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Ian Land

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Photographer, editor of Silverhill Press www.ianland.co.uk www.silverhillpress.co.uk ianland.substack.com

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Ian Land @ianland.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
www.theguardian.com/music/2026/m... RIP Sonny. Incalculably great.
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Sonny Rollins, colossus of jazz saxophone, dies aged 95
One of the last stars of the bebop generation, Rollins was an genius of melodic invention and improvisation, working with Davis, Monk, Coltrane and others
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Ian Land @ianland.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
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We’ve been very wrong about Stone Age women
“Never assume” is a golden rule – especially when looking at 10,000-year-old human remains
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Ian Land @ianland.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Great piece open.substack.com/pub/bloodint...
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Why the AI backlash has turned violent
And why it's probably only going to get worse from here.
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Ian Land @ianland.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
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Ian Land @ianland.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
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The president speaks genocide
The words, the law, the future
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Ian Land @ianland.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
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It's open season for refusing AI
There's been a wave of successful efforts to ban, reject and shut down AI.
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Ian Land @ianland.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Has Zuckerberg ever backed a technology that wasn't either stupid or dystopian? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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I wore Meta’s smartglasses for a month – and it left me feeling like a creep
Content creators love the built-in camera; sceptics call them ‘pervert glasses’. Do we really need any more hi-tech wearables, even with a voice assistant that sounds like Judi Dench?
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Ian Land @ianland.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... 'Trump is acting out the “madman theory”, but without the theory.'
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Trump’s Iran war is holding him hostage | Sidney Blumenthal
If there is any consistency to Trump’s policy, it is a series of frantic attempts to justify his original blunder and extricate himself from its dire consequences
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Ian Land @ianland.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
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AI's aesthetics of failure
On the demise of Sora and our enduring revulsion to AI slop
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Ian Land @ianland.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
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A war of regression: how Trump bombed the US into a worse position with Iran
Analysts fear Iran has played a weak hand well and the US has blundered into a defining strategic failure
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Ian Land @ianland.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
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Here’s the news from Iran – Donald Trump is making America lose wars again | Simon Tisdall
Humiliating failure now looms, as symbolically damaging to US global standing and national self-esteem as Afghanistan or Iraq, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall
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Ian Land @ianland.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
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Ian Land @ianland.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
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The world is run by a madman and it's driving us all nuts
The president is obviously out of his mind. So why don't investors seem to care?
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Ian Land @ianland.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
open.substack.com/pub/vladvexl... "The neo-fascist clowning of Pete Hegseth is not a surface, it is the essence of US foreign policy."
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The Post-Truth Hell of Trump's Iran War
Is Iran the beginning of the end for Trump?
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Ian Land @ianland.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
This is the language of a psychopath. I don't understand how Americans have not removed him. He's demonstrably completely insane.
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Amber Woods @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Worth remembering
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Ian Land @ianland.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
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The first lesson of war is ‘know your enemy’ – and Britain’s enemy now is Donald Trump | Simon Tisdall
As the Iran disaster escalates, the US president should be seen as an enemy whose actions threaten the lawful, democratic way of life everywhere, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdal...
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Ian Land @ianland.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
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The Onion @theonion.com · 04/03/2026
U.S. Military Announces Plan To Consolidate All Wars Into Final, Epic Battle theonion.com/u-s-military-announces…
U.S. Military Announces Plan To Consolidate All Wars Into Final, Epic Battle
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Ian Land @ianland.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Holy shit, literally open.substack.com/pub/jonathan...
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U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for “Armageddon,” Return of Jesus
Advocacy group reports commanders giving similar messages at more than 30 installations in every branch of the military
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Ian Land @ianland.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
This moron cannot be allowed to stay in power any longer. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
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Trump appears to link Iran attack to his 2020 election loss
President says in social media post that Iran tried to ‘stop Trump’ and now ‘faces renewed war with United States’
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
👇👇
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SorryHat @sorryhat.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Never forget who you’re fighting for.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 28/02/2026
Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started
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Ian Land @ianland.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Excellent headline. Also, impeach this pedo already www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Trump vies for Bush’s crown for worst foreign policy decision in history
The US president upended half a century of US foreign policy in an eight-minute video with another attempt at Middle Eastern regime change
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Ian Land @ianland.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
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Shoddy People
The redemption of disgrace.
