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Andrew Popp @andrewpopp.bsky.social · 3h

It stopped me dead in my tracks the moment I saw it, recognising the 5 from the Demuth painting. Ladder No. 5 from the same station as the one Williams saw.

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Andrew Popp @andrewpopp.bsky.social · 5h

Walking through Manhattan 10 years ago I saw the figure 5
in gold
on a red
firetruck
It seemed to be completely unheeded.

A red New York fire truck with a gold number 5 on it's front grille.

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Andrew Popp @andrewpopp.bsky.social · 12h

Millions face starvation or food insecurity. Food waste is also a massive contributor to climate change. Probably preaching to the converted, and am sometimes left wondering if sourcing food waste simply allows the system to keep functioning as it does. UN report here:
unfccc.int/news/food-lo...

unfccc.int

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Andrew Popp @andrewpopp.bsky.social · 12h

Got a food waste box on Wed: all the veg for a stir fry; tomatoes for a marinara; kale, corn, & pots in a kale & white bean soup; eggplant in a Turkish lentil soup; cucumber in tzaatziki; cabbage for malfouf. Still have lots of potatoes. Yippee for us! But our food systems are broken

Saucepan of Turkish sour lentil soup with eggplant and spinach.

Preparing malfouf - Lebanese stuffed cabbage rolls.

Cooked cabbage rolls ready to be baked in a tomato sauce.

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Andrew Popp @andrewpopp.bsky.social · 13h

Incidentally, Danish potatoes are excellent!

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Andrew Popp @andrewpopp.bsky.social · 13h

It's the start of potato harvest week in Denmark (autumn school holidays).

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Andrew Popp @andrewpopp.bsky.social · 15h

I did read it yesterday and enjoyed it very much. It was something I knew little about. It would be interesting to think about a through line alway the way from the Enlightenment factory tourists of the C18th all the way to "visitor experiences" such as Guiness and Carlsberg today.

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Andrew Popp @andrewpopp.bsky.social · 16h

Really, it's very strange this even needs to be remarked on.

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Andrew Popp @andrewpopp.bsky.social · 1d

Yikes!!!

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Andrew Popp @andrewpopp.bsky.social · 1d

Night Nurse can be made to sound very naughty.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6oY...

Gregory Isaacs - Night Nurse

YouTube video by Burak Yıldırım

www.youtube.com

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Andrew Popp @andrewpopp.bsky.social · 1d

One wonder's if he's ever bought tampons or other sanitary products for any of his partners/wives or daughters (if he has any, I genuinely don't know).

Andrew Popp @andrewpopp.bsky.social · 1d

Of course it's the batshit techno-futurism & #entrepreneurialismasdiscourse as the only route to salvation that get all the headlines, but it's just another Gospel of Wealth. Here, Thiel says the quiet part out loud. Like so many of the very rich, he simply doesn't believe he should pay taxes

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Andrew Popp @andrewpopp.bsky.social · 2d

Why? Why did you say that?

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Andrew Popp @andrewpopp.bsky.social · 2d

This is about scrapbooking (but by a boss, not workers)
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Explicating archival ethnography: Helmut Käser’s business trip

Archival ethnography using microhistorical approaches has considerable untapped potential as a research approach in management and business history. We use a scrapbook compiled by the mid-twentieth...

www.tandfonline.com

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Andrew Popp @andrewpopp.bsky.social · 2d

This looks fascinating. Downloaded and ready to read.

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Andrew Popp @andrewpopp.bsky.social · 2d

I just knew the research skills and effort behind the David Walker paper were absolutely incredible! It's fantastic to have these visuals of the work you're doing.

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Andrew Popp @andrewpopp.bsky.social · 2d

Business and management history folks, and those in org studies, any suggestions for how to approach what looks like a fascinating source?

Simon Briercliffe @simonbriercliffe.bsky.social · 2d

I have a set of hand-drawn comics/gossip sheets/newspapers donated alongside our aluminium foundry at @bclivingmuseum.bsky.social, dating from (I think) late 1940s. Does anyone know any lit that will help me explore this as a source? I've found work on company mags but this is very different.

Excerpt from handwritten zine-style text entitled "Burglar's editorial"

Hand-drawn comic panel showing workman thumping a desk and shouting "I demand shorter hours" - the caption reads, "whadoya want then = fifty nine minutes"

Hand-drawn caricature of Ernest Bevin, reading "Bevin says - even Russians read this paper"

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Andrew Popp @andrewpopp.bsky.social · 2d

Alan McKinlay's "Dead Selves" in the journal Organization is a brilliant study of marginalia in bank ledgers and might be useful. My own "The Broken Cotton Speculator" dissects the annotations and scribblings on a single anonymous postcard. Not exactly the same but some parallels I think.

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Andrew Popp @andrewpopp.bsky.social · 3d

Fabulous. Literally.

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Andrew Popp @andrewpopp.bsky.social · 3d

No and no and no.

Andrew Popp @andrewpopp.bsky.social · 3d

A sunday evening in the autumn of 1982. A phone box on City Rd, Fenton, Stoke-on-Trent. Someone hammering on the phone box door, telling me to hurry up.

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Andrew Popp @andrewpopp.bsky.social · 4d

Honestly, I never print anything, at all. Never even bothered getting networked to any of the printers at work in 5+ years.

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Andrew Popp @andrewpopp.bsky.social · 4d

Sure, it's just a quip, but it so tellingly betrays the poverty of mind, as I have just seen someone else call it.

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Andrew Popp @andrewpopp.bsky.social · 4d

Nothing can be excluded.

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Andrew Popp @andrewpopp.bsky.social · 4d

This looks so interesting. Thank you for posting.

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