Nice small exhibition in Tate Modern if you’re in town www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-m...

Also like me she is obsessed with solar system exploration. Can’t wait to share this one - and of course @briandavidstevens.bsky.social’s regal photos! Do consider subscribing, it’ll help us do more of these. As ever low income or in education just DM me for free access no questions asked.

Portrait of Bishop John Fisher https://www.wikiart.org/en/hans-holbein-the-younger/portrait-of-bishop-john-fisher

Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."

My bit on Lee Miller - so much better when she gets away from the leering Surrealists!

Beautiful, powerful emotional! The work of Scottish documentary photographer Margaret Mitchell - chronicling the lives of people with unequal starting points... #Photography

Blustery day, isn't it? Here's the National Grid: Live generation data. Wind and solar are generating 74.2% of our electricity. Gas is generating 13.1%. And yet our household electricity prices are pegged to... the volatile price of gas. Which is the basis on which the right attacks... renewables.

Preparing this print for a client today.

"The wallpaper was busier maybe, the world was browner, but essentially it was the same world, where telephones were answered with a string of digits and time flowed begrudgingly forwards like gravy." I wrote about my favourite sitcom of all time. madeleinebrettingham.substack.com/p/that-is-wh...

australian street style, 1973

I’ve written about Waldemar Januszczak’s new documentary, “Art’s Most Erotic”

Panorama (BBC One, 9pm)

“jackhammering antique buttocks” Astonishing “work” here from Sarah (“Sarah”) “Dempster” (Dempster).

Some good news. London is meeting legal limits for toxic NO2 pollution for the first time – almost 200 years earlier than predicted – following the Mayor’s "world leading air pollution policies," City Hall announces. The Ultra Low Emissions Zone - and similar policies - really do work.

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🟡🟢🔴 ALBUM ANNOUNCEMENT! 🔴🟢🟡 The wonderful @whitelands.bsky.social will release their second album ‘Sunlight Echoes’ on January 30, 2026.

Self portrait at Lezaven https://botfrens.com/collections/44/contents/12337

Adolph Menzel was a brilliant draughtsman, his technical virtuosity and skill is ably demonstrated in this work 'portrait of my hand,' he made sometime in the late 1840s, it is painted in the most realistic style he ever used.

Every time I come across this photo it completely stops me in my tracks. Crude oil supertanker Esso Hibernia under construction at Swan Hunter shipyard, Wallsend, during 1970. The scale and spectacle of this thing is incomprehensible. (📸 Harriet Berney)

SELF-PROMOTION POST: I have a look at the infrastructural, cultural and financial issues tied up in regional touring. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...

So good to photograph Budgie, absolute gent x

There he is! This was a real dream to do, I grew up on 80s Banshees / Creatures, Budgie's rhythms are etched into my soul, and it was amazing to find out his outlook and way of being somehow explain those rhythms. Thx @kasimiira.bsky.social and obvs @briandavidstevens.bsky.social for lush pics

WOAAAAH @briandavidstevens.bsky.social just walked into Morrisons and they were playing this. I always knew they were the best supermarket. IT'S A SIGN!

Er... yes, well: happy 18th birthday to Ken Russell’s penultimate film, the heart-warming, Christmassy... oh fuck me, is it really called that?

Untitled from Camouflage, 1987 https://botfrens.com/collections/19/contents/1161897

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Blown away by this. Such an insightful & generous review. You never really know if something has worked, if your true intention has been recognised; if the risk of trying to do something a bit different has paid off. But when someone you admire sees other stuff too, well; totally made up. #booksky

“Twilight Override,” the latest solo project by Jeff Tweedy, who leads the long-running band Wilco, is a triple album that earns every minute. “I just thought that it flies in the face of a culture that’s gotten faster, more surface level,” he said. nyti.ms/4ngMQgu

We have 3 copies of @naturalistdara.bsky.social's latest book 'A Wild Child's Guide to Nature at Night' to give away on this afternoon's newsletter courtesy of Macmillan Children's Books. Make sure you're signed up to the mailing list for entry details!

Lucie van Dam van Isselt's still-lifes are a great favourite of mine. She studied at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague from 1891 and from around this date began painting observational pictures with no frippery. This work is from about 1930.

The Likely Lads was originally conceived as a North-East remake of Jules Et Jim.

On 20 January 1945, nearly 1000 female Jewish prisoners were evacuated from the Schlesiersee (Sława) camp and forced on a death march in western Poland. En route, the prisoners passed through other camps, where approximately 300 more women were forced to join the march. Czech Republic, 2018

The sleeve of Teenage Fanclub's Grand Prix has these fab pics of the band in front of signs with their names. I went searching for their locations... (THREAD)

ohooooo @discopogo.bsky.social have lowered the paywall temporarily so you can read my ***AWARD-WINNING*** article about Sade's relationship to the dancefloor and deep cultural flows.... go go go

Joe won an actual award for this so now you have to read it, I don't make the rules.

This is absolutely magnificent. If you're struggling, reach out, you're not alone.

Interesting that, I've lived on various parts of the South Coast for at least half my adult life and while I like it very much I've never felt that - where I *do* get it staring out at the flinty North Sea from a Norfolk beach. It's another reason to love @briandavidstevens.bsky.social's pics

From today 'Trackways Ancient & Modern' is now available to stream and download in full over on our bandcamp page thememoryband.bandcamp.com/album/trackw...

And that, folks, is why I don't own any Dyson products.

Oh, Viz.

How are you? It's Alan (Partridge)

The design process is complete for 'The Edge of Ruin'. Paper stock and other materials approved. Wetproofs approved. Text pages and cover pdf approved. Press pass (printing) next Wednesday. Very exciting.

New work: Saul Adamczewski photographed in Brixton South London. His band Insecure Men release their new album on Nov 7th. New single Alien is available now on all streaming services from @fatpossumrecords.bsky.social

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Absolute BANGER interview w/ @nwandoebizie.bsky.social _ fully ICONIC pics from @briandavidstevens.bsky.social on this - I cannot BEGIN to tell you how much you need to read it. Trust me, if it's even 1/10th as fun as it was to do it'll make your day and leave you energised for battles ahead.

New on BassMidsTops the incredible Nwando Ebizie @nwandoebizie.bsky.social Thanks so much Nwando for your time, patience, and kindness! @joemuggs.bsky.social Please consider subscribing or sharing, we could really do with your help! bassmidstopsandtherest.substack.com/p/no-38-nwan...

IT'S HERE FOLKS! After a few technical issues (I've never made a book before) I finally picked up all my Valleys books today, with a six hour round trip on the M5! Thank you all for your patience; from next week I'll work out the best way to send them out in batches

I'm guessing this is a trick question.