Denial and Misinformation: How Politics Weakens India's Air Pollution Response drilled.media/news/air-pollu…

Every fucking day the nightmarish president of the nightmarish usa spews meaningless statements about his pointless, destructive war on iran, while the nightmarish country of israel continues killing muslims inside and outside its borders with impunity.

To our dismay, the artist and author Marjane Satrapi has passed away. As she wrote, ordinary Americans and Iranians have more in common with each other than we do with either of our governments, which have far too much in common with each other. We honor her memory and oppose the war.

Humble bundles are fantastic deals for you and for the writers! One of my biggest paychecks was from my inclusion in a weird fiction bundle curated by Nick Mamatas. Buy this!

Are you in love? Are you in pain? Are they together and the same? music.youtube.com/watch?v=9T8R...

Not to bore you all with personal information, but my psychiatric diagnosis is bipolar 2, and the wonderful Robert Sapolsky here explains bipolar 1 and 2 lucidly and should give you some idea of what I'm like (and indeed what Carrie Fisher was like). He also talks about a chimpanzee civil war.

I found this neat tool that lets you generate text and images just from your ideas. It's really good!

Curtis Mayfield - Keep On Keeping On (live '72) Curtis Mayfield was born today in 1942. RIP! One of the great American songwriters, gone way too soon. We could use his musical voice right now. #CurtisMayfield #MusicBirthday #MusicSky youtu.be/QBOlxHnZDQQ?...

Imagine EHG or Church of Misery covering this music.youtube.com/watch?v=32c3...

Today I received the proof copy of a story I'd forgotten writing. It's a flash, so I couldn't do much beyond sketch a concept and a bare narrative, but it could be the basis for one strand of a longer piece at some point. I write moody nonsense (being honest) but I like weaving a lot into it.

Saving this to my bookmarks to share alongside every single article in Norwegian media this summer celebrating the heatwaves caused by the fossil fuels we profit from www.bbc.com/news/article...

Just watched the new Bedouine video. And now I have a babydoll dress hot take: OMG you freaks let the women dress up as they like. Yeesh. youtu.be/ytgmufS4bCo?...

AI needs me to collaborate with it. I don't need AI for anything. Zero. NOTHING. This is like people telling you to play with the kid who beats you up and steals your lunch. NO.

Fisherman Balafama Augustus Bruce, 64, describes devastation caused by Shell oil in Nigeria. The river used to be beautiful & people played & fished there. "But because of the damage [the spills] have caused, nobody is fishing here again. Because of that I've become poor. I eat from hand to mouth,"

Island Evropa righty-ho.

In case anyone is wondering why there’s a dramatic number of requests for monetary and other assistance, I figured it out for you. No one has enough money. We all poor. Those who were poor *beforehand* are now in desperate positions. Also, look around. Yup, it’s dire af. Be kind about it, man.

An essay at an essay for Pride month: www.patreon.com/posts/159988...

What I read in May www.patreon.com/posts/readin... #BookSky #LitSky

At this point my main interest in the publishing industry is: will it stay afloat long enough to reprint all the out of print books I can't find secondhand?

DOG PARK is the first new TV show in a while that actually seems to be about recognisable human beings.

My splatterpunk vampire novel THE SMALL HOURS, published via @ghoulish.bsky.social, is available for all your undead needs! Funny: check Horny vampires: check Lots and lots of blood : check Available here: ghoulish.rip/product/the-... Cover art by @bettyrocksteady.bsky.social Get bit now!

For Miles Davis' centenary, Yazz Ahmed re-imagines Bitches Brew: youtu.be/YK7SEJKtogY?...

Cool blues on a hot day music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Much roiling in my head. Tail end of flu burning through my thoughts like the last drops of fuel. Importance of having taste; how much that is celebrated is in fact garbage; how much that is deemed garbage is in fact garbage; how things are masterpieces; how things are not, yet transcend themselves.

