Zadar and Split.

Spending some quality time with Diocletian at the palace.

Is Lake Plitvice real?

The lake…oh the fir fringed lake…

Ljubljana.

Psychologist: They’re just chips shaped like bears, they can’t hurt you. The bear chips:

Lisa Benson, contemporary printmaker based in Somerset, UK #WomensArt

Somebody came up to me and asked in Slovenian where a particular hotel was. I apologised in English and gestured that I didn’t know. Ten minutes later I realised he was asking me about the hotel where I’m staying.

It’s so revolting when generative AI boosters conjure up imaginary people with a disability using the technology as a way to handwave away the harms it’s causing. Even if they had proof (they never seem to) they’re still using people they perceive as vulnerable as a rhetorical stunt.

Lake Bled.

I got one of my two royalty payments for 2025 recently & was thrilled to buy one of these. It's such a fabulous idea and fun to open and rummage through. I LOVE that people don't have to, but choose to create things that are beautiful & interesting. Real people, with real ideas and skills.

I've had rather a lot of people recommending AI to me lately, so I've drawn Shakespeare stabbing a robot in the eye with a quill. #art #ink #scribbleau #verymuchnotAI

We need more statues of old mate absolutely shredding over the bodies of his enemies.

I am requesting US government support to help me keep up with all these box sets and limited editions and audiophile pressings that record labels coming out with these days, buddy let me tell you.

Zagreb.

Just passed 30 hours in transit with more to come. I don’t where I am or what mealtime it is or what day it is. But I have a beer and that’s good.

Buenos días, Bluecely... Propongo un juego para celebrar el día de difuntos. Hagamos una playlist con canciones que NO resultarían apropiadas en un funeral. Empiezo yo...

Editing tip: Remove the thats in your story/blog/article. It’s not a rule, but it helps with tweaking and reimagining sentences and paragraphs. It’s also a way to ease yourself into edits—endless, endless edits. #booksky

i think it's great that baseball has a "torment mode"

S.Simon https://www.wikiart.org/en/byzantine-mosaics/s-simon-1025

Holy shit. Lightning strike only a couple hundred metres away. Power wobbled and a clap of thunder you could feel in your chest. Welcome to November, I guess. #bnestorm

Happy #Halloween! A wonderful 2nd century AD Roman mosaic found near Antioch, Turkey showing a skeleton, cup of wine in hand, reclining on the floor of a dining room in a house reminding guests to enjoy life: ‘ευφρόσυνος’

As someone who has worn ray bans for decades, this whole connection with meta bullshit is...disheartening? Exhausting? Like what the fuck? I just want a particular style of glasses, man. I don't want to be associated with a fucking surveillance state.

Yayoi Kusama, Pumpkin sculpture, Naoshima Island, Shikoku. #womensart 🎃

An utter privilege to ask Prof Jenny Hocking @palaceletters.bsky.social the burning Whitlam Dismissal questions of the Crikey team and subscribers. I was gobsmacked at several points, but I think I hid it ok? Watch on YouTube. Listen (or watch) on Spotify, Apple Pods or web player. #auspol

632mb of floppies.

Readying my spooky stuff for tomorrow

Good morning, readers.

Well what do you know? My old if:book counterpart Bob Stein (and his company Voyager) gets a call out in this interview with Laurie Anderson. That makes me only two degrees of separation from her.

What a day for a walk to Andy Goldsworthy’s extraordinary Hanging Stones on the North York Moors #AndyGoldsworthy

Welcome to the Monkey House

Me checking the spelling of enmity.

The CEO of a publishing company is not someone who has good advice for writers.

Oh good, my ride is here.

This “No Argument” Children’s Salad seems like a threat.

Apple’s Dictionary app being pleasingly opinionated in its comment on the word ‘sere’, here: “A good word now relegated to bad poetry”

how it feels explaining early 2000s hipster history to young people

Still my gold standard.

1. Remember, you’re in it for the money. 2. Readers are suckers. 3. Writers are even bigger suckers. 4. Culture is something for lab coats and petri dishes. 5. Did we mention money?

The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast' 10/10 response, no notes

I like the problem solving involved in crafting sentences and paragraphs. Why would I let an algorithm do that for me

And now, a thread of research images I collected for this project.

Corporation: How did we do? Me: I might have said better if you weren’t so fucking needy.

I love it when web sites threaten me.

I live in a very old house with dodgy hot water. Now is the time of year when every shower is a journey through temperature.

Gallerina aesthetics... Elmgreen and Dragset's hyperreal sculpture of an exhausted artsworker is tricking more than a few passersby in Paris

This is incredibly sad and pathetic.

In every way that matters, a heist is more artful than using GenAI.

Glenn Richards playing at Brightside in the Valley. A beautiful intimate performance of “There is No Such Place”.

The Bread Carrier, by Pablo Picasso, 1905