Sympathy for the Devs Noblesse oblige. Blindness to slow change. They do not invent, they only repeat, and what they repeat is corrupt. That which we weren’t innocent of, well, we most surely were ignorant of. Make Britain Work. Can’t get the staff. Don’t go to university, make money instead…

Submarine Volcano August, you have to live in it. Europe’s rivers run dry as scientists warn drought could be worst in 500 years. Crops, power plants, barge traffic, industry and fish populations devastated by parched waterways. Widespread record-breaking heatwaves. Sixty or seventy harvests left in our soil. Hybridisation of micro-cultures…

The Publican The regularity of shootings in the US is absurd, it would be comic if it were not so macabre. Multiple incidents at Fourth of July celebrations. A deep, sick fetish for death — the right using fear as a weapon to drive the vote. Putin dares the west…

Punks on Sylt In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is mocked and dismissed and ignored and shunned. Someone with a larger understanding, a larger vision, it doesn’t tend to end well for them (1). How does this advance my personal position? You have to think about that…

Skeuomorph Mona Lisa caked! Content caught me, competition for attention. Peel my eyes away from the Depp-Heard Rorschach test. For shame, for my sins. Lump sum. Look. This is where you want to be! Challenging headlines, some difficult results. Privacy campaigns are warning women that data on their menstrual cycle…

Discarded Pepperonis Inhale, exhale. Fantastic, joyous day. Eke out a living. Manic, sleepy, angry. I’m singing under my breath — It’s a struggle, to make ends meet — Under pressure, to express yourself… No one having the luxury of time anymore it seems. In the ramshackle gazebo, long on the…

Extinct / Extant Sunrise is here. Ukraine stands. Pope Francis pleads with the international community to truly commit to ending this abhorrent war: Rivers of blood and tears are flowing. This is not just a military operation but a war which sows death, destruction and misery. Continuous Russian shelling of…

Turtle Game The doomsday clock ticks more audibly tonight. You are seeing the world and current events, simultaneously missing the life immediately around you as you stare into a screen. I read a tweet about someone’s visit to Auschwitz, scroll to the next, a video of a nice Russian lady…

Won’t Get Fooled Again Utterly despicable. Indefensible, goes way beyond regaining trust. People unable to mourn their loved ones. Rage. Garden as extension of office, technically within guidelines. Millions and millions of people who simply would not see it that way. Patronising crap, spectacularly misjudged. Smirking at breaches of the…