Graphic Artist and Illustrator
out on the raggedy edge of Cornwall
contemporary art and art history, radical politics, science and technology, folk traditions, philosophy and music - classical, contemporary, jazz, electronic, folk, left-field, home-made
| Website | https://aaronbroadhurst.com |
| Pixelfed | https://pixelfed.art/aaron |
It was the Summer 1994.
I’d trashed my Apple Quadra and had work due at dawn.
At 2 in the morning, my girlfriend curled up asleep under my desk, with an appropriated 56K modem screaming, a stranger on the BBS, Cosmos London - from New Zealand - guided me through the dark and saved me. It felt intimate, like magic.
I’m chasing that spark again on Mastodon, Pixelfed, and the IndieWeb.
It’s slow. I'm shy.
But we don’t have to be so fucking passive.
Read it here
"could a more authentic PM revive Labour's appeal?"
Err ... No. (in my nephew's beautifully broad Macclesfield accent)
Authentic is as authentic does - Starmer Version 7.4 is still in alpha.
Critics "chastened"?
FFS - they living in La-La Land? - WYSIWYG!
Vocally defend Labour values?
What Labour values?
The man has none - at all.
Not mine.
Some people are delusional and still successful - successful and still sad fucks.
Enough already.
When will they grow up?
Why it’s funnier when you’re not allowed to laugh
https://theconversation.com/why-its-funnier-when-youre-not-allowed-to-laugh-275003?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY @science-technology-ConversationUK
Dance Macabre
Just found this doing some more house-keeping.
Caught on Google Street View.
Looking at the date on the Google Maps, I think I was thinking about Covid but it could easily apply in a more metaphorical sense to a government which condones genocide or one which is dead before its time.
#ContemporaryArt #Art #PoliticalArt #ArtAndPolitics #ArtHistory
4/4
But I was playing a part.
Why have we helped to build a world where we worry about these things and they do not?
Where they feel the rules don't apply to them.
Looking at a photo of Journalist Emily Maitlis and Peter Mandelson, all I can think is that they think they live in a different world - and perhaps they do.
And she's "shocked". Hmmm ...
And I haven't reread this - so maybe I'm finally learning.
Photo credit: Alan Davidson/Shutterstock
3/4
It never went away - just transformed, pivoted - like things do.
We run a solstice festival in Penzance - Montol - do look it up - it's beautiful.
I manage our Social Media and the strain of producing posts in the run-up to the event nearly floored me.
I was so obsessed with getting the voice, the tone, just right.
In my mind a persona - funny and silly, wise and knowledgeable, a bit rude and pushy, friendly and intimate, open and innocent - swaggering even. All the best of us.
2/4
It's a pernicious form of imposter syndrome which is encouraged and supported by the elites who don't, sometimes, even know what they're doing.
When I went to UCL in 1980 to read philosophy it was fellow students, who'd been to fancy public schools who laughed at my accent.
At school I'd been "posh" but I like to think I'd earned my place.
In that case it was provincial-cringe, class-cringe.
Bollocks but very real.
I'm ashamed to say you probably couldn't tell where I grew up now.
https://tadaima.bearblog.dev/privilege-is-bad-grammar/
via - Cory Doctorow
https://pluralistic.net/
1/4
"People have been uploading screenshots of emails between Epstein and Musk, Gates, Branson ... the thing that also surprises me is how bad everyone's grammar is."
I thought I was small and petty for noticing this and even caring about it - under the circumstances.
The late great art critic Robert Hughes called it - the pain of trying to write seriously and be taken seriously as a provincial - colonial cringe.
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday dear scumbag
Happy birthday to you!
It's childish - I know
I'm ill and in bed all day - feeling sorry for myself.
Couldn't resist.
Sorry.
photo credit: REUTERS/ Toby Melville
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