Steve and the Sea is a musician from Hamburg, Germany.

My kingdom for a moment of your precious time...

[steveandthesea]

Hello. I'm Steve (and the Sea)

I'm 37, I make music, I'm from the UK but now live in Hamburg, Germany. This Tumblr account is mostly where I talk about music and stuff as well as the rest of my life. I've been on and off Tumblr since 2010.

My music sounds like this:

Want to hear some more? You can stream my music on:

Bandcamp | Tidal | Apple Music | Spotify | YouTube | Soundcloud

You can find more of that under #mymusic

You can find other posts about personal stuff under #journal

You can find pictures of me under #me

Other things I might talk about:

Dinosaurs, sharks, space, science and other cool stuff like that

The music industry in general

Social stuff, politics, mostly Germany and the UK

Relationships; particularly polyamory and non-monogamy

Design, art, gaming, web, interactive design, animation and video

Hopefully you like that sort of thing but if you don't I won't take it personally.

You can also find me on Instagram, Bluesky, YouTube and Tiktok, if those are your things.

Nice to meet you.

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

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The Cure - Close To Me

[steveandthesea]

Track of the day

A good reminder in the light of recent news.

Elon Musk kommt nicht ins Berghain Ach, Elon, Elon, nein, nein, nein So lassen die dich da nicht rein Und wenn ich dir was raten darf Money can't buy you love

[ozempicofficial]

[steveandthesea]

Just went to see Disclosure Day. I gave it a rating of a solid shite out of ten.

[steveandthesea]

Oh I missed the actual interesting/fun part of last night. We got into the cinema and queued up for popcorn and who was there to serve us? Only someone I've been chatting to on a dating app. She recognised me too and we were both very awkward and shy and just tried to pretend we didn't recognise each other even though we both knew we definitely recognised each other. But also there was a queue behind us and it was loud and I didn't know what to say so I just placed the order and paid and walked away.

But then she messaged for the first time in a while so that was good.

[bovid-beauty]

"Fascism"—New Federal Rule Would Require Federal Funding Recipients To Deny Trans People Exist

The rule could have heavy impacts towards trans people across society.

Last week, the Trump administration quietly released a sweeping new federal rule that would use funding threats to force institutions across the country to reject transgender people. The 400-page proposed regulation would codify the administration's anti-trans executive orders into binding federal policy, imposing a blanket prohibition on federal funds going toward "gender ideology"

The proposed rule, formally titled "Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance," rewrites the government-wide framework governing all federal grants across every agency. Among its most consequential provisions, it requires that before a federal grant recipient can receive money, the award must pass a "pre-issuance review" conducted by a political appointee—not a career expert or peer reviewer—to ensure it is "consistent with applicable law, Federal agency priorities, and the national interest." The regulation explicitly instructs these appointees to screen for "denial by the recipient of the sex binary in humans or the notion that sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic." [...] An institution that acknowledges transgender people exist—through its policies, its training, its healthcare, its bathroom access, its HR procedures, its name-change processes—could be deemed to "deny the sex binary" or to “support the notion that sex is mutable” and have its federal funding blocked.

Importantly, the gender ideology prohibition has no age limitation—hospitals could be targeted not just for providing care to minors but for providing gender-affirming care to adults, because prescribing hormone therapy to a transgender patient of any age could be deemed promoting the belief that "sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic."

[junequeer]

THIS IS OPEN TO COMMENT UNTIL JULY 13, 2026

[featherandstorm]

This is all very bad and horrible, but I want to be clear that it’s worse and more sweeping than just eliminating trans research.

This torches everything. And I do mean everything.

A very abbreviated list of its ramifications include (but are not limited to):

ending funding for ALL DEI related initiatives

allowing the government to terminate grants at any point for any reason

preventing researchers from publishing, going to conferences, and being part of academic societies

requiring that topics must support the president’s agenda.

What this means, and if anything I’m under selling it, is the death of science and research in America. It allows the government to restrict any topic they please at a whims notice, putting officials who have no background in the topic in charge of deciding funding continuity. It controls what gets researched and if/how researchers are allowed to share their discoveries. There are no books to burn if the government never allows them to be written. This is fascism plain and simple.

Please, if you only ever write one public comment, this is the one to do.

