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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 1d

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 2d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 23d

Stuart Hall Essay Prize. Please disseminate:

www.stuarthallfoundation.org/foundation/s...

Stuart Hall Essay Prize reopens to submissions - Stuart Hall Foundation

The second Stuart Hall Essay Prize is reopening to submissions. The new submission window is open from now until Monday 3 November. Open to submissions from UK-based entrants aged 18 to 30 inclusive, ...

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Dave O'Brien @drdaveobrien.bsky.social · 23d

Not having a go at this, as the rise of racism and the far right around east Liverpool is a huge problem….but the opposition in Knowsley is the Green Party, and their rise in one of the most deprived bits of the country is a genuinely untold story. Work needs doing in this!

Unofficial Guardian (UK) Bot @guardian-uk-rss.bsky.social · 23d

I went home, to one of Labour’s safest seats, and it felt like a newly minted Reform constituency | Kirsty Major

Knowsley is a Labour stronghold. But judging by the polls and the people I spoke to, the messages of the right are truly cutting through, says deputy Opinion editor Kirsty Major

www.theguardian.com

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Neil John Griffiths @njgriff.bsky.social · Sep 9

Small cost involved to do that but I think this is the least I can do right? Now planning how to migrate a billion notes from apple to fairphone by 2027 🎶

Neil John Griffiths @njgriff.bsky.social · Sep 9

Having ditched Amazon earlier this year and drastically reduced my google use to work hours only (check out Ecosia instead) I’ve now migrated from Spotify to the far less evil Qobuz. It has all the tracks and I used an app called Soundiz to migrate my million playlists...

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Neil John Griffiths @njgriff.bsky.social · Aug 27

www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

The Ecological Thought — Harvard University Press

In this passionate, lucid, and surprising book, Timothy Morton argues that all forms of life are connected in a vast, entangling mesh. This interconnectedness penetrates all dimensions of life. No bei...

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Neil John Griffiths @njgriff.bsky.social · Aug 27

www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/o...

Ghosts of My Life from Zer0 Books

This collection of writings by Mark Fisher, author of acclaimed Capitalist Realism, argues that we are haunted by futures that failed to happen....

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Neil John Griffiths @njgriff.bsky.social · Aug 27

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The Disappearance of Rituals by Byung-Chul Han – The Rabbit Hole

In The Disappearance of Rituals, Han argues that modern society’s emphasis on productivity and individualism has eroded the shared rituals that once fostered true community. Without these symbolic pra...

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Neil John Griffiths @njgriff.bsky.social · Aug 27

www.penguin.co.uk/books/314162...

The Dawn of Everything

For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike - either free and equal, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing those...

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Neil John Griffiths @njgriff.bsky.social · Aug 27

www.plurality.net

Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy

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Neil John Griffiths @njgriff.bsky.social · Aug 27

blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofb...

Book Review: Nervous States: How Feeling Took Over the World by William Davies - LSE Review of Books

In Nervous States: How Feeling Took Over the World, William Davies examines how feeling has come to reshape our world today, displacing the role historically afforded to reason and dissolving longstan...

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Neil John Griffiths @njgriff.bsky.social · Aug 27

I bought too many books for my birthday but it’s an amazing list I’m dead excited to read:

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Arts Emergency @artsemergency.bsky.social · Jul 24

💌 We're Letters Live charity partners @royalalberthall.bsky.social on 28 Nov 2025!

Join incredible performers + our very own CEO @njgriff.bsky.social for what will be a fantastic celebration of the power of the written word. PLUS % of tix sales will be donated to AE!
🎟️ https://bit.ly/416kYmb

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Neil John Griffiths @njgriff.bsky.social · Jul 17

Fuck yeah www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Voting age to be lowered to 16 across UK by next general election

16- and 17-year-olds will be able to vote in all elections as part of changes including easier voter registration and crackdown on foreign interference

www.theguardian.com

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Neil John Griffiths @njgriff.bsky.social · Jul 9

There’s an excellent book by Katherine Schulz caed Being Wrong. I’m 2/3s in and it really sheds light on a great many parts of the polycrisis

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Neil John Griffiths @njgriff.bsky.social · Jul 4

