Ceri Shields
@cerishields.bsky.social
Painting, drawing, printmaking. Also music, food, and long walks on wild moors.
Move slowly and make things.
Move slowly and make things.
These are the advocates of cultural cohesion. These are culture warriors who are antagonistic to anything even slightly unlike themselves.
I share nothing with these people but skin colour. I have no intention of becoming cohesive with them.
I share nothing with these people but skin colour. I have no intention of becoming cohesive with them.
November 15, 2025 at 12:38 PM
These are the advocates of cultural cohesion. These are culture warriors who are antagonistic to anything even slightly unlike themselves.
I share nothing with these people but skin colour. I have no intention of becoming cohesive with them.
I share nothing with these people but skin colour. I have no intention of becoming cohesive with them.
Quite a plot twist when Elon Musk uses his trillion dollars to finally establish his base on Mars only to meet his nemesis amongst the tentacles of the terrifying Carnivorous Death Ball.
November 7, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Quite a plot twist when Elon Musk uses his trillion dollars to finally establish his base on Mars only to meet his nemesis amongst the tentacles of the terrifying Carnivorous Death Ball.
The Frick does have a very fine ⬇️ van Eyck — though perhaps not as fine as the one (as yet still safely) in the Louvre.
November 6, 2025 at 9:35 PM
The Frick does have a very fine ⬇️ van Eyck — though perhaps not as fine as the one (as yet still safely) in the Louvre.
Ah, blowing your own trumpet lichen.
October 25, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Ah, blowing your own trumpet lichen.
Like others I was surprised to hear Ann Summers were diversifying into the gardening sector. But I thought I’d try a sack of their grass seed and I must say the results are as you would expect.
October 25, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Like others I was surprised to hear Ann Summers were diversifying into the gardening sector. But I thought I’d try a sack of their grass seed and I must say the results are as you would expect.
The ballroom may look oversized beside the White House but there is something very Spinal Tap about Trump’s planned triumphal arch
October 21, 2025 at 5:14 PM
The ballroom may look oversized beside the White House but there is something very Spinal Tap about Trump’s planned triumphal arch
We can be confident Domenichino did not make a field trip to Sinai to research that landscape.
October 21, 2025 at 1:03 PM
We can be confident Domenichino did not make a field trip to Sinai to research that landscape.
A quick bit of research, apparently spiked wheel bolts are A Thing in America. Good Lord! What is happening inside these people’s heads and how are they allowed out of secure facilities?
October 21, 2025 at 12:57 PM
A quick bit of research, apparently spiked wheel bolts are A Thing in America. Good Lord! What is happening inside these people’s heads and how are they allowed out of secure facilities?
Also, what on earth is going on with the bolts on that truck’s front wheels?
October 21, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Also, what on earth is going on with the bolts on that truck’s front wheels?
That fashion for deliberate rips in clothing looks so silly. Ah well, at least that wouldn’t last.
October 16, 2025 at 2:04 PM
That fashion for deliberate rips in clothing looks so silly. Ah well, at least that wouldn’t last.
Not now, goofy adolescent brain! This is obviously very important and serious
October 14, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Not now, goofy adolescent brain! This is obviously very important and serious
Ooo — which reminds me, I have my favourite ever @pantspants.bsky.social drawing framed on the wall by the door of my studio, so I can glance at it feelingly every time I leave.
(Photographed at a bit of an angle to try to cope with reflected lights.)
(Photographed at a bit of an angle to try to cope with reflected lights.)
October 13, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Ooo — which reminds me, I have my favourite ever @pantspants.bsky.social drawing framed on the wall by the door of my studio, so I can glance at it feelingly every time I leave.
(Photographed at a bit of an angle to try to cope with reflected lights.)
(Photographed at a bit of an angle to try to cope with reflected lights.)
By the by, that article is an example of A.I. being cited as making an important difference. You see that sort of thing a fair amount at present and for all I know it is right. But they never explain *how* A.I. helps, as distinct from regular old-fashioned computer algorithms?
October 13, 2025 at 2:56 PM
By the by, that article is an example of A.I. being cited as making an important difference. You see that sort of thing a fair amount at present and for all I know it is right. But they never explain *how* A.I. helps, as distinct from regular old-fashioned computer algorithms?
Post you from a different era.
