Self-portrait, kinda, this time, by the #sea. #SelfPortrait #Selfie #MonochromeMonday #Monochrome #BlackAndWhitePhotography #Black&WhitePhotography #MonochromePhotography #Photography #FujiFilm #FujiFilmXT5 #Blackpool #CentralPier #Pier #PhotographersOfBlueSky

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Honestly, one of my favorite albums of all time. #nowspinning #vinyl #vinylcollection #gorillaz

A friendly reminder that if you go to a church where the pastor supports the regime that zip tied children in Chicago, you don’t have to go to that church anymore. Remember, at a certain point, complacency becomes complicity.

This is your sign to see One Battle After Another.

#RokerPier seen through the eye of the storm…. #RokerBeach #StormAmy #Sunderland #Photography #LandscapePhotography #BeachPhotography #Lighthouse #FujiFilm #FujiFilmXT5 #PhotographersOfBlueSky

Things are getting wild over at #Reddit with posts that criticize the Trump regime being deleted on mass and bans handed out like candy… Looks like another platform has fallen to MAGA.

#Watched #OneBattleAfterAnother & it really is an overwhelming experience: dense, frenetic, & prescient. It’s also a spectacular piece of filmmaking with great performances (Sean Penn is standout) & stunning set pieces. & it’s dark & very, very funny. Maybe the best #film of the year. #MovieSky

Just got back from watching "One Battle After Another" to find a feed full of videos of ICE raids in the US and Badenoch promising to introduce it here. Whatever horror you put on film can't beat reality.

History repeats.

It’s now been storming for 36 hours straight. But #Manchester is still Manchester. And so happy Saturday, everyone. #Photography #CityPhotography #UrbanPhotography #FujiFilm #FujiFilmXT5 #PhotographersOfBlueSky

So cool to have a book in a format that would fit on a spinner rack at the drugstore:

Friday night lights… And it’s the weekend. #KhaoLak #ApsaraBeachResort #Photography #NightPhotography #FujiFilm #FujiFilmXT5 #PhotographersOfBlueSky

Album a day 275/365 Whatever and Ever Amen by Ben Folds Five (1997) #1997Marathon #70svs90s #MusicSky

Really looking forward to this now - as one would expect from Guillermo Del Toro, everything looks suitably sumptuous.

Out from the roadside, deeper into the thicket, I find this. Which leads me to wonder about love, loss, despair - & Lisa. & so I’m channelling all this as I return to my wip & #write about a world beginning to smolder & burn… #Writing #WritingCommunity #Rochdale #Manchester #Horror #WIP

Interesting, if belated, article in the @theguardian.com today which addresses the US’s descent into fascism. Which makes Simon Jenkins’ earlier defense of Trump appear all the more suspect. Mods will delete your comment if you point that out btl though. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

There are two sides: fascists and antifa. And a collaborator is still a fascist in my book.

“I will not be clapped in a hood, Nor a cage, nor alight upon wrist, Now I have learnt to be proud Hovering over the wood In the broken mist Or tumbling cloud.” #TheHawk #WBYeats #Yeats #Poetry #Photography #CityPhotography #UrbanPhotography #FujiFilm #FujiFilmXT5 #PhotographersOfBlueSky

赤いちょうちん　番外編 #art #photo #photography #lanterns #nightphotography #alley #culture #Tainan #EastCoastKin ©️skinskin

#Blackpool in #monochrome, all beneath a charcoal sky. #MonochromeMonday #Photography #Black&WhitePhotography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #BeachPhotography #StreetPhotography #UrbanPhotography #CityPhotography #FujiFilm #FujiFilmXT5 #PhotographersOfBlueSky #HumansOfBlueSky

Occam's Razor always rules. Always.

“Through hollow lands and hilly lands…” #WBYeats #TheSongOfWanderingAengus #Poetry #Photography #LandscapePhotography #FujiFilm #FujiFilmXT5 #PhotographersOfBlueSky

Forton services, M6, painting by Jen Orpin.

Hey! I have a new book out! It's called Writing the Magic and it's a collection of essays on fantasy writing co-edited by @dancoxon.bsky.social and myself (but mainly Dan), and it's published by @deadinkbooks.bsky.social today. deadinkbooks.com/product/writ...

Well, well, well. Says right here that Elon Musk planned to spend time on Epstein island (aka Pedo-Island). Who’d have thought it. On the upside, “Breakfast with Bannon,” is a great name for a Nazi daytime TV show.

