Some good news. London is meeting legal limits for toxic NO2 pollution for the first time – almost 200 years earlier than predicted – following the Mayor’s "world leading air pollution policies," City Hall announces. The Ultra Low Emissions Zone - and similar policies - really do work.

Paris-Berlin sleeper: low carbon, 2 years old, constantly full, but currently losing SNCF a few million EUR/yr Intl Jet fuel tax exemptions are 80 years old and cost the EU 22 million EUR/yr for the Paris-Berlin route alone. And you're cutting... the sleeper? www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...

This is wonderful

Newcastle says no to fascism. The far right brought a hundred or so with them, bussed from far and wide. This city turned out 1000s, from local communities, estates and streets. Geordies of all backgrounds coming together and outnumbering the purveyors of hate by some distance. Newcastle united.

Been writing again today.

“My wife went to Riyadh to see an edgy comedian” “Jimmy Carr?” “No, she went of her own accord”

If you only read one thing today 👇

Great cover 😍

Appreciating Michael Rafailyk’s new spaghetti-inspired typeface Noeler fonts.ilovetypography.com/fonts/michae...

👀 (via @iammilliam.bsky.social @birmingham81.bsky.social)

My ID card you say? Certainly officer. Take your pick

"Kaye, clad in tan slacks and a floral print shirt, offered her reasons for turning down the Rock Hall. 'First off, I’m not a rocker, I’m a jazz musician. And I’m not a soloist. I worked in the studio as part of a team.'" Carol Kaye Is Being Honored by the Rock Hall. She Doesn’t Care. (gift link):

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Wouldn’t be the first time I’ve seen Nick Cave in a supermarket

This photo of Alaa Abdel Fattah's smile by Mohamed El Raai is the most beautiful thing you could wake up to.

Hello Autumn! 🍂 🍁

Digital painting practice. Maggie Cheung in In The Mood For Love. Drawn in Procreate using the new brushes.

*shudder*

#NowPlaying Lee Perry – Produced and Directed by the Upsetter (Pressure Sounds, 1998)

#NowPlaying Carl Craig – Landcruising (Planet E/Warners, 1995) @carlcraignet.bsky.social #vinyl

Two men having a not-discreetly-volumed conversation near me, one of them sounds exactly like Ian Dunt and the other one sounds exactly like Jack Dee

Inadvertent play on words: the name of this hairdresser is pronounced ‘Curler’

Literally just heard a woman on the train say ‘George, don’t do that’

Hajdu 706 Super Automatic Washing Machine, Hungary (1970) Poster design by Sándor Lengyel

The destruction of the Gaza city mosque is a devastating loss to humanity as a whole. A part of our global medieval heritage destroyed in furtherance to a genocide. I despair.

Momentarily fantasising about a different life …

No idea where my colleague’s lunch is going or at what speed

Ben Shahn #BOTD 1898 Book cover for SJ Perelman's The Rising Gorge, 1961 📚🎨

Probably my favourite of the various covers Smith & Mighty put out in the late 80s/early 90s

RIP Bobby Hart, who co-wrote this corker with Teddy Randazzo and Bobby Weinstein

The latest major donation to Letterform Archive made the local news: www.sfgate.com/local/articl... #Neon #SanFrancisco #Lettering #Wonderlite

Lorsque une auto, malgré des contraventions répétées, continue à se garder dans un espace réservé aux piétons, c’est cette solution radicale qui devrait être plus souvent utilisée 😅 bsky.app/profile/crun...

#NowPlaying Lucrecia Dalt – A Danger to Ourselves (RVNG Intl, 2025) @lucreciadalt.bsky.social

‘The beauty of plonkables’

NEW: Ticker from Teeline Fonts is a refined digital pixel font consisting of two families (Hi Res & Lo Res), each with two pixel shapes (circles and angular) in 3 weights. And while the uprights use a rectilinear grid, italics are on a hexagonal! @celiason.bsky.social fontstand.com/fonts?search...

Griffu, written by Jean-Patrick Manchette, art by Jacques Tardi Original cover art for the 1985 reprint, first serialized in 1977 in comics magazine B.D.

I hope this ishmael finds you whale

Toast rack Hukin & Heath 1927 Minneapolis Institute of Art

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#NowPlaying Ancient Infinity Orchestra – River of Light (Gondwana Records, 2023)

#NowPlaying Little Simz – Lotus (AWAL, 2025)

#NowPlaying The Streets – Has It Come to This? (Zed Bias vocal mix)

Happy 71st Birthday to Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated the New Orleans public schools. She’s younger than 30 senators and our last two presidents—and only 7 years older than Barack Obama. The past isn’t past.

“Over and over, actual information is moved out of the way to make room for an unreliable lossy compression of that information into text that takes longer to read.” eev.ee/blog/2025/07...

#NowPlaying Takuma Ebisawa – Late Night (Static Disc, 2025)

I know, little pancake, I know

Lovely. www.bbc.com/news/article...