In case you haven't already watched it the Ken Burns series on the American Revolution is on iPlayer and as you'd imagine it's great.

When poets made tv.

Guardian, you’re at the wrong party with the wrong people trying to make the wrong loud jokes, just apologise and go home.

This touches me somewhere primal every time I read it.

Not now explosive diarrhoea parasite.

2/ These cuts will undoubtedly impact social mobility for young people, cut off pathways into the creative industries + undermine those very industries Creativity and the arts matter - Government must do better

1/ Impossible to square these cuts to creative + performing arts teaching grants with the Government's pledge to put the creative industries at the heart of its growth strategy www.artsprofessional.co.uk/news/dfe-sla...

In a more logical world, the government would be piling money into the grassroots of a £150 billion industry with massive global reach which is growing at over twice the rate of the rest the economy as a whole.

I'll say it again, as I do almost every day in some context: the way policy is set up right now, most British universities will either radically downsize or close in this Parliament or the next. Only a small elite of c.10 to 20 will be recognisable as univs at all. How do people not know this?

Labour there, increasing the hold of the privately educated on British theatre and cinema.

It's a good job Nigel Farage didn't fail to declare a ten quid Universal Credit overpayment, because he'd really be in trouble then

The thought had also occurred. I suspect a lot of people will be making a pilgrimage in solidarity and, hopefully, a decent point. 🍺 maps.app.goo.gl/mt8CcLEaSbY3...

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Snow Falling in the Lane 1906 https://botfrens.com/collections/90/contents/25479

You’re taking the piss now, Guardian.

Let me be explicit. The massive heat waves we're seeing around the world more extreme and frequent due to human-caused #climatechange. And these heat waves are going to continue to worsen because of our failure to reduce carbon pollution. Just one of the many costs of #climate change.

Tarkovsky didn’t burn down an entire house for the climax of The Sacrifice, only to be told the single camera had jammed, and rebuild the entire house and burn it down again to get the shot, so you could tell me that AI “is inevitable”.

This is one of the dumbest and saddest things I've ever seen. We should not think of universities in this way, and if we do that'll destroy everything that is both useful and good about them. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Just finished watching this entire series from the 1970s, thanks to the prompt below. Two things strike me. 1- what a really wonderful writer Trevor Griffiths was. 2- while entirely of its time, it provides an acute critique of the Labour Party now. Same as it ever was.

Keir Starmer feels "betrayed"

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Solar generates more energy than coal in US for 1st time. @carlquintanilla.bsky.social

Using generative AI for imagery is **directly harmful** to artists, graphic designers, photographers etc. This isn't a vague moral argument: this is just normal, standard theft, except at a completely new scale and social acceptability. We need to reverse that. www.instagram.com/reel/DY2L2-g...

'Night all... youtu.be/FBnSWJHawQQ?...

Blind Faith made their first appearance at a free concert in Hyde Park #OTD in 1969.

The pedestrianization of Broadway through the heart of Manhattan just expanded, and it's glorious:

50 YEARS AGO TODAY: a late stand for socialist drama, Bill Brand stars Jack Shepherd as a new Labour MP coping with the demands of the party's internal power struggles, his own conscience and a bit on the side relationship with activist Cherie Lunghi. www.youtube.com/watc...

Really wanted to sign this but then got to the final sentence - "This isn't about rejecting technology, but about establishing a framework that makes AI development fair and sustainable for the creative industries.” And, I’m afraid, that’s playing their game.

The Kids Are Alright.

#MarjanSatrapi, RIP. Iranian dissident and author of #Persepolis Satrapi had evidence for what I reported without evidence at the time but with the certainty of a reporter who hadn’t been born the previous day; that the Iran elections had been rigged.

"The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now." — James Baldwin, 1959 Portrait of American writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin, image captured in 1971 by British photographer Mark Gerson. 🙏🏼🌎🕊️ 📷 National Portrait Gallery, London | Susan McKenna

Place de la Concorde, Winter by Georges Seurat, 1882 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137422

Excellent point. Just purchased.

After ICE deported Wendy Hernandez Reyes, it turned her 3-year-old son Orlin over to her sister’s estranged partner, who tortured Orlin and beat him to death. I can’t say what I think should happen to those responsible without violating this website’s TOS. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Morning all. Photographer John Bulmer View Over Potteries (also known as "Potteries) 1962.

I genuinely feel sick. A company reached out to me on IG, linking me to an AI version of myself. You can even ask "me" questions. They are also advertising it using an AI photo of me. They told me if I like it, they will give me free access... to my own fucking content that they stole. /1

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A Great is gone.

A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines

21 May 1971, Marvin Gaye released his album 'What's Going On'. The concept album told the story of a Vietnam veteran returning to the country he had been fighting for, and seeing only the hatred, suffering and injustice. It is regarded as 1 of the greatest albums of the 20th century. #WhatsGoingOn

A plaster for a pimple when you’re in the middle of chemo.

Here's the leadership I'd like to see from a Labour leader.

Very disappointed The Guardian continues to peddle this propaganda.

Thanks to Vampiresangellv @Vampiresangelnv

Quote with a fictional band that is not spinal tap.