The world is on fire but spring returns in spite of our stupidity. #FlowerReport

What if two mystery writers, one who wrote pulp paperbacks and one who wrote literary fiction, fell in love for two years but ended up hating each other so much they killed each other off as characters? Patricia Highsmith + Marijane Meaker (aka Vin Packer) = my favorite toxic lesbians of all time 🖤

Goodnight from The Bloody Babe pub, where the ferret fashion parade has sharply divided regulars on the wisdom of ever putting animals in costume. Goodnight from Dr. Fiona Low, continuing her experiments on containing spirits in the magnetic fields of C90 cassettes. Goodnight from Hookland.

New online database for the permanent collection of the Deutsches Architekturmuseum in Frankfurt. For example: a presentation drawing for Helmut Jahn's Thompson Center. sammlungen.dam-online.de

This morning’s walk through the open lot around the 1922 AM radio antenna 10 minutes from downtown revealed 13 species of wild birds in the surrounding trees, and an osprey chilling at the very top of the tower:

A Merlin looking for its next meal from a chimney on rainy Vatersay this afternoon. #birdingscotland

Blackthorn, Prunus spinosa, flowering in the village hedgerows. #wildflowerhour

1 March 72 St David's Day and they're all going to school in Wales bearing daffodils and leeks and there will be singing in the Assembly Hall and competitions and a great many will get drunk tonight except me of course.

Some Welsh daffs for #SaintDavidsDay Evan Walters (1893–1951) Daffodils, 1943 oil on millboard Amgueddfa Cymru/National Museum, Cardiff 🎨

Kurt Schwitters on a boat on the Djupvand, Norway in 1935.

Kurt Schwitters Untitled ('Collage mit Straßenbahnbillet') 1927

Bruce Springsteen singing WAR with Edwin Starr (Wayback in 1999) #BruceSpringsteen #90s #Nostalgia #Concert #England #MusicSky #EdwinStarr #Oldschool #War #Throwback

Now live on spectacularoptical.com - The newest episode of @stephenbroomer.bsky.social's NORTHERN LIGHT video essay series on Canadian classics, hits and misfits, this time focused on Mike Kanentakeron Mitchell's YOU ARE ON INDIAN LAND (1969). spectacularoptical.com/video-essays...

Paintings by Belgian artist Evelyne Axell, 1960s, who studied under Magritte and became involved in the Pop Art scene with compositions inspired by feminist and civil rights movements.

Tickets for all Seventh Wave shows here www.skiddle.com/g/theseventh... and www.seetickets.com/promoter/the... More show announcements later this week!!!

Wuthering Heights (1985) A haunting and intense French adaptation of Emily Bronte's classic novel Directed and co-written by Jacques Rivette - BOTD in 1928

Can’s Irmin Schmidt has a new solo album on the way, titled Requiem. Schmidt plays prepared and unprepared piano alongside environmental field recordings captured in the surroundings of his home in Southern France You can listen to an extract of Requiem here: buff.ly/qDMaqYh

1970s bank robbery kit by Mattel

Today we’re launching a sister publication, Iran War Dispatches. For the foreseeable future, we’ll be launching daily reporting and updates on the war there. We'll have the human interest lens of The Counteroffensive, but aimed at this region instead. Sign up — it’s free! www.iranwar.news

Ugh local library is bringing in some AI grifter for a “generative writing” class, what a garbage email to read first thing in the morning. It’s OK though cause they’re gonna have to read an email from me complaining about the garbage in a few.

Rock climbers Lucy Smith and Pauline Rankin of the Ladies’ Scottish Climbing Club, 1908, Salisbury Crags, Scotland #WomensArt Welcome to #WomensHistoryMonth

Some time around 2010, I was hungover, waiting for lunch in a London Pub, and some sort of acoustic gig started up. ‘Oh fucking hell no’ thought my hangover, but then I heard this astonishing song drifting across the room, and it was Nick Garrie, who I’d never heard of at that point

Here’s the David Niven episode of Backlisted with Rupert Everett in all its glory: @backlisted.bsky.social www.backlisted.fm/episodes/227...

