Being from the UK and a member of the late part of Generation X means having to live with the fact that every photo from your childhood resembles a still from a cultishly acclaimed but commercially disappointing folk horror film. ESPECIALLY IF THEY ACTUALLY ARE: www.tom-cox.com/some-photos-...

Some Photos From My Family's Archive And The Cult Low Budget Horror Films They Became

I wrote this extremely silly episodic slice of what people much cooler and more digital than me now call "flash fiction", themed around some old photos I found in a trunk at my mum and dad's house, a ...

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'Abe no Yasunari reveals the true form of Tamamo-no-Mae, a nine-tailed fox' - Utagawa Kunisada, 1947. From the National Diet Library collection. Single panel of triptych. #JapaneseArt #ukiyoe

Virginia Woolf 'She blazed. She kindled. Out of the night she burnt like a white star.' From a few years ago now. And in honour of tomorrow's 2nd full moon of the month, the glorious Blue Moon. #womensart

Jaw-dropping and important research from Swansea University's Dr Richard Unsworth, who's Associate Professor in Marine Ecology and the UK's leading expert in seagrass ecosystems. There's a link to the full paper in the article.... #MarineEcology #Wales #Seagrass www.swansea.ac.uk/press-office...

300 years of industrialisation have left Wales with a blank ecological canvas in its coastal waters

A new study has revealed the staggering extent of historical degradation in Welsh estuaries and coasts, challenging modern conservationists to rethink how they restore the nation’s marine environments...

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i like this photo where it looks like you've interrupted t.s. eliot and virginia woolf in the middle of planning your murder

There is no surer political principle than Hubris will tend to be visited by Nemesis.

THE #UNCANNYVERSE IS GETTING BIGGER‼️😱 Uncanny is getting a YOUTUBE CHANNEL and to kick it off, a NEW visualised series, Uncanny Cold Cases! Here’s the series artwork and photos of us recording it 🛸 Uncanny Cold Cases will be out on the 7th of April. In the meantime….don’t have nightmares. 👻😱

THREAD. Some excellent pigs I have met on walks in the British countryside. You will find the all-important captions to each photo in the alt text.

'Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) thought that a woman’s place was in the resistance.' #InternationalWomensDay #DifficultWomensDay pamelaclemit.wordpress.com/2017/09/10/n...

New Post: Mary Wollstonecraft in the Idler

This piece by Pamela Clemit was first published in the Idler, No. 54 (May-June 2017), 83-9: Quite Contrary: Mary Wollstonecraft Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) thought that a woman’s place was in t…

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For a mood of melancholic reflection from the great Mark Lanegan and remembering my wonderful Dad who has recently passed away 💜 youtu.be/odm92FWVY3Y?...

Mark Lanegan - The River Rise

YouTube video by Sub Pop

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“Ritual is the passage way of the soul into the Infinite.” —Algernon Blackwood

Happy Birthday, George Harrison—Indian-rock music innovator & early selfie taker, among other things. #beatlesky

Virginia Woolf - Her heart was made of liquid sunsets. Watercolours on watercolour paper. #foxoftheday #womensart

Painting by David Hockney 20TH FEBRUARY 2021, JUG WITH FLOWERS, 2021. iPad painting printed on paper. Size 89 x 63.5 cm.

Field with Poppies - 1890 https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/14768

A perfect excuse to have a glass of champagne! ~ J & L Lobmeyr art nouveau champagne glass, with enamelling on stem (c 1900, Vienna)

‘If you want to nuke your life, do crack’: raw Courtney Love documentary hits Sundance

‘If you want to nuke your life, do crack’: raw Courtney Love documentary hits Sundance

Antiheroine, a new film about the musician’s tumultuous life and career, premiered at the festival with some frank admissions but the star not present

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Cary Grant photographed for a hair and makeup test for Alfred Hitchcock's NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959). Notes: "Hair mussed and drunk"

FOR FORTY YEARS ‘BOYS DON'T CRY' (‘NEW VOICE - NEW MIX’) WAS ONLY AVAILABLE ON 7" & 12" VINYL & VIA THE VIDEO - UNTIL NOW! THE 1986 VERSION - INCLUDING A 2026 REMASTER - WILL BE AVAILABLE TO STREAM ON THE JANUARY 30TH. PRE-ORDER THE REMASTERED VERSION AT thecure.lnk.to/BoysDontCry

Note from my notebook (2016). Nothing has changed.

This exquisite silk irotomesode features magnificent white cranes with red-crowned heads, their wings dramatically spread as they soar through a twilight sky rendered in gradations of deep blue to lighter azure. 1912-1926, Japan

THREAD. The definitive list of the absolute best interdimensional portals I have photographed on walks in the British countryside. 1. Gateway To The Land Of Leaping Dogs.

Ten Years. It was Gary Oldman who said the world has gone to shit since David Bowie died. (Though he’s far from the only one to have made that observation.) Glancing around, it doesn’t get any less true, does it? “Oh man, look at those cavemen go…”

Arch.E.M. (An R.E.M. Archie cover) PS A belated happy birthday to the his royal highness @michaelstipe.bsky.social

This exuberant silk-screened girl's furisode displays a riot of autumnal blooms—magnificent peonies in shades of cream, gold, and coral—set against a rich purple ground and interspersed with delicate seasonal elements including red berries, chrysanthemums, and foliage. 1912-1926, Japan

Lo, they hath emerged, the Queens Of Winter ❄️ Prints: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...

This is a real plum pudding of a dress. It demonstrates beautifully how the mid #1880s dolman style cape/coat/cloak sat neatly above the very obvious bustle of the period, cut shorter at the back with longer lines at the front #TSarrou #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Released on this day in 1971: Hunky Dory #DavidBowie youtu.be/rn4cG_XaGFA?si…

The faraway Thrice-Ninth Tsardom is a magical place cut off from the world of man. Home to firebirds, great dragons, and myriad other mystical beasts, this other-world can be accessed by a number of means. Some find a path to it in an underground cave whilst others find it at the bottom of a lake.