Longden Calling

'Tsukiji' Ink on Bristol board, 2026 #Penandink #Illustration #Ginza

Want to know what an advanced AI model looks like? It’s mostly matrices of numbers. And we don’t really know how it works. But we do know this. It’s a bunch of calculations and numbers. It has no soul, no consciousness, no feelings. Anyone who says otherwise is in an AI cult.

The latest issue of @generalwitch.bsky.social zine is out now, and includes my new short story 'Two Mountains' along with accompanying illustrations. Featuring many great artists, photographers, writers, film theorists and quizz masters Grab your copy now 🎃 #Britishhhorror #Samhain #zines

Bad news: the BBC is set to scrap Radio 4 Extra. 📻 Losing this treasure trove of classic comedy, archive drama, and timeless storytelling would be a huge blow for millions of us. Sign the petition to help save it 👇 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

My reaction to absolutely everything right now

'Conciousness is on the move. Something is at work in the world: a general recognition of the crisis of the spirit, of the banal and shoddy, in human affairs. It is universal and it must be met' - Alan Garner

'SALVATION' Ink on Bristol board, 2026 #blueskyart #penandink #illustration #urban #nighttime

All the fruit does it rot these days

I'm sorry I haven't bought your stuff. I'm just too skint.

So, happy 89th anniversary of the day Oswald Mosley tried to sell fascism to Liverpudlians—and someone concussed him with a brick

I’m a Sunderland fan but have never heard of Charles Befon, Tommy Cubeth, Berly £thman, Aldy Hodgn, Glenn Donien, Tommy Eleef, Paul Aguees, Petry Holls, Betery Ward or Tommy Soal. DON’T USE AI folks.

"So, we've mastered completely bypassing the creative process in order to "make art". How about next we get rid of all the boring, pointless effort that comes with actually interacting with our children and have AI do that too?" #FuckAI #FuckAlvinSng #FuckyouforusingAI

How I arrived on Bluesky

Anita Brookner’s scholarly, sharply observant commentaries on paintings by Delacroix, Ingres, Rigaud, Vigée Le Brun, David and Cézanne. On BBC iplayer for the next four weeks. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

China Miéville (author), me (egg), Scarlett Thomas (author) circa 2009

"Fire! Fire! Bluesky's on fire!"

My first exhibition of 2027, 'Surface Noise', will be at the Bear Steps, Shrewsbury 14-27 March Hopefully see every single one of you there 🍻 #blueskyart #exhibition #penandink #shropshire

Liberal England... Alan Garner: The Edge of The Ceiling

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When identifying something that's clearly AI masquerading as authentic, don't explain how you know. Ridicule it, for sure. Make sure everyone can see how shit it is. But don't show your workings - leave it to the fuckfaces who push AI to figure out for themselves how to make it less shit. #FuckAI

If only OpenAI displayed similar concerns about the environmental impact of AI. I don't think they have the inclination or imagination for that, though. #FuckAi #FuckOpenAI www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

Hey check out my newly-redone website! I built it myself on @squarespace, I’m not really a web designer so I’d invite any feedback. www.benrock.com

Name a non-LOTR character who could resist the one ring

'Pentre Ifan' Ink on Bristol board, 2026 #blueskyart #penandink #illustration #neolithic #standingstones

'I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again ... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul' J.G. Ballard

25 years of Jane Doe #Converge

Across the US, workers are souring on AI. The tech industry has insisted that AI would make workers’ lives easier and more productive, that the more people understood and used AI, the more they would like it. Something closer to the opposite has happened.

Going through Netflix and blocking Youtubers who have started appearing on the kid's profile feels like a victory but one of the few victories left in the world now.

Companies with 'eco' in their name who use AI in their promos. Fuck's sake, twats. #FuckAI #FuckyouforusingAI

Just randomly replying 'except for viewers in Scotland' to strangers' posts

My wife often tells me that I don't speak the kids in a normal way, that I bring up things that are inappropriate. [Walking up the Lawley, Shropshire hills, with the ten year-old] Me: Has your school taught you about Albert Pierrepoint yet?

'Radiotehnika' Ink on Bristol board, 2026 #blueskyart #penandink #illustration #latvia

Any chance everyone could stop using AI for their flyers, posters, menus, listings, information sheets, web design, invites, banners, etc? It looks really really shit every single time, and also makes you look really really lazy and unprofessional at what you do. #FuckAI #FuckyouforusingAI

'Witch mark' Ink on Bristol board, 2026 #penandink #pointilism #blueskyart

Lou Koller 1967-2026 Rest in power🫡 #SickOfItAll #NYHC

'Jesus Church, Enfield' (Private commission) Ink on Bristol board, 2026 #penandink #pointillism #enfield #blueskyart

Then let them go bankrupt and fuck off into obscurity. Problem solved.

'Whatever was happening, a corresponding ripple of motion took place along the beach: soon everyone except Marnie was on their feet, shading their eyes, pointing at the water. 'It won't be anything,' she informed the people nearest to her. 'It never is.'' #BookSky #AmReading #MondayReads #TBR