Congratulations! 10% off is a good deal. Perhaps for my little Broken Sleep title? robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2025/10/my-n.... Or for dozens of others.

My brain may be rubbish today... but I did a thing.

Rocks to Reef with @tidelines.bsky.social, Anne-Marie Culhane, Exe Estuary shellfishers. Learning about the delicate and ever-adjusting balance of estuary lives over centuries. I wrote about the early stages of our immersion. tidelines.uk/blog/a-toe-i...

Latest figures show a total failure of policy to deal with agriculture emissions www.independent.ie/farming/fore...

The change in how the rules on eligibility for citizenship are being applied is desperately unfair on people who've spent years in the asylum system. Like many other measures being taken by government now, it makes newcomers feel unwelcome, adds to their stress & trauma, and serves no useful purpose

New article from me for @middleeastmonitor.bsky.social on how museums (like the British Museum), universities and other institutions are complicit in the Zionist genocidal project of rewriting history and erasing ancient Palestine. Read: www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260215-isr...

The British Museum has quietly removed the word ‘Palestine’ from maps, information panels and galleries, after lobbying. www.newarab.com/news/british...

Would be good if the Prime Minister and/or Home Secretary would for once come out and describe this as the unadulterated racism and xenophobia it so clearly is.

Call for Submissions: "On a day like today ..." A new publication from art.earth Books bringing together a broad array of thinkers and practitioners to explore energy, culture and creative practice. You can learn more at artearthbooks.com/a-day-like-t... The deadline for submissions is May 9.

There are currently two corporations with applications to strip the west coast of seaweed. There will be a tiny window to put in a submission to these applications but it'd be good to build momentum now and get these applications being talked about locally. Please sign and share.

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New Open Access Booklet! As part of the AHRC BRAID project 'Museum Visitor Experience and the Responsible Use of AI to Communicate Colonial Collections' (PI Dr Joanna Tidy, Sheffield) we've developed a resource for heritage professionals evaluating responsible AI use richardacarter.com/braid-report/

As ever @danneidle.bsky.social is on the case. taxpolicy.org.uk/2026/01/29/w...

Harvesting 40,000 metric tonnes of intertidal seaweed per annum is an industrial scale operation. The length of coastline involved is massive, but it's likely that the biomass is not evenly distributed, so harvesting may be concentrated in particular localities. The impacts could be significant.

We keep banging on about council funding because the end result is this very real, very depressing fraying of the social fabric. Newcastle needs to save £200k so the park cafes close, the staff is let go, and another community anchor goes. To save pennies. www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...

Reporting X on Google Play. Links & text to copy: Allegedly infringing URLs: play.google.com/store/apps/d... Please cite the specific law... : Sections 5,6 and 9 of the Child Trafficking and Pornography Act 1998 Please provide a link to the specific law: www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1998/act...

The Deputy leader of this government is telling an outright lie in order to stir up racial hatred and build support for more oppressive laws This is a dangerous dangerous path we are going down. #speirghorm

When I see all that's happening the more I feel we need to drastically evolve, start looking around us at what we need to build together. Ireland's future isn't data centers or NATO. It's expanding out the GAA & credit union models to housing, caring, food, infrastructure. The Meithal system 2.0.

Campaign Against Arms Trade are a great source of reliable information and high quality analysis on UK arms sales. They have important resources on UK arms to Israel in the context of the Gaza genocide. Vital that we keep ourselves informed about these things. caat.org.uk/publications...

with best wishes for the solstice / chanukah / yule / christmas / new year period ... stay warm, well, safe if you can. be kind to those around you. 💚

Tomorrow's front page 📰 'The UK is letting these people die'

This is incredibly disappointing. Imagine if the government treated the protection of nature with the same level of priority that they placed on keeping the nitrates derogation www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

a white grid with two rectangular spaces, each has a blue background and a roughly smeared cloud-like shape in white paint; centered in each rectangle is a single word, in the upper area the word 'shopping' in pink, in the lower half, the word 'olympics' in pale green; #poetry #writing #seasonal

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if you're an artist, producer or work as a freelancer across the culture sector, these workshops may be for you - as a refresh, an upskill, or a professional development present to yourself for the New Year? get the knowledge you need from the team at Take A Part! socialmaking.co.uk/social-learn...

#visualpoetry #poetry #writing #photography #seasonal

Will be of interest to quite a few I know - new Open Access book "The Visual Life of Climate Change" by Saffron O’Neill, critiquing the often formulaic imagery of climate change, and presenting a manifesto for opening up its visual discourse. bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/monobook-oa/...

