@ceebarnacles.bsky.social
By the sea or by the books.
🔴The Public Wants to Ban ‘Politician Presenters’ Like Nigel Farage But Ofcom Isn’t Listening
The broadcasting watchdog is refusing to act despite research suggesting viewers oppose politicians like the Reform leader being allowed to host current affairs shows
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/24/b...
Good to see an acknowledgment in @thetimes.com that the right wing culture war on ‘woke’ is a far bigger problem for our democracy than leftist censoriousness
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
The actual regime that these people are hankering after is Dubai: a small elite of citizens, most immigrants to be transient, insecure and all immigrants to be second-class. In reality they would hate the world they would create and would find ever-more ridiculous scapegoats for their failure.
22.10.2025 10:09 — 👍 2014 🔁 441 💬 73 📌 36“Yeah, but we don’t mean *you*, you’re alright aintcha?!”
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Black History Month - Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust share.google/WlcZkxbzBRUT...
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George Ryan, aged 23, can be seen at the base of Nelson's column on one of the plinths. He's the "African sailor" and had been pressed into service in Deptford in 1803.
So the RN was no bastion of liberal values. But history is far more interesting than those dullard nationalists will ever know.
Nelson's Victory crew included a Brazilian and a Russian, 2 Indians, 2 Swiss, 2 Portuguese, 3 Danes and 3 Norwegian sailors. There were 3 Germans, 4 Italians, 6 Swedes, 7 Dutchmen, 9 West Indians and an African, as well as 21 Americans, 63 Irish, 64 Scots, 441 English.... oh, and 3 French men, too.
22.10.2025 08:01 — 👍 3588 🔁 1288 💬 292 📌 95Deeply existential.
22.10.2025 12:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This obsession with reaching across the aisle to people who want to tear your arm off will kill democracy. Find everyone who doesn't want to do that and work with them, there are plenty of them.
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I am once again telling you that taking money from Musk makes you complicit in his instrumentalization of cultural heritage to support his beliefs. Taking funding from amoral entities is, in my opinion, not ethical and it is in fact harmful. www.finestresullarte.info/en/news/elon...
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What a lovely man.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
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Detail of early type with a wooden decoration used to give three words space and emphasis
I very love this typographical innovation in a Valencian printed edition of Ars inventiva veritatis from 1515 by the amazingly named printer Didacuz de Gumiel!
18.10.2025 08:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Wear Red Day to highlight anti-racism in the workplace (got my best ‘omnia sunt communia’ / 1525 Peasants Revolt face on in one of the pics! 😀🖤)
#WRD2025 #antiracism #againstracism #srtrc #showracismtheredcard⚽️🔴 #omniasuntcommunia
A box overlaid on a map showing southern England, with London prominently marked. The box features bold black text reading: "NO TYRANTS INDIVISIBLE LONDON UK" Below this heading, the event details are listed: Date: Sat, Oct 18 Time: 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT Location: US EMBASSY LONDON (UK) The time and date information is accompanied by red calendar and map pin icons. At the bottom of the flyer is a large red button labeled “RSVP” in white text.
Lol that the London No Kings event is called No Tyrants because…you know…
www.nokings.org#map
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand
“You have the provenance?”
Next: posthumous pay awards to BM Library Keepers and Attendants for 130 years ago …
16.10.2025 17:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“Wild? I was absolutely livid!”
One of my favourite comedy sketches and maybe an opportunity to where my gorilla costume for the first time since I did a charity run for the Gorilla Organisation!!
🖤🦍📚🗣️🪧⚡️💷 ✊
This is the journalism our world needs!
16.10.2025 09:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0🖤 up and at them! We should not tolerate organised, legalised thefts from the rentier class and their hired goons.
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A flyleaf showing an inscription which says Milton's Juvenile Poems R.3.4 and a printed crest of Trinity College Cambridge
Great news from @claire.m.l.bourne about Milton's Library.
The Milton manuscript held in the Wren Library is available to see here:
mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/R...
“In a recent survey of its British Library members, the union found that most workers struggle each month to make ends meet.”
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Das Buch-Cover von »Troubling Archives« auf lachsfarbenem Hintergrund.
How to challenge colonial legacies: Namibian and South African artists use archives to develop alternative memory practices.
https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7760-7/
@snf-fns.ch
#MemoryCulture #Colonialism #Namibia #SouthAfrica
Screenshot of a catalogue record from the English Short Title Catalogue
“Soot marks and ink spots throughout”
#bookhistory
introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you'll never watch again, and one song you can't stand
Oysters
Green Street
Sweet Caroline
Totally self-defeating
www.thetimes.com/article/4700...
Are any of us spending anything like enough time talking to U.S. friends and acquaintances about what is occurring?
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Mr Bill Board
Mr Bill Board
World Mental Health Day 2025 and Mr Bill Board says, please don’t ever feel so apart from everyone else that you can’t talk with someone - there are lots of people in the world, many of them are good people and can make the difference. Don’t hesitate to message or speak to someone for some good ears
10.10.2025 09:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0‘Dystopian melancholy’ has to become more precise as a category: new ‘naturalism’ or ‘realism’ might do.
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