We need to do more to protect a visually quiet urban environment. I hate these banners that have started being zip tied everywhere. Mind the gap is painted on the floor and announced on the tannoy.

Come in now number 47, your time is up. "My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me.” He adds, “I don’t need international law.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...

Who knew? news.artnet.com/art-world/ar...

maybe people don’t like metro tiles and Edison lightbulbs as much as the developers think we do. In Vauxhall we’ve lost: The Brown Darby, great jukebox, red walls, spicy atmosphere The Griffin, pool table, walls covered in old NMEs The Royal Oak- bonkers pub decorated with miscellaneous objects

Let's have all the information for our main cultural institutions on one big website, that won't be confusing at all. 🇩🇪 🤝 🇮🇹

I wonder if this is a relation of the Dacian Draco, a serpent-like trumpet that was wind activated and was used to intimidate the enemy and determine the wind direction for the archers. www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/01/08/o...

Really important for the left - and our donors - to understand the machinery they are building.

Ok, you do you. 👋

First day back at work, my g*d it is difficult to get going, I can't remember any of my passwords, all the apps need updating, one giant mega-faff

How much should art cost? lt's a good question. www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/01/05/h...

Hanif Kureishi is unimpressed by the Design Museum’s Blitz club exhibition.

A reminder that the BBC license fee is £14.95 a month for all the BBC channels, podcasts and radio, to my mind it is worth every penny. New season of Industry airs on BBC One on 12 January www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Donald Trump eating a hotdog.

I once bought an apple in New York that was the size of a grapefruit and so smelly I had to hide it in my bag when I was working because of the excessive apple aromas but when I bit into it it was mealy and tasteless. US food is a trick.

In light of my previous post, I was told by an industry insider that 2026 is the year that secondhand clothes sales online are expected to surpass those of new. Something to celebrate.

I bought some shoes on ebay and when I opened the parcel a spider crawled out of one of the shoes.

Would love it if the play button on BBC Sounds kept time with the play button on the BBC Sounds media player.

Slashing shipping times between Europe and Asia by as much as two weeks – the opening of the Northwest Passage and the breaking up of Arctic sea ice is an economic upside of the climate crisis, that's why Trump has taken such an interest in Greenland. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

It’s a weird strategy of Donald’s to tell Europe to increase their military power and then start shooting his mouth off about invading Greenland.

It’s way past time the media stopped illustrating images of AI with robots and started using photos of the CEOs and offices and power plants responsible for creating this unwieldy nightmare. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Of course, the stupidest thing about all of this is that power and money will not protect any country from “acts of god” unless that power and money is being spent wisely. Which it isn’t.

This is so goddamn dweeby.

Things that make me love london

Sharing this article from last year although Trump has been throwing his weight around in the region since 2017. Personally, I think it would be wise for UK to change its special relationship to Canada and convert to green energy as quickly as possible. www.freightnews.co.za/article/new-...

Very hard not to scream at BBC's coverage of the US's actions in Venezuela. All the wrong questions asked.

More of this sort of stuff please.

A man in the cafe is wearing a VR headset. They are becoming emboldened

This Christmas my UK family introduced big, crispy roasties 🥔 to my Italian family, the next day we discovered all the leftovers had been snaffled by them. Improving EU international relations through potatoes 🇬🇧 🤝 🇮🇹

I long for his demise

Couldn’t have picked a worse weekend to have a go at fixing the thermostat with a hairdryer, some bulldog clips and a rubber (eng.)What was a bit broken is now completely broken. Hudduddudduddud 🥶

Ooh, look something nice

I had a thought about all the water needed by ai, in what form is this water? Does it end up as steam? What if a side effect of ai is more rain?

How did this get planning permission?

In personal non-shit news, I just found this unused £15 iTunes gift card from 2011 in the bottom of a box and it still works :)

PTA looks like Joshua Jackson with a hangover from a 3 day bender. www.vulture.com/article/paul...

Or conversely, every dweeb who is on X for looking at distasteful images has now got an alibi.

There is, to my mind, no justification for the continued use by the UK Government of X as a platform for official comms. There hasn't been for some time, in fact, but if the latest developments around AI-generated image abuse and CSAM don't change the policy I really don't know what will.

In 2011 I signed an NHS document at my GP’s surgery stating I didn’t want my medical records used by anyone other than the NHS, even if randomised.

This article contains the most appalling new phrase "exercise snack" - a short workout you can do when you are stuck indoors or while traveling. exercise snack, pfft. www.nytimes.com/2023/01/30/w...

It would be so useful if the councils could sweep the bike lanes of broken glass in the morning after the New Year's celebrations.

Woody Guthrie’s New Years Rulin’s for 1942 although they work just as well for 2026. HNY, everybody X

As if artists don't have enough to deal with, Amazon has a "Buy For Me" program in beta which is scraping indie shops for their items and putting them up on Amazon (often incorrectly), for their "AI agent" to buy from the other site. It is NOT opt in, and there is no opt out.

A 19th century crucifix dagger used by bandits disguised as monks seen at the criminology museum in Turin, although wouldn’t look out of place in Wake Up Dead Man.

Instead of hold music on the telephone companies should tell short stories.

It has dawned on me that SoHo in Manhattan ought to be pronounced Sow (like the 🐖) How

After lunch we watched the 1951 version of A Christmas Carol, very hammy but much to recommend. If only the tech bros and oligarchs could be moved In the same way as Ebenezer. youtu.be/zvV_ZxSqwK8?...

Hampstead Heath, December 1938. Photograph by Frederick G Roper

I never want to hear Piano Man ever again

What I really want for Christmas is for them to bring back the bicycle and oversized luggage carriage on UK trains.