the new dark age is coming apace…

One of my best friends also happens to genuinely be one of my favourite living artists and they’ve at long last made a website: www.mrklart.com MRKL🧑‍🎨

Leeds Peeps! It’s the Leeds Care Leavers Christmas FUNdraiser on Sunday at 3pm. Please do come along and support us. We’ve got a big fundraising mountain to climb this year. No need to book. Just rock up.

Hello, if anyone sees this before the end of the day today, please nominate @artsemergency.bsky.social for a random prize draw of £5,000 here! culture.movementforgood.com?utm_source=E...

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.

Stuart Hall Essay Prize. Please disseminate: www.stuarthallfoundation.org/foundation/s...

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!

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...

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

💌 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

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

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

"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

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-...

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...

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

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...

Wish I could get to this:

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-...

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 👇❤️

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.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... = www.instagram.com/heatstrike.u...

Order online here (other indie bookshops are available!): bio.to/aMCMmF

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Is it wrong to feel hopeful that the paltry turn out for the Big Dic energy ‘parade’ suggests a very loud minority of bigots and braggarts and the broligarch media that dramatises them are not here to stay, and are more a dip in Humanity’s overall rising trajectory towards???

A grassroots movement like Arts Emergency rarely lasts or grows as we have.Our work changes lives, but we rely on monthly donations.Those donations are down £50k since 2021. We've cut all we can, now we're appealing to you for £2/month to plug the gap & go on www.arts-emergency.org/donate%F0%9F...

@jamesbridle.bsky.social hey James thank you for supporting AE. Huge fan of your work, Ways Of Being was an incredibly inspiring book ❤️

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 👇❤️

Telecoms in #Gaza have been disabled, thus entrenching the isolation of this besieged population. One way to help Gazans stay connected is thru e-sims. Here is a brilliant campaign led by disabled activists which has sent thousands of e-sims since Oct 2023. It’s easy to donate & a v useful thing.

COMMUNITY IS A SUPER POWER! www.arts-emergency.org/donate Please consider joining @artsemergency with a £2/month pledge🚨

I was proud to write this about the UK Aids Memorial Quilt, which will be on rare display at Tate Modern June 12-16 on.ft.com/3ZWbOIe

The time for this has definitely come.

Thanks to @artsemergency.bsky.social for a great evening in Manchester, reminding us all the amazing work they do. And concluded by a great performance by Tony Walsh. Proud to be a supporter.

An essential moment to be donating to the amazing @artsemergency.bsky.social

Unbound authors and former staff members who want to talk, including anonymously, get in touch at [email protected]

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If (like me) you’ve been lucky enough that access to the arts has always been possible in some form or another - please help others to enjoy the same. If you can.

“My mentor’s advice was invaluable when it came to applying to university, preparing for interviews and portfolio submissions and getting ready to begin” - Amanzhol Our work is simple but vital, empowering & impactful. Help make it happen with a monthly donation of £2 👉 www.arts-emergency.o...

Please join me in supporting this vital organisation. At a time when it's getting harder and harder for any but the most privileged to access arts education and careers, you can help to change a young artist's life. Please donate if you possibly can.

Just re-started my monthly donation to Arts Emergency, who are doing great work supporting young people from all backgrounds to get into the arts industries. Because as both a teacher and an arts professional, I've seen how the scene is more monocultural than ever, and that needs to change.

Please repost this, we’re asking for minimal donations so maximum volume needed! Thanks folx and please chip in if you’re able🙏

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£2 may not seem a huge amount to some, but I promise you it underwrites the most established independent youth service in UK culture, enabling all kinds of wonderful outcomes and opportunities☀️

“The opportunities keep on coming and I’ve done so many things that at one time, I thought wouldn’t have been possible for me” Millie-Jo The smallest gifts can do the most good, please give £2/month to fund mentor pairs and more 👉 www.arts-emergency.org/donate 🚨

<> 100 young people from the Arts Emergency community are repping at SXSW this weekend 😎

£2 may not seem a huge amount to some, but I promise you it underwrites the most established independent youth service in UK culture, enabling all kinds of wonderful outcomes and opportunities☀️

Young people need opportunities, connections and consistency to thrive in life. AE is appealing for £2/month to provide exactly this through mentoring and a decade long engagement. With funding down ~£50k since 2021 it’s vital we reach new people who can commit to funding this. Please lend a hand👋🚨

We've launched an appeal for £2/month donations - young people need opportunity, community and above all stability to build the life they want. This is how YOU can provide those things to someone who will really benefit! Do something wonderful today!

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