A lot of people ask me why I do what I do & this is without question one of the fundamental reasons ❤️

Nobody is now talking about the Epstein files. Purely coincidental I’m sure. #Greenland

This is an amazing place, but I feel once you've seen one ruin you've seen them all, and this place is full of ruins.

I’m 54 today, the age Jerry never saw. That was inconceivable to 23 yo me when he passed. Grateful for another trip around the sun with this music. Jerry Garcia Band - How Sweet It Is… #Music #MusicSky #Vinyl #VinylSky #VinylCommunity #VinylCollectors #VinylRecords #NowPlaying #NowSpinning

A piece about earnestness, and what happens when you stop saving up goodwill and consider running up some irreverence debt. kristiedegaris.substack.com/p/on-acciden... #Writing #WritingCommunity #Scotland #Women #Reading #Books

Forget Lodger, Iggy Pop's The Idiot Is The Last Piece Of David Bowie's Berlin Trilogy #BrianEno thequietus.com/opinion-and-...

Expand credit unions to boost cheap credit to low-income people, Labour MPs urge. Laudable but not a substitute for equitable distribution of income/wealth, universal basic services, curbs on profiteering 24m Britons live below minimum living standards.

In-work homelessness and in-work poverty were both common themes in my Outsiders project on homelessness and substandard housing. Also common was denial in some quarters that this was the result of anything other than personal failings on the part of those experiencing homelessness.

Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...

Just this… youtu.be/CQP1NsbeYVg

Syd Barrett’s 80th birthday. youtu.be/49HK_Suawz0?...

It's been 10 years already ...

Brilliant!

Just finished filming in Obihiro. Been at it since 8am. This assignment is a wrap! Programme will air on NHKWorld BS on 26th Feb. And it will also be online. I’ll post the link when it’s live. Packing up all gear. Chilling for a bit. Buy the fam some omiyage at the airport. Get on the plane. 🙏🏻❤️☃️

Stop callinge them "data centers" and starte callinge them "slop peripherals"

Daily Peanuts!

Yes. We need to do the hard work of changing the conversation around immigration. Immigration is good. It strengthens our economy and enriches our culture. We need more of it — and an orderly, humane path for would-be immigrants to follow. Democratic politicians should embrace this task.

Dear Daddy...

I love my tree. The first thing I see out of my bedroom window each morning.

I’ve found Sundays can be stranger days than usual in Social Media. So photos of @pigdykemolly.bsky.social dancing at Whittlesey #strawbear festival yesterday. #mollydancing #traditional #folklore

Frederick Childe Hassam (1859-1935) Lower Fifth Avenue (1890) oil on canvas

"Don't waste the time. Time is the final currency, man. Not money, not power - it's time." Remembering David Crosby who died today 18th January 2023 #davidcrosby #photography #quoteoftheday #ClassicRock 📸 Guido Harari

Ahhh, Barnsley.

'Though Joe Meek's music isn't present here, his spirit is. Plenty of spacewards tinkering, lots of torrid sentiment and hyper-maudlin stylings that switch to existential, horror-tinged passages at the drop of a hat' Covers Album of the week: Xiu Xiu’s Xiu Mutha Fuckin’ Xiu: Vol 1 buff.ly/2k64Hsg

JA Mortram. In 2006 Jim started shooting people in and around Dereham in Norfolk focusing on those facing disadvantages and social exclusion; he went to create a blog called Small Town Inertia, featuring his images and their words. www.1854.photography/2019/01/qa-j...

A great read.

Remembering Danny Kaye on his birthday 🎂 📷 Eve Arnold, 1961 "One can pick up the feeling of nearly inhuman energy in Kaye on screen, somewhere between child, machine, and rogue cuckoo clock." - David Thomson

Hunter S. Thompson

Arlene Gottfried, Woman in Subway, New York City, 1980

Hannah Höch, 1920

🚨By-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party - lets get this to the 100,000 signatures needed petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Soundtrack to this morning’s chores, great compilation! youtu.be/gFp4cbSHpLg?...

Shinbashi, Tokyo Werner Bischof, 1951

Laura Gilpin, Footprints in the Sand, 1931. artblart.com/tag/photogra...

Derek Ridgers, Stoke Newington, 1981

It'd be a real shame if this photo went viral again today, wouldn't it?

Making marmalade may have its roots in British tradition, but it has gained a global popularity – and become a hotly contested pursuit.

Out Now Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection No 754 (2026 Vol 3) www.mixcloud.com/upload/Cloud... Brilliant music! 7 LPs of the Week 2 CBQ Items 7 Back Catalogue LPs of the Week 20 Other Items New Into the Library Grab your pen and paper to jot down top sounds you want to investigate further!

Elmar Ludwig, Piccadilly Circus, London, 1965. johnhindearchive.com/index.php?ab...

Markéta Luskačova. Man singing on Brick Lane, London. 1982.

25th August 1967: Paul McCartney of the Beatles and Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones sit opposite each other on a train at Euston Station, waiting for departure to Bangor. Photographer Victor Blackman.

SATIRE: 'the use of humour, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.' We live in a post-satirical world - What Jenrick says versus What Jenrick did....

David Lynch. Factory photographs. “The factories that I love, are black-and-white experiences. Colour putrefies them. I love the oil-impregnated earth, gleaming with black oil; steel and brick, and glass and these machines, and the smoke and fire. An amazing, phenomenal thing.”