Marie Thompson

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

Imagine if the infrastructure that our daily life depends on was organised according to some sort of coordinated plan, not just the chaotic outcome of billions of competitors each making decisions in the interests of profit, power, and convenience.

one thing LLMs have revealed is that the belief that there is a magical incantation that will give you what you want is not just confined to pick-up artists and freemen on the land

Oh no, Peter. I've not been on here much so hadn't seen about Tater being ill. I'm so sorry. A very good girl.

No doubt this is one of those fun quirks that arise from researching digital life but nevertheless: seems bad!

I know the bar is high/low, but l feel like I've hit a new personal worst in algorithmic culture with Facebook pushing anti-mammogram content

A sticker reading the only bad art is ai art

I mean, I appreciate the sentiment but I really think we should give proper credit to all the terrible non-AI art that exists.

YouTube video by OpenLearn from The Open University Introducing Music Research (Free course trailer)

Our MA in Music is open for registration! This part-time, distance-learning course can be studied worldwide, and is designed to be completed over 2 years. Sign up at www.open.ac.uk/postgraduate.... The video introduces our free sample course, available @ouopenlearn.bsky.social youtu.be/YmpddzhAFiE

I'm going to Brazil! Hyped to be presenting at the next iteration of Sonoridades in June. The conference's theme is 'Silences' and will be held in Vitoria (ES). I'll be talking about tinnitus' multiple relationships with silence, both literal and figurative, and their implications for sound studies

YouTube video by Croy CROY AND THE BOYS - "DO THEY OWE US A LIVING?" (CRASS COVER)

m.youtube.com/watch?v=Wr0g...

I didn't know I needed a country cover of Crass' 'do they owe us a living?' but here we are

This is such sad news. Like many others, Jonathan's work was formative to me. It's also just really impressive how he got to be something like the final boss of sound studies, and was still so nice.

oh gosh, no. This is such sad news

The oyster should not be looking to the government to fund its consumer choices (because children are consumer goods)

text reads: 'a typical woman marrying at age twenty can produce no more than ten children, whereas by contrast a female oyster lays millions of eggs. Women who are unable to produce children usually either have been divorced, have become part of a polygynous household, or have adopted the children of others.'

Alright, introducing myself to a new social media platform by sharing the cursed takes of neoliberal economists