UK media readers can be reassured that the market for creepy, offensive and needlessly contrarian bullshit opinion pieces will be unaffected due to massive oversupply capacity

Good grief, this hits home.

Two fantastical flower drawings in watercolour - from an exercise in Drawing is Free’s monthly art workbook

I made a little thing - a little free art gallery tucked just inside the doorway of A Touch of Enchantment Gift Shop in Cladach above the free library. Folks can take art, contribute their own & hopefully be inspired by the island

Is one of them “Get paid £13million last year” Charlie? Any chance that that one financial trick you use might help readers? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I run the UK's biggest bank, here are five ways to manage your money

The CEO of Lloyds Bank talks about how to save, budget, avoid scams and manage money in a relationship.

bbc.co.uk

Ah, yes. The true meaning of Christmas

I thought I had hit peak middle aged but today found myself on a Sunday morning first in the queue waiting for the council recycling centre gates to open. New boundless vistas of mundanity have opened to me

This is what a pogrom looks like: men in masks coming to drive you from your home. This is a collective failure of our political and media class because we did not have the courage to say no, and because too many were allowed to embrace this without shame

Saul Staniforth@saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 2mo ago

#BBCBreakfast: "... families had to be led to safety through the flames.. it wasn't just homes, cars were also torched by young masked men in these predominantly unionist streets, but the target here was immigrants.." This is what the likes of Reform are inciting.

Spotted at the Bolivia v Scotland match

Politicians skirt around it. The media skirts around it. But, we have a very sinister far right, racist problem in the UK. Reform and Restore… two cheeks of the same hideous arse… flooding the zone with their hate, their lies and their howling inadequacy. If they’re our future, we’re done for.

Tony Blair thinks the UK should closely align itself with the policy decisions of a man who only survived the COVID years because he was outsmarted by the childproof caps on his bottles of bleach #fuckofftony #andthenfuckoffsomemore

Look what finally made it to Arran! @mygoditsraining.bsky.social’s new book. 2nd image from the acknowledgements nails my perfect mode of work - discuss ideas, lob others in, saunter off before the hard work starts & still get a namecheck and some credit

2026 Me: Hey 1996 me, in 30 years time you'll be furious at everything Tony Blair says and think John Major makes some pretty sensible points 1996 Me: Fuck, so I'm doomed to become more conservative as I get older 2026 Me: Well not exactly

Climate change is real and it's happening and it's only going to get worse until everyone wakes the fuck up. By far the biggest threat to us all. We don't have another planet we can go to.

My portraits from a Draw Each Other session over Zoom. Each 15 min

My 4 pictures picked out for the bank holiday weekend Arran Visual Arts exhibition

There is no respect for the old ways. I just washed the car and not one person walked by and said “When you’re done with that you can do mine”. We used to be a proper country

Fresh circle of hell now available - local pub has decided that having to open a webpage via QR code to access the menu isn’t faff and annoying enough and now asks you to interact with an AI chatbot 🤢

Your regular reminder that even a survey that didn‘t ask about Richard Dawkins got the answer that scientists say he is full of shit www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

British scientists really, really dislike Richard Dawkins, new study discover

The investigation into science's public image didn't even ask about the atheist professor, but it got an answer anyway

independent.co.uk

HappyToast@happytoast.co.uk · 3mo ago

"and somehow, this AI knows that what I have typed is correct"

My Mum treated herself to some sketchbooks and pencils to start drawing so we went out and about for an hour or so yesterday in search of likely spots. My sketches while we sat - the marker stone is www.arranartsheritagetrail.com/placemarkers... relating to Sir David Young Cameron

Feathers McGraw gets everywhere

Edward Elderman@elderman.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Sculpture with rooster head, was found in a tomb at Gaochang, a Tang city on the edge of the Taklamakan Desert, 7th-10th century, Tang Dynasty, China.

OK, now that paper is a very cool read

Danna Staaf@dannastaaf.bsky.social · 3mo ago

What do I think about the giant Cretaceous octopuses? - First that I'm delighted people are asking me 😁 - Second that WOW! Scientists used an amazing technique to discover HUGE fossil cephalopod beaks! 🤩 - Third that OH BOY do I have questions...🧵🧪🐙 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Another Goat Fell scrawl

Dundonald Castle from the visitor centre

This is the kind of thing that happens when I have and idle thought and slightly too much time available. Pencils4tea online live portrait session, ~3min per pose

5 min landscape sketch acrylic marker and brush pen

After living through the Nazi & atomic bomb eras, Tove Jansson writings would often encompass fearful ideas about loss of a familiar world. However she would balance this with characters who displayed kindness & community, showing goodness even in the darkest times #BookArtWeek

Did some readings for this little BBC piece on extinct English pronouns www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Wit, unker, git: The lost medieval pronouns of English intimacy

Tales of love and adventure from 1,000 years ago reveal a dazzling range of now-extinct English pronouns. They capture something unique about how people once thought about "two-ness".

bbc.com

Gosh! Goatfell sketched in a gush of gouache

A great review of The Survivor from Oline at Shelf Awareness... www.shelf-awareness.com/readers/2026...