The Churel

Hamburg is really cold today.

Thank you @steveandthesea.bsky.social for making my dream real

This was too good not to have alt text. So here you go. Credit to O.P. here as well.

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

bro i am never voting for this party again lmao

Call me Humpty Dumpty 'cause I had a great fall. November was a good month, and full of big important moments. Lots of nice walks and drives, a trip home to see lots of family and friends, being a tourist in my own city, and then a big house move into a new place I'm really excited to call home.

I'm moving to a new flat at the end of this month. That will be my 16th move since I moved out of my parent's house at 18. That's an average of 1.125 years per home.

Belated October observations, this one is for the birds. featuring Hamburg Brett, Irish folk music, bike rides and The Grasping Straws #journal #autumn #fall #fallvibes

Can we have Muntadhar al-Zaidi at Dick Chaney's funeral?

This is one of those trick photos where it looks like an optical illusion but I am in fact very very small.

A song about meeting someone new and not knowing where you might go together. #musicsky #musiciansky #indiemusic #indiefolk #songwriting

That was August. Most importantly, moving out of one place and into another, this time on my own. My life changed a lot this month, and it was hard sometimes, but I'm staying positive and ready for autumn, even if I don't want summer to end.

Last night I dreamt I was sat next to @hankgreen.bsky.social and I asked him a very important question: Which extinct animal do you believe you could have the most fair fight with? Like a fight with a perfect 50:50 chance of winning or losing.

spotify is like "we’re all trying to figure out who exacerbated the mental health crisis amongst working musicians over the last decade"

I honestly don't have any particuar opinions on Sabrina Carpenter and I also don't understand what the controversy is over this cover but this was the first thing I thought about when I saw it so I had to make it.

Lest we forget Reilly in this Mr Oizo video directed by Eric Warenheim youtu.be/sJA3gQ6jmxc?... (TW: fun violence, Flat Eric)

They mean their shareholders.

I think you'll find, Thom, that while you and the band have been historically outspoken on many topics, you've been noticeably quiet on one of the biggest humanitarian crises of the last few decades. It's no surprise fans have been concerned and seeking clarification.

During a debate titled "One Christian vs. Twenty Atheists," Jordan Peterson loses by forgetting what side he’s on

Petrichor is both my favourite word AND my favourite smell. #songwriting #singersongwriter #musicsky #musiciansky #indiemusic #petrichor

Beyond this being blatantly horrific, it just makes no sense. Did these women think that she was a trans man? Wouldn't they then describe her as a "biological woman"? I'm not saying their argument unravels the moment you try and analyse it but... actually that's exactly what I'm saying.

No one has ever LinkedIn this hard. I am CRINE.

Spent too much time on this

A song called 'Move to the Sea' all about wanting to run away with someone and move to the sea. #musicsky #musiciansky #indiemusic

Yeah he's got this in hand

A little bit from a song called Move to the Sea #musicsky #musiciansky #indiemusic #folkmusic

A lil bit more of this song of mine called Up Anchor

Having been a weirdo at a school for boys gives me some insight into these "mentor" freaks. They want to single out and normalise kids who seem apart. "Lost boys" stuff is always going to persecute people who don't seem normatively masculine and will miss the ones who fit in and absorb toxic norms

Just a reminder that Dracula Daily starts today. draculadaily.substack.com

Any man can be a father but it takes a real man to be a Daddy. www.worldofreel.com/blog/2025/4/...

OK I need this book. Get away Adrian Chiles and your cold pigeon loathing heart.

😜😉👍

Once you understand that trans women exist within the position of being both everything that a woman isn't allowed to be and everything that a man is forbidden from aspiring to, you understand how transmisogynistic violence works as a universal policing mechanism.

I think I have a problem.

I really, really need to get back into Blender...

happy ten year anniversary to this post

Loving this new puzzle game 368chickens.com

if you’re an artist who ever thought “what’s the point? The world is Hell and I should do something that matters instead” even in an ICE detention center people will treat art as sacred, seek it out, and find joy and comfort in it. You aren’t making art, you’re making hope.

Wall Street bets discord is so goddamn funny right now

Who else could I cover with this voice? #qotsa #marklanegan

(to the tune of "Your Body is a Wonderland" by John Mayer) My Apartment is a building site...

The Matrix released 26 years ago today 🤯 In its honour, here it is, but all the Agents are Mr Blobby.

Currently visiting Freiburg for work. It's nice. 6 hours each way on the train to get here isn't so nice though.

Wiley Coyote ass cat.