sonia
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phd @ uni of manchester || designer and researcher
https://soniaturcotte.com
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Bringing Animali into the ICCT fold. Still run by me, still the vibe of having a chat with your pals
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about 1 month ago
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fucking YES green win in MCR!! 🌿 A very nice first week welcome (not my constituency but STILL).
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Prisonculture
2 days ago
I can't even speak about Nurul Amin Shah Alam. All I have to say is that the people constantly distinguishing between ICE, CBP and the REGULAR COPS are fools. That's it.
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it's quite crazy to see pictures of the snow in NYC, meanwhile in London I went for a run in a t-shirt yesterday
5 days ago
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terrible sunday post but this was built by moi in Webflow and if you want a cool cms website, I'M YOUR GUY (i also do sweet little hand-coded projects, like my own website but you don't get a CMS with those)
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6 days ago
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not to toot my own horn but the ICCT website is looking sick (i mean, it is because of all that 🔥 CONTENT)
6 days ago
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Radio Paradise really slaps at the moment
8 days ago
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Though about NY, the bit on libraries is well worth a read.
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Martin Savransky
9 days ago
We're trying, compañero! Always open to proposals, suggestions, collaborations, and donations!
www.contemporarycriticalthought.org
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academia is built on so much unpaid labour it is wild
9 days ago
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Indy
14 days ago
I sometimes think climate action would get better support in the UK if we renamed the phenomenon Global Raining.
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Anna Goss
18 days ago
"We appointed FF Studio as our partners...This can’t-be-topped team wore their expertise lightly. They operated thoroughly inside the tent as we’d hoped...They delivered at pace, with high standards and most importantly, any problems were shared problems that we figured out together."
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Lizzie wrote a very pleasing account of my favourite project of last year with the V&A
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How to create an intranet
Or ‘How to help staff get stuff done’
https://medium.com/@lizzie.hines/how-to-create-an-intranet-94a554a8f7b8?postPublishedType=repub
18 days ago
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i've turned into a person who was OBSESSIVE about using em dash and even occasionally using bigger dashes because ✨ aesthetics ✨ to using hyphens because i don't want to be associated with generative LLMs. reason 1093 to be an AI hater
19 days ago
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this plus an unending barrage of bad news literally from Jan 3rd and ongoing - it is unbearable (more so because one can do nothing but bear it)
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19 days ago
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The Institute for Contemporary Critical Thought
19 days ago
On March 3, Mariam Motamedi Fraser leads a discussion of Herd/Species. This is an in person event so spots are limited, you don't want to miss it.
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Herd/Species
Rethinking Herd as /Species amidst the here-and-now of our present planetary condition.
https://www.contemporarycriticalthought.org/post/herd-species
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I’m still not used to everyone in Manchester calling me love / darling and I’m lowkey obsessed. Im at risk of turning into a friendly person! At this advanced age of my life!
22 days ago
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absolutely fighting for my life this month and the gym might be the only thing keeping me alive (despite the fact i was bullied into going up in squats and i think i saw the other side briefly)
about 1 month ago
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Kari Lancaster
about 1 month ago
Join us! Lots happening as we kick off events in 2026 - wetlandic thought, animal readings, writing sessions, bringing down capitalism, book launches to come, big ideas, critical explorations and speculative experiments. What’s not to love? Sign up for updates at
www.contemporarycriticalthought.org
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‘They say it’s the future, and if we’re not on board we’ll be left behind.’
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about 1 month ago
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i love reading forthcoming texts and it feels very special and fancy BUT also deeply frustrating because when it’s a good one, you can't cite it and tell everyone to read it and damn if i'm not 1 chapter in a being BOWLED OVER
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Bringing Animali into the ICCT fold. Still run by me, still the vibe of having a chat with your pals
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The Institute for Contemporary Critical Thought
about 1 month ago
On the first Tuesday of every month, we have Animali: a slow reading group. Read the text together online and discuss. Meaningful, literary texts about animals.
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Animali: a slow reading group
Monthly reading group for collectively reading meaningful texts about animals
https://www.contemporarycriticalthought.org/post/animali
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The Institute for Contemporary Critical Thought
about 1 month ago
We've got a lot on in February! The next installment of A Thousand Wetlands: Capitalism as Drainage, Dams and Delusions, discussing online Feb 10
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Capitalism as Drainage, Dams and Delusions
A Thousand Wet-Lands: Thinking Against the Gods of Colonality #3
https://www.contemporarycriticalthought.org/post/capitalism-as-drainage-dams-and-delusions
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Margaret Killjoy
about 1 month ago
I've never seen a population more united. If people can hold onto that unity, if people can accept that different people will have different ways of confronting fascism, if we can remind NGOs and orgs that they can join but not control the resistance, then, well, people here will write history.
