: Gary Panter’s ROZZ-TOX Manifesto An artefact from the 1980s LA punk-art scene. When I found …
: Danny Sriskandarajah - the radical who left Oxfam to fight for democracy A really interesting …
: Eight Years Ago at the RNC Molly Crabapple has posted drawings from her reporting on Trump’s …
: Wyrd Britain A new-to-me but 10 year old blog to be added to my list of things that use the word …
: The coming storm, part 2 Charlie Stross’s state-of-the-world overview, linked to for the …
: Mary H.K. Choi - What My Adult Autism Diagnosis Finally Explained Another writer in their 40s …
: Paul B. Rainey’s Why Don’t You Love Me? optioned by Jennifer Lawrence and A24 For most of you the …
: Earthrise A lovely short documentary from 2018 about the photographs of Earth taken from the lunar …
: The Rise and Fall of Earthrise This is so relevant to my interests it’s almost a parody. A …
: Could you forgive your childhood bully? Katy Wix confronts a painful memory I read Wix’s …
: The Universe with Dr. Katie Mack and John Green I’m not a big fan of podcasts for anything …
: On Not Being Online Warren Ellis commenting on Jay Springett talking about the internet feeling flat …
: What Have Fourteen Years of Conservative Rule Done to Britain? I’m a big fan of journalists …
: In defense of an old pixel A lovely look at the history of pixel fonts, that is to say letters made …
: What lies beneath the Labour ‘landslide’ election predictions? John Harris visits my …
: I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again Deliciously long but firmly hinged rant about …
: UbuWeb’s Conceptual Comics collection If you’re the kind of nerd who finds how comics …
: Protect the Network Noah Kalina has collected photos of trees that have been pruned around power and …
: “Debilitating a Generation”: Expert Warns That Long COVID May Eventually Affect Most Americans …
: Money, Magic and the Imagination I find ritual money burners fascinating because even though I get …
: How to Copy a File From a 30-year-old Laptop Chap has some audio files stuck on an old MacBook, so …
: The Purpose of a System is What It Does The first of what is hopefully an in-depth guide from Anil …
: The green-energy revolution shows what real innovation looks like Decorating some really interesting …
: Tramps! As someone who came of age in the late 80s, early 90s, I sort of expected my young adulthood …
: What the Internet Was Like in 2004 I was perfectly primed for the 2004 Web 2.0 internet having been …
: For tech CEOs, the dystopia is the point A concise explanation of why these billionaire weirdos keep …
: Milky Way photographer of the year 2024 By now you’ve probably seen a fair few long exposure …
: Plugin Beachball Success While updating my art website I recalled seeing Jon Satrom’s “prepared …
: 20th Anniversary remasters of A Night At The Hip-Hopera and Yoshimi Battles The Hip-Hop Robots If …
: The Lunacy of Artemis A deep-dive into the clusterfuck that appears to be NASA’s plans to put people …
: It rained on the Sunday: a career interview with Roger Corman Loads of good stuff. I particularly …
: Ghost’s development of ActivityPub is going well. Our initial work has largely revolved around a …
: On Wishcycling A deep-dive into the origins and various interpretations of the term “wishcycling” on …
: Some mad genius has combined Beryl Cook and Tom of Finland in one exhibition. 15 May–25 August, …
: Generative AI Is Totally Shameless. I Want to Be It. Paul Ford: AI is like having my very own …
: Utopian Realism, a speech by Bruce Sterling Transcript of a long speech by Sterling that starts of …
: ‘I was in a kind of ecstatic freefall’: artist Miranda July on writing the book that could change …
: Grace Jones - Slave to the Rhythm (video) Curiously I never saw this music video in the 80s …
: R.I.P. Steve Albini Fuck. (The Quietus)
: No one buys books A fantastically detailed breakdown of the batshit economic reality of the book …
: Language of flowers Filed under “stuff I never knew I never knew”. Floriography …
: ‘The courgettes were so good last year, I got a tattoo of one’: life on a Birmingham …
: RIP Trina Robbins (tcj.com) One of the key figures in western comics, from the feminist …
: All issues of Escape Magazine are on the Internet Archive (archive.org) This is probably the most …
: We Need To Rewild The Internet - Maria Farrell and Robin Berjon (Noema) The story of German …
: The Aerobic Digest: issue 12 My monthly-ish composting newsletter went out this morning.
