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Gair Dunlop @gair.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Well since you asked, I have spent the weekend underground in a former ROTOR/ US Navy SIGINT facility doing art performance and installation. #BERVIEBROWRESEARCHSTATION

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Dundee UCU @ducuuo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Amazing turnout today on Day 4 of our picket to rule out compulsory redundancies.

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Gair Dunlop @gair.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Please support our attempts to hold Dundee University leadership and the University Court accountable for their disastrous mismanagement! Judicial Review of Governance at Dundee University www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/judicial-r...

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Judicial Review of Governance at Dundee University

DUCU is raising funds for a Judicial Review of the governance decisions that led the University Court to approve compulsory redundancies.

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Christian Keitel @ckeitelsci.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Successful first day! Keep the momentum going - donate to our crowdfunder to cover the legal costs for a judicial review of the governance decisions that led to the threat of compulsory redundancies. No donation too small, anonymous donations possible. PLZshare. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/judicial-r...

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Judicial Review of Governance at Dundee University

DUCU is raising funds for a Judicial Review of the governance decisions that led the University Court to approve compulsory redundancies.

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Gair Dunlop @gair.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Good afternoon! Please support our crowdfunder to initiate a judicial review of decision making and governance at Dundee University. No more cuts!

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

What surprises me is that people who have left Britain for the sake of their own greed still feel entitled to express an opinion about the country.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The Humanities disciplynes are beautiful & useful by cause thei amplifye our humanitye. Undir the care offerid by focused & specialized researche & studye, workes of the present are given more momentum, and thryve. Artefacts of the past blossom ynto newe ydeas. The Humanityes care for the worlde.

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Gair Dunlop @gair.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

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Judicial Review of Governance at Dundee University

DUCU is raising funds for a Judicial Review of the governance decisions that led the University Court to approve compulsory redundancies.

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Sexy Plato's Cave @andrewblair.co.uk · 16/09/2026

The arts industry in the UK: we contribute so much money to the economy but we are dying, please help Lisa Nandy: Village Parish Council: we held a pretend referendum Lisa Nandy: I'm listening

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Roses are redde Noble are the manatees For a bettir future Teach artes and humanityes

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Gair Dunlop @gair.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Come to Bervie Brow. Find out what happens out of sight and in the mind!

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Gair Dunlop @gair.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

THE EVENT is happening! tickets available now. Limited numbers. See you there! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bunker-dow...

a photograph of a nuclear bunker entrance tunnel, advertising an art and performance event on the 25th and 26th september. Bunker Down! is a two-day, artists-led live event, featuring experimental art, installations, and
performances, at the Bervie Brow Research Station, a historic 28-acre Cold War bunker and signals
station on the north-east coast of Scotland. During these uncertain times, Bunker Down! invites
audiences to engage the work of a dynamic group of UK based and international artists working with film
and video, electronic music, sound art, performance, virtual reality, video games, photography and other
experimental creative practices. We invite the audience to join us to find a temporary place to shelter,
reflect, stimulate conversations and engage a diversity of live performances and artist’s installations in the
various rooms, corridors and above ground within the confines of the Bervie Brow Research Station.
The events are scheduled as follows:
•Friday evening: 18:00-21:00 (live performances & installations)
•Saturday daytime: 11:00-13:00, 14:00-16:00 (installations and Bervie tours)
•Saturday evening: 18:00-21:00 (live performances & installations)
Pre-booked entries only, space is limited -

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I’ve reconciled myself to being to the left of any Labour government in my adult lifetime, but I didn’t anticipate that I’d also wildly diverge from them on whether masked gangs of fascist thugs should be allowed to break the law with impunity in the service of inciting racial hatred

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

When I lived in the UK none of my concerns e.g. affordable housing, climate action, increases in welfare spending, scrapping tuition fees, an ethical foreign policy, were ever framed as legitimate concerns. lnstead I was routinely told to fuck off by most political parties for having such concerns.

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Gair Dunlop @gair.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Thank you to everyone who came to the 'Nuclear Latitudes' performance and screening event at the Royal Geographical Society on Wednesday evening. It was really enjoyable to be part of this. Here's the link to my contribution; a 12 minute film called 'the hidden wiring' vimeo.com/gair/hidden-...

