it is rare these days that the national news sparks joy (as Marie Kondo would say), but today there's a tiny glimmer of hope, albeit one that could all too easily be snuffed out.

"The demand for verified profiles…dismantles a valuable feature of the early web: the ability to step outside the boundaries of offline gender, class, racial categories and appear as pure language ..." @monalisavitti.bsky.social interviews @badaude.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2026/02/10/m...

The Guardian are a bit slow, but accurate www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...

A few notes on yesterday's life-drawing session www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artist...

If you have ever wanted to hear me talk about the role of Forteana and folklore within Hookland in an East End pub …. April is your lucky month.

Based on what this writer saw at Davos, "they have largely given up on organic adoption by consumers. They have moved on to a new dream of forced adoption mandated by government and managerial coercion."

A very good step-by-step blog post for people who are interested in setting up a blog/website, but don't want to _have to_ learn how to code: A Beginner's Guide to the IndieWeb for Writers Who Don't Code (But Maybe Want to a Little) brennan.day/a-beginners-...

Is smoking a cigar like that a secret signal that you're a wrong 'un?

This looks very interesting. I can't find any nearby cinemas saying they'll show it yet, but hopefully one will...

It's time for me to re-share my post about 1. what is - and how to get - a free RSS Feed Reader to keep up-to-date with all your friends' blogs, and 2. a ready-made "British Weird" starter pack of blogs to follow, if that's your particular jam www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artist...

Imagine if they just funded the arts instead of AI

It's time for the monthly link dump again www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artist...

A few quick lunchtime thoughts on this www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artist...

If they do reboot it then they'd better do it right, or else (CC @cultauthor.bsky.social ) deadline.com/2026/01/blak...

I miss the evil billionaires who'd try to buy their way into heaven by funding massive public libraries

Had an intriguing editorial discussion recently: how did people in the past talk about 'minutes' when they didn't have watches or standardised times? How does that affect your thinking? Come down an Elizabethan/Jacobean rabbit hole with me. 1/

We lived dispossessed of the world. Like any other artist I try to extract what is still alive in the mass of the objects and the meanings killed by capitalism.” —Claire Fontaine

The Reform pitch is increasingly “the last government was terrible, so we’ve hired everyone who was in it”.

I saw various posts about the new "Iron Cross" UKIP logo, and while my tendency was to believe it, my scepticism about believing anything on social media (without checking sources) kicked in. So I checked the electoral commission website, and it's true www.electoralcommission.org.uk/political-re...

New blog post: Life Drawing - 11th January 2026 www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artist...

I thought that Twitter/X had hit rock bottom a couple of years ago (which was when I left it), but the recent news items about it have proven me wrong - it's managed to get far worse.

Okay my loves. I need your help here with a local thing! I’m currently putting together a series of talks relating to East Sussex. If you could share with your fellow lovelies it would be incredible! @overslizzie.bsky.social @reblambert.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social @lazaruscorporation.co.uk

I really need to do a proper companion bibliography, but England's Dark Dreaming by @lazaruscorporation.co.uk and the work of @guyshrubsole.bsky.social will be at the top of it. There's a whole penumbra here ranging back past Belbury Poly and Gwyneth Jones. 3/

*Those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty" applies very strongly to not just governance in the UK, but the media outlets, commentators & Sensible People that build them & dictate policy. It is essentially wired into certain strata of UK society.

New blog post - 2026 plans: artwork & community This is my first post of 2026, the 300th post since I added this blog to my site back in 2008, and we have just entered the 30th year of existence of my website. www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artist...

The land has been year-walked. The future has been met in the lanes and ways. The cunning folk have conferred. On the doors of The Raven, The Woodwose's Crown and all the other pubs they use, the proclamation has gone up: 'This is the YEAR OF THE GREEN PATHS.'

By late 2026 I will publish my new "Acid Renaissance" book of art, but in the meantime my first two art books are available from my online shop via the link below (and also from Bookbuster and Printed Matters bookshops, if you happen to be in Hastings): shop.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/category/books

It's a bright but icy New Year's Day here in Hastings. Time to start planning...

A quick reminder to you all that my online shop is open again, and is stocked with prints of my photography, original drawings, books of my artwork, and the last few copies of Rituals & Declarations: shop.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/products

My last link-dump of 2025 www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artist...

I have placed a few sets of Hookland Bookmark on my online shop. * Please note, these are for UK shipping only * I am hoping to print more bookmarks in the New Year and ship them internationally then. www.maria-strutz.co.uk/product/book...

Roger Clarke and I are writing a book about ghosts. We need a publisher. @tomsbrown.bsky.social and I are writing a graphic novel about boy mire maids and need a publisher. If you are interested, DM me.

🚨 The UK government just published a breakdown of the responses to its consultation on AI & copyright: - 95% of respondents want AI companies to pay for their training data (made up of 88% saying strengthen copyright law, & 7% saying leave it as is) 🧵 1/2

New blog post: Where do I see the IndieWeb in 2030? www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artist...

"I am the passenger, I stay under glass..."

Goodnight from the Gelgrove Stitching Society, its members steadily embroidering new Woodwose legends into the village’s banner. Goodnight from Paul Watson’s darkroom, where things not seen in his viewfinder are manifesting in the developing bath. Goodnight from Hookland.

Latest acquisition: Ghostdance by @catmachine.com, picked up at their book launch at 1200 Postcards last night

Monthly Link Dump: November 2025 - arts & culture, myth, folklore, landscape punk, hauntology, anarchism, utopianism, the gothic, neo-fabulism, and the Weird www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artist...

It is currently snowing. In Hastings. In November. That's not right

'Keir?' 'Yes, Rachel?' 'Are we the baddies?'

The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself.

"The fabric of reality is fraying in England: the old queen is dead, a disgraced prince has been ousted by the new king, his older brother: Gormenghast is changing, and Gormenghast both relies on and demands nothing ever changing..." – Paul Watson (lazaruscorporation.co.uk)

New blog post: Pattern recognition www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artist...

New blog post: Pattern recognition www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artist...

Latest acquisition: Undefined Boundary: The Journal of Psychick Albion Vol 4 Issue 1

Cool. Now do the same to the rest of the royal family.

New blog post: Culture Wars, episode 1: The Fascist Menace www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artist...

"I have an instinctive fondness for the notion of a culture war, but inevitably it turns out to be less fun than it sounds, being shorthand for dim bigotry." culturalsnow.blogspot.com/2025/10/abou...