Richard Battye

A week in southwest Iceland #landscape #beauty #winter

@abidaker Stunning! Happy new year!

linocut, falcon

And now aid agencies are being banned because they won’t release lists of staff member for Israel to target. The suffering of children in Gaza is a stain on all our consciences. How can we stand by? theguardian.com/global-develop…

@abidaker Well ain’t that a good one!

Started a new one

just painfully wasteful. we need robust recycling solutions for carbon intensive building components, while designing them for adaptive reuse

In 1970 the UK and Norway were roughly equal, almost no debt, and owned all their Public Services. Now the UK owns nothing and has £3tn of debt. While Norway still owns everything and has the equivalent of £10tn. That's how privatisation 'works'.

This speech by @doctorow about LLMs and related generative AI is an original and intellectually thrilling analysis which introduced some new ideas to me. #u-washington" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/pop…

I can’t believe UK media has spent the last 2 weeks discussing whether it ‘s fair to call Farage a racist based on his teenage behaviour… As titillating as it is to question accounts of the bullying behaviour of a boy Nazi they could just look at what he does as an adult 🙄

A beautiful book for you, or the lover of glorious photographs celebrating, as he says, the architecture of the post-war consensus in your life. And £10 less than I paid, a bargain! #brutalism #architecture #photography

Interestingly framed and chosen photo used by the ⁦@guardian⁩ picture editor here. Wonders if they were thinking of the United States of AmeRICO perhaps?

⁦@IcelandFoods⁩ hi there, one of your drivers on their phone in traffic. Not a great look. Camberwell, London.

Aw reet! As it’s #LancashireDay I’m going to give away a Northern Sky A4 unframed print. Inspired by my hometown of Blackburn and Nick Drake. Retweet and follow me to enter. I’ll pick a winner after 9pm (27 Nov) gailmyerscough.co.uk/product-page/n…

@jessicaduchen @NickyBenedetti And how she plays. Oh my. She was the first to play in the refurbished QEH @southbankcentre ahead of the official opening. One player, one violin, one stage, one hall completely filled. Wow.

Caught @NickyBenedetti between concerts for a catch-up about music education, motherhood, the Edinburgh Festival, her tour, her CD and why politicians maybe ought sometimes to consult musicians. To coin a phrase, I don't know how she does it all. inews.co.uk/culture/arts/n…

@Wolfe321 Wow. Even by his own low, low standards that’s appalling. I have no understanding how anyone with even the most basic sense of common decency wants to be associated with him.

Trump told a female reporter asking about his relationship with Epstein, "Quiet, piggy." cnn.com/2025/11/18/us/…

@aleksk Congratultions Aleks!

The Immortalists has been called “One Of The Greatest Books of 2025” by The Telegraph! I am so darn chuffed. Get a copy for the Immortalists in your life, or anyone curious about what Silicon Valley’s billionaires plan to do with all their extra years telegraph.co.uk/books/authors/…

@mcmansionhell A lot of / most UK directions used to be quite heavy on pubs as landmarks. Left at the Nag’s Head, right after the Fox and Hounds…

