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Miles davis is a genius, Davis miles are lawyers. Likes: Chaos, choking on rocket, wine. Dislikes: Earnest bands doing earnest music while doing earnest faces

Almost all paintings of Jesus show him as a baby or dying in agony, and always naked or near-naked. Imagine taking Jesus to an exhibition of these and trying to convince him it's not weird.

“I mean, your society’s broken… Should we blame the rich, powerful people who caused it? No let’s blame the people with no power & no money & these immigrants who don’t even have the vote, yeah it must be their fucking fault.” —Iain Banks died #OTD, 9 June, 2013 www.theguardian.com/books/2013/j...

Iain Banks: the final interview

Iain Banks died last Sunday, just before the publication of his final novel The Quarry. Last month he talked to Stuart Kelly about writing, politics and all the things still left to do . . .

theguardian.com

'A Drawing of the Shelf Unit Beside My Desk on February 27th 2024 at 2:35pm'. Part still life, part Pop Art, an artwork that can't be replicated/imitated by #AI (which can't deliver true detail). Every detail is verifiable, right down to correct fonts on book & record spines, & even product codes...

An illustration of a shelf full of books, CDs, records and various knicknacksMy illustration: close-ups of record spinesMy illustration: close-ups of book spinesMy illustration: close up on my reflection in the camera lens

Well this was fun. Did the BBC’s ‘Strong Message Here’ with Stewart Lee & Armando Ianucci & got to slag off incoming BBC Director General/tech bro, Matt Brittin 😂 Oh & snuck in an Andrew Neil drive-by too just for the hell of it 🎯 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Strong Message Here - Technological Republic (with Stewart Lee and Carole Cadwalladr) - BBC Sounds

Why are tech companies releasing manifestos? We look at the language of the tech bro.

bbc.co.uk