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Dr Karen Di Franco @archivist23.bsky.social · 6h

It's very dispiriting -- The Guardian arts coverage is a trash fire.

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Dr Karen Di Franco @archivist23.bsky.social · 8h

What will Eddy Frankel make of it?

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Dr Karen Di Franco @archivist23.bsky.social · 8h

Love how scandalised Jonathan Jones is about that 90s show. Magazines? Fashion? He must be the only critic lamenting a lack of YBA work.

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Dr Karen Di Franco @archivist23.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Coinciding with a video made by an employee that denies the genocide taking place in Palestine 🇵🇸 it’s perhaps not the day to be promoting artworks about blood and asking people how they ‘feel’.

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Dr Karen Di Franco @archivist23.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The absolutely tin-eared promotion of the Anish Kapoor show by the Hayward Gallery on instagram is being redeemed by the comments section underneath.

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Dr Karen Di Franco @archivist23.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Observed through the window on the bus: an office, empty aside from one person stood gazing abstractly outwards. On the screen behind them, a large QR code and the words ‘daily pulse survey’.

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Dr Karen Di Franco @archivist23.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sharepoint does all it can to be infuriating as a file management application.

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Dr Karen Di Franco @archivist23.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A variety of briefings, presentations, unloading and moving a refreshment delivery — setting up/ taking down and generally being friendly all day. Very tired. Never been so happy to get on the bus.

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bricup.bsky.social @bricup.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In a joint investigation by Liberty and Al Jazeera, thirteen British universities have been exposed as collaborating with BAE systems to ‘handle’ pro-Palestine campus protests. www.bricup.org.uk/news-2/uk-un...

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UK universities briefed BAE Systems on pro-Palestine campus protests – BRICUP

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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

BREAKING: 94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside Andy Burnham’s Labour Party conference. UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.

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Dr Karen Di Franco @archivist23.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Can report back that the experiment was successful on the level of socialising, but as predicted, I’m exhausted.

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Dr Karen Di Franco @archivist23.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Are we at peak list yet? Please say that we are.

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Dr Karen Di Franco @archivist23.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Dug out the slowly dying lavender from the balcony planter and replaced it with a geranium— the only plant that’s thrived so far. Rosemary and jasmine remain along with nasturtium. Will plan better for next year.

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 26/09/2026

#OtD 26 Sep 1940 German Jewish philosopher, cultural critic and essayist, Walter Benjamin died in Portbou at the French-Spanish border while attempting to escape from invading Nazi forces. The most likely cause of death was suicide stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9870...

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Dr Karen Di Franco @archivist23.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Would a podcast about feminist artist publishing be interesting to anyone?

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Dr Karen Di Franco @archivist23.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

On my way home from an extremely Cafe Oto event.

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Goldsmiths UCU @goldsmithsucu.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

1/8 Now in our 15th week of indefinite strike action against the next phase of staff cuts, we are calling for urgent fundraising support from across UCU and all trade unions to help us through one of the longest and most difficult disputes in our branch's history. opencollective.com/goldsmithsmu...

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goldsmiths mutual aid - Open Collective

Provide hardship funds to precariously employed staff at Goldsmiths whose employment has been cut or changed as a result of Covid-19 or restructures and who may be further impacted by strike deductions during GUCU industrial action

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Dr Karen Di Franco @archivist23.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I love it when people have opinions.

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Dr Karen Di Franco @archivist23.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Trying to have a social life is hard.

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Dr Karen Di Franco @archivist23.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Am embarking on a period of work and evening events across the next few days. Normally I can only manage one or the other so let’s see how this goes.

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Sarah Jane Cervenak @sjcerv.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This conversation is a decade old today. Honored to be there❤️

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Dr Karen Di Franco @archivist23.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The thread reveals the issue is due to a bot attack.

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Dr Karen Di Franco @archivist23.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Safeguarding online repositories is absolutely necessary — large institutions are increasingly the most precarious (see the BL as an example).

