The movie adaptation of 'Train Dreams' is something palatable, a safe choice between seasons of 'Yellowstone.' defector.com/train-dreams...

The Son of God, Pilsen, Chicago https://www.artic.edu/artworks/159919/

anna's castle (law office), 6th avenue, ouray, colorado, 1991

Atomic Pest Control, Elvis Presley Boulevard, Memphis (2009) Photo: William Bearden / Memphis Public Libraries

Harriet Powers (1839 -1910), African-American former enslaved woman, folk artist, quilt maker from Georgia who used traditional appliqué techniques to record local legends, Bible stories, and astronomical events on her quilts #WomensArt #BlackHistoryMonth

One of the people killed by Soldier F was a man who stepped out to help another of his victims as he lay dying in the street. He waved a white handkerchief as he did so. Soldier F shot him in the head. His name was Barney McGuigan and today his family had to listen to a judge acquit his killer.

"I remember hundreds of photos and videos of brothers, sisters, fathers—people whose faces say they are no longer of this world even as they remain in it." Mary Turfah on Gaza and the limits of war photography in LARB Quarterly, no. 46: Alien. https://lareviewofbooks.org/edition/alien/

In her life, Marilyn Monroe was exploited and abused by so many men. Studio executives, so many people. After she died, men continued to exploit her for their pleasure: trying to get themselves buried near/above her. What your writer did here is obscene, nonconsensual and makes me feel slightly ill

If you are interested in old New York gay history, watch old episodes of The Emerald City, the first TV show made for gay and trans people. 1977, right before AIDS. My old film teacher Gene Stavis produced and interviewed in it. m.youtube.com/watch?v=2eQW...

A truly bizarre piece

Aside from the content of this, I will never understand the BBC's insistence on one sentence paras in non-breaking news articles. Do they think their readers are near illiterate?

silver grill cafe, alberton, montana, 1987

Demanding an end to Italy’s complicity in the Gaza genocide, half a million people abandoned their workplaces, schools, and universities. Niccolò Barca writes that they were inspired by a slogan: “Blocchiamo tutto.” (“Let’s block everything.”) www.thenation.com/article/worl...

iceberg restaurant, tulsa, oklahoma, 1979

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Iconic south London club Corsica Studios is set to close next year. Read: www.the-londoner.co.uk/exclusive-co...

Italy was on strike in solidarity with Palestinians last Monday. Hundreds of thousands demonstrated blocking roads, ports & railway stations. In Rome, many drivers found themselves stuck in traffic — & were happy about it, saluting demonstrators & condemning Israel’s genocide against Palestinians.

www.theguardian.com/food/2025/se... Would it not have been a better idea to get somebody who can actually cook to write this... the bread and butter is completely burnt...

I wrote about going to the Crossbones Graveyard vigil last month (non-paywalled): www.the-londoner.co.uk/honouring-lo...

Luella Bartley was kinda the Simone Rocha of the early 2000s...

Why is a Sky News Australia YouTube video promoting Douglas Kirk conspiracy theories showing up in Google news on London...

Honestly, just quite a disturbing day - hard not to come away thinking that the online space getting several degrees more mad in recent years played a big role

After a chaotic Saturday of dodging bottles and interviewing all involved, my dispatch from the front lines of the 'unite the kingdom' is now up - for @londonermag.bsky.social www.the-londoner.co.uk/the-day-the-...

👑Javier Bardem at the Emmy's yesterday. Discussing the Film Workers' for Palestine pledge: "I won't work" with any company that is in business with Israel: "I cannot work with somebody who justifies or supports the genocide." Can't stop the tide! #BDS #FreePalestine Video: Variety

Good morning, I've written a piece about the prime minister. I spoke to several dozen sources, including government insiders, former legal colleagues and campaigners to ask: what happened to Keir Starmer the heroic human rights lawyer? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Good that the Guardian is calling Kirk “far right” and showings its readers his views - not “common sense”, not “conservative”, but far right conspiracy. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

lexington hotel, route 13-a, lexington, new york, 1976

forever my favourite

Have become obsessed with looking at pre-owned charm bracelets for sale on ebay... something vaguely heartbreaking about them...

For @londonermag.bsky.social, I visited the Hyman Archive, the world’s biggest magazine collection, as it sits in a strange limbo inside a south London lock-up www.the-londoner.co.uk/the-south-lo...

Brothers, cousins, sons: the human stories behind four of the war’s fallen journalists 6 Palestinian media workers, four of them Al Jazeera journalists, were killed in a targeted Israeli airstrike on their tent by Gaza City’s al-Shifa hospital on 10 August. Here, some of their families pay tribute

Voting for Brexit, stopping the small boats – none of it will ever appease those who wage war on immigration | Nesrine Malik

bavarian manor, gift shop, purling, new york, 1977

Thought this summed it up well

dutch mill motel, shelburne, vermont, 1984

What could go wrong with giving every person in the UK access to the suicide-enabling machine!

Book folks, if you're looking for inspiration — Joanna Pocock’s Greyhound reading list @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social @joannapocock.bsky.social fitzcarraldoeditions.com/2025/08/joan...

Mariam Dagga, a journalist killed yesterday by the IDF left behind two sets of instructions: that her colleagues not cry at her funeral, and asked her 11-year-old son to make her proud. Murdering journalists. Bombing hospitals. Causing a manmade famine. Slaughtering children. This horror has to end.

“Corporate elites continue to push private risk onto the public, as they did with inner-city risks fifty years ago.”

this is unfortunately one of the symptoms of an under-resourced media ecosystem. it's exceedingly rare to have fact-checkers these days, but even having a copy desk (or editor who checks the names of people mentioned) could have helped catch these fabrications pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/d...

In a dilapidated South Ealing YMCA, a rag-tag volunteer team are trying to fight off death, with ice, antifreeze and industrial amounts of "wishful thinking". Welcome to Cryonics UK. www.the-londoner.co.uk/freezing-lon...

Something has to be done about Robinson but equally every politician who has jumped on the "concerned locals" bandwagon or legitimised racist behaviour and mob rule is responsible for this.

gator mouth at entrance, gator jungle, route 50, christmas, florida, 1990

Why hasn't there been a Wallace Shawn Grub Street Diet..............

This is bonkers.

RIP the last remaining good website

So it turns out the party really is a horrorshow of horrible bullying and repression for anyone who speaks against the leadership’ ideological crankery and their commitment to supporting murderous violence in other countries

New piece in @londonermag.bsky.social this morning on the current status of Haggerston Baths! The private equity scheme to restore the building... is not going so well. Still derelict after 8 years, and Hackney Council now spends over £200,000 p/a on security www.the-londoner.co.uk/haggerston-b...

What possessed every buy to let landlord to go with this flooring situation in the mid-noughties??