"Be cool, be cool when you walk down, but don’t, don’t bop down the stairs. That’s the one thing with Obama, I had zero respect for him as a president, but he would bop down those stairs, I’ve never seen – da da da da da da, bop, bop, bop, he’d go down the stairs, wouldn’t hold on. I said, it’s […]

#godflesh will be performing in Riga next Saturday (11 Oct). This is important. #justinkbroadrick is not just one of the most trailblazing artists in metal, being a vocalist of the first Napalm Death album and starting the genre of industrial metal. But he is true auteur of metal - a world where […]

A cartoon from my new book, 'Physics for Cats'. Out next week: www.tomgauld.com

Väikevenna leiva kvaliteet on alla läinud. Ja leivapäts ise väiksemaks. Tegu on kahetsusväärse, et mitte öelda tõsise arenguga meie mikrokliimas. #väikevennaleib

"Why I gave the world wide web away for free" https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/28/why-i-gave-the-world-wide-web-away-for-free Tim Berners-Lee vision was based on sharing, not exploitation – and here’s why it’s still worth fighting for...

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

"[Wilhelm Reich] argued that [orgone] is in the soil and air (indeed, is omnipresent), is blue or blue-grey, and that humanity had divided its knowledge of it in two: aether for the physical aspect and God for the spiritual. The colour of the sky, the northern lights, St Elmo's Fire, and the […]

New album by #paradiselost. First impression: after a couple of very weak albums Paradise Lost have got their mojo back. The last time I remember them having any mojo was 'Tragic Idol' (2012). Good news for a fan of them since 'Gothic' (i.e. me) […]

#bluesky doesn't really plan to federate, right? I.e. join #Fediverse. All this talk some two years ago was just some kind of publicity stunt. This bridging thing clearly doesn't work and they are probably not planning to make it better.

Hea lugu. Meeldiv üllatus Müürilehelt. https://www.muurileht.ee/seltsimees-koppel-sotsiaalse-ebavordsuse-eestvoitleja/

The special edition of the semiotics journal Sign Systems Studies, titled 'Deleuze & Guattary and semiotics' has been published, vol. 53, no 1. It includes my article "Valdur Mikita and the return of the real: In search of any-spaces-whatever in Estonian forests". #deleuze #guattari #mikita […]

Tuleb välja, et sõna "handsa" tuleb (vene keele kaudu) hiina keelest - huang jiu tähendab kollast viina (analoogselt on Huang He kollane jõgi). https://www.emakeeleselts.ee/omakeel/2007_2/OK_2007-2_02.pdf

This!

Etüüde nüüdiskultuurist https://tartu.postimees.ee/8321426/looduse-vingerpuss-puu-ladvast-vorsus-paarimeetrine-paevalill

See, et Eesti ebavõrdsuselt Euroopa tipus on, pole uudis, aga et seal on ka Rootsi ja Taani - see on uudis, mulle vähemalt. Põhjamaade sotsiaaldemokraatia on vahepeal kuskil nurga taga vaikselt maha koksatud, sellal kui maailm mujale vaatas, vms? […]

Yesterday I started hearing pretty loud hissing while pedaling my #Bicycle. I raised speed to reach home before the tire empties completely, but at home I discovered that it was not a tire that was hissing - it was front light. I had never heard of a problem like this and I couldn't even google […]

Swedish "cultural canon" that omits #bathory, #candlemass, #Entombed, #grave, #Dismember & all the classic death metal scene, #opeth ... ridiculous. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/02/outcry-as-swedish-cultural-canon-snubs-abba-and-anything-since-1975

Aga miks? Miks on vaja sporti võtta tõsiselt? Miks see ei võiks olla lihtsalt lõbus, mõnus ja kasulik? Ei väsi imestamast. https://sport.delfi.ee/artikkel/120400858/los-angelese-olumpiarajatistega-tutvumas-kainud-martti-raju-mange-voetakse-vaga-tosiselt

Just a reminder https://leave-russia.org/

Sümpaatne seisukohavõtt rahvuslastelt. Toetasin ja toetan ka nende lipuaktsiooni Kirjanike Liidu Harju tn maja seinal. Ehkki - või just sellepärast, et - olen vasakpoolne, toetan vabadust, demokraatiat […]

Kahtlemata ma pooldan seda, et loomeinimesed ennast ära ei tapa, aga järgides "õiglase loomekaubanduse" loosungit "meie tarbitav looming võiks jätta loomeinimesed terveks" ei tohiks tarbida Jerofejevi "Moskva-Petuškid", Dostojevskit, Scott Fitzgeraldi, Faulknerit, Richard Brautigani, Kerouaci […]

2023 tekitas vinüülitööstus ligi 24 000 tonni CO2 heidet. Ühe vinüüli süsiniku jalajälg on 2,2 kg CO2. Ühel CD-l on see palju väiksem - 0,172 kg - aga siiski. Ma ei ütle, et see kõik oleks failide ja striimimise ajastul mõttetu raiskamine, aga peab ikka mõjuv põhjus olema, miks teatud puhkudel […]

Erkki Luuk: "Parim mõte, nagu Kivivalgel lugejaile ilmutab, ei ole mitte ainult selline, mis kunagi ei teostu, vaid selline, mis on silmnähtavalt niiviisi konstrueeritud, et seda ei saagi kunagi teoks teha." https://www.sirp.ee/irdteadvuse-arheoloog/

