Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back! Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary. Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest! #MundaneHalloween

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen. By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

PALACE

Feminist Surrealist Easter c/o - Leonora Carrington, Ab Eo Quod (1956). Leonor Fini, The Guardian of the Black Egg (1955). Kaye Sage, My Room Has Two Doors (1939). Ithell Colquhoun, Sardine and Eggs (c. 1941).

He is Risen!

Planned action! Protest planned at parliament square on Saturday at 1pm to protest supreme court ruling.

Solidarity with trans people everywhere and especially, today, in the UK

Sent my 14 and 16 year old to the supermarket to buy sour cream, Worcestershire sauce and kidney beans. They can’t find any of them, won’t ask anyone for help, and are having some kind of meltdown in the condiment aisle.

What an event! Crip Climates: A Collaborative Syllabus for Disabled Ecologies at the Garden Museum with the Architecture Foundation. Wow. gardenmuseum.org.uk/events/talk-...

Happy #twinpeaksday to all that celebrate

Just under two months to go until we gather at the Barbican for Show Time: Designing Great Exhibitions 2025 💡 We'll be exploring all things exhibitions – from sustainability and decolonisation to co-production and community engagement. Book now 👉 ow.ly/Co0r50UHONr

I thought David Lynch would be with us forever

I loved this film.

Barbara Hepworth, 'Winter Solstice' (1970)

Anyway, here's my starter pack go.bsky.app/VFxSES6 (and like I said, I felt 😬 making it, because all lists and categorisations of people are political and I think we should act as if lists don't matter and work to rethink taxonomic power, but that's another thread)

Re-sharing this for the #foodstudies feed: still plenty of room to join this #foodstudies #foodhistory #starterpack, so holler if you'd like to be added (or removed for that matter) go.bsky.app/Evp1Stc

Hey! We’ve compiled a starter pack of museums, galleries, archives and libraries in the UK who are right here on Bluesky 🦋 go.bsky.app/9o1sRWp

Actually seen for real in 2024

Never post on here — but Steve Albini 😭😫😭😫😭

NEWT IN POND KLAXON

Hello, here is a portrait of me that a live illustrator included in the workshop documentation from a recent work event if you want to see evidence of a person truly seen and publicly shamed.

I am in bed with a chest infection feeling guilty about not working / cleaning / ‘productively’ resting.

Derek Jarman, gone far too soon, thirty years ago today.

Despite the weather, persisting in celebrating the slow approach of spring, indoors at least.

Growing a willow tree in our dining room.

Finding the Pink Cloud.

Ugh. Sorting out old filing. Ugh ugh. Found this old headshot though.

Ugh to 2023 — in the bin you go.

Did a mini culture trail up from Temple to the Delaunay — via Holly Hendry and the Artist’s Garden, Reference Point and Superflux. Tried to look around 180 Studio / Soho House but politely ejected by security 🙄

Peter Hujar, ‘Forbidden Fruit’ (David Wojnarowicz Eating an Apple in an Issey Miyake shirt) from The Twelve Perfect Christmas Gifts from Dianne B., (1983)

Winter light. Birthday flowers.

Oh god, the pressure …

Back to 7am on the river — solidarity with other parents of children who like sports …

Incredibly moving — it was a very special evening and I wept through most of it.

Seeing the Gavin Bryars Ensemble playing Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet at St Martin-in-the-Fields, with The Choir With No Name, and Streetwise Opera (two groups who work with people who are homeless or who have experienced homelessness) was one of the most moving musical experiences of my life.

Submerging slowly at my mother’s.

No, *I’m* the luckiest. Three years married to @jeremymillar.bsky.social and he knows my impatience well enough to have presents ready the evening before.