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Blakey French @blakeyfrench.bsky.social · 21h

Grim times call for mince pies; forgive me for I have sinned ... in October !

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Center for Anthropocene History @anthropocenekth.bsky.social · 7d

Open PhD position at KTH: "AI Planetary Futures: Climate and environment in Silicon Valley's AI paradigm". Apply by Oct 23! lnkd.in/dCs8eZjb

The project analyzes the climate and environmental aspects of Silicon Valley-based general-purpose AI systems developed by Big Tech companies.

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Blakey French @blakeyfrench.bsky.social · 1d

Another case of 'blame the victim' ... illegally high rents are, quel surprise, extracted by greedy local landlords: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Migrants overpaying for substandard homes face blame for Netherlands housing crisis

With general elections in two weeks, housing crisis is a big issue, with the far-right Party for Freedom blaming migrants

www.theguardian.com

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Robin Baker @robinalexbaker.bsky.social · 2d

1/2. I watched 'En dirigeable sur les champs de bataille' (1919) for the first time a few years ago. These are just short extracts from the 72 min film, recording the destruction across northern France that took place during WW1. The horror of watching it is overwhelming.

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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.bsky.social · 2d

Tomorrow evening with the wonderful Hugh Brody

Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 7d

Free community fediscience, please boost!
🌗Tues Oct 14🌘 6:30pm
'Tracks across Sand'
Hugh Brody

LIVE Daryll Forde Room, 2nd Floor,
UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, WC1H 0BW
ZOOM ID 952 8554 1412 passcode Wawilak

Collage of Khomani San women from Hugh Brody's film 'Tracks across Sand'

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Radical Online Archives @radonlinearchives.bsky.social · 3d

Hello BlueSky! Starting this account to showcase the ever growing list of radical online archives and collections. Nearly 1000 collections from the around the world are listed at the link below.

Please follow for updates and collection highlights!

hatfulofhistory.com/radical-onli...

radical online collections and archives

I am very interested in the growing amount of radical literature from around the world that is being scanned and digitised. As there are so many and from many different places, I thought it would b…

hatfulofhistory.com

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Blakey French @blakeyfrench.bsky.social · 3d

Just in case anyone forgot to press 'send' - the deadline for applications on this great PhD opportunity, is ... today:

Jane Tynan @janeym.bsky.social · 27d

We're seeking a PhD researcher interested in outdoor gear and how people dress for the weather. ☔ 🧥 This 4-year student position based at VU Amsterdam is part of the NWO-funded project 'Synthetic Adventures' supervised by me! #fashion#outdoors#weather#sustainability
#waterproof Apply here:

Vacancy — PhD position in Design Cultures

Are you interested in the impact of synthetic textiles on the environment? Do you want to interview people about what clothing means to them? You will connect with people and discover how dressing for...

workingat.vu.nl

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Blakey French @blakeyfrench.bsky.social · 3d

Oh dear, I know this feeling; about to hit the books today:

Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · May 19

'The Reader.' (1885) Ferdinand Hodler said of the elderly sitters he used in his work: 'None of them any longer expected anything of life... They were all characterised by a desperate submission to an inevitable and inconsolable destiny... that is why I painted them.'

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Kazuyoshi Kawasaki @kawasaki1972.bsky.social · 3d

Diane Keaton | Interiors | Woody Allen | 1978.

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Blakey French @blakeyfrench.bsky.social · 4d

Looks like a hare to me:

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Blakey French @blakeyfrench.bsky.social · 5d

I miss my father more deeply with each passing year; your lovely woodcut print is, I think, by Dorothy Blackham.

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Blakey French @blakeyfrench.bsky.social · 7d

On Sunday, about 250k in Amsterdam protested, the largest demonstration in decades, much more reported on in EU than in UK - the first words spoken, by an organiser, in this Dutch news report, translate as : 'There's never a wrong time to protest for human rights'. nos.nl/video/258528...

