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I like old buildings and new ones. Planning, places, built environment, urbanism, architecture, heritage, and design stuff. Humanist. Scooterist. Set sail in Yorkshire, now washed up in Bristol. Opinions probably someone else’s.
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Generative AI has helped me to understand why, in Star Wars, the droids seem to have personalities but are generally bad at whatever they're supposed to be programmed to do, and everyone is tired of their shit and constantly tells them to shut up

📰 New study 'radically transforms' our understanding of Bronze Age trade, finding tin from south-west Britain was traded as far as the Mediterranean! 🏺 #AntiquityResearch in the news via @theguardian.com

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AI is a plagiarism engine built on stolen data, exploited labour, and enviro harm. Marketed as “intelligent,” it erodes critical thinking, empathy, and causes psychological harm. Run by authoritarian billionaires, it’s used for surveillance, profiling, and genocide—whether it works or makes up shit.

Barilla: Real Egg Pasta, 1958 designed by Erberto Carboni. Image via Alliance Graphique Internationale Subscribe to my newsletter for more design history designreviewed.com/newsletter/

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#OtD 4 May 1970 the Kent State massacre took place when Ohio National Guard fired 67 rounds into a crowd of students protesting against the bombing of Cambodia, killing four and wounding nine others including bystanders. More about the war in our pod: workingclasshistory.com/2020/09/23/e...

Hello—Is A River Alive? has been adapted as Radio 4’s Book of the Week next week. Five episodes, read by me—& we’ve folded in field recordings & some beautiful Max Richter music. First episode, Anima, broadcasts tomorrow at 11.45am. You can listen here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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The story of St Peter's, Corpusty in Norfolk. A rescue, a revival, over decades by us and the inimitable Norfolk Churches Trust.

In the Beano this week Bananaman’s enemy General Blight becomes the head of DOPE - the Department of Pure Evil.

Had to be done.

‘This treasure belongs to the nation’: Miriam Margolyes and Brian Cox join calls to save Wordsworth’s home www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

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Do any Victorianists / 19th-centuryists / material culture people know of any scholarship on pattern and madness? Thinking particularly of The Yellow Wallpaper, but open to anything. This inquiry brought to you by Morris's claim that commercial pattern-designers "have a great tendency to go mad."

This is so exciting. It's a brilliant project ... and one of my #Shropshire field recordings is part of the final mix! Click on the Ironbridge Gorge? You'll find the City version by me, and the Memory version by Giovanna Iorio (concept) and Lucio Lazzaruolo (music) citiesandmemory.com/heritage/

We’ve talked about this before, but we wanted to expand on it a little more. Late last week, Elon Musk’s so-called “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) effectively took control of the Department of the Interior without a single Senate confirmation, public hearing, or vote.

Wind, Tide & Oar review – a love letter to the good old fashioned art of sailing www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ap...

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