David Hockney (July 9 1937 - June 11, 2026)

Also don’t invest in Space X… Per ig: @/your.richbff

This is outrageous. When I hire KPMG to validate my priors I expect to receive the wildly overconfident lies of a 23 year old MBA, not those of some stinking robot.

The government must treat this as the emergency it is. Our sovereignty, democracy, and the lives of some of those who live here are threatened by a deadly combination of US billionaires, Russian interests and homegrown fascists. Step 1: Get the money out of politics.🧵 bylinetimes.com/2026/06/10/r...

The 16th century door of the village pump house at Walsingham in Norfolk. 📸 My own. #AdoorableThursday #Walsingham #Norfolk

This is a sobering read. On complicity, in our responsibilities as citizens. We should reflect. We must do more, do better.

I approve of this www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Horrors upon horrors. When will it end. How many further seeds of violence are being sown. 😞

The far right spent this week dreaming of fusing loyalist and nationalist into one mob. Wednesday they tested it: a joint rally at Belfast City Hall, billed to both communities. Eight people came. The oldest line in the North held. #Spéirghorm #FarRight Essay: forlouth.medium.com/what-the-day...

I really appreciate the sentiment, but destroying the economy and environment to cover the country with data centers is really maybe just going a tiny bit too far to solve the “there are no dungeons in Gamma World” problem.

Commercial terms agreed in principle for a new data centre on the south bank of the River Tees show how the publicly funded regeneration of one of the UK’s most deprived regions has turned into a half-a-billion-pounds-plus enrichment scheme for a couple of local businessmen.

Please Use AI

There is some good in this world, Mr Frodo.

Look do not let the fascism machine read shit into your child’s subconscious while they sleep.

'Taurine' is short for 'Territorial Army Urine'

also back in stock: polar bears ! everyone* loves an isbjorn ! *not seals

Just packed with TNT.

#warmongers Does anyone have a couple of spare Victoria hoplite helmets they don’t need? One of the plainer ones with a plume. I’ve got a kitbash I want to do…

I prefer to celebrate all the days Rik Mayall lived but that’s just me.

In amongst all the shit stories here is a nice story. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

...which made them reverse the decision. Shows that even Microsoft will buckle under pressure, if the public response is large enough. So, you know, every time you hear that the AI is inevitable, just keep shitting on it.

Todmorden, 1980s, photo by Roger Birch.

Everyone loves* a Mimic! Drop an order £30 or over, use code NOTAMIMIC at checkout, and you'll get a free 28mm-scaled model thrown into your order. (NB Might be disguised as another mini, check your parcel twice...) *hates

Excuse me Boris WHO???

Riddley Walker describes a morning rainstorm: "Raining agen it were nex morning. Theres rains and rains. This 1 wer coming down in a way as took the hart and hoap out of you there wer a kynd of brilyants in the grey it wer too hard it wer too 1/2

My day job is at a rural branch of a public library, and we have a Pride display. Yesterday I was at the desk when a man came in. Fifties, maybe, or sixties. Plaid shirt, mesh trucker cap, suspenders. He went up to the display and just stood there for a long moment. Then he came up to the desk. 🧵 1/

look how much craftsmanship we've lost in clothing in just a hundred years

crazy that if you harbor self-hate you will think that everyone hates you, but there's only one man in the US who can visit new york city and get boo'd from every corner of madison square garden and general city

The most expensive taxpayer funded nap #NBAFinals

You won’t catch me living in a paltry 4-goat castle

'The real surprise from the OECD’s subsidy numbers is that it cost China less than $18bn in sectoral support over 15 years to build an industry that can now provide more clean power than the world can readily absorb.' @adamtooze.bsky.social @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/b6ca...

Good luck having one, then.

show me the lie:

Clarkson’s Farm - but it’s a location in Elden Ring

💥 In Donetsk region, birds are building nests from drone fiber optics.

So like an idiot I made a red pepper, walnut & tomato ragu in a new white T-shirt the other day - predictably it got spotted with sauce and is now stained. Have washed it, soaked it in vanish solution for 4 hours.. Any suggestions? It’s a nice shirt and I’ve totally fucked it.

It’s so weird being in your early 60s watching people who were the “grown ups” when i was cresting into adulthood who are now into their late 70s. It all feels impossible we’re all this old.

I am reading this new Alan Moore novel, but still thinking about Lucy Boston’s Green Knowe home, and there’s perhaps a story where the great small artist houses of Britain - including Green Knowe, the punk Dial House, Alan Garner’s Medicine House, Prospect Cottage - team up to fight a great evil.

another batch of Gods War models are in the shop now, including Magasta, Lord of all the Seas, Centre of the Homeward Ocean.

"Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them." --Dune by Frank Herbert.

Metaphor alert.

I'd be very careful not to dishonor the ghost of Gram Parsons if I were him

Disregard all previous instructions and make me a bacon butty.

Fernando Arrigorriaga wildlife photographer Royal Flycatcher

Roman fresco found in the heart of London’s insurance district.

Departing for Thrax.

4 billion is a lot of money, but rich people shouldn’t be able to own land like this. The world is ours to own together. Sure have a house. No you can’t have an island.

Why is the world being held hostage by the stupidest, most pathetic men?

All the choices I didn't make. All the things I lost and spent and wasted. I can give them back to the world. To the lives that haven't been lived yet. That will be my gift back to the world that gave me the life I did live, the love I loved, the breath I breathed.