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Ian Land @ianland.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
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A Deep Dive Into 'I Feel Fine'
A Two-Minute Microcosm of Twentieth Century Pop
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Ian Land @ianland.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... Why on earth don't Americans just laugh at this idiot and then jail him?
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Trump threatens 10% global tariffs and rails against supreme court justices
President called justices who blocked his tariffs a ‘disgrace to the nation’ while praising three justices who dissented
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Ian Land @ianland.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
This is great. Viva Tracey www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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‘Regrets? Number one: smoking. Number two: taking it up the wrong hole’: Tracey Emin on reputation, radical honesty – and Reform
She scandalised the art world in the 1990s with her unmade bed, partied hard in the 2000s – then a brush with death turned the artist’s life upside down. Now she’s as frank as ever
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
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Ian Land @ianland.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Brilliant youtu.be/DTyUni8dbkE
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Mark Kermode reviews Melania
YouTube video by Kermode and Mayo's Take
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Ian Land @ianland.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
On Trumpism as a Manichean death cult open.substack.com/pub/maxread/...
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'Suicide rightism' and the penguin
Is it based or soy to kill yourself?
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
That‘s the spirit.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Today I wrote about the Epstein files, the abusiveness intrinsic to the billionaire mindset, and our culture's enabling instinct to permit depravity as a privilege of power. "Where does it all end?" That's what's often asked. Rarely asked is "how do we end it?" www.the-reframe.com/where-it-ends/
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Where It Ends
Answering the enabler's constant question, and contemplating the depraved depths of the billionaire mindset.
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Ian Land @ianland.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
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The Press Is the Government's Enemy and That Is Good
It's hard to be objective in jail.
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Ian Land @ianland.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Amazing video showing how a dye transfer print is made. youtu.be/IyBJmQ3kf94?...
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The Making of a Dye-Transfer | William Eggleston
YouTube video by David Zwirner
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Excellent. No notes.
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Ian Land @ianland.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
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Intolerable Things
We'll all be Minneapolis soon.
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Ian Land @ianland.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Primo Levi: "how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong but to feel strong, to measure yourself at least once, to find yourself at least once"
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Ian Land @ianland.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
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Sunday thought: Enough
Time for a truly massive general strike
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Ian Land @ianland.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
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Emergency Triad: Another American Has Been Murdered by Our Government
It’s worse than it looks and it looks plenty bad.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
The deadly shooting in Minneapolis today was a straight-up execution of a protester by Trump's federal brownshirts. The thugs wrestled him to the ground. They pistol-whipped him, then shot him multiple times. They murdered him.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Ok! Mar-a-Lago
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Ian Land @ianland.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Brilliant www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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‘It has been overwhelming’: Sudanese friends complete 900-mile UK walk
Giel Malual and John Kuei trekked from Dungeness to John o’Groats to raise funds for new schools in Sudan
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
I understand the logic of providing Trump an off-ramp so he can back out with some dignity, but I think it's dangerous to do so. Each time these issues are resolved this way, he will be tempted to conduct himself this way again. What he needs is a public spanking.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/01/2026
The choice is impeachment and removal or calamity for the United States. I don't see how anybody watching Trump's speech in Davos can draw any other conclusion. He's a senile madman.
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Nicolai von Ondarza @nvondarza.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Thought-provoking piece by @lewisgoodall.com. He argues that the US under Trump is no longer from the UK perspective a - military ally (Greenland) - strategic ally (Russia/Ukraine) - political ally (NSS calling for empowering far-right in Europe) - economic ally (tariffs)
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The Valueless Presidency
America is no longer Europe's ally. Stop bleating about NATO. It's already gone.
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Ian Land @ianland.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
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BREAKDOWN: Trump's letter, line by line
YouTube video by Vlad Vexler Chat
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Ian Land @ianland.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
It's 25th Amendment time. The Belgian PM: "Until now, we tried to appease the new president... We were lenient hoping to get his support for the Ukraine war. … But now so many red lines are being crossed... Being a happy vassal is one thing. Being a miserable slave is something else"
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Ian Land @ianland.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Rearranging some of the books in my local bookshop
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