Peter Cushing in the TV version of Nineteen Eighty-Four. Rudolph Cartier, 1954
Adrian Giddings
@cunabula.bsky.social
Currently between lives. Somewhat-lapsed photographer. VJ for @tirs.bsky.social and temp0rary.
The narrow, high-banked path that carves a channel through the boneyard of St. Urian’s at Wormford is notoriously ghost-soaked. We would expect nothing less for a old wraith way, yet it has a pleasing diversity of phantoms: giant spiders made of smoke; flaming wheels; floating pillars of blue light.
This fine tsumugi-silk man's festival jacket highlights an 'ebi' (Japanese lobster) motif, with rare undulating white bands instead of the typical horizontal and straight ones.
Aside from the obvious, this is a genuine fear I have - an entire generation(s?) of people who would starve to death in a world where the supermarkets are fully stocked with fresh produce but the ready meals have disappeared.
Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · yesterdayGuys like this don’t realize that they are the freak
New link to Bobby Fingers' latest work of genius after the old one got nuked.
Johnny Depp's Bed
YouTube video by Bobby Fingers
youtu.be
Paging @ktb543.bsky.social - one for your files. I wonder what it looks like if you defocus your eyes? It's giving 'great' magic eye poster vibes.
Fat Apollo, baby!@fatapollo.myatproto.social · yesterdayImagine waking up with a killer hangover in this house
This sodding journalist (not Ben): "Last year [...] I stopped eating carbohydrates and started running a lot in the mornings. I lost something like 25 pounds this way." First year of COVID I went for a longish walk every day kept eating a vaguely balanced diet and lost 33lb. Get fucked.
Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · yesterdayRegretfully, full story here:
Has anyone proven that civilization's collapse didn't start when we stopped putting gargoyles on buildings?
While Bobby Fingers' video is (hopefully temporarily) unavailable you can buy the wine from the film here: toilet.wine
Bobby Fingers Toilet Wine
Buy The Wine, Follow The Clues, Find My Diorama (As seen in 'Johnny Depp and the Poo')
toilet.wine
Every time you feel the need to post about Will Stancil being as thick as mince, take a minute to find something interesting anywhere and post about that instead. Everyone knows he's thick as mince already and he's just some guy, you know. Random pillock says something isn't news.
Bobby Fingers continues to make the best films on YouTube. He never disappoints...
Johnny Depp's Bed
YouTube video by Bobby Fingers
youtube.com
A few of you asked about the copper alloy fox in my latest find-the-tiny-owl photo.It’s a Tudor mount that would have decorated leather,eg a bridle. I collect ancient accessories & haberdashery-nerdy as hell 👀,but here are some medieval,Tudor, 18th-19th C buttons/clasps & a Greek coin with a 🐦 on it
Fuck this for a game of soldiers. This is a planning and skill issue repackaged as an inevitability of process. Do better.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2d agoA pressing issue: why are vinyl albums becoming so different from their digital versions?
Urgh, another Bad Lieutenant film? I haven't wantched the second one yet because of the difference in tone. Oh, a Takashi Miike Bad Lieutenant film. I'm in.
Dr Artyom Trakhanov@vor-bokor.bsky.social · 2d agoyoutu.be/brkTgfdmztk?... SHIN OGURI!
right, ok, enough self-pity, I need to turn my shit pub around. it's in Stratford, it's got a (small) stage, there has to be someone who has something cool they want a space for queer-run, extremely diverse venue (we even let mumbling old white geezers in) what I'd call 'mostly accessible'
This is both stupid and dire. Especially considering the amount the sector makes for the economy.
Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 6d agoCreative & performing arts subjects received £16.8 million SPG 2024-25; £12.9 million in 2025-26; £ O million in 2026-27. The University of Creative Arts will thus lose half of its government funding this year; Art University Bournmouth 40.7%, Norwich U of Arts 40.4% and Leeds Arts U 30.3%. 1/2
It’s hard to explain but tv was better when you couldn’t watch the show you wanted whenever you wanted to watch it and most of the shows were worse and the TVs were worse and the entire experience was worse, that’s when it was better
Reminded by skimming this article before reading it properly tomorrow that Pilentse Pee exists and it's sublime
The London Bulgarian Choir - Pilentce Pee
YouTube video by ednobulgar4e
youtu.be
The Quietus@thequietus.com · 2d agoFrom aliens, immortality and the early electronica of sci-fi films, to the sublime, immersive harmonies of devotional music, Gazelle Twin talks about thirteen albums that influenced her #GazelleTwin’s Favourite Albums - #ThePortal: Your Weekly Quietus Archive Dive buff.ly/c4jHX23
Goods inward from @hookland.bsky.social via @treadwells-books.bsky.social Very much looking forward to diving in and the possibility of many more volumes to follow.
I inquired about the cat at Craigmillar Castle in Edinburgh and was told her name is Amber and it is her castle. She accepted four strokes and then had other business to attend to.
Dear God, lots of people seem to be posting this like it's the apocalypse. It's entirely possible for any number of communities of interest that don't want to see anyone who disagrees with them to be on Bluesky and be entirely unaware that the others exist. Get over it.
The Verge@theverge.com · 2d agoBluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."
Took out a plastic tub to put some shopping in it and immediately gained a cupboard sentry.
Every now and then someone takes a run at me along the lines of "I don't understand why you, a scifi writer, don't appreciate 'AI'," and I'm all, motherfucker, it's *because* I'm a science fiction writer I have the positions I have, how many times do we have to fucking yell "torment nexus," my dude
Good news is supposed to come in threes right?
Sunday Times and Sun columnist Rod Liddle dies aged 66
Liddle died after short illness, News UK says
theguardian.com
As someone who clearly can't let things go, I wonder if the editors at the LRB had seen The Odyssey before printing the review. Because, now I've seen the film, if the text had hit my desk I'd have a lot of questions before it went to press.
