My employer asks me to complete a survey on AI usage for which this is the first question (required):

Ferdinando Scianna. Scianna has taken more than a million photographs and, in his words, the good shots number about 50.

Album review for Buzz: Melin Melyn - Mill on the Hill: After Dark silentwordsspeakloudest.blogspot.com/2026/03/no-f...

Oh this is fantastic. Elegantly brutal and funny. Cor.

Recommended, especially if you're a night owl like me and feel that smug early birds get too much credit. www.buzzmag.co.uk/overnight-da...

Grave goods: @harrysword.bsky.social talks to Charlie Woolley of metal label/record shop Crypt Of The Wizard silentwordsspeakloudest.blogspot.com/2026/03/grav...

#NowPlaying A band I should know much, much better. swans.bandcamp.com/album/great-...

A street off Scotswood Road, Benwell, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1963, photo by Colin Jones.

Supercool women’s music site @thefortyfive.bsky.social asked me to write about the women in punk who influenced me the most - and I did! Enjoy, comment, share! CC x thefortyfive.com/opinion/the-...

#NowWatching Quirky short documentary-of-sorts by a young Ken Russell, featuring (among others) an equally young David Hurn, shot in pre-Swinging Sixties London www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Paid a visit to Sebastian Bruno's exhibition at Ffotogallery yesterday.

'Intimate and vivid depictions of the daily disgrace of the Jim Crow South': a new exhibition of photographer Gordon Parks' work on segregation in 1950s Alabama silentwordsspeakloudest.blogspot.com/2026/03/inti...

Alternative rock: on Fugazi's surprise official release of the 'Albini Sessions' version of In On The Kill Taker silentwordsspeakloudest.blogspot.com/2026/03/alte...

this is like the thesis statement of our times

Never have the dormant loins of so many tired 50 year old men in hats stirred in such perfect synchronicity.

Happy birthday to Betty Boo. Here's a reminder of the time she rapped with Public Enemy in the McDonalds at Shepherd's Bush back in 1987 (look out for the unimpressed manager!)

Holy heck, Fugazi just released the 1992 Albini sessions for Bandcamp Friday! Proceeds going to Letters Charity.

'It was a culture shock': @danieldylanwray.bsky.social unearths the unjustly hidden history of Cardiff's DIY reggae scene of the late 1970s and early 1980s silentwordsspeakloudest.blogspot.com/2026/03/it-w...

"Friends" is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, following six young adults—Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe—living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons.

#NowPlaying squirrelflower.bandcamp.com/album/tomorr...

Painting by Tomioka Sōichirō (富岡総一郎, 1922 - 1994) ‘Trees' (林, Hayashi) 1961. Oil on canvas. Size 74 cm × 93 cm

A lot of people say AI isn't very good for the world and its outputs are routinely unreliable, but these haters fail to see how it's revolutionizing how we incinerate schoolchildren.

I don't want gen AI in my browser I don't want gen AI in my pc I don't want gen AI in my art I don't want gen AI in my games I don't want gen AI in my music I don't want gen AI in my movies I don't want gen AI in my books I don't want gen AI in my cart I don't want gen AI in my life

Fine art dining: how Nando's is supporting South African artists silentwordsspeakloudest.blogspot.com/2026/03/fine...

😯🤯😵‍💫 m.youtube.com/watch?v=2lUC...

just thinking about how USAID was dismantled under the rationale of cost savings but there's an unlimited budget for war

More on the Alabama photos from Jacqui Palumbo on Artsy. www.artsy.net/article/jacq...

Morning all. Photograph by Sirkka Liisa Konttinen, Whitley Bay, August 1985.

It’s actually FEWER Misérables

AI chatbots are Dunning-Kruger machines. They make people who should be uncertain think they are actually really smart.

KEXP sessions very, very rarely disappoint - but even by their standards this glorious chaos is exceptional. m.youtube.com/watch?v=3cBb...

Feel good hits of the 3rd March featuring Mandy, Indiana feat. billy woods / Angine de Poitrine / Alan Sparhawk / The Bug Club / Kowloon Walled City / Holy Fuck / Aimee Fatale / Liars / Rhys Chatham / Matador silentwordsspeakloudest.blogspot.com/2026/03/feel...

I'm destined to never see Mogwai at GM, it seems. 😭 Denied a first encounter with Sparks and Cat Power too. Boo! www.greenman.net/line-up/

The NYT style guide

Karen Anne Carpenter. Born OTD in 1950, New Haven, CT. Moved to Downey, CA age 13. Died 4/2/1983, Downey, CA www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJmm...

Catching up with old episodes of Vanished Wales. A piece on Pill in Newport sent me back to Robin Weaver's CRB publication South Wales in the 1970s. Always a pleasure to revisit.

Morning all. Photograph by Harry Gruyaert, Ireland, County Kerry, 1983.

As journalists working today many of us are taught to recognise disinformation when we see it and fight back against it. Unfortunately there are some who willingly seek it out and put it on their front pages. A disgrace to the profession.

Stupendously entertaining evening at Blondies Brewery for the princely sum of £11. Geordie headliners Black Shape were big dumb fun.

The stranglers: Gareth David of @loscampesinos.bsky.social on how streaming services like Spotify are squeezing the life out of the music industry silentwordsspeakloudest.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-...

This is not a reasoned political response. Labour has spent two years making all the voting groups who backed the Greens feel unwelcome and unheard, and now attacks them for daring to back someone else. They believe Labour isn’t listening and Starmer seems determined to prove them right

A good day to post this. One of the best takedowns of small-minded ignorance & slack-jawed bigotry. Funny, too. youtu.be/tKEsyIuTrO8?...

Book review: Richard Milward - Apples silentwordsspeakloudest.blogspot.com/2026/02/rott...

Hannah Spencer walking into Westminster, sucking her teeth, tutting, and muttering "tell you what, you've had some cowboys in here."

💚💚💚👏👏👏 www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cp...

Pulling no punches. 👏