When I was summing up my reading habits in 2022 I said: I think the lesson this year is: you can’t go wrong with Octavia E. Butler or Ursula K. Le Guin. I stand by that. But maybe I’d recommend some Ursula K. Le Guin books more than othe...

First St. Patrick’s Day session

An animation offered up to me on iPad to tell me about the milestone. It’s a ubiquitous and highly problematic platform. YouTube remains useful to me. My account is at youtube.com/@artlung The first video I uploaded was this Bauhaus anim...

Stop Sloppypasta: Don’t paste raw LLM output at people March 16th, 2026 slop·py·pas·ta n. Verbatim LLM output copy-pasted at someone, unread, unrefined, and unrequested. From slop (low-quality AI-generated content) + copypasta (text copi...

i'll spend my whole life looking for the next best thing but when I finally find it, i’ll be too busy looking for the next best thing I had spent half of the day travelling and the other half looking at art. Whenever I am going anywhere,...

The days are getting longer and brighter. The bite of the winter air is being replaced by a delicate breeze. It feels like Spring is here. I have been trying to play my guitar every day, usually before I eat dinner. Over the last week, I...

Trafalgar Square is a special place. The architecture and views are breathtaking. The National Gallery, the church of St. Martins in the Fields, Canada House, and more, all surround the Square. From the right place you can look down Whit...

This is my entry for this month’s IndieWeb Carnival on the topic “Museum memories”. When I was 10 or so – maybe younger; childhood can be hazy – my grandparents took me to the National Museum of Flight in Scotland for a day. My memory st...

I have been working on a few new features for Artemis, the calm web reader I maintain. You can read a summary of what’s new below. Organise subscriptions with folders You can now create folders in Artemis. This feature is designed to hel...