World Day for Audiovisual Heritage. Material media for repairing worlds? www.unesco.org/en/days/audi...

International Home Movie Day. 11am-3pm. Sat, 18 Oct 2025. The Box, Plymouth. This year's theme: Lesbians in the Attic! Help us to show hidden histories and (maybe) add to the archive!

INTERNATIONAL HOME MOVIE DAY 18.10.2025 11.00-15.00 THE BOX Free event! www.linkedin.com/posts/angela... Are there lesbians in your attic? Come to The Box for International Home Movie Day to celebrate Plymouth’s lesbian past and present! www.centerforhomemovies.org/hmd/ [Img: CND protest © The Box]

“Sesame Street” and its sequel, “The Electric Company,” were, “with lapses, the most intelligent and important programs in television,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.

@gwr.com On the 10.03 pm LDN to BRS TM, w/ my nearly 80-yr-old mother-in-law. It's really busy. We know how British trains can't cope. But we've travelled by train today a long way through Europe - she's tired. Business men not giving up seats. Can we please shame then into action via the tannoy?

Water Action actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-...

Gullfest is back! 30 May-1 June. Visual art, performance, moving image, music, creative writing, workshops, rituals, processions and tarot readings. 37 Looe Street gallery + Almanac Cafe, Plymouth. Opens @ 6pm, Friday, 30 May @ Looe Street 37looestreet.org Follow on Insta @gullfestplymouth

"It is shameful that university cuts have become so severe under a Labour government that our union is now laying the ground for a trade union dispute with the education secretary." @drjogrady.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ucu-thr... #ProtectEducationNow #StopTheCuts #ucu2025

Wonderful PhD students have started this petition www.change.org/p/stop-the-c... 10,000 people will lose their UK HE jobs this year. Thousands more in other sectors. This level of brute-force joblessness is what causes us to be strangers, Keir Starmer - not immigrants @teamlabouruk.bsky.social

Being back in Vancouver for just 1 day reminds me why Starmer's 'island of strangers' comment is so awful. I grew up in an imperfect city, but it's a city & country that celebrates its diversity. The UK fails to see immigration as a positive part of its identity. It could so easily do otherwise

“If Labour acts like Reform-light, universities could go under." @drjogrady.bsky.social Over 10,000 jobs are at risk and international student numbers are under threat from short-sighted immigration policy. Staff are rallying in London this Saturday to #ProtectEducation bit.ly/3Sfq2jz

And so it's arrived www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymout... @ucu.org.uk

'Bodies utter and words move' arnolfini.org.uk/whatson/fles...

In all the tumult, North of North is making me happy en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_o...

"We’re building a biomatter-powered low-cost webserver... This design will focus on low-carbon approaches to webdesign, reducing computational load, bypassing data center architectures, and experimenting with new graphical formats and protocols to create a form of web design minimalism..."

Finally made it to The Story of Emily thestoryofemily.com. Cornish activist Emily Hobhouse reported on the horrors of the British concentration camps used in the Boer wars. This starvation-as terror-technology inspired Hitler and is now echoed in Gaza, ICE detention centres and so on 1/2

Wearing my CBC socks to cast postal vote in the Canadian federal election. Bristol>Ottawa. Mood = Lauren Berlant's cruel optimism rather than hope

When I saw Star Wars trending on the other site I thought that it was being banned by the Americans for being Antifa

Brilliant 3 days in Maastricht! Sefryn Penrose and I (ButCH - Bureau for the Contemporary and Historic) honoured to have been invited to present Swan Out at Regenerate janvaneyck.nl/calendar/mac.... Thanks to Claartje Rasterhoff and Christian Ernsten for being such wonderful hosts!

ButCH, Bureau for the Contemporary and Historic: Investigating Arts and Heritage since 2019. We love finding bridges

Forget the anthropocene and the pyrocene, we're now in the evilfathercene. Maybe darthocene, but that makes all those awful, crazy rich men sound way cooler than they are

So telling that at the same time as UK universities are all gunning for 'future curricula' focused on digital media, film, TV, games, the bottom of the job market is falling out www.theguardian.com/media/2025/m.... Maybe the future is analog?

