Very Terry 🔥
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Publisher. Of books - critical/creative/cultural management and the like. Once known as @RoutledgeEditor on the other place. From Southport to London, via Cardiff. YNWA.
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· Sep 18
What's that? You'd prefer a one page visualisation of what an academic & professional publisher needs to see in your book proposal? Here's one I made earlier.
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It's rare that a neologism lands so fully-formed you wonder why it didn't exist sooner but here we are:
Gone down a weird rabbithole with far-right Facebook slopaganda* about celebrities cancelling things as a result of the New York election result.
*I just invented this word: AI-generated disinformation content pumped onto social media by right-wing think tanks, and "slopaganda" was right there.
*I just invented this word: AI-generated disinformation content pumped onto social media by right-wing think tanks, and "slopaganda" was right there.
November 17, 2025 at 2:08 PM
It's rare that a neologism lands so fully-formed you wonder why it didn't exist sooner but here we are:
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I'll be honest, one of the easier ways to not be perceived as racist is to not stand with a party that is openly doing incredibly racist things.
November 17, 2025 at 12:23 PM
I'll be honest, one of the easier ways to not be perceived as racist is to not stand with a party that is openly doing incredibly racist things.
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It is a serious problem for our political discourse that the most consistently astute commentator in the country is someone posting anonymously on social media behind a rat avatar.
June 2016 here. Do you notice how this has been proven correct: there really is no way to appease the reactionary right, who take every concession to their fucknut demands as a new base camp to strike out for more and nastier?
November 17, 2025 at 11:39 AM
It is a serious problem for our political discourse that the most consistently astute commentator in the country is someone posting anonymously on social media behind a rat avatar.
The long history of hostile environment policies - endless failure that nevertheless itself migrates into new territories beyond migration.
Mahmoud has listened to same clique of senior Home Office officials who have advised for 30+ years that loud announcements of punitive policies will deter refugees from coming to UK to seek asylum.
Labour did this extensively last time. It didn’t work.
A history thread. +
Labour did this extensively last time. It didn’t work.
A history thread. +
November 17, 2025 at 1:10 PM
The long history of hostile environment policies - endless failure that nevertheless itself migrates into new territories beyond migration.
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The way Labour are talking about migrants validates far right narratives of dehumanisation *at a time of far right riots and racist violence*. The leadership group responsible needs to be removed right now as a matter of public safety. This is simply a factual description of the situation before us.
Honestly, the potential case for getting rid of Starmer before was the lack of any political project and absence of charisma. But now No.10 is creating a moral imperative for the PLP to act as well.
November 17, 2025 at 11:29 AM
The way Labour are talking about migrants validates far right narratives of dehumanisation *at a time of far right riots and racist violence*. The leadership group responsible needs to be removed right now as a matter of public safety. This is simply a factual description of the situation before us.
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Massively impractical, a death trap and its mere existence is costing £81 million a year. Turn it into a museum or a hotel or something and move parliament somewhere more central in the nation, everybody's life will be better.
A final decision on how to repair Britain’s crumbling parliament is likely to be postponed beyond the next general election, according to four people familiar with the matter.
Final decision on fate of crumbling UK parliament delayed to 2030s
It’s a fire-hazard that’s prone to tumbling masonry — but fear of a public backlash is again delaying repairs to the world famous building.
www.politico.eu
November 16, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Massively impractical, a death trap and its mere existence is costing £81 million a year. Turn it into a museum or a hotel or something and move parliament somewhere more central in the nation, everybody's life will be better.
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props to WSJ for once on a useful notion, ADMIN PARTY for everybody
November 15, 2025 at 2:11 PM
props to WSJ for once on a useful notion, ADMIN PARTY for everybody
"students aren’t failing at friendship, the system is failing at social architecture."
This week on Wonkhe: Amid rising reports of student loneliness, Mack Marshall explores how UK universities are failing to design for connection - and why social isolation is no longer just a pastoral issue but a structural one
The one where they still don't have any friends
Amid rising reports of student loneliness, Mack Marshall explores how UK universities are failing to design for connection - and why social isolation is no longer just a pastoral issue but a structural...
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November 15, 2025 at 10:32 AM
"students aren’t failing at friendship, the system is failing at social architecture."
