Tim Cowlishaw
@timcowlishaw.co.uk
PhD-ing @ UOC DARTS (Design Research + STS + Environmental Humanities + Digital Waste).
Working @ greenweb.org, smartcitizen.me and assorted other places.
Anglès a Tarragona (sempre guiri, antigament pixapí, mai "expat")
https://www.timcowlishaw.co.uk
Working @ greenweb.org, smartcitizen.me and assorted other places.
Anglès a Tarragona (sempre guiri, antigament pixapí, mai "expat")
https://www.timcowlishaw.co.uk
I meant to do this before Zack became leader so I could vote for him, but somehow didn't manage in time. Since he was elected, now there's no excuse. Very happy to be a member of the UK green party, even if it's from some distance away!
September 17, 2025 at 5:56 AM
I meant to do this before Zack became leader so I could vote for him, but somehow didn't manage in time. Since he was elected, now there's no excuse. Very happy to be a member of the UK green party, even if it's from some distance away!
Strong agree, The Invisibles
was the first comic I read (although I started with So You Want A Revolution), and it's never been beaten, and is also indelibly etched on my psyche
was the first comic I read (although I started with So You Want A Revolution), and it's never been beaten, and is also indelibly etched on my psyche
July 27, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Strong agree, The Invisibles
was the first comic I read (although I started with So You Want A Revolution), and it's never been beaten, and is also indelibly etched on my psyche
was the first comic I read (although I started with So You Want A Revolution), and it's never been beaten, and is also indelibly etched on my psyche
This whole thread sent me down a bit of a rabbithole and I found this very comprehensive article about all the many things in both Iberian and Latin American Spanish that you might or might not _importar_: rua.ua.es/server/api/c...
July 22, 2025 at 6:26 AM
This whole thread sent me down a bit of a rabbithole and I found this very comprehensive article about all the many things in both Iberian and Latin American Spanish that you might or might not _importar_: rua.ua.es/server/api/c...
I've started doing the cryptic crosswords regularly and am (I think) slowly getting to be reasonable at them, but a hazard of this is occasionally I see a phrase somewhere that just "looks like" a clue and unconsciously completely shut down for like a minute while I try and parse it. Here are two.
April 23, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I've started doing the cryptic crosswords regularly and am (I think) slowly getting to be reasonable at them, but a hazard of this is occasionally I see a phrase somewhere that just "looks like" a clue and unconsciously completely shut down for like a minute while I try and parse it. Here are two.
Me, preparing an "overview of PhD practice to date" presentation for the rest of my group
April 13, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Me, preparing an "overview of PhD practice to date" presentation for the rest of my group
*Crosses fingers*
Please let it be Donna and Bruno
Please let it be Donna and Bruno
February 25, 2025 at 5:39 PM
*Crosses fingers*
Please let it be Donna and Bruno
Please let it be Donna and Bruno
The holy father says "DEGROWTH NOW":
![20. In Laudato Si’, I offered a brief resumé of the technocratic paradigm underlying the current process of environmental decay. It is “a certain way of understanding human life and activity [that] has gone awry, to the serious detriment of the world around us”. [13] Deep down, it consists in thinking “as if reality, goodness and truth automatically flow from technological and economic power as such”. [14] As a logical consequence, it then becomes easy “to accept the idea of infinite or unlimited growth, which proves so attractive to economists, financiers and experts in technology”. [15]
21. In recent years, we have been able to confirm this diagnosis, even as we have witnessed a new advance of the above paradigm. Artificial intelligence and the latest technological innovations start with the notion of a human being with no limits, whose abilities and possibilities can be infinitely expanded thanks to technology. In this way, the technocratic paradigm monstrously feeds upon itself.
22. Without a doubt, the natural resources required by technology, such as lithium, silicon and so many others, are not unlimited, yet the greater problem is the ideology underlying an obsession: to increase human power beyond anything imaginable, before which nonhuman reality is a mere resource at its disposal. Everything that exists ceases to be a gift for which we should be thankful, esteem and cherish, and instead becomes a slave, prey to any whim of the human mind and its capacities.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:sxpf4zndlvkf4fhupgx7hafc/bafkreigxqysn3cxtojsvpq6qoojdidsackqtocnrrkir2mtjo64ghfhmt4@jpeg)
February 23, 2025 at 4:11 PM
The holy father says "DEGROWTH NOW":
Pity this little guy couldn't hang around and make whole what has been smashed, I guess
February 5, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Pity this little guy couldn't hang around and make whole what has been smashed, I guess
An old favourite, but still good, dusted off for my Elisava students today: Lucier's "I am sitting in a room" as creative technologist "hello world!" (H/t @prehensile.bsky.social )
February 4, 2025 at 7:43 AM
An old favourite, but still good, dusted off for my Elisava students today: Lucier's "I am sitting in a room" as creative technologist "hello world!" (H/t @prehensile.bsky.social )
Oooh this is gonna be a fun place to spend part of every week for the next few months 😍
January 28, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Oooh this is gonna be a fun place to spend part of every week for the next few months 😍
Joder, todo tiene pinta de "Las doce pruebas de Astérix"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Glm...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Glm...
January 27, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Joder, todo tiene pinta de "Las doce pruebas de Astérix"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Glm...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Glm...
Slayed my disco piano White Whale, finally, lads:
January 26, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Slayed my disco piano White Whale, finally, lads:
Hey @bbcbreaking-bot.bsky.social , I think you missed one.
January 21, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Hey @bbcbreaking-bot.bsky.social , I think you missed one.
I love merkén (a chilean dried smoked chilli thing), not just because it's delicious, but also because it comes in a little bottle that looks like a gift from a grateful wizard in Legend of Zelda or some shit
January 12, 2025 at 11:45 AM
I love merkén (a chilean dried smoked chilli thing), not just because it's delicious, but also because it comes in a little bottle that looks like a gift from a grateful wizard in Legend of Zelda or some shit
🎶🎶🎶 se me acaba el argumento / y la...
January 11, 2025 at 9:03 AM
🎶🎶🎶 se me acaba el argumento / y la...
"I'm driving home for Christmas, I can't wait to see their faces"
December 21, 2024 at 12:34 PM
"I'm driving home for Christmas, I can't wait to see their faces"
Hoy es el último día para ver las instalaciones de Recorreguts Sonors al Convent Sant Agustí, incluyendo la pieza que hice con Gerard Boyer, Óscar González y Rebecca Anne Peters "¿A Qué Suenan Las Nubes?". Si estás por Barna, pasa por ahí a verlas! conventagusti.com/blog/recorre...
November 23, 2024 at 8:27 AM
Hoy es el último día para ver las instalaciones de Recorreguts Sonors al Convent Sant Agustí, incluyendo la pieza que hice con Gerard Boyer, Óscar González y Rebecca Anne Peters "¿A Qué Suenan Las Nubes?". Si estás por Barna, pasa por ahí a verlas! conventagusti.com/blog/recorre...