Museumplein in Amsterdam vol voor rode lijn-protest tegen Israël-standpunt kabinet

De demonstranten eisen actie van het Nederlandse kabinet om het genocidale geweld van Israël in Gaza te stoppen. Volgens de organisatie zijn er dit keer 250.000 mensen aanwezig.

nos.nl

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Blakey French @blakeyfrench.bsky.social · 9d

In case today's protest in Amsterdam, the largest for decades, about 250k people (equivalent to 1/4 of the city population) didn't quite make it onto English news feeds: nos.nl/l/2585286

Museumplein in Amsterdam vol voor rode lijn-protest tegen Israël-standpunt kabinet

De demonstranten eisen actie van het Nederlandse kabinet om het genocidale geweld van Israël in Gaza te stoppen. Volgens de organisatie zijn er dit keer 250.000 mensen aanwezig.

nos.nl

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Blakey French @blakeyfrench.bsky.social · 9d

Solidarity from Amsterdam : #RodeLijn

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Blakey French @blakeyfrench.bsky.social · 13d

Looks like a hare to me :

sanctorium.bsky.social @sanctorium.bsky.social · 13d

Joseph Beuys, Untitled (1957)

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Blakey French @blakeyfrench.bsky.social · 13d

Such a pleasure last night, to come across the fine playing of Dimitrios Tsiotas (at the Kring, here in Amsterdam) : #jazzsky #jazzguitar www.dimitriostsiotasmusic.com/bio

Bio | DIMITRIOS TSIOTAS

www.dimitriostsiotasmusic.com

Blakey French @blakeyfrench.bsky.social · 13d

A lesser-taken path towards restored faith in humankind: #doncherry #jazzsky

LP cover for 'Om Shanti Om' by Don Cherry, recorded in 1976, shared by Black Sweat Records.

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enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 14d

There are two kinds of reactionary centrism:

1. "The radical left are lunatics, the far right has legitimate concerns"

2. "Vote for me and uphold zombie neoliberalism or else you are helping the fascists"

They are inconsistent but people like Starmer, Marcon & co switch between them all the time.

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Blakey French @blakeyfrench.bsky.social · 17d

This one goes out to @wendyo.bsky.social ... 'Compleat Imbiber' spirits glass by Frank Thrower for Dartington Crystal ... so 1972:

A sinuous crystal goblet; 70s shape in a 60s candle-lit palm.

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Blakey French @blakeyfrench.bsky.social · 19d

"Aristotle was profoundly right ... ethics is concerned with how to live and human happiness ... this sort of 'practical knowledge' is ... wider than the sphere of 'science' ... and a cultural necessity if we are to arrive at a sane and human view of ourselves or of science." Hilary Putnam (1978)

'Trad Night' at Mulligan's, Amsterdam; a group of musicians huddle around a bar-room table, summoning Irish music, deep, old & sprightly - enchanting onlookers.

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Blakey French @blakeyfrench.bsky.social · 19d

Disclosure: 'Unfollow situations' arise whenever AI bilge or X bilge bubbles up in my 'following' feed. I now have & use a drain plunger.

Lamplit still life with brutalist Dutch vase and comical drain plunger.

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Blakey French @blakeyfrench.bsky.social · 20d

"Becoming troubles and exceeds our ways of knowing and acting. It pushes us to think against the grain, to consider the uncertain and unexpected ... to care for the as-yet-unthought ... We are tasked with the otherwise." João Biehl & Peter Locke (2017)

Book cover for 'Unfinished - The Anthropology of Becoming' (2017); a youth, blurred by motion, chases a bright red wheel spun forwards on dusty earth.

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Blakey French @blakeyfrench.bsky.social · 21d

"Instead of being left behind, old evils return under new names ... human beings are no more reasonable than they have ever been." John Gray (2018)

An Edwardian china doll, a young girl with dark hair and dirty feet, glowers from under a soft shawl.

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Blakey French @blakeyfrench.bsky.social · 22d

"The idea that the human species realizes common goals throughout history is a secular avatar of a religious idea of redemption." John Gray (2018) ... kicking off :

Book cover for 'Seven Types of Atheism' by John Gray (2018).

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Blakey French @blakeyfrench.bsky.social · 23d

In other news ... the Sunday morning concert at Concertgebouw in Amsterdam was not sh*t; Brahms & Strauss were actually rather wonderful:

Interior of a classical concert hall; standing ovation from a large crowd for Radio Filharmonisch Orkest, Groot (Mannen) Omroepkoor, Karina Canellakis, (dirigent) & Sophie Harmsen (alt).

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