Forgetting is easy in cities. We walk amongst buildings with no memory of the labour, lives or losses that made them. We forget the animals that have since disappeared or been erased. That’s part of why books like @fayay.bsky.social's The Gleaning are precious – poetry can restore that lost memory.
Posting this again in tribute to the great Bill Oddie, and because in my opinion it's one of the greatest moments in British television comedy. youtu.be/Sad7CoNTzjE?...
The Goodies- Puppet Government
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Andy Burnham is going to be flying between London and Manchester ffs
'A Sheffield Forge' from around 1902-1904 by artist Walter Hayward-Young (1868–1920) under his pseudonym Jotter. One of a set entitled 'Workaday Sheffield' produced for Raphael Tuck and Co. The accompanying text states 'This is typical Sheffield forge silhouetted against the
An important conversation between 5 women around deepfakes. I was honoured to be part of it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wELx...
Deepfaked: Five women reveal the real impact of being digitally undressed
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Few people are familar with Evangeline Paterson's poetry these days, though she was an excellent exponent of the genre. In this terrific example, her tone might seem conversational at first, but then the poem starts to show us its layers...
Somewhere in Tethys’ salty darkness, in spurts of milt and billowing roe, eels are birthing their posterity, a spore-storm of eggs in uncountable centillions, each buoyed on its micron of oil. 'Eely' Steve Ely A symphony in four movements £2 off until 24 July longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
#OtD 22 Jul 2017 Rashan Charles, a 20-year-old Black British man, died shortly after being taken to hospital after being held down by police and a passerby in a shop in Dalston, East London. Protests against the killing followed stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9490...
We're waiting for the new Prime Minister to clarify what he's going to do about Thames Water. In the meantime, here are some headlines about water bosses' pay that you may have missed...number 3 is a peach! Privatised water is a scam and we're all paying the price. We need it in public ownership.
There’s common ground up here but not enough to till, or graze a herd or flock. It’s said the land we claimed way back is owned and not by us 'The Gleaning' Fay Musselwhite Lonbarrow Press 2026 @longbarrowpress.bsky.social
Thank you to the MPs who have joined the Parliamentary Call for a government-led televised emergency briefing on the climate & nature crisis in the last ten days. The public deserves to know. Enter postcode to see if your MP has joined: nebriefing.org/parliamentary-call #NationalEmergencyBriefing
But his name be everywhere and summat in the way he speaks about world peace and us all being free I felt the fresh air of it like summat you can breathe, and now I only wanna believe. 'The Gleaning' Fay Musselwhite Lonbarrow Press 2026 @longbarrowpress.bsky.social
Wildfires in the UK - last 48 hours Such events are now a common feature of summer and it is only a matter of time before lives are lost Meanwhile @andyburnham.bsky.social reportedly plans to allow more oil and gas to be sucked out of the North Sea Pure insanity
I stumbled upon a #hedgehog carving from #Cartmelpriory I wanted to explore the shape which is so different from anything I would naturally #draw In drawing my version I think I discovered something of the thoughts from the original artist how the shape was infuenced by the tools used & the humour
A symphony in four movements, Steve Ely's 'Eely' explores the themes of power, conflict, biodiversity and eels as they converge and ramify in the Yorkshire fenlands (and beyond). Available as a beautifully produced hardback, with £2 off for the next week: longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
I keep seeing posts about ai models like "actually they're good at this thing now!" but once you understand that ai tools are being built by fascists in service of attacks on humanity, whether or not they can generate useable code or do basic searches kind of stops being the main question
Have to say, I really, really don't like that we seem to have settled on a policy of publicly announcing people's race so the public knows how to respond to the crime they're accused of.
Maybe FrogFace SHOULD be worried about BInFace. He can deliver! BInFace at the Oxford Union 👇
Eliot Higgins@eliothiggins.bsky.social · 4w agoAlso, I came across this video of Count Binface debating at the Oxford Union, which is well worth your time youtu.be/0Vlew9R2s2A?...
#OtD 10 Jul 1945 the left-wing Daily Herald denounced the Brighton Vigilantes, WWII ex-soldiers squatting empty homes, for potentially creating a "chaotic and dangerous situation" which could "disrupt the law and order of the land." stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1257...
Anxiety and self-sabotage in the neoliberal university February 23, 2023 maxhaiven.com/self-sabotage/
Anxiety and self-sabotage in the neoliberal university - Max Haiven
An essay by Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou and Max Haiven asking: what if students' ‘self-sabotaging’ behaviour can be fruitfully interpreted as a form of nascent rebellion, an expression of collective re...
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As of today, Henry, the author of this essay, is on Bluesky, so give him a follow: @henryfudgeofficial.bsky.social
George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 4w agoThis is a brilliant essay, which, in my view, accurately describes the predicament of the post-Boomer generations, and the vast infrastructure of lies designed to disguise it. "Degeneracy is a symptom. The disease is rent." 🧵 henryfudgeofficial.substack.com/p/degeneracy...
