No, really, what the fuck?

Labour's constant use of "Hard Working People" implies the existence of "Soft Working People".

Random 35mm slide of the day: San Fran? #35mm #35mmslide #lostphotography #photography #archive #analogue #colour #color

Tell me you’ve used AI to tweak an archive photo without telling me you’ve used AI to tweak an archive photo. Breeds musnuey, indeed.

America pointing at everyone else, call them racist and colonialist, makes me think that America takes two rohipnol every morning alongside a centrum.

This is pretty much the same speech Gary Wilmot makes at the end of every panto season and it works for him, so...

Random 35mm of the day: Roller #35mm #35mmslide #lostphotography #photography #archive #analogue #colour #color

Advertising is not representation, it's exploitation. Take the John Lewis advert. Alison Limerick's classic house tune. By Saatchi and Saatchi. Thatcher's favourite advertising firm. The same Thatcher that enacted a criminal justice act to stop that sort of music from being played at gatherings.

The phrase "Wes Streeting" belongs in the same bin as "Crazy Paving".

Spotted on a visit to B&Q

Just checking to see if everyone has now finished their substack article on the nuclear dystopian TV show, "Threads"... I'd heard rumours that we were still missing someone, but I haven't been able to find them.

Deep dish et decorum est

One more time. Time to let it go. Remembrance only gets you so far. Best we forget. www.modernistpunk.com/p/episode-17...

Travelling in the North... "This train will be stopping at Shambled,Dunce,Well Wellington, Gotcher, and Flabb"

Working on a new thing.

Had an interaction with someone yesterday... They speed read. Fascinating. They rush through books as fast as they can and see this as a virtue. Fine, for them, I guess. But they said they do it with poetry too, and I'm genuinely disturbed. What horror speed reads poetry?

We could tax billionaires more... Or we could tax businesses like Amazon anything at all... Or we could force those businesses to pay a living wage to ease the burden of benefits. Nae, says Labour, it's the working men and women who are taking the piss. Best tax them into engaging with society.

Seriously though, imagine setting up a press conference only to refuse to answer the questions you set up the press conference for.

Previously every thing was "spicy" and now everything is "cosy". Spicy horror? Nope, it is cosy horror now. Spicy murder? Nope, cosy only. Spicy straight? No way, just cosy straights now.

Boris grade fact management.

Didn't take long for us to end up here again. Politicians telling you what they want reality to be, rather than being honest.

Reeves states that she wants to end speculation in an announcement that contains virtually no facts and fuels speculation.

UK Politics update: the party currently doing austerity because the the previous party did austerity is warning that the poll-leading party will do austerity All three parties confess themselves baffled at the UK's low morale & economic growth, but are confident that things will pick up soon 🫡

Mouf, 2025 #painting

If you are reading about the Reform councillors saying daft stuff about the battle of Trafalgar, you might find this interesting...

Sunlite Beauty & Aesthetics #blackandwhite #photography

Do you know the difference between "Armistice Day" and "Remembrance Day", do you call it "Poppy Day"?

I'm getting in before the poppy rush and discourse... I think this is important, and a conversation we really need to be having right now. Would be great if you read it, even greater if you share it around. www.modernistpunk.com/p/episode-17...

To cheer myself up today ive being going to one AI subreddit, downloading images and posting them to another AI subreddit and enjoying the chaos and claims of theft.

Wait until they decide the only viable model is to put adverts inside the AI. Ask a question and the first response is the one that's been paid for. Huge leap for humanity.

But points awarded for trying to bully your way into getting a Nobel Peace Prize with threats of retaliation.

Wouldn't it be nice if the full focus was on María Corina Machado and what she's done rather than how somebody else is going to react to her being awarded the Nobel?

Lindeman building with clouds (the rain cleared off in the afternoon, and yes the sky does look black, no, no filters used) Providence, RI October 8th, 2025 📷 Pentax K1000 Vivitar Series 1 V.3 70-210 f2.8-4 🎞️ LomoEarl Grey (Kent 100) at 200 ISO ⚗️ Zone 510-pyro 15' #believeinfilm

mediterranean coast; provence Leica M3/50mm"sooic"/IlfordFP4I/D76

What's left of the Wreck of the Peter Iredale #oregoncoast #oregon #pnw #eastcoastkin #tidesouttuesday #blueskyartshow #photographersunited #scape #landscapephotography #photography

We made a book! Not Pictured But Also Present. It's a photographic document of our time at a live art festival. It's also a discussion on documentation, and its pitfalls. amzn.eu/d/b6sNU8G

Forecourt, 2025 #painting #architecture #nightvibes #abstract

I spend 60% of my income on Rent and the other 60% on food and bills.

Budders £5-00 each. Stay classy, Lincoln. Budders.

We’re starting to forget, as a society, how to do parables and allegories. Everyone thinks they’re clever for asking “yes but WHY did the wolf want to blow down the little pig’s house?” but you lose the heart of the story if you give the wolf a backstory.

The main reason I don't like to fly is that I get this notion and look around, thinking, if I was God, who would I smite for hubris, and there we all are. And that's why I like it when people bring small children abroad. A screaming child is a safety soul. Don't fly without one.

Another interview with me about the new book here!

You know what Labour can do to stop the rise of the fascist right? Stop being fucking part of it.

Imagine if the government decided to mimic the Green Party instead of Reform & call for UBI & a 4-day week. I refuse to believe that the average person hates immigrants more than they hate their boss

I'm off to the Lincoln Book festival where we are showing our film-of-the-book for 'Sliding'. It's about our 35mm slide collection and a reflection on collecting, preserving and showing 35mm slides. #books #bookfestival #lincoln #35mm #35mmslides #photogrqphy

Another new scan. Beautiful very large original print of a photo by the great aviation photographer Charles E Brown, of Fleet Air Arm Fairey Swordfish over the RN fleet during the 1937 Coronation Review at Spithead #NavalAviation Apologies for the ignorant picture ed who scrawled on it 🤬

The Sitter, 2025 #arr #painting #impressionism

if you have caught all the pokemon you get raptured and it doesn't matter what else you've done

24/7 Banking service 📷Frank Loose #photography #monochrome #blackandwhite #bnw #flickr flic.kr/p/2rus63Y

#BlueSkyArtShow #angles An angle of a daylight moon #photography #art #classicmono #blackandwhite #moon #bridge #EastCoastKin