We have no cats today but say hello to the library car park snail. 🐌 We think he was on his way to borrow a book but he's not arrived yet.

This is grim & dangerous over reach. This is a government that have lost the moral argument & are still selling arms to Israel. Now further cracking down on dissent. Absolutely the opposite of what they should be doing - so of course this is what the Labour Government choose.

Yesterday was a warm, bright day, so I took advantage of the light for a little bit of watercolour around town

I too have some mild criticisms of JK Rowling I’d like to share.

A large orange cat is currently staying with us

usually if you ask experts why an empire fell they’ll say it’s nuanced and multifaceted, so i think it’s kind of cool that with America future historians will get to just say like “oh they took the idiot train to moronsville”

He’s so babygirl 💞

You can use an egg slicer for mushrooms and strawberries and other similar sized foods? Why was I not told of this???

They raised his chonk meter from none to some 🤲🐈‍⬛ #StarTrekAOS #Spock

I’ve been using an old Polaroid camera for the past few weeks. Not always successful but interesting

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... weird how this piece didn’t get on the front page of the guardian, who must think that we have tofu for brains and don’t notice them platforming bigoted opinions

'St Paul's', Covent Garden (1906) by James Ogilvy (Private collection)

My new hobby is, apparently, picking a fight with this collection of buildings on the Hauptplatz

I forgot to post for ages, but I’ve been busy taking photos, painting watercolours, and drawing nude people. I’m not going to use the alt text, I’ll just let you work out which is which

Cat Tour, Helena 113.

jargon is for losers with no friends

I found a fantastic new pot in the charity shop

Most recent drawings from sessions with @drawonline.bsky.social and a quick view of my desk

If you take dynamic ads for a podcast, there's now a standardised "IAB code" block form you fill in, to say you don't want certain sorts of ads. It's INSANELY long. So many categories. Individual *pets*. You can't choose to say no to ads for: Crypto Gen AI NFTs Tech grifts etc Tech bros. Oh well.

I don’t know why I am continually signing in with Apple Music. Every time there’s one of those embeds to play Apple Music I have to sign in again.

I agreed to help cook for one of our visiting lecturers, so I did a huge bowl of dhal. I sat at the back of the lecture and drew everyone who came. The lecture was by samiahenni.com who was a great speaker, taking about nuclear testing and its effects (spoilers: effects not good)

I agreed to help cook for one of our visiting lecturers, so I did a huge bowl of dhal. I sat at the back of the lecture and drew everyone who came. The lecture was by samiahenni.com who was a great speaker, taking about nuclear testing and its effects (spoilers: effects not good)

You know who should've won an Oscar last night? The person who designed the little 'Gravity on / off' buttons in Alien Romulus.

I took advantage of the nice weather today to do some watercolours in the city. I also did a version of the same view in my watercolour notebook…

Drawing at the super-sweet cafe around the corner from my house - some friends and I have a regular meeting on Tuesdays

And so little push back on what ‘net zero’ immigration would mean for the country This from the OBR report on fiscal risks and sustainability from the last budget

Short bike ride along the river as I’m in pretty sucky shape right now.

You're very welcome to this 'Two studies of a cat and a sow' Cornelis Saftleven 1623-1681 (British Museum)

You know, last year when I wrote a book about the moon turning into cheese, I didn't know that when it came out the most fantastical thing about it would be a functional US government

To keep fragile or small items protected, some of our material is stored in boxes like these. This tiny ‘Book of Nouns’ from 1800 may seem normal size on the shelf, but in reality it’s only 6cm tall! [C.C. 423 BOO]

Other work of the Ladybird artists. ‘Missel Thrush’, 1937 Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

I’m preparing for a summer of watercolour painting, which means some practice runs in a notebook. I often feel pretty shitty about these when I do them, and then better when I come back to them a week later

Hey guys meta announced a new policy where they send a killer to get you so be sure to go to settings>my account > killer> disable killer to turn that off

I had the worst sleep last night, and as a result feel like a pack of raisins in a human suit

More of the approach that's never worked once in political history: screaming "we're racist!" at the far right in the vain hope that people *who despise you* will switch from more racist parties, without your horrified base switching to less racist ones. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Re-using the good paper at today’s afternoon session with @sarareeve.bsky.social and @drawonline.bsky.social

Pretty exciting news, as I got one of the last bags of apple strudel crunchy cereal. It’s supposed to be a Christmas thing, so it was reduced, but I think freeze dried desiccated apple chunks are for the whole year

Portrait drawing session with @petehindle.bsky.social @drawonline.bsky.social #portraitdrawing #30minportrait #charcoaldrawing #charcoal art #portraitsketch #charcoalsketch #drawing #drawingfromlife

This whole Labour governments thing is “we are not like Corbyn”, which is a position they had to take so that business and the markets wouldn’t hammer them when they got in power. When they finally got in power business and the markets did hammer them. Aye carumba.

This is just comical; the head of the richest university is saying that they can’t afford to back phd students. Maybe you could, idk, give them free housing in the many residential buildings you own. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Today I built the infamous “Butthole Tiger” Lego set! 🐅💖 So hilarious, & this was seriously such a fun build! I appreciate when there’s hidden gems or just a really clever configuration in the inner-workings of a Lego set. Also the Tiger ended up being way bigger than I expected!!

I listen to jazz, mostly prior to 1970 jazz, and I use Apple Music. I have never felt so misunderstood by a service. If I listen to half a track in any other genre I get literally *weeks* of recommendations of tepid dishwater music.

Some watercolours of this afternoon’s life model with @drawonline.bsky.social - new pad which has a nice grain, and a little splash of watercolour on top

this is awful reporting, laundering Trump's policies in Gaza in the same way they have been laundering his policies at home. but also 'devastated seaside enclave' is a genuinely offensive second mention. 'devastated seaside enclave'. can you hear yourselves. can you hear the words you are saying.

Happy Hourly comics day! This year I drew my hourlies based on a day last week, because I had fin things going on - it turned out to be both more eventful and way luckier i picked that day cos I doubt I'd have gotten them done otherwise! #hourlyComicsDay

An evening repost for this cake recipe