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Gair Dunlop @gair.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Introduce yourself with ten acts you've seen live: Madmen from planet sex The lost t-shirts of Atlantis Thrilled skinny The giggly pillows Tibetan Ukrainian mountain troupe. Spiggy Topes and the turds The spinners The caravelles Broughty diner Kenneth MacKellar

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Gair Dunlop @gair.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

News of upcoming events and experiments here! mailchi.mp/685ee92bb883...

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Gair Dunlop @gair.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

In London next Wednesday: email or DM me if you are interested in coming! A Hybrid Performance Event September 2nd, 2026 18:45-21:15 Ondaatje Theatre Royal Geographical Society 1 Kensington Gore, London Convened by Jay Needham, Louise K Wilson and Frederike Lange.

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Gair Dunlop @gair.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Dates for your diary; #artcarbootsale at #thebriggait on the 7th and 8th November. I will have ceramics, photographs, self-published book editions, low relief sculptures, and a few surprises.

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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Powerful and important letter about artificial so-called intelligence from Sheila Hayman from Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, University of Cambridge, in the FT today

$Margaret McGirr’s letter (“AI can lend a hand, but it will struggle to replace one”, July 21) and Chine McDonald’s guest column (“This retro revival is more than a longing for the past”, Opinion, August 7) both touch (sic) on something that should be obvious, but is carefully ignored by almost everyone in the tech world. Namely that our intelligence is embodied, evolved and biological, and inseparable from our bodies. The brain’s job is to control the body in the world; it is the last organ to develop. Every square centimetre of our hands (and of the rest of our skin) contains about a 170 touch sensors or nerve endings, sensitive to different kinds of touch: a slap, a burn, a caress, a hug — each of which travels to different parts of the midbrain, prompting the appropriate response. Quickly to the autonomic nervous system for something dangerous; more slowly via a different channel for something carrying meaning. In addition to the hand’s limitless versatility, it is self-repairing, regulates its own temperature, knows without being programmed how much pressure to exert on an egg, a tennis ball or a day-old chick, and can fuse neurologically to whatever it holds. So when we put a glass down on the table or slide a knife through an apple, we feel the table, or the apple, not the glass or handle in our hand (try it!). Finally, and most urgently, the entire human body — including the hands — does everything on 25 or so watts of completely renewable energy: a tiny fraction of what a humanoid robot, even one of the current primitive iteration of robots, needs. The “retro revival” is thus not cultural nostalgia. It’s millions of years of evolution crying out to be heard, before we suppress it totally in the service of an automated — and dead — planet. Sheila Hayman Member of the Advisory Board, Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, University of Cambridge, London NW1, UK$

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Dundee UCU @ducuuo.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Dundee UCU warns: Dundee could be left poorer and millions in emergency funding squandered as interim Principal pushes ahead with more wide-reaching and devastating job cuts. Fundamental financial questions remain unresolved as serious governance failures continue. sites.dundee.ac.uk/ducu/

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Dundee University and College Union – Welcome to University and College Union (UCU) University of Dundee Branch home page.

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Gair Dunlop @gair.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I’m exhibiting as part of PhotoDalkeith/RSA200. Presented by PhotoDalkeith in partnership with the Royal Scottish Academy to mark its bicentenary. 22 Aug – 27 Sept Fri- Sun I'm showing 2 photographs from the Irradiated Fuel Cave series, Dounreay. info via the Dalkeith Country Park website.

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Bruce Gorrie @bsrg1.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Feed your head

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Gair Dunlop @gair.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

That's enough scanning and spotting for one day. Goodnight, friends and fellow seekers after truth. Always remember... #itsasign

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Gair Dunlop @gair.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

PLEASE HELP ME SOURCE THIS QUOTATION! "Scottishness is an energy and an anger which can't be dismissed because it's too useful." Is this paraphrase Alasdair Gray, Jim Kelman, Irvine Welsh? Who was it and exactly what did they say? thank you...

Bank underground station, empty, with posters advertising Glenmorangie Whisky all along the platform. Tranquil landscapes in a curved tube platform.

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Gair Dunlop @gair.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Last boarding call for "It's a Sign!" Crowdfunder! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/its-a-sign Target is reached, production is assured, so doyou want a delirious and strange book exploring the world of sign and meaning in this post-rational world?

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Dundee UCU @ducuuo.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Thank you for your solidarity, Hugh. Unfortunately with the entirely new University Executive Group pushing through more than 200 redundancies this and next month, we need it more than ever.

