Own Our Venues 2025 www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/own-our-ve...

Help save the independent music venue THE MOTH CLUB - sign the petition against developers threatening the clubs existence c.org/WMpHh6Dxy6

Drat, I’ve slipped back into Summer Time, would happily sleep at 9pm. Cause: my wife was away for a week, so woken by our cat, Mochi at 6am every day. Not helped by getting dark at 4.

Thank you Vince Gilligan for featuring Rhea Seehorn in PLUR1BUS, my favourite character in Better Call Saul

Two more iconic grassroots music venues, The Joiners and The Croft, are now OFFICIALLY community owned buildings. Thanks to the herculean efforts of all involved, these institutions are saved - and with that, the opportunities for bands, music fans, and many more are secure for the next generation.

The words democratic socialism fill my heart with joy

This person took this when they called the race

One photo, two worlds — the Día de los Muertos parade at the gates of St. Roch Cemetery, New Orleans.

The Guardian is hiring for a graphics reporter and data reporter to cover how the US government is deleting and altering important datasets. If you like the work we do, come join us! Data: workwithus.theguardian.com/job-search/e... Graphics: workwithus.theguardian.com/job-search/e...

Anyone who’s self employed needs to join or form a non-digital religion ASAP

he's also currently shitting up the talk page for the genocide, what an asshole.

No idea why but this made me cry with laughter.

From 1973, Ed Emberley’s Little Drawing Book of Weirdos. www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/e...

First album I bought DISCOVR: 1/36 discovr.uk

Sorry, unfollowed a bunch of people today to avoid my feed just being Doom Scrolling.

Literally one of the greatest soft power brands on planet earth driven into the ground by successive British governments that embrace failure, decline and irrelevance. on.ft.com/3Wq1XIT

Rivers Run Red: CLASH Meets The New Eves “A lot of this body of work – and I’d say the way we perform – is like an incantation. It’s a big release.” www.clashmusic.com/features/riv...

Exquisite. I’ve been researching owls in Japanese art recently, and find their representation rather ordinary, unlike their depictions of anything from the sea which in my mind are unparalleled in art. Perhaps it’s because their appreciation of sea creatures starts on the plate.

Wonderfully pedantic letter in today’s @financialtimes.com

Marvellous Minoan cups made by Bronze Age potters about 3,800 years ago! Which is your favourite? ❤️ Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me 🏺 #Archaeology

I have just put for sale: Books about Rubens - Rare set of 5 L'oevre de P.P. Rubens, Max Rooses Published in Antwerp 1890 Max Rooses was the first curator of the Museum Plantin-Moretus, a renowned expert on Rubens. Let me know if anyone is interested (2027 will be the Rubens Year). Price neg.

Such an interesting thread

🇨🇦 Canada is sending out agents into the streets of Toronto to deal with foreigners

It's time to start your garden.

Inside the illegal eel trade: is there a way to stop Europe’s biggest wildlife crime before it’s too late?

I am actually glad as a taxpayer to pay for Prince Andrew’s accommodation so long as it’s a prison

Hear Party Dozen's snarling blues-rocker "Mad Rooter"

Seriously interesting thread: how to use a green tomato glut

TOMORROW is #NO_KINGS_DAY!!! Give me your Tired, your Poor, your Huddled Masses of Frogs, Unicorns, Pandas, T-Rexes, Mushrooms, Sharks, SpongeBobs & everyday Folks yearning to peacefully protest a clownishly incompetent buffoon of a Prez who, if there were any justice, would be in jail. 🤡 #BeThere

In case you haven't seen it yet, the 2023 film Rye Lane is on the BBC iPlayer and is a total delight ▶️📺 www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

🚨 A unique test panel from the Tottenham Court Road Station murals by Sir Eduardo Paolozzi (1924-2005) is coming up at auction with Lyon & Turnbull on Oct 31. Created in 1982-86, the polychromatic glass mosaics at TCR are the ‘Sistene Chapel of art of the Underground’, yet remain unlisted.

Rest in peace Diane x

Imaginative new beer name from Kirin, "Good Ale". Sapporo has gone for "Extra Think", which is something you almost certainly don't do when drinking beer.

Got Kraftwerk tickets! Disappointingly, did not have to tick a box confirming I was a robot.

Jeremy King: ‘The Ivy just hit the moment’ trib.al/onDx1p7

Cakes and candy, hotdogs and cheese. The paintings of Wayne Thiebaud are on show at The Courtauld from Friday. courtauld.ac.uk

“ What’s surprised us most is how every space whether backstage or public-facing functions beyond expectation. These are things you couldn’t prescribe in a design brief because they sound too idealistic, but somehow, they’ve happened.”

'I never speak behind people's backs. If I've anything nasty to say, I pop it on a postcard.' RIP Patricia 'Kitty' Routledge.

On Yom Kippur many Jewish people in Britain have their phones off to mark the holy day. As it ends at 723pm, some will hear the tragic Manchester news for the first time. At that time, please join many of us to send a message of solidarity to British Jews.Thanks Together coalition for proposing.

RIP to Jane Goodall, who opened the world's eyes to our closest relatives. (Photo by NatGeo's Hugo Van Lawick)

This is a whole article in the @theguardian.com about the design and use of a new building, but it doesn't once mention the architects - Haworth Tompkins. www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/s...

I’ve written about Waldemar Januszczak’s new documentary, “Art’s Most Erotic”

I was sceptical but… “ if you could bottle the sheer joy and camaraderie contained within these stadiums, you could probably sell it as a high-end, youth-giving elixir.”

Highly recommend Andor

It’s great to see this work by Ramzi Mallat at the V&A. I’ve written about this work on @fadmagazine.com.web.brid.gy - a collection of pastries, called Ma’amoul, that cross religious differences. It’s a tribute to those who died in the 2020 Beirut port explosion. Free to visit until 19th October.

#salvagehunters without Drew Pritchard sadly doesn’t do it for me, making money seems to nudged to the foreground, boring.

Tom Phillip’s amazing house, on the market