feels a little like I'm researching what I'm doing exactly as I'm doing it, which is the golden stuff tbh 📀

Finale to Industry is great. Eric Tao is the best telly character.

Seems like yesterday. February 1996. I went to Pembrokeshire to take photographs of the oil spill impacts for use by eNGOs. I ended up helping rescue oiled seabirds. Sometimes you couldn't see one until a 'lump' in the crude oil moved slightly. It was horrific. You never get over it.

Glorious Gorse still Going in the Grey #wildflowerhour

OK #UKwildlife #wildlife bsky what #animaltracks are these? We're in Yorkshire/Lancashire near woodland and moorland foothills We think we spotted a pine marten or weasle yesterday who left behind its lunch. But pretty certain there is a squirral and something else (carnivorous)

Started prepping for my two and a half week coast to coast walk with this babe. #my40thyear

Hi everyone. As you know, I am our trans rights lead at Good Law Project. I have been working alongside a fantastic team on our challenge since May last year. But whilst what we have achieved is significant - there is still a lot further to go. If you can, please donate and help us keep fighting.

'Palantir was co-founded by the Trump supporter and billionaire Peter Thiel, who has previously said “the NHS makes people sick”, and described the British public’s affection for the NHS as a case of “Stockholm syndrome”'

www.jigsawplanet.com?rc=play&pid=... Satisfied by this one. Usually feel loss at completion

Why do people hate ai? It’s a mystery for the ages.

Today is David Graeber's birthday. He'd have been 65 years old today. His ideas are still here and his message is more important than ever before which must remind us that a better world is possible.

The Elections Bill is really very thin on political finance. Some loopholes closed, some warm words, but still unlimited political donations. That's why we're working with @38degrees.bsky.social to call for a cap on donations Please sign and share: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...

4 months later everyone served eviction notices. Sad business www.baltic-creative.com/from-warehou...

People who move into rural areas and build high fences over their stone garden walls, as though the only perspective in the village is their own.

The UK has too many immigrants, says the man who is an immigrant in Monaco. Hmm, I wonder why he stays in Monaco? 🤔

Silent sauna, outdoors, cold plunge, me, 5pm

I read an irl counter narrative to Lord of the Flies from 5yrs back in Guardian - the boys from a Catholic boarding school in Tonga. One year on an island. ' 'We're predisposed to co-coperation, actually.' But those kids weren't little fuckers with army/banker parents from colonial narrative UK.

Tim Bennan critique of Stuent Experience metrics Exposure Not Experience www.linkedin.com/pulse/exposu...

www.jigsawplanet.com?rc=play&pid=... 5mins 44secs - One Night the Hunter Saw His Dog Steal the Bread. I know the feeling. @barnsleymuseums.bsky.social

Great to see this profile of Rethinking Economics, the project to challenge neoclassical economics co-founded over a decade ago by @yuanfenyang.bsky.social, now a Labour MP. I hope its thinking now starts to permeate the Labour government more! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

We were too busy yesterday sharing bowls, tins, crumpets and owls that we missed out on #PuzzleMonday To make up for that here's a #TilesOnTuesday puzzle 🧩 Let us know how long it takes you to solve this #MuseumJigsaw Islamic Arches tile panel by William De Morgan 🧩 bit.ly/BlueskyJigsaws 🧩

eist.radio tonight at 7 til 9. Free jazz women vocalists, Sly & Robbie, more than one Joy Division cover, and an attempt to prove that the Cocteau Twins are black metal