Happy Saturday. This is #Manchester. #Photography #CityPhotography #UrbanPhotography #FujiFilm #FujiFilmXT5 #PhotographersOfBlueSky

#NowListening to #KidsTable by #BrightEyes while editing my wip. #MusicSky #Writing #WritingCommunity #IndieMusic

To friends located in the UK, you may wish to consider supporting this. FWIW, my issue is twofold: ID cards are solely intended to pander to dogwhistles from the right & far right. & introduction of said cards is impractical, unnecessary & very, very silly. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

I have finally watched #FantasticFourFirstSteps, and I found it incredibly frustrating. I wrote a brief note about it over on Letterboxd. boxd.it/bbKTEz

“And on the Malin head / Blackpool looks blue and red…” #Blur #ThisIsALow #Blackpool #BlackpoolTower #Photography #BeachPhotography #LandscapePhotography #UrbanPhotography #CityPhotography #StreetPhotography #FujiFilm #FujiFilmXT5 #PhotographersOfBlueSky

“we know we made you mad so you left but — hear us out — we’d like to invite you to come back and pay more”

Blue skies & coffee… while working through line edits on what is my attempt at a ghost story… Can’t say much about it at the moment, but it is set in my home city… #BlueSkies #Longpigs #Writing #WritingCommunity #GhostStory #ShortStory #Manchester #CityPhotography #UrbanPhotography #FujiFilm

I increasingly find myself returning to this: #Cousin by #Wilco. Unpopular opinion as it may be, I do think this is up there with their very best. #MusicSky

Jimmy Kimmel's Monologue now has 14.3 MILLION VIEWS on YouTube. It would be a shame for you to share it www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1tj...

“Staring / Eye to Eye / There’s nothing there to see / There’s nothing there”. #Wilco #InfiniteSurprise #Lowry #Salford #Manchester #Photography #StreetPhotography #CityPhotography #UrbanPhotography #FujiFilm #FujiFilmXT5 #PhotographersOfBlueSky #HumansOfBlueSky

It’s been raining for three days straight - only now the sun is shining. Which leads me to thinking of this place. #MemoriesBeach #MemoriesBeachBar #KhaoLak #Thailand #Photography #BeachPhotography #LandscapePhotography #FujiFilm #FujiFilmXT5 #PhotographersOfBlueSky #HumansOfBlueSky

Encouraging to see the names supporting this. And interesting to see those who did not. For very good reason(s), I assume.

Light and shadow across the #RiverIrwell… All on #MonochromeMonday. #Manchester #Photography #MonochromePhotography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #Black&WhitePhotography #Monochrome #River #FujiFilm #FujiFilmXT5 #PhotographersOfBlueSky #HumansOfBlueSky

Aboard a longtail boat, skimming across the surface of #KhaoSok lake. #Thailand #Photography #LandscapePhotography #TravelPhotography #Lake #Boat #FujiFilm #FujiFilmXT5 #PhotographersOfBlueSky

Favourite 10 TV comedies, in no particular order. I’m Alan Partridge The Thick Of It It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia The Day Today Brass Eye 30 Rock Malcolm In The Middle A Young Doctor’s Notebook Monty Python’s Flying Circus Catastrophe

#Rewatched #Weapons last night &, yep, it holds up - even on a second viewing, & even knowing where it is going. It remains clever, surprising, & oh so tightly plotted. This, Sinners, & Black Bag, are my favourite #Movies of the year so far. & what a year. #Film #Cinema #MovieSky #FilmSky #Horror

Dear American citizens, whatever you wish more German citizens would have done in 1933, do that now.

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

Happy Saturday! It’s been raining for three days straight, & so I’m remember #Manchester on sunnier days. #Photography #StreetPhotography #CityPhotography #UrbanPhotography #FujiFilm #FujiFilmXT5 #PhotographersOfBlueSky #HumansOfBlueSky

#HeatonPark, summer turned to autumn and the weekend is here. #Manchester #Photography #LandscapePhotography #StreetPhotography #FujiFilm #FujiFilmXT5 #PhotographersOfBlueSky #HumansOfBlueSky

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

"Our country was founded upon the admirable principles of a moneyed elite spoon-feeding its beliefs to the ignorant and unwashed masses, and yet today that legacy stands in tatters....For too long, we have watched the God-given right to suppress free speech slip away."

I love Big Bill Broonzy. open.spotify.com/track/1Bqxrc...