John Coombes
@jecoombes.bsky.social
artist, writer and independent filmmaker - trying to see through the gap between the billboards
The hardest thing to manipulate and move around is undoubtably a double mattress. The second hardest is an A3 laminating sheet.
October 8, 2025 at 1:06 PM
The hardest thing to manipulate and move around is undoubtably a double mattress. The second hardest is an A3 laminating sheet.
I worry about how other people live their lives when you consider most clothes washing powders are sold on their ability to deal with "really tough stains". What are we doing wrong?
July 26, 2025 at 8:36 AM
I worry about how other people live their lives when you consider most clothes washing powders are sold on their ability to deal with "really tough stains". What are we doing wrong?
Why? Why would any sane person do this? Ah! He's not sane, he's insane - they all are. How did we get here?
RFK Jr. ordered the NIH’s Integrated Research Facility in Frederick to stop all research on serious infectious diseases yesterday at 5:00 PM.
They study pathogens like Ebola there. You may be familiar with it from The Hot Zone.
www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...
They study pathogens like Ebola there. You may be familiar with it from The Hot Zone.
www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...
RFK Jr.'s HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research
NIAID's Integrated Research Facility is one of the few federal facilities charged with studying Ebola. Tuesday afternoon, all of its work was put on indefinite pause by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s departm...
www.wired.com
May 1, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Why? Why would any sane person do this? Ah! He's not sane, he's insane - they all are. How did we get here?
Reposted by John Coombes
We could just be reading great books, watching good movies, and eating fruit. Instead we have to survive/fight miserable power hoarders. What a waste of limited time.
February 13, 2025 at 3:43 AM
We could just be reading great books, watching good movies, and eating fruit. Instead we have to survive/fight miserable power hoarders. What a waste of limited time.
The number of footpaths around here is amazing, I've been on a walk everyday for a year and I've hardly been on exactly the same route twice. Big thank you to #kirkleescouncil #barnsleycouncil for all the gates and stiles.
February 4, 2025 at 11:47 AM
The number of footpaths around here is amazing, I've been on a walk everyday for a year and I've hardly been on exactly the same route twice. Big thank you to #kirkleescouncil #barnsleycouncil for all the gates and stiles.
A dark night on Spook Hill
February 3, 2025 at 6:49 AM
A dark night on Spook Hill
Let us not forget that the wonderful illustrator, W Heath-Robinson, was inventing complicated machines to do simple tasks, before Rube Goldberg got in on the act.
January 29, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Let us not forget that the wonderful illustrator, W Heath-Robinson, was inventing complicated machines to do simple tasks, before Rube Goldberg got in on the act.
I find it fascinating, and indeed terrifying, that the rich & powerful people poised to ruin the world are such uncharismatic, illiterate, unpleasant, ugly, vacuous people. But then I guess you can’t be a billionaire unless you are a hard-faced sociopath with no charm or respect for others.
January 17, 2025 at 6:48 AM
I find it fascinating, and indeed terrifying, that the rich & powerful people poised to ruin the world are such uncharismatic, illiterate, unpleasant, ugly, vacuous people. But then I guess you can’t be a billionaire unless you are a hard-faced sociopath with no charm or respect for others.
It's all very well saying Labour aren't doing very well, but no political party could do well after the Tory government totally bankrupted the country with its corruption and economically disastrous decision to leave the EU.
January 9, 2025 at 8:21 AM
It's all very well saying Labour aren't doing very well, but no political party could do well after the Tory government totally bankrupted the country with its corruption and economically disastrous decision to leave the EU.
Art is the daughter of memory
December 6, 2024 at 9:29 AM
Art is the daughter of memory
an artist's dilemma, neatly summed up by Robert Graves:
He found a formula for drawing comic rabbits,
This formula for drawing comic rabbits paid,
Till in the end he could not change the tragic habits,
This formula for drawing comic rabbits made.
He found a formula for drawing comic rabbits,
This formula for drawing comic rabbits paid,
Till in the end he could not change the tragic habits,
This formula for drawing comic rabbits made.
December 5, 2024 at 10:08 AM
an artist's dilemma, neatly summed up by Robert Graves:
He found a formula for drawing comic rabbits,
This formula for drawing comic rabbits paid,
Till in the end he could not change the tragic habits,
This formula for drawing comic rabbits made.
He found a formula for drawing comic rabbits,
This formula for drawing comic rabbits paid,
Till in the end he could not change the tragic habits,
This formula for drawing comic rabbits made.
When I'm not filming or editing, I'm drawing
November 19, 2024 at 11:31 PM
When I'm not filming or editing, I'm drawing
It's a strange feeling, starting up on a new platform. As if I need to introduce myself, "hello, I am..."
November 12, 2024 at 5:19 PM
It's a strange feeling, starting up on a new platform. As if I need to introduce myself, "hello, I am..."
looking for a breath of fresh air
November 12, 2024 at 4:42 PM
looking for a breath of fresh air