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Margaret Killjoy
about 1 month ago
I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
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Minestrone Monster
about 1 month ago
Thinking about the ICE detention centres brought to mind this poem, written by anti-apartheid poet Chris Van Wyk.
poetscorner.blog/2022/07/19/i...
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In Detention
We present this work in honor of the poet’s 65th birthday. He fell from the ninth floorHe hanged himselfHe slipped on a piece of soap while washingHe hanged himselfHe slipped on a piece of …
https://poetscorner.blog/2022/07/19/in-detention/
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back in freelance land, spent the week in user research which is literally the best part of my job
about 1 month ago
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the teams chat noise popping off during a meeting is so fucking grating SHUT UP ffs every day a reason to hate microsoft
about 1 month ago
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Sasha TRANTIFA ADMIRAL
about 2 months ago
Renee Nicole Good wasn't the first person killed by ICE. In 2025, 32 people died in ICE custody. In 2026, at least 2 people were killed by ICE, starting with Keith Porter on NYE.
#AbolishICE
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this year has not been off to a good start
about 2 months ago
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in a moment of great personal growth, I have swapped my 3rd morning coffee for decaf
about 2 months ago
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“un-spin yourself from the Five Apps of the Apocalypse and reclaim the Internet as a set of tools you use to build something you can own & be proud of” 👏👏
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about 2 months ago
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I edited and committed a file from GitHub app on my phone. it was too easy and felt very wrong. the most millennial thing about me might be big screen for important things
2 months ago
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Fav books of 2025 xoxo
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Book round-up 2025 - sonia turcotte
Freelance designer and researcher
https://soniaturcotte.com/digital-garden/book-roundup-2025/
2 months ago
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i've been crewing for my friend's overnight ultra cycle and started reading discipline and punish around 4am this morning. the first 5 pages just a solid, detailed description of torture and dismemberment. ok!
2 months ago
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Ethel Baraona Pohl
2 months ago
“The art world, with all its progressive scaffolding and humanist ornamentation, practically designed to celebrate and aestheticise every rebellion, couldn’t metabolise Palestine. It still can’t.”
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FT
2 months ago
More like degenerative AI amirite
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I have discovered an excellent way to write productively after a full days work … with glass of wine in the pub potentially ruinous for my finances and health
3 months ago
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the people who want this probably wouldn’t speak to their grandparents when they are alive
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3 months ago
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it's such a tell that someone doesn't really know their field when someone says that ’no one is looking at [their research area]‘ ... sorry, you aren't foucault and are probably not quite as original as you think
3 months ago
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I’m at a training course in Oxford, one of the richest universities and they have provided instant coffee. Sir!
3 months ago
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Tim Ellis 🍁
3 months ago
"I'm not in denial, I'm in open rebellion" damn that quote goes hard
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earlier this month i started reading the collected poems of Rumi ebook but I had to stop becomes some things are not meant to be backlit
3 months ago
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burying the lede "We received $4m (£3m) in start-up money from the Bezos Earth Fund"
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3 months ago
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it's bluesky so i'm using wikipedia as my source (fight me) but i'm newly obsessed Thales. what a guy! 'According to Aristotle, Thales (c. 624 – 545 BCE), the first Greek philosopher, posited a theory which held "that everything is full of gods". Thales believed that magnets demonstrated this.'
3 months ago
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Many trees in London are at risk because of increased temperatures, report from
@londoncentric.media
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www.londoncentric.media/i/180414264/...
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Why Zipcar gave up on London
The car-sharing scheme was hit by rapidly increased costs, a new congestion charge, and a lack of support from councils.
https://www.londoncentric.media/i/180414264/farewell-large-leaved-lime-hello-persian-ironwood
3 months ago
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London Centric consistently the best reporting for Londoners. Also in this story, bad news for trees :(
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3 months ago
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i would die happy(er) if i never had to see a tutor wax prolific about how bad students are (see also, interview panels complaining about applicants) often in the tone of concern or 'trying to be helpful' but cannot hide their disdain. get a different job tbh.
3 months ago
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