at the south-east corner of the uk earlier today. no coffee shop. thanks james.

one of the managers of my city centre local is an artist, and he's painting a large canvas next to the bar. on it is a landscape. a river valley, with mountains and sky in the distance. he never seems happy with it though, so every time i go in it's significantly different. i hope this never stops.

Beautiful everyday Ladybird things Telephone, 1970 Artist: Harry Wingfield (Second Picture Book)

considering the relationship between international shippage and linguistic slippage... artworkexeter.org.uk/event/a-cut-...

lately, a man on a cart drawn by a shire horse passes me at least twice a day. heading south down exeter's queen street, past central station, then turning west down past my house. soon stopping to pick up a woman, before retracing his route. he often repeats this later to drop her off. clip clop.

joyeux anniversaire #110 to the 'indispensable' erik satie   [ 3 reconnaissance images of your water-washed home town of honfleur and 1 of a performance i made - all from 1994 ]

The extraordinary Kim Noble has a book coming out and I am genuinely excited. This is how you announce a publication👇

I'm excited to let you know about a new feature we’re launching today - Cities and Memory radio is here! 📻 💕 You can enjoy an uninterrupted flow of 8,000 sounds and reimagined pieces from across 140 countries, and curate your listening by project or sound type. citiesandmemory.com/radio

“Once again: Palantir fails the trust test. The government should cut Palantir out of our NHS once and for all.” https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/may/11/palantir-access-nhs-england-patient-data

A please @labouruk.bsky.social, stop saying that it's up to us to stop Reform. YOU could stop a Reform government in 2029, by introducing the proportional representation so many in the country have been clamouring for. The only way Farage can win is through our crazy first-past-the-post system.

good job exeter greens

‘K2 Central feels like the musical heart of the record. Beginning with some dastardly bass playing, this track feels like a breakbeat version of Curtis Mayfield’s ‘Pusherman’ from the Superfly (1972) OST.' #Squarepusher - Kammerkonzert is a Quietus Album of the Month for April 2026 buff.ly/3VLptCA

m.youtube.com/watch?v=Hdki... go geoff

anywhere you can walk slowly down the street without being shot at by western contractors. anywhere you can reorganise buildings without permission. anywhere you can stand still without being questioned. anywhere you can find abandoned beds. anywhere the movie you always wanted to see is playing.

Was super dear 💗💗

at the getty later today www.getty.edu/calendar/per...

my university interview record from 40 years ago

it's dark and stormy way out west

‘Sunlight travels 93 million miles to reach the earth, not one of them through the Strait of Hormuz,” #Scotland www.thenational.scot/business/259...

Quarantine's takeover of Battersea Arts Centre puts a frame around the world's activity and chaos, Maddy Costa writes. From BAC’s balcony to the streets and shops of Wandsworth, the shows bring us up against the romance and reality of community, of what 'normal theatre' and 'normal people' are.

The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer. 🧵 1/5

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