A completely unsurprising headline in relation to Spycops. Recommend Daniel Ward’s film at Peer Gallery that brings together some of the impacts and legacies of the SDS: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

So happy to get to the end of this week and for there to only be 2 teaching weeks left this term and no public programming until 2026. Beyond depleted.

Tired.

Our most recent event--a conversation about the collection of interviews "Women in Independent Publishing" edited by @octoberinapril.bsky.social--featuring Stephanie discussing the book with MC Hyland, Maureen Owen, & Patricia Spears Jones is now available on Youtube www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Up8...

The only small thing about small presses is their budgets and amount of support from an increasingly two-tier industry.

MANI!! 🖤

I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight www.cityam.com/the-british-...

Niche posting as I’m well aware that the subject is not of wide interest BUT: I’ve contributed an essay on Peter Fuller’s critical writing on magazines as published in magazines across the 1970s and 80s for the latest British Art Studies Journal. Part of the ‘One Object’ series [continued]..

Amelia Acker: "Each chapter introduces data archiving processes that relate to the evolution of data sovereignty...: from magnetic tape + timesharing computer models from the 1950s,... to file structures + virtual containers in cloud-based information services over the past 40 yrs" — open access!

"Veterans Say No. No ICE. No Cuts. No Occupation." Today in Chicago. Photograph by Aaron Cynic.

It’s still weird to me that people might read stuff I’ve published and find it interesting.

Soft launching this second hand leather jacket I got at the weekend.

This is kind of wonderful.

It's taken a few weeks (due to life/work), but I've finally finished painting my bedroom. I just have half of the living room and the hallway to do now. My flat is tiny but somehow it's taking forever. I also took a long time to decide on colours.

Very excited to spot a new bird in the tree today — not quite sure what it was — quite large, brown / beige with whiteish spots ?

Bonfire Night/Mamdani celebrations 🔥

Ooh I have this excellent book -- and hopefully can join this talk! (thanks Nick for posting) :-)

On 11/24, @nysnetwork.bsky.social is hosting a free online event for Women in Independent Publishing, the incredible collection of interviews with women editors & publishers assembled by Stephanie Anderson feat. Maureen Owen, Patricia Spears Jones, & MC Hyland! www.unmpress.com/978082636707...

Thank you, New York City. Together we made history. Now let’s get to work. transition2025.com

As ever, if yr accepting honours on behalf of the British Empire (!) you are aligning yourself with colonialism. You can’t have it both ways — it doesn’t help any causes it only reinforces the state. The only way to change it is to destroy it.

Bon Appetit Your Majesty somehow manages to combine Korean medieval court intrigue and competitive cooking.

if you want to know what happened to Teen Vogue yesterday, my work wife @allegrak.bsky.social — who ran our politics section for 6 years until this past June — said it all in this. can't even pull out a favorite part til I sign my separation letter lol, just read the whole thing.

They're shutting down every enclave of independent and critical thought in big media. From Vogue's announcement of its takeover: "Teen Vogue will focus its content on career development, cultural leadership and other issues that matter most to young people." In other words, teaching compliance

So warm outside it’s creepy.

Hard to work because I keep getting distracted by the woodpeckers in the tree outside my window.

The ceasefire continues according to virtually every media outlet. Israel is demolishing entire neighbourhoods in Gaza to make sure Palestinians never go back. The genocide is ongoing

It took all day yesterday to schlep over to Ikea and back on public transport, but today I have proper curtain rails and one more task is off the long list of home improvements.

Can hear the very loud rumble from the firework display at Blackheath.

Please stop sending Jonathan Jones to review stuff, it's embarrasing.

Thinking about all the letters between Alison Knowles and Carolee Schneemann where they’re discussing their work, their lives, recipes and other such stuff. RIP Alison Knowles.

Being moved out of one luxury house into another is not enough. The man should be on trial.

Come to our screening, in conversation and publication launch next month for Morgan's exhibition at Chelsea Space! www.arts.ac.uk/whats-on/mor...

if you want to watch a sublime 22min slab of horror then John Smith’s film The Black Tower is on youtube youtu.be/hw6exAfUWMI?...

Too much Lily Allen, urghhh

Israel killed at least 104 people in Gaza, including 46 children, in overnight strikes on the Palestinian territory. The attacks came after Israel claimed its soldiers came under attack by Hamas militants, though the group denied responsibility.

Has anyone written on the changing language of Arts Council strategic plans/policy? Niche but am putting together a lecture on cultural value for MA curating students. Anything good in this area (slogans, etc).

Over 300 writers, scholars, and public intellectuals have pledged to not contribute to the New York Times’ Opinion section until it takes “accountability for its biased coverage and commits to truthfully and ethically reporting on the U.S.-Israeli war on Gaza.”

Who’s read the new Chris Kraus?

Are there any actual bonfire + firework events in South East London? I'm more about the bonfire tbh.

Does anyone know who's involved with this upcoming Ketty La Rocca symposium? www.estorickcollection.com/news/2025/09...

Can someone send me to Paris to review ‘Echo Delay Reverb’ at the Palais de Tokyo?

J Mascis playing with My Bloody Valentine….

Every time there’s another account of spy cop activity the clearer these crimes become — this time a 21 year old was effectively groomed by 36 year cop (lying about his age alongside everything else) — who then returned periodically to renew her affection. The calculation and cruelty is horrendous.

Imagine the reaction if the bodies of returned Israeli hostages were handcuffed, blindfolded & showed signs of torture. It would be on the front page, leading every news bulletin, & the govt would be condemning the murderous brutality of Hamas But Palestinian bodies? Nothing

When I was still commuting to Glasgow I bought a waterproof coat that’s made of coated cotton canvas. It’s very effective but it creaks constantly. I’m now sat on the train with a coat that’s sounds like it’s haunted.

‘If the more demotic, more commercial world of Mid-Century Modern has a London home, it is in the South-East of the city, the once industrial inner suburbs of the low-density, largely Tubeless boroughs of Greenwich, Lewisham, Southwark and Lambeth.’ Owen Hatherley: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Get rid of the lot of them for enabling this abuser: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

My latest for 4Columns: a review of the quite extraordinary retrospective of performance artist Tehching Hsieh, who, among other things, tied himself to another artist (Linda Montano) for a year. A more fascinating show you’ll never see, for real. 4columns.org/d-souza-arun...

With Jonathan Jones and now, Eddy Frankel, The Guardian's arts coverage is unbearably dumb and pointless to read.