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Living with the planet LATE Tackle big questions and explore bold ideas about the future of our planet in this season’s British Academy Late. Immerse yourself in the sounds and music of the rainforests of Papua New Guinea; discu...

If you are looking for a thought provoking night out in London this week we are holding a free evening of talks, exhibits, performance and even zine making on Thursday. All on the theme of ‘Living with the Planet’. You need to book but tix are free
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/livin...

I agree with all your adjectives. Also I felt antsy, dizzy, enthralled, like being in bracing wind. Unforgettable blend. And so worth the time.

@lilyking.bsky.social are you THE Lily King, author of Euphoria - I love your work ❤️

"We're always, in everything we do in this world, she says, limited by subjectivity. But our perspective can have enormous wingspan, if we give it the freedom to unfurl."

One anthropologist describing another in Lily King's 2014 novel, Euphoria.

Sally Rooney says she cannot safely enter UK without facing arrest over Palestine Action support Irish author wins Sky Arts Award for literature for her latest novel Intermezzo

Sally Rooney says she cannot safely enter UK without facing arrest over Palestine Action support
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Awarding excellence in nonfiction & celebrating 15 years of the #HilaryWeston Prize. 🏆

Meet the 2025 jury:

◢ Matthew R. Morris
◢ Lorri Neilsen Glenn @lorri.bsky.social
◢ Niigaan Sinclair @niigaanwewidam.bsky.social ‬

Finalist announcement on Wednesday!

👉https://bit.ly/4lXZqQk

Announcing finalists for the 2025 #HilaryWeston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction 🏆 Congratulations to:

◢Omar El Akkad

◢Tessa McWatt

◢Vinh Nguyen

◢ @biidaasamose.bsky.social

◢ @authormiriamtoews.bsky.social

$75K winner announced Nov 13 at the #WTAwards bit.ly/4lXZqQk

Reclaiming the Soul of Writing When ChatGPT began to write with surprising fluency, the question arose: if AI can write, then why should I?

Hi Gerard, I've been thinking about your question since we dialogued about Denis Johnson. I came across this freshly published piece by Jonathan Boymal. Would this stir something in your students?

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That's wonderful. I'll look for your work.

I'd read Train Dreams several years ago, and Largesse of the Sea Maiden a year or two later. I felt thrilled visiting the bookstore yesterday and finding two novels. I'm glad I picked this one to read first.

I just devoured Resuscitation of a Hanged Man. Had to pause at points to catch my breath. This description of Denis Johnson's writing tenets rings true. Thanks for sharing it, Gerard.

𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗥𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗞𝗢, Untitled, 1959
Oil on watercolor paper
38 × 25 in. (96.5 × 63.5 cm)
Collection of Kate Rothko Prizel.
© 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko/Artists Rights Society (ARS)

𝚂𝚒𝚐𝚗 𝚞𝚙 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚁𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚔𝚘 𝚛𝚎𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚍 𝚗𝚎𝚠𝚜 𝚘𝚛 𝚖𝚊𝚔𝚎 𝚊 𝚝𝚊𝚡 𝚍𝚎𝚍𝚞𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚋𝚕𝚎 𝚍𝚘𝚗𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗. 𝙻𝚒𝚗𝚔𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝚋𝚒𝚘

𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗥𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗞𝗢, Four Darks in Red, 1958
Oil on Canvas
📸 @mark.cashion (Instagram)
259.1 cm × 294.6 cm (102.0 in × 116.0 in)
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
© 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko/Artists Rights Society (ARS)

My mom. Dec 28, 1936 - Jul 21, 2014. I love you, Ma ❤️

Three stunning and shaming paragraphs, by Rachel Wolf of Public First, in @theobserveruk.bsky.social

I missed this in December 2024. Physicist Geoffrey Hinton's Nobel Prize acceptance speech. Neural networks with mighty powers: what could possibly go wrong?😑

www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physi...

2 July 2025 Rt Hon Bridget Phillipson Secretary of State for Education and Minister for Women and Equalities Appointment of the Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission Dear Secretary of State, Our two Committees met yesterday, 1 July, to hold a pre-appointment hearing with the Government’s preferred candidate for the post of Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson. We held a wide-ranging discussion with the candidate, covering topics including: • Suitability of the candidate's knowledge and experience • The equalities and human rights remits of the EHRC, including regarding race, disability and Islamophobia • The role of the EHRC as equality law regulator and enforcer • Future relationships with the Government and Parliament • Board level vacancies • Biological sex-based rights and transgender rights • Equality and human rights implications of artificial intelligence It is clear that Dr Stephenson has extensive academic credibility in the field of women’s rights and has an important contribution to make to public life. However, it is with regret that we do not feel we can endorse her appointment to the role at this time. Our reasons relate to our concerns about vision and leadership, about breadth of expertise across the wide remit of the EHRC, and about rebuilding trust.

