I never had a teacher believe in me like this.

The Politician by Bernadette Mayer

This is a remarkable thing

was at the Chisenhale Gallery yesterday offering some tech support for a new show by Jasper Marsalis which opens tomorrow. It looks and sounds fantastic - if like me you like being enveloped by phase vocoder drones chisenhale.org.uk/project/jasp...

Binface is the Angine de Poitrine of the news commentariat in the UK. From relative obscurity to huge adulation and zealous loyalty most overnight. And there's that massive head thing as well.

One thing that is rarely discussed with the English sensibility is how much we secretly yearn for chaos.

Never underestimate the self-pity of the ruling classes.

Game on, Nige.

The best edit I’ve seen in weeks, you absolutely have to turn the sound on for this one.

The success of a society should be measured in the number of scientists and artists it can support in an egalitarian manner

"One's taste derives from the things one loves. These form experience and experience forms technique, and from technique comes style; they come unconsciously and are therefore beyond our control." Ennio Morricone 10 November 1928 - 6 July 2020

Can’t sleep? Simple methods that work: • study hurricane forecast • who hates me • what did i forget • relive supreme humiliation • win 12-yr-old argument • buried alive? could happen • what i did vs should have done • dead people i miss • what if i’m bad • why do i say stuff • what’s my fuckin deal

Joseph Weizenbaum's 1976 book, Computer Power and Human Reason, has long been out of print - used copies sell for hundreds of dollars. It's wild that this is not more widely available given how much his ideas still apply to the world we're in now. 🧵/

I read somehere that once you start clapping you never stop. Its just that the time between successive claps can be very long indeed. I think about this a lot.

Taylor Swift & Travis Kelsey had to get married at Madison Square Garden because they are more in love with each other than normal husbands & wives.

At the moment: the size of the Atlantic.

Upwards, by Wassily Kandinsky, 1929, (rotated, detail), 📸 by Lars Baron

This map of California you see here was produced by Paramount Studios in 1927, as a way of showing where they could film different parts of the world within the state, without having to travel there.

The Great British Square Dance, first ever performance, at Brighton Contemporary Arts Festival 1978 with Lol Coxhill and Gerry Fitzgerald. Photo courtesy of Forkbeard Fantasy

I hast materialised in the Netherlands! First stop was to visit the pillar biters of St. Bavo's church in Haarlem, part of a much larger choir screen made in 1517. They supposedly represent hypocrisy, as the local proverb puts it: 'Who is a pillar-biter in church, shits devils in his own house'...

Every religion has a food rule that sounds like somebody got diarrhea once and made it everyone’s problem.

What if Andy Burnham could raise £15bn – without a tax rise? There's one catch. He'd need to solve the UK’s biggest and least-discussed tax problem. Almost half of all small business corporation tax isn't being paid - and nobody knows why. Thread:

"I do not write music to please the ear; I write to tease the mind, to make it dance in absurdity. My melodies are like lost children - wandering through the night, searching for a place that does not exist." Erik Satie 17 May 1866 - 1 July 1925

This is important. A massive power grab being permanently established. Dozens of data points are collected from you android device every 4 minutes by google plus plenty from apps from the play store. They want to kill off alternative developers to throttle opposition. Android will soon be locked.

"Spirit in music is when you're able to access another space, where you can play in ways that you wouldn't normally be able to play in and that you would have a sense of freedom that you wouldn't normally have." Happy Birthday Ken Hyder born 29 June 1946

Laura Knight first became fascinated by gypsies at Ascot race meetings, they later invited her to their camp on the Common in Iver, Buckinghamshire where this work, of a Mr Smith, was painted in 1938.

Starvation bsky.app/profile/food...

A welcome development. This place is short on cheese advice.

What fucking killjoy invented these?

“How much is a magical world worth?” A beautiful thread about Cabo Verde, the Peace Corps, and the World Cup:

Comments underneath music videos on Youtube are the most disarming places on the interest. I spent 15 minutes reading posts from Iranians who were delighted to have survived the war to listen to new Phoebe Bridgers music.

Amazing how Paul’s best love songs on Revolver are about a) feeling sad that the relationship with the woman he’s constantly cheating on is ending, and b) weed

Shampoo for my real friends, real poo for my sham freinds.

Peter Winston defeats grand chess master Brown at the age of 14. Endures bouts of mental illness before disappearing in a snowstorm at the age of 19. Somehow no film has ever been made about him…

Lesbian appreciation post for Anne Clark: punk poet meets electronic music trail blazer. Combining socially engaged texts with innovative music, she has covered every kind of style, while maintaining her own identity on every recording. Honored to reissue her proto-house masterpiece Our Darkness

Not sure when these kinds of flow diagrams were invented but I find them exceptionally useful.

10 years on from Brexit, there are still no rules to stop lies in election ads. We’ve tabled amendments to prevent ads like the Brexit bus misleading voters again. Email your MP and ask them to sponsor them. 16 MPs have so far. It takes 30 seconds 👇 reformpoliticaladvertising.org/take-action/...

"Jesus. It's nearly 45 degrees out there"

This is meant to be cheap nostalgia clickbait slop, but because I *wrote this sketch* it’s basically trolling by telling me I won’t be getting any more work in this industry. THANKS, GUYS.

A cartoonist named Daniel "Des" Rolando Sanchez Estrada was tried as a terrorist and sentenced to 30 years in prison for having anti-Trump comics in his car. Prosecutors connected him to a 2025 anti-ICE protest he didn't even attend because he was in the same book club as others who were.

Ellen Arkbro & Johannes Graden - I Get Along Without You Very Well The Vitamin B12 - Box Set No. 1 Bariba / Somba - Ceremonial Music from Northern Dahomey Volcano the Bear - Guess the Birds e.p Robert Turman - Flux

1659 painting by Elisabetta Sirani depicting Timocleia of Thebes pushing the Thracian captain who raped her into a well #womensart

I wonder if Belfast is bracing itself for trouble tonight or does the anger not extend to white unionist politicians?

Under Starmer: NHS lists down, workers' rights strengthened, rail into public ownership, relations with EU repaired, non-dom tax status abolished, childcare costs halved, state pensions up, homicide at lowest level in 50 yrs, 550,000 kids lifted out of poverty, immigration sharply reduced.

The Letter (June 2026 edition) is now available and includes words on Momen, William Carlos Whitten, Helene Rickard, Shawescape Renegade, The Silent Harvest, Auscultation, Lee “Scratch” Perry & Mouse on Mars, Starlings, Boards of Canada and Mads Kinnerup theletter.co.uk/2026/6

I'm getting very similar vibes on here re. Starmer to the outage that followed Corbyn's defeat, then ousting.

Keir Starmer’s fatal flaw? The blankness on to which voters projected their years of frustration | John Harris

From F-Droid to independent devs, the entire Android ecosystem is under threat from Google's new mandatory registration decree. See why 67+ orgs are saying no: keepandroidopen.org