Corporations invaded the net, took it over and turned it into an accelerationist nightmare. But they are ignoring the real world in the process. They believe they are leaving it behind for something abstract and better. Let them take the net as long as we can take back the real world.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

If you make anything at all, no matter what it is, you will not be prepared for the torrent of unsolicited and unqualified advice coming your way.

"People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think." Aldous Leonard Huxley

Baseball fans after 15 innings: "this match is going on for ever!". Cricket fans:

Bowieland, the project I worked on with Peter Carpenter, and within which my photography (and a version of me) appears, is available to pre-order in paperback from Waterstones. www.waterstones.com/book/bowiela... www.christopherking.org/bowieland #davidbowie #bowie #booksky

Make the logo bigger.

Something about autumn just makes me want to wear big wooly jumpers and corderoy jackets while listening to Ronnie Lane and drinking real ale. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ0A...

This. So much fucking THIS

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day? Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

"Stupidly has a knack of getting its way.." - 'The Plague', Albert Camus

I grew up in the New Forest, we saw him all the time.

I signed petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Peter Carpenter talks to Ryan Murdock about Bowieland on the Personal Landscapes podcast. Discussing how the book came about and some of the many places we walked in search of Bowie. #booksky #bowie www.personallandscapespodcast.com/p/peter-carp...

I think its definitely time for France to ask for the Statue of Liberty back. Actually, at this rate she may just walk home.

Props to the three young lads having a beer outside a pub on Tottenham Court Road who enthusiastically beckoned over a bloke draped in a St George flag only to tell him “Fuck off out of our town you fat fascist fuck.” Swelled with London pride.

I see indicators seem to be an optional extra on most cars now.

We’re quite deep within the Singularity right now, though it’s turned out be the Singularity of Stupid (SoS), which effectively prevents the original concept of the Singularity from happening.

Sunday night.

David Bowie's wisdom always hits the mark. 🎯

"we have developed AI technology that can help you develop endless creative possibilities and bring them into reality!" .. nah, its ok, I already have something for that. #aislop #fuckai

Tulips, South Sea, Dot Com... AI

The other night I had a dream about kicking around an off season British holiday camp with David Lynch. The next morning I walked down a local side street to avoid the crowds and saw this on a fire exit. A pleasing synchronicity. #hastings #stleonardsonsea

I bought the proper baking trays to make madeleines. I now mostly only eat madeleines. Send help.

"Sleep is a standing afront to capitalism" - Jonathan Crary

I personally think the only way to cope with the massively accelerating wrongness of the world is a sound understanding of fairie lore (specifically circa 1400-1700). This will help: shwep.net/oddcast/samu...

Rewatched 'Prometheus' (2012) and was struck that the android David's use of Peter O'Toole's interpetation of T.E Lawrence as the basis of its 'personality' is very much like todays LLM's stealing their identity from already existing creative works. Wearing it like a mask.

Cherrywood bird on the loom in the old studio. www.christopherking.org/birdsstore

St Leonards on Sea. July 2025

"Bad history is the basis for the vision of the future being written by tech CEOs to sell their products." Love this.

I stumbled across this photograph today, it seems to drift on the edge of the imaginal .. can this be real? Or has myth punctured the surface of the actual. #narwhal

They really value design.

Care & repair items for @flockworkshop.uk

A school of flint daggers returning to their spawning grounds in Hårbølle, Møn, Denmark, c.2000BC. National Museum Copenhagen.

I am finding reality less and less convincing.

One of lifes great pleasures: a day off, a new book and good coffee. #booksky

I should just stop reading articles that mention the construction of cricket bats. One line on bats and its totally wrong .. again. I am at Lords batmaking today if any sports writers would like to try and get it right www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...

Goodnight

Remember to look up. 🖼️ Toni Demuro

"Darling, l've told you several times before, I have no dream job. I do not dream of labor.” -James Baldwin

The source material for so many ideas, so many imitators. Nostalgic for its vision of the future that we practically inhabit.

Today's second hand book shop find. I say 'find', but it often feels like the book you really want to read right now makes its way to you. Even though, before now, you didn't know it existed. #booksky

It amazes me that all this is debatable.

Well this is a treat. Alan Moore on the excellent Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast. If you don't already know the SHWEP, imagine 'In Our Time' for esoteric history and you will be somewhere close. Excellent stuff shwep.net/oddcast/alan... #alanmoore #magic

Boats outside my window. Last nights view from Marine Court. #marinecourt #stleonardsonsea #seaview

Found a wonderful bright eyed toad in the middle of the car park in hot sun. Didnt look like it really wanted to be there. Picked it up and put it under a hedge in the damp grass. A nice meeting, hope they felt the same way.. and I didn't interrupt some important toad quest.