A very cool petrocultures opportunity!!

They arrived!! I’m so pleased with the front cover, a photo by Patrick Baz of the late Mireille Honein’s Undress 522 installation, which you can read about in the conclusion. Thanks so much to ABAAD for permission to use it.

Get yours/ request to a library here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Also brought me to tears. I can’t tell you how many friends I’ve lost for supporting Palestine throughout my life, since I was very, very young. And now to see this? Old white grannies and grandpas getting dragged away for this cause? I can’t even articulate how it feels.

Morning walk

This what I mean when I talk about art collectives as the future

There are 2883 food banks in the UK

Woo! I’m in this! Pre-order at your libraries folks!

They look so great, Josie 😍 I love all the bright colours and your painting style is really cool!

Congratulations Owain!!

Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him

Exciting WIWL developments; the network is active and waiting for you to join in!

How to switch off the AI crap on your academia.edu account:

We need to stop using a framework of 'ChatGPT killed someone', it feeds into the myth of the system's agency & OpenAI's framing. The right framework to use: OpenAI is continuing to perpetuate an indefinite industrial disaster. The oil pipe is not at fault when it breaks. The company that built it is

Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations

When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?

Who knew that they could make the ProQuest online ebook platform WORSE! What a time to be alive!

Not enough folks are connecting the attacks on labor organizing over the last 50 years to the moment we find ourselves in.

Labor is now our ONLY organizing asset that still has power & possibility of turning this ship in a different direction

"Autumn Night" - my oil painting

Spotted @jendeavour.bsky.social and @joanpassey.bsky.social’s books in the wild (“the wild” being The Bodies in the Bookshop in Cambridge in this instance)

Only one way to find out…

A reminder to ask your institution library to buy my first monograph: LIVING WITH GHOSTS!

Friendly reminder that AI data centers are working overtime to help cook the planet. If the fires are scaring you— start using ‘-AI’ at the end of all Google searches to cut out any AI response to your query. Refusal is possible & responsible.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Having seen an early version of this I am SO excited that this is out in the world - make sure to order a copy to your institution library!

That’s so kind, Stephen!

I will be running an all day continuing education course day on

BYRON!

(Who else?)

It's at Liverpool Uni and I'd love for you to join us!

www.liverpool.ac.uk/continuing-e...