Mike Pinnington
@doublenegativem.bsky.social
Writer | Editor | Art Criticism | Exhibition Interpretation | Science Fiction | Class | Popular Culture | PhD student | Visiting Lecturer | Lapsed runner 🍉
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Every time this kind of thing comes round it's because the people saying this are remembering being kids and of course the world seems better when someone else is worrying about taking care of you and you can spend most of your time just riding bikes.
Ah the 1970s.
Stagflation, three day weeks, collapsing infrastructure. Civil War in Northern Ireland. In yer face racism and bigotry everywhere. Bin strikes. Strikes in general. Blackouts. Industrial decline. Wage inequality. Dog crap everywhere. And households spent 25% of their income on food.
Stagflation, three day weeks, collapsing infrastructure. Civil War in Northern Ireland. In yer face racism and bigotry everywhere. Bin strikes. Strikes in general. Blackouts. Industrial decline. Wage inequality. Dog crap everywhere. And households spent 25% of their income on food.
November 14, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Every time this kind of thing comes round it's because the people saying this are remembering being kids and of course the world seems better when someone else is worrying about taking care of you and you can spend most of your time just riding bikes.
Dark Academia - Pluto Press share.google/k7KQ9572o8Cu...
Dark Academia - Pluto Press
Bestselling author Peter Fleming uncovers the dark underbelly of the modern university to reveal cracks in the ivory tower
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November 13, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Dark Academia - Pluto Press share.google/k7KQ9572o8Cu...
First reasonable writing day in a while. On the city as palimpsest, cultural landscape & renewal - whether it takes - and all that good stuff. Finally feel as though I might be writing my way into the PhD ✍️
November 13, 2025 at 4:59 PM
First reasonable writing day in a while. On the city as palimpsest, cultural landscape & renewal - whether it takes - and all that good stuff. Finally feel as though I might be writing my way into the PhD ✍️
When Stereolab's lo boob oscillator comes on in the bar as you close your laptop and have a sip of a pint ▶️
a man with a beard and long blonde hair is holding a sword in a forest .
ALT: a man with a beard and long blonde hair is holding a sword in a forest .
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November 13, 2025 at 4:47 PM
When Stereolab's lo boob oscillator comes on in the bar as you close your laptop and have a sip of a pint ▶️
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Sloppers fuck off. If you can’t do it yourself maybe learn to be happy as the audience
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www.sonnyross.com/shop/aisucks
November 12, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Sloppers fuck off. If you can’t do it yourself maybe learn to be happy as the audience
www.sonnyross.com/shop/aisucks
www.sonnyross.com/shop/aisucks
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Reminder: If you use generative AI for *any of your writing tasks* you are a Slopper not a writer and should be ashamed of yourself. The end.
November 11, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Reminder: If you use generative AI for *any of your writing tasks* you are a Slopper not a writer and should be ashamed of yourself. The end.
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This has been true for at least 15 years, and honestly probably longer if you look at stuff like the festival of Britain vs the millennium dome, the absolute decay of channel 4 as an art broadcaster from around 2001, and JK fucking R being anointed our most celebrated writer.
November 12, 2025 at 1:25 PM
This has been true for at least 15 years, and honestly probably longer if you look at stuff like the festival of Britain vs the millennium dome, the absolute decay of channel 4 as an art broadcaster from around 2001, and JK fucking R being anointed our most celebrated writer.
I have a book proposal to write (among other things). Am obviously procrastinating! But then I remembered telling my students they can flip procrastination and think of it more like gestation/synthesis of ideas!
a cartoon of spongebob saying procrastination while eating a cookie
ALT: a cartoon of spongebob saying procrastination while eating a cookie
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November 12, 2025 at 11:36 AM
I have a book proposal to write (among other things). Am obviously procrastinating! But then I remembered telling my students they can flip procrastination and think of it more like gestation/synthesis of ideas!
‘I know I’m not going to please everyone’: Lucile Hadžihalilović on her beguiling film-making | Film | The Guardian share.google/kEpkwa4aeON3...
‘I know I’m not going to please everyone’: Lucile Hadžihalilović on her beguiling film-making
Story of Film director Mark Cousins talks to an emergent champion of slow-burn, surrealist cinema on the release of her debut English-language feature, Earwig
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November 11, 2025 at 9:40 PM
‘I know I’m not going to please everyone’: Lucile Hadžihalilović on her beguiling film-making | Film | The Guardian share.google/kEpkwa4aeON3...
The matter of fact hubris of certain of the contributors to this is, frankly, chilling...
BBC Two - Once Upon a Time in Space share.google/hbKkGpoQ1pKh...
BBC Two - Once Upon a Time in Space share.google/hbKkGpoQ1pKh...
BBC Two - Once Upon a Time in Space
The human story of space exploration.
