All that cash and natural resources spaffed on AI, still can't do hands. Awful

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We clipped my sermon about hope from @thebugle.bsky.social if you want to enjoy and share it and my dopey face: www.instagram.com/reel/DXUrVZ8...

You're welcome, yeah there's a whole load of tiny details!

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This is a great podcast that digs into the (not so) hidden messaging in the painting

Yes, a great heartfelt, thoughtful monologue, nice one

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Been said a million times before but knowing how to play the piano, and then knowing which wrong notes are funny. I didn't really appreciate these things when Inwas seven

^ agh, Sentimental Value, rather

The last two Joachim Triers were great, Sentimental Journey and The Worst Person in the World

It feels like the label content has been wrongly applied to actual human creativity for years (when the epithet 'content creators' started to be applied to YT and Insta video makers) and has only now found it's true home as a label for AI generated things.

"I didn't get where I am today by watching Americanizations of The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin"

32 of 36: The Ghost in the MP3 (2014) RYAN MAGUIRE YouTube video by Museum of Portable Sound

This is one of the most revelatory and inspiring things I've heard recently - a reverse engineered version of Suzanne Vega's song 'Tom's Diner,' revealing all the sounds stripped out when encoded to an MP3.

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‘The need for support is everywhere’: working-class arts group expands to north of England The Working Arts Club is working to counter the stark class disparity within the UK creative sector

‘The need for support is everywhere’: working-class arts group expands to north of England. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

More Nature Songs - Eohippus YouTube video by vektorgt

To my shame, I've never seen that film! He's very cute. Ray knew his stuff, shooting on film with no video assist, having to wait til the end of the week to get the film back from Boots to see if it came out ok. The only other place I've come across an eohippus is this song which is nice

CONRAD POOHS DISAPPEARANCE SOLVED

I'd like to think Turn the Page was inspired by Mandelson in the same way Toxic was inspired by Noel 'Supervet' Fitzpatrick

Read this: This Alaska college student eats AI art for lunch Read this: This Alaska college student eats AI art for lunch

fuck ai

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Last couple of days left on my January sale. Ends at midnight, uk time on the 31st. Get 15% off with the code NEWLEAF.

All 2.4m of Britain’s creative workers are at risk — and we know why A new report into the impact of AI on the creative sector makes for apocalyptic reading. The government must act now

'the UK creative industries — which contributed £125 billion to the economy in 2024 and supported 2.4 million jobs — are being destroyed by an AI sector that... contributed just £11 billion in the same year and supported only 85,000 jobs." www.thetimes.com/culture/film...

A photo of a copy of the Repeater edition of The Weird and The Eerie by Mark Fisher. The book was designed by Johnny Bull.

"The sensation of the eerie occurs either when there is something present where there should be nothing, or there is nothing present when there should be something"

The Weird and The Eerie by Mark Fisher

Snub TV (UK) - YouTube Snub TV was an alternative culture television program that ran from 1987 to 1989. The original program, while made in the UK, was developed by American produ...

Any excuse to bollock on about this again... Snub TV is available, nearly entirely, on YouTube here, complete with VHS glitches and BBC2 idents...
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7 reasons why The Thing (1982) is a Christmas film:

1) snow
2) bearded men concealing surprises
3) compulsory party games
4) introverts shunning group activities
5) digestive issues
6) revellers bursting open to reveal partially assimilated canine lifeforms
7) knitwear

Lynda Barry (2016)

My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

I think allowances must be made for the possibility that the artist was tripping absolute balls at the time

This from the latest @bylinetimes.bsky.social in an article by Mic Wright about a Spectator awards bash, where the key awards went to the most far right politicians to honour their racism & intolerance. And yet, there are Labour people attending, validating & normalising this far right publication…

Zadie Smith.

Closing for the day and even 1 online sale overnight would tip us past the rent line (and honestly no harm in 2 sales just to play it safe!)

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