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Iona Craig @ionacraig.com · 21/09/2026

“Defensive air to air refuelling” Burnham has confirmed the UK will provide to Saudi for airstrikes in Yemen was the same line used to aid Trump’s bombing of Yemen. That “support” facilitated a strike the US says ‘likely’ killed 80 civilians. How many more civilians will the British support killing?

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Dr Karen Di Franco @archivist23.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

60 students on campus — more to arrive ! 😬🤪😵‍💫

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Dr Karen Di Franco @archivist23.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This week has been full: finishing preparations for the start of new term and tutorials for returning students; visit to an artists home to prepare their archive; team meetings and then yesterday a workshop at the Warburg institute. Now another day working on a bid.

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Dr Karen Di Franco @archivist23.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Woke in the night convinced I was experiencing some kind of physical transformation.

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Dr Karen Di Franco @archivist23.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Anyone else been approached to attend Baku Art Weekend? Can't work out if it's spam or not.

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Daniel C. Blight @danielcblight.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

***URGENT PLEASE SHARE*** University of Brighton management have announced today that they ‘give notice of termination of all collective agreements’. This is a fundamental erasure of workers' rights. Management have announced the termination of all contractual documents, which includes:

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

New: Macklemore says Robert Kraft — who owns Gillette Stadium, where Macklemore & Ed Sheeran were to perform later this month — called Sheeran. Kraft rallied other owners together behind an ultimatum for Sheeran: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you won't be allowed in our venues.

I'm not sure how to start this. So I'm going to speak from the heart and share the truth. Ed Sheeran and his team have made the decision to remove me from The Loop tour.
But before I get into it, I want to say something that should be obvious. In this moment I think it matters. I am not a victim. Ed Sheeran is not a victim. Pink is not a victim. We have careers, money, opportunities, safety and audiences around the world. Whatever consequences any of us face for what we say, we get to go home to our families.

The victims are the Palestinian people. The men, women and children who have been killed, starved, displaced and forced to live through unimaginable violence. More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza alone. People are being killed today, and people will be killed tomorrow. I want to make sure that as I tell this story, we don't lose sight of that.

Ed is my friend. I've known him for 13 years. We've shared late nights, studio sessions and stages. He has this infectious magic about him that I've grown to love. I consider him a brother. And because of that, we've had some difficult conversations this past week. The type of talks rooted in love and respect for one another that still end in a place of fundamental disagreement. Nothing I'm writing here is out of spite or because I want to tear down his character. But as I told Ed multiple times on the phone, our friendship can't change my responsibility to tell the truth about what happened.

Last Monday, in the middle of all the media attention surrounding Pink and what I said at MetLife, Ed told me that Robert Kraft called him. We were scheduled to play Gillette Stadium later this month, which is owned by the Kraft Group. Ed told me that Kraft said I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium. Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other
stadium owners and collectively they gave him an ultimatum: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues.

Ed was in …

What I said at MetLife I have been saying on stages around the world for almost three years. So why is it an issue now? Because now I'm sharing a stage with one of the biggest artists in the world, in some of the biggest stadiums in America. At a certain level of exposure, "Free Palestine" becomes too much of a risk. If I kept doing the shows, saying Free Palestine, with Ed implicitly supporting it, the crowd getting loud and showing undeniable support for Palestinian liberation, what artist might speak out next? The stage becomes resistance. Maybe that's why this time it became so important to silence me.

And one of the most effective ways to enforce that silence has been to weaponize the accusation of antisemitism. Antisemitism is real. And that is exactly why the word matters too much to be used as a shield against criticism of the Israeli state. When criticizing Israel, opposing Zionism or saying "Free Palestine" gets conflated with hatred of Jewish people, it doesn't protect Jewish people. It protects Israel from accountability.

I hope this isn't the end of my relationship with Ed.
Thirteen years of friendship doesn't disappear because of one painful disagreement. I hope we both continue listening, studying what is happening in Palestine and wrestling with what neutrality means in a moment like this. My door will always be open to continuing that conversation.

When my brother Omar was doing the subtitles for the video I posted from MetLife, I thanked him. He told me there's a phrase in Arabic:
لا شكر على واجب
"La shukra ala wajeb." There is no thanks for a duty.
That stayed with me. Because that's what this has become for me and millions of others around the world. A duty. Not something deserving of praise or gratitude. Not brave. Human.

