This is an astonishing statement, a complete fantasy. Baseless Techbro PR babble. The arts is a huge industry in the UK, raking in billions despite a huge lack of central support. Our government now appear to want to crater this to facilitate thieves. Write to your MP.
I've worked in tech policy since 1999 and every single time a politician talks about "getting the balance right" it means they're about to absolute ratfuck you.
All pleasures are guilty pleasures if you have high enough anxiety
Swear to fuck I’ve only received one Christmas card this year and it’s from Michael D Higgins.
If 20 years of research on the effects of plastics had taught me anything, it's that everyone thinks it's awful and then nothing changes.
Landscape format in acrylics. Foreground: limestone karst in lilac and blue-grey, then long rough yellow-green grass before a dry stone wall which dips in middle showing full narrow white trunk of small tree leaning to the right and topped with scant green foliage with touches of red. Stones in walls are rendered in pale blue with dark blue shadows and crevices. They show a long narrow side facing viewer and mostly upright or tilted. Behind is wide areas of flat lilac-grey karst, likes fields of stone, with dry stone walls running across and some dark green bushes until along the horizon a strip of low blue-green hills with some darker trees and hedgerows smudged in. A larger long hill of lilac is behind that and on the right further away is the edge of a larger pale blue mountain. Sky is a very pale grey. Signed bottom left: Liam Daly
"Burren Tree" One of my earlier Burren paintings, it came out of a cycling visit to my favourite limestone karst region of Ireland. I do like the other parts of County Clare, but find the Burren's stone walls on fields of stone intoxicating. #SpeirGorm #ArtAdventCalendar
on some real shit I wish you a very merry christmas. like deadass I hope that shit jolly as fuck
Rube Goldberg: Sorry I'm late, the chicken didn't knock over the watering can
Once upon a time, not the entire internet was 4chan. Only 4chan was 4chan, because everywhere else would kick you out for Doing 4chan in their spaces.
It sounds utopian, but it is true.
A mentality I had to grow out of in my early 20s, but “Debate me bro!” types have tricked the entire internet into thinking it’s “your job” to look at a screen and force yourself to be mad. That’s what Twitter is now.
That is not normal. You use to go online to improve your mood by feeding a Neopet
St Giles-in-the-Fields From ‘The Vanishing Song' By Jay Hulme Beneath her foundations: Cowslip. Foxglove. The fields burrow under her. Among this earth there’s something that’s never been London. How can it be that a church precedes the city? A dirt lane. Sheep track. Apple tree. Earth coiling into something else. Here we prayed it better - prayed it different. Capture the meaning of things inside prayer books. Stained glass. Balustrades. The old font buried beneath the bell tower ringing to remember the times we forgot. She grows like a flower. Like wheat. Tall and unfurling - spire uncurling from the ruins and the death. Gild the woodwork. Tune the organ. Dust off the portraits of people long gone. The city will claim this as centre, claim this as heartland; but she remembers the fields that flourish under her - roots too deep for digging. You cannot erase a thing that never forgets.
"[...] she remembers the fields that
flourish under her - roots too deep for digging.
You cannot erase a thing that never forgets."
3 prints in black and white. One has sea creatures, one has birds, and one has land animals and some plants. Each plant and animal has its name written in Irish alongside it in a Celtic-style script.
I've admired these @ciaraioch.bsky.social prints for ages and got them for my birthday today! Absolutely beautiful.
Meme with the title 'Mary, watching churches everywhere quote the Magnificat' Underneath are two photos of Captain Ray Holt (character from the police comedy show Brooklyn 99) with the captions 'Why is no one casting down the mighty?' 'I specifically requested it'
Posted last year by @karenod.bsky.social and well worth another shout:
Phase Transition xkcd.com/3025
[I get home to find a note on the refrigerator that says "I'm leaving and i'm taking the kids"]
me: [unplugs fridge from power outlet] you're not going anywhere, you piece of shit
IG reels with a man and a robot woman which says : I hate to say this but l definitely see this happening in the next 10-20 years if women don't start lowering their standards. It's very sad too because you should want an ACTUAL human CONNECTION.
women you better lower your standards or else i’m warning you i will become even more pathetic
Also every newspaper is leading with “anti Israel policies” in the headline. That allows the foreign minister to control the narrative with a blatant lie. Ireland is choosing to uphold genocide law in the highest international criminal court. That’s what’s happening here
Swearing off self-help books next year. 2025 is the year of self-hindrance.
So magical, it’s what it’s all about really isn’t it
It's making a list,
Half of it's wrong,
It'll steal all your stories and artwork and songs,
GenAI is coming to town.
too many people see video games as products and not as culture
everyone would appreciate games more if they followed who is creating them instead of only following IPs
real life “lore” is infinitely more interesting than fictional lore and it also helps you better understand the fictional lore too
oh, you love christmas? name five crimes santa has committed
Nobody has ever dropped a more fire comeback than, “The bar is so low it’s a tripping hazard in hell, and yet here you are limbo dancing with the devil.”
The SANTA PLEASE STOP HERE signs really annoy me. Guys, he’s done the list, he’s packed the gear. This is a guy who lives and breathes logistics. Too late for this bullshit
Me: What’s your Wi-fi password?
Priest: Sir, this is a funeral.
Me: Is that all caps?
“All donations that originate from abroad, no matter who is the final donor, should be banned. Only UK citizens should be allowed to donate to British political organisations. This would, by necessity mean no donations from private companies; PLCs, LTDs, whatever.”
Around 2004, when I had to save some work in school.
Me: [leaning in for a kiss] "Thanks for all you do for me."
Barista: [leans back] “Ma'am, just pay for the coffee please.”
