All eyes on The Global Sumud Flotilla sailing to break the Israeli occupation's illegal siege on Gaza. Sign & share to show your support. my.uplift.ie/petitions/i-... @uplift.ie

Another tree and some railings in North Lanarkshire

A tree and some railings in North Lanarkshire

youtube.com/watch?v=PygF... like visiting an old friend, my drawing buddy this morning

Proud to be seen with this lot and their left wing lexicon. Edition 4 of Left Cultures sees me illustrating a piece on The Mekon’s version of ‘The Trimdon Grange Explosion’ It’s out now and available at leftcultures.com

youtu.be/gVIvboCOiDE?... a wee bit of thon ⬇️ to draw to tonight. Much needed

“The fact is that the problems Adorno identified over fifty years ago are not only discernible today but, in a perverse dialectic, are transported into the present by an official politics of history that purports to represent the lessons he taught: ‘never again Auschwitz.’”

‘After Peter Seddon: Memories construct a different picture, Essie Stewart is playing the accordion again for Richard Burton’ apologies for the over posting but hopefully this will be the final version :-) Some incomplete notes about it all live here: www.tumblr.com/brianmchenry...

On this day in 1930, after petitioning the Secretary of State for Scotland for assistance to help them leave the island, the remaining 36 inhabitants of Hirta (St Kilda) departed on board HMS ‘Harebell’ [source: Edinburgh Central Library]

youtu.be/tuKPXnn-hCo?... two waulking songs collected by Alan Lomax in Iochdar, South Uist 1970

I interviewed Yazan al-Saadi, editor of Cartoonists For Palestine (published by @crucialcomix.bsky.social) for @inthesetimes.com: check it out, and donate if you can!

Sketchbook pages: Essie Stewart is playing the accordion for Richard Burton in Altnaharra again

Ahead of the publication of Unschooled @patrickbarkham.bsky.social travelled to Glasgow to meet @carogileswrites.bsky.social Read Caro's story today in the @theguardian.com in print & on online. Huge thanks to Patrick for listening & responding so beautifully www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Big thrill to be asked to contribute to The Right to Protest exhibition organised by The Museum of Unrest.The Un-private view tickets are now live and free with a donation option: www.eventbrite.com/cc/the-right...

WE HAVE TO CREATE. IT IS THE ONLY THING LOUDER THAN DESTRUCTION #artworks

From Flashbak - flashbak.com/northern-ire... Never seen these before

After Peter Seddon: Memories construct a different picture, Essie Stewart is playing the accordion again for Richard Burton

‘And I think of the things that matter and I think of the things that don’t’ are my favourite lines from ‘Drug Habit’ by Yo La Tengo which in turn is one of my favourite songs. I sometimes think that every single drawing that I do should be called that.

My drawing buddy at the minute ‘Keeping the Lighthouses shining for the safety of all. Script by Finlay J. Macdonald (Fionnlagh Iain MacDhòmhnaill) youtu.be/1MYpjFvAcHI?...

Coming soon from the mighty @leftcultures.bsky.social a big thrill to be part of this 🖤✊

Poem @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social wrote a few months ago & posted on X as a tribute to the six Al Jazeera journalists killed. 💔

An 1828 illustration by Tuscarora artist David Cusick depicting the Haundenosaunee story of the flying heads. In Cusick’s version, a cursed and cannibalistic flying head sees an old woman eating acorns from a fire and, believing she is eating live coals, flees from her enormous power.

Ayr baths and the Mally Arms

Posted another update to @liznangel3.bsky.social’s GoFundMe appeal on our behalf. Please read it. If you’re in a position to help us, in any way, even just by reposting, we’re in desperate need. We sail towards Sardinia from Ibiza on Wednesday, this week, a 330-sea-mile passage.

another very lovely piece by rob knight "These names are not just linguistic artifacts; they are sensory and spatial cues. They describe the land in terms of its colour, shape, flora, fauna, and human interaction. They are not just labels—they are stories."

Some sketch book pages that seem to want to be something else

I have developed a perhaps unhealthy obsession with what I think are called ‘Honko Aluminium House Cars’. Their preferred habitat seems to be sitting outside houses in rural Japan surrounded by plant pots. Might put that I’m willing to paint for one on my profile.

‘Anyone who has ever played a piano would really like to hear how it sounds when dropped from a 12th-floor window.' Nobody writes about Tom Waits’ music better than Tom Waits

"Mr. Jiménez played a style often characterized as norteño, Tejano or conjunto — though he preferred the term Tex-Mex because it captured the variety of influences that flowed through his music." Flaco Jiménez, 86, Grammy-Winning Master of the Tex-Mex Accordion, Dies (gift link):

A last wee push with this. The text will read ‘Those we carry with us like sparks running through a stubbled field’

So another version of Bernadette Devlin (with Malcom X). My previous versions of her were rapidly turning her into Ozzy Osbourne, which is fine I suppose if you are the godfather of Heavy Metal but less so if you are a social activist

A drawing for a piece to be submitted for an exhibition exploring the right to protest. Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi who was shot and killed by Israeli military forces during a protest in Israeli-occupied Palestine

Cesar Chavez with a drawing of Victor Jara behind him. I seem to have annoyed a small corner of Miami with my drawings of people who were either tortured to death by U.S/ U.K supported right wing Juntas or spent their whole lives fighting for the disadvantaged. It’s a funny old world.

A drawing of Victor Jara for a piece to be submitted for an exhibition exploring the right to protest. Victor was a leading voice in the Chilean New Song movement. He was one of the many thousands tortured and murdered during the 1973 coup which was supported by the U.S. and U.K. governments

A study of Alaa Salah for a piece to be submitted for an exhibition exploring the right to protest. Alaa Salah has played a crucial role in revolution and post revolution Sudan and continues to be heavily involved in the transition towards peace and justice.

Some more of this

‘And I think of the things that matter and I think of the things that don’t’ some Yo La Tengo noisiness at the minute while I do some drawing

A study of Bernadette Devlin for a piece to be submitted for an exhibition exploring the right to protest.

A study of Blair Peach for a piece to be submitted for an exhibition exploring the right to protest. ‘Blair Peach was an ordinary man Blair Peach he took a simple stand Against the fascists and their wicked plans So them beat him till him life was done’ Linton Kwesi Johnson - Reggae Fi Peach

Steve Biko

Lynton Kwesi Johnson

I live in a small town on the east coast of Ireland which was so enamoured of Dwight D. Eisenhower that they named a pier after him. Dwight D. Eisenhower also authorised the murder Patrice Lumumba, the first democratically elected president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

I still half remember a review of The Cure’s Foxy Lady and how it was described as reducing the song to it’s essential twitching skeleton and it just feels like Justin Townes Earle has done that too with Graceland. The bit that starts ‘she comes back and tells she’s gone..’ youtu.be/M5vbX6unfKU?...

dluthphairtiocht.com open call from Dlúthphàirtiocht on the theme of Solidarity & Resistance

Today I'm celebrating Bloomsday by recreating Joyce's favourite activity: not being in Dublin.

‘Edwyn Collins is imagining a Scottish pastoral landscape in Gram Parsons’ Nudie jacket’

youtu.be/Zd1BC4WMouA?... Kerry James Marshall is my drawing buddy today courtesy of @art21org.bsky.social

A sheep in a shaft of light standing beside a burger van with some other sheep