Delighted to see some organising on the left in party politics. Please please please find space in this new party for citizen assemblies or other forms of democratic deliberation. Legitimacy and relevance is very very important imho

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Arts Emergency @artsemergency.bsky.social · Jun 12

"What young people need now is not new schemes, it’s consistency, it’s someone they can trust enough with their best most aspirational self" - @njgriff.bsky.social AE CEO

Can you donate £2 a month to help keep our mentoring & community projects running?
👉 www.arts-emergency.org/donate

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1. Be fearless. You are just as entitled as anyone to have the life you want.
2. There are things that are bigger and better than money. We have things that those in power will never understand.
3. We take it as a given that a civilised society values education, lifelong learning and creativity as a public good.
4. Fight the conditioning that tells you to demonise young people.
5. We are a social justice not social mobility organisation. Arts Emergency is no substitute for justice withheld.
6. To think creatively and critically is to free yourself from the limits of an unfair society puts on you.
7. There is no recession of the imagination.
8. The future is another place. Allow yourself to believe a better life is possible. Say it loud, defiantly, to everyone.
9. Be generous. Now be more generous. Share your privilege.
10. Do something. Start small, start local, keep going.
11. Optimism is a weapon and if all else fails be silly.

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Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis.bsky.social · Jun 25

Our privatised water system is broken - but water companies are doing everything they can to keep the Ponzi scheme staggering on.

A solution exists. Your MP needs to hear about it: actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-...

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Arts Emergency @artsemergency.bsky.social · Jun 29

We're asking people to commit to donating £2/month - hopefully something a good many people reading this post can consider... think of it as a long-term investment for a better brighter future and more inclusive creative culture. ☀️
👉 www.arts-emergency.o...

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Neil John Griffiths @njgriff.bsky.social · Jun 28

Does it worry you to think sharing writing like this will be illegal in a matter of days? open.substack.com/pub/clarejfa...

Nothing makes sense any more - in solidarity with Palestine Action

Everything is out of proportion because it suits those who abuse power to keep it that way.

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Dr Zubaida Haque @zubhaque.bsky.social · Jun 26

This story is so important. Black children are disproportionately treated as adults and rarely viewed as innocent victims. Child Q *a schoolgirl* was wrongly suspected, on her periods, and stripped by officers to her intimate parts without an appropriate adult present. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Child Q strip-search: Met Police officers sacked for gross misconduct

The girl, who was wrongly suspected of possessing cannabis, was searched by police at her school.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Neil John Griffiths @njgriff.bsky.social · Jun 20

Wish I could get to this:

‘Ordinary people enjoying themselves’: Beryl Cook exhibition to open in Plymouth

Exclusive: Show at The Box in artist’s home town spans entire career and includes previously unseen works

www.theguardian.com

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Liberty @libertyhq.bsky.social · Jun 16

EXCLUSIVE: US spy tech firm Palantir is working with UK police forces to develop a real-time surveillance network using sensitive personal data

Liberty Investigates' new story with @theipaper.com

inews.co.uk/news/police-...

Police use controversial AI tool that looks at people’s sex lives and beliefs

Senior MPs and privacy campaigners have expressed alarm at the deployment of Palantir’s AI-powered crime fighting software with access to sensitive personal information

inews.co.uk

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Neil John Griffiths @njgriff.bsky.social · Jun 14

Reciprocity is one of life’s greatest joys! AE is all about people helping each other, building community, giving strength and time to our limitless critical and creative faculties. It is WELL WORTH SUPPORTING so please consider a modest £2/MONTH pledge to help us run in 2026 👇❤️

Arts Emergency @artsemergency.bsky.social · Jun 13

"I don’t think I’d feel as focused or confident if it wasn’t for the mentoring"
- Davonte, 2024 London Mentee

It's simple. It's impactful. It's life-changing.
Mentoring works.
🚨 Can you pledge £2/month to fund Arts Emergency’s mentoring and community projects 👉 www.arts-emergency.org/donate

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Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP @bellribeiroaddy.bsky.social · Jun 18

The disability benefit cuts being introduced today would have made George Osborne blush.

We cannot underestimate their human and political cost.

The public will not forgive us if we remove support from those most in need of it.

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