For #IndiePressDay I made a video about a couple of books I bought recently from @freeklomme.bsky.social and @guillemotpress.bsky.social youtu.be/GRJHEsmnXpw #BookTube #books

Indie presses >>>>>> depression Happy #IndiePressDay to writers, readers, editors, booksellers, reviewers & also printers, designers & distributors, passing round the worn-out tenner & also the unwearoutable joy. Find me & many @cipherpress.bsky.social @silver-press.bsky.social & Peninsula Press!

Important open letter about the future of architectural history in the art history departments of the universities in Berlin. This letter also appeared in the April issue of Kunstchronik. (NB: This is a general problem throughout the discipline, not just in Germany.) #arthistory #architecture

Someone commission the ALCS documentary already, we're waiting! 🎥

I love how @alcs.co.uk work really hard to communicate where the money comes from but every explanation just leads to further mysteries, like what is it about Dutch and Italian TV rules that makes those a major source of income? Would watch a deep dive TV documentary exploring every income stream!

Every writer should consider joining ALCS because members share in ALCS fees collected every year. If you're a member @societyofauthors.bsky.social your ALCS fee is part of your membership. If not, @alcs.co.uk takes the fee out of your ALCS earnings.

"We need Greens in the Senedd because we’ve had government after government which doesn’t represent the people of Wales. People can’t pay their bills, are living in cold homes, and our rivers are polluted." Candidate for Caerdydd/Penarth Tessa Marshall on why Wales needs Greens in the Senedd.

Proud to sign this!

If you are a candidate, please sign! If you are a voter, please send to your local candidate and encourage them to sign! forms.gle/r8tQxoJXTtJZ...

FGEN Announces: Councillor Pledge for LGBTQ+ Rights In the run up to local elections across the UK, FGEN is calling on candidates to sign this pledge letter affirming their support for LGBTQ+ rights and opposing efforts to roll them back. 1/2

I'm proud to've signed up to this as a council candidate for the Greens in Newcastle - the current attack on LGBTQ+ rights isn't some remote culture-war issue but something happening on the ground, in our communities, to our neighbours and loved ones, and it's up to us to stand with them.

Very important read. The existence of "advisors" telling people they can trick the system in whatever way is not actually evidence that such trickery is widely successful. It's applicants who are the target of the scam

An expert opinion that the scam reported by the BBC wouldn’t work, and so was a scam on applicants not the system, seems like important context

Alice In Wonderland, specifically the caterpillar demanding "who are you?"

A brilliant piece

In some businesses, the employees have the power to elect their managers, they have a say in what they're paid, and they earn a share of the profits. Wouldn't it be nice if everyone had the choice of working in such businesses?

This is the basic, real problem. Student fees have fallen in real value by over a quarter since they were introduced. They're still falling, despite one little rise. Universities are on track to run out of money, & the only people who can change that are MPs.

in the spirit of "for some reason unbeknownst to me quite a few people have bought this of late so why not shout about it a bit", here is my "carpe the fucking diem" tshirt, truly a blessing for all skeleton and crow aficionados 💀 shop.frankduffy.co.uk/product/carp...

I’m hosting a weekly ten-part radio series on English Culture through the mind of Professor Stuart Hall, featuring never-before-heard recordings from lectures delivered in the mid-80s - the height of Thatcherism. Starts on Wednesday 11am-midday on @resonancefm.bsky.social www.resonancefm.com

I hear this page with a record scratch between each line

draw the rest of the horse....

I think we could do with a little less "Don't worry, I'm allowed to make this art because I'm traumatized in these ways." and a lot more "Don't worry, I'm allowed to make this art because I'm allowed to make any art. And also, it's none of your fucking business whether or not I am traumatized."

The Electoral Commission is calling on anyone who needs ID to apply for free before the deadline of 5pm tomorrow (Tues) New research from the Commission shows that 55 per cent of people were not aware that they could get a free voter ID from their local authority

Voters without ID have just one day left to apply for a free Voter Authority Certificate to use at the upcoming local elections in England. To vote at a polling station, voters must present an accepted form of photo ID. A Voter Authority Cert. is a free form of ID for those who lack any.