Oh OK. Here’s me in a different era. Thanks to my gender unspecific first name you can decide for yourselves which one you think is me, I’m not fussed
Oh OK. Here’s me in a different era. Thanks to my gender unspecific first name you can decide for yourselves which one you think is me, I’m not fussed
October 13, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Post you from a different era.
Oh OK. Here’s me in a different era. Thanks to my gender unspecific first name you can decide for yourselves which one you think is me, I’m not fussed
Oh OK. Here’s me in a different era. Thanks to my gender unspecific first name you can decide for yourselves which one you think is me, I’m not fussed
By this stage you may feel you need a diagram — and here it is! (Courtesy of Wiki.) You will be pleased to see that the few artists who are not called Pieter or Jan are indeed called Dave 🙂
October 10, 2025 at 12:42 PM
By this stage you may feel you need a diagram — and here it is! (Courtesy of Wiki.) You will be pleased to see that the few artists who are not called Pieter or Jan are indeed called Dave 🙂
A personification of Tory voters I wasn’t expecting today
October 9, 2025 at 12:49 PM
A personification of Tory voters I wasn’t expecting today
Kemi Badenoch here daring to imagine a Britian [sic] without ripoff English degrees
October 8, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Kemi Badenoch here daring to imagine a Britian [sic] without ripoff English degrees
Kemi is tobogganing headfirst down hill towards her ‘I am a fighter not a quitter’ moment. Surely today her last chance to save herself disappeared.
October 8, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Kemi is tobogganing headfirst down hill towards her ‘I am a fighter not a quitter’ moment. Surely today her last chance to save herself disappeared.
These things come in a variety of sizes. If the one you have there *doesn’t* sort it for you then you will need ⬇️ this style of adapter ring, easily available from Ebay, Amazon, etc.
October 5, 2025 at 4:04 PM
These things come in a variety of sizes. If the one you have there *doesn’t* sort it for you then you will need ⬇️ this style of adapter ring, easily available from Ebay, Amazon, etc.
As you say, it is striking that the woman has become the lightening rod for everyone’s anger, when lots of men are equally blameworthy including her husband. But then that smug, smug photo she posted of herself on her ill-gotten yacht during Covid… it’s a lightning rod she herself erected.
October 3, 2025 at 5:34 PM
As you say, it is striking that the woman has become the lightening rod for everyone’s anger, when lots of men are equally blameworthy including her husband. But then that smug, smug photo she posted of herself on her ill-gotten yacht during Covid… it’s a lightning rod she herself erected.
Trump: You should bring back the swimsuit round for selecting your Archbishop. I know all about swimsuit rounds.
King Charles: Have you seen my interesting china ornaments?
King Charles: Have you seen my interesting china ornaments?
October 3, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Trump: You should bring back the swimsuit round for selecting your Archbishop. I know all about swimsuit rounds.
King Charles: Have you seen my interesting china ornaments?
King Charles: Have you seen my interesting china ornaments?
Couple of days ago I was passed in a very narrow Devon lane by an enormous combine harvester which was joined umbilically to a big trailer also smothered in noisy machinery and all my brain could think was, ‘Crablogger’.
Some things stay with you for life.
Some things stay with you for life.
October 1, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Couple of days ago I was passed in a very narrow Devon lane by an enormous combine harvester which was joined umbilically to a big trailer also smothered in noisy machinery and all my brain could think was, ‘Crablogger’.
Some things stay with you for life.
Some things stay with you for life.
That’s in a street full of access covers but is the only patriotically painted one. Oddly, lots of the covers are these old pre-BT Post Office telegraph ones but none have flag graffiti. You’d have thought there was nothing more patriotic than the 1970s and the antiquated word ‘telegraph’ but nada 🤷♂️
September 26, 2025 at 8:29 AM
That’s in a street full of access covers but is the only patriotically painted one. Oddly, lots of the covers are these old pre-BT Post Office telegraph ones but none have flag graffiti. You’d have thought there was nothing more patriotic than the 1970s and the antiquated word ‘telegraph’ but nada 🤷♂️
First one of these I’ve seen in the wild. ‘This is a patriotic access cover! Hands off our access covers, forrins!’
September 26, 2025 at 8:18 AM
First one of these I’ve seen in the wild. ‘This is a patriotic access cover! Hands off our access covers, forrins!’