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Hannah Scurfield-Grace
@theduchessss.bsky.social
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I can't believe we built this large pizza pie together. Music + human-centered tech design Save the arts and the planet. 🏳️‍🌈 Antiracist/facist/capitalist. 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans rights are human rights She/her📍UK My old show: https://www.mixcloud.com/JourneyIntoSpace
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 4d
AI: It’s The Sam Old Story

From the new Private Eye, out now.
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Hannah Scurfield-Grace @theduchessss.bsky.social · 20d
phillewis.bsky.social Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 20d
The USC Thornton School of Music has appointed Solange as the school’s first scholar in residence

She will she will teach a course on music curation, host student-focused workshops and more
Solange to build programming and teach course at USC Thornton School of Music
Grammy winner Solange Knowles is bringing her expertise to the USC Thornton School of Music, where she has been named the school's first all-school scholar in residence.
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Hannah Scurfield-Grace @theduchessss.bsky.social · 20d
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thequietus.com The Quietus @thequietus.com · 20d
R.I.P. D’Angelo

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Black and white photograph of D’Angelo
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Hannah Scurfield-Grace @theduchessss.bsky.social · 25d
Polling: too much of a bad thing
13sarahmurphy.bsky.social Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 25d
Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.
SHOCK POLL: NIGEL FARAGE WILL BE PM TOMORROW IN an amazing poll conducted by The Pointless Polling Company, it was revealed that voters' intentions may well change over the next three and a half years and at present it's 100 percent impossible to guess what the next government might look like. However, 99 percent of journalists agree that it would be much more fun if we had an election tomorrow and everybody resigned and everything was chaos and Farage had a go at being PM, just for the hell of it, because it was so much fun when Brexit happened and then the government kept falling every five minutes and we could write endless pieces about (cont. p94)
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Hannah Scurfield-Grace @theduchessss.bsky.social · Oct 1
Great no-nonsense write up shared here. Keep our NHS public and Human-centered.
cathobbs.bsky.social Cat Hobbs @cathobbs.bsky.social · Oct 1
Labour's manifesto promised "the NHS will always be publicly owned and publicly funded" 🏥

Rachel Reeves is considering breaking that promise with new PFI 💔

But 30 Labour MPs have confirmed they stand by the promise ❤️

Brilliant Mirror coverage thanks to @martinbagot.bsky.social 👇
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Risa Brooks @risabrooks12.bsky.social · Sep 30
It's easy to see this speech as just weirdly performative, but there's a lot more—and a lot worse—going on here.

The meeting & speeches are part of a larger project aimed at promoting the military leadership’s partisan alignment with the administration.

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atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 30
Hegseth: "If the words I'm speaking today are making your heart sink, they you should do the honorable thing and resign."
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Hannah Scurfield-Grace @theduchessss.bsky.social · Sep 28
I'd love to have a efficient, user-friendly digital ID card like Sweden but it would need to be similarly decentralized and we need robust restrictions on the usage of our data. How do they expect us to trust a state cosying up to the likes of Palantir and repeatedly misusing private data?
goodlawproject.org Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · Sep 26
One of the unexpected things I've learned from my advocacy for trans people is how malignant parts of the State can be, how it can misuse data for positively evil purposes. It's taught me people can't be safe with a digital ID card and so I've signed this. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards
We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards. There are reports that this is being looked at.
petition.parliament.uk
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Hannah Scurfield-Grace @theduchessss.bsky.social · Sep 25
Dancefloor filler

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Hannah Scurfield-Grace @theduchessss.bsky.social · Sep 25
Every new labour policy sounds like the first thing they wrote on the whiteboard in the ideas workshop.
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Hannah Scurfield-Grace @theduchessss.bsky.social · Sep 22
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · Sep 22
It's party conference season. We thought it was time to see where each party stands on public ownership. 🔎

Some of the results might surprise you!

