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Alex Rhys-Taylor @alexrhystaylor.bsky.social · 19h

i’ve been looking for research looking at correlations, or lack thereof, between sensory tolerance and liberalism! if you find any data in this, let us know.

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Alex Rhys-Taylor @alexrhystaylor.bsky.social · 3d

some new fonts would really help refresh the left in the uk. placards laden with ‘impact’, ‘arial black’ and ‘helvetica bold’ aren’t helping.

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Alex Rhys-Taylor @alexrhystaylor.bsky.social · 3d

miss the days when people said ‘overly demonstrative’ or ‘disingenuous’ rather than performative.

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The Greenwich Wire @greenwichwire.bsky.social · 19d

Campaigners have launched a petition calling for control of the Greenwich Foot Tunnel to be transferred from Greenwich Council to Transport for London.

The tunnel was originally run by London-wide government, but control was handed to Greenwich in the 1980s.

Hand Greenwich Foot Tunnel to TfL, lift campaigners demand in petition - The Greenwich Wire

Campaigners have launched a petition calling for control of the Greenwich Foot Tunnel to be transferred from Greenwich Council to Transport for London.

greenwichwire.co.uk

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Alex Rhys-Taylor @alexrhystaylor.bsky.social · 7d

those esrc data make me feel a bit better.

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Alex Rhys-Taylor @alexrhystaylor.bsky.social · 8d

labour weren’t counting on a green insurgence when they lowered the voting age were they?

“dad… what do you think of the green party? you know i get to vote next time around!?” (a 13 year old)

heads up!

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Alex Rhys-Taylor @alexrhystaylor.bsky.social · 9d

apart from CKOne… marketed as an refreshing exception to the rule.

i’ve got a folder full of these. mid-80s Coty Wild Musk is a classic.

Alex Rhys-Taylor @alexrhystaylor.bsky.social · 14d

thanks city hall for the extra funding x

Alex Rhys-Taylor @alexrhystaylor.bsky.social · 15d

“Our results further show that respondents with lower standards of hygienic habits engage significantly more in intimate self-inspection (sniffing body parts such as genitals, anus, or navel).” www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Olfactory self-inspection: Own body odour provides cues to one's health and hygiene status

Olfactory self-inspection has been observed in various mammals, including humans. This behaviour can help individuals to monitor own state, including …

www.sciencedirect.com

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Alex Rhys-Taylor @alexrhystaylor.bsky.social · 15d

first loved him on slum village features. the black messiah is a classically classic album. and the unshaken is the best bit of red dead redemption’s already amazing soundtrack. he seemed like a pretty swell guy too.

Alex Rhys-Taylor @alexrhystaylor.bsky.social · 15d

😢.

FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 15d

R.I.P. ICON D’Angelo 🙏🏾🕊️

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Alex Rhys-Taylor @alexrhystaylor.bsky.social · 15d

ah. nice tip. but i need contemporary.

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Alex Rhys-Taylor @alexrhystaylor.bsky.social · 15d

nobody seems to have studied mortuaries, morticians and the smell of death. as a death and smell denying society, this makes sense. but i was hoping somebody else could fill this gap… 👃 💀 💨

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Alex Rhys-Taylor @alexrhystaylor.bsky.social · 16d

london’s gini coefficient (income inequality) seems to have dropped post covid. kind of interesting (though a bit less so before housing costs)

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Alex Rhys-Taylor @alexrhystaylor.bsky.social · 16d

i wish my borough had a different mayor.

Alex Rhys-Taylor @alexrhystaylor.bsky.social · 16d

this looks good, though i’m not sure chinese restaurants would be the best metric in the uk… fried chicken shops? greasy spoons? also begs the question as to the role of particular food outlets and related community networks in warding off, or mitigating gentrification and displacement.

American Association of Geographers @geographers.bsky.social · 16d

Neighborhood-level Chinese restaurant index decreases over time were associated with gentrification in New York City. Minn demonstrates the potential for the use of retail-based analysis as a supplement to conventional gentrification metrics based on demographic and real estate data. buff.ly/mv80RT4

Screenshot of the journal abstract. Click the link to learn more.

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Alex Rhys-Taylor @alexrhystaylor.bsky.social · 21d

Pubs to stay open until early hours in Labour push for UK growth. Record high of 10,473 alcohol related deaths last year.

There are other drugs, that the legalisation and taxation of which would actually do something positive. But boozy cultural conservatives rule the roost.

Alex Rhys-Taylor @alexrhystaylor.bsky.social · 22d

male grooming products that purportedly smell like big foot wearing a leather jacket riding a motorbike through a sandalwood forest smoking a cigar.

i’m not saying that they’re the cause of all the world’s ills. but they’re not helping things either.

big foot wearing a leather jacket riding through a sandalwood forest

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Alex Rhys-Taylor @alexrhystaylor.bsky.social · 23d

how do you teach about the emergence of the modern nation state? with 40 year old pop cultural references. that’s how.

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Goldsmiths Sociology @sociology-gold.bsky.social · Sep 26

Happy New Academic Year! To get things rolling, we hosted the first School of Global Change Symposium - Excellent contributions from Sociology, Anthropology, History, Politics and Law academics and students 💥!

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Alex Rhys-Taylor @alexrhystaylor.bsky.social · Sep 26

www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/mon... Xenophobic swan-eating panic has happened before and it’ll happen again. Here’s your primer for all migrant-based meat madness.

From Horses to Cane Rats: Meat, Moral Panics and Race | 4 | Food and M

The conflation of the horse-meat scandal with both myths about Romanian savagery and ‘Little England’s’ distrust of European bureaucracy were, however,

www.taylorfrancis.com

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Alex Rhys-Taylor @alexrhystaylor.bsky.social · Sep 21

can’t remember who i was talking to about ‘Your Party’ last month, but whoever it was… i told you so.

Alex Rhys-Taylor @alexrhystaylor.bsky.social · Sep 19

i think the smartest people i know are also the best gossips.

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Alex Rhys-Taylor @alexrhystaylor.bsky.social · Sep 15

i’m thinking a lot about olfaction and postmodernity. i guess i’ve been thinking about this forever really. at least since i read baudrillard’s ‘cool memories’. but maybe, just maybe, i’m going to finally write something about it.

we can never be modern.

Alex Rhys-Taylor @alexrhystaylor.bsky.social · Sep 15

for a londoner, the number of DRIVERLESS CARS in san francisco is mind blowing.