@collapsiblehaddock.bsky.social
This is lovely - big fan of snock's but hadn't heard this album.
19.09.2025 18:31 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Some of my favorites from this yearβs school-aged artists in the Education Building. #mnstatefair
16.09.2025 03:39 β π 17 π 3 π¬ 2 π 0Starmer's Twitter account is wall-to-wall immigrant bashing, and has been for weeks.
You need to know these things if you're living in the Bluesky bubble and think everything's normal with Labour.
Where are the voices of the girls Epstein and Trump abused? Kate Manne transcribed Katie Johnsonβs (a pseudonym) account of how Trump allegedly raped her at Epsteinβs home in 1994. She was 13 and wore a blonde wig that Trump allegedly said made her look like Ivana, who was 13yo at the time.
28.07.2025 12:34 β π 660 π 262 π¬ 22 π 42For @literaryhub.bsky.social, I wrote about "Points of Origin," songwriter @willstratton.bsky.social's beautiful new short story collection about California wildfires βΒ which happens to be a record lithub.com/the-best-sto...
07.03.2025 17:13 β π 4 π 3 π¬ 0 π 1This is good: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
03.06.2025 21:10 β π 5 π 4 π¬ 0 π 1This.
01.06.2025 11:42 β π 21 π 4 π¬ 0 π 1This is an excellent critique of recent conservative thinking on the economy:
renewal.org.uk/articles/bui...
My illustration of a coal tit
Small collection of blue & purple summer flowers on a sketch book - cornflowers, Nigella & sweet peas laid out with my illustrations of them on the opposite page & a small pale blue fountain pen I used to make the drawings nearby
A collection of spring nature finds such as forget me nots, wood avens, borage etc. with my illustrations of some of them nearby, along with a watercolour palette, paintbrush
Five of my pen and ink illustrations of British birds: blackcap, redwing, coal tit, long tailed tit & wren, some with scientific names & the dates I made the drawings
I'm recovering from a breakdown atm-finances bit worrying atm.
I teach illustration & how creative activity improves mental health-I've taught on BBC Countryfile & the V & A.
I've 3 w'shops atm-learn sth new & support me at same time-enter THANKYOU15 for 15%off. Pls RT,ty:
workshops.emmamitchell.uk
.@adamtooze.bsky.social on the vacuity of international climate policy, which seeks to legitimate a private finance-led transition whilst failing to follow through on what might be required to realise it. I see many of the same dynamics in domestic policy... adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...
08.03.2025 18:41 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0they're calling it the most normal and unsuspicious press release ever
25.02.2025 02:49 β π 351 π 65 π¬ 14 π 0Dude, what the FUCK is going on in this Netflix OJ Simpson docuseries?
19.02.2025 23:22 β π 4442 π 1421 π¬ 171 π 275Richard Dawson talks through his back catalogue on Bandcamp. We reviewed his latest album, End of the Middle, here - klofmag.com/2025/01/rich... Bandcamp Feature: daily.bandcamp.com/lists/richar...
18.02.2025 20:10 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0He so accurately sought power but what does he actually want!? My response, which nobody asked for, to a book Morgan Mcsweeney didn't write.
18.02.2025 15:39 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0For centuries, coal heated homes near the places it was dug.
Then, suddenly, in the 1570s it was rapidly adopted by Londoners, unleashing massive ripples through the economy.
Why?
The answer involves religious refugees, German mercenaries, and beer
www.ageofinvention.xyz/p/age-of-inv...
Channel 4 and its Chief Exec got a lot of publicity for research into Gen Z and democracy. But what happens when you check the polling data and the footnotes? https://theweekinpolls.substack.com/p/gen-z-democracy-and-a-problem-with
02.02.2025 21:48 β π 95 π 47 π¬ 8 π 22βIt is a rich-world conceit to imagine that firewood is obsolete. In Kinshasa, which is projected to become the worldβs largest city by 2075, an estimated 4.8 million cubic metres of wood fuel and charcoal are used each year.β
@adamtooze.bsky.social on energy: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Which of the two do you think the government is focussing on?
25.01.2025 11:30 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Trump? Nah - I know you: what *you* want is analysis of the Labour Governmentβs first six months of transport policy. Right?β¦
www.freewheeling.info/blog/labour-...
Genuinely can't tell whether this is a bit or not.
15.01.2025 14:11 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Oh interesting - would be useful to know the scale of any reality gap.
10.01.2025 20:35 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Naive question, but why do you caveat that performance figures come from built in monitoring? Is this known to be unreliable?
10.01.2025 18:49 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0This is a nice entry point if you've never heard Ed before.
youtu.be/65syVvVN7ME?...
Wait until you hear some of the other stuff he has said since.
08.01.2025 22:33 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0My thoughts on the essay Foundations. βFixing planningβ is no silver bullet. open.substack.com/pub/energyne...
16.12.2024 10:39 β π 22 π 10 π¬ 4 π 7Two different questions here though. Getting new homes off gas should be simple, getting existing homes and buildings off gas is much harder. I don't see how you get round having an end date well ahead of 2050, even if you don't have one confirmed now.
07.01.2025 11:50 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Sorry for your loss but did you definitely not mean to buy the 'old fashioned' variety rather than the 'original'?
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