Marie Thompson

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!

The 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

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#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’.
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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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YouTube video by ryan burns eliane radigue - Ψ 847 (version concert)

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 📣📣📣

Best Wishes,, by Kar Pouzi 7 track album

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.

Al 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

A 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.

Music and modern languages courses suspended at University of Nottingham In a statement the institution also says it is

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.

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

This really feels like Edinburgh energy to me: you can try to pretend yr above the irn bru martini but really...

A reflective beer can titled das ist techno sex

Enjoying the chaotic drinks selection at my parents' local shop