Happy 75th, Peanuts. It's amazing to look at that first strip and realize the heart of the work is already there.

Sister's husband has been inducted as a Facebook racist and it's brutally obvious that no matter how much this guy plays at being Robocop, that crowd will keep foaming on about him being a traitor. Morally and practically, there's only one choice: fight the bullshit. And yet here are!

Also known as the Refused, apparently. Either way, love a man in a ruffled shirt. "When you're young you're like, "Fuck the system!" Then you get older and you think, "Yeah, fuck the system!""

No *you're* stuck saying "Quicksand, American band, quick band" over and over. (They were great, Sergio Vega can loom over me playing the tightest shit known to man any time.)

Latest pages from LOS, my work-in-progress graphic novel about William Blake, now up at loshighway.substack.com/p/los-part-3 Thanks to everyone who's subscribed to support this project so far!

I’ve had those earworm for like 3 days now Gtradio youtu.be/PdYXJh7HWoY?...

ATTACK OF THE POD PEOPLE: @danwhite.bsky.social and @matcolegate.bsky.social are back with another episode of Savage Beast. This time out the subject is The Raid 2 by Gareth Evans and co.

🚨BREAKING 40 years ago Margaret Thatcher abolished rent controls in Scotland. The Scottish Parliament just passed a Bill introduced by the Scottish Greens, which will allow them once more! This will keep rents affordable and offer safety and stability to renters. 🙌

Also got a spare ticket for Refused at SWG3 tomorrow night now. We're dropping like flies, haha! Both tickets free to a good home.

Even back in the 70s and 80s when I could be hassled by the police for walking while trans, no one ever tried to stop me pissing in the Ladies or tried to make me change into my swimsuit among men. There is no dignity or respect involved in taking away rights I have exercised freely for forty years

New episode out now! It’s here! The second part of the two-parter on the first Led Zeppelin album, covering the formation of the group and the inspirations behind the tracks on their first album. Available to listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and via Andrew’s website: 500songs.com/podcast/song...

Got an extra ticket for billy woods and DJ Haram at St Luke's on Saturday if anyone's interested.

IMINT #70640 from SBIRS GEO-5 (CLASSIFIED) 1. Carnage Simulation 2. Magic Black Mold Camp 3. Illicit Consciousness Launcher

Timeline post 42: 2000 – The Book of Prefaces Published. Alasdair Gray’s ambitious, gorgeously designed literary history—told through prefaces from the 7th–20th century—was 16 years in the making and met with instant acclaim.

You: David, please stop calling him "Daddy Herzog", it is both basic and unseemly. Werner Herzog, gaving into the yellow tide of AI #content:

29/9/25 - nocturn

for the guardian, i spoke to artist tanoa sasraku about a new body of work incorporating her collection of corporate paperweights from oil companies, which she uses to map fragile global conflicts + alliances. her ICA show morale patch opens next week! www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

The team @smallpress.scot have made a spreadsheet of info about awards, festivals, printers, publishers etc. that you can access here: smallpress.scot#resources We have such an incredible, inspiring, and growing community of comic & zine makers here in Scotland and this is an invaluable resource

thinking again about when my best friend (who is german) had to borrow our friend's android phone to apply for his settled status after brexit bc the app you needed to do it on wasn't available for iphone.....they make it as hard as possible, and this was someone who has a phone/access/literacy

On Laurie Anderson. More than "O Superman" it's "From the Air,” words from a cockpit that an LLM might have generated, a harbinger of a disaster for which has prepared and from which there is no escape. humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2025/09/28/w...

As Is traditional, It's time for the day after my birthday is not my birthday sale -in which all comics in my shop are 30% off with the code IFORGOT till midnight. It only happens once a year, so get yourselves involved! stripforme.bigcartel.com

Alien, 1979. (Directed by Ridley Scott)

"Candle grease all over the carpet."

Saw One Battle After Another last night. Appreciated the way Benicio del Toro makes a whole way of being out of a pithy sign-off from another Pynchon novel - "keep cool but care."