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![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiayqa37f7kik7l7s7fbtfp2sir5ckb662ry2lylinyjrfa2rkvvka@jpeg)
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Is AI making job recruitment less meritocratic? We're getting some v interesting research studies on this question now, and the news is... not good. @jburnmurdoch.ft.com & I dive in, in the latest edition of our newsletter The AI Shift www.ft.com/content/e5b7...
November 14, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Is AI making job recruitment less meritocratic? We're getting some v interesting research studies on this question now, and the news is... not good. @jburnmurdoch.ft.com & I dive in, in the latest edition of our newsletter The AI Shift www.ft.com/content/e5b7...
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(living in a country where the most successful people are obscenely rich and shameless perverts and psychopaths) Time to teach my children to be honest and study hard in school
December 26, 2024 at 8:45 PM
(living in a country where the most successful people are obscenely rich and shameless perverts and psychopaths) Time to teach my children to be honest and study hard in school
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📕NEW BOOK📕
AI in the Cultural and Creative Sectors
Eds: Marta Massi, Marek Prokůpek, Alessandra Ricci & Maria Carmela Ostillio
"Extremely rich ... [with] detailed insights into creative and cultural organisations in theory and practice." @mcbfranklin.bsky.social
www.routledge.com/Artificial-I...
AI in the Cultural and Creative Sectors
Eds: Marta Massi, Marek Prokůpek, Alessandra Ricci & Maria Carmela Ostillio
"Extremely rich ... [with] detailed insights into creative and cultural organisations in theory and practice." @mcbfranklin.bsky.social
www.routledge.com/Artificial-I...
November 13, 2025 at 4:00 PM
📕NEW BOOK📕
AI in the Cultural and Creative Sectors
Eds: Marta Massi, Marek Prokůpek, Alessandra Ricci & Maria Carmela Ostillio
"Extremely rich ... [with] detailed insights into creative and cultural organisations in theory and practice." @mcbfranklin.bsky.social
www.routledge.com/Artificial-I...
AI in the Cultural and Creative Sectors
Eds: Marta Massi, Marek Prokůpek, Alessandra Ricci & Maria Carmela Ostillio
"Extremely rich ... [with] detailed insights into creative and cultural organisations in theory and practice." @mcbfranklin.bsky.social
www.routledge.com/Artificial-I...
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The full scandal of Maitlis, Barnes & Cohen at newsnight is gobsmacking. Theyre responsible for so much harm. Details, including multiple articles of proof, here: bsky.app/profile/mimm...
Emily Maitlis brags about her, Deb Cohen, and Hannah Barnes getting the Tavistock GIDS service shut down.
What she doesn't talk about is how Newsnight journalists manufactured outrage and concocted "scandals" based on unethical journalism - which they were called out for, but tried to hide...
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What she doesn't talk about is how Newsnight journalists manufactured outrage and concocted "scandals" based on unethical journalism - which they were called out for, but tried to hide...
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Emily Maitlis admitting she worked at the bbc to try and get healthcare for trans people shut down
November 11, 2025 at 4:16 PM
The full scandal of Maitlis, Barnes & Cohen at newsnight is gobsmacking. Theyre responsible for so much harm. Details, including multiple articles of proof, here: bsky.app/profile/mimm...
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A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule
November 10, 2025 at 11:53 PM
A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule
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Right. I’m not paying a licence fee to see BBC News become even more like Fox News to 1.2 billion page visits a month. if they are going to be captured by fascists they can do it commercially. Being very charitable they can spin off BBC News and sell it and we keep radio 4 and Songs of praise
Personally I'd be pleased to see BBC News disappear entirely. To argue, as many do, that British politics or our news environment would be so much worse without the BBC you have to explain why British politics and news environment is so very bad with the BBC.
November 11, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Right. I’m not paying a licence fee to see BBC News become even more like Fox News to 1.2 billion page visits a month. if they are going to be captured by fascists they can do it commercially. Being very charitable they can spin off BBC News and sell it and we keep radio 4 and Songs of praise
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What's fascinating here is that as she rhymes off the list of gender critical people at Newsnight pursuing an explicitly gender critical agenda, in the context of a discussion of ideological capture at the BBC, she doesn't recognise that she was part of the ideological capture of the BBC by GCs.