[genderkoolaid]

Bringing back this guide to writing an effective public comment. This gives you the basics you need to know, what you need to include, a basic outline you can follow, etc.

Public comments are not a vote, it is a chance for you to say "here is an issue with this law I think you need to address" and provide justification for legal challenges if it goes forward:

"Comments raise the bar that agencies have to meet when making a rule; “if an agency fails to adequately respond to significant, relevant comments in a final rule, members of the public may seek to challenge the rule in court on that basis and claim it could be struck down.ˮ"

But also, if possible, don't stop at writing a comment. Don't stop at calling your representatives. You should ideally be talking to people in your community about this and organizing resistance on-the-ground; there is a good chance people are already doing that even if you aren't hearing about it.

[steveandthesea]

Just went to see Disclosure Day. I gave it a rating of a solid shite out of ten.

[steveandthesea]

Track of the day

This new Death Cab album feels like a return to roots, but with a bit more grit. This track really stood out to me especially.

[steveandthesea]

Track of the day

Frankie Archer is doing some really interesting stuff that's well worth checking out. She takes traditional folk songs and gives them a modern twist, challenging historical gender roles and introducing new electronic sounds. Her new album has some really great St Vincent vibes.

[memories-of-ancients]

Anthropeum

A daily game that challenges our understanding of human cultures. Ten objects. 5,000 years of human history. Guess where and when each artif

An interesting game where you are presented with 10 artifacts from the MET. You have to place where the artifact is from and what time period it is from. Each artifact scores up to 10,000 points, and you lose points the further away your guess is and how far off in time you are. You can only play once a day. Thanks to @baebeylik for showing this to me.

Today I scored really well. Yesterday ... not so much.

Anthropeum.com · Jun 8 2026 🟩🟦🟦🟩🟩🟩🟥🟦🟦🟩 79,001 · top 3% of players today!

[motherfuckingnazgul]

oh this is extremely fun. i did NOT do all that well but i can see myself getting good. i will be doing this regularly.

Anthropeum.com · Jun 8 2026 🟩🟦🟦🟨🟨🟦🟥🟩🟩🟦 68,088 · top 12% of players today!

[knightofleo]

"A snack? For me?"

[steveandthesea]

You might think you're cool. But my girlfriend and I just finished this jigsaw of Jesus and god (we assume) walking through a garden, that her dad found somewhere in the street.

Yea just try and keep up with us.

[thefirstdayofhalloween]

Can u believe there are plants that are illegal Plants

[mylourrydiary]

Can you believe there is love that is illegal Love

[w-for-wumbo]

can you believe it’s not butter butter

[tardis-mind-palace]

the fact that Tumblr can fit weed, bestiality and diary products all into one post doesn’t even phase me anymore

[monopx]

i really dont think they meant bestiality

[pasparal]

Carrousel on fire in Bergamo, November 22, 2017 Photographer: Oli Freuler

[dragon-in-a-fez]

well that’s probably not releasing any trapped spirits. should be fine

[steveandthesea]

Lol

[kaijutegu]

everyone stop what you’re doing and look at this baby pelican

[kaijutegu]

[kaijutegu]

his power grows

[kaijutegu]

please… he’s getting too strong…

[kaijutegu]

please… stop… i beg of you…

[kaijutegu]

happy fifth birthday to piss homunculus! Good news: I found more of his baby pictures.

His real name is Rob, and he looks like this now:

That’s him in front with the two women who rescued him.

And even more good news: He is a fucking menace.

8.5K views · 903 reactions | Just wanted to share a update on Rob the pelican, what he has been up too. He absolutely loves helping us in a

Just wanted to share a update on Rob the pelican, what he has been up too. He absolutely loves helping us in anyway he can, we just have th

(link here if you can’t see the fb upload)

[kaijutegu]

Update part 2: Piss Homunculus Wants To Smash

[steveandthesea]

Track of the day:

This new Apparat album is another absolute stunner, and this opening track in particular just really scratches all the right parts of the brain. Go grab your best headphones and give this a listen. I'm in no way exaggerating when I say that when that dirty bass line kicks in half way through, you might actually cum.

So excited to see them live in the Elbphil later this year. The perfect music to listen to in the worls most acoustically perfect venue. I might actually cry.