I made a joke in my main Discord server about DOOM E1M1 being in a major key and @abigbagofkeys.sickonedude.com actually made it. Jesus fucking Christ listen to this hahahaha

Maccius Plautus (250-184 BCE) bitching about the inventor of the sundial feels *extremely* relatable to me in this year 2025

William Golding from his 1962 essay “Fables” on the intended meaning of his “Lord Of The Flies”.

TOTTIE - THE STORY OF A DOLL'S HOUSE (1984): Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin's Smallfilms, home to Bagpuss and The Clangers, gave us this charming series about the inhabitants of a doll's house. Young viewers weren't prepared for a favourite character's death by immolation...

So that was Wednesday October 29th 2025. Crikey. Another day done, another (more or less) here. So it goes. (Released this very month in 1986, just 39 years ago, Watchmen #6, with its iconic cover by Dave Gibbons & John Higgins.) And so to bed. Sleep well, gentle sentients of Planet Earth.

Siku

Call for contributions: Annual Symposium 2026 (Submissions by: 15 December 2025 17:00 GMT) ntf-association.com/call-for-con...

The next Futures of Design Education discussion: Surfacing Institutional Contexts of Design Education. Andrew Whitcomb Ulises & Navarro Aguiar Friday 14 November 2025 at 15:00 GMT (NOTE later start time) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/surfacing-... Anyone into Design Ed is welcome to come along!

It's absolutely insane looking at Darwyn Cooke's early work

The Open University is seeking a partnership to co.deliver a seminar series on all aspects of Pedagogic Research, Scholarship and Innivation. Let me know if this appeals. @Welspraxis.bsky.social

How lovely is this 😍 So proud to work for this amazing institution @openuniversity.bsky.social BBC News - Great-grandmother graduates university at 90 years old www.bbc.com/news/article...

Colin MacNeil

Next time somebody asks me what Bluesky is like, I'll send them this

PLAY SAFE: FRISBEE (1978) BAFTA-nominated all-time classic PIF, and part of the Scarred For Life Hall of Fame. Poor Jimmy famously gets 66,000 volts up his hoop whilst trying to retrieve his frisbee, while sister Amy looks on helplessly. All together now: "JIMMYYYYYYY!"

Firstly, great to see a discerning USB port. But also good to see recognition that NO ONE knows why these things have spin 1.5 and never go in first or second time

Gotta love a uni that has its own branded drain covers and bollards

There is a lot of excellent insights here, but the thing that is newest to me is the idea that generated images reveal the flaws and limits of LLM “thinking” more than text because of differences in people’s visual literacy meresophistry.substack.com/p/seeking-hu...

My talk on seeing the amazing Jennie Lee as the leqd designer of the OU and whay visions matter - youtube.com/live/VTV7kNz... #outalks

Now available online in english: Naoki Urasawa interviewing Katsuhiro Otomo about his work and his manga "Domu" during one hour. "Manben" is such a great TV program. >> www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/...

The first book launch for Studio Properties is this Friday 12 September at 13:00 Hear us talk about why “There is something very special about studio as a place of practice and learning" www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-studio-properties-a-field-guide-to-design-education-tickets-1431651380819

Tiernan Trevallion

An utterly splendid Swedish movie poster for 1958’s Horror Of Dracula.

This issue, with that centre page.

There's going to be an online book launch of Studio Properties, hosted by the DRS Education SIG! Next Friday, 12 September 2025 at 13:00 BST. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc... Come along to hear from myself and fellow authors about the ideas behind the book. There may be cake.

These guys have exactly the same energy

Am about to start my second year of study with The Open University. The materials arrived today, looking and feeling good. Three cheers for good quality paper sketchbooks.

To celebrate the launch of the Studio Properties book, we've invented two new metrics for measuring quality - Heft and Lickability. Feel free to use these to measure your own book collections... You're welcome! studioproperties.org/lickability-...

Becoming a designer is like making a good cheese: it takes time and lots of bacteria.

Just noticed that, with the publication of the new book, it's currently 30% off if you order direct from @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social - that's nearly a tenner off: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/studio-pr...

Hugo Erfurth With Dog, by Otto Dix, 1926.

#academicsky #philsky #edusky

Only a few days until the new book is out - Studio Properties: A Field Guide to Design Education. You can still pre-order for 10% off online with Bloomsbury here: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/studio-pr... Find out more about the book and read a few extracts at studioproperties.org

I just received some really great career advice that I would like to share with you all: Take time out and join the fight against billionaire-backed fascism in all its guises; in a year or so, there'll be lots of very fulfilling work rebuilding society in more equitable and sustainable ways.

Two timeless classics, together at last

Good morning! It’s Saturday August 9th 2025! Already? Crikey! (Dated this very day in 1986, just 39 years ago, 2000AD #482, with its cover featuring Torquemada - from the pages of Nemesis The Warlock - by Bryan Talbot.) You be careful out there among them English, John Book.

RIP Jim Lovell, photographed here in front of Apollo 10 on his visit to the Science Museum @sciencemuseum.org.uk in 2013. You can read more about that visit here: blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/apollo-13s-j...

Lovely. Had forgotten that Aberdeen has been doing British #Brutalism since 1463.

Join my cult? Film: A Mighty Wind

Did you know that serendipity is not just about luck or chance ... ? A wee sample from our new book, Studio Properties – Serendipity: an essential ingredient for any studio (physical, virtual, or distributed!). studioproperties.org/serendipity/

Hello. As a volunteer with the Dundee City Archives I get to look at some really interesting documents and subjects and was given the opportunity to research some of the folk on the Dundee Blacklist of 1905. If youre interested here is my write up. dundeecityarchives.wordpress.com/2025/07/31/t...

Big news - The official Studio Properties website is now up and running! Check it out for samples from the book, additional writing from us all, and some of our favourite properties. Check it out here: studioproperties.org

Ian Gibson

Motherfucking wind farms…

’My son Philip K Dick is a famous writer of science-fiction novels & short stories’. Stumbled by chance upon a 1969 letter from Philip K. Dick’s dad in The Ligonier (Pennsylvania) Echo. I’m so used to hearing about J. Edgar Dick from other people’s perspective. But these are his own words. (1)

Ian Gibson

Still Wakes the Deep developer The Chinese Room is independent again, and working on two new IPs – studio director Ed Daly tells us more www.gamesindustry.biz/the-chinese-...

Today, we’re at the OU, where it all started and a lot of the book was written. There’s a lot of Studio in this place: [Apprenticeship > 64 ], [Belonging > 189], and [Habits and Rituals > 262] stick out for me. Pre-order Studio Properties on Bloomsbury www.bloomsbury.com/uk/studio-pr...

Eyvind Earle Grazing in Peace 1970

So this. Definitely proto superhero vibes here and less religious zealotry for me. Ozymandius from watchmen? Or just Mister Nimbus….