Gabrielle de la Puente & Zarina Muhammad write about culture @ thewhitepube.com 🍋📚 our book POOR ARTISTS is out now all across the world basicallyhttps://bsky.app/profile/thewhitepube.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/thewhitepube.bsky.social/post/3muc3ntqzak2gI am on a writing hiatus for about a month while I focus on a book so instead of a review, today's post is a new episode of the Art Dates podcast. I go round the LJMU degree show with Ashley Holmes and talk about sampling, Wiley's devil mixes and also Wayne Rooney artdates.co.uk/ashley-holmes https://artdates.co.uk/ashley-holmes30 Aug 2026 09:35 +0000at://did:plc:5jig4plibuork63mgpobtfuo/app.bsky.feed.post/3muc3ntqzak2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/thewhitepube.bsky.social/post/3mu7iicatys2fhow much alpaca yarn do you think I will buy in chile 3? 23????????? im going to be sick29 Aug 2026 08:46 +0000at://did:plc:5jig4plibuork63mgpobtfuo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu7iicatys2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/thewhitepube.bsky.social/post/3mu53ykpmlk2ka double bill: how I write https://thewhitepube.co.uk/texts/2026/how-i-write/ and how I write with POTS https://thewhitepube.co.uk/blog/how-i-write-with-pots/28 Aug 2026 09:58 +0000at://did:plc:5jig4plibuork63mgpobtfuo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu53ykpmlk2khttps://bsky.app/profile/thewhitepube.bsky.social/post/3mtganhegyk2hthe worst thing about learning spanish with a good teacher is that she is making me open my mouth when I speak. great because the spanish sounds more spanish, but I tell you what, it is ruining scouse in the process19 Aug 2026 07:50 +0000at://did:plc:5jig4plibuork63mgpobtfuo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtganhegyk2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/thewhitepube.bsky.social/post/3mt72hxsf6k26this week's post: 'How I write' https://thewhitepube.co.uk/texts/2026/how-i-write/16 Aug 2026 11:11 +0000at://did:plc:5jig4plibuork63mgpobtfuo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mt72hxsf6k26https://bsky.app/profile/thewhitepube.bsky.social/post/3mslm524enc2iI love tkmaxx let me barter in tkmaxx08 Aug 2026 17:33 +0000at://did:plc:5jig4plibuork63mgpobtfuo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mslm524enc2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/thewhitepube.bsky.social/post/3ms6abhvevc2ethe grant recipient for august is Nessa May, a Manchester-based singer, dancer and choreographer originally from Equatorial Guinea --> thewhitepube.co.uk/grants/071/ https://thewhitepube.co.uk/grants/071/03 Aug 2026 09:56 +0000at://did:plc:5jig4plibuork63mgpobtfuo/app.bsky.feed.post/3ms6abhvevc2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/thewhitepube.bsky.social/post/3ms3lokkezs2zI reviewed yesteryear spoiler free https://thewhitepube.co.uk/texts/2026/yesteryear/02 Aug 2026 08:43 +0000at://did:plc:5jig4plibuork63mgpobtfuo/app.bsky.feed.post/3ms3lokkezs2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/thewhitepube.bsky.social/post/3mrwidegvac26I just spent 2 months translating old letters and unfortunately now I want a typewriter. like I really want one it's so annoying31 Jul 2026 07:59 +0000at://did:plc:5jig4plibuork63mgpobtfuo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrwidegvac26https://bsky.app/profile/thewhitepube.bsky.social/post/3mri2f5o4k22kthis week's DNFs: stag dance -- torrey peters reality awaits -- the strokes25 Jul 2026 14:13 +0000at://did:plc:5jig4plibuork63mgpobtfuo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mri2f5o4k22khttps://bsky.app/profile/thewhitepube.bsky.social/post/3mrg2zbzvc22wbook two [contains quote post or other embedded content]24 Jul 2026 19:18 +0000at://did:plc:5jig4plibuork63mgpobtfuo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrg2zbzvc22whttps://bsky.app/profile/thewhitepube.bsky.social/post/3mqygnqg77s2bthis week I reviewed the heatwave https://thewhitepube.co.uk/texts/2026/the-third-heatwave/19 Jul 2026 09:09 +0000at://did:plc:5jig4plibuork63mgpobtfuo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqygnqg77s2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/thewhitepube.bsky.social/post/3mpxw5kwizk25the race to do all the work I need to do on the big computer before it gets too hot to be in my office again 🙂‍↔️06 Jul 2026 10:49 +0000at://did:plc:5jig4plibuork63mgpobtfuo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpxw5kwizk25https://bsky.app/profile/thewhitepube.bsky.social/post/3mplsvg7wys2ain Episode two of the art dates podcast I venture round Ljubljana with Lucija Klauž