It has been 395 days of continuous demonstrations in Georgia’s capital, Tbilisi. Our citizens demand the resignation of Georgia's mostly illegitimate and pro-Russian government, the release of political prisoners, and the return to a pro-European course.

Spooky Advent day 24: Quis est ist qui venit? Plucky Prof Parkins comes a creepy cropper with bolshy bespooked bedding in M R James' Oh Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad. And thus ends my creepy countdown, thank you all for following along. Merry Christmas!!

“But where Pynchon takes down the liberal culture industry, laying waste to its dreams of revolutionary activity … [OBAA is] an epic re-mythologisation of culture industry ‘activism’, one that places the liberal fantasies of its own heroism at the core of the spectacle.” ocula.com/magazine/opi...

Paul Evans (British, b.1950) "Winter Solstice Shadows in the Artist's Garden," 2025 Ink and acrylic 47 x 47 cm #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Happy Winter Solstice! Beer can, pinhole camera photos of the Summer to Winter Solstice (2024) and the Winter to Summer Solstice (2025). You never know quite what you're going to get with these photos, set the beer can pointing towards the sun at hopefully the correct angle and wait 6 months!

Farm on the way to Kilmacolm

I must go there. www.ft.com/content/3c4b...

Pet owners' increasing tendency to see their animals as children rather than dogs or cats can have dire consequences. Owners, and veterinarians, should be wary, warns Eddie Clutton

This FT article has attracted a perfect storm of ICE-enthusiast commentators condemning it -- implying that it is particularly unwelcome to them. ig.ft.com/us-ice-surve...

"Snow. Crow", 2008, Etching and aquatint, 36 x 36 cm - Ryoheyi Tanaka, Japanese, born 1933 #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

calmly explaining why we shouldn't bomb random venezuelan boats to people who argued we should torture random iraqis and then won an election by saying they were against a war they advocated for

Also from my collection, the great Haitian artist, Frantz Zéphirin's painting entitled *The Spirit of the Indian Facing Colonization*, depicting the Spanish ship, *Conquistador*; the mask of red death killing an indigenous woman; and the face of the African who will replace her.

Star-shaped tile with a stylized flowering plant, anonymous, c. 1250 - c. 1299 Persia (Rijksmuseum)

As the days shorten. This evokes so well the quality of artificial light in the period with its ever-present shadow and darkness. Banquet at Night by Wolfgang Heimbach, 1640. (Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien) The gathering was in the Knights’ Hall of Vienna’s Hofburg Palace.

Say hello to literally the only protesters outside Tory conference this year

Nittoh Guifu: Gensen Kanda, on Japanese fish. Japan, circa 1760

Some of my favourite plein airs from this summer

A delightful R.F. Kuang interview. Sad to see she’s no longer on here.

One of Gerda Taro's early photos from the Spanish Civil War. Women in Catalan communist party (PSUC) training for militia on Barcelona beach (probably Camp de la Bota, today's Forum), August 1936.

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Happy 1st of August! Welsh folklore tells us to beware the humble cabbage this month: "The old people used to say that if you desired to die you should eat cabbages in August." The perfect excuse not to eat your greens... 🥬💀 #Wales #Folklore

spotted on Facebook: “Revolution chess,” from Erik Olin Wright’s unpublished 1974 “Chess Perversions and Other Diversions.”

A little insight into my rewrites on a novel in progress, How To Be Free.

M. C. Escher (1898-1972), “Puddle” (1952), woodcut in colours, on Japan paper, 32.3 x 24 cm (image).

Bolton from the roof of Mere Hall, 1937, photo by Humphrey Spender.

I’m very fortunate to have a collection of original Victorian and Edwardian police detective memoirs. They are my pride and joy!

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From Nov. 25th we are being digitalised (whatever that is.)

If M.R. James wrote safety signage

Really enjoyed the #TirzahGarwood exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery. Lots of beautiful things to see but I particularly liked these works - the pier is #Cromer, the pattern is marbled, the ice cream man is collage and the lady watering is embroidered

Please sign and share 👇

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Lionel Lindsay, Australian (1874-1961), The Witch, 1924, wood engraving, 13.2 x 11.2 cm, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, New Zealand

Satoshi Kon was a master filmmaker -- and a master storyboarder. His detailed sketches were blueprints for his movies. Take Millennium Actress. He spent nine months boarding it alone, on a quest to make a great film with a small budget. We explore: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/how-satosh...

A Lithuanian girl holding Palm Sunday fronds (verbos) in church, by Kanuty Rusiecki (1844)

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Coffee outside Outlier, London Road Glasgow

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Rumeysa Ozturk's lawyer doesn't know where she is and hasn't been able to contact her. A federal judge has ordered her not to be removed from the state. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/26/m...

Housing Conditions in Manchester & Salford: A Report Prepared by TR Marr in 1904. It described in detail the many slum housing within Manchester. Marr was secretary of the Citizen's Association and was the 1st Labour Chair of Housing. @patkarney.bsky.social #Manchester #HistoryMatters #History

My family did not raid Wales, kidnap a shepherd and drag him back to Ireland in chains for this! The horror… the horror #spéirgorm

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Some of artist CF Tunnicliffe’s Brooke Bond tea picture cards (1960s)

Word on the street: Mark is sharp, has zero felony convictions, knows what words mean, actually understands the effect of tariffs and didn't have to take a dementia test. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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