Long Now London @longnowldn

Long Now London

@longnowldn.bsky.social

All things @longnow.bsky.social and long-term thinking in and from UTC & adjacent time zones since 02008. Visit longnowlondon.org for our gatherings and newsletter. Attempting to remain platform agnostic.

60 Followers | 14 Following | 6 Posts | Joined: 20.11.2024 | 1.5162

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YouTube video by Long Now London Understanding Media Today - An intellectual history of Marshall McLuhan

My talk on Marshall McLuhan's life and ideas for @longnowldn.bsky.social is now up!

This was given at the Hundred Years Gallery last spring to celebrate the 60 year anniversary of his bestseller, Understanding Media.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRPk...

01.03.2025 05:52 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Long Now London 2502 - Planetary · Luma TL/DR New here? This is the monthly gathering for our London community of practice for long-term thinking, at The RSA’s cocktail bar, Muse. 🍸 📬 Please do…

Our next gathering is on Thursday 13th February in Muse, the bar at @thersaorg. You can learn more and RSVP via Luma.
lu.ma/21xknymv?utm...

01.02.2025 08:03 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Loving that you're doing this! When we started our Thursday nights in London we were inspired by Friday nights at the Interval.

31.01.2025 14:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Planetary perspectives from Long Now London. February 02025 - Experimenting with form. Information about our next gathering. Six perspectives on the "Planetary" by members of our community here in London.

In February 02025 our theme is "Planetary". You can read a selection of perspectives from our London community here: open.substack.com/pub/longnowl...

31.01.2025 14:02 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Tickets now on sale for this year's coach trip from London to Rendlesham Forest on Saturday 28 December 2024. Book online at minimumlabyrinth.org. Possibly the most atmospheric, immersive experience we've ever created. A journey back in time to 1980. A pub lunch. And Britain's answer to Roswell.

17.11.2024 16:23 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1

Diaspora (social network) - Wikipedia

Remember Diaspora?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspor...

20.11.2024 18:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Long Now London 2412 - Renewal · Luma Our Yuletide gathering Long Now London has been gathering in a variety of formats, locations and frequencies since 02008. Since 02018 we have met on the second…

You can RSVP for our Yuletide gathering here: lu.ma/5dfwa5jn
#longtermthinking #longnow #longnowfoundtation #deeptime #futures @longnow.bsky.social

20.11.2024 15:58 — 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

Long Now London A community of practice for long-term thinking. Conversations about art, technology and deep time. Meeting in person on the second Thursday of every month.

02008: first Long Now London gathering (organised how?)
02010: Joined Meetup
02014: Joined Twitter
02018: Joined Instagram
02019: Basic website
02023: Moved events to Eventbrite
02023: longnowlondon.org becomes core hub for information.
02024: Moved events to Luma
02024: Joined Bluesky

20.11.2024 15:55 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

@longnowldn is following 14 prominent accounts

Zander
@zander13

Director of long-term futures at Automattic. Builder of BattleBots, flame throwers, The 10,000 Year Clock and communities. Formerly at Long Now. More at https://rosefutures.com/

Denise Hearn
@denisehearn

One agent in a complex and beautiful system. Director of Strategic Initiatives, Long Now Foundation | Fellow, Berggruen Institute Co-author Myth of Capitalism 🇺🇸 and The Big Fix 🇨🇦 www.denisehearn.com

Isabel Serval
@traversingfutures

Futures nerd. Brand and foresight strategist. Storyteller. https://traversingfutures.co.uk/

Minimum Labyrinth
@minimumlabyrinth

The creative paroxysms of Robert Kingham and Rich Cochrane. Guided walks, books, films, audio dramas and journeys into the uncanny. http://minimumlabyrinth.org/

Jamie Stantonian
@jamiestantonian

Experience Design Director, Multimedia Creative and co-organiser of @longnowldn.bsky.social. As of 2025, weekly musings on jamiestantonian.substack.com

MIT Press
@mitpress

Committed to the daily re-imagining of what a university press can be since 1962. Website: https://mitpress.mit.edu // The Reader (our home for excerpts, essays, & interviews): https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu

Gary Oberbrunner
@gary.oberbrunner.com

Emmy-winning software dev, entrepreneur, scientist, sailor, jazz lover, vfx/film software guy, feminist, traveler. #longnowboston, #openfx, #emacs. More at https://oberbrunner.com

Long Now Boston
@longnowboston.org

Long Now Boston encourages long-term awareness and responsibility on issues that shape a sustainable world for our descendants. https://longnowboston.org

Dan HIll
@cityofsound

Designer, urbanist &c. Director, Melbourne School of Design and Professor, University of Melbourne + Visiting Prof of Practice, UCL IIPP. Prev.: Vinnova (Swedish Gov innovation agency), Arup, Future Cities Catapult, SITRA (Finnish Innovation Fund), BBC

Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸
@genmon.fyi

Poem/1 / Galactic Compass / Blogger / Sun Eater / interconnected.org

The Long Now Foundation
@longnow.org

Since 01996: Long Now is a non-profit organization fostering long-term thinking and responsibility in the framework of the next 10,000 years.

Ahmed Kabil
@med

Editor-in-Chief of Pace Layers, an annual print journal of essays, interviews, artwork, fiction, and poetry published by @longnow.org. med.earth

Christopher Daniel
@polysemic

Long-term thinking: @longnowldn.bsky.social Spatial strategy and placecraft: www.polysemic.co.uk Time, place & storytelling. Dancing about architecture.

Stewart Brand
@stewartbrand

Sampling here. Mostly on Twitter still as @stewartbrand.