Today we will be mainly posting pictures of artefacts that look like sweets. 🍬🍫

Foundations soon to be dug on Clacton sea front for similar fascist-style bling.

Just remembered “Energy In Northampton”, a song commissioned by the Northampton Development Corporation to promote Northampton, in which aliens visit Northampton Silently they came one night / attracted by the glowing light / their scanners led them to the town Northampton youtu.be/4xKjGqefH7U

Sarah Andersen, contemporary cartoonist and illustrator #womensart

"Morning on the River". Jonas Lie. c.1912.

🔊Aberystwyth & mid Wales folk - this Saturday afternoon in the National Library of Wales 🛩️

Oh dear. She has managed to refocus attention onto Trump and Epstein Another own goal www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

Turns out, Iran is surprisingly good at trolling the Orange Atrocity. 🇮🇷 vs 🍊💩 Check it out their work here:

May I interest you in £10k for humanities or social science research? Our small grants scheme is open. Apply by 3rd June. We allocate through partial randomisation - awarding randomly between all applications that meet our quality threshold www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:

Some relief in the terrible turmoil of the world this morning. In this place that has seen protest (& just 3 miles from Greenham Common & those refreshed memories of nuclear war) we hold on to the things we love, the people, the places, the peace.

Professor @timothysnyder.bsky.social on point as usual. Measured, academic, legal and moral. #IranWar snyder.substack.com/p/the-presid...

"The customer is always right" + "the customer is constantly changing" really is a nightmare for university workloads

The High Court judgment on Palestine Action’s proscription has highlighted failures in our counter-terror legislation - including with the terrorism definition itself. But what would a good definition look like? Our policy expert breaks it down. 👇 www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/issue/what-w...

Did you know that there are 49,000 miles of lost paths in England and Wales? And that they are blocked in c.32,000 places? Now the @ramblers.org.uk have launched a campaign to fight for access. Read all about it: www.ramblers.org.uk/Access-Denie...

Declare there's a nature emergency, while also proposing to develop a biodiverse landscape. Just another depressing example of cognitive dissonance in today's @theguardian.com country diary by Mark Cocker. #countrydiary #naturewriting

Tove Jansson (Finnish, 1914–2001), Moomin and sisters Mymble and Little My paint an #Easter egg #womensart #Moomins

I am the resurrection and i am the life I couldn’t ever bring myself to hate you as i’d like #TheStoneRoses #Easter

If the post-war landscape of London was the focus of his earliest paintings, David Tindle expanded his repertoire during the mid-1950s, working in Wantage, Oxfordshire, where he produced murals, as well as in the port of Hastings, Sussex.

Four court hearings, probably £1m+ of fees, all to work out if large marshmallows are a "sweetened prepared food which is normally eaten with the fingers", and therefore subject to VAT. Spoiler: they are not. Because "A > B and C > D, (A + C) > (B + D)"

The egg remains one of art history's most understated symbols. This Easter, we're inviting you to hunt for eggs; not in the garden, but in our collection. Browse our works online and see how many you can find. No basket required. 🐇 👁️ https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection

Here's the primary source - the amendments to the "breakfast directives" showing that "orange marmalade" could be used, ie Jenrick is being untruthful eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2024...

Great essay by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social "the very resistance by the political right to marriage equality as an equal right is because it demonstrates that marriage can be a freely negotiated relationship between equals, which threatens the patriarchial order." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

This! Literally. Reposts of my art (which are free!) REALLY bloody help, lads! Thank you for all that do! Xxx Art available in Small World section of Artofnote.sumupstore.com #ukgiftam #ukgifthour #bsnm #birds #birdart

Contemporary artist Pippa Dyrlaga's hand cut paper art #womensart1

From the Easter @privateeyenews.bsky.social this time last year (and the annual).

Moo!-day in Inspirals history… April 4 1991 Inspirals perform Caravan on BBC, Top of The Pops. The band’s 6th appearance on the show. https://youtu.be/a3knBI2ZdDM?si=UAOo5M0a0beU6xPc Full video via our YouTube

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'Steampunk bunny' by US artist Sue Beatrice who creates sculptures and jewellery out of watch parts #womensart

You wrote a novel using AI? Cool. It's like that time I ran a marathon using a Ford Focus.

A Higher Education 'system' now in total chaos. Still nothing is done.

Hand ground watercolour on khadi paper by Zarah Hussain, artist who creates mathematically precise, geometric art inspired by Islamic Geometry #WomensArt

Wow excellent to hear from. POTUS that “there is no inflation” no need to run my class on inflation on Monday or to look at the data I plan instead to run a class called making shit up

Tunisian judge Anas Hmedi, a fervent defender of judicial independence, will stand trial tomorrow on unfounded charges for mobilizing against President Kais Saied’s decrees undermining independence of the judiciary in Tunisia.

I don't care if this makes me a dinosaur. If I found out that a writer had used a solitary line of AI I would never read them again. If I thought someone had used AI in an email to me, I would never respond or indeed respect them again.

Ben Jamal and Chris Nineham, two heads of civil society organizations in the United Kingdom, have been convicted of criminal offenses for peacefully protesting in the UK. This is a travesty of justice and a huge blow to the right to protest. 🔊 Learn more:

if you don’t like the process of writing then don’t be a fucking writer, it’s not that complicated

'Southbank into the Light' by Alistair Carr alistaircarr.com

Today Liberty Investigates revealed at least one police force is using 'photofit' imagery in facial recognition searches. We can't view this in isolation. It's the latest in a line of revelations on how this technology is being deployed across the UK. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/techno...

No ads. No music. No loops. No talking. No AI. 100% Lento. 🎧

Reform's plot to strip rights from workers exposed as 'massively out of step' with public www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

My brilliant big brother has started a substack on his experiences as a caseworker and tutor at a frontline addiction rehab in Liverpool. Give it a look. xx

Reintroducing student number redistribution is an easy fix that would actually stabilise the sector without even having to pump a load of money into it. All unis are spending SO MUCH MONEY & RESOURCES on recruiting & advertising rather than teaching & research. Plug that leak. Stop that volatility.

Come to the Think Human festival at Oxford Brookes University! We've got everything Humanities and Social Sciences-themed you could ever want. Take a look at our schedule, running Wednesday 15 April to Saturday 18 April inclusive: www.eventbrite.com/cc/think-hum...

CAN YOU DIG IT? [A Manchester Music Forever Playlist] open.spotify.com/playlist/1dF... 9 hours of music from or connected with the great city of Manchester. One song per artist.

Tapestry by Frida Hansen (1855-1931), Norwegian textile artist who created her work in the Art Nouveau style #WomensAr

Starting work soon on a new 3 year book project. People keep asking me if I’ll use AI to help me? I would rather wear a hornet’s nest for underpants than ever delegate thought to a plagiarism engine

It is the last #SaturdayMorning of March already: how did that happen?! Here's our traditional start to the day & week-end: "Interior" by Brynhild Parker from 1930. I have also included a lovely photo of Bryn from her time at the Slade in the late 1920s. #BrynhildParker #EastLondonGroup

Happy weekend! 🦛 ❤️ Ancient Egyptian blue faience hippos made by artisans some 4,000 years ago! 📷 by me #Archaeology