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Save Essex: Stop the Cuts, Save Southend, Protect Education These proposed cuts mean people losing their livelihoods in a higher education sector already facing a jobs crisis, where alternative employment is scarce and careers built over many years can be dest...

The University of Essex plans to close their Southend campus and cut up to 400 jobs — around one in five staff! But the staff and students are fighting back. Sign their petition to stop the cuts, save Southend, and protect education www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/sa...

L: Private Eye front cover, yesterday.
R: News headline, today.

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FYI the current myth of the 4-day week and AI

AI Expert: We Have 2 Years Before Everything Changes! We Need To Start Protesting! - Tristan Harris Podcast Episode · The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · 27/11/2025 · 2h 23m

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
We should all listen and do something.

Opinion | The A.I. Disruption We’ve Been Waiting for Has Arrived

This resonated with me www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o...

Stop Palantir taking over our public services! Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.

Our UK public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

Overcoming the horrors of Liverpool’s 1970s and 80s care system - Nu Origins Magazine While one can’t legally purchase alcohol or gain a commercial driver’s license (CDL) until 21 years of age in the U.S, turning 18 marks a significant landmark throughout most societies, allowing indiv...

“Growing up Black in the Merseyside care system.

Dr Malik Al Nasir in New York Magazine, Nu Origins, about his adolescent years growing up in Liverpool’s care system… & his recently published book: Searching for My Slave Roots”

#MalikAlNasir #NuOrigins #NewYork

www.nuorigins.com/overcoming-t...

You can now access the letters in a digital collection for free on @theul.bsky.social Cambridge Digital Library cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/...

‘Regrets? Number one: smoking. Number two: taking it up the wrong hole’: Tracey Emin on reputation, radical honesty – and Reform She scandalised the art world in the 1990s with her unmade bed, partied hard in the 2000s – then a brush with death turned the artist’s life upside down. Now she’s as frank as ever

A tough read but worth it - Tracy Emin

"Britain could take care of people wanting to come here … Instead, we’ve got a country now that’s bordering on neo-Nazi rhetoric, which I find really abhorrent.”

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

#art #cancer #cats #TraceyEmin

Saw the queue of cars waiting to get into Waitrose. Went home. Think I've get some camellias from garden :)

We’re leaving X.

As a charity and arts centre that champions inclusivity, we feel our values do not align with the platform.

Our X profile will stay active until the end of this month, Sun 28 Feb. After that, you can find us on Instagram, LinkedIn, Threads, Facebook, TikTok and Blue Sky.

Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is back at the helm of the surveillance doorbell company, and with him is the surveillance-first-privacy-last approach that made Ring one of the most maligned tech devices....

Ring surveillance before privacy www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Irish man with valid US work permit held in ICE detention for five months Seamus Culleton has lived in US for two decades, married a citizen and runs a plastering business but faces deportation

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... Don’t travel to the US for any reason, it’s not worth the risk!

Raw America (@rawstory) THIS IS GREAT: Sir Ian McKellen destroys Trump on Colbert last night by performing a Shakespeare monologue from Sir Thomas More. Fits the historical moment exactly. Make sure this gets around!

substack.com/@rawstory/no... McKellen’s response to Trump

Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters Exclusive: Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism

Exposé on Substack

Surely if a Tbc hasn't be c'd, you can celebrate the feeling of "event cancelled"? :)

Thank you #Spain

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#RejoinEU

Farage (suits) and Robinson (streets) reflect a well-trodden pincer movement in the history of fascism. They both claim to despise one another but need one another to keep the fascist train rolling.

The same #GTTO movement that existed pre-2024 needs to reunite before the next elex, or else.

#GTFO

The Gilchrist Immigrant Resource Center of the Montgomery County, MD Government has produced a website that provides immigrants and supporters with information about their rights in these tough times. It offers access to guides, cards, flyers, and apps. See www.montgomerycountymd.gov/gilchrist/im...

Given Mr Trump's cognitive decline it seems he is very much in need of Inclusive Design Patterns

I've just received a reply to the email I sent the GSA a year ago about their having removed the content on Inclusive Design Patterns. The response says: ======== ... I've just received a reply to the email I sent the GSA a year ago about their having removed the content on Inclusive Design Patterns. The response says: ======== Thank you for writing to us and exp...

Last year I wrote GSA about the removal of their Inclusive Design Patterns. Today they replied. Said it was mandated by the EO on "Ending Radical and Wasteful…DEI Programs and Preferencing". I said it was IN NO WAY radical or wasteful, and called the EO a travesty. www.linkedin.com/posts/elizab...

(PDF) Dementia, Music and Frequency PDF | The frequency of music is an incredible tool of the universe for the treatment of conditions of a cancerous, cellular degenerative type condition;... | Find, read and cite all the research you n...

Check out my research paper exploring links between neurodegenerative regression and music and frequency use, with a focus on dementia care. It examines how music may support memory restoration and explores Dimension 4 (time). #science #dementia #research

www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Can't you photoshop in some more flames ? :-)

A shaft of bright afternoon sunlight glances off a rectangular black bin with gold trim which is emitting puffs of white smoke. The bin is situated on a grey pavement next to a road. Shops are visible on the other side of the road. Is it a sign? Has a new religious leader been selected? What does it mean?

My very Literal Bin Fire only went down moderately well on IG stories so i’m offering it up to BlueSky

We're delighted about the UK Government's announcement of a £1.5billion investment package to support cultural organisations across the country. This funding commitment will ensure arts venues, heritage buildings and museums can stay open and provide meaningful opportunities for their communities.

Anti-pop and an alien sigil: how Aphex Twin overtook Taylor Swift to become the soundtrack to gen Z life online The mysterious Cornish electronic music pioneer has gained an extraordinary second life in the TikTok era. Writers and musicians explain why his glitchy slipperiness is so in tune with life today

An unexpected Aphex Twin appeal to Gen Z and Alpha

I do a nice line in "before action in the county court" letters ;)

Apple Maps has a rail replacement stage between Exeter St Davids and Newton Abbot due to "weather" - truly a Great Trek

Whistleblowers just shared a memo showing DHS instructing ICE to force their way into peoples' houses without a proper warrant. Why is this not on all the networks right now? This is a criminal conspiracy to violate rights under color of law.