My scorching hot take on Makerfield that nobody asked for. Every single person that wanted to vote Reform turned out and did so, all 15,696 of them. Same with Restore to the tune of 3,111. There were no "shy" Reform or Restore voters. That's it. That's all of them. Nothing like a majority.-

Finally finished the portrait of Yig, Father of Serpents, for the new edition of my Lovecraft book. That means I've now finished reworking the Great Old Ones section and am back at work on The Dunwich Horror. There'll be more about snakey on the blog next week.

The Quiet Earth - none-more-video-shop post-post-post apocalyptic thriller except it's not actually 'post' at all sort of from director of Young Guns II concerning the last three surviving humans who all happen to live in relatively close proximity in New Zealand. timworthington.org/2026/06/21/l...

In this photograph Andy Burnham looks like an AI instruction to ‘make a single face of every artist ever signed to Mute and Factory Records and put them on a *European Holiday*’ - he’s even got a long, weird ‘AI hand and wrist’

Take Your Arm Out Of That Cow's Anus, You're Not A Real Vet It's 10:00PM

Amazon discontinued all of those old Kindles, and disabled Kindle for PC and replaced it with an app only available from the Microsoft Store, and within about five minutes folks had figured out the solution for “backing up” Kindle books from the new app. Eat shit, Amazon. ❤️

Thanks,Governor Newsom......

Colleen Harkin (IPA, former Macnamara candidate and suing Vic Liberals over Pesutto loan) has quit the party and is widely expected to defect to One Nation. #springst

The attacks in Edinburgh, in which an armed bare-chested white man terrorised Muslims, leaving five people injured, don't feature on a single newspaper front page this morning. Two tier journalism

“We must stop eating!” cried Toad as he ate another.

this really stands up. Brilliant.

Friend treated me to a mani today. Nail lady did the gay way as usual. A Polish lady in the chair next to me peered over and said “The two short nail, they are trendy?” I replied “For…some girls, yes”. She said “It look nice…maybe I get mine this way…” I wish you the best, Accidental Polish Lesbian

Hanson: "“If I have anyone elected to our party any more and walks off and leaves the party, it will destroy us,” Noted without comment.

A history of Resonance FM with Stewart Lee, tomorrow at 8pm BBC Radio 4! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

They tell me I’m barking at nothing. I say there is nothing because I bark. Philosophy of a German Shepherd.

"Garfield" by Jim Davis first appeared on June 19, 1978. Here is the first week of dailies:

anyway, the main thing to do with Pauline and Bum Notion is everything you can to gum up their works and take the threat seriously, not because of Trump but because she's a vile racist, has no compassion, and attacks trans people. Fascist bigots bound to lose.

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I *really* find glib/twee anti football ‘bwahah kicky ball men’ tweets incredibly gear grinding. I’m not interested in football but loads of people I know are and this is a massively exciting event for them. Don’t be dicks.

The banner descended & the commentariat did what it does best: agreed with itself, instantly, at volume: “Oh noes! GetUp just gifted her the victim narrative she came for”. Mmmaybe. But then the mainstream media reads these things through the lens of, um, the mainstream media.

I'm starting to think or wonder if the equation of Pauline Hanson with Drumpf is actually a wrong move. I mean, isn't it what she wants her supporters to think? I know Australians generally dislike Trump but there are supporters, so is saying there's a link a self-own ?

The far right is coming for Australia hard and fast now

No lies detected.

The big enemy is any authority that might come in and tell them how to live; that will take away their guns and churches and trucks. Yet they all live on land stolen from indigenous people by the federal government for white settlement. The settler colonial wound is recent.

Organised crime gangs who recruit children could face life in jail under new Victorian laws

I'm convinced the rise in social media bans amongst young people is to suppress them. How can you organize, share information, or gain an understanding of the wider world without access to it?

my friend Alex, archivist and librarian, discovered a nine-volume collection of the works of Arthur Machen in the Tasmanian State Library Archives. It's signed. I had to go and touch a book Machen had also. Here's my pics. I got a genuine thrill from this.

this is such a fun read

No teens are migrating to BlueSky. They'll piss off to some vibe coded version of TikTok written by a toddler or a team of 500 devs working for a hostile foreign secret service.

I acquired and fell in love with this album during that brief 2019-2023 period when jazz reissues were affordable. The bold title, the mesmerizing music, rolling melodies over ostinatos that seemed to contain their own counter-rhythms at times...what a gift. RIP Dollar Brand/Abdullah Ibrahim.

“Making matters worse, Eddie knows me really well, so the things he’ll say will probably be absolutely, irrefutably true. I can’t just brush them off. The bastard’s onto me.”

Kids are on their phones too much. I don't know why they don't use the many youth clubs, public swimming pools, community clubs or sports facilities successive governments and skint local authorities have underfunded, closed or sold to property developers.

When Ozzy Osbourne was accused of being a Satanist in the early 90s, he responded, "I'm not a Satanist. I don't worship the Devil. It takes me all my time to conjure myself out of bed in the morning, let alone conjure the Devil up." R.I.P. Ozzy. We miss you!

A very happy 80th & final birthday to our great President!

Bonham is excellent here because he's a touch annoyed; there's a prize analogy tucked in.

People are cheering as they’re removing the mark of the beast from the Kennedy Center.

The trad wife is a social media influencer’s interpretation of a mid-century male ad exec’s notion of an aspirational figure. The dudes who dream of marrying one have a better chance of dating the Loch Ness Monster

A society with one trillionaire and millions of people in poverty is something to be deeply ashamed of, actually

this was so good, and it properly freaked me out. Audio is so good for the creeps.

huge huge huge day - the school-can't child went to the city with us while I ran around galleries today for work.

So you're telling me that there are 22 potential avenues towards a certain thing happening? cool cool

Tasmanian Senator Wendy Askew resigns with fellow Liberals, One Nation eyeing seat

World's biggest whale graveyard found in Indian Ocean off Australia

State government admits police officer battered Hannah Thomas during pro-Palestinian protest

Fuck it. I’ve written to my local MP to ask them firstly to insist the UK government stop using X and more immediately ban X from the country.

Hawkwind's Family Tree by Pete Frame in Sounds 9th, June 1979. @joebankswriter.bsky.social

I wrote about the mighty Blood Incantation for The Quietus this week: thequietus.com/quietus-revi...

As the United States marks its 250th anniversary, marriage equality for LGBTQ+ Americans should be unquestioned. Our rights have never been simply granted—they have been fought for against systems designed to marginalize and erase us. progressive.org/magazine/our...