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Ed Jennings @edjennings.bsky.social · 16d

Thrilled to be speaking at @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social again next month on why local journalism matters. Come for the PowerPoint, stay for the drinks reception!

Dr Rashmee Roshan Lall @rashmee.bsky.social · 18d

We've got a great line-up of Media Forum discussions at @mediacomgold.bsky.social @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social this autumn. Join us if you can. Everyone is welcome.

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The Ecologist @theecologist.org · 2d

The other political parties will be green with envy….

Great insider take from the @greenparty.org.uk conference floor from @adamramsay.bsky.social.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Good and bad news for Zack Polanski: the Green conference was a joy, but now hopes are stratospheric | Adam Ramsay

Members loved hearing from a leader who boldly reflects their views and isn’t afraid of the rightwing press. How far can he take the party?, says journalist and Green party member Adam Ramsay

www.theguardian.com

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Ian Hunt @ianhunt.bsky.social · 3d

Crithmum maritimum, Rock Samphire, in Apiaceae -- delighted to find this one still in flower. Most of the plants are at fruiting/seed stage. Lyme Regis. #WildflowerHour #Botany

whitish flowers arranged in an umbel, seedhead behing is same arrnagement, pinkish, some fleshy leaves

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Ian Hunt @ianhunt.bsky.social · 3d

Can't be at the GPEW conference -- wish I was. Here's Dylan Law . . .

Greens Organise @greensorganise.bsky.social · 3d

The Greens aren’t just a party of the environment.

We’re here to lower your bills, nationalise water and tackle wealth inequality.

Dylan Law - currently running to become Hackney’s Deputy Mayor at just 19 years old - breaks down his Green Party journey.
@dylanmlaw.bsky.social

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guy mannes-abbott @guymannesabbott.bsky.social · 3d

‘the answer to the climate crisis is not to replace cities with rural landscapes, but to radically reimagine the city itself: to extend the logic of urban density to encompass the density and diversity of species.’
Yes, I’ve been calling it a House of Trees…
www.e-flux.com/architecture...

Intensification - Emanuele Coccia - How to Hijack Cities

After decades of habituation to the idea of automation, the experience of seeing things break, shatter, or disintegrate has become a tragedy or evidence of something diabolical.

www.e-flux.com

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Ian Hunt @ianhunt.bsky.social · 3d

I don't read much about Cuba but leaving aside everything else the urban agriculture movement there is a model to be looked at -- can't think of many European cities so committed to using laws positively to enhance change. urbangardeningguru.com/cuba-urban-g...

Exploring Cuba Urban Gardens: A Sustainable Revolution - Urban Gardening Guru

Cuba's urban gardens have undergone a remarkable shift towards sustainability, playing a vital role in reshaping the country's landscapes and ensuring food

urbangardeningguru.com

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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 4d

Full solidarity with the flotilla, which represents the very best of humanity.

And eternal shame to the European states who refused to protect it from Israeli assault and establish a corridor for aid to Gaza.

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Silke Panse @silkepanse.bsky.social · 6d

Green to Grey – How Europe is squandering the little nature it has left

Green to Grey is a pioneering collaboration between journalists and scientists counting every green space lost in Europe between January 2018 and December 2023.

greentogrey.eu

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Ian Hunt @ianhunt.bsky.social · 7d

while we are on Stein -- I have finally sent you an order for the edition of Tender Buttons you published and am telling the massed crowds of readers on bsky about it #books #modernism #GertrudeStein www.colinsackett.co.uk/tenderbutton...

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Ian Hunt @ianhunt.bsky.social · 7d

Excellent essay on Gertrude Stein by Adam Thirlwell and the new biography by Francesca Wade. I only just started on Stein, finally, this year.

London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 23d

‘Stein can seem so monolithic that it takes a long time to realise how vulnerable her writing is, and one expression of this is the way her sentences refuse to obey our usual priorities.’

Adam Thirlwell on Gertrude Stein, online early from the next issue: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Adam Thirlwell · Devotion to the Cut: Gertrude Stein makes it plain

We’re so used to voice as confession, as a form of radical honesty, that it can be hard to appreciate Gertrude Stein...

www.lrb.co.uk

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Ian Hunt @ianhunt.bsky.social · 7d

Rayhan Uddin at Middle East Eye.

www.middleeasteye.net/news/corpora...

A corporate occupation: Trump's plan is no guarantee the Gaza hell will end

By placing the enclave into the hands of a 'Board of Peace', Trump and Blair are intentionally trying to strip Gaza of its Palestinian identity

www.middleeasteye.net

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Patrick Harvie MSP @patrickharvie.bsky.social · 7d

I'm delighted that Parliament has finally created the powers for long term rent controls. I've made the case for well over a decade, and now we need to see it implemented quickly.

Scottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 8d

🚨BREAKING

40 years ago Margaret Thatcher abolished rent controls in Scotland.

The Scottish Parliament just passed a Bill introduced by the Scottish Greens, which will allow them once more!

This will keep rents affordable and offer safety and stability to renters. 🙌

Rent controls passed! homes are for living in, not for profiteering.

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Ian Hunt @ianhunt.bsky.social · 10d

Mind wandering (talking to oneself) is a function here. I am increasingly thinking that Realism/Naturalism in late C19 is, like the very different direction of Symbolism, under a larger umbrella called 'The Religion of Art' -- an excessive belief in the power and even value of art.

Ian Hunt @ianhunt.bsky.social · 10d

useful, depressing field guide on normalisation of far right ideas, social reinforcement effects of repetition and the creation of 'illusory truths' www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Inside the everyday Facebook networks where far-right ideas grow

The Guardian spent a year studying an online community trading in anti-immigration sentiment and misinformation. Experts say such spaces can play a role in radicalisation

www.theguardian.com

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Ian Hunt @ianhunt.bsky.social · 12d

Back to Leibl -- here is Der Zeitungsleser, 1891 and it's terrific. The distance from C19 figurative painting as anecdote is profound. The theme of absorption opens up, within a naturalist/realist programme, to some sense of patriarchy among these country people, as new generations grow up

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Ian Hunt @ianhunt.bsky.social · 12d

Peter Thoene, by the way, was one of the names adopted by Oto Bihalji-Merin (Yugoslav art historian, 1904-1993, communist, Jewish). His use of aliases may have saved his life when he was captured as a PoW. His Pelican book came at a time when defending Expressionism was a dangerous thing.

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Ian Hunt @ianhunt.bsky.social · 12d

Peter Thoene, writing in 1938 in Modern German Art (Pelican), gets Wilhelm Leibl wrong. There's an interest in peasant subjectivity and interiority in WL's work that is parallel to Thomas Hardy in England.

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Prof Friederike Otto @frediotto.bsky.social · 12d

Planetary boundaries sound very abstract & high level, this year, for the first time @eraju.bsky.social & I contributed a chapter how breaching these boundaries has affected people around the world: losing lives, livelihoods, health… & for whom the limits of adaptation have been reached.

PIK_climate @pik-potsdam.bsky.social · 14d

Seven of nine planetary boundaries now breached – ocean acidification joins the danger zone," says PIK director Johan Rockström presenting the key findings of the Planetary Health Check 2025 today. #PlanetaryBoundaries
➡️ www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...

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Ian Hunt @ianhunt.bsky.social · 13d

Wilhelm Leibl is such an interesting artist, especially in the later works where realism is still a commitment but starts to open out. Remembering the first lockdown when I started assembling thoughts for a possible essay about him. Peasant filling his pipe, 1890s. #WilhelmLeibl #ArtHistory #Kunst

charcoal, I think. of a peasant concentrating on filling his pipe, seated, wearing a hat, windows lighten the overall effect. Drawing is loose, more detailed in the face and hands. 1890s.

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Tim Kiely @timkiely1.bsky.social · 13d

‘You can tell a lot about a society’s priorities by what it tries to protect itself from…. really I should say ‘a government’s priorities’.’

My piece in Solicitors Journal contrasting the treatment of Palestine Action and violent far-right movements.

www.solicitorsjournal.com/sjarticle/wh...

Whom do we really need protecting from?

The UK’s treatment of Palestine Action contrasts starkly with tolerance of violent far-right movements

www.solicitorsjournal.com

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Will Jennings @willjennings.bsky.social · 13d

I should add to this and say that we, Hypha Studios, have three galleries in the iconic 1 Poultry for a year, 24 exhibitions of which 8 are architecture adjacent in a gallery that will become *the* cultural place to be.
Find out more:
hyphastudios.com/hypha-galler...

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Ian Hunt @ianhunt.bsky.social · 13d

I'm looking forward to sseing the show and the space -- I am a massive fan of Michelle Williams Gamaker

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Ian Hunt @ianhunt.bsky.social · 14d

One week later, much less flying from the man, many ivy bees I noticed nesting in a front garden in Pattens Lane. Ivy flowers nearby are finishing flowering. Just a few carefully tending the entrances. #Rochester or #Chatham (on the border, where is that border?) #KentNature anyway #insects

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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 15d

I am supporting this fantastic group of folks S.L.A.E who are fighting against the government on the Luton airport expansion. Reeves went against environmental planning advice and pushed this through. They have been awarded a date for a judicial review in November. Please help share this 🙏 🧵

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 15d

A month ago, the famine in Gaza, deliberately created by the Israeli government, was officially confirmed by UN agencies. Since then, there has been an eerie silence in the media here, with far fewer reports than there were before. But it hasn't ended. On the contrary, it has intensified.

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