I'm loving all these hashtags of the everyday and the mundane on here. Thanks to @tamarphotography.bsky.social for bringing #wheelieBinWednesday to my attention. -- #photography

@tamarphotography.bsky.social This is just what you were asking me about earlier :)

Offprint@offprint.app · last wk.

Extending the offer to everyone, we’re close to a finished Substack migration tool. If you’d like to migrate off Substack and help us build this tool out, contact us!

I've just posted my second article (a mere four months since my first one!) at simonblackbourn.offprint.app/a/3mrq5qxc2n... . I doubt it will win any literary or photographic prizes, but I'm starting to feel that I might be able to slowly start to enjoy the process of writing. -- #photography 📷

hello yellow

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I love Pixies for their mastery of extremely short but perfectly formed songs: most tracks on their first three albums are way under three minutes and only one is over four minutes.

The Quietus@thequietus.com · last wk.

'Then there is extreme brevity as novelty, which is its own sport: Napalm Death’s ‘You Suffer’, roughly a second long and a fixture of the record books, is a brilliant joke about the limits of the form.' A Brief Encounter: In Praise of the Shortest Songs buff.ly/ViGA7im

'Accidentally' setting my phone to Do Not Disturb mode for the whole of Monday morning is from now on my new way of starting every week. Highly recommended.

Apocalyptic is a massively overused word, but there really is no other word for scenes like this 😢

Ignacio Villaverde@wildlandfirefig.bsky.social · 2w ago

Una de las localidades destruidas por el incendio en la Gironde visto desde una autobomba

The bravery of these fire crews is beyond words

Eva Helada@evaspinola70.bsky.social · 2w ago

Tremendo vídeo. No hay dinero que pueda pagar a esta gente. Gracias.

Not many activities are as deeply satisfying as shelling broad beans freshly picked from the allotment

"Ooh ooh, piccalilli shinpads"

Secret Drug Addict@scrtdrugaddict.bsky.social · 2w ago

This, all the other RTS street parties, squatting, anti roads and climate change protests, the free party scene... Feels like a very long ago time of youthful optimism and demand for change that the governments of the time very quickly decided had to be comprehensively stomped on.

Olaf Bayer@olafbayer.bsky.social · 3w ago

30 years ago Reclaim the Streets transformed the M41 in Shepards Bush, London into a party. A life changing day for 20 year old me pasttense.co.uk/2020/07/13/t...

Standing with the stones at the entrance to West Kennet long barrow near Avebury on a beautiful June evening just before sunset. -- #tombTuesday

Devonians were horrified to learn last week of plans for a massive AI data centre near Great Torrington, north Devon. The proposals from company XLinks Ltd would cover 850 acres of farmland. But who owns the land? I decided to investigate. 1/ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Plans for massive data centre near Great Torrington in Devon

Xlinks wants to build a Devon data campus but is facing opposition from residents.

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I took my little wooden 35mm pinhole camera along to an analogue photowalk in Exeter last weekend. I'm not used to shooting with it in such bright sun so I about half my shots are over-exposed. I do like this one, even though I have absolutely no idea why it came out pink and orange! -- #pinhole 📷

I'm sure that Tidal is nowhere near ethically perfect, but it's at least an improvement on Spotify and I have no regrets about switching last year. Their new policy on AI generated music and royalties seems pretty good.

Until recently, my dad regularly wore a pink La Coste t-shirt that I gave to him when I became a goth aged 17 and started dressing in nothing but black. I am now 55, so that t-shirt must have lasted at the very least 35 years.

Will Jennings📉🗳️@drjennings.bsky.social · last mo.

What item of clothing have you had the longest? (A question inspired by clearing out my wardrobe earlier today.)

When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

Reform UK councillors have introduced a motion to rescind King's Lynn and West Norfolk's climate emergency declaration and deprioritise decarbonisation efforts The council were going to vote on it on Thursday But the meeting has been postponed due to extreme heat

The entire Cure concert from last night is up on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvHG... (probably won't stay there long I imagine). I've been feeling a bit wobbly all day, so I wasn't in the least bit surprised when I had a big old cry to Pictures of You. Feel much better now. Thank you Mr Smith 🖤

The Cure - Primavera Sound Barcelona 05/06/2026

YouTube video by Tony Sousa

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I have come to realise that it is impossible for me to drive along this stretch of the B3212 over Dartmoor and not stop to photograph it. -- #Dartmoor #photography

Plymouth in the Guardian today www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

‘The potential is huge’: Plymouth hopes defence money will have it sailing again

Local leaders are optimistic investment and regeneration plans will help make ‘ocean city’ an appealing place to live

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So it turns out that slicing your thumb open with a serrated carving knife produces a surprising amount of blood

A lovely evening pottering on the allotment then a very leisurely bike ride to Devil's Point for the sunset.

Still won't flush.

simon blackbourn@simonblackbourn.net · 5mo ago

And to absolutely nobody's surprise here's Tony Blair popping up to give his unwanted opinion. He's like a turd that just won't flush.

Slept out under the stars last night by the coast in Cornwall. Temperature was perfect. Back home in the city tonight and I just know it's going to be clammy and horrible... 😩

Five motorway services in one day is not good for the soul.

Erik Satie played on the theremin and trombone by a bunch of weird Italians called Decostruttori Postmodernisti is even more wonderful than I imagined it would be www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q19x...

Gnossienne n°1 (Satie) - Decostruttori Postmodernisti

YouTube video by Decostruttori Postmodernisti

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Plymouth friends! 'The Land' is showing at Plymouth Arts Cinema from this Friday (with a panel discussion on Tuesday). Highly recommended if you are interested in the countryside, right to roam, ownership of land and rivers, etc. plymouthartscinema.org/whats-on/our... @righttoroam.bsky.social

Our Land (12A) | Plymouth Arts Cinema | Independent Cinema for Everyone | located at Arts University Plymouth.

Our Land dares to tread where few have trespassed before, asking the timely question of who has the right to roam in the English countryside?

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A misty morning at the allotments earlier this year. Tried to take some more photographs up there this weekend but it was just too sunny. Seems I really struggle to take photos in good weather these days! -- 📷 #blackandwhitephotography

#ECK #HumansofBluesky #ClassicMono #UrbanGaze 'The Joy of Multi-Storey Car Parks' Photographers must be the only group of people who actually like car parks. Thanks to @simonblackbourn.net (pictured) the joy is infectious. #Monochrome #BnW #BlackandWhite #StreetPhotography #Urban #carparks

Finally starting to fall in love with my Bombtrack after putting some chunky gravel tyres on it. Amazing what a difference it makes, feels like a completely different bike. Did a lovely ride in the sunshine along Drake's Trail for an obligatory sausage sarnie and cake at The Larder in Yelverton.