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misterhayes.bsky.social
@misterhayes.bsky.social
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Middle-aged Hackney geeky-nerd type.
Freelance Picture Editor studying for an Art & Politics MA at Goldsmiths.
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misterhayes.bsky.social @misterhayes.bsky.social · May 1
For the past few weeks I have been working on a project counter-mapping queer men's use of public sexual environments - cottages and cruising gounds - between 1988 and 1993. Here's a blog post about it.

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#cottaging #cruising #queerhistory #countermapping #queerart
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💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · I have finally submitted this project. Initially, I was going to use this Tumblr to try out pieces of writing to go with the project, but I found the writing didn't present itself…
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samfr.bsky.social
Someone really needs to explain the Striesand Effect to the BBC. And also tell them to stop being so pathetic.
rutgerbregman.com Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman.com · 4d
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 10:00 AM
misterhayes.bsky.social
I’m not always #wato Sarah Montague’s biggest fan, but her interview with Sebastian Gorka was a masterclass in allowing an interviewee to expose their bigotry and arrogance through their own words. I’m not certain what the point of interviewing him was as he has form www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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May 13, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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It really speaks volumes about our national conversation about higher education that columnists at our once-serious newspapers don't seem to understand that before we write things down, our jobs are to discover things. We're not just vomiting out our half-baked opinions after lunch like those pricks
But there is research to do. And here comes one of the biggest gripes, the Research Excellence Framework. Departments in receipt of public funds are required to submit around 2.5 "outputs" - be they books or, more commonly, journal articles - per member of academic staff every six or seven years. This is so that universities can be ranked against their peers. The next one is due in 2029. So our hard done by professor has to write three articles every six years. OK, they also have to find a journal to publish them. This is the hard part but the requirement is not exactly onerous. If said professor is toiling away in the humanities or social sciences and their particular shtick is theory with little need for actual research, they should probably be able to bosh out each 3,000 to 5,000 or so word essay over, say, four mornings with another added to fine tune the footnotes. Anyone who has dipped into social science journals will know the trick here is to master a suitably portentous style, sprinkling in all the right buzzwords. But as with a foreign language, once learnt it is not easily forgotten. So our social science prof can set aside three leisurely weeks for writing the required screeds and another three for submitting them - and their research work is done for another six years. Most academics work much harder than this, but they do this out of choice. They are not required to do so.
May 5, 2025 at 9:02 AM
misterhayes.bsky.social
For the past few weeks I have been working on a project counter-mapping queer men's use of public sexual environments - cottages and cruising gounds - between 1988 and 1993. Here's a blog post about it.

www.tumblr.com/countermappi...

#cottaging #cruising #queerhistory #countermapping #queerart
Post by @countermappingdesires · 13 images
💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · I have finally submitted this project. Initially, I was going to use this Tumblr to try out pieces of writing to go with the project, but I found the writing didn't present itself…
www.tumblr.com
May 1, 2025 at 2:40 PM
misterhayes.bsky.social
Ok. Here now. What do I do next??? Answers,as ever, on a postcard…
August 26, 2024 at 9:11 PM