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transcript Verlag @transcript-verlag.bsky.social · 2d

How to challenge colonial legacies: Namibian and South African artists use archives to develop alternative memory practices.

https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7760-7/

@snf-fns.ch
#MemoryCulture #Colonialism #Namibia #SouthAfrica

Das Buch-Cover von »Troubling Archives« auf lachsfarbenem Hintergrund.

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Christian @ceebarnacles.bsky.social · 1d

“Soot marks and ink spots throughout”
#bookhistory

Screenshot of a catalogue record from the English Short Title Catalogue

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Christian @ceebarnacles.bsky.social · 1d

introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you'll never watch again, and one song you can't stand

Oysters

Green Street

Sweet Caroline

Captain Bionic @captainbionic.bsky.social · 1d

introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you'll never watch again, and one song you can't stand

raw tomato

E.T.

Sweet Caroline

Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 1d

“Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand”

sea urchins

that werewolf movie with Gregory Hines

Lady In Red

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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 1d

Totally self-defeating

www.thetimes.com/article/4700...

Cuts to prison education will worsen reoffending rates, says watchdog

The chief inspector of prisons said the lack of purposeful activity would make inmates even more reliant on drugs and ultimately increase crime

www.thetimes.com

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Christian @ceebarnacles.bsky.social · 2d

Are any of us spending anything like enough time talking to U.S. friends and acquaintances about what is occurring?

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Christian @ceebarnacles.bsky.social · 4d

World Mental Health Day 2025 and Mr Bill Board says, please don’t ever feel so apart from everyone else that you can’t talk with someone - there are lots of people in the world, many of them are good people and can make the difference. Don’t hesitate to message or speak to someone for some good ears

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Christian @ceebarnacles.bsky.social · 4d

‘Dystopian melancholy’ has to become more precise as a category: new ‘naturalism’ or ‘realism’ might do.

Watchdog Progressive @watchdogprg.bsky.social · 4d

László Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel prize in literature 2025.

Hungarian novelist celebrated for dystopian, melancholic novels that ‘reaffirm the power of art’. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

László Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel prize in literature 2025

Hungarian novelist celebrated for dystopian, melancholic novels that ‘reaffirm the power of art’

www.theguardian.com

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Christian @ceebarnacles.bsky.social · 5d

😬 yikes!

Mathew Lyons @mathewlyons.bsky.social · 7d

The new website for the British Library, one of the great research archives of the world, looks like its been designed for twelve-year olds. www.bl.uk

Welcome to the British Library

We are the UK's national library. Open to everyone and free to use. Explore our buildings, study, meet friends, attend an event and get free access to over 170 million items.

www.bl.uk

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mia ridge @miaout.bsky.social · 7d

In which Sak Supple shares his experiments with using LLMs to transcribe 18th and 19th century playbills from the British Library - manicules, long 's' and all! 'blplaybills.org: better search results using LLMs' www.bl.uk/stories/blog...

#OCR #TheaterHistory #LLMs #AI #ATR

blplaybills.org: better search results using LLMs

Search for, view and download 300 years of theatre posters from Great Britain and Ireland, 1600–1902.

www.bl.uk

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 5d

Rutgers University professor who published book on antifa was informed at boarding gate that his trip was * cancelled *
#antifa #HigherEd #fascism #research
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport

Rutgers University professor who published book on antifa was informed at boarding gate that his trip was cancelled

www.theguardian.com

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Corinne Fowler @corinnefowler.bsky.social · 5d

4. Tthe Windrush generation, descended from the enslaved, were denied credit or bank accounts when they arrived in the 1940s, and had to start up their own savings and credit system known as the Pardner Hand (still in operation today): www.bankofengland.co.uk/museum/whats...

Pardner Hand: A Caribbean answer to British banking exclusion

An exhibition by Museumand, The National Caribbean Heritage Museum

www.bankofengland.co.uk

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Corinne Fowler @corinnefowler.bsky.social · 5d

3. Racism is a legacy of slavery. Reparation £ can be used to repair its harms & address its causes.//Meanwhile, the 1830s slavery compensation scheme loan was finally paid off in 2015, hence many Black Britons had to repay the loan used to compensate those who enslaved their ancestors.

