Legal personhood for rivers counters the corporate trick of making companies ‘people’ to dodge liability. But Robert Macfarlane’s idea of rivers as alive risks reducing nature to human terms—colonising it with a literal equivalence to the human body. Our metaphorical links are much richer than that

Great British Railways- South West nationalised!

Kinder Surprise- You must know that no kid wants the pre-made toy, that’s just a no choice toy. What was special was the unmade toy you had to build yourself, which was like seeing bts of the secret world of toy design/assembly.

90 day pause takes the next around of tariffs beyond the UK local elections, so Farage may be hoping the UK electorate have very short memories.

Tests for a new version of Thrum. Needs brighter lights, more machines interacting, maybe strings not full guitar.

Kemi Badenoch’s opinion on Stockport murders... She blamed it on a lack of integration. The lack of a rational link is wild, apart from a lack of integration between Mental Health support and Prevent. She also said if we start talking about evidence for her opinion, we are lost. The reverse is true

Here’s a thing- we don’t call this the ‘20’s because we still think of that as the 1920’s. That must have also been the case in the 1920’s, they would have thought of that as the 1820’s. Until maybe the 1950’s when enough time had passed and births and deaths had happened. and the 1720’s, and 1620’s

a tree and an ominous bank of cloud

To make the same anxiety inducing joke as last time: Trump will be a unifying president, he will try to take us all with him.

Ian Hislop (chief editor of @privateeyenews.bsky.social and long standing panellist on UK Have I got news for you) eviscerates Musk on LBC. 👏👏👏 youtu.be/diHcpZvBjT0?...

Next stage of Thrum XI in process of simplifying, rebuilding from scratch and making it portable. Lots of problem solving which is the best. There is a mad noise that has emerged, like two ball bearing colliding. All good.
#expandedanimation #experimentalmusic #artistsmovingimage #kineticart

A shower, a shit, a shave and a shoeshine,
That’s it, sack time,
Everybody looks like Earnest Borgnine.
#johncooperclarke

Thrum IX at Fredrikstad Animation Festival this year.
Thrum is an ongoing series of animation/music machines.
#art #expandedanimation #kineticart #installation #experimentalmusic

HP Instant Ink, if they can’t take your monthly fee, they reach into your home and turn off your printer. But HP isnt letting me log in! it says I have unstable internet! Doesn’t matter the ink belongs to us. But I paid for it! Yes but you got it slightly cheaper. #HP #instantink #hpinstantink

So, farewell John Prescott. A man described by the late Jeremy Hardy as the man hired by Tony Blair to shaft the working classes in their own accent. Punched a egg throwing man who many thought deserved it, ran a massive department and played an important part in the Kyoto Climate Change agreement.