Moulin Rouge!, Le Mans, Asterix and Cleopatra, The French Connection.

I would be lying if I said I wasn't delighted with the unintentional theme here. #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched

A redrawn version of a classic Fantastic Four pinup page by Jack Kirby with the crew of the Artemis 2

My tribute to the Artemis 2 crew in the style of Jack Kirby

"To put it bluntly, an X post today receives less than 3% of the views a single tweet delivered seven years ago."
If you think it is necessary to be on Twitter to communicate your fact-based worldview, the reality is that worldview is being smothered.

a close up of a gollum from the lord of the rings with a very angry look on his face Alt: a close up of a gollum from the lord of the rings with a very angry look on his face

Social media apps as Lord of the Rings characters, a thread:

Twitter: Twitter is Gollum. Began as a normal halfling. Overexposure to evil left it thin and stretched and bitter.

I was just talking to a friend today about Dolly Parton's Imagination Library - new books every month, totally for free, for kids ages 1-5.

My son was part of the program - this is a copy of the letter that came with his last book, right after his 5th birthday.

You urgently need five more songs

🔴 100 conversations later ... What I've learned recording 100 episodes of The Creator Spotlight Podcast

If you're considering getting into podcasting, then there are some fab logistical insights here: www.creatorspotlight.com/p/100-conver...

Don't forget that Sarah Pascoe called you a boffin on national telly

I think that CD was the only place you could get the jazz brilliance of "MTV makes me want to smoke crack"

It's the quote that makes it.

Three under ninety minutes:

We play music at dinner, and tonight one of the boys asked me to put on "that brainwashing song from Zoolander". They definitely don't know what it's about.

It's just started snowing...

Ah good Outlook spell checker is back to changing "Co working space" to "Cowering space"

Me and Cthulhu Down By The Schoolyard

I would paint this on the canvas, but fear it would look like I'd made it up

A photo featuring a blank canvas on an easel in the background, while in the foreground my cat enters the left of frame sideways, with a "Hey!" expression on his face.

Trying to think what I could paint on this canvas...

Where can digital make your creative process easier or more vibrant & engaging, and where do the pitfalls lie? We talk to 3 artists about how they have evolved their creative practices to include digital

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YouTube Makes UK Ratings History By Beating BBC On Audience Reach YouTube continues to upend the natural order of television in the UK, officially unseating the BBC as the nation's most-watched service, per Barb.

A significant moment.

YouTube reach now higher than all BBC content combined.

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Digital Heritage Network Evaluation Tender  | The Space Invitation to tender for an independent evaluation

Reminder - Invitation to tender!

We are looking for an organisation or individual to provide an independent evaluation of a new programme of work for the rural heritage sector in the Scottish Highlands and Islands - and particularly interested in applications from those based in #Scotland.

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BEANO artist Laura Howell is delivering a free online masterclass on Writing and Drawing for Kids Comics this Tuesday, 13th January 2026, as part of the Comics Youth “Comics Declassified” project

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The line ”If was a sculptor, but then again, no” is the shortest time that anyone has ever considered a career in the creative arts.

Reposted this from almost 2 years ago, & another from earlier than that, because Google's at it again.

OpenAI & google tried the "just don't talk about it, ever" thing with prejudiced chat outputs, back in 2023. It's not a solution, for reasons noted 👇🏾, but also because it can't account for context