: Yan Wang Preston – gloriously confronting art history in the nude (Guardian) Wang Preston’s …
: We can have a different web (Molly White) The thing is: none of this is gone. Nothing about the web …
: Notes from Inside the Ecosystem: Joanne McNeil on Apple Vision Pro (filmmakermagazine.com) When I …
: What is the correct speed limit for cities? (YouTube) It’s a trick question - the answer is …
: Streaming Follows a Trail Paved by Thieves and Pirates (Pixel Envy) Paid streaming services are not …
: The 1918 Flu Pandemic Killed Millions. So Why Does Its Cultural Memory Feel So Faint? (Slate) …
: Efficiency Is Biting Back (The Atlantic) Efficiency, in fact, can be hazardous to our well-being, …
: Toiletpaperfullerenes and Charmin Nanotubes (Observable) Toilet paper tubes have the curious …
: The most important technology critic in the world was tired of knowledge based on clicks. So he …
: Hail the maintainers (Aeon) Capitalism excels at innovation but is failing at maintenance, and for …
: ‘Allostatic Load’ is the Psychological Reason for Our Pandemic Brain Fog (Vice) I’m …
: Coronavirus Is Making a Lot of People Anxious and Depressed. But Some Sufferers Actually Feel Better …
: Prepare for the Ultimate Gaslighting (Medium) Pretty soon, as the country begins to figure out how …
: We Are Living in a Failed State (The Atlantic) The coronavirus didn’t break America. It revealed …
: HKMask Manual ( Unofficial ) Reusable DIY Cloth Mask with Disposable Middle Layer Filter. Cloth …
: Adjust your clocks: lockdown is bending time completely out of shape | Jonathan Freedland | The …
: Painting the shed roof today.
: 🔗 Teenage bloodbath: the 2010s in review A solid State of the Union from Sam Kriss, poking at Rise …
: 🔗 What the Death of iTunes Says About Our Digital Habits A decade ago I was a digital hoarder. I was …
: 🔗 Interview with Adam Minter, author of Junkyard Planet On the wonderfully titled blog Discard …
: Found this rock which looked like it had been sliced by a sushi chef.
: 🔗 Toward a Grand Unified Theory of Snowflakes I’ve been fascinated by the study of snowflakes …
: 🔗 Proposal for a book to be adapted into a movie starring Dwayne The Rock Johnson An oldie by Robin …
: Surprisingly good sunset for a January holiday in Wales…
: 🔗 Brian Taylor to Adapt Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea’s The Illuminatus! Trilogy as a TV Show …
: 🔗 London’s electric buses are getting fake noise. I love stories about how new technological …
: 🔗 This is How a Society Dies Sober and lacerating analysis of the terminal decline of US and British …
: 🔗 A Frank Conversation with My Rabbi About The Rise of Skywalker Judaism has always struck me as the …
: 🔗 136 Mindblowing & Groundbreaking Internet Videos I remember when you felt you’d seen all …
: Misty in Birmingham last night.
: 🔗 The Blundering Brilliance of Prime Minister Boris Johnson A rather hagiographic explainer of …
: So it seems LED Xmas lights flash at a high, but not that high, frequency rather than stay on …
: 🔗 Be Gay, Do Crimes. Untitled Goose Game: Is it Good to be Bad? Grace does a deep dive into the …
: 🔗 Please for the love of Blarg, Start a Blog A call to get all that great stuff off Twitter and back …
: 🔗 For the many A more sober than usual piece by Sam Kris on why you should seriously consider voting …
: 🔗 New Atheism: An Autopsy A nice overview of whatever happened to the New Atheist movement that was …
: 🔗 On the Farm Daisy Hildyard discusses animal sentience with the great anecdote of cows so …
: 🔗 Cyberpunk is Dead by John Semley Nice overview of all that was Cyberpunk back in the 80s, from the …
: 🔗 Sasha Baron Cohen Says Tech Companies Built the “Greatest Propaganda Machine in …
: Olivia Wilde’s Booksmart was one of the best movies of this year and for some reason I found …
: 🔗 John Doran on Sunn O))) and how their brand of doom metal has defined the decade. Not unexpected, …
: Here’s what I’ve been picking up from the people I meet, the audiences I speak to and the stories …
: 🔗 In 2029, the Internet Will Make Us Act Like Medieval Peasants This is a wonderfully insightful …
: Craig Mod, from his newsletter: Folks mistakenly think only new walks are good walks. But the best …
: Eyes full of tears, by Fiona.
: 🔗 The social ideology of the motorcar This essay from 1973 about the way cars took over and broke …
: Saw Hamish Fulton talk last weekend. Suddenly remembered he ran a group slow walk in Birmingham in …
: 🔗 Dan Hon: Everything Is Political From his regular newsletter, skip the Snow Crash stuff (unless …
: 🔗 Bright green environmentalism “Environmentalists who believe that radical changes are needed …
: 🔗 Inside the iPhone 11 Camera, Part 1: A Completely New Camera Computational photography continues …
: So we were just outside of Plymouth in a bedsit apartment overlooking the sea during an 80mph …
: Tim Shaw performing at Walking’s New Movements, Plymouth.
: Walking’s New Movements conference, Friday evening.
: 🔗 Autism profiles and diagnostic criteria. A very useful breakdown of the terminology and potential …
: 🔗 UK renewables generate more electricity than fossil fuels for first time. 🔗 Rise of renewables may …
: Went to the MAC to see Black Men Walking, a play about black men walking in the Peak District. It …
: Tonight’s film was Theory of Obscurity: a film about The Residents, about a band I’ve …
: Johnson’s Britain and Corbyn’s Britain are vastly different countries, on starkly divergent paths. …