Ernesto Priego
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Senior Lecturer @hcid.city. Editor @comicsgrid.com. Co-organised @comicsandai.org. Sharing; reposting is not endorsement. Absolutely personal capacity. I am human. UK based. https://linktr.ee/ernestopriego
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Ernesto Priego
@ernestopriego.com
· Sep 5
💭 🥰 🙏 What an inspiring, thought-provoking, and energising day it was at Comics & AI: Critical Prompts on 4 September 2025 at City St George’s, University of London!
A heartfelt thank-you to… | E...
💭 🥰 🙏 What an inspiring, thought-provoking, and energising day it was at Comics & AI: Critical Prompts on 4 September 2025 at City St George’s, University of London!
A heartfelt thank-you to everyone...
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A quick LinkedIn post about @comicsandai.org yesterday- basically thanking everyone- you guys rock. www.linkedin.com/posts/ernest... #ComicsAndAI
White rabbits. Teaching term week 10 of 11. Push.
You don't know what the blues is until you can't go to your father's funeral because it happened within 24 hours of his passing and because you can't easily just leave the country you migrated to as to not fall foul of immigration rules and you've also just started your new job and are in probation
Twelve year of my father's passing.
Courtauld to embark on £82m campus project at Somerset House in London
‘Once-in-a-generation transformation’ of Grade-I building will bring teaching spaces under same roof as gallery
www.theguardian.com
Hopefully this won't be followed by hundreds of redundancies or something www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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NHS funding faces a Brexit squeeze - BMJ 2025; 391 doi: doi.org/10.1136/bmj.... (Published 26 November 2025) www.bmj.com/content/391/...
Jaja sí. Otro sueño recurrente es llegar a la ventanilla de mi ex Facultad y que me dicen que todavía me faltan créditos para titularme de licenciatura... sigh.
(I am not talking about me personally in only the most subjective and individual way, but reflecting on my experience as it instersects with the collective, the community, the sector, society today).
This is such a cliché by now, but really the user-generated turn in technology has increased workloads massively, contra the dominant narrative that tech is there to increase productivity. The imposition of GenAI in all workflows already worsening this situation. Again, contra the official narrative
(Todavía me pasa con proyectos que terminé hace años, con gente con la que ya no colaboro en años, así de severo el trauma que el miedo a no haber entregado/respondido todavía me despierta).
ah, been there, done that. Solidarity.
But of course it is a mistake to acknowledge this publicly, because it reads like a mea culpa, and the fault will be placed on those who, as the survey phrased it, "feel they can('t) manage their workload", and not on 21st c workloads and corresponding misaligned horizons of expectations and KPIs...
Seems like one's fate is to never be fully on top of all things, and supposing one ever is, as soon as one is it immediately restarts again, multiplied exponentially. And this is the contemporary definition of being "lucky" in the current landscape...
Are you also woken up in the middle of the night by nightmares featuring people who are waiting for something from you (multiple emails, reports, reviews, letters of recommendation, copyedits, articles, completed forms, surveys, spreadsheets, marks, feedback) calling you to your landline to say wtf?
*Italo with only one i - edit button please
“There are plenty, younger than you or less young, who live in the expectation of extraordinary experiences [...] But not you. You know that the best you can expect is to avoid the worst." -IItalo Calvino, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler (1979)
Today's migration stats illustrate the migration doom loop in action...
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
Clear visualisation of, indeed, this doom loop
A key part of the backlash to ending the two child limit is the idea parents won’t actually spend the extra money on their kids. Why not give them vouchers for food and clothes instead? critics ask.
Because it’s paternalistic classism that believes being poor means you’re a bad parent.
Because it’s paternalistic classism that believes being poor means you’re a bad parent.
Important, and also quite fundamental to understand when discussing 'developing nations', grants, humanitarian aid, etc. Structural inequality is made worse by colonialist paternalism.
Winter Chill (Señor Priego Frozen Ambient Session Mixtape)
An ambient mixtape for these Winter days.
" I am learning peacefulness, lying by myself quietly
As the light lies on these white walls, this bed, these hands." - Sylvia Plath
Mixtape artwork reuses...
www.mixcloud.com
If you are into ambient/soundscapes/contemporary/experimental and need an hour to escape put your headphones on and press play- not a playlist, vinyl records recorded in sequence in one go one night of anxious Winter sleeplessness www.mixcloud.com/epriego/wint... #Mixcloud
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A key part of the backlash to ending the two child limit is the idea parents won’t actually spend the extra money on their kids. Why not give them vouchers for food and clothes instead? critics ask.
Because it’s paternalistic classism that believes being poor means you’re a bad parent.
Because it’s paternalistic classism that believes being poor means you’re a bad parent.
Today's migration stats illustrate the migration doom loop in action...
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
There is still no programme of ensuring #cleanair in classrooms. Children continue to get repeatedly infected. #makehopenormal #boldpolitics #Covid #LongCovid @greenparty.org.uk @greensorganise.bsky.social @zackpolanski.bsky.social @rachelmillward.bsky.social
And young people and adults. It's not only children who get repeatedly infected in classrooms.
It's a relief after all the migrant-baiting to see a Labour government doing something, however limited, to shift fiscal policy in the right direction
It's gaslighting.
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It's a relief after all the migrant-baiting to see a Labour government doing something, however limited, to shift fiscal policy in the right direction
Very nice.
Yes, definitely. This idea of ultra concentration and specialisation is naive about the way that research is done and how we achieve good outcomes from it.
Can we have billboards with this everywhere please. And tote bags.
Nothing beats getting your research on knowledge monopolies cited in a paywalled book chapter so one can't even see how was one cited without paying or having access via a library (I may have access via my library- that is not the point so please don't offer).
goo.gl
We got a wee citation here: "Decolonising History Beyond the Curriculum: Student Participation and the Local Lens Towards a 'Reparative History'" - goo.gl/scholar/dXcwek #ScholarAlerts
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Martin Paul Eve
@eve.gd
· 5d
Yes, definitely. This idea of ultra concentration and specialisation is naive about the way that research is done and how we achieve good outcomes from it.