How does being able to "live with dignity" and be "treated with respect" square with this polite call for clearer guidance on how organisations may legally discriminate against marginalised people?

A friend did the maths on this and noted that in the last 5 years there has been one hostile news article for every ten trans people in the population total.

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The cat has just made a noise that has made me weirdly nostalgic for a 1990s Gateway 2000 pc

BAD: being stuck at Tamworth yet again thanks to train fails GOOD: deep breaths and this soundtrack billorcutt.bandcamp.com/album/how-to...

Academic departments deserve to be saved, supported, resourced, allowed to grow even if they're not "best in the country," "first in the REF," "top-ranked," "at a Russell Group uni," or whatever other austerity-brained nonsense senior managers have been using to flimflam you out of solidarity

Looks like Nottingham are trying to run a university without staff. Or rather, staff that aren't senior management. This is so brutal even by their already dismal standards. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

On my way to Brussels to take part in this years Oscillation Festival: I'm going to be speaking on sonic surrogates and "activating" Sonia Saroya and Edouard Sufrin's sound installation, L'Archipel, with Diane Barbé. oscillation-festival.be/2026

I forgot to share this but another thing I've been working on of late (with lots of amazing other people) has been a creative toolkit for tinnitus support groups, meant to help support often tricky conversations about experiencing tinnitus tinnitusarts.co.uk/toolkit

Hey, so I'm out of practice with 'announcements' but: I wrote a book and it's coming out in November. It's called The Sonic Surrogate and it's about sound reproduction, reproductive crisis and the proliferation of music technologies that promise to take care of us www.ucpress.edu/books/the-so...

Historical gripe: Luddism was clandestine working class organizing. No Luddite would have signed a letter with their own name! That's the whole point.

The closing date for our (fees-only) PhD studentship is fast approaching...

They call it world book day because it makes you hate both books and the world.

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do you tell the sun to shine less brightly

here's a piece i wrote back in 2017, about Radigue's Biogenesis bsky.app/profile/vanm...

RIP Éliane Radigue. A performance of this remains one of my favourite ever concerts

Well now, doesn’t feel like gaslighting at all that individual programs are being made “accountable” for the future earnings of their graduates. !!!!

Those of us who like to say things like “popular culture is a complex space of ideology and antagonism, repression and resistance” really eating shit today: “The group that should be in the streets has been bought off by Jay Z” - Jes Stanley, CEO of Barclays

It’s a dark night when you look at the news and are forced to admit that you no longer believe in the power of the FIFA peace prize

“The AI can't do your job, but an AI salesman can convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job.”

Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252: Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email. Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk

Up the BL workers.

I'm currently producing some teaching involving both jazz and disco and it's really bringing home the proximity of music to the "make/let die"

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My dear, dear baritone wielding friend has a new album out and it is [complementary] absolutely demonic rekemrecords.bandcamp.com/album/best-w...

Ok fine.

Google AI is like an Eric Adams quote generator

An amazing day of solidarity with staff, students, and community members saying NO to compulsory redundancies and unnecessary course closures.

Just devastating. Most of my feed is rightfully outraged about the cuts to music (posed to become an "extra curricular" activity) but the cuts to modern languages are so grim too: if I understand correctly, it means no HE language provision on this side of the midlands www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The pandemic was a mass-disabling event and one of the reasons it has largely vanished from day to day political discourse is that those in power don't want to acknowledge the long term care needs it produced.

This will be a long thread on yesterday police massacre in Rio. In nothern Rio de Janeiro city, there is a couple of hills called Complexo da Penha. It's Comando Vermelho("Red Command", a drug gang), or CV, territory. CV is the greatest gang in Rio, second in the whole Brazil. +

Ruh roh.

This is wild. The speakers they objected to are the local city councillor and the local MP whose ward/constituency include the university! One has to wonder if they were so keen to invoke Prevent because one of the speakers was Muslim? Absolutely Shellard-levels of bullying on display here.

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Enjoying the chaotic drinks selection at my parents' local shop

Imagine if the infrastructure that our daily life depends on was organised according to some sort of coordinated plan, not just the chaotic outcome of billions of competitors each making decisions in the interests of profit, power, and convenience.

one thing LLMs have revealed is that the belief that there is a magical incantation that will give you what you want is not just confined to pick-up artists and freemen on the land

I know the bar is high/low, but l feel like I've hit a new personal worst in algorithmic culture with Facebook pushing anti-mammogram content

I mean, I appreciate the sentiment but I really think we should give proper credit to all the terrible non-AI art that exists.

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I'm going to Brazil! Hyped to be presenting at the next iteration of Sonoridades in June. The conference's theme is 'Silences' and will be held in Vitoria (ES). I'll be talking about tinnitus' multiple relationships with silence, both literal and figurative, and their implications for sound studies

I didn't know I needed a country cover of Crass' 'do they owe us a living?' but here we are

This is such sad news. Like many others, Jonathan's work was formative to me. It's also just really impressive how he got to be something like the final boss of sound studies, and was still so nice.

Alright, introducing myself to a new social media platform by sharing the cursed takes of neoliberal economists