Absolutely electric gig by Mandy, Indiana @ Heaven tonight. Completely brilliant.

@nickyrvs.bsky.social hi Nicky, you just DM’d me but I can’t reply because I haven’t done the age verification thing (weirdly I can read the DM in my notifications). Anyway – yes please! That would be brilliant. Do you have my email address?

*sigh* fuck academic publishing. This looks excellent, but unless you have free access via a university login it’s £155 a copy.

Essential reading for anyone interested in museum workforce development and/or sector change. The outcomes of the MA’s Transformer programme are no surprise, but the analysis showing why is important for any future actions / workforce schemes.

The Black Cultural Archives in Brixton are holding an open day next Sunday blackculturalarchives.org/events/open-...

I grew up in this community and I have a few thoughts I want to share. A short thread. www.jewishnews.co.uk/breaking-hat...

I'm speaking at Conway Hall on Sunday 19 April. Tickets available here: www.conwayhall.org.uk/whats-on/eve...

This! Going to @nationaltheatre.org.uk this evening whose policy is no bags bigger than 30x30x15 cm in the auditorium. Who comes up with these sizes and do they not realise that some people carry laptops? And no, I can’t leave my bag with laptop in the cloakroom as it then wouldn’t be insured.

A consortium of Frontier Economics, BOP Consulting and CREATe at the University of Glasgow has been commissioned by DCMS to undertake research to assess UK demand for and supply of cultural and creative content for AI use. Have your say here: bop.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

It is the anniversary of the My Lai massacre today. I'd say that even more than most years, it's important to remember what happened. And the role Hugh Thompson, an active serviceman, played in both stopping and publicising it. Despite enormous military, political and public pressure to stay quiet.

It helps that Trump is now much more restrained on tariffs because of the Supreme Court judgement. His go-to punishment has been taken away.

This is a performative war of macho posturing by third rate figures who mistake the audience of social media and right wing cable TV for the gravitas (?) of diplomacy and foreign policy. It would be comic if it was not so painfully tragic.

... this is about lack of strategy and operational design at the most basic level. It is a combination of imperial arrogance, ignorance and having staggeringly incompetent political leaders with no interest about the world and even less knowledge.

I've covered big wars and little wars. Ones that have been well organised (thought some ultimately not very successful) and shit shows. My jaw is still on the floor that a military as powerful and professional as the US is in such utterly chaotic territory. This isn't mission creep ...

Not even the Nazis expressly announced they were committing war crimes. Indeed, at Nuremberg war crimes were denied. But here, openly, the US Secretary for Defense is explicitly admitting to committing war crimes.

Spring price reductions on my modular online pathways to #UserCentredDesign and #ContentDesign this weekend! £65 each, usual price £95. cakeconsultancy.com/cake-courses 🎂 🍰 🫖 #Training #UCD #DigitalTransformation #Design #Courses

We’re proud to be part of the secretariat for the new APPG for Freelancers. The new cross-party group has been launched to help ensure freelance work is properly understood and represented in policy and legislation. Read more here: freelancersmaketheatrework.com/new-cross-pa...

Dear everyone, As per the post from the Bodleian librarian below, AI bots and scrapers are putting just about every website under great pressure, British History Online included. A lot of excellent tech staff are working hard to keep everything working, but outages and siruptions are inevitable.

framing this as an "error" is doing everyone responsible a huge favour they don't deserve. the entire administration should be up on war crimes charges and the data centres should be permanently shut down

Historic England has launched a newsletter for the heritage sector. Despite the image there's no landscape survey in the first issue, alas, but lots of climate stuff plus a Roman villa... You can sign up here (today, or indeed any day): webmail.historicenglandservices.org.uk/k/Historic-E...

Hello internet friends and friendly internet strangers. Things are rough out there and we gotta pay bills, so here's a thread of tech for good* roles for all y'all looking for work right now. *or just less evil, I hope!

Spanish PM Sánchez on Trump's threat to end trade: "We are not going to be accomplices to something that is bad for the world and contrary to our values and interests simply because of fear of reprisals... We have absolute confidence in the economic, institutional & moral strength of our country."

Spanish PM Sánchez responds to Trump: "Spain is against this disaster... Govts are here to improve people's lives... It is absolutely unacceptable that those leaders who are unable to fulfill that mission use the smoke of war to hide their failure, and in the process, fill the pockets of a few."

I’ve been stuck on a Eurostar somewhere between Ebbsfleet and London for about 2 hours, and their compensation can be summarised as the worse your experience the more you have to travel with them again if you want a decent refund.

Beautiful speech by Harrison Ford, accepting his SAG-AFTRA Life Achievement Award last night with warmth, grace and love of his craft and colleagues: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dV_2...

I was about to say how great it is that there's an online survey for children and young people - as it should be, they should be first in line to be asked about this - but um.... I have some questions about the survey design

The Digital ID consultation is also rumoured to be opening this week, and one of the things we've pushed for on the govt Digital Inclusion committee I sit on is for a differently formatted public consultation, that more actively engages people who would never usually complete the traditional form

The social media consultation is live www.gov.uk/government/n... Not read the whole thing yet, but I'm *very interested* in the fact that it is positioned as a public consultation, not just a policy one

Starmer's ability to find the exact sweetspot which pisses off everyone is extraordinary. He's a savant.

Well that was just awesome. So many good finalists and incredible tricks.

Hello Winterclash!

A Green win must mean that "left behind" voters forgotten by Westminster want open borders and legalised class A drugs. That's how it works right?

Bracing myself for the government interpreting third place as “be more like Reform” rather than “be more progressive”

EU opens up funding to guarantee abortion rights across bloc

just quite maddening that Osborne's legacy is currently "hey that guy who helped the Tories get back into power then was chancellor for a while until Brexit, and now he has 300 jobs lol" and not "look, everything the light touches was fucked up by George Osborne in some way between 2010 and 2016"

Train delayed due to a swan on the track

On a train where the two young women behind me have spent the last hour looking at Instagram and commenting on people’s appearance and how it should be improved with plastic surgery. Horrible!

those tech people who do advocate for slowing down, being critical, or refusing to adopt it are routinely misrepresented as wanting to stick their head in the sand, it's not good

Important public information message if you missed out on the MMR vaccine:

it's the year of the horse soundcloud.com/thesoundofth...

Just get your act together. Please.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The fabulous Ezra Furman at Kentish Town Forum tonight

The Sánchez 🇪🇸 government has - built Europe's boom economy - hiked minimum wage from €736 to €1221 - cut insecure work from c.30% to c.13% - regularised, not demonised, migrants - stood up for human rights - refused to humiliate itself before Trump No wonder Musk hates it.

This sounds a seriously bad idea – it seems to let big tech companies train their AI on GP appointments, direct education and influence town planning. What will it take for this government to realise tech, and AI in particular, is not a panacea?

in *2018*

A reminder than the recent policing white paper includes a 5-fold increase in facial recognition vans for the police. www.gov.uk/government/n...

Yes, this is all stupid. Note 'marry early'. Your 9-9-6 day plus gym, running, specialist diet and other activities require support to achieve. A wife in such cases is very helpful. It's more overt here but remains an integral part of much contemporary straight men's lifestyle advice.

The deadline to submit papers for the Creative PEC Research Symposium 2026 is fast approaching. Send your extended abstract of ~500 words to [email protected] by Monday 2nd February. For more information and to register for the Symposium, email [email protected].