The key demand of Higher Education is: DO THINKING IN BRAIN The message of "AI" is very clear: THINKING IN BRAIN WASTE OF TIME, DON'T BOTHER Fuck "AI".

Building the Tyne Bridge, 1925-8 (Dorman Long collection, via Amber/Side Gallery).

I love this essay very much!!!!

Well, not a business ... I would open a design school that is explicitly NOT run as a business and which doesn't have a single MBA or finance bro anywhere in its non-hierarchical staff. It would be focused on quality, not growth, and focus on research as much as teaching.

X-Men as Simpsons Quotes PROFESSOR X

I’m afraid voting for Labour is not my industrial focus

“I feel that if we don't take seriously the ways in which racism is embedded in structures of institutions, if we assume that there must be an identifiable racist who is the perpetrator, then we won't ever succeed in eradicating racism.” — Angela Davis

"Three young Barn Owls looking out of the quatrefoil of a church in North Norfolk."

If only someone would hack the Michael Jackson movie release and show Leaving Neverland instead.

rent or buy old office buildings with good light & turn them into artists' studios with a good café that has low background noise & vegan cake & where you could hang out without buying anything, just sit & read if you want, shared equipment & exhibition spaces & DIY gigs in the evenings

The Honey I Shrunk The Kids franchise is really running short of ideas

It's wonderful to see this plan to open a new radical bookshop in Newcastle - Books from Below. A worthy successor to (among others) the 1930s People's Bookshop on Westgate Road (home of the northeast committee for British supporters of the International Brigade). Four days left to support!

The Books From Below Collective has four days left to raise funds to open a radical bookshop and community space in Newcastle! We are so grateful to everyone who has supported but still have some way to go. Share or donate if you can! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/booksfromb...

🗓️ The local elections are just under two weeks away and the Green Party is standing thousands of candidates all across the country. 🗳️ Help us replace the failing Labour party and defeat the hateful message of Reform. 💚 Vote Green on 7 May.

this huge print is called "transgender goddexx destroys fascism", just going to leave it here shop.frankduffy.co.uk/product/tran... #printmaking #artsky #art

“Rediscovering the Handcart: A pleasure to drive, Low-tech Magazine’s handcart demonstrates the advantages of slow, human-powered transportation” (Another fantastic article from Low Tech Magazine) solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2026/04/redi...

Military and medical historians: If you have a lot to say right now and need help getting started with how to say it or where, here's a guide on getting started with public scholarship with extra resources for who to pitch on a linked page called Pitchables

YouGov today on new modelling on London elections: "Councils where Labour and the Greens are both within five points of each other: Brent, Ealing, Hackney, Haringey, Hounslow, Lambeth, Lewisham, Newham and Waltham Forest." They predict "the Greens could come first in as many as eight councils."

Really proud to be standing for proper local politics and proper hope:

A Manifesto of Hope for Newcastle For too long, money meant for our city has gone elsewhere. 15 years of austerity have hit our communities while protecting wealth at the top. It’s time for change that benefits ALL. Read more: newcastleupontyne.greenparty.org.uk/wp-content/u... 1/2

Really chuffed how well stretching the paper worked - this is as gorgeous as the day it was printed. Back up on my site for sale once again - limited edition, signed and dated - just one left 👀 shop.frankduffy.co.uk/product/anrh... #art #printmaking #owl #witchsky

👇🏼 @samgrinsell.bsky.social captures the dynamics of JKR specifically really well in this mini-thread.

Thinking about this (and the posts Rob responds to here), I see a key change as a shift in the relationship between politics and culture, from seeing the political as something separate from culture, albeit with the political always acting upon culture and culture refracting politics…

But only one Labour PM was successful enough to fire him twice.