David Niven, Actor, #BornOnThisDay in 1910, in London

Cleveland Amory's 1964 review of OUTER LIMITS for TV GUIDE reveals how much contempt he had for horror and SF as television genres.

'Sweet as springtime flowers' - Taming of the Shrew (II, 1) Some springtime views of the Abbey's 900-year-old College Garden, with daffodils, narcissi and crocuses all in flower #ShakespeareSunday

🐾 ♥️ Just had to share this little guy called Siegfried by Thomas Theodor Heine, 1921. Visit Exploring Art History: substack.com/@ideasroadshow 🗃️ #arthistory #caturday #dog #dogsofbluesky #dogsofbsky #dogs

New on my blog today, an article about the time Dennis Potter tried to get into writing for Doctor Who in the 1960s, what his story would have been about, and the other times he crossed paths with the series. Hopefully this will interest a few of you. thehiddenplanet.substack.com/p/when-denni...

This was one of my absolute favourite episodes to make. What a woman. What an artist. What stories. Glorious. (Plus - the added bonus of Nancy Kerr popping in for a bit of a jam ...) #bagpuss #happybirthdaybagpuss #oldfatfurrysagpuss

Ad for costumes for ushers to wear during screenings of the perverse horror classic THE BLACK CAT (1934) #Caturday

RIP William Connolly

Thank you, Scott. Brilliant to hear that. Totally.

The #resonancefm fundraising auction ends 9PM today Sun 1 March with great stuff to bid for! —including breakfast on me in a top London greasy spoon, with a stroll round Holborn locations and a signed copy of my new novel sent to you on publication 🍳📚📻✊ www.zeffy.com/en-GB/ticket...

Hampstead Heath, 08:01

Auction closes 9pm tonight. £23,785.27 raised towards £30,000. £6,214.73 to go. Featuring items by and from: Aphex Twin, Iain Sinclair, Laetitia Sadier, Vivienne Westwood, Throbbing Gristle, Christian Louboutin, Cafe OTO, Loud Women, Open City + more. www.zeffy.com/en-GB/ticket...

When the cat jumps on the Mac keyboard while playing back a new track- he manages to put project into record - deleting what’s there,steps on command ‘S’ to save ‘his work’, jumps down, gets tangled in wire of new headphones that crash to the floor. Then cleans himself like nothing happened.🐈‍⬛😤

On this date in 1953, Josef Stalin had a massive stroke and died four days later.

Happy March 1st, our day of independance for the Republic and Canton of Neuchâtel!! On that day, back in 1848, we freed ourselves from Prussian authority without firing a single cannon, and without any bloodshed. #switzerland #europe #politics #history #independance

St David's Day Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Artist: H Woolley (1954)

Spring is here 🙏🫶 #Dartmoor #Devon #Flyinghigh #March1st

Suppression of journalists, mass arrest & torture of protestors, violent crackdown of protests, “chain murder” of intellectuals & academics, corrupting the country’s educational system, and so many other things. Plus all the humiliation we had to suffer for 37 years. No one will mourn Khamenei.

Friend from inside Iran reporting that the central headquarters of the police has been badly bombed and destroyed by Israeli bomber planes. He is fearing chaos and destruction around the country. I think this is what fucking Bibi was hoping for?

Tehran, now…

Happy St David's Day/ Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Sant hapus!

Guerrilla Audio 255 now broadcasting touch33.net/guerrillaaudio @excited100.bsky.social #guerrillaaudio

Land Surveyor at The Glad Cafe, Glasgow: 28 February 2026 Photo: Alan Laing / Set List: Stephen Young @garycrowleyonair.bsky.social @punkandnewwave.bsky.social @carolinebinnie.bsky.social @stevomusicman.bsky.social @muzicgeezer.bsky.social

Wolfgang Voigt presents GAS. Live @ EartH, London 28/02

And a bit of serenity.

BlueSky your watch for today is the nineties UK TV version of Macbeth for schools. Starring Shaun Pertwee, Greta Scacchi and Shane Ritchie (among others). It is the most nineties Shakespeare adaption ever. And i have unironically loved it since it first aired. youtu.be/xiKaGQmYo0A?...