Hanna Chalmers
@specialhan.bsky.social
Excited/relieved to be here. So long Twitter!
Exuberant founder and MD: www.theculturestudio.co.uk ex BBC/Universal Music/Ipsos MORI. Trustee. Parent. Researcher. Thinks/writes about media, music, brands, society. Edge of East London dweller.
Exuberant founder and MD: www.theculturestudio.co.uk ex BBC/Universal Music/Ipsos MORI. Trustee. Parent. Researcher. Thinks/writes about media, music, brands, society. Edge of East London dweller.
I enjoyed writing this piece about why we might be witnessing a return to the spirit of punk (written pre Glastonbury punk uproar!) #punk #culturematters #alienation #rage
"The spirit of punk is brave and uncompromising and in the current context, it is a radical act. Especially knowing that mainstream media will coalesce to ridicule you, silence you or bring you down." Great post by Hanna Chalmers @drownedinsound.bsky.social
www.drownedinsound.org/why-we-might...
www.drownedinsound.org/why-we-might...
Why we might be witnessing a return to the spirit of Punk
Hanna Chalmers can see the re-emergence of the spirit of punk across music, climate change activists, tech, art and politics...
www.drownedinsound.org
July 2, 2025 at 1:03 PM
I enjoyed writing this piece about why we might be witnessing a return to the spirit of punk (written pre Glastonbury punk uproar!) #punk #culturematters #alienation #rage
www.theguardian.com/music/galler... 💓 Interrupting your feed with humanity, artistry and talent. Happy Friday.
Chic, Missy and Bryan Ferry’s wallpaper: 75 years of Atlantic Records – in pictures
Founded with a $10,000 loan from a dentist, the label has had an extraordinary array of groundbreakers from Aretha Franklin to the Drifters, from Abba to Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young
www.theguardian.com
March 28, 2025 at 10:13 AM
www.theguardian.com/music/galler... 💓 Interrupting your feed with humanity, artistry and talent. Happy Friday.
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So @WIRED is removing paywalls for our reporting based on freedom of information requests. We’re a for-profit media outlet, but we’ve decided to strike a balance between business and public interest.
freedom.press/issues/wired...
freedom.press/issues/wired...
Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow
As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy
freedom.press
March 18, 2025 at 3:23 PM
So @WIRED is removing paywalls for our reporting based on freedom of information requests. We’re a for-profit media outlet, but we’ve decided to strike a balance between business and public interest.
freedom.press/issues/wired...
freedom.press/issues/wired...
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ONE WEEK TO GO until MPs debate whether to STOP MUSK - or allow overseas billionaires to pollute our politics.
MAKE SURE YOUR MP ATTENDS - email them now: www.writetothem.com
& send them @petergeoghegan.bsky.social's latest: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/labours-po...
bsky.app/profile/guys...
MAKE SURE YOUR MP ATTENDS - email them now: www.writetothem.com
& send them @petergeoghegan.bsky.social's latest: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/labours-po...
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Stop Musk! Change the law on political donations
On 31st March, MPs will debate the petition that 140,000 of us signed - to stop overseas billionaires polluting our politics: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
Make sure your MP attends - email them now:
www.writetothem.com
On 31st March, MPs will debate the petition that 140,000 of us signed - to stop overseas billionaires polluting our politics: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
Make sure your MP attends - email them now:
www.writetothem.com
March 24, 2025 at 10:46 AM
ONE WEEK TO GO until MPs debate whether to STOP MUSK - or allow overseas billionaires to pollute our politics.
MAKE SURE YOUR MP ATTENDS - email them now: www.writetothem.com
& send them @petergeoghegan.bsky.social's latest: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/labours-po...
bsky.app/profile/guys...
MAKE SURE YOUR MP ATTENDS - email them now: www.writetothem.com
& send them @petergeoghegan.bsky.social's latest: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/labours-po...
bsky.app/profile/guys...
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“No one wants to put newbuilds and Pret a Mangers next to the North Circular, it’s still a place in London with space”
Graffiti artist 10Foot went for a walk with @derekwalmsley.bsky.social – talking art, ugliness, and 10Foot's "disgustingly deep love of London" ⬇️
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Graffiti artist 10Foot went for a walk with @derekwalmsley.bsky.social – talking art, ugliness, and 10Foot's "disgustingly deep love of London" ⬇️
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March 23, 2025 at 1:13 PM
“No one wants to put newbuilds and Pret a Mangers next to the North Circular, it’s still a place in London with space”
Graffiti artist 10Foot went for a walk with @derekwalmsley.bsky.social – talking art, ugliness, and 10Foot's "disgustingly deep love of London" ⬇️
buff.ly/eavESnF
Graffiti artist 10Foot went for a walk with @derekwalmsley.bsky.social – talking art, ugliness, and 10Foot's "disgustingly deep love of London" ⬇️
buff.ly/eavESnF
I've not heard this term 'corporate monarchy' before but it feels increasingly apt. #peterthiel closertotheedge.substack.com/p/peter-thie...