Who is winning the internet, who is getting canceled, who gets to play the stadium and who doesn't, all of it becomes so small when held against what we are actually witnessing in Gaza and the West Bank. An entire people be…

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 11/09/2026

Every worker facing redundancy at the University of Birmingham is from a migrant or minority ethnic background. UCU members will meet on 17 September to decide whether to ballot for strike action. No compulsory redundancies. Release the equality impact assessment. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1463...

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University of Birmingham staff to consider strike ballot over redundancies that fall entirely on minority ethnic staff

Staff at the University of Birmingham will meet next week to consider potential strike action in a battle against redundancies, the University and College Union (UCU) said today (11 September).

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Dr Karen Di Franco @archivist23.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I'd love to research, curate and teach but unfortunately I have to organise the removal and installation of furniture, the scheduling of keys and access for a hire that I'm nothing to do with and the fixing of a toilet window.

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Dr Karen Di Franco @archivist23.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

My body wrote a lot of cheques in July that my job is now attempting to cash in Sept.

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Dr Karen Di Franco @archivist23.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Mind and body currently occupying two different seasons.

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Dr Karen Di Franco @archivist23.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I'm really tempted to get that new biography of Barbara Cartland partly because that 'look' was so prevalent for a period I recall when growing up. So many women with coloured rinses, twin sets and pearls.

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Dr Karen Di Franco @archivist23.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Because of Instagram’s terrible algorithm, now every other post in my feed is of Elizabeth Holmes. I read one article, that’s all it took.

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Dr Karen Di Franco @archivist23.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The response is not an anomaly. Fascism is fully enabled by both the state and the media in 2026.

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Amanda Wyatt! Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Libraries, DH centers, other folks w/printer access 🖨️ who can make a stack of free-zine copies: there's a "take one!" poster you can print to go alongside them on our zine page! zinebakery.com//homemade-zi...

Zine cover for "DIY Web Archiving" poster with additional text allowing it to be posted over a stack of the zines encouraging taking some. "Things disappear* from the internet. (*sometimes, are deliberately disappeared)
Care about stuff on the web?
art zines fan fic
videos/tiktoks photo galleries social media hashtags departed loved ones' posts museum & archival materials
that we have always existed
what really happened
cultural memory
human rights
resistance
joy
*YOU* need to act to archive it.
Anyone can do it-this zine shows you how.
Free! Take a bunch! Take more & share with friends!
DIY Web Archiving Zine
Daedel, Kijas, Kreymer, Walsh, Visconti

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 04/09/2026

If you see something, save something. Web pages disappear daily—changed, moved, deleted, or just forgotten. 🕳️ Save Page Now lets you preserve a webpage before it disappears. See something worth keeping? Save it today. ➡️ web.archive.org/save/ #ToolsYouCanUse

Cream graph-paper graphic with decorative yellow zigzag line art framing the edges. Bold black text reads "Save Page Now lets you preserve a webpage that's important to you before it changes or disappears." A yellow ">" chevron tagline at the bottom reads "tools you can use."

Cream graph-paper graphic framed by yellow line art, featuring a screenshot of the Internet Archive Wayback Machine homepage with its search bar, page thumbnails, and three tool options — Subscription Service, Collection Search, and Save Page Now — with the Save Page Now box circled in red. A yellow ">" chevron tagline below reads "tools you can use," pointing toward a yellow arrow.

Cream graph-paper graphic with decorative yellow zigzag line art and a small multicolor line-art icon of the Internet Archive's columned building in the lower right. Bold black text reads "Save a page that matters today."

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Dr Karen Di Franco @archivist23.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Solidarity with anyone struggling with returning to work, being at work, or finding work right now. It’s hard.

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Dr Karen Di Franco @archivist23.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Extremely tasty Richard Tuttle ‘Small Sculptures from the 1970s’ — precision with zero artifice, they are disarmingly complex, simple objects.

Small sculpture made from 1/2” molding painted white.

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