Modern Languages students at the University of Nottingham have started a petition to save languages degrees. Please sign and share www.change.org/p/stop-the-r...

www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/at-gails-w... (free to read)

³³ ♡ hbd to me 𓆏 reminder that ageing is a privilege and we should all be so lucky⋆.☘︎ ݁˖ the average price of a pint is apparently still £5.17 (£5.73 for guinness) so if you fancy celebrating another year of me you can buy me a virtual pint kharpp.com/how-to-donate/ xxx

turns out you can always just move to the east coast of scotland

moldovan elections are underway (eek)!!! you can follow the voting + results as they come in this evening here: pv.cec.md

A long thread on how I'll be following returns for the Moldovan legisl. election on Sep. 28. Polls close inside MD at 9 p.m. Until then, the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) will only be releasing turnout data throughout the day. Results will start rolling in fairly quickly ...

la mulți ani de ziua independenței, moldova! 🫶

The Editorial to our Special Issue on Grey Spaces and Chromatic Leisure for @leisurestudies.bsky.social is now published. @indigowilling.bsky.social @benjaminduester.bsky.social @sanderholsgens.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

My favourite Moldova story of the week is Boney M performing at the city festival of Bălți. newsmaker.md/ru/boney-m-m... www.youtube.com/live/6IKxabT...

exciting news! ✩ i’ve been awarded a leverhulme early career fellowship to spend the next three years thinking about urban space, cultural heritage & the relationship between the local and national in moldova and will be based at st andrews ☆彡 hai să mergem// давай пойдём ミ☆

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across romania at easter 🪻

spring in bucharest 🌱

wrote about grey spaces, russia and the capitalocene. hope this enriches the chromatic leisure paradigm in some way ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

every minute the NHS needs 3 donations so, if you can, go donate blood/plasma/platelets (+ you get snacks)❣️

let’s gooooo

happy stalin death day to all those who celebrate! смерть диктаторам.

wondering how to support ukraine? here’s a list: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

3 years

the estimated number of buildings destroyed by russia is already more than 250,000. this new online archive/exhibition presents the scale of the destruction and the range of buildings destroyed. this is an irreplaceable loss. ukrainian-destroyed-heritage.leibniz-gwzo.de

Spiraling about what I can do in a collapsed economy flooded with workers with my exact skill set. Should I get backyard chickens and become an egg mogul

Lovely roundtable talk for LGBTQ+ History Month at the @uniofnottingham.bsky.social. Excited to talk with @abikaras.bsky.social and @siobhanhearne.bsky.social about queer histories of central and eastern Europe 🥳 Join us (if you're about in Nottingham, of course) - all are welcome!

friends i’ll be in paris next week talking about urban space and community activism in chișinău

masa zilei/meal of the day: me working through the 10 different mămăligă variations in my old romanian cookbooks

europe, but i dropped a pin on every mihai eminescu street

this article on skateboarders in ukraine is good and you should read it but i’m also the most annoying person in the world ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

don’t feel like i accomplished much of note this year but i did watch a lot of films (take from that what you will) so here are all 170 things i watched/logged on letterboxd in the order i watched/logged them

“cryptic image” and it’s just a still from the colour of pomegranates (charli has taste)

мерікурісмас всім

Leopold Levytsky, Postcard, 1972

привіт! 🌻 a reminder for anyone on the homes for ukraine scheme (or who knows anyone who is) you have to apply for an e-visa by 31st december! the system is not the most intuitive so am happy to help if i can (but local homes for ukraine teams should also be able to advise)!

have seen some good skies this year

christmas cookie selection 2024: - early grey tea and lemon - gingerbread - brown butter chocolate chip - white chocolate miso

what a wonderful surprise to find in my pigeonhole on the last day of teaching this year !! studii de istoria și teoria arhitecturii // studies in history & theory of architecture !! honestly it’s so beautiful !! they are operating on an entirely different level in bucharest 💙

shut up already, i whisper as i delete a sentence in my draft

долой всех диктаторов долой империалистические угнетение долой политические репресии солидарность со всеми угнетёнными народами по всему миру

thinking about the classiest thing i’ve ever stumbled across in an archive: this letter from exiled czech journalist josef josten which starts ‘why not light up and be with me for just one minute?’ and includes a gold tipped cigarette for the reader to smoke

forget spotify wrapped i only care about your mubi retrospective

some romania pics because i don't need an excuse but also it was the national day yesterday and i wish it was summer and i was eating sea buckthorn ice cream

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solidarity with all the protestors in georgia ❤️‍🔥🇬🇪❤️‍🔥🇬🇪❤️‍🔥 the brutality they are facing is a reminder that freedom of assembly and protest (and free and fair elections) are hard fought and should not be taken for granted

We’re continuing our live coverage of the fallout and widespread protests that have emerged in the wake of the Georgian government’s announcement that Georgia would be halting its EU accession process oc-media.org/live-updates...

hi! i’m currently on the job market! am i in my flop era? maybe. is the job search crushing what little self-esteem has managed to survive academia so far? you bet. am i giving up yet? no so, if you see any relevant opportunities for me please send them my way! ✨🫶

1000th day

~*🌻＊*•̩̩͙✩•̩̩͙*˚ even the forest hums: ukrainian sonic archives 1971-1996 ˚*•̩̩͙✩•̩̩͙*˚＊🌻*~ 10/10 best thing i’ve listened to all year (and yes that includes brat)

spent the day thinking about architectonics, the legacies of suprematism and constructivism (and hungerford bridge?) and also got to see the paper museums exhibit at the zaha hadid foundation! what an absolute dream!