PETER THIEL: THE TECH TYRANT
An Urgent Warning About the Billionaire Rewriting Reality to Dismantle Democracy
closertotheedge.substack.com
March 20, 2025 at 9:36 AM
I've not heard this term 'corporate monarchy' before but it feels increasingly apt. #peterthiel closertotheedge.substack.com/p/peter-thie...
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Reposted by Hanna Chalmers
How else do you explain the jarring sight of the President of the United States hawking Teslas at the White House?
Where do Elon Musk’s business interests end and Donald Trump’s political interests begin? Trick question—they’re one and the same. Brian Barrett:
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Where do Elon Musk’s business interests end and Donald Trump’s political interests begin? Trick question—they’re one and the same. Brian Barrett:
wrd.cm/3FpZkkV
The United States of Elon Musk Inc.
The degree to which Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s interests are intertwined is unprecedented—and ultimately unsustainable.
wrd.cm
March 13, 2025 at 3:01 PM
How else do you explain the jarring sight of the President of the United States hawking Teslas at the White House?
Where do Elon Musk’s business interests end and Donald Trump’s political interests begin? Trick question—they’re one and the same. Brian Barrett:
wrd.cm/3FpZkkV
Where do Elon Musk’s business interests end and Donald Trump’s political interests begin? Trick question—they’re one and the same. Brian Barrett:
wrd.cm/3FpZkkV
This petition has now been signed by over 90,000 people...
Please tell Spotify to take this hate filled content off their platform. It's no longer a safe space for my kids to spend time. Signed and shared.
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Sign the Petition
Demand Spotify Remove Andrew Tate’s Harmful Courses on How to Traffic Women
chng.it
March 13, 2025 at 3:04 PM
This petition has now been signed by over 90,000 people...
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"Elon Musk, a celebrity, owns 411mn Tesla shares and, having pledged more than half his stake to fund other ventures, 50.7mn options on shares. His net worth has fallen by around $150bn over the past three months. Maybe there is such a thing as bad publicity." on.ft.com/4hsfZS1
Tesla’s crash back towards reality, in several charts
Rapid unscheduled share-price disassembly
on.ft.com
March 11, 2025 at 6:16 AM
"Elon Musk, a celebrity, owns 411mn Tesla shares and, having pledged more than half his stake to fund other ventures, 50.7mn options on shares. His net worth has fallen by around $150bn over the past three months. Maybe there is such a thing as bad publicity." on.ft.com/4hsfZS1
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Only in America could a Ketamine-infused South African oligarch call a navy captain, astronaut and sitting US senator "a traitor" for supporting our allies and standing up to Russia...
March 10, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Only in America could a Ketamine-infused South African oligarch call a navy captain, astronaut and sitting US senator "a traitor" for supporting our allies and standing up to Russia...
Please tell Spotify to take this hate filled content off their platform. It's no longer a safe space for my kids to spend time. Signed and shared.
chng.it/4mpCrdrzTt
chng.it/4mpCrdrzTt
Sign the Petition
Demand Spotify Remove Andrew Tate’s Harmful Courses on How to Traffic Women
chng.it
March 11, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Please tell Spotify to take this hate filled content off their platform. It's no longer a safe space for my kids to spend time. Signed and shared.
chng.it/4mpCrdrzTt
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New published research 📣 for the Advertising Standards Authority building on our work on the impact of #gambling in culture on children and young people. This research will help ASA strengthen their rules around gambling advertising particularly around sports media. www.asa.org.uk/resource/res...
Research on the 'strong appeal' of personalities in advertising to young people
www.asa.org.uk
March 11, 2025 at 10:43 AM
New published research 📣 for the Advertising Standards Authority building on our work on the impact of #gambling in culture on children and young people. This research will help ASA strengthen their rules around gambling advertising particularly around sports media. www.asa.org.uk/resource/res...
