People in the UK aren't getting transphobia from weird niche online communities. They're getting it from the prime minister, the BBC, politicians and the newspapers in every newsagents in the country.

when it comes to art, my advice is to never assume “this has never been done before”. I take the approach that it’s all been done before, and that it’s about how the artist does it with their own sensibilities and history and what we can learn from it, presented that way.

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

I grew up in poverty. I know what it does to you: the fear, the shame, the way it sticks to your bones for decades. I fought to escape & it still left scars. Now, in one of the richest countries on earth, millions more children are being pushed into the same struggle. Not by accident but by policy.

LOGGING ON

Thing about that whole "did women ruin the workplace" crock of shit is that all through my working life the inept managers, bullys, bigots and predators I've had the misfortune to encounter have all been other men

WHAT'S up YouTube, it's your boy Bartleby the Scrivener here, coming at you for another day of the I Would Prefer Not To challenge. Be sure to SMASH that subscribe button and hit that bell so you don't miss a single video. If you saw last week's video, you'll know I am now SLEEPING in the office.

Please help if you can, people in Gaza are still in desperate need of food and medicine. chuffed.org/project/1440...

Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc

When does the news stop? Like, I'm getting pretty tired of finding out about things.

Spoiler alert: it’s great

Theo is an amazing musician and producer and I'm really glad they're back on Bsky. Do yourself a favour if you have a taste for heartfelt indie rock melancholy and check out Faded Home: fadedhome.bandcamp.com/track/a-bett...

Removing the artist from art is to render it into something else entirely, something less than it could have been. I genuinely believe the way to fight generative AI is a Renaissance of the weird, personal and specific. We love art BECAUSE it connects us to a real person’s interior life.

Ingram Cecil Connor III AKA Gram Parsons. Born OTD in 1946, Winter Haven, FL. Died 19/9/1973, Joshua Tree, CA www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rrq...

again and again the power of social media has been to reveal that cohorts who appeared superhumanly clever are actually pretty low-wattage and simply enjoy the protections of class and privilege in everything they do

Just had a listen to this a month or so after hastily assembling and releasing it and I think it holds up as an interesting listen. If you don't mind scrappy acoustic songs, hissy dictaphone experiments and naturally quiet unmastered recordings then give it a spin

One of the last songs I did on my Tascam before the damn thing quit on me. Going for a sort of Elliott Smith self-titled album vibe: A couple of guitar tracks & vox. Not sure what the lyrics mean but they seem to tie together a lot of themes from the rest of the album: soundcloud.com/the_hydrogen...

This one is another dusted off relic. A short and eerie folk song with just guitar and vox that I found while combing my archives. I bounced it to 4-track & added a few backing subtle backing vocals and it was done: soundcloud.com/the_hydrogen...

Cool photo I took a few seconds after waking up when Joe Camel hit me with his car

Theo is an amazing musician and producer and I'm really glad they're back on Bsky. Do yourself a favour if you have a taste for heartfelt indie rock melancholy and check out Faded Home: fadedhome.bandcamp.com/track/a-bett...

Hey, would you look at that, how weird news.sky.com/story/rachel...

i am much more a songwriter/bedroom producer than a visual artist but am going to do a thread of some of my pencil and ink drawings and paper collages:

For the one person who still owns a VCR:

A Tape Collage For Eloise was a project from back in my late teens/early 20's. Mostly recorded digitally so a bit more conventionally "well produced" than my current stuff (though still incorporating lo-fi tape elements here and there): atapecollageforeloise.bandcamp.com/album/your-s... #indiefolk

The name of this painting is "Uncle's Fantasy"

The sex pest to right wing pipeline remains undefeated

Literally saw someone using "there are no ethical billionaires" to DEFEND Taylor Swift earlier. As in "She can't help being unethical, it's not her fault she's a billionaire" as if it's a hereditary condition. I swear poptimism has addled peoples brains.

#Hopepit #writersky Aside from being musicians, Tel is a poet & painter, and I'm a fiction writer. We recorded a video w/ two of our international musician friends for the music share later in the week :) Stay tuned! Seeing different communities come together brings us hope 💜 #hopepunk #musicsky

Absolutely insane. Labour would have purged and smeared someone like Zohran Mamdani. Wes Streeting's politics align far more closely with Andrew Cuomo. The lessons from Mamdani are about how to defeat both the right - and the bankrupt "centre".

This is horrendous and the Scottish and Westminster Governments should take it as further evidence of why they should leave 𝕏 but minor correction: these "AI" tools are supposed to be software products that make money for private companies. That is what they are designed to do, nothing more.

Is Peter Hitchens sole ambition in life to be the squarest guy ever?

anyway, an object lesson in how people can be decorously intellectual rather than vulgarly stupid and still be hellbound bastards

I keep seeing supposedly progressive podcasts saying “the problem is that people feel like they just can’t talk about these issues” while these issues are frequently the *only* thing that people are talking about 😩

Today marks a month since our LP Eternity Forest was released. We're overwhelmed with the lovely comments, messages, and support. Thank you for journeying into Eternity Forest with us! -Duncan & Tel The Striped Bananas #vinyl #recordcollector #psychedelicrock #vinylsky #newmusic #musicchallenge

youtu.be/FYMObdOqcRg?... gtradio

Being a white supremacist is just basically admitting "I have nothing to offer to the world and have personally done nothing to be proud of so I will instead pin all my self esteem on a superficial privilege I was born into and did nothing to earn"

Desperately need to get back on with the collaging/album artwork but that stuff doesn't come to me as easily as the songs and I need to be better about motivating myself to do it.

wishing psychic harm on elon muck

It’s truly scary how few mainstream publications are willing to publish working class voices and perspectives (let alone leftist ones), and every one we lose is yet another blow to the fragile hope for a better world

idk why/how social media suddenly became The Place For Debate. Were you going on Myspace to argue about Obama or were you there to fuck around and cause a local controversy based on your Top 8?

we are NOT hobbits for fucks sake

There is ample evidence that privatized public services are strangling households and extracting obscene profits off citizens. And there's shit in your water.

This genuinely eats away at my soul, it is existentially painful

Just had a phone advert boasting the ability to "delete your ex" from photographs and am I the only one who finds this shit deeply unsettling? Constant encouragement to remove people from memories, all so you can mutilate your record of reality when it doesn't correlate with requirements.

Lots of baseball stuff on the timeline today and I'm sorry but I will only ever be interested in that if you get Robert Pollard to sing to me about it

I leave you with this blown out yet earnest Neil Young cover. So generation-lossed it's Neil Old: soundcloud.com/the_hydrogen...

Mushroom trek was finally fruitful today. Goodbye for a bit