New website called Bristol.is so the community can add inclusive and exclusive shops and services, many places are adding themselves. Look at this map already ❤️🏳️⚧️❤️ and it’s only just got going. I fucking love Bristol
Paul Clammer
@paulclammer.bsky.social
Writer | BLACK CROWN: Biography of Henry Christophe, King of Haiti | Antarctic Editor | Recovering Lonely Planet guidebook author | Bristol https://paulclammer.com/
My one addition to the Odyssey discourse is that it would have been 100% better if it had less angst and more Harryhausen.
Animation Obsessive@ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 5d agoRay Harryhausen's stop-motion skeletons in Jason and the Argonauts are amazing even now. He animated the sequence by himself for more than four months -- without computers or even an easy way to check his work. We're looking into how he did it: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/how-ray-ha...
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Print runs have gone up, but alas, pay rates for freelance writers have barely changed since the time that Austen was writing.
Dr. Emily Friedman@friede.bsky.social · 2w agoApropos to the Pride & Prejudice-palooza we’re having right now thanks to @trungles.com — it is also a weird specific fuckery to think that my next books will have starting print runs more than the first edition of P&P did in 1813 — and indeed ANY of Austen’s novels in her lifetime.
The US-led Gang Suppression Forces will continue sending troups to Haiti. The UK is funding a human rights compliance mechanism to oversee this operation. However, the structural issues around humanitarian crime remain unaddressed: haitisupportgroup.org/yet-another-...
HSG Statement: UK funding to the Gang Suppression Forces
UK Funding for Human Rights Compliance to the Gang Suppresion Forces won’t fix 500 Years of impunity in Haiti.
haitisupportgroup.org
A mosaic of ‘Marley the Ilford Mammoth’ made from plastic bottle tops by artist Caitlin Atherton commemorates a mammoth skull excavated in 1863 from Uphall brick pits, Ilford. It’s a steppe mammoth, which lived c 200,000 ka 🦣 londongeopartnership.org.uk/wp/wp-conten... #londongeology
The internet’s blessed me by reminding me of Stéphan Gladieu’s insanely hard photos of costumes made by Young Congolese artists from all the shit we dump there I don’t want to ever see another leather jacket wearing billy idol clone in a cyberpunk setting again www.stephangladieu.fr/homo-detritus/
Live a life where people talk about you after you die like they do Sam Neil.
Watching Jacques Cousteau's The Silent World (1956) documentary and it starts off great and then.. 1. We have to dynamite these coral reefs for science! :D 2. We hit a whale with our boat :( 3. Sharks attracted to the dying whale >:( 4. We killed the sharks "to avenge the whale" :D Incredible
One of the (many) awful things the tech bros have done is to poison the well with their catch-all public definition of 'AI'. Machine-learning is incredibly clever and wonderful; generative LLMs should be burned to the ground and their ashes covered with salt.
Dr Jo Kershaw@mthrjo.bsky.social · last mo.A fantastic example of what machine learning/ AI can do really well - which has nothing to do with LLMs.
“How much is a magical world worth?” A beautiful thread about Cabo Verde, the Peace Corps, and the World Cup:
Werner Herzog didn't drag a 30-ton steamship up a hill so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable"
Dana Stevens@thehighsign.bsky.social · last mo.Buster Keaton didn't stand still while a two-ton housefront collapsed on top of him with a window cut out to barely clear his shoulders on each side so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."
Anyone who knows about the history of Caribbean slavery, particularly Haiti:
Tom Hardy in Mad Max: That's Bait
Alt: Tom Hardy in Mad Max: That's Bait
static.klipy.com
terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉@kavi.bsky.social · 2mo agoGenuinely crazy how many people on here just have full on britbrain about Napoleon, treating him like Hitler 0. He was a major force for ending feudalism and encouraging liberalism throughout Europe, long after he died
Celebrating this day six years ago (June 7 2020) when the good people of Bristol tore down the statue of enslaver Edward Colston during a Black Lives Matter protest, and threw him in the river. What a splash this brave act made.
UK folks, let's jump on this AI regulation petition the Society of Authors emailed out! It's an actual parliament one so the government HAS to respond if it reaches the signature threshold. It calls for regulations to make AI developers disclose copyrighted works trained on. Sign & repost!! ❤️
Petition: Protect creators' rights: require AI firms to disclose training data
We ask the Government to introduce a statutory duty requiring AI developers to disclose the copyrighted works used to train generative AI in enough detail for creators to identify use of their work, e...
petition.parliament.uk
Celebrating this day six years ago (June 7 2020) when the good people of Bristol tore down the statue of enslaver Edward Colston during a Black Lives Matter protest, and threw him in the river. What a splash this brave act made.
On this day (7th June) in 1993, the Scala Cinema closed permanently. A wake was held including a screening of King Kong (1933), the first film shown at the Kings Cross location back in 1981.
"Why three horses on this wall?" A wonderful piece on prehistoric cave art. By Stephen Phelan, who was taken into the depths of a cave in the Basque Country. He's such a good writer. www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
‘They take you out of life, out of time’: a journey into Spain’s astonishing cave paintings
The long read: For tens of thousands of years, these Palaeolithic artworks were unseen. When they were rediscovered, onlookers marvelled at their vivid beauty. One of the world’s leading experts took ...
theguardian.com
Looking forward to this book very much 🇭🇹✒️🗡
Michael Deibert@michaeldeibert.bsky.social · 2mo agoSpending this week going over the page proofs for my forthcoming book, With the Pen In One Hand and the Sword in the Other: Haiti and the United States in the Nineteenth Century, coming out with @ugapress.bsky.social this autumn.
The blood on this man’s hands. Determined to prevent a deal with Iran. Determined to eliminate Palestinians. Determined to kill Palestinian statehood. Determined to drag the wider region into a spiraling circle of death. The war criminal of our era. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Netanyahu orders Israeli bombing of southern Beirut
Thousands leave homes after Israeli military instructed to strike ‘terrorist targets’ in largest escalation of war since ceasefire
theguardian.com
This book is going to be BRILLIANT ⬇️
Matthew Teller@matthewteller.com · 2mo agoTo have a personally dedicated and signed copy of FINDING ALADDIN delivered to you (or someone else!) on publication day, 12 November, the wonderful Lighthouse Bookshop @lighthousebks.bsky.social can make all your wishes come true... Details here: lighthousebookshop.com/book/9781805...
I can't remember who was recommending this here (@davidveevers.bsky.social?), but I've just finished it and it's bloody brilliant. More book tips like this please, Bluesky.
As a former Lonely Planet writer, this makes me very sad to read. (LP guides do still exist btw, albeit in a form much changed from the backpacking olden times)
What the government is doing to trans people is a society-wide version of Section 28. It is a level of bureaucratic cruelty that utterly decimates a whole group of people’s rights and puts anyone who doesn’t ‘look’ right in the eyes of others under constant surveillance. It’s a horrific thing.
Pandering to transphobes. Pandering to racists. Pandering to ableists. What is the point of Labour?
Sarah Owen MP@sarahowen.org.uk · 3mo agoAll of us deserve to be able to live with dignity and be treated with respect. (7/7)