Daniel Sumption
@dansumption.bsky.social
Pilgrim. Seeker. Struggling to exist in the 21st Century. I run @peakrillpress.bsky.social
I once drew a bunch of people wearing fish on their heads, using this Tish Murtha photo as a guide. As you do.
Davenant 📸@marcdavenant.bsky.social · last yr.Youth unemployment, 1981 by Tish Murtha. She was an extraordinary photographer from South Shields who used her talent to document marginalised communities in the North East. This photo has a post-apocalyptic feel to it. (© Ella Murtha all rights reserved)
Hey guys meta announced a new policy where they send a killer to get you so be sure to go to settings>my account > killer> disable killer to turn that off
Mayflies, attracted to the lights under the handrail on the footbridge at Teddington Lock.
The answer to this, from Gareth in the comments, is amazing
Jason Hazeley@jasonhazeley.bsky.social · 2mo agoAbsolutely stumped. Have never seen this term, can find no definition anywhere, and can’t parse it. Anyone got the full Grove’s to hand?
![A passage from Richard Greene’s book about The Planets suite by Holst, containing a excerpt from the programme note for ‘Mercury,’ which reads, ‘The movement takes the place of a scherzo and is mainly constructed [of] the welcome datacompordinary major scale with the four lower notes shifted a semitone upward.’ My finger is pictured pointing at the word, ‘datacompordinary’.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3u4yezfifhwdhtv4jjjbo7e4/bafkreignw7yai5fuwaufa47aemdh2ey3yr4dfoa3hs4ffnc7otvkothk7q)
Here is a very short essay, plus an update on my life, available to read or listen to. I would love to hear your response to it. peakrill.substack.com/p/attention-...
Attention is Prayer
Dancing at the still point
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Saturday 20 & Sunday 21 June 2026: 'Goe no more to Brainford', a guided tour with pub stops as part of the Brentford Canal Festival. Join us for tranquil rivers, art deco wonders, proper pubs, and a poignant history of transience and travel. Tickets and details: www.minimumlabyrinth.org/brentford
Betty’s🐈⬛ microchip feeder stopped working at the weekend so I had to order a new one which the cat sitter has just picked up from the post officer. Her husband stripped down the old one to see if he could fix it, and look what is printed on the circuit board! #unexpectedpoetry
As govt is going to ban social media for kids, then they should also: - invest in youth clubs and social spaces where young people are welcome - put some actual money into libraries - mandate that secondary schools supply offline learning resources - implement effective regulation
new hallucinogen just dropped psychedelics.co.uk/news/a-mushr...
The hallucinogenic mushroom that contains no known psychedelic | Psychedelics.co.uk
Hundreds of people a year are hospitalised seeing little people after a meal of a prized Yunnan bolete. Its genome has now been read in full, and whatever causes the visions is nothing science recogni...
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In 2021, I committed to draw at least one tree per month. I'd really hoped to keep this practise up, but have stalled badly. Trying to get going again, here's an apple tree I started on today...
Petition alert: I know there's lots of them but this one needs to get to 100,000 by the end of the month My good friend Nansi asked me to do a video to help raise awareness that widows used to get 18 years of support but now it's cut to 18 months Please sign: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...
Fabulous going to see Ashwin Baliga – whom I last met at a hackathon in Athens in 2017 – performing "All We Imagine as Khayal" in his new calling as an Indian classical vocalist, at the Nehru's Centre, London.
My memoir, A Mind Of My Own is now available in paperback which means it’s cheaper. Hurrah! If you’d like a dedicated copy repost this and I’ll do a random pick of five winners in the next couple of days. If you’ve already bought/read or listened to the audible version thank you! ♥️📚
Throwback to when a TV station in Iceland accidentally aired an episode of Teletubbies with subtitles from the Sopranos 👌🏼
To celebrate our new minimumlabyrinth.org website, we've made our acclaimed audio drama A Fragment of Life free to download, published a paperback edition of our out-of-print London Baroque, and put all our guided London walks for June on our new platform Luma.
Had a fabulous guided walk tonight – led by @minimumlabyrinth.bsky.social – of "the unburied corner of London", around Barbican, the Museum of London and London Wall.
Made a tomato tart, from the recipe in today's Grauniad.
Lost my mother-in-law today. Very sad that I didn't get a chance to say goodbye. She was loving and generous, and we had a real bond. These last seven months have been like a "collect the set" of all those "most stressful things that can happen in your life" lists. A continual struggle. RIP June 😢
I've set up this account to follow folks I know IRL, plus people I like to chat to. Also to avoid the overwhelm and relentless politics over on my other account. I'm a bit lonely at the mo (on here, and IRL). Please tell me who else I ought to be following.
