Worn #onthisday in 1999 by protestors at the World Trade Organization (WTO) conference in Seattle, WA. Hundreds of people made cardboard turtle costumes in response to the WTO's decision to allow the use of shrimp nets harmful to sea turtles in the name of free trade. #OTD @mohaiseattle.bsky.social

A Hallmark Christmas movie we can all relate to 🤣

RIP Jimmy Cliff. youtu.be/twf7LhQIBkQ?...

Keys found embedded in jam sandwich. Apologies.

Bimhuis tonight in Amsterdam #jazz

Graphic design on the Amsterdam harbour front #dehaven #Amsterdam

"An epistemic crisis is a crisis in the production and delivery of knowledge...We face, alongside a global threat to our life-support systems, a global threat to our knowledge-support systems." George Monbiot in The Guardian

Only an institution in irreparable, terminal decline can think that Wes Streeting might be a solution to its problems. Real death cult stuff now.

1/ Eleven Dutch parties across the political spectrum from socialist to conservative have issued a joint appeal to a provincial government to build a memorial to Black American soldiers who died in World War II, to replace one removed from the Netherlands American Cemetery. ⬇️

The Greenhouse @unistavanger.bsky.social is launching an international Masters Program in Public Environmental Humanities from fall 2026! Taught in English. Please share with all your students, #envhist #envhum colleagues! Learn more about the program here: www.uis.no/en/studies/t...

this looks like a trick daffy duck would put up to get bugs bunny into "the oval office"

Trench-coated anarchist Quico Sabaté in 1955. What a great image! 🧥

Could you be our new Student Ambassador? If you have a strong interest in the history of design or related fields and a commitment to equal opportunities and inclusive practices we want to hear from you! To find out more visit our website: buff.ly/JCbTcey

🎃 Happy Halloween! Take a look at this chilling illustration by Harry Clarke, inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s The Pit and the Pendulum. The story focuses on the effects of pure psychological terror, captured in Clarke’s tense composition around the titular pit. #CrawfordArtGallery #SpookySeason

Through their efforts, AI boosters are re-configuring and diminish how people understand the human, human flourishing, our capacities and potential, and why we bother being alive at all. "By deciding what robots are for, we are defining what humans are." Excerpt from my HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY:

Margaret Atwood writing The Handmaid’s Tale, West Berlin, 1984 (Photo by Isolde Ohlbaum)

Busy day with MA Design Cultures students at #DutchDesignWeek in Eindhoven. Ended the day with United Cowboys a live art space with performances and installations.

PORTLAND: “The frogs are multiplying” (#NotAWarZone Noem Matter what Kristi says)

I am really excited to announce the call for the PhD Course in Energy Humanities! Held at the @greenhouseuis.net from 1-5 December. Applications are welcome until 24 October. #envhum #envhist #energyhistory

Auntie Zelda stung by jellyfish and shed her skin.

Protesters formed a 250,000 strong #rodelijn around the Vondelpark today marching in solidarity with the Gazan people. Free Palestine 🇵🇸

Meer dan 250 Dolle Mina's uit het hele land sloten zich vandaag aan bij het Minablok bij de rode lijn demonstratie in Amsterdam vandaag. Feminists against Genocide! ✊🏼

Free Greta Thunberg & all flotilla members

Sad to hear of Manchán Magan's passing. This time last year we were witnessing my father's decline. An old hippie found hope in Magan's books and documentaries, his creative approach to environmental justice and living a good life. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam. www.irishtimes.com/culture/2025...

At the Department of Political Science (University of Amsterdam, @uva-fmg.bsky.social), we are looking for a new Assistant Professor to join our team. Interested? You can find all details and apply here: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies....

Made a visit to V&A East. A depot full of designed things open to the public. A strange absence of narrative but maybe that’s the point. Think I’ll book in next time to see some objects up close.

Back in Hackney Wick yesterday for the first time in ages. #EastLondon #Hackney

We're seeking a PhD researcher interested in outdoor gear and how people dress for the weather. ☔ 🧥 This 4-year student position based at VU Amsterdam is part of the NWO-funded project 'Synthetic Adventures' supervised by me! #fashion#outdoors#weather#sustainability #waterproof Apply here:

all my online time is spent on pants, so im only given to pants extremism

Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should

I dug into the Israeli entities that have received EU funding. Here’s what I found - www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...

"A Palestinian Mother's Courage"(2025) by @ximoabadia. www.palestineposterproject.org/posters/pale...

Come to work with me as Research Fellow in the international team for our new project Graphic Design Histories for Creative Dissent! Deadline for applications is 7.9.25 jobs.brighton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

"Free Palestine, end the genocide and the BBC is complicit…” new favourite human 👇

A brilliant and brave piece by @mrkocnnll.bsky.social @irishtimes.com www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025... 👏 #spéirgorm #freegaza #ceasefire

Edinburgh University could unadopt antisemitism definition after report into its colonial links www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Worth pointing out that we'll be talking histories of #Plastics just after INC-5.2 (negotiations for a UN #PlasticsTreaty) conclude in Geneva. Let's hope scientists get heard 🙏 Latest reporting on the topic from @dpcarrington.bsky.social shows how hard that is www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Photos taken in west Belfast a few weeks ago.

The two greatest evils known to mankind, A.I. and the person directly in front of you in line at the post office, have finally teamed up. We’re done.

“To hell or to “Connacht” remember? Happening now before our eyes Israeli evacuation order in Gaza 'devastating', warns UN www.rte.ie/news/world/2...

A man in Leeds was arrested for having this sign, which is just a print out of a page of Private Eye magazine. Courtesy of the Labour Party www.instagram.com/reel/DMTTMAk...

I think this song sung by the late great Connie Francis had a resurgence in the 1980s. Listen to that key change! youtu.be/5Ws60MDF7OY?...

Announcement: my project 'Synthetic Adventures: (un)sustainability and(dis)comfort in the design, making and use of outdoor clothing' will be funded by NWO for a 4-yr project, starting September! It's about the recent history of waterproofing, synthetics, weathering & fashion: vu.nl/en/news/2025...

The Explorations section of the Journal of Design History seeks to nurture innovative, experimental, and creative interventions in researching and writing about design and its histories. Find out more:

Now we hear that loyalist bonfires in the north of Ireland are an art form making it ok, apparently, to spread hate and incite violence. The latest hateful message is targeting refugees. This is chilling.

I should be home at the end of summer so I'll give you a ring.

Give a professor a book, entertain them for a day. Tell a professor to write a book, distract them forever.