"Thanks to Suede, now every time I hear “see something that doesn’t look right?” I’ll think about someone caught fucking in a train carriage." @msclairebiddles.bsky.social 😘👌 as always.

Issue #25 of our newsletter is out now, ft. a new @grthink.bsky.social strip, Aslan Moore, Alien Earth, The Vile Dead, Whizzer and Chips, bloody tesseracts, and Mark (amypoodle)'s headstone. "In some very real way, everything we write is for-or to-him."

Icing up the knee before breakfast, that's how you know you're using your long weekend the way satan intended by clearing TASKS from the to-do list!

There is no way that you can police gender that isn't fundamentally a way to police gender non conformity. And fucking/loving someone of the same gender is GNC behaviour. It's gender all the way down.

Really sorry to hear about the sudden passing of Kaleb Horton, a fantastic writer. Only seems fitting to share what he wrote for David Lynch kalebhorton.ghost.io/death-is-jus...

Any time I get handed or hand out a surplus return for the train I feel like a wizard.

In my 40+ years as a Brit, there is no topic more covered than immigration. Since before I was born, it’s been a national fixation. You cannot move for people yammering on about immigrants. And in the past five years, it’s turned even more racist and cruel. Stop the bullshit indeed

Waiter, there's something unusual in my soup

Is there a drag king called Aphex Twink

We are obliged as thinking people to think, talk, work, act, and live as though none of tech's fascist dreams will come true because they won't, and that their thoughtkiller machines will fail because they will. I sincerely believe artists' lives are at stake and are being lost when we don't.

"They woke me up inside like listen to Evanescence" got a laugh from me, an official rap dad.

People in Glasgow Southside, you know what to do next year.

Stubbed my toe on my way to the kitchen this morning then Tony Blair slithered up through the floorboards to tell me it wouldn't have happened if we had ID cards. Weird.

Pentangle live in a 1972 Belgian TV special. Length: 29:31. #RIPDannyThompson m.youtube.com/watch?v=C3DF...

Richard Thompson performing his song "Mingus Eyes" on Austin City Limits in 2001. Danny Thompson on double bass. #RIPDannyThompson m.youtube.com/watch?v=CBeF...

Photo of Danny Thompson by the late photographer Bruce Griffin. #RIPDannyThompson

RIP Danny Thompson, who made a lot of great music and who I first encountered as part of this great band with Richard Thompson at the Royal Concert Hall in 1999. They made a racket but you never struggled to hear what any of the players were doing in the moment.

www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s... danny wasn’t just wildly talented with one of the most recognisable double bass tones ever produced; he had a wonderfully disarming sense of humor, a dominant voice that loved sharing a good story of which he had countless. no airs, all round good fella. missed.

He's definitely plotting to get rid of Starmer and become PM, and has realised transphobia might get in his way. I mean, his other major areas of liability are his relationship with private health care and his personality and he clearly can't change either of those....

Last repost reminds of time wasted talking as though people really did object to *politics* in books, movies, music, etc when what they truly resent is black people, women, and of course those pesky gays.

The debate around what is or isn’t “cancel culture” really just obscures a simple truth that it’s BAD to be massively racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic and it’s GOOD to speak out against injustice. Some things are good and some things are bad and it’s okay to say which you think are which.

Issue #24 of our newsletter is out now, ft. Revolver, 2000AD, Aleister Crowley for kids, Deep Wheel Orcadia, The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic, haunted houses, Peter Redgrove and more!

Optimo's Soundcloud page, with a huge array of many Optimo mixes plus releases from the label and beyond.

Optimo Music, JD's label, with a wide array of singles, albums and more from many different artists as well as so many of his remarkable mixes and compilations, including his brilliant lockdown-era tapes, dedicated to further various charities.

Feel a million years old contemplating the fact that Thomas Pynchon's lifelong study of the technology of control has lead to a Fortnite collaboration. There's a good chance Pynchon is more familiar with Fortnite than I am, and I'm not sure what to do with that either.

MINDLESS CLASSIC: Here, mind that time Ad Mindless went spelunking down The Batcaves and confronted the vast otherness of the aeons? mindlessones.com/2009/08/21/h...