They call it world book day because it makes you hate both books and the world.
05.03.2026 07:20 β π 15 π 2 π¬ 3 π 1They call it world book day because it makes you hate both books and the world.
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04.03.2026 17:14 β π 116 π 14 π¬ 1 π 0AHH I've not thought about this album in years! A true record Of A Time for me. A great live band too!
03.03.2026 14:23 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0The image shows page 1 of the letter from the BRISMES Committee on Academic Freedom to The Open University. The letter is available to read in full on the BRISMES website: https://www.brismes.ac.uk/news/academic-freedom-letter-to-the-open-university-regarding-use-of-the-term-ancient-palestine
The image shows page 2 of the letter from the BRISMES Committee on Academic Freedom to The Open University. The letter is available to read in full on the BRISMES website: https://www.brismes.ac.uk/news/academic-freedom-letter-to-the-open-university-regarding-use-of-the-term-ancient-palestine
The image shows page 3 of the letter from the BRISMES Committee on Academic Freedom to The Open University. The letter is available to read in full on the BRISMES website: https://www.brismes.ac.uk/news/academic-freedom-letter-to-the-open-university-regarding-use-of-the-term-ancient-palestine
The image shows page 4 of the letter from the BRISMES Committee on Academic Freedom to The Open University. The letter is available to read in full on the BRISMES website: https://www.brismes.ac.uk/news/academic-freedom-letter-to-the-open-university-regarding-use-of-the-term-ancient-palestine
#AcademicFreedom | We have written to The @openuniversity.bsky.social to express our profound concern about the universityβs response to a letter from the UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) regarding the use of the term β#ancientPalestineβ.
Read our letter: bit.ly/4r0j68L 1/3
do you tell the sun to shine less brightly
27.02.2026 10:38 β π 299 π 41 π¬ 3 π 0
here's a piece i wrote back in 2017, about Radigue's Biogenesis
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RIP Γliane Radigue. A performance of this remains one of my favourite ever concerts
24.02.2026 20:16 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Well now, doesnβt feel like gaslighting at all that individual programs are being made βaccountableβ for the future earnings of their graduates.
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17.02.2026 20:11 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Those of us who like to say things like βpopular culture is a complex space of ideology and antagonism, repression and resistanceβ really eating shit today:
βThe group that should be in the streets has been bought off by Jay Zβ - Jes Stanley, CEO of Barclays
Itβs 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
03.01.2026 07:06 β π 5925 π 1266 π¬ 45 π 23βThe 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.β
20.12.2025 21:13 β π 34 π 14 π¬ 0 π 0
Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252:
Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal βrisk of redundancyβ letters via email.
Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
Up the BL workers.
11.12.2025 19:07 β π 9 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0I'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
10.12.2025 09:28 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I'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"
10.12.2025 09:23 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0π£π£π£ fees-only PhD funding for Music at the OU π£π£π£
26.11.2025 18:44 β π 2 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0My dear, dear baritone wielding friend has a new album out and it is [complementary] absolutely demonic rekemrecords.bandcamp.com/album/best-w...
22.11.2025 15:29 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Ok fine.
18.11.2025 10:29 β π 407 π 65 π¬ 14 π 1Al Overview Men in New York have done countless things throughout history, from building the city to participating in major events like the Stonewall riots and the September 11 attacks. Their actions have ranged from daily life and economic hardship during the Great Depression to playing significant roles in the city's political and social landscape, such as the assassination of Malcolm X or the fight for LGBTQ+ rights.
Google AI is like an Eric Adams quote generator
10.11.2025 18:37 β π 1903 π 283 π¬ 42 π 26A panoramic photograph of the many people standing on today's picket line.
A photo of two people at our picket line holding signs.
A photo of someone holding up a solidarity fist at our picket line
A photo of a banner that says We Are The University with picketers standing behind it.
An amazing day of solidarity with staff, students, and community members saying NO to compulsory redundancies and unnecessary course closures.
10.11.2025 13:28 β π 27 π 16 π¬ 1 π 2Just 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...
07.11.2025 09:05 β π 6 π 1 π¬ 0 π 1The 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.
05.11.2025 08:16 β π 171 π 76 π¬ 11 π 5
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.
29.10.2025 11:49 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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.
A sign on a store shelf reading "'Proplifting' is picking up fallen succulent leaves (or any other plant leaf) off the floors of garden centers or pinching off leaves and taking them home to propagate - IT IS THEFT! PLEASE DO NOT DO IT."
YOU WOULDN'T DOWNLOAD A PLANT
21.10.2025 19:27 β π 1565 π 461 π¬ 48 π 48This really feels like Edinburgh energy to me: you can try to pretend yr above the irn bru martini but really...
21.10.2025 08:42 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A reflective beer can titled das ist techno sex
Enjoying the chaotic drinks selection at my parents' local shop
21.10.2025 08:39 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0