Went into the pub wearing one of my more ostentatious cameras the other week and the barman struck up a chat and asked "what kind of thing do you take photos of?" and despite the obvious urge to do a Brian ("anger, pain, fear, aggression") the best I could come up with was "mostly, like, light".
Any anthropologists/sociologists/human geographers able to recommend writing about participants aging/life-situationing out of the culture under study?
I realised the other week my Spotify account is now an adult.
Windmill out on the Yare
Stairs going up and down in a building to building bridge somewhere in KCL
The Dog trying to get comfortable lying on Brio
Angles, ziggurats, geometric shapes and all that walking around UEA campus.
Dragon overlooking the Holborn Viaduct
Plants growing over a reflective wall on Bishopsgate
A dew-y rose
Ring lights in Cambridge's CompSci department
Bird flying at me near the Devil's Tower, Norwich
Silhouetting St Clement Danes and office buildings
Purple film rushes by Eaton Park boating lake
Daffodil head in the river
It's "4 films back" day. Fighting a massive light leak in my semi-new (to me) Praktica which has spoiled some and added character to others. Now also slightly cheating by using a Canon with autofocus/everything.
I feel like time-travel screaming "looks like Social Anthropology _is_ an in-demand and business relevant subject eh?" at my school's career advisor.
Were your parents trying to white noise you into sleep?
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At one point working in the House 15 years ago, we had to return a bottle of bubbly a supplier sent our team at Christmas because the total value fell foul of our propriety rules.
Parliament's rules are very permissive of conflicts of interests around gifts that just can't exist in councils. £300 is an absurdly high threshold for *declaring* gifts, and there's no rules at all about a level it's forbidden to accept them.
London Transport Museum Shop has been offline for a week or so. How do they imagine I am to buy more moquette?
I get (and agree with) the posts pointing out that vaccines and agritech are more consequential than AI. But: we have so many people trained up in digital roles that don't transfer to biotech that there is a sort of job market imperative to just inertia on with AI because you can product manage it.
Cartoon doesn't pick up that it is 100% in gold satin.
It's a bind though. If they "do well" at locals, that is A Sign. If they do badly then it's local variables. Sometimes it is as much to prevent a positive reading of the circumstances as force a negative. Although I feel sorry for Katie et al in Cambridge Labour, they do try hard.
Why not both?
This does feel like the start of a kids' film. Jack in the job; sell pesto; happiness outside over-extractive capitalism?
I've been told pesto is the way to deal with that.
I've spent the morning planting out tomatoes in a mixture of worm bin goop and shredded coconut husks so feeling very good life
Making a list of all things in the garden (beyond the greenhouse that are edible and it's quite a lot:
- apples
- cherries
- blackberries
- elderflower/berry
- mustard garlic
- three cornered leek
- bay leaves, mint, rosemary, sage
Eyyy I’m docta doom ova here
Reads as vaguely threatening. Trying to invite you to the corn flakes equivalent of a pub car park.
Isn't he related to the lead singer of Skunk Anansie?
Gillian Tett is all right
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A crossword in the local Green Party election literature
Pretty sure 4 Across isn't (4).
Don't worry, I've got about 40000 PhD words to write in the next few months. Questions will be on an almost nightly basis.
"Able to tell a convincing narrative"
I think, having read that post quite a few times over the years that maybe I am just specifically remembering Tom's comment and extrapolating that into Cabinet Office level policy.
So from what you saw it came out of the experience with DirectGov rather than as an extension of Big Society thinking?