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zine maker, poet, rugby player, academic Currently looking for a new job. Find me on LinkedIn or DM me here please. Pic: Mika - white, middle aged & shaven headed in front of grey metal cladding with yellow dots. Background: daffodils in bloom
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Thinking cap on: If you wore heavy cuffs of say 10kg each any object in your life could be unnecessarily heavy.

What a heatwave looks like in NE Scotland: one day of 25 degrees. Today I will be spending a lot of it outside. With a hat on. ☀️

'To begin the e-learning module please click the Stress button below.' Best error today. They mean the START button for the e-learning module on 'Autism, Stress and Anxiety'.

My concern with such guidance is that it rarely takes into account power imbalances in the classroom, on campus, in society. If a lecturer professes eugenicist views, are disabled students barred from challenging them? Does academic freedom trump personal dignity? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

THE SALT PATH - a decent film which feels like a dutiful exercise turning a book into moving pictures. In the first part, there was too much breathing and groaning. Yes, we get the creatureliness of the couple. Second part had more life wisdom, each bit delivered in a short encounter with a stranger

Oh look goodlawproject.org/ehrc-backs-d...

All online portals I have used this morning (UK government, a potential employer) work quite well. Those are the small joys.

THE BALLAD OF WALLIS ISLAND is a sweet, funny, sad and sentimental film. Lots of plucking of heart strings and guitar strings. Unless you positively hate folk/singer-songwriter music you should see it.

The first risk is that genAI will have been a STEM project to make Arts & Humanities expertise obsolete. The second and bigger risk is SKYNET.

Ich verstehe schon, dass es dringende Nachrichten gibt, aber ich merke auch, dass wir den 17. Juni 1953 gar nicht mehr erwähnen.

Cumbernauld?

Prof Mika Gratzke @mikagratzke.bsky.social (he/they) - Independent Scholar - Presents an ONLINE Exclusive Workshop "A carrier bag of queer experiences: zine making and sharing as acts of hope" Part of the #TVCE #Symposium 8/7/25. Join the waitlist tvce2025.eventbrite.com #Conference #AcademicSky 🌈🎓

Two 4-year fully-funded PhD studentships available at UCL for Black British candidates. One in History of the legacy of Transatlantic slavery and reparations; the other on reparations and the media/culture focusing on reparations and the media/culture. Here's the History one. 1/2

Short text on genAI worth reading.

Sounds familiar?

Artist Sonya Schönberger fashions sculptural objects out of the 100,000 shards of glass excavated at the Tempelhofer Feld from the former forced labour barracks. They stand for the fragility of memory and the limits of our understanding. www.ns-zwangsarbeit.de/en/exhibitio...

18. Juni in Bonn: "Der türkische Rechtsextremismus stellt mit etwa 12.000 Anhängern die zweitgrößte extrem rechte Bewegung in Deutschland dar. Die Ideologie des türkischen Rechtsextremismus ist geprägt von autoritären, nationalistischen, rassistischen, antisemitischen und queerfeindlichen Elementen"

Moin. Now playing a new track by David Byrne: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YM-B... [It's catchy, it's kind of topical, and Mr Byrne still can't sing that well -- which gives me hope, as I am not a good singer either.]

Everyone into comics seems to have an opinion about #GenAI- but are we looking into it with the rigour and the variety of perspectives it requires? Who's working on this area, as a practitioner, a scholar or a scientist? We want to hear from you: comicsandai.org deadline: 10 July 2025 #ComicsStudies

Amazingly the mini cherry tree has produced a nice red cherry (for the first time ever), whereas the maxi cherry tree is still contemplating.

And a little solace: the article tells the story of a mother who found an additional young person asleep in her house. It was a young woman who had got lost on a night out and who had entered a random house. “Even our cat and dog fell I love with her.” www.hs.fi/helsinki/art...

Tagesschau: „Die Meinung von Natalie Amiri, BR, zur Eskalation zwischen Israel und dem Iran“ www.tagesschau.de/multimedia/s...

Abrakadabra Zabakuck dreimal schwarzer Kater.

BBC: ‘The first trial of its kind: A Russian soldier takes the stand for an execution’ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A non-binary anthem. www.instagram.com/stories/mika...

If We-the-people of the United States had changed their mind and really wanted a king after all, it would be cost efficient to share the one in place for Canada.

www.damonherd.com/one-handed-c...

If you ask us often enough we may create a second comic book playing with the autobiographical truth. The first one is sold out.

I have not seen enough jokes about POUNDLAND being sold on for £1.

Moin. Now playing: Brezel Göring – Such dir einen Arzt www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZWY...

I hear there will be a birthday parade in DC for President Kim Jong Don.