In case anyone feels like hearing a 16 minute drone from yours truly. on.soundcloud.com/ob6UzUewvhbq...

As a lifelong twitcher, and member of the Young Ornithologists Club, I can confirm the accuracy of this article.

"What the oligarchs want most is no one left to tell the story, and no one left to love what once was." sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-invaders

Posted this a few times on the Bowie anniversary but not over here so here’s one of my favourite tributes of that day, from the organist at Kelvingrove Museum.

Ice is terrorizing Minnesota and California and and and and

I’m old enough to remember the late 2000s, when redpill dudes were starting to mobilize online various feminists and queer activists and historians wrote fairly regularly about misogyny as the canary in the coal mine of fascism I can still hear the crickets

Political cartoonists are not fuckin’ around this week. (thread) 1. Pat Bagley

11. Dennis Goris

The White House wastes no time gaslighting the American people anntelnaes.substack.com/p/ice-shoots...

guy who gets rid of his burzum CDs after checking this

Find it here with other orange things: www.chloecumming.com

Merzbow is not simply noise—it is a sustained investigation into sound, perception, and limits. In this episode, we examine Merzbow’s work as an artistic system rather than a genre. Drawing from the attached recording, the focus is on saturation... youtu.be/OHrRAoQRlxw

And reggae, jazz and blues LPs... bid.omegaauctions.co.uk/auction/deta...

Looking at expensive records from the 90s. bid.omegaauctions.co.uk/auction/deta...

We live in a world where there is nothing that can be done against women that is bad enough to warrant it to be stopped as long as men enjoy using it as a plaything and as long as it makes them money

In Glasgow, we always say 'look up'. Ain't he just!

Fantasy Magazine Winter 2025!🧜🏽 Poetry: Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan Alex Jennings Flash: Malena Salazar Maciá Corey Farrenkopf Short fiction: M. L. Krishnan Eleanor Glewwe Interviews: Kemi Ashing-Giwa Karen Lord, Annalee Newitz, Malka Older Moniquill Blackgoose psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu...

Emptiness isn’t nothingness – it’s the true nature of reality. All phenomena, including our self, lack inherent, independent existence; all things are imputed by the mind. Meditating on emptiness can reveal deep peace and oppose suffering.

Venezuela and the End of Empire

never one to pass up an opportunity to create a rod for my own back, I’ve (internally) committed to sending more regular missives to my mailing list ⭐️ latest blather went out earlier today “Entering the FreakZone” mailchi.mp/loulayorke/e...

On the one hand, Dutch New Year’s Eve is a wild, spectacular explosion of joy and light that I utterly adore. On the other hand, I remember a friend of my partner holding a toddler holding a lit firework. And someone once tried to set fire to my house for fun. So… www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

What deference is owed to an assassination squadron acting on direct orders of a President who is simultaneously deploying troops in cities around the country, for the purpose of oppressing, terrorizing, and even killing the people who live there? defector.com/which-lives-...

'fire broke out in the [Bradford] main stand, killing 56 spectators. Yorath helped a number of people to escape before making his own exit by breaking a window in the players’ lounge and jumping through it, injuring his leg in the process.' www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Tim Buckley singing ‘Song To The Siren’ on The Monkees, 1968. youtu.be/vaa22ULitds?...

I thought it might be nice to give away my last 2 signed hardbacks of my novel 1983, with two lovely linocut hares by my mum. All you have to do to enter is repost this (& leave a reply). The book's been called "Stranger Things rewritten by Kurt Vonnegut and Sue Townsend”. Extract in the replies.

Was not as is

Yesterday Elon Musk retweeted "white solidarity is the only way to survive". In our numb overwhelmed media environment it barely made headlines that the world's richest man endorsed blood-curdling white nationalism. My brief writeup for @religiondispatches.org religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...

The Old Oak. Directed by Ken Loach. Tonight BBC2 11pm Saw this in the cinema. It’s brilliant. Couldn’t speak for at least 10 minutes afterwards 😔🧡

This is important 👇🏽

10-11pm: Angelus Novus “Thinking is a listening that brings something to view.” A Messianic selection by Attilio Novellino @attilio-novellino.bsky.social | attilionovellino.com #Harmony #Disharmony #Philosophy *⏰CET

Blowing away some cobwebs...

The Wicker Man 'pressography'. The Wicker Man story 1972-1974 told through local press cuttings. grantmcphee.substack.com/p/the-wicker... grantmcphee.substack.com/p/the-wicker...

No interest in working with Keir Starmer. The public know who he is. We're replacing Labour - and taking on Reform. No vested interests. Just standing with the 99%. And that's powerful. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

🚨 NEW VIDEO 👇🏽This puts an end to all the lies. Horrific. They were having a calm exchange seconds before he murdered Renee Good, and she was barely moving and clearly avoiding him. Stop the lies.

now more than ever 🖤 🎨 by @zerofoursixeight.bsky.social - stickers available soon, follow them for more art & updates 🐾

@jjlovegrove.bsky.social conversationalist.org/2026/01/07/h...

For every €1 of public money invested in the Basic Income for the Arts, the country received €1.39 in return—a value that accounts for an increase in earnings generated from art-making as well as an increase in public engagement with the arts. conversationalist.org/2026/01/07/h...

Hello Tim Cook I worked at Tumblr when you gave us 48 hours to get rid of all the consenting, adult boobs. Up all night at your whim, out of the blue. But you're still cool with Twitter and its CSAM and revenge porn and whatever the fuck this is? Why do you even HAVE guidelines?

The War on Drugs Is Inseparable from US Imperialism (2018)

Cocaine, Death Squads, and The War on Terror : U.S. Imperialism and Class Struggle in Colombia

Daniel Borzutzky @coffeehousepress.bsky.social

Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border, Abolish the Police Reading List

Also impt: all those protesting college kids who Biden threw to the wolves were battling against the IDF’s ideology and implementation on US soil. There’s a direct link between ICE and the IDF. That is also why the Democrats’ funding of genocide matters scalawagmagazine.org/2025/08/ice-...

“Just go outside and listen. Remember that you are part of the soundscape too."

The Twelve brings together twelve voices from Glasgow's Hen Hoose Collective, including Emma Pollock, Susan Bear, Ray Aggs, Jill Lorean, MALKA and more. Out next Friday, on eco mix vinyl: monorailmusic.com/product/the-... @henhoose.bsky.social

With an annual budget that is 10 times the size of the agency’s total surveillance spending for the last 13 years, ICE is going on a shopping spree, creating one of the largest, most comprehensive domestic surveillance machines in history. Here’s what they are buying. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...