Tim Waterman
@tim-waterman.co.uk
Landscape, food, utopias, queer theory, imagination. Prof of Landscape Theory at the Bartlett School of Architecture. Antifascist. Recent book: The Landscape of Utopia. At work on 'Reworlding: Planetarity & Future Imaginaries'. Real writer. No algorithms.
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RFK Jr.: ‘The President Having Sex With Children Is Fine From A Purely Nutritional Standpoint’
November 18, 2025 at 7:30 PM
RFK Jr.: ‘The President Having Sex With Children Is Fine From A Purely Nutritional Standpoint’
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A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
CIA concludes Saudi crown prince ordered Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination
Audio recordings, intercepted phone calls and other intelligence link Mohammed bin Salman to killing that Saudis say was conducted by rogue elements.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:05 PM
A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
Now here's a timely reminder of the horrors of fascism. observer.co.uk/style/featur...
The families of Franco’s victims still seeking justice 50 years after his death | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Now here's a timely reminder of the horrors of fascism. observer.co.uk/style/featur...
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'The early internet was dominated by...and western institutions...leaving whole worlds of human knowledge and experience undigitised. Now, with the rise of GenAI – which is trained on this available digital corpus – that asymmetry threatens to become entrenched.'
What AI doesn’t know: we could be creating a global ‘knowledge collapse’ | Deepak Varuvel Dennison
The long read: As GenAI becomes the primary way to find information, local and traditional wisdom is being lost. And we are only beginning to realise what we’re missing
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:48 AM
'The early internet was dominated by...and western institutions...leaving whole worlds of human knowledge and experience undigitised. Now, with the rise of GenAI – which is trained on this available digital corpus – that asymmetry threatens to become entrenched.'
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'UK universities are becoming “very concerned” amid growing speculation that chancellor Rachel Reeves will use next week’s budget to cap tax-free pension contributions – a move that could cost the sector £50 million.'
Gere we go again, again. 1/2
Gere we go again, again. 1/2
Universities fear £50 million hit from budget ‘pensions tax’
Cost to sector ‘significant’ as reports say chancellor planning to limit tax-free contributions
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:52 AM
'UK universities are becoming “very concerned” amid growing speculation that chancellor Rachel Reeves will use next week’s budget to cap tax-free pension contributions – a move that could cost the sector £50 million.'
Gere we go again, again. 1/2
Gere we go again, again. 1/2
CFP: Environments and Societies at the Crossroads: Socio-Environmental Justice in Europe and the Americas in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Workshop at UC Berkeley www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...
Event – GHI Washington
www.ghi-dc.org
November 16, 2025 at 7:42 AM
CFP: Environments and Societies at the Crossroads: Socio-Environmental Justice in Europe and the Americas in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Workshop at UC Berkeley www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...
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📣Our UofG Library Visiting Research Fellowships are now open for applications!
We’re delighted to invite scholars from across the globe to apply to work with our internationally significant collections.
Apply at: www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...
📆Closing date: 5 January 2026
#UofGLibraryFellows
We’re delighted to invite scholars from across the globe to apply to work with our internationally significant collections.
Apply at: www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...
📆Closing date: 5 January 2026
#UofGLibraryFellows
November 13, 2025 at 2:05 PM
📣Our UofG Library Visiting Research Fellowships are now open for applications!
We’re delighted to invite scholars from across the globe to apply to work with our internationally significant collections.
Apply at: www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...
📆Closing date: 5 January 2026
#UofGLibraryFellows
We’re delighted to invite scholars from across the globe to apply to work with our internationally significant collections.
Apply at: www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...
📆Closing date: 5 January 2026
#UofGLibraryFellows
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#CFP: "Poetry's Environments" June 9-11, 2026 (University of Leeds, UK)
Keynote speaker: Simon Armitage
Deadline for proposal: December 5th 2025
Info: conferences.leeds.ac.uk/poetryenviro...