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‘Musk’s Involvement in Politics Could Be the Downfall of Tesla’
From vandalism to arson to nationwide protests, the automaker has suffered the reputation of CEO Elon Musk.
From vandalism to arson to nationwide protests, the automaker has suffered the reputation of CEO Elon Musk.
'Musk's Involvement in Politics Could Be the Downfall of Tesla'
Tesla is facing protests, arsons, and ridicule as Americans outraged by Elon Musk's actions in the Trump administration poison the brand's reputation.
www.rollingstone.com
March 7, 2025 at 8:23 PM
‘Musk’s Involvement in Politics Could Be the Downfall of Tesla’
From vandalism to arson to nationwide protests, the automaker has suffered the reputation of CEO Elon Musk.
From vandalism to arson to nationwide protests, the automaker has suffered the reputation of CEO Elon Musk.
Reposted by Hanna Chalmers
Reposted by Hanna Chalmers
Word of the day is ‘lickspittle’ (17th century): a person who fawns upon someone in power for personal gain.
March 4, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Word of the day is ‘lickspittle’ (17th century): a person who fawns upon someone in power for personal gain.
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"Volodymyr Zelenskyy is a very courageous man who deserves the support of the world. He has taken on the struggle of his people and his country with valor and honor. May God bless his path forward and his eventual victory against tyranny." -III #ukraine #volodymyrzelenskyy #zelensky
March 1, 2025 at 2:17 AM
"Volodymyr Zelenskyy is a very courageous man who deserves the support of the world. He has taken on the struggle of his people and his country with valor and honor. May God bless his path forward and his eventual victory against tyranny." -III #ukraine #volodymyrzelenskyy #zelensky
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NEW: updated long-run gap in voting between young men and women in Germany:
Gender divide continues to widen, but contrary to what is often assumed, young men continue to vote roughly in line with the overall population, while young women have swung sharply left.
www.ft.com/content/29fd...
Gender divide continues to widen, but contrary to what is often assumed, young men continue to vote roughly in line with the overall population, while young women have swung sharply left.
www.ft.com/content/29fd...
February 24, 2025 at 9:16 AM
NEW: updated long-run gap in voting between young men and women in Germany:
Gender divide continues to widen, but contrary to what is often assumed, young men continue to vote roughly in line with the overall population, while young women have swung sharply left.
www.ft.com/content/29fd...
Gender divide continues to widen, but contrary to what is often assumed, young men continue to vote roughly in line with the overall population, while young women have swung sharply left.
www.ft.com/content/29fd...
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Why does 25% AfD among young men spark a thousand "what is going on with young men?" posts yet Die Linke 34% among young women generates...nothing at all?
Yes, young men voting for the radical right is an important phenomenon. But so is young women going rad left *at even higher rates*.
Yes, young men voting for the radical right is an important phenomenon. But so is young women going rad left *at even higher rates*.
February 24, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Why does 25% AfD among young men spark a thousand "what is going on with young men?" posts yet Die Linke 34% among young women generates...nothing at all?
Yes, young men voting for the radical right is an important phenomenon. But so is young women going rad left *at even higher rates*.
Yes, young men voting for the radical right is an important phenomenon. But so is young women going rad left *at even higher rates*.
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Don’t gift our work to AI billionaires: Mark Haddon, Michal Rosen and other creatives urge government
Don’t gift our work to AI billionaires: Mark Haddon, Michal Rosen and other creatives urge government
More than 2,000 cultural figures challenge Whitehall’s eagerness ‘to wrap our lives’ work in attractive paper for automated competitors’
Original British art and creative skill is in peril thanks to the rise of AI and the government’s plans to loosen…
www.theguardian.com
February 23, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Don’t gift our work to AI billionaires: Mark Haddon, Michal Rosen and other creatives urge government
Oh god #Celtic played so brilliantly - what a gutter!!
a logo for the celtic football club with a four leaf clover
ALT: a logo for the celtic football club with a four leaf clover
media.tenor.com
February 18, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Oh god #Celtic played so brilliantly - what a gutter!!
Any band dragging their instruments through Epping Forest gets a big thumbs up from me. #eppingforest
Dragging their instruments through Epping Forest, members of Firestations and The Leaf Library team up with Marlody and Hannah Reeves to evoke a troubled exurban environment
#MirroredDaughters - S/T
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@fikarecordings.com
#MirroredDaughters - S/T
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@fikarecordings.com
February 18, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Any band dragging their instruments through Epping Forest gets a big thumbs up from me. #eppingforest
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February 18, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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