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Corinne Fowler @corinnefowler.bsky.social · 5d

2. In the Caribbean, suggested forms of reparation aren't usually compensation paid to individuals, but returning land that was used for slavery plantations/addressing the diabetes crisis (an intergenerational legacy of enslaved people's diets)/ funding slavery research centres..

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Corinne Fowler @corinnefowler.bsky.social · 5d

1. On reparation for transatlantic slavery.
I have not read Lenny Henry's book yet but I want to provide some general context in the face of his apparent shock suggestion

Sir Lenny Henry calls for slavery reparations for all black Brits - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sir Lenny Henry calls for slavery reparations for all black Brits

The comedian's new book supports the case for the UK to give £18 trillion in compensatory payments.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Christian @ceebarnacles.bsky.social · 6d

A sane, fair, just society would have safeguards to bar politicians like this who lie - repeatedly - from the privilege of participating in political public office. The very idea they think they are ‘public servants’ is risible deceit.

Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 6d

Pochinoccio strikes again.

Reform UK’s @SarahForRuncorn has removed a video about Runcorn Boxing Club after lying about her helping getting funding for them.

Statement by the club has shown her to once again have made up things about representing her local area.

www.facebook.com/share/p/1CXr...

Christian @ceebarnacles.bsky.social · 6d

“One of those, a woman in her 40s, was buried without a single person attending her funeral.”

Homelessness could so easily be ended by spreading the riches. Every stupidly wealthy person in the U.K. should have this on their conscience.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

UK deaths of 1,611 homeless people in 2024 is record high

Most are linked to suicide or drugs, with spice and nitazines increasingly deadly.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Christian @ceebarnacles.bsky.social · 7d

What has the world done to deserve all this ?!!

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Burning down the house: Milei plays rock star as Argentina economy crashes

Facing protests and scandal, Argentina’s ‘rock star president’ performs in Buenos Aires, saying: ‘I’m human’

www.theguardian.com

Christian @ceebarnacles.bsky.social · 7d

For all their bragging about “thinking outside the box” (like they have a monopoly on it) here’s what this toe-rag, con-trick mob are up to in my area. The week after one of their councillors blighted our street by erecting a ludicrous flag pole in front garden.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Reform UK likely to raise council tax in Kent despite promise to cut costs

Kent becomes latest local authority controlled by Nigel Farage’s party to signal intention to raise council tax

www.theguardian.com

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Alex Renton @axrenton.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you @alanlester.bsky.social for keeping eye on the mad, racist right-wing media so we don't have to.

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Christian @ceebarnacles.bsky.social · 10d

Not on its own it isn’t

Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 10d

Zack Polanski turned up as a surprise speaker at the packed Greens Organise party last night - the year-old left wing internal group, many of whose members helped propel him to victory.

He said: "You can see that fascism is on the creep in this country. The Green Party is the antidote to that."

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Christian @ceebarnacles.bsky.social · 10d

“Did he get the milk?”

Kent and Surrey Bylines @kentandsurreybylines.co.uk · 10d

A mum received a call from a shop security officer: her 17-year-old son had been caught shoplifting. What to do, she asks? | Charlotte Mbali

My teenage son was caught shoplifting

A mum received a call from a shop security officer: her 17-year-old son had been caught shoplifting. What to do, she asks?

kentandsurreybylines.co.uk

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Christian @ceebarnacles.bsky.social · 11d

An excellent, blistering exposition of the History Reclaimed & Nigel Biggar wagon wheel of British ‘history’ pressed through their culture wars mangle.
Having recently spoken with a flag-flying neighbour professing to be a ‘woman of faith’, Christian Nationalism is not abstract, but proselytising.

Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 11d

In the current issue of Ab Imperio: a defence of scholarly integrity against right wing historical propaganda:
Full text here:

alanlester.co.uk/blog/accusat...

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 12d

Like something from *The Boys*, except he’s not a fascist superhero, he’s just a fascist.

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 12d

In 1900, Black librarian Daniel Murray began a bibliography of works by Black Americans, his goal “to secure every book and pamphlet in existence, by a Negro Author”, exhibit them at the 1900 Paris Exposition, and then archive them at @LibraryCongress: publicdomainreview.org/collection/d...

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