#envhum #envhist #ecolit #environment #poetry #ecocriticism
Keynote speaker: Simon Armitage
Deadline for proposal: December 5th 2025
Info: conferences.leeds.ac.uk/poetryenviro...
#envhum #envhist #ecolit #environment #poetry #ecocriticism
November 14, 2025 at 12:16 PM
#CFP: "Poetry's Environments" June 9-11, 2026 (University of Leeds, UK)
Keynote speaker: Simon Armitage
Deadline for proposal: December 5th 2025
Info: conferences.leeds.ac.uk/poetryenviro...
#envhum #envhist #ecolit #environment #poetry #ecocriticism
Keynote speaker: Simon Armitage
Deadline for proposal: December 5th 2025
Info: conferences.leeds.ac.uk/poetryenviro...
#envhum #envhist #ecolit #environment #poetry #ecocriticism
Off to catch the train to Paris, then to the Barcelona Landscape Biennial, where I'll be in conversation with James Bridle, Thomas Woltz, and Divya Shah. Excited? Yes. landscape.coac.net/en
XIII BARCELONA INTERNATIONAL LANDSCAPE BIENNIAL | Biennal
landscape.coac.net
November 14, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Off to catch the train to Paris, then to the Barcelona Landscape Biennial, where I'll be in conversation with James Bridle, Thomas Woltz, and Divya Shah. Excited? Yes. landscape.coac.net/en
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🌱 Spain’s community energy revolution is spreading!
From Taradell to Galicia, cooperatives are providing cheap, clean electricity to homes, including low-income families, while promoting local ownership and fighting fuel poverty.
We love to see a community-led energy transition 🤩
From Taradell to Galicia, cooperatives are providing cheap, clean electricity to homes, including low-income families, while promoting local ownership and fighting fuel poverty.
We love to see a community-led energy transition 🤩
‘We’re proud to be pioneers’: inside Spain’s community energy revolution
From Taradell to Galicia, cooperatives are supplying cheap, clean electricity to homes and helping tackle fuel poverty
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:53 AM
🌱 Spain’s community energy revolution is spreading!
From Taradell to Galicia, cooperatives are providing cheap, clean electricity to homes, including low-income families, while promoting local ownership and fighting fuel poverty.
We love to see a community-led energy transition 🤩
From Taradell to Galicia, cooperatives are providing cheap, clean electricity to homes, including low-income families, while promoting local ownership and fighting fuel poverty.
We love to see a community-led energy transition 🤩
The Labour Party: hate immigrants, tax the poor, destroy universities. How is this useful when this is also the strategy of Tories and Farage's Fascist party?
November 14, 2025 at 8:25 AM
The Labour Party: hate immigrants, tax the poor, destroy universities. How is this useful when this is also the strategy of Tories and Farage's Fascist party?
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The fact that this person remains Health Secretary is objectively one of the most significant British political scandals of the post-Covid era. But because he's doing something the media barons like, everyone has decided it's fine.
Health Secretary Wes Streeting says that the British Medical Association, which represents Britain's doctors, is a threat to the NHS. Streeting took a record £225k from private healthcare-related donors in just two years.
British Medical Association ‘threat to future of NHS’, says Streeting ahead of doctors’ strike
Health secretary accuses doctors’ union of ‘cartel-like behaviour’ and tells it to ‘get real’ over pay demands
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:46 AM
The fact that this person remains Health Secretary is objectively one of the most significant British political scandals of the post-Covid era. But because he's doing something the media barons like, everyone has decided it's fine.
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The British Academy invite applications for the Stein-Arnold Exploration Fund 2026. The scheme encourages research on the antiquities, historical geography, early history or arts in parts of Asia: https://bit.ly/488Axh7
November 13, 2025 at 7:49 PM
The British Academy invite applications for the Stein-Arnold Exploration Fund 2026. The scheme encourages research on the antiquities, historical geography, early history or arts in parts of Asia: https://bit.ly/488Axh7
This album just completely sends me every time I hear it. Such a fine thing. lisa-oneill.bandcamp.com/album/all-of...
