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AAPiccini @angelapiccini.bsky.social · 3d

INTERNATIONAL HOME MOVIE DAY
18.10.2025
11.00-15.00
THE BOX
Free event!

www.linkedin.com/posts/angela... Are there lesbians in your attic? Come to The Box for International Home Movie Day to celebrate Plymouth’s lesbian past and present! www.centerforhomemovies.org/hmd/
[Img: CND protest © The Box]

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AAPiccini @angelapiccini.bsky.social · Aug 27

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

B.C. municipal council votes unanimously to ask Ottawa to impose arms embargo on Israel | CBC News

Councillors in Burnaby, B.C., have unanimously passed a motion that asks the federal government to impose a two-way arms embargo on Israel amid the current war in Gaza.

www.cbc.ca

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · Jul 31

“Sesame Street” and its sequel, “The Electric Company,” were, “with lapses, the most intelligent and important programs in television,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.

The Invention of “Sesame Street”

Renata Adler’s 1972 review of the program that revolutionized children’s television.

www.newyorker.com

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AAPiccini @angelapiccini.bsky.social · Jul 10

@gwr.com On the 10.03 pm LDN to BRS TM, w/ my nearly 80-yr-old mother-in-law. It's really busy. We know how British trains can't cope. But we've travelled by train today a long way through Europe - she's tired. Business men not giving up seats. Can we please shame then into action via the tannoy?

AAPiccini @angelapiccini.bsky.social · Jun 24

Water Action actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-...

Ask your MP to show their support for a people-first future for our water!

We can make our water work for people - not shareholders - but water lobbyists are working hard to shut this solution down. Will you make sure your MP hears about it?

actionnetwork.org

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AAPiccini @angelapiccini.bsky.social · May 28

Gullfest is back! 30 May-1 June. Visual art, performance, moving image, music, creative writing, workshops, rituals, processions and tarot readings. 37 Looe Street gallery + Almanac Cafe, Plymouth. Opens @ 6pm, Friday, 30 May @ Looe Street 37looestreet.org Follow on Insta @gullfestplymouth

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · May 26

"It is shameful that university cuts have become so severe under a Labour government that our union is now laying the ground for a trade union dispute with the education secretary." @drjogrady.bsky.social

www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ucu-thr...

#ProtectEducationNow #StopTheCuts #ucu2025

UCU threatens government with national strike over HE funding

UK’s biggest academic union eyes showdown with Labour minister as it tries to respond to wave of university cuts

www.timeshighereducation.com

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AAPiccini @angelapiccini.bsky.social · May 15

Wonderful PhD students have started this petition www.change.org/p/stop-the-c... 10,000 people will lose their UK HE jobs this year. Thousands more in other sectors. This level of brute-force joblessness is what causes us to be strangers, Keir Starmer - not immigrants @teamlabouruk.bsky.social

Sign the Petition

Stop the cuts to Arts, Design & Architecture courses at University of Plymouth

www.change.org

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AAPiccini @angelapiccini.bsky.social · May 14

Given that all the known knowns about bullying, harassment and outright IP theft haven't stopped people from working with BAD people, I doubt that poor financial mgmt will stop people from applying. But if the finances make more of a difference than the ethics, the system should really just burn

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AAPiccini @angelapiccini.bsky.social · May 13

Being back in Vancouver for just 1 day reminds me why Starmer's 'island of strangers' comment is so awful. I grew up in an imperfect city, but it's a city & country that celebrates its diversity. The UK fails to see immigration as a positive part of its identity. It could so easily do otherwise

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · May 8

“If Labour acts like Reform-light, universities could go under." @drjogrady.bsky.social

Over 10,000 jobs are at risk and international student numbers are under threat from short-sighted immigration policy.

Staff are rallying in London this Saturday to #ProtectEducation
bit.ly/3Sfq2jz

Universities under 'severe financial stress', says UCU in response to HESA and OfS data

The University and College Union (UCU) has today responded to the publication of data from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) and Office for Students (OfS).

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AAPiccini @angelapiccini.bsky.social · May 8

And so it's arrived www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymout... @ucu.org.uk

Hundreds of Plymouth Uni jobs, gallery and cinema at risk

'The proposals we’re considering could affect around 200 roles'

www.plymouthherald.co.uk

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AAPiccini @angelapiccini.bsky.social · May 3

'Bodies utter and words move' arnolfini.org.uk/whatson/fles...

Bodies in Flight: Flesh and Text - Arnolfini

Here Bodies in Flight return to the very space where it all began in 1989 – Arnolfini, to mark the publication of their book Flesh and Text that celebrates over 30 years of making performance.

arnolfini.org.uk

AAPiccini @angelapiccini.bsky.social · Apr 30

In all the tumult, North of North is making me happy en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_o...