Tiit Hennoste väidab (Sirp, 25.07.2025), et tema leiutas enesekolonisatsiooni mõiste. Aga see on ju juba ammune mõiste, või no mis mõiste, see on juba muutunud rahvusvaheliseks käibefraasiks. Nt kasutas seda 1904. aastal vene ajaloolane Vassili Kljutševski. Vt nt […]

"As for Fernando Pessoa’s The Book of Disquiet and Walter Benjamin’s One-Way Street, these works could only be blacklisted by someone who didn’t understand them at all." https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/27/russia-literature-war-ban-censorship-ukraine #FernandoPessoa

The combination of #ozzy's vocals and Iommi's riffs was too good to be true from the start. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLOb4KVS-S8&list=RDfLOb4KVS-S8&start_radio=1

"There are hells on earth and Dubai is one: an infernal creation born of the worst of human tendencies." https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/everything-else

Some people have a late start. This fellow learned to walk at 5 and started running - not just running but running marathons - at 89. He got run over by a car four days ago at the age of 114. Who knows what else he could have achieved […]

New DNA study proposes that the Urheimat of #uralic speaking peoples was not near Urals but much more eastward in Yakutia where they started moving some 4000 years ago. It is curious that most people in Estonia still seem to believe that Uralic speakers have lived here 5000 years, or even (after […]

Kirjutin Mehis Heinsaare mistahes-ruumidest (any-spaces-whatever; l'espace quelconque). https://keeljakirjandus.ee/ee/archives/38578

Johanna Adojaan Kivivalge raamatust: "Metakirjutust on nüüd rohkem, jah, aga autori kõikehaaravalt ruumiline mõtlemine vohab endiselt ka siin. Kõik osutub ruumiks, sh reaalsus (vt ka „tegelik koht”), enamgi veel hallid alad ja mittekohad (vt ka „reaalsustevaheline nätske luht”). Ehkki siinsed […]

'Ball Lightning' Caught on Film After Storm in Canada https://www.sciencealert.com/ball-lightning-caught-on-film-after-storm-in-canada

Paistab, et mu esimene raamat "Ribadeks tõmmatud linn. Jutud vms" (2023) on Digaris vabalt alla laetav. Toetan. https://www.digar.ee/arhiiv/en/books/256348

Wanted to post a #proust quote but his sentences are way too long for the character limit of 500. His longest sentence is some 10 000 characters. I will not butcher a single Proust sentence into pieces of a 'continued thread', forchrissakes. The whole idea of a character limit sucks.

*The Earth is the center of the Universe. No, really. See? It's kind of complicated, but it works out. #galileomuseum #florence

old men https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2025/jun/15/ella-baron-escalation-israel-iran-cartoon

Recorded #onthisday 31 years ago: Elastica - Peel Session 1994 The complete session recorded by Elastica on 14 June 1994 for the John Peel show on BBC Radio 1 and broadcast on 9 July 1994. Tracklist: 1. Never Here (0:46) 2. Four Wheeling (5:11) 3. Hold Me Now (7:53) 4. Ba Ba Ba (11:10) […]

sycophantic https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/technology/chatgpt-ai-chatbots-conspiracies.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Ok8.97fd.z7aevgX0IibF&smid=url-share

After the George W Bush trilogy I kind of lost hope in #ministry . But that was a big mistake. The whole AmeriKKKant (2018) is one hell of an album. As is HOPIUMFORTHEMASSES (2024) #californiadreaming https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wtSQUaAxwc

#californiadreaming #deadcandance #americandreaming https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipwPk4dJaBw

Millisest raamatust (ilmselt laste-) on pärit laulurida "ja siis vanad päkapikud võtsid üks kartoffel"? Mitte ei tule meelde.

*Now that's "folk music." A hundred years old, recorded on a wax cylinder, and they're Inuit in Greenland https://subrosalabel.bandcamp.com/album/inuit-55-historical-recordings-of-traditional-greenlandic-music

Eton still accepts only boys. Large chunk of English upper class still lives like bourgeois-democratic revolutions (French etc), civil rights of the 20th century, pop culture etc etc never happened. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eton_College

Heino Märksi artiklis on palju statistikat. Puudu ent on andmed, mille kohaselt metsaga kaetud Eesti pindala langes 61 % pealt 2013. aastal 51.5 % peale aastal 2023. Üle 4000 ruutkilomeetri mahalõigatud ja -müüdud metsa - suurem pindala kui Hiiumaa ja Saaremaa kokku. Karude loomupärased […]

Triinu Meres: "Peatüki lõpus on küsimus: "... kas need inimesed, kellel on ikka tõsine depressioon, millest mina vist midagi ei tea või mille olen täielikult unustanud - kas nemad ei taju oma reaalsusekasti seinte taga halli monoliiti?" Vastan: ega ei taju." #kivivalgel […]

But why do they go to crap sites like Facebook, TikTok etc? I don't get it. There better sites than that, you know. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/20/almost-half-of-young-people-would-prefer-a-world-without-internet-uk-study-finds

Puhas rõõm huilgamisest. Hea plaat. Kohati meenub Mülleri Sass. #diamandagalas https://diamandagalas.bandcamp.com/album/the-singer

😍😍😍 #Baltic #BalticStates #estonia #Latvia #Lithuania #histodons

õudusele antakse veel hoogu juurde https://www.err.ee/1609694970/valitsus-maarab-majandatava-metsa-mahuks-70-protsenti-metsamaast