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Post image 12.10.2025 16:54 β€” πŸ‘ 8986    πŸ” 1197    πŸ’¬ 209    πŸ“Œ 125
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β€˜People seemed deeply insulted’: how cult 90s band Rachel’s took chamber music out of the classical world The graceful ensemble prefigured the neo-classical phenomenon and found surprising success in the post-Nirvana alt-rock boom. After the deaths of two members, reissuing their debut has proven bittersw...

www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...

29.09.2025 15:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is lovely - big fan of snock's but hadn't heard this album.

19.09.2025 18:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Some of my favorites from this year’s school-aged artists in the Education Building. #mnstatefair

16.09.2025 03:39 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Starmer'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.

12.08.2025 08:54 β€” πŸ‘ 719    πŸ” 347    πŸ’¬ 94    πŸ“Œ 75
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The Actual Conspiracy Theory Surrounding Trump and Epstein It’s not what you think it is.

Where are the voices of the girls Epstein and Trump abused? Kate Manne transcribed Katie Johnson’s (a pseudonym) account of how Trump allegedly raped her at Epstein’s 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€” πŸ‘ 660    πŸ” 262    πŸ’¬ 22    πŸ“Œ 42
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The Best Story Collection About California Wildfires Isn’t a Bookβ€”It’s a Brand-New Record On a summer afternoon early in the pandemic, the songwriter Will Stratton was riding his bike near where he lives in the Hudson Valley when he had an experience that felt strange at the time but ha…

For @literaryhub.bsky.social, I wrote about "Points of Origin," songwriter @willstratton.bsky.social's beautiful new short story collection about California wildfires β€”Β which happens to be a record lithub.com/the-best-sto...

07.03.2025 17:13 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Destroying our natural wealth makes us poorer in every sense of the word Partha Dasgupta’s landmark study provided way to put a value on nature – but many fear report has been sidelined

This is good: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

03.06.2025 21:10 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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This.

01.06.2025 11:42 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Built on Sand 07 Renewal 33.1_Tomlinson07 Renewal 33.1_Tomlinson.pdf111 KBdownload-circle A new paper by a group of influential rightwing thinktankers on Britain’s economic stagnation has garnered attention from...

This is an excellent critique of recent conservative thinking on the economy:

renewal.org.uk/articles/bui...

17.05.2025 06:39 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 7
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My illustration of a coal tit

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

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

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

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

05.04.2025 10:19 β€” πŸ‘ 157    πŸ” 91    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 4
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Chartbook 267 JET-P: The "Paper Tigers" of Western climate geopolitics (also Carbon Notes #12) "If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck”, then we all know what follows.

.@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€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

they're calling it the most normal and unsuspicious press release ever

25.02.2025 02:49 β€” πŸ‘ 351    πŸ” 65    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 0
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Dude, what the FUCK is going on in this Netflix OJ Simpson docuseries?

19.02.2025 23:22 β€” πŸ‘ 4442    πŸ” 1421    πŸ’¬ 171    πŸ“Œ 275
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Richard Dawson: Master of Song The style-straddling Geordie songwriter takes us through his back catalogue.

Richard 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€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

He 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€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Age of Invention: How Coal Really Won The Coal Conquest, Part II

For 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...

15.02.2025 14:19 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Gen Z, democracy and a problem with the speech from Channel 4's Chief Exec Welcome to the 146th edition of The Week in Polls (TWIP) which cannot quite tear itself away from looking at how The Times reports polls, but this time at least it is a report from that paper about a…

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€” πŸ‘ 95    πŸ” 47    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 22
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Adam Tooze Β· Trouble Transitioning: What energy transition? An honest account of energy history would conclude not that energy transitions were a regular feature of the past, but...

β€˜It is a rich-world conceit to imagine that firewood is obsolete. In Kinshasa, which is projected to become the world’s largest city by 2075, an estimated 4.8 million cubic metres of wood fuel and charcoal are used each year.’

@adamtooze.bsky.social on energy: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

25.01.2025 12:15 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

Which of the two do you think the government is focussing on?

25.01.2025 11:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Labour’s Challenging Start β€” Freewheeling Labour’s got off to a difficult start. Despite a good DfT ministerial team, transport outcomes are being undermined by policies made elsewhere.

Trump? Nah - I know you: what *you* want is analysis of the Labour Government’s first six months of transport policy. Right?…

www.freewheeling.info/blog/labour-...

20.01.2025 21:34 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2

Genuinely can't tell whether this is a bit or not.

15.01.2025 14:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh interesting - would be useful to know the scale of any reality gap.

10.01.2025 20:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Naive 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€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

This is a nice entry point if you've never heard Ed before.
youtu.be/65syVvVN7ME?...

10.01.2025 18:48 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Wait until you hear some of the other stuff he has said since.

08.01.2025 22:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Without Foundation A critique of the essay Foundations by Bowman, Southwood and Hughes

My thoughts on the essay Foundations. β€˜Fixing planning’ is no silver bullet. open.substack.com/pub/energyne...

16.12.2024 10:39 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 7

Two 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€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sorry for your loss but did you definitely not mean to buy the 'old fashioned' variety rather than the 'original'?

02.01.2025 08:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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