#poetry #text #image #writing #visualpoetry #seasonal

The tenants of "The Complex" the brilliant arts space just off Capel St Stop are being evicted in January and the city can't afford to lose yet *another* cultural space. Please sign & share the petition to save The Complex

my review of the exciting The Scores Project is now online at Leonardo Reviews: leonardo.info/review/2025/... - the project is a huge resource of materials around a range of artists and makers working in the third quarter of the 20th century. #fluxus #scores #art #music #postmodernism

🎤 🎧 🎶 Are you interested in radio art, art radio, audio arts, sound art, community radio, accessible media, media commons or all of these? 📼 🎛️ 🎙️ Soundart Radio is looking for people to join their Board of Directors. 🔊 📢 EoIs by 5pm on Friday 28th November: soundartradio.org.uk/community/Di...

Every minute without a strong statement from the Irish government about the arson and attempted murder in Drogheda is another minute of silent acquiescence to the far right - by remaining silent, the govt is making it very clear which side they are on. Everyone who is here, belongs here. #SpeirGorm

HELP SAVE REFURNISH - a really great project for Devon, for recycling, for the community ... 8 days left to reach their Crowdfunder goal! www.avivacommunityfund.co.uk/p/save-refur...

Are you a live artist or practitioner eager to explore how and why you make? Applications for Do It Together are now open! tinyurl.com/49ce24w4 ⏰Deadline to apply: Wednesday 12 November, 5pm #DIT2026

This Trump-ally billionaire's my neighbour. He's collecting estates: Conholt, Hippenscombe (of Ravilious fame) & Buttermere, & rents the one I live on, filling it with pheasants. A piece in the Telegraph seems to say locals 'mostly like' what he's doing. Not met one yet. @guyshrubsole.bsky.social

Unreal. "Forwarding these names, a well-known practice from the McCarthy Era, may well subject a number of faculty, staff, or students to widespread surveillance—a breathtaking breach of trust, ethics, and justice." - Judith Butler, whose name was among the 160 shared with the Trump administration

“Safety and space at risk as SUVs reach 30% of car market in English cities, researchers warn. Campaigners call for Paris-style parking charges amid fears big vehicles are taking up excessive public space.” Cities need smart, specific strategies to manage vehicle size. It’s about space & safety.

This, to be considered by the House of Commons this afternoon, needs to cause as much political trouble for the government as the welfare bill. Ask your MP to stand up for the right to protest.

"Talking Walls moves through the Black queer spaces of Detroit, Philly, + NYC, tracing the architecture of queer resistance + joy. Through voice + archival fragments, the 📽️ honours the remnants of homes + hidden places where touch, language + memory hold defiant histories of survival + belonging."

Spent a lovely calming half hour reading through the accounts of a certain Noisy, PR-Heavy Arts Organisation that appeared out of the blue 4 years ago and hoovered up all the arts funding; thought at the time it seemed like a racket, and, you guys, you'll never guess what!! it was totally a racket

🚨New - BBC Bosses Plot to Suck Up to Farage: Davie and Execs 'To Rig Story Selection' to Win Over Reform Voters! They plot to bend the news for Farage, as Director Davie and execs draw up plans to tweak ‘story selection’ and drama output to win over Reform UK voters👇 bylinetimes.com/2025/06/09/b...

From 'living from a river' as a resource to 'living as a river' as part of us: how different worldviews and knowledge systems influence the way people interact with and value nature. A fascinating infographic by @ipbes.net

Not sure if Palantir is a household name. It's time to resuscitate + integrate a decade's worth of warnings about these folks — e.g.,... www.wired.com/story/how-pe... www.bloomberg.com/features/201... www.opendemocracy.net/en/palantir-... www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The "legitimate concerns" narrative told us that opposition to immigration was popularly held, a fixed reality to be deferred to, and that support for immigration was marginal and elitist. Wrong on multiple levels, and also helped radicalise big chunks of the political class towards the far right.

My thoughts and reflections on Joakim Norling's announcement of the closure of @timglaseteditions.bsky.social : derekbeaulieu.ca/2025/03/16/t... and thank you so much Joakim -- your vision and dedication has been inspirational.

For this #InternationalWomensDay I’m sharing one of my symptomatology embroideries, paresthesia (face) (2016). Paresthesias are tingling sensations. Mine are caused by #MECFS, a disease affecting mostly women, and the symptoms are often ignored or not taken seriously because of medical misogyny. 🧶

OPEN CALL for KINections - a professional development project for rurally based emerging artists in Devon and Cornwall. details at www.camp-membership.org/open-call-fo... Deadline March 24th #artscouncilengland #devonandcornwall #contemporaryart #professionaldevelopment #artistopportunity

I wasn't going to do more posts about my crowdfunder, but as I'm only £36 from my target I figured I'd give it another shout out. If you are able to share I'd appreciate it. In exactly a week I will be starting my 22hr journey to an art residency in #Arctic Norway and I'm feeling anxious!