Hannah Scurfield-Grace
@theduchessss.bsky.social
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
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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Cyndi Lauper will be officially inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame class of 2025 during tomorrow evening's ceremony!
Please join us in congratulating her on this well-earned recognition + explore more here: album.ink/CyndiLauper
Please join us in congratulating her on this well-earned recognition + explore more here: album.ink/CyndiLauper
November 7, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Cyndi Lauper will be officially inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame class of 2025 during tomorrow evening's ceremony!
Please join us in congratulating her on this well-earned recognition + explore more here: album.ink/CyndiLauper
Please join us in congratulating her on this well-earned recognition + explore more here: album.ink/CyndiLauper
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AI: It’s The Sam Old Story
From the new Private Eye, out now.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
October 30, 2025 at 5:19 PM
AI: It’s The Sam Old Story
From the new Private Eye, out now.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
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
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.
www.latimes.com
October 14, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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October 14, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Polling: too much of a bad thing
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.
October 10, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Polling: too much of a bad thing
Great no-nonsense write up shared here. Keep our NHS public and Human-centered.
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 👇
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 👇
October 1, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Great no-nonsense write up shared here. Keep our NHS public and Human-centered.
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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.
How? 1/
The meeting & speeches are part of a larger project aimed at promoting the military leadership’s partisan alignment with the administration.
How? 1/
Hegseth: "If the words I'm speaking today are making your heart sink, they you should do the honorable thing and resign."
September 30, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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.
How? 1/
The meeting & speeches are part of a larger project aimed at promoting the military leadership’s partisan alignment with the administration.
How? 1/
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?
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
September 28, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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?
September 25, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Every new labour policy sounds like the first thing they wrote on the whiteboard in the ideas workshop.
All his solutions are “FULL STATE SURVEILLANCE” and it’s dumb and sucks.
Bet AI bros have their filthy hands in this somewhere
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Bet AI bros have their filthy hands in this somewhere
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Keir Starmer expected to announce plans for digital ID cards
Measure could be announced as soon as Friday as government looks for ways to tackle illegal immigration to the UK
www.theguardian.com
September 25, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Every new labour policy sounds like the first thing they wrote on the whiteboard in the ideas workshop.
September 22, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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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👇
Some of the results might surprise you!
Check out our full Public Ownership Party Scorecard via link in comments below👇
September 22, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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👇
Some of the results might surprise you!
Check out our full Public Ownership Party Scorecard via link in comments below👇
"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.
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.
September 17, 2025 at 9:29 AM
"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.
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.
Hack the planet!
September 16, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Hack the planet!
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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
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
September 16, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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
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
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"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...
via Coral Fineman
www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...
August 20, 2025 at 9:59 AM
"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...
via Coral Fineman
www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...
A great track that has pride of place in my Halloween crate
August 20, 2025 at 8:06 AM
A great track that has pride of place in my Halloween crate
❤️🎶
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
August 3, 2025 at 2:37 PM
❤️🎶
"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."
Well this looks fascinating www.faber.co.uk/product/9780...
August 3, 2025 at 12:18 PM
"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."
Everybody is enjoying Brighton Pride 🌈❤️
August 2, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Everybody is enjoying Brighton Pride 🌈❤️
July 31, 2025 at 3:34 PM
July 31, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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Britain has a corruption problem.
"MPs [with 2nd jobs] ask significantly more parliamentary questions. The avg Tory MP asks a median of 2 Qs a year, but this rises to 19 when holding a second job. The largest increase was with those working in the for-profit 'knowledge sector' (avg. 26 questions)"
"MPs [with 2nd jobs] ask significantly more parliamentary questions. The avg Tory MP asks a median of 2 Qs a year, but this rises to 19 when holding a second job. The largest increase was with those working in the for-profit 'knowledge sector' (avg. 26 questions)"
WhoFundsThem: Literature Review
Summary of existing research and polling on MPs interests
research.mysociety.org
July 31, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Britain has a corruption problem.
"MPs [with 2nd jobs] ask significantly more parliamentary questions. The avg Tory MP asks a median of 2 Qs a year, but this rises to 19 when holding a second job. The largest increase was with those working in the for-profit 'knowledge sector' (avg. 26 questions)"
"MPs [with 2nd jobs] ask significantly more parliamentary questions. The avg Tory MP asks a median of 2 Qs a year, but this rises to 19 when holding a second job. The largest increase was with those working in the for-profit 'knowledge sector' (avg. 26 questions)"
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Ah, I see. Remember Marc Cuban talking about using AI to “speed up” Medicaid claims? It’s from a cultural group’s talking point memo:
www.technologyreview.com/2025/06/11/1...
www.technologyreview.com/2025/06/11/1...
Inside Amsterdam’s high-stakes experiment to create fair welfare AI
The Dutch city thought it could break a decade-long trend of implementing discriminatory algorithms. Its failure raises the question: can these programs ever be fair?
www.technologyreview.com
July 30, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Ah, I see. Remember Marc Cuban talking about using AI to “speed up” Medicaid claims? It’s from a cultural group’s talking point memo:
www.technologyreview.com/2025/06/11/1...
www.technologyreview.com/2025/06/11/1...
The sun is shining and lots of beautiful people are out celebrating Trans Pride Brighton 💙🩷🤍🩷💙 @transpridebrighton.bsky.social
July 19, 2025 at 5:46 PM
The sun is shining and lots of beautiful people are out celebrating Trans Pride Brighton 💙🩷🤍🩷💙 @transpridebrighton.bsky.social