wow -- with Trump standing behind him, a man (not sure who he is) offers this prayer: "We pray that he would be mindful of the poor and that he would be invested in the alleviation of suffering happening in the families preparing to bury their loved ones in Minneapolis."

I am cleaning. Mum was in hospital for almost two months and my house became...interesting. its a terraced house so I can't burn it down, but boy am I filling bin bags today.

Cloudburst.

Tomorrow, I'll be painting my Mums coffin. She wanted cardboard, because she wanted to be sure she could lift the lid if there had been a mistake, because she was a wonderful loon. I want it to be the best work of my life but I know with the time I have, it won't be. This has been a hard week.

The first and greatest love of my life has gone. She was kind, thoughtful, lovely. Modern and timeless. A dancer. A child of the 60s. Protecter and carer. I'm so grateful for all of the kindness and love she poured into me. Go well Mum. You are the best human being I have ever known.

Extraordinary beauty this morning in Braemar. The Morrone birkwood is high enough to retain the freezing fog longer into the day. And then, even after the fog clears and the hillsides warm up, the Braemar frost hollow keeps the woodland cold.

Nothing could better sum up where we are as a culture

Unbelievably, #DuvetKnowItsChristmas generates such good will on social media that over the years we've raised somewhere approaching a quarter of a million quid for homeless charities. If you can spare a bob or two, sling some to Centrepoint, and here's the link: www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know...

I’m entering The Teenager as potential winner of #Duvetknowitschristmas He’s had to move from his bedroom to the unconverted attic Cardboard floor & headboard is a nice touch which I’m sure he appreciates He think it looks like he’s living in a meth den #DuvetKnowItsChristmas

Sigh. Twitter.

Start of an on-going thread of some of my favorite creators! Let's call it #ArtILove I'll tag folks if I know their Bluesky handle, so you can go enjoy/support them too. :)

Haven't posted this photo for a while - it's just over 5 years old, taken on the penultimate day of an incredible 50-day-long trip around #Iceland in 2020. Heavily processed, but sometimes you just have to! #IcelandicHorse #Canon5DIV

Epstein to Larry Nassar in 2019: "Our president [Trump] also shares our love of young nubile girls"

…"Gen AI" is a bullshit engine, in the strict philosophical sense of the term. All it *ever* does is statistically correlate what you ask it for and how you asked it with the words, phrases, connotations it's been trained on, using the weights and instructions in its programming. …

My work colleague asked me to text her when the Christmas meat hampers arrived at work. Turns out I took her number down wrong and I have sent a really ominous text to a stranger

There's still time to order from us for Christmas delivery to Sheffield addresses (postcodes S1-S17), and we're happy to gift-wrap books, if you like, at no extra cost. Orders received by 23 December will be delivered - by hand, on foot - on or before 24 December. longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

An image of the Anglican Cathedral in Liverpool. I lived beside it for so many years when I directed plays on the Unity Theatre stage and taught community film workshops. Looking across the Mersey when I captured this photograph years later made me proud and emotional. A wonderful city.

Barking from the kitchen. Peg, what? I'm really busy. Bark, bark, bark. Peg! BARK BARK BARK BARK. So I looked. Peg was yelling at her Christmas Jumper, demanding it be put on, because I assume, Santa is coming and this is her only chance to get off the naughty list.

The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story. Holy. Shit. www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...

Day 16! #ArtAdventCalendar Did anyone notice that I missed yesterday? Silly me. "North Land" Acrylic On Canvas Drawn to places where stillness and movement meet—water, trees, and shifting light. #torilart #VisualArt #FineArt #Painting #LandscapeArt #NatureArt #ArtSky #ArtistOnBluesky #acrylic

Seldom do I feel more like a brass plated oddball than when im in a doctor's office. Something just happens. Today, I wandered with my skirt on inside out, and when she kindly told me, I literally just took it off and fixed it, sat down and said "well that wasnt a very normal entrance, was it?"

HARD BOILED DETECTIVE: another cruel sunrise over the city of the damned. another corpse. another widow. another cup of black coffee to drag my sorry ass back to life- *sputtering* ME: do you like it? it's an ethiopian washed process single origin DETECTIVE: ME: are you getting apricot notes

Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 16 ‘First Snow’ Artist: Rowland Hilder

Huh. Yeah.

Its weird what becomes important. I love this tree at the hospital at the moment. It has changing rainbow lights and I'm grateful for whoever took the time to put it up. Also: massive gin! 🥳

Pantomime Horse derby today.

In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites. He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him. www.wsj.com/world/china/...

We are citizens of a country in which someone might be expected to survive two school shootings thousands of miles apart before they have finished their education

Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people

Peggy came home from the shelter with a little bag. In it, were the belongings she was surrendered with: a little nylon bone and this blanket.

Blackpool rock.

New #StrongMessageHere is up. This week, Civilisational Collapse with Stewart Lee. We talk Trump, Truss, Farage and the olden times.

Rough night in Levenshulme.

Lee has taken to listening to rain sounds to help him sleep. Only it's all-out storms: thunder, lightning, monsoon rains bouncing off metal. Another crack of thunder fills the room as he snores. Thor couldn't sleep through this nonsense.

Mum: "anyway, people always think babies are cute, and when you were born people would say, oooh, isnt she beautiful. And I thought, no. No she isnt. She looks like a weird, wrinkly old man. Like an ugly gnome".

A walk with Peg under blue sky today. Proper winter and a busy towpath: the dry and the light brings everybody out to the pathways. Then home to fill in the paperwork to suspended my PhD. What a relief that is, for now.

Mum was rushed to hospital a week ago with massive internal bleeding. A lot of blood transfusions and plasma, and dealing with delerium again atm, so I'm there to feed her daily. Tomorrow i'll suspended my PhD while we figure out next steps. A very rough week. Look at the ward art though!

Annie Rie, contemporary stained glass artist inspired by the UK countryside #WomensArt

Hello, Bluesky. Its been quite a long time, because life has been a bit too fucking interesting, honestly. That hasn't changed: this is perhaps the worst week of my life and here I am back here at 5am. I needed something to do. I haven't shared a photo in a while, so here's one of Kentmere.

You can see some of @janesamuels.bsky.social beautiful work (cover art of The Low Drift album A Gift of Unknown Things) here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzFV...

Did take pictures of this beetle, though. Not very good pictures, but still. @janesamuels.bsky.social any help with identification?

a woman just trying to get home gets shot

"So anyway, I said, these biscuits are stale mate". I was going to eat them anyway, y'know, but he needed to know.

The military isn’t being employed to carry out an immigration policy. The immigration policy, and especially the way the administration is choosing to carry it out, is an excuse to call out the military.

Just when I thought I couldn't dislike Meta more:

Greetings! A large immigration operation and subsequent protest in Paramount, CA has led to a large amount of gas and “less lethal” munitions. Situation ongoing. Will update as I can.

Autism isn't a super power. It's spending your whole life feeling like the gap in a row of teeth. Of never really knowing where you stand socially, even with people you've known for ever, and still turning up. Im really tired.

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