I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?

Astonishing revelation: attempting to appease a dictatorial power simply causes that power to demand more concessions | EU Faces Renewed US Ire After ESG Cutbacks Fail to Calm Tensions

i'm really good at polo the sign of a misspelt youth

Happy Solstice, everyone. Blessed be.

I say this with zero irony: if you are even tangentially a part of a retro video game community, it is your civic duty to push back against this company and shun anyone who doesn't. This is fascism tapping gently at the door and as soon as you let it in, it's going to invite its friends.

"I never have dinner with cannibals. They give me the willies." Stu Millard

They used to "laugh and call him names." Now they're all dead

Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.

malbec implies the existence of a bienbec

It gets real orange during sunsets in Austin 6”x8” oil

Great, if true.

We're having the annual FESTIVE SEASON DRINKS on 9th December at the Understudy, beneath the National Theatre on Southbank - do come!

Metrics are important for purpose. For @eurosky.social’s success I have one personal metric: in 5 years time I want to see 50%+ of social media in Europe to be on open platforms.

I know April, one of the founders of Sexquisite and Cybertease - a sex-worker arts collective. Their Insta accounts are being deleted. As you might imagine, this is a big problem for them. thepinknews.com/2025/12/08/i...

What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.” What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.” Funny how that works.

This commercial for French's Mustard from 1987 is equal parts charming and also kinda unsettling, but what strikes me is the work that went into the absolutely delightful puppetry and practical effects for a *mustard commercial*!! Imagine that today??

My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

Paul Klee - Fire at Full #Moon (1933)

'I falsely accused a Jewish man of being an anti-semite so some people told me to fuck off'

Wardrobe Malfunction Ink etc. on heavy paper 9x12 inches $100

A Watery Sun. 9°C with views to the River Humber. Sheep on the hillside.

Comic Book Day at All Good Bookshop Come talk to our comics guy and get something really special for Christmas #comics #art

Aside from anything else, the benefit cap was introduced in 2013. Claiming that going back to 2012, to a benefit system designed by Tories but missing some of the most egregious and punitive excesses, is a sign of a "return" to even the real 1970s let alone the media boogeyman 1970s, is bollocks.

Social media about Ranelagh tonight

Don't let them get away with it.

I started writing a book on lions. It turned out to be quite tricky and, frankly, damn dangerous, so I went back to regular paper. #WritingCommunity #BookSky #WriteSky

Ruins of a farmhouse. 8”x8” oil on wood panel Available on my website.

Fascism was baked into the American settler colonial project since day one. The nazis learned from the US. Blaming some foreign scapegoat (whether it's Russia or China) is just classic liberal deflection. It's blue maga genocidal democrat and liberal gaslighting, and it's never going to work.

Random American blue maga genocidal democrat and liberal, when they see American leaders doing everyday American fascism: "What are we, North Korea?" [Conservatives posting evil shit on their social media pages] American blue maga genocidal shitlibs: "Those are all actually Russian/lranian bots."

The Minister for Gaslighting.

A Thailand-based crypto investor has handed a record-breaking £9 million to Reform UK, shortly before Nigel Farage used media interviews to plug his crypto firm and promise lower taxes and deregulation on the industry bylinetimes.com/2025/12/04/c...

Ray Morimura (Japanese Artist, born 1948) "House in Tamugimata", 1999. Japanese Woodblock Print, 45 × 30 cm. Private Collection. #art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt

Bright Blue Skies. 7°C and a Southwesterly breeze. Redwing.

Alt text version. Thanks for sharing Harry.

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

It's World AIDS Day, and fuck Dave Grohl and the Foo Fighters. medium.com/the-monthly/...

Turns out if you double the price of everything and pay people fuck all, it's bad for the economy. Who knew?

The so-called "freedom" of the press is to the UK what the Second Amendment is to the US. Every time there is a case of egregious abuse, and someone calls for qualified, detailed, and reasonable regulation, up pops some oleaginous stooge peddling the lie that it's an attempt to erase "freedom".

If you see this, post your getaway vehicle

Gulf Lightning 6”x6” Oil on cradled wood panel . Available on my website.

Dusk at the Lake, acrylic on canvas, 48x24in.

'People forget what Khashoggi was investigating when he was murdered. He was writing about Kushner turning over classified info to MBS, who used it to hunt down, arrest and murder his opponents.' h/t @cocacolakid

people say i like polish dumplings way too much but that's my pierogative

The secret to early retirement; dine out rarely, fly economy and be a Google employee making $390,000/year married to a fellow Google employee 17 years older than you who likely makes twice as much as you.

This patronising bullshit is actual misogyny, instead of the imagined misogyny he's claiming it is when someone highlights what an appalling job one of the most powerful politicians in the country is doing.

NHS Trusts have paid more than £1.8 billion in *interest charges* to private companies over the past 5 years alone… 🚨🚨🚨

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.