Me whenever I have to communicate with other human beings #anxiety

Every time I see a new Dedalus Books cover, I remember the time (years ago) when I wrote to them in despair, offering to do free book cover design for them (they publish some great books!). They did not respond effusively. Then I discovered that the publisher's wife is their cover designer.

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

I'm buying a kitchen and they sent a sample of the marble counter top with a metal ball showing what the sink will be like. Now my desk looks like a 90s 3D rendering tool demo image.

Husband: "let's have sex" Wife: *runs and grabs kids' karaoke machine*

The kind of design you see on a cheap trophy on display at the cobbler's in town who never cleans his windows

It ain't all bad news

What's your sign?

Seems unfair that you only get to use the bouncy slide to get off a plane when things have gone wrong. The bouncy slide should be a treat they give to the best passengers who did the flight correctly.

You can tell by the eyes.

God to Joseph, Genesis 37, 1-2:

Columbo in his first episode looks like a dog that's just come back from the groomer

Adequate Mario Bros.

A tiny blog because I had to say how much I loved this utterly pointless bit of design in the Merseyrail app: www.merseytart.com/2026/01/not-... (h/t to the Dull Men's Club on Facebook)

Relatively plush digs this year but this in my mum's bathroom is bizarrely formal and aggressive. #duvetknowitschristmas

Every Christmas gift since lives in its shadow

Netflix limited series about the tortured genius artist who created old VHS covers

Me (a ventriloquist): what’s your favourite games console My dummy:

Still funny as heck web.archive.org/web/20080703...

The kind of white supremacy I can get behind.

Congrats everyone, we are officially at “circle back in the new year” o clock, we have survived the year, good work team

"oh, don't forget to highlight, in bright red, the two-letter word in the tagline! the two letter word that's kind of the whole point of this clever ad campaign! the two letter word that links this show to the horror movie of the same name!" "no problem boss. i'm on it"

Imagine posing for a photographer friend who sells your image to iStock and a year later, you see this is what The Washington Post has done with the image of you walking on a beautiful fall day

Love love love these Beatles collage portraits by Patrick Seymour www.behance.net/gallery/2263...

A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule

Numbers 1 to 10 in French all sound like the noise of a character getting punched in a computer game.

Papers is a 3-minute animated short film made by Yoshinao Satoh from what must be thousands of newspaper scans, set to Different Trains by Steve Reich & Kronos Quartet. [kottke.org]

Today, my kid and I voted together. Time goes fast, don't it? Anyhoo. As is the Election Day tradition, let's all revisit the 2008 You Look Nice Today episode, "Who Voted?" www.youlooknicetoday.com/22

One of Stephen Mulhern's 27 phones is ringing.

A belated #portfolioday post! I'm Steve and I'm an illustrator and the Art Director at @lostincult.co.uk, I love making these book covers for our series of History / Archives books. I'm always looking for artists and love looking through your work so please follow me / show me stuff!

On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read

Clear that a Leeds fan was in charge of naming our new toilet model. #lufc @thesquareball.net

Has there ever been a greater pair of lads? Ant and Dec ain't got nothing on these two.

We used to be a real country

Graphic designer Joe Caroff passed away yesterday at age 103. Responsible for absolutely legendary posters and typefaces. www.printmag.com/daily-heller...

I can't compute that Children's TV presenters wore full suit and tie within my lifetime. I won't accept it.

Mancunian bin

Bandcamp Friday obliges all musicians to post things like this short video, along with a link to buy our magnificent work, which, in the case of Lost Crowns, is here: lostcrowns.bandcamp.com/album/the-he...

Is no-one safe?

We've pressed "go" on the new Lost Crowns album a few days early, not because we're impatient, but because we're nice. Which one is your favourite? "All of them," cheered everybody in unison. lostcrowns.bandcamp.com/album/the-he...

Bluesky is great but trending is still heavily US-weighted. There is one man, though, that transcends boundaries.

Google Assistant's greatest strength is being able to understand me shouting "add crisps to the shopping list" with my mouth full of the last packet.

The man in the automated message on the Manchester Civil Justice Centre phone number genuinely sounds unhinged. It only gets worse the longer you listen. Just wait for the bit about bailiffs. Who approved this???

The perfect solution to a) fix the minor jobs no plumber wants to be called out to, or b) realise just how out-of-your-league a job is and get a man in, as my 99 year-old grandma would say (though we are gender-neutral in our family hiring policy).

I always struggle with these days between New Year and Christmas.

Without downloading any new pics, what’s your energy going into 2025