'Basho was on a genuine quest to integrate and represent non-Western folk and spiritual traditions, through the development of esoteric tunings and conceptual roots for his songs.' The Strange World Of… #RobbieBasho - #ThePortal: Your Weekly Quietus Archive Dive buff.ly/XHTShyD

Another fantastic read from Mary Chiney, this on the dire need to preserve the archive of Nigerian cinema: "To view the early Nollywood soundtrack era simply through channels of ironic, millennial nostalgia is a profound failure of cultural criticism." thequietus.com/opinion-and-...

Sunken Lands by Gareth E. Rees Planet Earth is a forever changing place, and climate change is something that is always in the news, what with climate deniers on social media and the frequent news of lost ice shelves which cause rising sea levels, it seems we've lost perspective of what this means…

Great column

Chuck Schumer: ‘The American People Deserve A President Who Can More Credibly Justify War With Iran’ https://theonion.com/chuck-schumer-the-american-people-deserve-a-president-1835697625/

Your regular reminder that when speaking about young people, "innocence" is merely a fanciful euphemism for "ignorance". "We want to preserve children's innocence" usually means "we want to keep teenagers ignorant".

Listen to Xylitol @bunnyhausen.bsky.social's Blumenfantasie in a listening party tonight at 7pm on @bandcamp.com and chat with her live xylitol.bandcamp.com/merch/xylito...

It's International Long Covid awareness day! For many people Covid is now seen as 'just a cold' but for millions of us it's a chronic, life-limiting condition, and frankly, a pain in the arse (head, legs, lungs etc). One thing you can do to make a difference: wear a mask in public when you are sick.

Landscape of the Vernal Equinox (III) https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-nash/landscape-of-the-vernal-equinox-iii-1944

apnews.com/article/owl-... owl found resting among items on a New York antique store shelf

my favorite Robert Duvall role is where he appears as a priest on a swing for 2 seconds for no apparent reason in Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

As our latest opus nears completion, why not fill the time by downloading the previous KN albums from our " Cornish Industrial " range ? Brunton Calciner, Oxland Cylinder and Lowermoor are all available from a pound on our site for today only x kempernorton.bandcamp.com/album/oxland...

Excellent!

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

very grateful to The Quietus for publishing this essay- on everyday fascism and the promise and problem of “beauty” as an inadequate but therapeutic response to the ugliness of the present - plus there are some thoughts on disco and Patricia Highsmith- this felt like a risk but I’m glad it’s out

FOX: Where’s the protest against the regime that's killing people in the street right now? Trent: They are doing those today. It’s called the ICE protests FOX: Are they talking about Iran at the ICE protests? Trent: No, I think they are talking about the regime that is shooting people in the face

👉 ICE Abusing Protesters After Murdering Driver 1/7/26 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lnfi...

RIP Claudia Cardinale. Much like Robert Redford, she was a rare case of a beautiful performer with a filmography full of bangers who did NOT become right-wing later in life. Here she is punching fascist Brigitte Bardot in the face in Les Pétroleuses (1971).

Some buildings cast a haunted shadow. In their umbra a remberance of fear. For every castle ruin the tourist board tries to sell as romantic ruin there stands a tower which was terror warden. We live in a landscape ghosted by old violence, a landscape of psychic bruises. – #CJosiffe

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

Concrete Atlantis Autumnal #polaroids #expiredfilm @thehorsehospital @kempernorton.bsky.social #lauragraceford + #markopilkington #teleplasmiste @oldweirdalbion.bsky.social #polaroids #expirefilm

getting a text in the middle of the night and it's just my loathsome vizier saying "Your enemies lie in wait, my lord!!" what am I supposed to do with that. its four in the morning

whatever you think of Spanberger, the fact that her opponent ran a campaign based almost entirely on transphobia and is on track to eat shit in the biggest blowout the state has seen since 2009 is unambiguously a huge win

I am no longer employed so I'm not blogging Zohran tonight but I can just repeat exactly what I said in June :-) he won on the back of a pro-migrant, pro-trans, pro-working class campaign. and also: Dem pundits are full of shit

Happy Halloween kempernorton.bandcamp.com/track/sweet-...

National Trust types! It's AGM time, do vote for the suggested candidates & block the right-wing, 'anti-woke', mysteriously-funded Restore Trust, who are against eg rewilding and discussing colonial history / LGBT+ heritage (last week my sister saw OOTW in an NT shop, would it be if they had power?)

How much will it take for people to give up Sp*tify? First they JUST ripped off artists, then they REALLY ripped off independent artists & flooded the playlists with their own AI nonsense, then we found out they funded weapons, now ICE ads… you can’t say you weren’t warned they might be baddies

Trailer for the new 4K restoration of Jacob’s Ladder. God it’s one of the most beautifully photographed films ever.

For today only pretty much everything on our bandcamp page is 75% off...tracks, albums, even our entire discography! Just apply the following code at the checkout: kempersale kempernorton.bandcamp.com

This is an archived government report that found that “Since 1990, far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left or radical Islamist extremists.” It existed yesterday and is gone today.

Always great to see new excellent stuff coming from Kernow 👍

Such a beautiful sad terrifying film

Go Kernow xx

Ben James Wood is part of a new generation of Cornwall-based producers, mixing and matching modular and desktop/ soft & hard synths to reboot Braindance for the 21st Century barn dance Kernow Craft: Oh Mr James Interviewed buff.ly/z8Wo2c9

It's a finding the tunes from the chapter of a novel kind of day

I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/

Today in The Kids Are Alright ✊

I'm loving the occasional title coming up as I wade through the Aubrey and Maturin books

As someone who loves the ladies' pond, this is close to my heart Can you chip in to keep this pond for all women, cis and trans. 🩵💗

Stone Club at The Social Sept 1st with @soundsofslomo.com plus @stephenomalley74.bsky.social @jjstannard.bsky.social Slomo & @matthewmshaw.bsky.social discussing drones and stones & @stonelands.bsky.social on Stone Lands & @alexandertucker.bsky.social live thesocial.seetickets.com/event/stone-...

🚨BREAKING: Cal State LA just moved classes online and let faculty work remotely, not for a storm, not for COVID, but because ICE is in the area. Let that sink in, an entire university is treating immigration enforcement like a public health crisis.

A superb piece of journalism in The Observer: it seems like the one of the sacred texts of Nature Writing (TM) is not quite as much of an unflinchingly honest read as claimed observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Huge thanks to @markopilkington.bsky.social @roseio.bsky.social @kempernorton.bsky.social MAP 71, @smackmusic.bsky.social & Elkka Nyoukis. Psychotropic swarms, skewed bewitchments, end-to-end mutant moments summoned. Minds were blown. Hon mention to @nothingistrue.net & all attendees. More soon.

Can't wait for this on Saturday – Teleplasmiste are on vibrant form - we'll hope to see a few of you in Brighton...

if white Americans didn’t want Mexicans in California maybe they should not have conquered California from Mexico and then spent 150 years building up an economy entirely dependent on the flow of people and goods across the border just a thought

This is the way to stand up to these bullies! Respect ✊

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