Everywhere stinks of dog shit This isn’t the main reason we need rain, obviously, but it is one of them because 💩
Dr Lucy Carolan
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Creative practice research about dementia. 'Picturing Clouds of Unknowing: Photography, Lostness, and Cognitive Decline' DOI: https://doi.org/10.22501/rc.1862857 European (English origin, sorry). Mainly fair: good occasionally rough.
Djuna Barnes’ three-act verse tragedy The Antiphon (1958)
Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · last wk.Studio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now
Ah yes, students and academics who do not deserve respect compared to, say, people whose well paid work in construction requires the wearing of hard hats, 85% of whom are men
Will Tullett@willtullett.bsky.social · last wk.‘It would, Burnham said, mean the country could “value the hard hat every bit as much as the graduation cap”.’ www.theguardian.com/politics/202... this felt pretty sad to read. Another nail in the coffin for the idea that education is not merely about access to employment…
“There are no sex scenes, and all the food looks horrible.” On reading that in Emily Wilson’s LRB review of Nolan’s Odyssey I thought, well I don’t think I fancy that much then, followed by… where’s Peter Greenaway when we need him?
WALKING TO PARIS - Trailer
Peter Greenaway
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The new Prime Minister is writing a "10-year plan" for the UK. The arts & culture MUST be part of it. I've signed @campaignforthearts.org's petition urging @andyburnham.bsky.social to revitalise the arts – to revitalise the whole nation 🌱 Join me: www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/10-year-plan/
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"why don't you just install air-conditioning" www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Europe wildfires: more than 300,000 flee homes and holiday accommodation in France and Spain as fires rage
Fires displace people on massive scale and trigger one of the largest peacetime civilian evacuation operations ever carried out in France
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Withnail & I: a film so famous it seems like it’s familiar But last night I discovered I hadn’t ever seen it — while watching it for the very first time at a special open air screening in a place featured in it (the courtyard of Uncle Monty’s place in the country)
Shipping Forecast read by Neil Nunes (Storm Eunice)
YouTube video by RandomRadioJottings
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Nanoraptor@nanoraptor.danamania.com · 2w agoYou suddenly get a narrator describing your life and there’s no way to turn it off - everyone can hear it. While shopping, at work, at home, with friends - the voice narrating your every move goes on. Who do you hope is the voice of this narrator?
“[T]his is a useful summary of what has sometimes been called ‘climate linguistics’, focusing on issues of metaphor use in climate communication.”
Brigitte Nerlich@bnerlich.bsky.social · 2w agoThis anthology of climate change blog posts seems strange in the context of a world on fire. We tried so hard to communicate, but.... #climatechange #pyrocene makingsciencepublic.com/2026/07/24/c...
“Watlington’s forthcoming critique of Forensic Architecture… is at the crest of a growing wave of suspicion around artist-led research. She writes that ‘art does not have protocols for verification or accountability the way other disciplines do’.” 👀 Plus research as ‘knowledgemaxxing’?! Fuckssake
ArtReview@artreview.bsky.social · 2w agoBad, regurgitated and even plagiarised information is pouring out of the internet and backwashing into institutional spaces
It’s nearly 7 weeks since ⤵️ The insurers have sent 4 people to assess damage (w/ at least 1 more to come) and have still not given any quotes, but are ‘worried’ the floor — which they stopped us dehumidifying — might still be damp, so after a gap, in a heatwave, *now* want to start drying it out 🙄
Dr Lucy Carolan@icarousse.bsky.social · 2mo agoAfter a lovely weekend in London, got home to find the bathroom radiator had burst and flooded my workspace below — pool of water on the floor, laptop, books and wips soaked… 😭
If I want to know how most of my French friends are I have to phone or email because they won’t go near SM, so ‘AI’? Bof
JW Mason@jwmason.bsky.social · 2w agoTout le monde déteste l’IA. www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/everyone-h...
Me: I’ve never made mushroom soup before, can you test taste it for me? He: Mmm… And does it have chilli in it? Me: Yes of course — do bears pope in the woods? He: Me: He: I’d better get ready for the gym
“There appears to be an assumption that the country will always have enough water for its economic needs,” the briefing said. “Nothing could be further from the truth.” 😬
Emma Kennedy@emmakeddev.bsky.social · 2w agoNot enough water for UK’s datacentre plans, trade body says www.theguardian.com/environment/...
« What should we make of people who can speak and yet make no sense? »
MIT Press@mitpress.bsky.social · 2w agoDelirium is one of the most perplexing deathbed phenomena, exposing the gap between our cultural ideals of dying words and the reality of a disoriented mind. ICYMI this poignant excerpt from @michaelerard.bsky.social's book "Bye Bye I Love You":
Have managed, without even trying hard, to miss every match of this World Cup, but we have guests tonight who have been following it all and want to watch the final, and I can’t hide in the kitchen much longer… 😭
Add crimes against Audrey Hepburn to the list of charges
🔵Blue Dot Buckeye🔵#Blues 🦋💙🌊🗽🌪️@buckivotesblue.bsky.social · 3w agoNice clutch. 🤭🤭🤭 #Blues
« I have expectations… productivity… and if my expectations aren’t met, certain things will not happen, » said a man* outside a charity shop to his two sons aged approx 8-11** *looked like a cross between Austin Powers and Micheal McIntyre **not yet teenagers but already had dad pegged as a wanker
"We too have two hands, let us not laze about in the city," rallied Burnham, before sending redundant academics to be rusticated by transforming newly nationalised steel into useful toe caps, pans and paper clips &c
Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 3w agoI have absolutely no idea how Burnham plans to “reindustrialise”. Labour is too often a party of nostalgia looking back to some imagined golden age of horny-handed working people. You can’t magic old industries back to life. What new industries is he thinking about?