They call it world book day because it makes you hate both books and the world.
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AHH I've not thought about this album in years! A true record Of A Time for me. A great live band too!
#AcademicFreedom | We have written to The @openuniversity.bsky.social to express our profound concern about the university’s response to a letter from the UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) regarding the use of the term ‘#ancientPalestine’.
Read our letter: bit.ly/4r0j68L 1/3
do you tell the sun to shine less brightly
here's a piece i wrote back in 2017, about Radigue's Biogenesis
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RIP Éliane Radigue. A performance of this remains one of my favourite ever concerts
Well now, doesn’t feel like gaslighting at all that individual programs are being made “accountable” for the future earnings of their graduates.
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Those of us who like to say things like “popular culture is a complex space of ideology and antagonism, repression and resistance” really eating shit today:
“The group that should be in the streets has been bought off by Jay Z” - Jes Stanley, CEO of Barclays
It’s a dark night when you look at the news and are forced to admit that you no longer believe in the power of the FIFA peace prize
“The AI can't do your job, but an AI salesman can convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job.”
Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252:
Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email.
Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
Up the BL workers.
I've always hated the romanticism of live fast/die young but it becomes even more perverse when you're thinking of e.g. Dolphy or Crowley
I'm currently producing some teaching involving both jazz and disco and it's really bringing home the proximity of music to the "make/let die"
📣📣📣 fees-only PhD funding for Music at the OU 📣📣📣
My dear, dear baritone wielding friend has a new album out and it is [complementary] absolutely demonic rekemrecords.bandcamp.com/album/best-w...
Ok fine.
An amazing day of solidarity with staff, students, and community members saying NO to compulsory redundancies and unnecessary course closures.
Just devastating. Most of my feed is rightfully outraged about the cuts to music (posed to become an "extra curricular" activity) but the cuts to modern languages are so grim too: if I understand correctly, it means no HE language provision on this side of the midlands www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The pandemic was a mass-disabling event and one of the reasons it has largely vanished from day to day political discourse is that those in power don't want to acknowledge the long term care needs it produced.
This will be a long thread on yesterday police massacre in Rio.
In nothern Rio de Janeiro city, there is a couple of hills called Complexo da Penha. It's Comando Vermelho("Red Command", a drug gang), or CV, territory.
CV is the greatest gang in Rio, second in the whole Brazil.
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Ruh roh.
This is wild. The speakers they objected to are the local city councillor and the local MP whose ward/constituency include the university!
One has to wonder if they were so keen to invoke Prevent because one of the speakers was Muslim?
Absolutely Shellard-levels of bullying on display here.
YOU WOULDN'T DOWNLOAD A PLANT
This really feels like Edinburgh energy to me: you can try to pretend yr above the irn bru martini but really...
Enjoying the chaotic drinks selection at my parents' local shop
