This whole thread, God help us.

MAKE ZINES CHEAP AGAIN

The irony of this policy being announced on the same day as Reform getting 33% in a poll is overwhelming. Just imagine what a Farage-led Doge will do to our personal data? And that’s before the really sinister shit kicks in.

Brit card shit card. Also anyone else remember the ‘NO2ID’ Campaign from early 00s?

“dial-a-poem.org brings all Dial-A-Poem recordings together. The original recordings by John Giorno exist alongside [those] in other languages from all international editions—captioned, accessible, and in randomized order.”

Ahhh it’s commuter men refusing to blow their nose properly or put their hand over their mouth when they cough season!

thinking of my many colleagues without citizenship and thinking about what a vile worm this man is.

the old man who lives in one of the houses bordering our garden is back on his bullshit (throwing leftover bread onto OUR shed roof for the gulls) again.

We’re also deeply scary, violent, communist terrorists who’ll call you a nazi and/or gun you down at the drop of a hat. Make up your mind.

Me, months ago: Yes sure I will write a short journal article. Me now, a week before deadline: I HATE WRITING.

This morning I witnessed the pigeon equivalent of winning the lottery #BrightonScumCity

🎶*Richard Dawson voice* “I don't want to go into work this mornnnnnnnniiiiiing”🎶

landlord special-ing the leaking velux in our bathroom with electrical tape. I do not welcome these winds/this rain.

Could have done without the 5am The Velux in the bathroom is leaking wake-up call

Very amused by the image that our library catalogue has pulled in to accompany the record for Ian Hamilton Finlay's 'Canal Game'

This morning: getting up in the dark & walking to the station in the rain. Months of this to look forward to!

Also staring down the barrel of the start of the academic year with less enthusiam than I think I've ever had, but booked in a trip to go back to Japan next year so that is something to look forward to.

Easier for me to get into work this week, coming from Brighton to London, than for most of my colleagues who live in London. (fully support the strikers btw, this is not me griping.)

To make up for the cursed Ian Brown CD pls enjoy this print that accompanies a beautiful artists’ book by Derek Jarman. He handpainted the box it’s encased in💙

Somone on this train is eating food from Wasabi and instead of the usual gloopy ‘teriyaki’ smell, whatever they are eating smells like a rank old dishcloth 🤢

Made by www.spellingmistakescostlives.com @darrencullen.bsky.social

Doing some AV weeding and this was donated to us god knows when?!

It is insane to me that the richest man in the world is using his global megaphone to call for millions of British people to be rounded up and deported (including my family) and somehow this isn’t even news.

Douglas Pigswill more like.

Today: wfh and time to answer all the emails I ignored last week because I was in the book move zone

Also came across this innocuous on the outside looking book where the artists had tried to give a name or identity to every leaf on a specific tree in Leeds in 1966, taking prints from each leaf

Have spent the summer moving 5500 artists’ books from one room into two and have happened across some real delights in the process, inc these Les Coleman versions of Maciunas’ Flux Paper Events

New record out: hairdryerexcommunication.bandcamp.com/album/finn-d... Synths, tapes, electronics.

Girls merrily calling things ‘gay’ and the r slur as if it’s 2000 again! Also more evidence as if any is needed that private education should be abolished

Forgot headphones, thought I was on a nice quiet train but two odiously posh girls have sat in the seat directly behind mine talking about their gap yaaahs

There are few things I disrespect more than commuter men who are on the train platform with their laptop precariously resting on one arm, typing with the other. IT CANNOT BE THAT IMPORTANT CUT IT OUT.

Really good mood over the weekend instantly crushed after a day back at work and looking at the news 👍🏻

Was the 'mishap' that they did this on live TV?

we used to build household shrines to Going On The Computer and it's no coincidence that as we abandoned these we started straying further from god's light

Steve Shirley escaped the Holocaust as a child & went on to found one of the earliest software startups. The really impressive part? She employed women programmers who had been pushed out of the workforce after having kids, & allowed them flexible, family friendly, work from home jobs—in the 1960s!

Reading is fundamental 📚 But three libraries in #Brighton are facing closure, including the fab Westdene Library I visited last week. This shows, even though a new Govt is in place, austerity lingers on. Have your say and urge Labour to think again👇 www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/news/2025/sh...

Years ago there was video of Tommy Robinson in Italy physically attacking a black African man who had gone there as a refugee, and now he is doing this. Someone yesterday asked “why is Farage so successful” and the answer no one seemed to want to give was “a lot of people are very, very racist”

Me this morning: my womb is trying to escape from my body I feel like shit me later on: let’s get on the codeine and spend the entire day moving artists’ books from one room to another 👍🏻

Welcome to the UK, where holding a sign which says “PALESTINE ACTION” (or could be interpreted as supportive of them) in a public square while protesting genocide = terrorism, but holding a sign saying “KILL EM ALL” in front of a hotel housing migrants = not terrorism, doesn’t even get you arrested.

about a year ago, not long after we moved in here, we were woken up by a very drunk man crashing into the bins outside our house as 'Hotel California' blared from his phone. GUESS WHO IS BACK?!

Self-publishing is a power, it's a gift. You can put whatever you want into your little 'zines and minicomics, absolutely nobody can tell you no. Tell your story, don't worry if it's "good enough", make it anyway.

Our colleagues @simonxix.com and @kjsanders.bsky.social express some of Copim's concerns around the UK's Online Safety Act 2023, with particular consideration of how the Act creates barriers to scholar-led open access publishing (and for their readers): doi.org/10.21428/785... @copim.bsky.social

Fun* fact in a heatwave: there is a legal maximum temperature for transporting livestock to slaughter, but no legal maximum working temperature for human workplaces *terrifying, horrendous

Vanity farmer who bought £millions in farmland as a tax dodge on the back of years of making fun of climate change.. …suddenly starts complaining about climate change now that it impacts his farm. www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

Two folks (Fobazi and Elena) and their pup (Chloe) very deserving of any extra cash you have to toss their way! Fobazi's professional impact has been massive to many of us in the field and she's always been generous with her time and mind. Help them out through this intense, challenging time!

Bin juice: a fire hazard #BrightonScumCity

This weekend: fancy drinks, plants, Pride in Brighton.