Hector
@hectormacinnes.bsky.social
Sound Art, Research and Socially Engaged Practice - PhD Student at CRiSAP - I'm from the Isle of Skye.
He/him
www.hectormacinnes.com
hec.macinnes@gmail.con
He/him
www.hectormacinnes.com
hec.macinnes@gmail.con
Me, defending a PhD chapter draft: “my prose is floppy on purpose so as to remain ungovernable”…
September 8, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Me, defending a PhD chapter draft: “my prose is floppy on purpose so as to remain ungovernable”…
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This is vile. Local guy speaks to Sky News about the impact of asylum seekers protests. Watch what happens and share widely
September 3, 2025 at 10:33 PM
This is vile. Local guy speaks to Sky News about the impact of asylum seekers protests. Watch what happens and share widely
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"We didn't come here to listen to a load of stuff about famine and colonialism and genocide and being forced into exile, we came to hear some Irish folk songs!"
Our pals The Mary Wallopers have just been pulled off stage and the PA shut down at VictoriousFest in Portsmouth for taking out a 🇵🇸 flag and saying Free Palestine
Speak up against genocide in England and you're treated like a criminal
Up the Mary Wallopers 💚🤍🧡
Free Palestine!
Free the 6 counties!
Speak up against genocide in England and you're treated like a criminal
Up the Mary Wallopers 💚🤍🧡
Free Palestine!
Free the 6 counties!
August 22, 2025 at 6:16 PM
"We didn't come here to listen to a load of stuff about famine and colonialism and genocide and being forced into exile, we came to hear some Irish folk songs!"
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I’ve mulled over posting this for months now. But yesterday it came to a head. And I’m aware that the people who need to see it will either not be here, or will suggest that I’m lying.
I live near an asylum hotel. The reason I didn’t post earlier is that I didn’t want to raise undue attention
I live near an asylum hotel. The reason I didn’t post earlier is that I didn’t want to raise undue attention
August 16, 2025 at 9:17 AM
I’ve mulled over posting this for months now. But yesterday it came to a head. And I’m aware that the people who need to see it will either not be here, or will suggest that I’m lying.
I live near an asylum hotel. The reason I didn’t post earlier is that I didn’t want to raise undue attention
I live near an asylum hotel. The reason I didn’t post earlier is that I didn’t want to raise undue attention
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Hang on, I thought AI’s were going to create unfathomably riches for everyone involved?! Beyond the dreams of avarice?! And they can’t get someone to invest and help them remunerate copyright holders? Weird.
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified
Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.
arstechnica.com
August 9, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Hang on, I thought AI’s were going to create unfathomably riches for everyone involved?! Beyond the dreams of avarice?! And they can’t get someone to invest and help them remunerate copyright holders? Weird.
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
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They're arresting 90 year olds for holding placards on the same day that the leader of a political party is proudly doing Nazi salutes
What has become of this country? 🇬🇧😥
What has become of this country? 🇬🇧😥
August 9, 2025 at 3:25 PM
They're arresting 90 year olds for holding placards on the same day that the leader of a political party is proudly doing Nazi salutes
What has become of this country? 🇬🇧😥
What has become of this country? 🇬🇧😥
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Absolutely surreal to have lived through the Napster days and watched as the titans of industry moved hell and high water to lock down any possible chance that someone's song might get swapped online without giving the studios a cut and now those same people are just like "well we gotta steal music"
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
May 26, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Absolutely surreal to have lived through the Napster days and watched as the titans of industry moved hell and high water to lock down any possible chance that someone's song might get swapped online without giving the studios a cut and now those same people are just like "well we gotta steal music"
Some news from Wick: last weekend we held the first public sharing of the Toll project, an exploration of the impact of COVID on the Highlands, through an archive of inscribed hand bells. Here we see David Snoo Wilson revealing the final bell of the project, cast from Bronze on the harbour front.
March 3, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Some news from Wick: last weekend we held the first public sharing of the Toll project, an exploration of the impact of COVID on the Highlands, through an archive of inscribed hand bells. Here we see David Snoo Wilson revealing the final bell of the project, cast from Bronze on the harbour front.
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On the carpets of Glasgow's Mitchell Library — "like an alternative bibliography of Glasgow’s industrial past, or like artefacts holding tactile logics and languages of their own" — and the historical threads linking textiles and texts vestoj.com/magic-carpet...
November 23, 2023 at 5:33 AM
On the carpets of Glasgow's Mitchell Library — "like an alternative bibliography of Glasgow’s industrial past, or like artefacts holding tactile logics and languages of their own" — and the historical threads linking textiles and texts vestoj.com/magic-carpet...
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Today I am marking my almost-return from covid by learning about Stooky Bill. #stookybill #ventriloquism #tv
November 16, 2023 at 9:46 PM
Today I am marking my almost-return from covid by learning about Stooky Bill. #stookybill #ventriloquism #tv
Today I am marking my almost-return from covid by learning about Stooky Bill. #stookybill #ventriloquism #tv
November 16, 2023 at 9:46 PM
Today I am marking my almost-return from covid by learning about Stooky Bill. #stookybill #ventriloquism #tv
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"We're on the fourth floor, there's a sniper who attacked four patients inside the hospital. One of them has a gunshot wound directly in his neck, and he is a quadriplegic patient, and the other one was shot in the abdomen."
Dr Mohammed Obeid in Al-Shifa hospital Gaza.
We need a ceasefire now.
Dr Mohammed Obeid in Al-Shifa hospital Gaza.
We need a ceasefire now.
November 11, 2023 at 9:03 PM
"We're on the fourth floor, there's a sniper who attacked four patients inside the hospital. One of them has a gunshot wound directly in his neck, and he is a quadriplegic patient, and the other one was shot in the abdomen."
Dr Mohammed Obeid in Al-Shifa hospital Gaza.
We need a ceasefire now.
Dr Mohammed Obeid in Al-Shifa hospital Gaza.
We need a ceasefire now.
Had a truly inspiring day yesterday exploring the Grief Series retrospective in Leeds… also loved the journey towards the last word on this “in memory of” card. It tells you everything a beginner needs to know about the north of England.
November 5, 2023 at 9:02 AM
Had a truly inspiring day yesterday exploring the Grief Series retrospective in Leeds… also loved the journey towards the last word on this “in memory of” card. It tells you everything a beginner needs to know about the north of England.
Anyone on here in Glasgow today? If so, do pop into the Lighthouse for the #glasgowprintfair and say hi to linoleum goddess Philippa C Thomas! It’s open til 5.30 I think and rammed with other treats as well.
November 4, 2023 at 11:10 AM
Anyone on here in Glasgow today? If so, do pop into the Lighthouse for the #glasgowprintfair and say hi to linoleum goddess Philippa C Thomas! It’s open til 5.30 I think and rammed with other treats as well.
My girlfriend’s “spirit pumpkin”….
October 31, 2023 at 9:33 PM
My girlfriend’s “spirit pumpkin”….
Some near misses on Traigh Ostaig, autumn ‘23.
October 31, 2023 at 7:13 AM
Some near misses on Traigh Ostaig, autumn ‘23.