bought an anatomy book for artists & this spread is going to haunt my nightmares

if you're over 40 and in the UK, consider drinking a coffee about now if you want to see the new year in

You know how pre-ordering books is absolutely brilliant for authors? Here's my new book... There's a reading sample and retailers, have a look! www.walker.co.uk/978152952722...

a fun thing to do is to educate baby queers by playing them the video for "Relax" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood, sit back & watch their faces

it's going well so far

flawless angel of death✨

a motivational account has started following me, thus bringing balance to the universe

got a book out of the library about an artist whose work really excites me but unfortunately the author has confused "good writing" with "using big words" & I simply cannot be bothered

I think my jokes would be more popular if either a) they were less niche or b) more of you decided to be Welsh

Several businesses in Germany have hiring posters that say "we're looking for you." In German that phrase is "wir suchen dich," which could be mistaken for an English phrase with a somewhat different meaning.

Starmer had a very important job to do and he’s gone about not doing it with laser-like focus. Worse, the things he has decided to do are deliberately spiteful and cruel. The man is a moral coward and I hate him for it.

No other prime minister has made me feel as insecure about my continuing to receive disability benefits, or the safety of my trans friends and comrades.

told my friend that the reason he will do [redacted grotty sex act] is because he is from North Wales & I just don't think straight people have these kinds of conversations?

I regret to inform you that I have at least 3 more paintings in my head in this style, & they're slutty

very much enjoying saying things like "fuck cleaning the bathroom, that can wait until next year"

I'm not kink shaming, I'm kink asking why

current WIP, very excited about this because it is a New Direction

My toast during our little transsexual gathering this weekend was "To defiance through life". I mean it now more than ever: I will outlive these people's hateful ideology. God will bury them. Time will bury their bones unseen.

A quick plug for The Hope Projects: a charity that houses refugees made absolutely destitute by Britain’s brutal asylum polices. Every time you give them some money somebody eats and Farage cries. hope-projects.org.uk/about-hope/ Donate here: cafdonate.cafonline.org/9696#!/Donat...

very much enjoying watching tiny fluffy sparrows strut around with huge white duck feathers in their beaks, all "Marlene! look what I got in the sales! would look perfect in the lounge!"

Without exaggeration, this is one of the best pieces of art I've seen in my life

"there should be a Welsh genealogy programme called the Ap app" - @gwilyym.bsky.social

Another way AI leads to suicide is that hearing people talk about it makes you want to jump into a jet engine

a thing I have learned from not having central heating and living with a wood burner is that big logs are for sustaining heat. you want to heat a room up fast? you want a lot of good thick dry twigs about 3-5cm thick, and the best way to get these is picking up sticks on walks through the year

I'm at that stage of recovering from autistic burnout where I want to draw something in hyperfocused hyperrealistic detail but I don't actually have the focus. bookbinding is actually a really nice thing to do that requires focus but not too much thought so I've made myself a nice sketchbook instead

I have done many owl pictures & this one is one of my favourites, hanging in our kitchen. The symbol in the top right is "the intelligence of Venus" from Cornelius Agrippa's Three Books on Occult Philosophy #witchsky

this, hard

today I am mostly getting Brigit Bardot & Britt Ekland confused

Hey, fair warning for any people who programme lit events/festivals. Convicted stalker Sarah Stovell is publishing her books under the name of Mollie Kendrick now. She specfically stalked a writer she met on retreat for FIFTEEN YEARS. www.hexham-courant.co.uk/news/2393909...

making my dad a birthday card

You can’t even lure children into your gingerbread house to eat them any more without being cooked in your own oven. I blame Hansel culture

you can't make me care about avatar. i'm not doing it

for me being faceblind is like - I can't imagine what someone's face looks like. I'm trying to imagine my partner's face right now - nope. I can see individual features but they're swimming in a sea of blur. & when I meet someone I know well I'm like, oh, *that's* what X looks like.

is it good or bad that the president is easily distractable with armrests

I think, at this point, that What Would Fix Me is some more roast potatoes

people putting a lot of energy into being agaist fox hunting, which is good, because it is vile; I just wish they put the same energy into being against factory farming where animals suffer for their whole lives

trying to describe the level of faceblind I am & I said "I think Daniel Day Lewis & Jeremy Irons are the same person" & that explains it quite well, maybe?

I think we failed to communicate that the tech left, the free software people, the Linux nerds - we were trying to protect everyone from computers. Computers are dangerous. We came across like we just wanted to impose More Computer But Weirder on everyone.

managed to get the studio up to a managable temperature by using two (2) electric heaters on full blast. the downside of this is every time I leave the room I feel like Shakleton

v happy how this crow fella turned out, can't stop looking at them

The way some people talk about direct aid (which they call mutual aid, but that's another rant for another day, lol) feels like holding up individual actions as the solution to systemic problems.

It’s increasingly clear that social media is a net social evil which shreds attention spans, and this is why the only appropriate remedy available in this space is spending time observing Morris company wallpaper patterns

wrote a thing about creative weirdness & David Lynch shop.frankduffy.co.uk/david-lynch-...

we went for a walk and the Bear met someone even furrier than he is

on the plus side it came in a really nice box which I use to store all my spare computer cables

what's surprising to me is that 51% of reform voters would NOT be angry/disappointed if their child was trans

my computer keeps telling me it's Christmas day tomorrow