The Joint Committee on Human Rights and the Women and Equalities Committee have made public their letter rejecting Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson for the role of new Chair of the EHRC.
So it's official!
Read their reasoning in full here: committees.parliament.uk/publications...

July 18, 2025 [There is a lot about sexual assault in tonight’s letter.]

July 18, 2025

Seems like the right time to share this wonderful moment again, now with subtitles and some context at the beginning about what they were talking about before Jeff Goldblum shared a George Bernard Shaw quote with Stephen Colbert.

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Please sign this petition. It doesn't matter that the government's initial response states lamely that the right to transition is already enshrined in UK law. If the petition reaches 100k and gets debated in parliament we can lobby MPs to ask questions as per the OP. MPs are beginning to wake up.

Let officials speak Sir, The government's new guidance that prevents public officials from participating properly in public or stakeholder events is a mistake. Effective government relies on public servants, whose salaries are paid by the taxpayer, hearing directly from businesses, charities, academics and citizens to help them make better policy. They should be able to explain government activity to those same groups. Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent, speaking for the government about the guidance, recognised this when she said that there was a "a responsibility on our civil servants to engage every day". The unpublished guidance contradicts this, saying that "officials speaking at a sector-facing event with Q&A and/or media expected to be in the audience... should not go ahead". It is causing confusion and a chilling effect on public discussion. It should be withdrawn.

Dr Hannah White Institute for Government; Theo Bertram Social Market Foundation; Jess Bowie and Suzannah Brecknell Civil Service World; Alastair Campbell former Downing Street director of communications; Sarah Chaytor Universities Policy Engagement Network; Mike Clancy Prospect; Sir Simon Clarke Onward; Polly Curtis Demos; Professor Bobby Duffy Policy Institute, King's College London; David Durant TransformGov Talks; Gavin Freeguard Public Digital Data Bites; Kevin Keith UK Open Government Network; Professor Michael Kenny Bennett Institute of Public Policy; Sir John Kingman former second permanent secretary, HM Treasury; Maxwell Marlow Adam Smith Institute; Daniel Bruce Transparency International; Professor Anand Menon UK in a Changing Europe; Dave Penman FDA; Charlotte Pickles Re:State; Professor Meg Russell Constitution Unit, University College London; Hetan Shah British Academy; Ryan Shorthouse Bright Blue; Baroness Spielman former chief inspector of education, children's services and skills; Matt Stanley Think Digital Partners; Thea Stein Nuffield Trust; Matt Tee former CEO, IPSO, and former permanent secretary for government communications; Jeni Tennison Connected by Data

Govt should withdraw its guidance which prevents civil servants from speaking at public or stakeholder events as this will reduce the quality of policymaking. I’m a co-signatory of this letter in The Times coordinated by @instituteforgovernment.org.uk a
asking for this guidance to be reconsidered

I still can't get over the fact that "panels you point at sky and make electricity from sunlight with no fuel is the cheapest source of energy" needed explanation.

If Rank, Camus & Buber are right, man cannot stand alone but has to reach out for support. If transference is ... a necessary projection in order to stand life, death & oneself, the question becomes: What is *creative projection*? What is *life-enhancing* illusion?

- Ernest Becker

John Lyon, longtime DC radio host dies, spent decades quietly seeking answers, justice for murdered daughters - WTOP News John Lyon, whose 22-year career at WMAL radio in Washington, D.C. coincided with his family’s quiet, determined search for answers in the 1975 disappearance of his young daughters, Sheila and Katherin...

This case rocked my world. I was eight years old and lived in Montgomery County, Maryland. Rest in peace, Mr Lyon, and thank you for decades of service.

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Calla lilies attempting Fibonacci..

A tender sky as I walked homeward after an expansive afternoon with @madelynpostman.bsky.social

Good to see signatories now number over 80,000. Where can you share this petition that will help it reach 100,000?

WHIRLIGIG #watercolor #glitter 12.5"x 19" on Yupo paper 7/9/2025

White building on the left, mostly brown brick row houses on the right. Blue sky. Edge of a yellow awning on the left, red awning on gut rift. Foliage and real or artificial flowers decorating above the awnings.

This didn't seem like London today. Blistering hot, a breeze and such a blue sky.