I don’t use a map that much in Chicago bc grid system but also bc buildings

not an older millennial but the key to this is memorizing buildings

Exactly this 👇

re writing, I’m gonna post this again sorry late-review.com/p/what-the-fuc…

Jack White just earned a new degree of respect from me. An exceptional response to Trump's little people! The White House melts down and attacks music legend Jack White after he insults Donald Trump's "disgusting" and "vulgar" redecoration of the White House “Jack White is a washed-up, has-been loser posting drivel on social media because he clearly has ample time on his hands due to his stalled career,” claimed White House spokesman Steven Cheung. “It’s apparent [White]’s been masquerading as a real artist, because he fails to appreciate, and quite frankly disrespects, the splendor and significance of the Oval Office inside of ‘The People’s House,'” Cheung added. this is Jack’s response… "Listen, I’m an artist and not a politician so I’m in no need to give my answer or opinion on anything if I’m not inspired or compelled, but how funny that it wasn’t me calling out trump’s blatant fascist manipulation of government, his gestapo ICE tactics, his racist remarks about Latinos, Native Americans, etc. his ridiculous 'wall' construction, his attacks on the disabled, his attempted coup and mob insurrection and destruction of the sacred halls of congress, his disparaging sexist and pedophilic remarks about women, his obvious attempts at distraction about being a close personal friend of Jeffrey Epstein and his inclusion in the Epstein files, his ignorance of the dying children in Sudan, Gaza, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, his lack of empathy for military veterans and those struggling with poverty, his attempts to dismantle healthcare, his obvious wimpy and pathetic kowtowing to the dictators Putin and Kim Jong Un, his nazi like rallies, his attempts to sell merchandise and products like Goya beans through the office of the President, his fake 'gunshot to the ear' that he showed no medical records or photographs of, his constant, constant, constant lying to the American people, etc. etc. etc." "No, it wasn’t me calling out any of that, it was the f*cking DECOR OF THE OVAL OFFICE remarks I made that got them to respond with insults," he continued. "How petty and pathetic and thin skinned could this administration get? 'Masquerading as a real artist'? Thank you for giving me my tombstone engraving! Well here’s my opinion, trump is masquerading as a human being." "He’s masquerading as a christian, as a leader, as a person with actual empathy," he wrote. "He’s been masquerading as a businessman for decades as nothing he’s involved in has prospered except by using other people’s money to find loophole after loophole and grift after grift." "His staff of professional liar toadies like Steven Cheung and Karoline Leavitt have been covering up and masking his fascism as patriotism and fomenting hatred and division in this country on a daily basis," White went on. "And I have 'ample time on (my) hands'? That orange grifter has spent more tax payer money cheating at golf than helping ANYONE in the country. Improve. Anything. There is no progress with him, only smoke and mirrors and tax breaks for the ultra wealthy." "So maga folk, enjoy your concrete paving over of the rose garden, your 200 million dollar ballroom in the White House, and your gaudy ass gold spray painted trinkets from Home Depot, cause he ain’t spending any money on helping YOU unless you fit into his white supremacist country club rich idiot agenda," "Wow, he hates who you hate....good for you, be proud of yourselves, how christian of you all," "The only way you can support this conman is because you are a victim of the 2 party system and you 'defend your guy no matter what he does.'" he wrote. "No intelligent person can defend this low life fascist. This bankruptor of casinos. This failed seller of trump steaks, trump vodka, trump water, etc." "This man and his goon squad have failed upwards for decades and have fleeced the American people over and over," wrote White. "This professional golf cheat, this grifter who has hundreds of thousands of deaths from his inaction of the pandemic on his hands, this man that the majority of the country somehow were fooled into supporting and voting into office (through the flawed electoral college) and their love of reality television stars." "Being insulted by the actual White House that this particular conman leads is a badge of honor to me, because anyone who trump supports and likes is a villain who gives nothing to their fellow man, only takes what can benefit themselves," "And no I’m not a Democrat either, I’m a human being raised in Detroit, I’m an artist who’s owned his own businesses like his own upholstery shop and recording label since he was 21 years old who has enough street sense to know when a 3 card monte dealer is a cheap grifter and a thief," "I was raised to believe that we defeated fascism in World War II and that we would never allow it again in the world. I don't always state publicly my political opinions, and like anyone I don't always know all of the facts, but when it comes to this man and this administration I'm not going to be like one of the silent minority of 1930's Germany. This man is a danger to not just America but the entire world and that's not an exaggeration, he's dismantling democracy and endangering the planet on a daily basis, and we. all. know. it. -JW III...

Lovely compare and contrast. Choose your own AI! clocks.brianmoore.com #artificialhuman

I know I keep banging on but it’s really tough for #SmallBusiness at the moment. The husband just found me having a little cry in my studio. He’s making me a hot Vimto and I’m having a word with myself. Have a look at my website and please retweet. gailmyerscough.co.uk