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artofstumbling.bsky.social @artofstumbling.bsky.social · 1d

Demand the Impossible - from Common/Wealth Theatre at the Corn Exchange Newport. Incredibly powerful and well-researched interactive experience showing the effect of police harassment on people's lives. Immense talent. I will just say go and see it if you get the chance

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The Stage @thestage.co.uk · 10h

★★★ Review: Demand the Impossible – Visceral gig-theatre exploring protest and police injustice.

Read The Stage's review 👇

Demand the Impossible at the Corn Exchange, Newport: frenetic hour of theatre

Read our review of Demand the Impossible at the Corn Exchange, Newport: visceral gig-theatre exploring protest and police injustice

www.thestage.co.uk

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 1h

If the state wants to render us passive and hopeless, Common/Wealth are having none of it. They're asking you, the audience, to wake up, feel it in your bones, and maybe — just maybe — demand the impossible, too ✍️Adam Johannes wp.me/p8Mk4U-16TY

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Andy Williams @llantwit.bsky.social · 3h

“At a time when legitimate protest (and repeated protest) is increasingly criminalised, the mere affirmation of activism feels significant, dramatised or not. This is potent and urgent theatre.” - Guardian
Demand the Impossible.
On this week, Newport Corn Exchg,
www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/o...

Demand the Impossible review – powerful punk rage at injustices of police violence and spycops scandal

Everyday oppression is explored through the narratives of a Black Lives Matter activist, a blacklisted construction worker and an environmental campaigner

www.theguardian.com

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Andy Williams @llantwit.bsky.social · 7h

Don’t threaten us with a good time you absolute roaster

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 9h

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 10h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 19h

Look at her go!
#invertebrates 🌿

Screen shot of Project Monarch app map of progress of a monarch butterfly from southern Ontario to Oklahoma.

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David Robson @davidotley.bsky.social · 16h

Yeah, but, the culture warriors want to defend culture that has never actually existed - not actual culture that you can study.
Best not, therefore, to have people who know too much about actual real life culture.

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Andy Williams @llantwit.bsky.social · 13h

Worst thing is that UK Vice Chancellors are already on board with this kind of gross crap, choosing to cut existing arts, social sciences, and humanities programmes back to the bone even before the politicians (of whichever party) come for them.

The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 16h

So, the plan is to cut English, the arts, and sociology - the degrees that actually study culture - while on another part of your platform claiming to “defend” British culture.

It’s performance nationalism with a reading age of seven.

Badenoch: Curb students taking 'rip-off' degrees such as English
The performing arts, sociology and anthropology are among the subjects the Conservatives would like to cut

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Kath @kathyburke.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, yes I know I keep banging on about my fucking book! However, if you want one repost this and I’ll do a random winner pick thing by the end of the week because I’m great like that. ♥️📚
#amindofmyown

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.bsky.social · 1d

Also, buy his excellent book which will again be on the compulsory reading for my unit on the resurgence of reactionary politics (and what to do about it)

www.calton-books.co.uk/books/antifa...

ANTIFA - The AntiFascist Handbook

FOR A UNITED WORKING CLASS

www.calton-books.co.uk

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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 1d

We're ready for Starbucks to come back to the table and finish finalizing our union contracts. A single day's sales would settle contracts with 12,000 workers! Starbucks calls us "partners" - it's time they start treating us as such, or else we'll be leading our stores on strike!

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

Tips For Making Friends As An Adult https://theonion.com/tips-for-making-friends-as-an-adult/

Tips For Making Friends As An Adult
Start calling your parents by their first names.

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 1d

George Orwell’s Animal Crossing

Someone in a frog costume facing down a line of police in riot gear

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 1d

#OtD 7 Oct 1920 seamen and firemen at the Dublin docks were on a wildcat strike demanding a pay increase. The stoppage halted exports from Ireland, which reduced the number of cattle for sale at markets by half stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1075...

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The Welsh Politics Pod @welshpolitics.bsky.social · 1d

Our next pod takes apart the Senedd reform package which sees expansion to 96 members and a new - and universally unpopular - voting system.

So why are the Welsh Conservatives talking about numbers? Lauren, Lee and @lauramcallister30.bsky.social have different takes! #Senedd26 #Cymru #Wales

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Netpol @netpol.org · 1d

Netpol's 'State of Protest' report for 2024 launched with a stark title: ‘This is Repression’. On the second anniversary of the continuing genocide in Gaza, it is hard to know what we will call our assessment of protest rights for 2025.

Perhaps ‘An End to Our Illusions’? netpol.org/2025/10/06/a...

Photo of protesters opposing the ban on Palestine Action, Trafalgar Square, London, 4 October 2025

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Newyddion S4C @newyddion.s4c.cymru · 1d

🇰🇿 Mae Prifysgol Caerdydd yn wynebu beirniadaeth yn dilyn agor campws newydd i'r brifysgol yn Kazakhstan, mewn cyfnod o doriadau a cholli swyddi ymysg ei staff yng Nghymru

Prifysgol Caerdydd yn wynebu beirniadaeth am agor campws yn Kazakhstan

Cafodd y campws yn Astana, prifddinas y wlad, ei agor yn swyddogol ar 3 Medi.

newyddion.s4c.cymru

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Jack D 🏳️‍🌈 @jackdunc1.bsky.social · 1d

Feels mad to say but a lot of young voters never knew the surge of hope and optimsim that arrived when JC became leader of Labour. They've only known misery under the Tories, Farage and Starmer

But now, under
@zackpolanski.bsky.social
they're getting to feel what we felt a decade ago, hope

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Cardiff UCU @cardiffucu.bsky.social · 1d

Cardiff University Kazakhstan featuring on BBC Wales Today, with contribution from Cardiff UCU's @llantwit.bsky.social

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Audrey Truschke @audreytruschke.bsky.social · 1d

A Rutgers professor has been forced to flee the country for his safety, after targeting by a far-right student group that was *checks notes* claiming they felt unsafe.

I'm horrified.
I'm angry.

A short 🧵 #AcademicFreedom #Rutgers #violence #antifa

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations

Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence

www.theguardian.com

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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 1d

So-called #genAI means the abolition of the future through the proliferation of endless streams of stochastically rendered generic pasts. Having turned large parts of the cultural archive into training data, it now traps us in a foreverized pastness, a 24/7 nostalgia for a past that never existed

QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 1d

have just come across a YouTube account that has been using Sora to upload reels of fake, AI-generated “90s sitcoms” every few hours

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Andy the Gory Storyteller 🎃 @andygwaith.bsky.social · 1d

If you're nearby you should come to this - Nic is a fabulous artist and super fun and creative so you leave with loads of ideas!

Splott Community Volunteers @splottcomvols.bsky.social · 1d

Our Art Club is the perfect place to learn new skills and express yourself. Guided by artist Nic Parsons, these sessions are themed - fun, free, and for everyone. Wednesdays 10-12. #ArtClass #Cardiff #LearnSomethingNew #CreatingMemories #Dementia

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 1d

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 1d

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