https://artdates.co.uk/lucija-klau%C5%BE01 Jul 2026 15:19 +0000at://did:plc:5jig4plibuork63mgpobtfuo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mplsvg7wys2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/thewhitepube.bsky.social/post/3morrghvetk2jthis week's text is about AI art + hallucinating a horse in Palazzo Te https://thewhitepube.co.uk/texts/2026/palazzo-te/21 Jun 2026 06:43 +0000at://did:plc:5jig4plibuork63mgpobtfuo/app.bsky.feed.post/3morrghvetk2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/thewhitepube.bsky.social/post/3momugmiryk25my teacher made a course in things that went viral on Chilean internet last year, I’m about to finish her Chilean cinema course, and honestly if she did a course in the bricks they use over there I’d still sign up19 Jun 2026 07:54 +0000at://did:plc:5jig4plibuork63mgpobtfuo/app.bsky.feed.post/3momugmiryk25https://bsky.app/profile/thewhitepube.bsky.social/post/3momudhwjmk25I don’t like it when journalists play at being critics!!!! it reads like they are daring themselves to say something ~~~edgy, but good criticism reads like you need daring to shut up19 Jun 2026 07:52 +0000at://did:plc:5jig4plibuork63mgpobtfuo/app.bsky.feed.post/3momudhwjmk25https://bsky.app/profile/thewhitepube.bsky.social/post/3mnwyit3ny22fValerii Konkov is the latest recipient of our monthly grant for working class creatives. See his photography on our homepage for the rest of June: thewhitepube.co.uk10 Jun 2026 15:08 +0000at://did:plc:5jig4plibuork63mgpobtfuo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnwyit3ny22fhttps://bsky.app/profile/thewhitepube.bsky.social/post/3mnwgsytq4s2lI have started eating sriracha again for my mental health im so happy10 Jun 2026 09:52 +0000at://did:plc:5jig4plibuork63mgpobtfuo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnwgsytq4s2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/thewhitepube.bsky.social/post/3mnoov2qa5k2rI went to a performance where critics faced off against other critics and I thought it was sooo boring https://thewhitepube.co.uk/texts/2026/crit-club-cem-a/07 Jun 2026 07:55 +0000at://did:plc:5jig4plibuork63mgpobtfuo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnoov2qa5k2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/thewhitepube.bsky.social/post/3mnblxsdgkc2zI think if I had been born into a middle class family I would have been a wildlife photographer02 Jun 2026 02:58 +0000at://did:plc:5jig4plibuork63mgpobtfuo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnblxsdgkc2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/thewhitepube.bsky.social/post/3mn6caprjvk2ccan’t believe my biggest health problem this year is constantly losing my voice the curse of being called gabrielle 😞31 May 2026 19:26 +0000at://did:plc:5jig4plibuork63mgpobtfuo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mn6caprjvk2chttps://bsky.app/profile/thewhitepube.bsky.social/post/3mn5smlmvr22kzarina reviewed a play by scarecrows this week they are scary looking scarecrows (compliment) https://thewhitepube.co.uk/texts/2026/farm-fatale/31 May 2026 14:46 +0000at://did:plc:5jig4plibuork63mgpobtfuo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mn5smlmvr22khttps://bsky.app/profile/thewhitepube.bsky.social/post/3mmyosehiik26cannot get my head around wooden inlays. on tuesday I saw this in person, and even though it was in front of me, I couldn't understand what I was looking at. like for real what do you mean this is a renaissance jigsaw. you just wanted to decorate your little office in the palace? stop messin around29 May 2026 13:54 +0000at://did:plc:5jig4plibuork63mgpobtfuo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmyosehiik26https://bsky.app/profile/thewhitepube.bsky.social/post/3mmmdy4js7s2ihave you been to Slovenia!!!!! it is beautiful and I cant get over it I HATE ENGLAND24 May 2026 16:09 +0000at://did:plc:5jig4plibuork63mgpobtfuo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmmdy4js7s2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/thewhitepube.bsky.social/post/3mlzw4au4gc2lfor this week's review I went to the circus https://thewhitepube.co.uk/texts/2026/circus/a17 May 2026 08:13 +0000at://did:plc:5jig4plibuork63mgpobtfuo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlzw4au4gc2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/thewhitepube.bsky.social/post/3mlpuzrmzuk2qu know they say take an accessory off before you leave the house, I don’t get that, but I DO think we should all be deleting a slide before we give a lecture13 May 2026 08:27 +0000at://did:plc:5jig4plibuork63mgpobtfuo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlpuzrmzuk2q