Today's letterpress jewellery experiments proved something, but mostly that it wouldn't work - the substrate deforms badly. I'll have to try support frames and/or batch processing before cutting, which poses more registration issues... #DHTries

A proof sheet for some miscellaneous ornaments and blocks - yes, it's gash printing, and some of these need shimming, but it's decent reference. #DHTries

they put up a dada center just outside of town and life has been unbearable ever since. thing looks like a fucking fish

For me it's LOTRO, so I'll be fine. Though I'd probably hit my head a lot.

Nina Marotta ☢️💙@mrschief7.bsky.social · 3d ago

You're offered $250,000,000 but to claim it you must enter the last video game you've played and stay there for a full year. How are y'all faring in this deal?

I'm sorry I'm getting a little frustrated with the "now they're coming for the neurodivergent" THIS IS NOT NEW. IF YOU THINK IT IS YOU NEED TO FOLLOW MORE DISABLED PEOPLE. They have been attacking us for years and years.

INSIGHT IS AN EMERGENT PROPERTY OF DOING THE WORK

Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her)@drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 4d ago

And by the way, those tasks that some people say isn't really writing, or isn't really research, and so is outsourceable to the psychosis machine? It's not okay to use it for them, either. And those tasks ARE writing and research. Insight is an emergent property of doing the work. 5/5

This taxi has not one but THREE air "fresheners" hanging from the headrest. In different scents. I am in hell.

I had to dig into the jewellery archive box, and found I had far more finished bits than I thought. All of these could do with finding homes! Everything is made from laminated paper, paint, varnish, old book fragments, and post-factory lingerie lace scraps.

Here’s the thing about Y2K, the ozone layer, etc. The most leftist—in the sense of *valuing labor*—thing you can do is reject the brainwashing that tells you that heroism is running into a burning building and not the slow, patient, boring, unglamorous work of *preventing* disaster.

Jessica Price@delafina777.bsky.social · 2d ago

I think a lot of people would have died without the work of people like you. The power grid could have gone down, air traffic control, supply chains, medical equipment, water infrastructure… You prevented a disaster. That is heroism. Heroism doesn’t always have to be running into a burning building

On The Tainted Cup and fantasy empires that aren't. Why do we still write about empires as if they're fundamentally good as long as we can manage their tendency towards corruption? #SFF #Fantasy #reviews

The Tainted Cup – on empires that aren’t in modern fantasy

I've just finished Robert Jackson Bennett's The Tainted Cup - a kind of Sherlock Holmes type fantasy in a fantastically drawn secondary world with Kaiju, alchemical grafting and a society on the cusp of collapse trying its flawed best to stave off that final disaster day by day. Jackson Bennett has, in imperial investigators Ana and Din, created that kind of genius oddball odd couple pair that, when executed well, creates compelling and brilliantly compulsive story telling and in The Tainted Cup, it's executed to perfection.

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The odds of getting catastrophic flooding this winter, after a summer like this, aren't much worse than the odds of getting Christmas.

The Canary@thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 3d ago

Burnham's reported oil plan is an insult to our intelligence You'd hope that the catastrophic wildfires and crop failures would have made Andy Burnham think again about North Sea drilling. Nope. www.thecanary.co/trending/202...

Rain!

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We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

Some jewellery blanks for me to try #letterpress printing onto - assuming I don't have to deal with contractors tomorrow instead of studio time.

Describe your music taste using only three artists No genres allowed Eliza Carthy Peat & Diesel Luneris

Fyre@amuseoffyre.bsky.social · 4d ago

Describe your music taste using only three artists No genres allowed Led Zeppelin Chapell Roan Cat Stevens

the rain of men was over

Icewind Dale Gribble@phyrexianmetamour.bsky.social · 4w ago

Why did the Uruk-hai leave the disco?

And today in Scottish Feudalism news: millionaire rentier uses ancient entitlement to dun community service, refuses to follow charity's good example. www.thenational.scot/news/2646662...

World-unique Scottish ferry 'faces threat from millionaire absentee landowner’

A HISTORIC Scottish ferry service said to be the last of its kind in the entire world is facing an uncertain future due to a millionaire “absentee…

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I know you're not allowed to say this during the current debate, but the reason the left dominates academics, art, comedy, and music is that the right has stupid, discredited ideas, they're not funny, and dull resentment does not make for good art. No grand conspiracy required.

No lies detected:

Johnny Normality (Spooky Mode)@probgobl.in · 6d ago

EVERY STORY ABOUT BEAVERS FOR THE LAST DECADE READS LIKE: WE RELEASED A DOZEN PADDLE TAILED LITTLE FREAKS AND THEY IMMEDIATELY BEGAN A TERRAFORMING PROJECT THAT REVERSED A CENTURY OF ECOLOGICAL DAMAGE IN THREE WEEKS.

The Batman theory of fighting climate change: punching individual fires in the face. Quickly, someone put up the Burn'em signal.

Small Robots@smolrobots.bsky.social · 6d ago

Fighting climate change, one disposable barbecue at a time.

There is a very high risk of wildfires globally. Governments and businesses should not undertake any activity that could increase this, including deforestation and extracting, refining, or burning fossil fuels. Even a small amount of additional CO2 can add to global heating.

Introduce yourself as what almost killed you: Hello! I'm whooping cough, stairs, someone else's horse, and a nanomaterials research group.

A.M. Tuomala@amtuomala.bsky.social · 7d ago

Introduce yourself as what almost killed you: Hello! I'm the SUN.

Today's job - having conclusively proven I can't change the flat tyre by myself, I'm taking my partner's wheelchair to the vet. (Well, the bike shop. They're basically a vet.)

Cool medical news that hopefully will proceed to a human study (so far only demonstrated in animal studies): keratin extracted from sheep wool is a better scaffold for regrowing bone than the collagen we currently use. share.google/2Dbvjm1qjoSX...

Scientists turn sheep’s wool into a material that helps regrow bone

Keratin extracted from sheep’s wool helped damaged bone regenerate in animals, producing tissue that was more organized and structurally similar to healthy bone than tissue grown with conventional col...

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Annoyingly, this is not actually everything weather - it's just the US. It's the World Series of weather apps, not the World Cup.

Gravel Influencer@gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · last wk.

Yes! Yes! Yes! I can't remember who on here told me about it but the "EverythingWx" app is absolutely incredible. It was developed by a NWS meteorologist and is based on NWS data. It's super accurate and also detailed. Perfect for weather geeks and non-weather geeks alike. everythingwx.com

A little Roman bronze dog affectionately known as the ‘Chesters Scottie dog’ 🐾 This lovely figurine was found at Chesters Roman fort on Hadrian’s Wall. You can meet this good boy at the site museum! 📷 English Heritage www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places... #RomanFortThursday #Archaeology

I think of this as "Insular Deco". Two divergent versions, loosely based on a mussel shell I picked up at Ardtoe last year.

The costs of this summer's extreme weather are expected to wipe out the EU's economic growth for all of 2026. "The biggest drag is expected to come from people struggling to work in extreme heat." Agricultural output could fall by between 3 and 7 percent. #ClimateChange

I think of this as "Insular Deco". Two divergent versions, loosely based on a mussel shell I picked up at Ardtoe last year.