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Gair Dunlop @gair.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

My #crowdfunder finishes tomorrow Friday the 14th at 14:27 pm precisely. It's reached its target, so production of the catalogue and the exhibition prints are assured. Last chance to pre-order a unique photobook via a pledge! Ken Hollings is writing delirious text www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/its-a-sign

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

This is now the inevitable next stage of the British university crisis - private education groups will buy up the distressed assets. That is base case now. The stage after that will be different and more malign equity groups. www.ft.com/content/f094...

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European education group eyes takeovers of UK universities

Britain ‘an appealing market’ for long-term investment, says Galileo chief

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Gair Dunlop @gair.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Work starts in earnest on "It's a Sign!" #exhibition and #book The Crowdfunder has reached its goal, and runs for 3 more days. If you want a book with beauty, strangeness and excellent writing and design by @hollingsville and @killian_dunne_art, please support it! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/its-a-sign

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Gair Dunlop @gair.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Hello, my #crowdfunder has reached its target! Production of the book and exhibition is assured. It remains open until the 14th of August, so if you'd like a copy of a very special artists book, images by me, text by Ken Hollings and designed by Killian Dunne, please sign up! 1/2

two advertising hoardings on the Ratcliffe highway, Tower Hamlets. One is a charity ad for "help the aged' which is peeling off the board. The other is for Vladivar vodka, where the colour surface of a glamorous couple is pretend-torn to "reveal" a vintage photograph of aristocrats beneath.

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Gair Dunlop @gair.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Hooray, the crowdfunder for my book and exhibition "it's a sign" has reached its target!

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Gair Dunlop @gair.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

It's like working in 1980s Poland; windows gone, toilets horrendous, corridors that lead to nowhere, but it's our art school and we need to defend it by whatever means necessary. For those that grasp the situation, a kind of freedom can prevail here. Students: get clear sighted and work together.

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Dundee UCU @ducuuo.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

With approximately 10 people leaving naturally every month and a recruitment freeze. The target staffing level would be met by the end of October/November. Without having to payout £ms in Voluntary Redundancy agreements. Stopping the process now would save the University money!!!

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Dundee UCU @ducuuo.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

In 50 days time our members will be taking 5 weeks of strike action. We call for the redundancy process to be stopped! Executives want 200 jobs to go (187FTE). Due to resignations and retirements, and non-staff savings, they are 35FTE from their staffing target. Stop this cruel, flawed process.

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Gair Dunlop @gair.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Degree show spaces: signs of departure. And speaking of SIGNS, the crowdfunder is at 92%. If you're the lucky person who tips it over the finish line, shedloads of extra sticke rs and postcards will be yours!

Vinyl name texts, scatalogically re-ordered

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Between the 1970s and 1990s the UK state made a strategic bet to expand Higher Ed. They poured in untold billions of your money. Now it's been handed over to private creditors to burn in a furnace. Then they just laugh at you: at all the taxes you've ever paid or will ever pay. True story. (2/2)

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Gair Dunlop @gair.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

What is the relation between a #sign and a #monument ? When the original monument is destroyed, the passage of time is revealed as sharp and bumpy, not a smooth and trimphant progress. Please support my #exhibition www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/its-a-sign #leefriedlander #joelsternfeld #photography

A monument to a military parade through the Highlands of Scotland in 1937, with a supplementary plaque explaining that the stone replaces a tree destroyed in 1983.

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Gair Dunlop @gair.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Dundee shows its faces in new ways during the destruction of the old waterfront in preparation for the V&A and Slessor Gardens. Somewhere under the rubble is a cycle path #itsasign . Please support my Crowdfunder to excavate more strange signs and landscapes www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/its-a-sign

Dundee waterfront during the destruction of the old Olympia swimming pool. Piles of rubble lead the eye into a pile of broken footbridge supports, and beyond past a semi-buried cycle path sign to the Tay Bridge watchhouse and an oil rig

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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Everyone who uses "smart glasses" to be legally required to strap one of these to their head and light it up when the camera is on

Replica BBC studios "RECORDING LIVE" sign

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Gair Dunlop @gair.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Signs invite us to behaviours. Signs repel us. Signs reveal things we might not want to think about. “It’s a Sign!” will be @the.wyllieum from Nov 14th. Please support my crowdfunder for the catalogue and exhibition prints! Thank you… #supermarketdreams #itsasign www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/its-a-sign

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