All Of This Is Chance, by Lisa O'Neill
8 track album
lisa-oneill.bandcamp.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:27 PM
This album just completely sends me every time I hear it. Such a fine thing. lisa-oneill.bandcamp.com/album/all-of...
Well, I've been meaning to de-google my life, and now the time has come. www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
www.404media.co
November 13, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Well, I've been meaning to de-google my life, and now the time has come. www.404media.co/google-has-c...
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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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Pinging Rachel Reeves and her immense intellectual abilities:
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Pinging Rachel Reeves and her immense intellectual abilities:
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'The prospect of hundreds of job cuts at Lancaster University could damage the city's economy, students have warned.'
'Could'? Surely 'will'.
'Could'? Surely 'will'.
Fears Lancaster University job cuts would hit city's businesses
Lancaster University is seeking to cut 400 full-time posts as part of efforts to save £30m.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 9:10 AM
'The prospect of hundreds of job cuts at Lancaster University could damage the city's economy, students have warned.'
'Could'? Surely 'will'.
'Could'? Surely 'will'.
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Imagine being the worst person Epstein's ever met.
November 13, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Imagine being the worst person Epstein's ever met.
CFP: Livable Cities, Manchester 2026: Heritages: From the Built to the Social amps-research.com/livable-citi...
Livable Cities - Heritages | AMPS
amps-research.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:18 AM
CFP: Livable Cities, Manchester 2026: Heritages: From the Built to the Social amps-research.com/livable-citi...
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One of our all-time favourites (for many obvious reasons 😍, and not least because it's the first bronze statue of a manual labourer), William Hamo Thornycroft's "The Mower", 1882-1884, at Liverpool's @walkerartgallery.bsky.social
👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums
👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums
November 13, 2025 at 8:27 AM
One of our all-time favourites (for many obvious reasons 😍, and not least because it's the first bronze statue of a manual labourer), William Hamo Thornycroft's "The Mower", 1882-1884, at Liverpool's @walkerartgallery.bsky.social
👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums
👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums
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One time around 2004 in Brooklyn I broke up with a guy on New Year’s Eve when he said the most horrifying words I’d ever heard. They were: “Who’s” and “Johnny” and “Cash?”
Without hesitation I said, “This isn’t gonna work,” and walked out.
Anyway, looks like he runs Bluesky Safety now.
Without hesitation I said, “This isn’t gonna work,” and walked out.
Anyway, looks like he runs Bluesky Safety now.
The account owner of @sarahkendzior.bsky.social was suspended for 72 hours for expressing a desire to shoot the author of an article. The post, made 11/10, stated: "I want to shoot the author of this article just to watch him die." 1/2
November 12, 2025 at 9:38 PM
One time around 2004 in Brooklyn I broke up with a guy on New Year’s Eve when he said the most horrifying words I’d ever heard. They were: “Who’s” and “Johnny” and “Cash?”
Without hesitation I said, “This isn’t gonna work,” and walked out.
Anyway, looks like he runs Bluesky Safety now.
Without hesitation I said, “This isn’t gonna work,” and walked out.
Anyway, looks like he runs Bluesky Safety now.
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Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 12, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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If you're a PG student or an ECR working on any aspect of London's history, do consider submitting! And if you're not but you know of, or maybe even supervise, someone who does, encourage them to submit!
Applications are now open for the Curriers Prize, awarded by the Worshipful Company of Curriers in association with ourselves and the @ihr.bsky.social for the best entered essay on any aspect of London's history from Roman times to the present.
The Curriers’ Prize
The Worshipful Company of Curriers, has established an essay prize on the history of London, in association with The London Journal Trust and the IHR.
www.history.ac.uk
November 12, 2025 at 1:40 PM
If you're a PG student or an ECR working on any aspect of London's history, do consider submitting! And if you're not but you know of, or maybe even supervise, someone who does, encourage them to submit!