Another warm, pensive, quietly intricate release from trumpet and flugelhorn player and composer Yazz Ahmed yazzahmed.bandcamp.com/album/shinri...

Although Philip Larkin is one of my favourite poets (those complex rhyme schemes! The astringent unsentimentality! The unwillingness to follow where his own partial modernism might have pointed!) I often blank on his name because it would be hard to imagine anyone less likely to go larkin’ about.

What's the point if Trump dies but America lives?

Bad Hair, Shell, The Substance - unsubtle films about society's policing of women's bodies (with the added dimension of race in Bad Hair). I thought they were all basically failures. The modern horror film just isn't, IMO,

Trump is just American presidential arrogance being honest. Do you think Obama didn't come around to thinking of the world as full of nations he could blow up and civilizations he could end? The POTUS, whoever it is, is the most reliable enemy of world peace the last 70 years has seen.

No donations in a week. Like all Palestinians, Jamal's family is struggling to get enough donations to keep their sick, starving children alive. Please help if you can.

2 donations in 10 days. Shimaa has lost her husband to Israel's active and ongoing genocide, and has been shot in the foot by an IDF quadcopter while protecting her baby. Now she's without shelter. She's all alone, and has gone through so much--you can help her right now by sharing & donating:

Empires come and empires go, leaving signs of former power. The winged lion of St Mark can be seen in many places about the Mediterranean, telling of the once dominant trading & military power that was Venice. One day, the spouting vanity of today’s tyrants will be but dust, and history their judge.

To be clear, there is no ethical AI you can use. AI almost always means Arseholes Involved. If you are using AI/LLMs (Likely Lying Machines) to promote your work you are dead to me. Get some respect for the planet, the people whose work was stolen and the power of your own work to promote itself.

This week has been a brilliant year in metal music.

HOLY FUCKING SHIT IT'S FINALLY HERE! "Beckoning the Void of Eternal Silence" is Funebrarum's first new material in a little over 10 years and this monumental occasion should be celebrated by giving yourself a series of micro concussions caused by excessive headbanging. #MetalSky

150 km north of Zambia's capital, Kabwe is one of the most polluted places in the world after decades of lead and zinc mining. Over 95% of children exceed the WHO's safety threshold of for lead. Approx 140,000 affected women & children are part of a class action suit against mining giant AASA.

Wunderwerck VI Liv Rainey-Smith Woodcut print Limited edition of 33 signed and numbered, 3 artist proofs The Wunderwerck series is based on Conrad Lycosthenes' 1557 book of prodigies and wonders. I chose the art via bibliomancy, and carve it at a larger scale. #woodcut #printmaking #art

Down with a cough and cold and I need some comfort reading so I've put Bely on hold for today and am rereading the Penguin Classics collection of Elizabeth Gaskell's Gothic Tales.

This is what happens when queer people hate your party. There’s no one there to plan one.

A Beardsley style mari for this morning

IT'S HERE music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

I would like for this derivative piece of art to be read.

Residencies and retreats are for weaklings. If Joseph Roth could write amidst his life, you can too.

Sorry if I'm messing things up this is my first time living through a dystopia

One day I'll try and write about all the things Dvorak's cello concerto makes me feel. youtu.be/wBFeeOt_SGY?...

I have always felt especially confident talking about literature and music because I have no training or academic background. I also feel confident about my writing now I'm not seeking publication and only need please myself. What more can you expect from an amateur?

From A Buick 8 or Hearts In Atlantis.

I wake and find myself in love: And this one time I do not doubt. I only fear, and wander out To hold long parley with a dove. ~ The Garden, by Dom Moraes Read by Menka Shivdasani. #PoetryInParks #Poetry #SpokenPoetry #MayIReadYouAPoem #IndianPoetry

Oh no I'm coming down with a cold I'M DOOMED DOOMED I TELL YOU

A little story. Maybe only a first incomplete draft maybe finished.