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badaude @badaude.bsky.social · 2d

for anyone who wants to know, i qualified for the pilot but was not randomly selected. provided i qualify for the extension this will make an incredible difference to my life.

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badaude @badaude.bsky.social · 2d

doesn't it. but only in words. i tried to photograph it but the moon isn't photogenic

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Michaële Cutaya @michaelecutaya.bsky.social · 5d

At @praxisunion.bsky.social we took in the Dept reports and interviews, listened to members, have had discussions with people from Basic Income Ireland, and hope we are making a good case for a moderately maximalist approach. Full text here www.praxisunion.ie/the-case-for...

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badaude @badaude.bsky.social · 2d

f*cking incredible yes!!!

RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 2d

The Basic Income for the Arts scheme will be put on a permanent footing in the Budget tomorrow

Budget 2026: Basic income for artists to become permanent

The Basic Income for the Arts scheme will be put on a permanent footing in the Budget tomorrow.

www.rte.ie

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badaude @badaude.bsky.social · 2d

Reading in Marseille on Wednesday and talking with Mary Fitzgerald - please come!

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badaude @badaude.bsky.social · 7d

lolcats @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social !

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badaude @badaude.bsky.social · 8d

i was part of this class action against anthropic ai & it worked.

in a landmark ruling, creators will now receive around $3000 for each eligible work used to train anthropic (more difficult to claim if like me you're outside the us). more here:

www.alcs.co.uk/news/the-lat...

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badaude @badaude.bsky.social · 8d

Or just shortcut and put courgettes in kettle (probably serially depending on size).Then they will be ready cooked for you too.

badaude @badaude.bsky.social · 8d

don't put them in the fridge- courgettes won't go off in Sept heat. Put each in a tea mug likely to be used by you/colleagues between the hours of 4&6. Each time mug is used they'll ask who put a courgette there & you transfer that courgette to an unused mug. hopefully someone will have a late cuppa

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badaude @badaude.bsky.social · 8d

don't want to overload with book content so here's my train lunch going up to Manchester for an event @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social tonight... (beer b/c celebrating news of a co-edition :)

badaude @badaude.bsky.social · 8d

3 lovely reviews of Amateurs! from @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social, @washingtonpost.com & @publisherswkly.bsky.social!

lareviewofbooks.org/article/prol...

www.publishersweekly.com/9781839765391

www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...

Review | How amateurs built the internet’s aesthetics

Joanna Walsh’s latest treatise catalogues how our online creative efforts have created and discarded garish styles.

www.washingtonpost.com

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badaude @badaude.bsky.social · 8d

tonight!!!

Blackwell's Manchester @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social · Aug 29

30/9: Joanna Walsh in conversation with Kaye Mitchell for AMATEURS: How We Built Internet Culture and Why It Matters. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/amateurs-j...

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Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 11d

Pre-ordered as soon as this went live, came today, devouring it already. @badaude.bsky.social a great guide for this journey. Fuck it makes me sad tho, thinking about The Internet That Might Have Been and How It Was Online In the Old Days. Brilliant so far.

www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

Amateurs!

Since the nineties, platforms have invited users to create in return for connection. From blogs to vlogs, tweets to memes: for the first time in history, making art became the fundamental form of comm...

www.versobooks.com

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badaude @badaude.bsky.social · 11d

so glad you're (not) enjoying it!

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badaude @badaude.bsky.social · 12d

"Sprawling and theoretically rich, Amateurs! is a passionate and provocative account of this online amateurism." @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social

lareviewofbooks.org/article/prol...

Proletarians of the Screen | Los Angeles Review of Books

Helena Aeberli investigates the aesthetics of memes and trash essays in Joanna Walsh’s “Amateurs! How We Built Internet Culture and Why It Matters.”

lareviewofbooks.org

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badaude @badaude.bsky.social · 13d

Tomorrow at Wivenhoe Books Colchester ! www.wivenhoebooks.com/events/amate...

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Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 13d

Out this week, looks like a belter from @badaude.bsky.social - just got the email from @versobooks.bsky.social to say mine's on the way 🙏✊️

www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

Amateurs!

Since the nineties, platforms have invited users to create in return for connection. From blogs to vlogs, tweets to memes: for the first time in history, making art became the fundamental form of comm...

www.versobooks.com

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Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 14d

In her new book on internet culture, @badaude.bsky.social discusses the use of photography as facial recognition technology during the Paris Commune. It reminded me of Schäublin’s exceptional film Unrest, following Kropotkin’s 1877 visit to a Swiss village transformed by capitalism and anarchy 1/3

I'd add that portrait photography was also used as a nine-teenth-century FRT (facial recognition technology). In the first state-sponsored large-scale photo-portrait project in France, arresting officers captured the faces of revolutionaries during the 1871 Paris Commune, ensuring they could be recaptured if their identities ever went viral on the contemporary media net-works of daily papers. These photographs were not produced or received as works of art, but they were aesthetic. In a time when a selfie was a once-in-a-lifetime privilege, communards had their best clothes brought to jail for their (literal) photo shoots.
The same impulse that led me to mess around with my Al image led to many rearrests.

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badaude @badaude.bsky.social · 14d

excellent launch last night - full house @burleyfisher.bsky.social for Amateurs! (@versobooks.bsky.social)

photo c/o @athanasioslazarou on instagram

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badaude @badaude.bsky.social · 14d

sorry to have missed you - we ended up going to a different pub!
excellent to meet you too - thanks for coming.

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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 15d

We have three new titles out this week, including an exposé of the bleak realities of the transition to a carbon-neutral economy from @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social and a philosophical history of the internet by @badaude.bsky.social