Two lovely allotment creatures from today.

First time making it to the life drawing instagram headline spot on their grid!! Loved this session on light and tone, with a darkened room and a single spotlight on the model. This one's a 30 min pose which is the longest we've ever been given. Censored […] [Original post on mastodon.green]

Set myself up a little printing press out of a slightly modified old pasta machine, kind of works! Not the result you'd get from the tonnes of pressure from the real presses, but still not too shabby :)

Shetland’s Organisation for Knitters (SOK) That is all.

Live view of planet positions jn our little solar system every day https://www.theplanetstoday.com/

Wish more people could absorb the message of this fab article... specifically thinking of folks in science communication roles, but also those heavy social media users who relentlessly/exclusively amplify the horrors of our world (CW: rape, AIDS) […]

Can't really comprehend how it's a year this week that this unfathomably smart, feisty little trickster left for the stars, miss my tiny dude every day 💔

CT images of roots and soil pathways that roots take - nice little segment on the latest bbc gardeners' world. Apparently most of what we know about root systems is from growing plants in water so the roots are visible, but that's not comparable to how they grow in soil.

The incredible tragedy for #ArcticScience of NOAA shutting down their #methane monitoring data. 5th May 2025 is the last data we'll ever get. #nckf25

When you can see yourself in the data (Little test print made yesterday using new-to-me method)

I hadn't really seen the manosphere stuff as an MLM scheme but of course. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2025/oct/21/why-the-manosphere-clicked-for-young-men-a-visual-deep-dive

A favourite 2 min pose from life drawing this morning 💚

First go at a 4 layer riso print 🦋 going to try a softer version next week when a fancy new riso printer arrives with a better range of inks woop

I got home today to a package with some beautiful art by @amberfirefly 🤩 Mastodon and #fedi made magic happen and a conversation we had contributed a tiny bit to the conception of these (and a series of others) beautiful artworks.

“In my day the computers would scream and scream when we connected them to the internet… but did we listen? No. We did not listen…”

Perfection. Today's comics are tomorrow's headlines.

Working on a thing. As per typical, started this on a scrappy bit of dogeared layout paper which I don't condone as a method. Anyway it's en route to becoming a riso print if I can battle through the newbie undergrads to get to the machines.

Embarking on required reading for this illustration MA and really struck how artistic academic writing states personal opinions in equivalent language to how scientific academic writing states facts, which I think is why I'm finding it all a bit of a headfuck to read. And that's before getting […]

Pre-pre-pre-announcement that around the end of the year/early spring we'll be announcing some new funded residencies, based at our new studio in Cornwall to run around Aug/Sept 2026. The theme this time is moths and their viruses - as part of a bigger research grant on how viruses and their […]

Well that's weak af https://royalsociety.org/news/2025/10/statement-from-president-royal-society/

Kind of interesting list of 'endangered' crafts categorised by riffing on the conservation redlist of wildlife https://www.heritagecrafts.org.uk/categories-of-risk/

Two little wood engraving prints, one of our shrew-like relatives that we all evolved from, and one of twirling strands of DNA amongst the stars.

Boop

[UK politics] Not joyful seeing the forever-terrible-at-strategy left-leaning vote splitting into 3 (between labour, the new 'your party', and a newly populist green party) exactly at the point that the right-leaning vote has converged firmly on the fascists. Wouldn't matter so much if we had a […]

Free NHS and paid private covid and flu jabs are open, book 'em up, don't forget 💚

Tiny little block ready for printing 🧬 Two strands of DNA meeting amongst the stars

New-new studio so close to being up and running ✨ be nice to see an end to the relentless moving and carrying and shelf building and to be back in the world

Timeline-cleanse: Fly through 3D map of stellar nurseries made by #esa's #gaia mission: ▶️ https://youtu.be/cejvjP-a77k Especially from ~1 min on: just turn on the volume, put the video on full screen and enjoy. #Astrodon #nature #astronomy

A very beautiful short film, including some fabulous tardigrades - but CW for abuse/ptsd (tho nothing graphic, just implied) https://vimeo.com/1048869506

2.5h of non stop self initiated play and she's still going strong, a very happy creature today #dogsofmastodon

Got etchings up in an actual gallery woop. At The Poly in Falmouth until 27 Sept.

Remember this place has great filter options if you need to give your brain a rest and create a calmer feed

Revolution organised on discord https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Nepalese_Gen_Z_protests

Little wood engraving of a shrew. We all share a common ancestor with a shrew like creature that survived the extinction of the dinosaurs, so say hello to your great great great great great great great great great great great great shrewmother 💚

Nice improvement to the bridging between mastodon and bluesky - a step in the right direction for the problem of not seeing notifications from unbridged accounts https://blog.anew.social/launch-dm-notifications/

Would you like some good news? A new vaccine has just been approved for protecting koalas from chlamydia, which is one of their leading causes of death.

Apparently I made something 'which feels very much part of a new contemporary aesthetic', and so now I am going to pretend I understand what that means 😎

Funny isn't it, how an absolute non-story about stamp duty tax not being paid correctly by an MP (with good reasons, if anyone were to read into it) comes out right after a likely highly popular and re-distributive new tax approach is proposed relating to stamp duty.

Have kind of been assuming a bit part of this shitfuckery is really about the oil and gas Palestine sits on top of but don't see that spoken about much https://unctad.org/news/unrealized-potential-palestinian-oil-and-gas-reserves

Hahhahahahhahhahahaaahahahhahaha #allotment

Been nudging bits of my illustration website around including a shameless 'upcoming exhibitions' bit and a gratuitous new 'open for commissions' thing - so if anyone wants a drawing about a thing here I am 💚 https://www.drawingsaboutthings.com/ p.s. why is it so relentlessly painful writing […]

What we already knew but are now allowed to say we know... "The first clinical trial to test the link between food additive emulsifiers and Crohn’s disease has revealed that a low emulsifier diet could be an effective new treatment." […]

Current polling in the UK: Ref: 28% (no change from 17-18 August) Lab: 20% (-1) Con: 17% (-1) Lib Dem: 16% (+1) Green: 11% (+1) SNP: 3% (=)

Night one of GP inflicted sleep restriction to try to fix over a year of relentless insomnia, can totally see how it might work, someone says you can't go to sleep and suddenly you feel like that's the only thing you can do. Brains are such arses sometimes.

It was the latter, just approved: gemmy cerussite in galena from Wheal Clinton: very toxic but I love these micro slabs

Thank you soil and worms and frogs xx

Just helped a friend move house, into a room just slightly bigger than a double bed (maybe about 30cm gap to one side, 60cm at the end). The rent is a whopping £650/month, in a small semi-rural town. Once again reminded how very easy it is for rich people to get richer while dragging everyone […]

We're happy to announce dates for Organised Atoms 2025 - free workshops for kids and their families and friends where we search for crystals, examine them under a microscope and make electronic noises with them! Location: United Downs Raceway, St Day, Cornwall (situated to the south east of St […]

Just want to share an act of genius from a new friend who made me feel like I've done life completely wrong up to now: She routinely eats mangoes in the bath, and eats them whole. Peels them in the bath too so there's no mess. What a human 😎

Having a studio near a piano teacher's studio makes me realise how that most kids don't practice this instrument at all, just come and struggle through the same boring tunes every week. Please don't make your children learn an instrument they don't actual enjoy playing, it's a […]