North of North - Wikipedia

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · Apr 21

"We’re building a biomatter-powered low-cost webserver... This design will focus on low-carbon approaches to webdesign, reducing computational load, bypassing data center architectures, and experimenting with new graphical formats and protocols to create a form of web design minimalism..."

#15: Critical Climate Computing

A brief introduction to a new research group I've co-founded at UAL for critical practice at the intersection between technological and climate crises.

wesleygoatley.substack.com

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AAPiccini @angelapiccini.bsky.social · Apr 13

Really terrific to experience such richly textured heritage interpretation! It was really moving

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AAPiccini @angelapiccini.bsky.social · Apr 12

But...what's jarring and I hope they address in subsequent iterations is the relative absence of the Black victims. Explained in the interpretation due to the lack of documentation. But erasure is also violence

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AAPiccini @angelapiccini.bsky.social · Apr 12

Jarring juxtaposition of polite Cornish countryside & war reminded me of The Zone of Interest. But Hobhouse took action, pushed reform & helped thousands of women & children. Interesting use of analogue tech, video & 360° film - link btwn creative & military tech is productively uncomfortable 2/2

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AAPiccini @angelapiccini.bsky.social · Apr 12

Finally made it to The Story of Emily thestoryofemily.com. Cornish activist Emily Hobhouse reported on the horrors of the British concentration camps used in the Boer wars. This starvation-as terror-technology inspired Hitler and is now echoed in Gaza, ICE detention centres and so on 1/2

the story of Emily

Emily Hobhouse was an extraordinary Cornish woman, who challenged the social norms of her time, to advocate for the welfare of others. Step back in time to 1875 and explore the Victorian world of the ...

thestoryofemily.com

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AAPiccini @angelapiccini.bsky.social · Apr 9

Wearing my CBC socks to cast postal vote in the Canadian federal election. Bristol>Ottawa. Mood = Lauren Berlant's cruel optimism rather than hope

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AAPiccini @angelapiccini.bsky.social · Mar 31

When I saw Star Wars trending on the other site I thought that it was being banned by the Americans for being Antifa

AAPiccini @angelapiccini.bsky.social · Mar 22

She says HI! back at you

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AAPiccini @angelapiccini.bsky.social · Mar 22

Brilliant 3 days in Maastricht! Sefryn Penrose and I (ButCH - Bureau for the Contemporary and Historic) honoured to have been invited to present Swan Out at Regenerate janvaneyck.nl/calendar/mac.... Thanks to Claartje Rasterhoff and Christian Ernsten for being such wonderful hosts!

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Sarah May @sarahmay1.bsky.social · Mar 14

ButCH, Bureau for the Contemporary and Historic: Investigating Arts and Heritage since 2019.
We love finding bridges

A photo of a group of women in a fallen log in a forest in early spring. The log is creating a bridge. Three women are standing, one is sitting with one foot up on the log. The ground is covered with brown leaves and mossy branches.

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AAPiccini @angelapiccini.bsky.social · Mar 9

Forget the anthropocene and the pyrocene, we're now in the evilfathercene. Maybe darthocene, but that makes all those awful, crazy rich men sound way cooler than they are

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AAPiccini @angelapiccini.bsky.social · Mar 9

Yes - absolutely! We're currently in the worst of all worlds of private-public hybrid that suits no one

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AAPiccini @angelapiccini.bsky.social · Mar 9

And project funding can be so unethical - particularly if you work collaboratively w,/ folk who may not share your timeline. Need proper core funding. Take all the millions spent on measuring value (REF, grant app reviews) & redistribute, equitably, to unis. Might start getting great research again

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AAPiccini @angelapiccini.bsky.social · Mar 7

So telling that at the same time as UK universities are all gunning for 'future curricula' focused on digital media, film, TV, games, the bottom of the job market is falling out www.theguardian.com/media/2025/m.... Maybe the future is analog?

Senior TV producers take shelf-stacking jobs as UK industry remains in crisis

Experienced figures doing entry-level roles amid prolonged work drought since Covid and rise of online content

www.theguardian.com

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AAPiccini @angelapiccini.bsky.social · Mar 6

Alanis Obamsawin's Kahnesatake: 270 Years of Resistance. More recent history of the complexity of colonial borders & land grab of Indigenous territories. Here, both Canada & the US are the bad guys - always useful to be reminded www.nfb.ca/film/kanehsa...

Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance

In July 1990, a dispute over a proposed golf course to be built on Kanien’kéhaka (Mohawk) lands in Oka, Quebec, set the stage for a historic confrontation that …

www.nfb.ca

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AAPiccini @angelapiccini.bsky.social · Mar 6

Wondering why @fcdoinclusion.bsky.social pages for LGBTQ+ and women travellers haven't been updated since 2023 www.gov.uk/guidance/les... www.gov.uk/guidance/adv... and disability since 2019 www.gov.uk/government/p.... Current situation in US especially concerning?

Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender: foreign travel advice

Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) advice for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT+) people travelling abroad.

www.gov.uk