• There are no grown-ups, that’s what you must grow up to know fully

• The bear and the cat

• my life as a teenage scarecrow

• Forgetting was my only option

• The Sheer Entertainment Value of the City’s Sights, Sounds and Smells: Gilbert and George at the Heywood Gallery

• Growing the world we want is like the slow tending of a garden

• Where I end and you begin

• So here I am

• The coming economic crash and the far right

• My work is loving the world

• I know the culture here is to stay humble but shit

• Yanis Varoufakis on a socialist interpretation of human flourishing

• Where you yourself were never quite yourself and did not want nor have to be

• A slice of reality

• Ian McEwan’s National AI Service

• Reparative socialism: Zohran Mamdani’s Department of Community Safety

• Fox News host calls for execution of homeless people

• A precarious sense of clarity about what work matters (and what doesn’t) as I get older

• Winter is coming

• Zack Polanksi: “what’s unrealistic is continuing with the status quo”

• Where did Python come from?

• Late September, an interregnum of heat among the scrambling of things

• Zack Polanski’s doing a podcast and it’s excellent!

• A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury

• On playing well and making yourself heard

• Last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice

• a point is a beginning

• Murakami on the reflexive imperative as you age

• Calm creation that in opening closes, often ceases by starting

• So I find words I never thought to speak in streets I never thought I should revisit

• Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: the essence of running, and a metaphor for life

• The inevitability and irreversibility of loss

• And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time

• Somebody stole my car radio and now I just sit in silence…

• Well it’s a deep dark night and I hear you, I’ve been there

• The far-right turn of Blue Labour and the political ontology of post-liberalism

• Trying to learn to walk like the heroes we thought we had to be

• Distracted from distraction by distraction

• We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand

• Chapters abstracts for my new book

• “You’re in charge of your life, you can do more than you are doing. Let’s see where it takes you”

• This is the anthem, the slogan, the summary of events

• I just found out the head of Nintendo America is called Doug Bowser!

• The invention of the Marvel universe

• Will Starmer’s Labour empower the far-right?

• So here I am

• Gaslight Anthem covered Smells Like Teen Spirit

• Why didn’t Will MacAskill predict Sam Bankman-Fried’s malfeasance?

• Your next chapter will be great

• We’re all coming home in a while

• Another review of Generative AI for Academics

• Webinar: Thinking with Machines: How Academics Can Use Generative AI Thoughtfully and Ethically

• Current mood in AI generated images #176

• If—your—eyes—drop—they will get atop o’ you!

• Current mood in AI generated images #175

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #174

• So, what is utopia good for? For walking

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #173

• After 16 years and 7 months I’ve finished Platform and Agency

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #172

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #171

• Hope, perseverance, a vision (some doubt)

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #170

• Plants and animals don’t fight the winter

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #169

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #168

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #167

• A case study of scholarly abundance: Asexuality Studies

• The ‘vibes shift’ as a preemptive declaration of hegemony

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #166

• For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

• RIP Michael Burawoy

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #165

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #164

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #163

• The wreck and not the story of the wreck, the thing itself and not the myth

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #162

• Call for Short Papers – One-Day Symposium (The Process and Implications of Doing Social Theory)

• The fire and the rose are one

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #161

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #160

• The rebranding of University of Bolton

• Manchester/Salford Critical Ed Tech Network Event, February 19th 12pm-2pm

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #159

• Eep! Eep! Eep!

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #158

• Mainstream betting sides offering 1/3 odds on Trump either disregarding or changing constitutional term limits

• I just discovered there is a Capoeira fighter in the UFC and it’s stunning

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #157

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #156

• Hope is a verb with its sleeves rolled up

• You were not on the receiving end of it all

• Why I find Manchester in 2025 architecturally depressing, but in an interesting way, in one photo

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #155

• I asked a librarian if he had a book about Pavlov’s dogs and Schrödinger’s cat

• There will be 13 billionaires in the Trump administration

• “If H5 is ever going to be a pandemic, it’s going to be now”

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #154

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #153

• Goodbye 2024 👋