stephen hodge

hadn't really noticed that supermarkets pipe music in the background until yesterday, when, in tescos, many of the customers not only sang along to manfred mann's 'the mighty quinn', but started dancing too

Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover

The richest man owns X.

The second and third richest men control Google.

The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post.

And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.

See the problem here?

Green party wins Gorton and Denton byelection, pushing Labour to third place in blow to Keir Starmer Hannah Spencer elected as party’s first MP in northern England, as Labour sees a 25.3% drop in vote compared to 2024

What a rare breath of deliciously fresh air. Congratulations Hannah, Zack, everyone involved in defeating Reform's naked xenophobic authoritarianism with authentic humanist hope, not with Starmer's authoritarianism-lite. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

they surely are.

Thoroughly depressing discussion on Kuenssberg about university funding. Plans by the opposition to introduce cuts to arts degrees arguing that they don't provide a financial return to the individual. Blatant populism. Imagine if all government spending decisions were done on that basis!

Coordinated universal time is OUT. No more atomic clocks. No more cesium fountain. Instead, we’re calibrating our lives to the trees. Welcome to Bristlecone Time.

Artist/philosopher Jonathon Keats unveils a horological and land art project offering an alternative time standard calibrated by trees.

Promotional image for Oli Mould's book 'Postcapitalist cities' published by Manchester University Press. The book sits against the background of an empty gravel path and blue sky. Text reads: What could a city look like after capitalism?

Promotional image for Oli Mould's book 'Postcapitalist cities' published by Manchester University Press. The book sits against the background of an empty gravel path and blue sky. Review quote reads: 'Truly global and deeply humane... Oli Mould proposes a radical urbanism that draws on past, present and future visions that could reshape the world.'

Promotional image for Oli Mould's book 'Postcapitalist cities' published by Manchester University Press. Gravel background with blue sky. Review quote reads: 'A much needed antidote to the daily escalation of urban authoritarianism and the existential threat of planetary destruction.'

Publishing today!🏙️

In a world of environmental degradation, inequality and social strife, a vision for what comes next is vital.

@olimould.bsky.social takes readers from strikes in Santiago to urban commoning and Solarpunk, revealing how communities are making a new kind of city possible.

new nationalist political parties launched by Tory MPs today:
. Recriminate
. Refridgerate
. Repel
. Remote
. Referenda
. Relapse
. Rectum

'how does a mountain form?' the toddler passing me in the street repeatedly begs of his mother

with kathy hinde and her hydrophone on exeter quay

super refreshing to hear so much thin-on-the-ground, razor-sharp sanity from @drjogrady.bsky.social on #bbcqt

Would have been good to balance this additional infrastructure money in the arts with funding for actual artistic activity.

Béla Tarr
21 July 1955 – 6 January 2026
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YouTube video by Eugene McDaniels - Topic Tell Me Mr. President

youtu.be/M6HwE_7JUFc

so me and my mates are going to run the usa until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition.

Watch an Avant-Garde Bauhaus Ballet in Brilliant Color, First Staged in 1922 We credit the Bauhaus school, founded by German architect Walter Gropius in 1919, for the aesthetic principles that have guided so much modern design and architecture in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Watch an Avant-Garde Bauhaus Ballet in Brilliant Color, First Staged in 1922