• I do not refute ideals, I merely put on gloves before them

• Current mood in AI generated images #77

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #76

• My first attempt at AI-generated music

• Revealing the beauty latent within the digital fragments of our cluttered lifeworld

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #75

• i look to the sky and fling myself into the pattern

• In defence of optimism

• Current mood in AI generated images #74

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #73

• Leave me alone

• Current mood in AI generated images #72

• Is it possible to fold a watermelon?

• Current mood in AI generated images #71

• Yanis Varoufakis: The New Cold War & What’s After Capitalism

• God speaks time and time again, but no one notices

• The takeover, the sweeping insensitivity of this

• “I find, just now at least, the world a pleasant and exciting place”

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #70

• The end is where we start from

• Current mood in AI generated images #69

• It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living

• Current mood in AI generated images #68

• Do thou amend thy face, and I’ll amend my life

• Who told you he’s not the shit? Well, a bloody liar he is

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #67

• Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself

• The emerging system of eco-apartheid

• RIP Sam. 14 years yesterday.

• On dance notation

• Current mood in AI generated images #66

• An infinite scream passing through nature

• A capybara and its guinea pig friends ❤️

• Current mood in AI generated images #65

• I’ve had this stuck in my head for the last 48 hours

• 🐈‍⬛ In praise of black cats

• Current mood in AI generated images #64

• A wild god searching for a faraway girl, who was basically a mirage that nevertheless loomed large

• Trinity College, after The Fall

• The chatbot Rorschach test part 1

• Current mood in AI generated images #63

• Current mood in AI generated images #62

• 🌳 Last year is dead, they seem to say. Begin afresh, afresh, afresh 🌳

• When I was young I was invincible

• “What was a slow grind towards broad poverty is going to become a fucking rapid march towards poverty”

• Current mood in AI generated images #61

• The old elephant loves Moonlight Sonata

• Behavioural scientists were the lay preachers of late neoliberalism

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #60

• It is not too late to seek a newer world

• Current mood in AI generated images #59

• Intuition as social theory

• The reparative activity of cow-watching 🐮

• Videos of American police searching a library for obscene material

• What’s the opposite of flourishing? Languishing

• Each venture is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate

• Makers, we, of perfectly contemplated machines

• Are you a map-maker or a bungee jumper with your writing?

• The institutional hole at the heart of Manchester

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #58

• A trans reading of Poor Things

• Visualising the University of Manchester Campus

• Current mood in AI generated images #57

• Tell us where you’re from, what you want to become

• The cultural capital involved in applying for a PhD

• Inspiration is the indolent indulgence of the dabbler

• An introduction to asexuality

• I never trusted my love and her wallpaper feelings

• Daily Mail (2000): the internet may just be a passing fad, as millions give up on it

• How often do you interrupt yourself?

• Current mood in AI generated images #56

• On stopping when you’ve still got something to say

• 📍Exciting opportunity to join our team: 2 x permanent T&R lectureships at University of Manchester

• Capybaras: water loving hippo hamsters who can’t be bothered enough to care

• Adorno and the Busenattentat (breast action)

• Current mood in AI generated images #55

• A worrying scam backed up by an AI-generated website

• How common is counter-plagiarism within social theory?

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #54

• I sometimes find you childish, I sometimes find you mesmerising

• On seeing ourselves through others: L. S. Lowry’s Head of a Man (With Red Eyes)

• It just occurred to me the last five films I saw were all utterly outstanding

• Current mood in AI generated images #53

• The anti-elitist cosplaying of far-right elites

• How a deliberately inflated housing market is strangling the UK economy

• Riot police are stuck in the mud. Enter a wizard… 🧙‍♂️

• How do global leaders perceive global risk?

• Newcastle’s Dead and Abandoned Shopping Centres

• Well, given that we’re screwed in all of these conceivable ways, what would you want to do?

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #52

• The challenge of feral sociology

• 🦆❤️ Ciallan’s memorial duck

• The manifest and latent function of online reviews

• You’re young until you’re not, you love until you don’t, you try until you can’t

• 📍Margaret Archer’s final book: Morphogenesis Answers Its Critics

• Current mood in AI generated images #51

• Why aren’t libertarian conspiracy theorists interested in Project 2025?

• I don’t like walking around this old and empty house. So hold my hand, I’ll walk with you my dear

• Why does South Manchester monopolise the economic gains of the city’s growth?

• Current mood in AI generated images #50