hadn't really noticed that supermarkets pipe music in the background until yesterday, when, in tescos, many of the customers not only sang along to manfred mann's 'the mighty quinn', but started dancing too

The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

What a rare breath of deliciously fresh air. Congratulations Hannah, Zack, everyone involved in defeating Reform's naked xenophobic authoritarianism with authentic humanist hope, not with Starmer's authoritarianism-lite. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

they surely are.

Thoroughly depressing discussion on Kuenssberg about university funding. Plans by the opposition to introduce cuts to arts degrees arguing that they don't provide a financial return to the individual. Blatant populism. Imagine if all government spending decisions were done on that basis!

Coordinated universal time is OUT. No more atomic clocks. No more cesium fountain. Instead, we’re calibrating our lives to the trees. Welcome to Bristlecone Time. Artist/philosopher Jonathon Keats unveils a horological and land art project offering an alternative time standard calibrated by trees.

Publishing today!🏙️ In a world of environmental degradation, inequality and social strife, a vision for what comes next is vital. @olimould.bsky.social takes readers from strikes in Santiago to urban commoning and Solarpunk, revealing how communities are making a new kind of city possible.

new nationalist political parties launched by Tory MPs today: . Recriminate . Refridgerate . Repel . Remote . Referenda . Relapse . Rectum

'how does a mountain form?' the toddler passing me in the street repeatedly begs of his mother

with kathy hinde and her hydrophone on exeter quay

super refreshing to hear so much thin-on-the-ground, razor-sharp sanity from @drjogrady.bsky.social on #bbcqt

Would have been good to balance this additional infrastructure money in the arts with funding for actual artistic activity.

Béla Tarr 21 July 1955 – 6 January 2026 🕊

so me and my mates are going to run the usa until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition.

Watch an Avant-Garde Bauhaus Ballet in Brilliant Color, First Staged in 1922

I’m a couple of minutes early but fuck it, Happy Christmas my darlings and comrades, to you and yours.* * Terms and conditions apply, not available to the rich.

Ensloppification

if anyone is interested in the site/walking based practices of wrights & sites, then our website has just had a major overhaul mis-guide.com

The newest book from Long Now cofounder @stewartbrand.bsky.social is now available from @stripepress.bsky.social. Brand explores why taking responsibility for maintaining something—a motorcycle, a monument, or our very planet—can be a radical act. Preorder here: press.stripe.com/maintenance-...

Happy second birthday to one of my favourite Cities and Memory project - Music for Sleep 🎧😴 It’s a beautiful and unique collection of compositions specially designed for rest, sleep and tranquillity. citiesandmemory.com/music-for-sl...

Music for Phyllotaxis Imaginary notation for moving spatial sound according to the spiral arrangement of leaves on stem, 2015

My morning read over coffee #booksky

There is an exceptional opportunity top see FE founder member, Terry O'Connor playing Jérôme Bel in the Sheffield production of his career retrospective called his ‘auto-bio-choreo-graphy’. For ecological reasons, Bel no longer tours, instead he is played by a different performer in each location.