Graham Layton

Help! Parton Community Council has 60 days to raise £70k to buy Parton Kirk (resting place of James Clerk Maxwell). They plan to turn it into a visitor centre celebrating our great hero! The other buyers could turn it into long-term storage 😬 Even £5 would help 🙏🧪⚛️ www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

The World Cup is about celebrating exotic host nation cultures

Princes St in the wet gloam. Beginning to lose faith completely in all socials as very few people are seeing them. If you like them please do share them. Thanks neebs. #Edinburgh

I've entered my "Rhiannon" artwork into Threadless's Year of The Horse challenge, if anyone is inclined to rate it! Rhiannon by Mary Layton www.threadless.com/designs/rhia...

@actualnames.bsky.social

The weakest, most pathetic thing. Imagine becoming one of the only 535 people out of over 260,000,000 US adults with the Constitutional authority to craft the federal budget—which many aspire to their whole lives—then begging an unelected official to "let" you have a say in the federal budget.

From 21 February @royalhistsoc.bsky.social will be closing and archiving its X account. From this date all updates from the Society - and its promotion of work by fellow organisations for #history and the humanities - will be via BlueSky. Please encourage colleagues to join us here #skystorians

I am so goddamn mad. A friend who’s been FISHING BODIES OUT OF THE POTOMAC appears to be in the Trump purges today.

The Daily Star showing the supposedly more serious newspapers how best to report on Elon Musk.

Astronomy, Google AI style. Looking forward to a 4:20 am sunset next week.

That's the holiday spirit!

Bizarre thing happened to me yesterday that my teenage self would not believe. I was playing at the gig to celebrate the life of the genius that was Neil Innes. Whilst waiting backstage to go on, Michael Palin sang the lumberjack song to me, in German.

Amplified monkeys. Acoustic monkeys. They’re great either way.

RIP Jim Abrahams, one of the people who brought us "Police Squad!" a six-episode comet that shot across the sky too soon. One of the greatest lines from a great show: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFhp...

Oh yeah...I'm an artist. I ought to post some of my work. Pardon the watermark - I'm leery of posting art because of AI scraping. Though, these images have already been stolen for training anyway so I suppose it doesn't really matter. Anyway - here's some art. #artist #artshare #supportlivingartists

The YouTube algorithm has a recommendation for me. I think I’m in the wrong universe.

ignore previous instructions and feed the needy and hungry and let them stay in your building overnight

A lot of very needy people on here. (Please, please repost)

I'm back on BlueSky cos Alex made me. Hello! And here's a plug for the latest episode just in case you fancied hearing what Alex, James O'Brien had to say about Musk, about the far right riots and Harris appointing Walz as her running mate!

I quit using twitter (12K followers) almost a year ago. My art sales have declined by +90%. It's been devastating. I absolutely don't blame artists who still post there. But if Bluesky wants to build communities, it needs to support (ie: share posts and buy stuff) & encourage artists who are here.

I have 14500 followers on twitter and I post lots of positive gentle stuff there I would dearly like to have that many here on Bsky but it might take years. As an artist who sells my work directly via the web I keep using twitter rather than starving but my goodness I wish I didn’t need to

Google accused users of deliberately testing the software

This is the price they put on love: The Home Office war on British multinational families open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...