Big Ben has stopped and there are blood covered horses running through the streets of London. Maybe someone should check on the ravens in the Tower because this feels a LOT like a season finale.
@guidorgs@UCL_ICN@TheISEH Congrats Guido - you taught me briefly at Goldsmiths and I was really captivated by your class. It's nice to know you'll be at UCL (and technically a distant colleague)!
Our main event of the year is the #NossLecture in honour of our founder @RichardNoss. We will shortly be advertising the #NossLecture2023 which will take place Nov 30 2023 17.30-18.30BST in person and online. Watch this space for more details!
Copies of XORSKE! Chaos Edition now available from https://t.co/MyZXsw5aEL
XORSKE! is a magazine of 2D collected works. 15 new pieces from a variety of writers and artists - and real life papery goodness like it's 1997.
#newwriting#newart#publishing#smallpress#zine
What a fucking life led. Truly. Back when the Met stormed into the RVT for it being a gay bar, all wearing rubber gloves to “protect” themselves during the HIV crisis, Paul O’Grady was on stage as Lily and immediately quipped “Looks like we have help with the washing up!” Iconic.
🚨URGENT
If you are a parent of a university student, please write to your child’s vice-chancellor & urge them to settle our disputes
There is still time to halt 18 days of strikes
Write to them here: https://t.co/aoFj9GMBUJ
#ucuRISING
i‘m in need of someone to take my cat in for possibly a few months. currently in London. indoor cat. despises other cats with a passion that borders camp. anxiously curious about both dogs & people. friendly but bitey. please do share.
Rob summarises ten years of the CLOSER project. I worked on the project for two years - it reinforced a lifelong love of sociology and educated me in the value of creating accessible digital archives for future researchers.
I could never do justice to the work and achievements of past, present (and future!) @CLOSER_UK, so I've tried to weave together some of my highlights from the past decade. I hope you enjoy the story!
look its fine art of all the people we used to be
(More Brocklehurst, I'm absolutely convinced her work here is witchcraft. ITS JUST SO GOOD. Studies of punks, goths, and club kids from the late 80s.)
from an ops point of view it’s going to be sort of interesting to see how long a high traffic web service can last when left to just run without maintenance
"Suffering is key to being proper. And Britain’s worsening energy crisis, inflation and inequality have ushered in a fresh wave of lectures on the moral benefits of suffering."
https://t.co/we9fLDIAMS
Reading: "When personality was measured in 2021–2022, however, there was no significant change in neuroticism compared to pre-pandemic levels, but there were significant small declines in extraversion, openness, agreeableness, and conscientiousness." https://t.co/BUVIRg74sp