Emily Maitlis admitting she worked at the bbc to try and get healthcare for trans people shut down
November 11, 2025 at 7:52 AM
What's fascinating here is that as she rhymes off the list of gender critical people at Newsnight pursuing an explicitly gender critical agenda, in the context of a discussion of ideological capture at the BBC, she doesn't recognise that she was part of the ideological capture of the BBC by GCs.
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Resign
AI chatbots could help stop prisoner release errors, says justice minister
AI chatbots could help stop prisoner release errors, says justice minister
HMP Wandsworth gets ‘green light’ to use AI after team sent in to find ‘quick fixes’ after spate of mistakes
Artificial intelligence chatbots could be used to stop prisoners from being mistakenly released from jail, a justice minister told the House of Lords on Monday.
Lord Timpson said HMP Wandsworth had been given the “green light” to use artificial intelligence (AI) after a specialised team was sent in to find “some quick fixes”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Resign
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“This thing is definitely bad for us but no one can say what it is”
The evidence that ultra-processed foods are bad for us is piling up. But efforts to reduce their role in our diets face a big hurdle: experts can't agree on what they are and which to target. n.pr/4qMrN7P
People want to avoid ultra-processed foods. But experts struggle to define them
The evidence that ultra-processed foods are bad for us is piling up. But efforts to reduce their role in our diets face a big hurdle: experts can't agree on what they are and which to target.
n.pr
November 10, 2025 at 7:52 PM
“This thing is definitely bad for us but no one can say what it is”
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Sure, though for the past 3 decades (?) the idea of a national culture has p much been undermined by successive governments : cuts to arts funding, walling off access to creative industries to the richest in society, making the UK incredibly difficult to be a creative worker etc.
I reckon a shared national popular culture is just as important (if not more important) than a fact based, impartial news service for liberal democracy to work.
November 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Sure, though for the past 3 decades (?) the idea of a national culture has p much been undermined by successive governments : cuts to arts funding, walling off access to creative industries to the richest in society, making the UK incredibly difficult to be a creative worker etc.
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Farewell then Tim Davie. Under his watch the BBC whitewashed genocide, had the BBC News website resembling a “migrant crime” X account, boosted trans hate and the right wing STILL hate him. Quite an achievement
BREAKING: Tim Davie resigns as BBC's director-general - with CEO of BBC News also stepping down
news.sky.com/story/tim-da...
news.sky.com/story/tim-da...
Tim Davie resigns as BBC's director-general - with CEO of BBC News also stepping down
Tim Davie has resigned as the BBC's director-general.
news.sky.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Farewell then Tim Davie. Under his watch the BBC whitewashed genocide, had the BBC News website resembling a “migrant crime” X account, boosted trans hate and the right wing STILL hate him. Quite an achievement
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This might have been true 20 years ago. Unfortunately it is no longer the case. As the people whose actual memories of war have died, we've replaced sombre remembrance with fascist purity tests and crass celebrations of violence.
One of the most precious things about Remembrance is that it sets no political tests.
It asks only that we "remember", and that we do so in the silence of our own thoughts.
It doesn't dictate what we remember, how we remember or what lessons we draw.
That's between ourselves and our conscience.🧵
It asks only that we "remember", and that we do so in the silence of our own thoughts.
It doesn't dictate what we remember, how we remember or what lessons we draw.
That's between ourselves and our conscience.🧵
November 9, 2025 at 9:22 AM
This might have been true 20 years ago. Unfortunately it is no longer the case. As the people whose actual memories of war have died, we've replaced sombre remembrance with fascist purity tests and crass celebrations of violence.
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I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 8, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
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That’s a fantastic trailer.
youtu.be/8Y6yG4SgFew?...
youtu.be/8Y6yG4SgFew?...
DIE MY LOVE | Official Teaser Trailer | In Theaters November
YouTube video by MUBI
youtu.be
November 8, 2025 at 10:04 AM
That’s a fantastic trailer.
youtu.be/8Y6yG4SgFew?...
youtu.be/8Y6yG4SgFew?...