The End of the Year Show | 2025 Edition
Well here we are again, the end of another year. Things have been pretty quiet here, and for that I apologise, but there are as always reasons. I wrote 12 months ago that 2024 had been pretty 5H1T, seems 2025 didn't get the message that it was supposed to be…
AudioMo 2025 Day 7 in which I moan about driving, poorly signposted diversons and getting old #AudioMo
It's been ten years since I went freelance #audiomo
It's been ten years since I went freelance. Do you have any questions you'd like to ask me?
tontowilliams.com/2025/06/02/a...
AudioMo 2025 Day 1, wondering whether I have the emotional bandwidth for #audiomo this year
Yes, Skylarks are ground nesters
Tony Blair is literally being paid by a man with one of the highest carbon footprints on the planet - Larry Ellison. The founder of Oracle is his biggest funder & these techsolutionist remarks have to be seen for what they are: tech lobbying
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Water Lilies
Water Lilies, 1899 #artbots #monet
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/10752
I was sorry to learn of Ken’s death. I didn’t know him very well, but he was a serious scholar of the genre, and more appreciated in the US than at home. May he rest in peace.
Galway crime writer Ken Bruen dies aged 74 www.rte.ie/news/regiona...
Not Ubuntu for Oxfordshire then?
Some years ago, a friend and I ran a camera trap here in the mountains of northern Greece. One day, just above our Prespa village, we captured this footage of a European brown bear. And this, I've decided, is the same energy I wish to carry into the new year with me.
Royal Palm Avenue
Royal Palm Avenue https://www.wikiart.org/en/marianne-north/royal-palm-avenue-1872
Ukrainian Night
Ukrainian Night https://www.wikiart.org/en/arkhip-kuindzhi/ukrainian-night-1876
The new parrot is loudly demanding I play Chris Rea's Driving Home for Christmas over and over again so he can sing along with it. I'm fine. I'm fine. I'm fine. I'm fine.
Alan Jacobs on the potential for the enshitiffication of Substack blog.ayjay.org/substack-vs-...
It’s nearly the end of November and it’s warm enough that bats are still out hunting just before dawn. Crazy weather.
Downloaded my Twitter archive this morning and deleted my account there. I’ve been there since 2007 but enough is enough
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That’s some algorithm
Boilermakers
It's been a while, but here's my end of the year 2023 post: tontowilliams.com/2023/12/26/e...
Caramelised red onion and parsnip soup
Lakota squash?
Finally, my TIME analysis broke news in looking at how DeSantis' predatory/ contradictory policy, lack of policy, cronyism and made things worse, fueled by eye-opening info from state-wide experts. https://time.com/6288683/florida-desantis-environment-climate-change/
