Let's get this petition to save all Birmingham libraries going again! Can we reach 10,000? We're almost at 7,500... As Caitlin Moran wrote: "a library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life raft and a festival". change.org/p/save-birming…

It's time to choose your IS&T Pick of the Month for April 2024. Will you vote for work by @Coppin_Eri, @LucyDixcart, David Keyworth, Anna Mindel Crawford, Winifred Mok (Win aka "The Producer" @ the Treehouse w/No Leaves) or Daniel Rye? Go to inksweatandtears.co.uk/april-2024-pic… for details!

When we write our own theatre histories applying theories developed in our manufactories we change the narrative. Congratulations Kene for this beautiful collection. Yours Truly's chapter appears in the book.

Compagnie Maguy Marin: May B review – an absurdly beautiful dance translation of Samuel Beckett theguardian.com/stage/article/…

Radiating joy after winning a prize for performing poetry - listen to Ruby yr 5/6 Welsh learners’ recitation winner at the Urdd Eisteddfod, Powys

Listening to Nabihah Iqbal and can't believe I'm hearing cantopop on BBC Radio 6 Music right now! Faye Wong's version of Dreams by The Cranberries, made famous of course in Wong Kar Wai's #film Chungking Express youtube.com/watch?v=hN2jOH…

Channelling 2024's dragon 🐉energy with lots of productive #poetry writing ✍️, and now, honoured to be a part of Room 204 with WritingWestMidlands 🙏 #amwriting #amediting #writingcommunity writingwestmidlands.org/writing-west-m…

Fun trick with Advanced 3D in After Effects 24.5: use a depth map as a luma matte for an adjustment layer. Good for fog, smoke, heat haze and other atmospheric effects, anything where you need to change effect intensity based on distance from camera.

When I declared my independence from the two-party system last October, I did so for the American people – for you. You have been my greatest inspiration, and I will continue to work as hard as I can to unify this country for you.

Just watched this Robert F. Kennedy Jr #documentary #film on addiction. Journalism doing what it's meant to do - acknowledging problems as a starting point, asking the right questions, and seeing possible solutions though experts, experience and empathy. youtu.be/liZq31HLnyA?si…

Have you read today's #PoemADay: “Alone in bed thinking about another breakup” by Ty Chapman? poets.org/poem/alone-bed…

Over 140 calls for submissions of #poetry #fiction #flash #nonfiction #art #photography & more - competitions, literary journals, residencies, bursaries etc - open or with deadlines in August 2024. Best of luck & pls share! thisiswordbox.com/wordbox-blog/w…

The gap between the rich and the poor is here in China. Entering slums from modern shopping malls.😲 We are in Changsha nostalgic theme restaurant.

If you don't know it already: the story of how Copenhagen transformed its deeply polluted harbour (heavy metals, toxins, sewage) into a clean, swimmable space (otters, seals, people) is hugely inspiring. "Water is [now] the lifeblood of this modern city." outdoorswimmingsociety.com/how-copenhagen…

This is one of my favorite papers to assign for incoming graduate students. And, re-reading it for this morning's class gave me some reminders I needed myself. ✨ journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/12…