Honoured to write with Prof Danny Miller at UCL on a new method of inquiry with call augmented interviews journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

I'm looking for research articles about Bluesky as platform. Any ideas pls?

Retweeting to myself

Monzo unwrapped trolling me for eating £2.50 jerk chicken rice 72 times in the last year 🥲 FYI Cumin Up in New Cross is 💯

2025 was my favourite year for music in a long long time so I made a little playlist of my tracks from my albums of the year. All the usual genres are there: shoejazz, nightmare pop, uk slime et al open.spotify.com/playlist/5Qm...

After much deliberation, im submitting an extended abstract to Global Communication and Social Change Division. Even emailed the division chair and they confirmed it's a good fit Dhttps://www.icahdq.org/mpage/GCSC_CFP

Walked out of Frankenstein last night, couldn't stand another minute. Is his Frankenstein a carbon copy of Shape of Water? Hasn't he been telling this story all his directorial life?

Readying a paper for ICA in Cape Town next summer but struggling to decide a division/interest group. there's a lot of overlap! @icahdq.bsky.social www.icahdq.org/mpage/ICA26-...

i tend to resist online arguing esp with journalists i have previously admired but this article is utter trash. why has he not mentioned Maccabi's racist & rapist chants? the reason for their ban is their hate speech, nothing else. @barneyronay.bsky.social's www.theguardian.com/football/202...

📣 Save the date- Sat 25th October 👻 Halloween themed #TeslaTakedown in #London 🎁 Prizes for the most ghoulish costumes (please don't all come dressed as Elon; we're not sure we have the stomach for that). Trigger warning! The Gif below truly is the stuff of nightmares.

It’s my birthday today & for my trip to Prague I was suddenly compelled to buy and read bell hooks. I’m so transfixed by her work when I googled her, I discovered we share the same birthday. What an honour! ☺️

AoiR scheduled updated. I'm presenting TWO papers on the same Friday 17th Oct. One PhD, one postdoc. But it means I get my Saturday back 💃🏽

If you're in London today, then there's plenty of opportunities to show Mr Trump that he's not welcome. If you miss the march, then come along to the rally in Parliament Square at 5 instead and make some noise.

IS there a hashtag here where I can follow the Anti Trump protest? can't find one

Asides the anachronistic costumes and rituals, PhD Graduation was a VIBE @SOAS

Im at BODIES IN DIGITAL TRANSITION conference at Goldsmiths hosted by DiSCo. I founded DiSCo back in 2020 and handed over leadership to to see @aprilw.bsky.social last year. To see DiSCo thriving into new projects and areas is truly amazing. Well done April 🧠🫁🫀🦾👀👂

Havent thoughts about Baudrillard in a while but then this came by

Received an email from Your Party @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social + @zarahsultana.bsky.social new party with links to Tw, IG, TK + FB. Surprised they are not launching on BlueSky. Also, i think we have to start calling it "X" now

"what is anthropology" "well lets start with what it isnt: sociology. sociology is for stay-at-home dillweeds to make three zingers a day while not smoking pot. anthropology however is when you're a hikikomori in shibuya getting blazed every night like Saint Margaret Mead intended"

Reading Character Limit, unsurprised by the hubris of Musk, but 100+ pages in & Dorsey isnt coming off so well, surprised he goaded the acquisition against the board. Anyway, its given me motivation to give Bluesky another go. fyi the ethnographic writing is great @kateconger.com @rmac.bsky.social 👌

White youths on the Lewisham train (from Kent presumably) all dressed in Sergio Tacchini jackets. Always find it galling when hooligans commandeer brands I wear. Like how is North Face now a JD Sports staple?

500k now

Just finished The Years by Annie Ernuax, cannot recommend it enough. Rips the lid off everything fitzcarraldoeditions.com/books/the-ye...

Oh right so it costs me £180 to graduate for my phd, nice one

Very good postdoc at BRAID #ai #job susaifutures.com/recruiting-r...

DuckDuckGo has added a feature to filter out AI images from search results.

Any solid articles out there on the new UK 18+ online safety rules? Would love to read something critical / hefty

Bloody hell. Discovered an "alt-LLM" - made by Brighteon.ai - that is trained on conspiracy theories/disinfo. I asked it was covid a hoax 😱

friend asked me when my bday was - 25 Sept. they then sent some copy from some crappy astrology website. never been into astrology but that is changing. what a write up !

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Struggling to set up research interviews with alt right content creators but have noticed these posts/ads from what i'd call "growth hackers". Have reached out to two of them on Rumble & they are super keen to participate in my ethnography. Feels like i'm about to be scammed some how 💆🏽‍♂️

Went to dinner for a friend's birthday on Wed where I met Max Haiven who has designed the table top game Billionaire + Guillotines. He invited me to this antifascist game symposium + honestly i couldn't have had a better day!

Jurassic Park last night. The movie opens with a Snickers wrapper making its way into a lab's electrics disabling the security system so a dino eats a scientist. Ludicrous product placement aside, a graphic tells us this is 17 years before but the scene is never ref'd again. Who wrote this trash?

Haven't quite figured what BlueSky is for yet so thought id share photos from the weekend's hike along the Kent coast from Folkstone to Dover.

According to Novara on X Zarah Sultana has resigned from Labour after 14 years, joining forces with Jeremy Corbyn to launch a new political party. She says the two-party system is failing Britain—and vows to offer a real alternative. “In 2029, the choice will be stark: socialism or barbarism.”

we're all equal parts terrified by swift rise of LLMs yet regularly smash them as admin assistants, translators + therapists. this discussion with @karenhao.bsky.social foregrounds the extend of the destruction now + ahead. spoiler: the end of democracy in 20 years www.youtube.com/watch?v=8enX...

First draft manuscript "The Digital IRL: Twitter, Sri Lanka & the place of ethnography" submitted for Anthropology Now journal. Feeling confident rn but sure those peer reviewers will put me in my place 🥊

I saw 28 Year Later so you don't have to. It's batshit bad. I was howling for it to stop by the time the kid placed his mum's skull on the bone monument. Worst movie of the year? Actually worse than Gladiator 2 so possibly yes

Promising to (over) share daily on blue sky beginning today. Expect hubris, moaning about elites and occasional music recs 👀

The Stop Shopping Choir getting escorted out of Westfield White City Mall after singing an anti-Musk song in the Tesla outlet.

Great long read on how DOGE worked (or rather didn't) from @newyorker.com: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... #TeslaTakedown #MuskMustFall

Slides vibes check 🦄

I’m talking internet shutdowns, affordances & digital folklore in Bergen this morning :)

First day back in scandi after living in Helsinki for 6 months in 2022. First thing you notice is the pumping. Super power shower, one flush, seamless transition from hot to cold, it’s all a dream come true

Draft almost done on this journal article for Anthropology Now. Based on PhD thesis, the story of Elon Musk's takeover Twitter during my fieldwork in Nov 22 feels more relevant than ever

Norway plane pod sorted

Jeremy Corbyn, what a human, never change x