@lukeoram.bsky.social

Artist and illustrator for music & games. Also known to play guitar in noisy rubbish band Atomçk. I do not use AI. linktr.ee/LukeOram

So weird that whenever a band gets cancelled for transparently offensive behaviour, the hordes of defender-posters are mostly American.

Because I hate myself, I will read the comments beneath the reactionary articles Facebook is now full of. The Spectator boasts many of the most hateful and stupid posters yet seen.

The idea that a piece of art *ought* to have high fidelity towards its basis would prevent Homer having written The Odyssey in the first place.

Like a lot of weirdos, my primary exposure to football has been my inability to live up to skill/interest expectations being used as justification for my being bullied at school.

Good conversation. I relate to Remski's thoughts around having experienced a better society when younger and specifically how that has impacted the arts etc. Younger UK people I know simply haven't worked in conditions where 60% of their wages went on rent.

Matthew Remski@matthewremski.bsky.social · 3w ago

Today I sit down with the indomitable @nolore.bsky.social, journalist and labour organizer, to discuss her five-volume Canada in Decline series — a forensic history of the dismantling of Canada's social democracy by the forces of capital. open.substack.com/pub/matthewr...

As funny as it is to see Barney and the boys turn up on NPR tiny desk concerts, fair play he looks great. Ageing backwards.

*hitting play on a The Rest is Politics video* Well, maybe this time they won't just blindly defend wealth and dismiss anyone who isn't a neoliberal cultural elite...

If you told me right now that this current heatwave situation in the UK is going to continue for much longer, I'd immediately die. It is utterly vile feeling wet all day and developing dermatitis wherever clothes touch. I don't understand how anyone can enjoy this.

For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Loss: soul [allegedly commodity, non existent]. Gains: entirety of planet Earth [value= entire economic output of entire Earth + resources]. Seems like a good deal tbh

In gremlins 2 when a panicked Pheobe Cates pulls the fire alarm, the fire alarm pontificates “Fire! The untamed element, oldest of man’s mysteries, giver of warmth [etc]” anyway that’s what it’s like when you google something now.

Imagine watching SILENT RUNNING and thinking Lowell has gone crazy, instead of seeing what has actually happened: that the primordial spirit of the forest has granted Dewey the drone a soul.

In the free market of ideas, a war is taking place between two shadow armies. One insists climate change isn't real and that "IT'S CALLED SUMMER". The other insists it IS real, and caused by weather control technology and chemtrails.

In case any non-brits wonder why we struggled with the heatwave, today is a normal June day and it's 20 degrees c colder than last Thursday.