AAPiccini
angelapiccini.bsky.social
AAPiccini
@angelapiccini.bsky.social
Educator, artist, writer. Stuff & the troubles of belonging. Views my own. https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/staff/angela-piccini Also @BureauButch @37Looe
World Day for Audiovisual Heritage. Material media for repairing worlds? www.unesco.org/en/days/audi...
World Day for Audiovisual Heritage 2025
27 October
www.unesco.org
October 27, 2025 at 7:25 AM
International Home Movie Day. 11am-3pm. Sat, 18 Oct 2025. The Box, Plymouth. This year's theme: Lesbians in the Attic! Help us to show hidden histories and (maybe) add to the archive!
October 14, 2025 at 8:10 AM
INTERNATIONAL HOME MOVIE DAY
18.10.2025
11.00-15.00
THE BOX
Free event!

www.linkedin.com/posts/angela... Are there lesbians in your attic? Come to The Box for International Home Movie Day to celebrate Plymouth’s lesbian past and present! www.centerforhomemovies.org/hmd/
[Img: CND protest © The Box]
October 7, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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“Sesame Street” and its sequel, “The Electric Company,” were, “with lapses, the most intelligent and important programs in television,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.
The Invention of “Sesame Street”
Renata Adler’s 1972 review of the program that revolutionized children’s television.
www.newyorker.com
July 31, 2025 at 12:08 AM
@gwr.com On the 10.03 pm LDN to BRS TM, w/ my nearly 80-yr-old mother-in-law. It's really busy. We know how British trains can't cope. But we've travelled by train today a long way through Europe - she's tired. Business men not giving up seats. Can we please shame then into action via the tannoy?
July 10, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Gullfest is back! 30 May-1 June. Visual art, performance, moving image, music, creative writing, workshops, rituals, processions and tarot readings. 37 Looe Street gallery + Almanac Cafe, Plymouth. Opens @ 6pm, Friday, 30 May @ Looe Street 37looestreet.org Follow on Insta @gullfestplymouth
May 28, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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"It is shameful that university cuts have become so severe under a Labour government that our union is now laying the ground for a trade union dispute with the education secretary." @drjogrady.bsky.social

www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ucu-thr...

#ProtectEducationNow #StopTheCuts #ucu2025
UCU threatens government with national strike over HE funding
UK’s biggest academic union eyes showdown with Labour minister as it tries to respond to wave of university cuts
www.timeshighereducation.com
May 26, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Wonderful PhD students have started this petition www.change.org/p/stop-the-c... 10,000 people will lose their UK HE jobs this year. Thousands more in other sectors. This level of brute-force joblessness is what causes us to be strangers, Keir Starmer - not immigrants @teamlabouruk.bsky.social
Sign the Petition
Stop the cuts to Arts, Design & Architecture courses at University of Plymouth
www.change.org
May 15, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Being back in Vancouver for just 1 day reminds me why Starmer's 'island of strangers' comment is so awful. I grew up in an imperfect city, but it's a city & country that celebrates its diversity. The UK fails to see immigration as a positive part of its identity. It could so easily do otherwise
May 13, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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“If Labour acts like Reform-light, universities could go under." @drjogrady.bsky.social

Over 10,000 jobs are at risk and international student numbers are under threat from short-sighted immigration policy.

Staff are rallying in London this Saturday to #ProtectEducation
bit.ly/3Sfq2jz
Universities under 'severe financial stress', says UCU in response to HESA and OfS data
The University and College Union (UCU) has today responded to the publication of data from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) and Office for Students (OfS).
bit.ly
May 8, 2025 at 11:37 AM
In all the tumult, North of North is making me happy en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_o...
North of North - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
April 30, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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"We’re building a biomatter-powered low-cost webserver... This design will focus on low-carbon approaches to webdesign, reducing computational load, bypassing data center architectures, and experimenting with new graphical formats and protocols to create a form of web design minimalism..."
#15: Critical Climate Computing
A brief introduction to a new research group I've co-founded at UAL for critical practice at the intersection between technological and climate crises.
wesleygoatley.substack.com
April 21, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Finally made it to The Story of Emily thestoryofemily.com. Cornish activist Emily Hobhouse reported on the horrors of the British concentration camps used in the Boer wars. This starvation-as terror-technology inspired Hitler and is now echoed in Gaza, ICE detention centres and so on 1/2
the story of Emily
Emily Hobhouse was an extraordinary Cornish woman, who challenged the social norms of her time, to advocate for the welfare of others. Step back in time to 1875 and explore the Victorian world of the ...
thestoryofemily.com
April 12, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Wearing my CBC socks to cast postal vote in the Canadian federal election. Bristol>Ottawa. Mood = Lauren Berlant's cruel optimism rather than hope
April 9, 2025 at 6:38 PM
When I saw Star Wars trending on the other site I thought that it was being banned by the Americans for being Antifa
March 31, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Brilliant 3 days in Maastricht! Sefryn Penrose and I (ButCH - Bureau for the Contemporary and Historic) honoured to have been invited to present Swan Out at Regenerate janvaneyck.nl/calendar/mac.... Thanks to Claartje Rasterhoff and Christian Ernsten for being such wonderful hosts!
March 22, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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ButCH, Bureau for the Contemporary and Historic: Investigating Arts and Heritage since 2019.
We love finding bridges
March 14, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Forget the anthropocene and the pyrocene, we're now in the evilfathercene. Maybe darthocene, but that makes all those awful, crazy rich men sound way cooler than they are
March 9, 2025 at 7:29 PM
So telling that at the same time as UK universities are all gunning for 'future curricula' focused on digital media, film, TV, games, the bottom of the job market is falling out www.theguardian.com/media/2025/m.... Maybe the future is analog?
Senior TV producers take shelf-stacking jobs as UK industry remains in crisis
Experienced figures doing entry-level roles amid prolonged work drought since Covid and rise of online content
www.theguardian.com
March 7, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Alanis Obamsawin's Kahnesatake: 270 Years of Resistance. More recent history of the complexity of colonial borders & land grab of Indigenous territories. Here, both Canada & the US are the bad guys - always useful to be reminded www.nfb.ca/film/kanehsa...
Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance
In July 1990, a dispute over a proposed golf course to be built on Kanien’kéhaka (Mohawk) lands in Oka, Quebec, set the stage for a historic confrontation that …
www.nfb.ca
March 6, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Wondering why @fcdoinclusion.bsky.social pages for LGBTQ+ and women travellers haven't been updated since 2023 www.gov.uk/guidance/les... www.gov.uk/guidance/adv... and disability since 2019 www.gov.uk/government/p.... Current situation in US especially concerning?
Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender: foreign travel advice
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) advice for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT+) people travelling abroad.
www.gov.uk
March 6, 2025 at 9:13 AM