Check out our full Public Ownership Party Scorecard via link in comments below👇
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Hannah Scurfield-Grace @theduchessss.bsky.social · Sep 17
"Hope you find your paradise..."

I just got back from a camping trip to find that Rick Davis has passed away. It was his voice, piano playing and funk and blues influences that made Supertramp one of my favorite 70s rock groups.
A photo of a young Rick Davis in a T-shirt and jeans, sat at an ornate piano looking over his right shoulder off camera. A photo of young Rick Davis wearing a shirt and jeans, singing with his eyes closed while playing a keyboard with keyboards all around him. A picture of a middle aged Rick Davis wearing a black suit and white shirt, sitting in a velvet armchair and looking into the camera while holding his hands up in front of his shoulders as if he is playing the piano.
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Hannah Scurfield-Grace @theduchessss.bsky.social · Sep 16
Hack the planet!
lookitup.baby Ian Coldwater 📦💥 @lookitup.baby · Sep 15
Today is the 30th anniversary of Hackers
the cast of Hackers (1995) posing in a series of adjacent phone booths
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Not In Our Name (NION) Women @nionwomen.bsky.social · Sep 16
The statement in the image is one line taken from our letter - 'Not In Our Name: Women in support of the trans+ community'.

If you agree, read and sign our letter and stand alongside 42K+ other likeminded women in the UK who refuse to be used as cover for discrimination:

👉 change.org/nion_women
We see politicians weaponising fear about trans+ people to avoid addressing the systemic issue that actually endanger women. Not in our name. NION icon
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Hannah Scurfield-Grace @theduchessss.bsky.social · Aug 25
What a lucky feline he was ❤️ sending love ❤️
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · Aug 20
"Rupert Lowe, Nigel Farage, Robert Jenrick & their cast of other reckless, self-serving bigots are helping to stir up the very sort of thuggish men who now march and loiter on Britain’s streets, claiming they are there to ‘protect our women’"
via Coral Fineman
www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...
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Hannah Scurfield-Grace @theduchessss.bsky.social · Aug 20
A great track that has pride of place in my Halloween crate
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Hannah Scurfield-Grace @theduchessss.bsky.social · Aug 11
I once excitedly lent The Cyberiad to a friend who had studied philosophy and they returned it to me unread saying it wasn't for them. I think that was an early lesson in "everyone doesn't think like you".
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Hannah Scurfield-Grace @theduchessss.bsky.social · Aug 11
The Cyberiad and Solaris were my favorite books as a teen. I think Lem was one of the reasons I went on to study human behavior. I learnt about the fallibility of humans and our poor systems thinking, societal constructs and destructive colonialism. He showed us protest through art. Proud weirdo!
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Hannah Scurfield-Grace @theduchessss.bsky.social · Aug 3
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jennaonthenet.bsky.social Jenna @jennaonthenet.bsky.social · Aug 2
David Byrne came to my band’s show at a gay bar in Bed-Stuy and sang This Must Be The Place with us and I still haven’t processed it
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Hannah Scurfield-Grace @theduchessss.bsky.social · Aug 3
Love it! We call First Class the crumple zone.
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Hannah Scurfield-Grace @theduchessss.bsky.social · Aug 3
"The worlds of pop and rock owe a much greater debt to the classical canon than we realise.... from the experimentalism of Pierre Henry to The Beatles' 'Tomorrow Never Knows', from Stockhausen to Donna Summer's 'I Feel Love' and from Bruckner to Sonic Youth via Glenn Branca."
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Hannah Scurfield-Grace @theduchessss.bsky.social · Aug 2
Everybody is enjoying Brighton Pride 🌈❤️
A photo taken through a window of a black and white cat lying down with a rainbow tutu on.
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Hannah Scurfield-Grace @theduchessss.bsky.social · Jul 31
I played this to death!

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Hannah Scurfield-Grace @theduchessss.bsky.social · Jul 31
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