UK orders www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1068598123 or hopefully later in the week, signed with a special Right To Reside insert from @treadwells-books.bsky.social.

#Booksky #Booktube youtu.be/nVKwaE34zpQ reviews of the following: Christina Tudor-Sideri “An Absence Of Sea” John Trefry “Plats” David Roder “Snuff Memories” John Hawkes “The Blood Oranges” Stéphane Mallarmé “The Book” Sheyla Smanioto “Out Of Earth” John Berger “G”

Well I’ve spent the whole of #NorEng drawing the three English lions on a tote bag, time well spent even if we don’t win

You need AI to write? Then you’re NOT A WRITER! Criminy, people, just get another hobby—ANY hobby—that you can actually DO! Knitting, dancing, making corn dolls, I don’t care. But find something you enjoy DOING that doesn’t steal from writers/artists, ruin the environment, and support billionaires.

I've just bought this and you should too.

Team Binface 🗑🙂

On my way, Clacton.

'Vote Binface to beat Frogface' may not have been the discourse Farage wanted.

Links to purchase available 4pm GMT on Thursday.

This is quite a moment if you believe in journalism and accountability. If Farage wins Clacton again, he will argue forevermore that nobody cares what’s written or said about him, he is the people’s choice and that is that. He will be increasingly difficult to hold to account.

Need some cooling quiet? Episode 47 - Quiet field by Young Wood (36 mins) A grey winter's day in Hertfordshire next to a babbling stream. A road roars in the distance. A buzzard calls, birds sing. A farm truck passes. The stream hears it all. > radiolento.podbean.com/e/quiet-fiel... <

Final #poem of the day - about pretending to be asleep after a car journey

‘Up through tragic smoke, spirals the here and now. This was a day knocked sideways: hearts pummelled so far from the sea that folded around the souls of honest graft. When you get there, shake their hands.’ Remembering the 167 dead at Piper Alpha, 38 years on.

The Piper Alpha Memorial window in the Toon's Kirk, Aberdeen. 38 years. Never forgotten

I cannot tell you how much I want the wildlife trusts to buy this estate what they'd be able to do with such a large piece of land would be truly extraordinary

Midnight. Mouse had blown out her candle & the room was suddenly as strange & silvered as the sea. Smoke & the sweet rich smell of the hay. Over the stubble in the fields, over the solemn hay-ricks, a great harvest moon & the World stilled, heavy in its turning & oh so old.

Imagine travelling thousands of miles just to spend your evenings doing zoomies over the same few houses... It's hard not to be impressed 👇 #SwiftAwarenessWeek

You know this heatwave? Get used to it This is how it is now because generations before us wouldn’t heed warnings about climate change Oh, and those data centers they want to build are are building? Yeah, that’s going to make this much much worse.

Happy Highlander 4K Day! The new box set is out, stuffed with goodies including a new 100-page booklet of essays and my 84-page deep dive into an early draft of the screenplay. There’s also a mini version of my Art & Making Of book (out in September) and an audio commentary on the disc itself. ⚔️

Night all. 😴 Episode 134 - Night waves rolling onto Coldingham Sands (34mins *sleep safe*) It's 3am on the path from St Abbs to the beach. Just the sound of gulls and the sea. > radiolento.podbean.com/e/134-night-... <

Also, because it is just sitting right there: WHAM HALEN

Most people have probably seen this now, but reposting for those who haven't.

oh shit, time to backup

lately

If you are giving prompts to generative A.I. and it's creating songs for you and you're releasing them into the world...you might be a scab. If you are giving prompts to generative A.I. and it's making art for you and you're releasing it into the world...you might be a scab. Etc...scab.

🚨 Breaking news: from today, it's no longer a crime to sleep rough in England and Wales. The Vagrancy Act has finally been repealed. For more than 200 years, this archaic law criminalised people for sleeping rough or begging. But no more.

Oh no. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

For artists and fellow comickers struggling to hold their pen in this oppressive heat… use some masking tape to add much needed grip. Simple hack.

Reversed, wrong-headed, lied; unhinged, wrong-headed, deprived.

We’re hiring a Senior Library Manager to play a key leadership role in developing innovative library services, working closely with academic teams to enhance the student experience and embed library support across the curriculum. 👉 https://ow.ly/Vnyf50ZgPqb Closing Date: 7 July 2026 #LibraryJobs

Ermine & Sea Otter had gone for a dip in the river, close to where it widened into the wildness of the sea. The water was cold & green, & afterwards they bought strawberry ices & sat on the rocks & watched the white-winged Falmouth sloops tacking along the coast.

I've been profoundly aware of urban design the last couple of days: how parks and trees on streets make the city tolerable in these temperatures.

Noisy sea. Watch on repeat if needed.

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Scottish Fans getting their spreadsheets oot.

Haha, nice one @privateeyenews.bsky.social !

The Snork Maiden describes a Moomin Valley custom: after the Midsummer bonfire burned down you'd collect 9 kinds of flowers and place them under your pillow, and your dreams would come true. 'But you weren't allowed to say a word while you picked them...' #Wyrdwednesday 1/2

Letter in today's Times by climate scientist Sir Brian Hoskins: "The discourse around net-zero is increasingly decoupled from…science and our changing weather. "Net-zero is not an arbitrary slogan, rather it is dictated by the laws of physics."

🤩 Gorgeous image drop from @ec-euclid.bsky.social! 60 million stars = (roughly) >60 million exoplanets too.... Anyone else gazing at this image wondering what might be out there gazing back? 🤗 🥳 Huge congratulations to @science.esa.int and the whole Euclid team! 🧪🛰️🔭

When looking at the full global picture it becomes obvious that we are now living in a much changed climate. In summer 1976, north-west Europe was a lonely hot spot in a sea of cooler temperatures. In summer 2025, the world is bright red. The climate is unrecognisable compared to 50 years ago.

The nights are fair drawing in

So, Starmer gone. And the man primarily responsible for making the UK ungovernable is edging closer to power. Unbelievably, this will all get much, much worse.

Another one bites the dust. As long as we have Brexshit, a right wing media, and disaster capitalists I fear no government can survive With a massive financial hole in the economy and polarised politics, I hope Burnham is brave enough to tackle the problems and build a vision for the UK #Labour

Nearly missed #WorldGiraffeDay.

‘Father’ and ‘dad’ are synonyms. ‘Figure’ and ‘bod’ are synonyms. But, a ‘father figure’ and a ‘dad bod’ aren’t exactly the same thing…

-without using AI. *cough*

I am ghosted by the vanished city. When this was my childhood window this was pub, Tuesday morning beer deliveries, the stretched parting of pals on Friday nights. Now it is a territory of impossible relationships to glass. A gaze of discontent.

It's nice to know there is a whole new generation of Scottish Football discovering the soul crushing despair of watching Scotland toil in football comps #FIFAWORLDCUP

Goodnight from Mary Reed, remembering youthful kisses and feeling a bit teary about all her lost what-if futures as she walks by the music leaking out of The Hole nightclub. Goodnight from John Pool, trying to sober up on Wimpy Bar coffee after Half-there folk glimpse. Goodnight from Hookland.