Alanis Obamsawin's Kahnesatake: 270 Years of Resistance. More recent history of the complexity of colonial borders & land grab of Indigenous territories. Here, both Canada & the US are the bad guys - always useful to be reminded www.nfb.ca/film/kanehsa...

Wondering why @fcdoinclusion.bsky.social pages for LGBTQ+ and women travellers haven't been updated since 2023 www.gov.uk/guidance/les... www.gov.uk/guidance/adv... and disability since 2019 www.gov.uk/government/p.... Current situation in US especially concerning?

Thinking of the weaponisation of borders and trade wars this 1969 documentary is a good place to start. Thanks for sharing @angelapiccini.bsky.social www.nfb.ca/film/you_are...

In another space, am posting abt the radical power of past visions of futures that haven't come to be. Man with a Movie Camera. Dir: Dziga Vertov; Ed: Elizaveta Svilova. 1929: Kyiv, Kharkov, Odessa and Moscow. The 'peace between man and machine' youtu.be/7ZkvjWIEcoU?...

Moved to Plymouth 4 years ago. An incredible city w/ creative & LGBTQ+ communities that punch above their weight. Sure, lots of challenges, small-city cronyism & needs more community-involved policy & planning. Thankfully, more folk w/ ideas are moving here from everywhere. We're all Janners now

Thinking abt geopolitics of global higher ed crises. News sees it as region-specific but in both UK & across Canada costs of running are up while numbers are down w/ anti-immigrant rhetoric. In the States, add to that DOGE/Tr**p asset stripping. Interesting that now's the time to wreck universities?

And then they came for the archivists

So happy to host Henry again on this side of the ocean! Weds, 5 Feb, from 1pm www.plymouth.ac.uk/whats-on/cre... Henry Daniel (Professor Emeritus in Dance, Performance Studies and New Media Technologies) is a practitioner-researcher specialising in dance, theatre, and new media ALL WELCOME

LGBTQ+ History Month is upon us! Phat Feb queer vibes at 37 Looe Street from Sat, 1 Feb. Hosting @pride_in_plymouth archive. Come by between 12 and 5. See the archive, meet the archivists, be the archivist, bring your own queer stories, and join in the conversation!

Petition Bristol City Council to divest from Israel digital.bristol.gov.uk/moderngov

Looks like the people who use @hf.co haven't reacted well to the original backlash - there are now six new large datasets of Bluesky posts uploaded onto the site, including one with 20x the amount of data as the original dataset that caused the issue huggingface.co/datasets?sor...

“Longtermism might be one of the most influential ideologies that few people outside of…Silicon Valley have ever heard about.” Worth reading to understand the extremely dangerous philosophy of our new tech oligarch overlords. By former longtermist @xriskology.bsky.social aeon.co/essays/why-l...

Would you like to develop tools or methods that can support online researchers? Do you have a project idea that could benefit the open source research community? Bellingcat’s Tech Fellowship could be the opportunity to do just that, apply here: www.bellingcat.com/bellingcat-t...

We've written a Researcher's Guide to Bluesky! It's a bit like all those other useful guides to Bluesky, but with several useful insights from University of York academics about using the platform, and we'd love it if it was reposted far and wide... >> blogs.york.ac.uk/library/2024... 🧵 below

Professor and Head of Curatorial role at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKP248/h...

Calling all women's studies scholars: please spread the word about the bursary from the Women's Studies Group 1558-1837. £750 available to fund research in the field. #funding #ECR #PhD #AcademicWriting Applications open until 15 December. See website for details. womensstudiesgroup.org/bursary/

Finally posting - what better way than joyful end to activateCHAT! 70 of us (from Chile to Orkney) converged in Plymouth to share contemporary & historical archaeology & art that engages with ACTIVATE & BUSY. Ending with Ines Rae's soundwork on the Cremyll Ferry activatechat.chat-arch.org