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November 10, 2025 at 10:05 PM
The matter of fact hubris of certain of the contributors to this is, frankly, chilling...
BBC Two - Once Upon a Time in Space share.google/hbKkGpoQ1pKh...
BBC Two - Once Upon a Time in Space share.google/hbKkGpoQ1pKh...
Riot Women is great. Should be mandatory appointment viewing ▶️
Riot Women - BBC iPlayer share.google/w8dlXhIBOVNa...
Riot Women - BBC iPlayer share.google/w8dlXhIBOVNa...
Riot Women
No apologies - just noise. Five fierce women crank up the volume to get their voices heard. Sally Wainwright's riotous drama with Joanna Scanlan, Tamsin Greig and Rosalie Craig.
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November 10, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Riot Women is great. Should be mandatory appointment viewing ▶️
Riot Women - BBC iPlayer share.google/w8dlXhIBOVNa...
Riot Women - BBC iPlayer share.google/w8dlXhIBOVNa...
Seeing yet more ridiculous articles about so-called 'performative reading'. Let's stigmatise literacy, shall we!?
a cartoon of snoopy reading a book while woodstock looks on
ALT: a cartoon of snoopy reading a book while woodstock looks on
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November 9, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Seeing yet more ridiculous articles about so-called 'performative reading'. Let's stigmatise literacy, shall we!?
Giving feedback on students' halfway points of dissertations. A good crop with some v interesting ideas. Topics include: Welsh Cultural Identity; on the intersection/in the vicinity of art & music; male to female gaze in the graphic novel 👍
November 9, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Giving feedback on students' halfway points of dissertations. A good crop with some v interesting ideas. Topics include: Welsh Cultural Identity; on the intersection/in the vicinity of art & music; male to female gaze in the graphic novel 👍
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Breaking | Israeli occupation tanks opened heavy fire east of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip.
And they called it CEASEFIRE!!!!!!
And they called it CEASEFIRE!!!!!!
November 9, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Breaking | Israeli occupation tanks opened heavy fire east of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip.
And they called it CEASEFIRE!!!!!!
And they called it CEASEFIRE!!!!!!
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Siegfried Sassoon
November 9, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Siegfried Sassoon
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Good Morning Blue Sky! Hope you’re all ok? Today after being a little unwell I am planning to finish the excellent The Salt Oracle by Lorraine Wilson. What Are you reading at the moment?
November 9, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Good Morning Blue Sky! Hope you’re all ok? Today after being a little unwell I am planning to finish the excellent The Salt Oracle by Lorraine Wilson. What Are you reading at the moment?
Unlikely to top Gloria today - what an opening to a record! Exclamation mark fully warranted.
#pattismith #horses ▶️
BBC Radio 6 Music - Radcliffe and Maconie, Patti Smith Forever: Launching the 50th Anniversary of ‘Horses’ share.google/RNmT8ml1fs15...
#pattismith #horses ▶️
BBC Radio 6 Music - Radcliffe and Maconie, Patti Smith Forever: Launching the 50th Anniversary of ‘Horses’ share.google/RNmT8ml1fs15...
BBC Radio 6 Music - Radcliffe and Maconie, Patti Smith Forever: Launching the 50th Anniversary of ‘Horses’
Mark and Stuart launch 6 Music’s celebration of Patti Smith’s debut ‘Horses’ turning 50.
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November 9, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Unlikely to top Gloria today - what an opening to a record! Exclamation mark fully warranted.
#pattismith #horses ▶️
BBC Radio 6 Music - Radcliffe and Maconie, Patti Smith Forever: Launching the 50th Anniversary of ‘Horses’ share.google/RNmT8ml1fs15...
#pattismith #horses ▶️
BBC Radio 6 Music - Radcliffe and Maconie, Patti Smith Forever: Launching the 50th Anniversary of ‘Horses’ share.google/RNmT8ml1fs15...
People still employ Andy Townsend for football commentary duty? Honestly stunned.
November 5, 2025 at 11:21 PM
People still employ Andy Townsend for football commentary duty? Honestly stunned.
Just been to my undergrad library as a student for the first time in more than a quarter of a century.
November 5, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Just been to my undergrad library as a student for the first time in more than a quarter of a century.
Very much looking forward to watching @asifkapadia.bsky.social's Kenny Dalglish doc. A fitting director (Maradona, Senna) to take on the story of our greatest ever player 🎬⚽
November 4, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Very much looking forward to watching @asifkapadia.bsky.social's Kenny Dalglish doc. A fitting director (Maradona, Senna) to take on the story of our greatest ever player 🎬⚽
What happens, in psychogeographic terms, when a space with significant gravitational pull is removed - even if temporarily - from a city?
November 4, 2025 at 4:40 PM
What happens, in psychogeographic terms, when a space with significant gravitational pull is removed - even if temporarily - from a city?