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Tim Waterman

@tim-waterman.co.uk
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Writer & speaker. Landscape, food, utopias, queer theory, imagination. Prof of Landscape Theory at the Bartlett School of Architecture. Antifascist. Recent book: The Landscape of Utopia. At work on 'Reworlding: Planetarity & Future Imaginaries'.

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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 22h
Folks, you know what you have to do here. Drink up to help out!
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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 22h
Asset stripping as Ponzi scheme. Who'd a thunk it?
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Lookin' at ur department website, noticin' that 80% are men over 60, knowin' that you just denied tenure to four young non-white scholars. Meanwhile, you're *all* burning out your mid-career women.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026
Reuters got some of the IPO docs. Anthropic is a total dog of a company. Spent $12.6bn to make $4.6bn in revenue in 2025, $7.33bn of which was compute costs. Operating loss of $8bn. Losses getting worse year over year. Amazing stuff www.reuters.com/business/fin...
Summary
Companies
• Anthropic IPO could value the company at more than $2
trillion
• Anthropic lost $42 billion in 2025
• Al lab spent $7.33 billion on compute and infrastructure last year
• Operating loss widened to $8.06 billion in 2025 from $2.98 billion in 2024
• Execs, industry analysts have expressed concerns over harms of Al tech
Sept 28 (Reuters) - Anthropic is making a massive bet that Al will transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters.
But the cost to get there will be staggering. Anthropic reported a net loss of $42 billion in 2025, and plans to spend $518 billion on cloud, computing and infrastructure obligations in coming year, according to the
prospectus.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
'Places for Scottish students, who study for free, are capped by the Scottish government and account for about 30% of students at St Andrews. Maintenance loans and bursaries cover basic costs, but those from lower-income families are...often left with less disposable income than...contemporaries.'
theguardian.com
‘It’s like the Scottish Upper East Side’: shame and snobbery as American students blamed for St Andrews classism
Online comments reflect class tensions at Scottish university between those from lower-income families and wealthier US undergraduates
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Simon is on strike ✊🏻 @simonxix.com · 28/09/2026
Historic England outsourced their digital image provision to a third-party company. Then the company went bust and now all their images are inaccessible. Tell me again how outsourcing to the private sector is sustainable?
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mr dog @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Donald Trump unpopular? Finally! How could this have happened? We may never know. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
theguardian.com
Oh no Donald Trump is becoming increasingly unpopular! Surely it must all be over soon | First Dog on the Moon
It’s so bad some Republicans are even turning against him – bit late guys but whatever
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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 28/09/2026
Solidarity. www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Edinburgh University lecturers begin five-week strike over cuts
Members of the University and Colleges Union are walking out in part of a long-running dispute over job and course cuts.
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Author Simulator. My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com
Title: Author Simulator 

Level 1: Get to desk and begin! (Platform video game-style image of an author jumping from a block onto  a cloud with desk and computer) Result: success!

Level 2: Press on despite distractions! (Author typing as the desk/clod moves past a ghost and a spider) ) Result: success!

Level 3: Deliver manuscript to editor! (Author jumping over fire pit onto platform where editor waits) Result: success!

Level 4: Accept minor criticism! (Author lying ded in fronto of editors desk) Result: better luck next time!

Along the bottom are controls for:
 Left right jump crouch read write nap coffee
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Dr Victoria Xiaoxiao Ma @victoriaxiaoxiaoma.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Monday #morningread John Clare’s ‘Nutting’
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026
Stasigotchi
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Mark Zuckerberg unveils AI ‘charm’ device that can fit on a keychain
Social media chief says the Muse personal assistant is the ‘centrepiece’ of his AI vision after launch success
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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 24/09/2026
Details announced for American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting 2027 in New York. I'm sad not to go, but I will not travel to the US until the fascism is over. www.aag.org/events/aag20...
aag.org
2027 AAG Annual Meeting - AAG
AAG - 2027 AAG Annual Meeting -
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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 24/09/2026
CFP: Seeking Chapters for The Bloomsbury Handbook of Transecology networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
networks.h-net.org
CFP: Chapters for The Bloomsbury Handbook of Transecology | H-Net
Seeking Chapters for The Bloomsbury Handbook of TransecologyA decade after Nicole Seymour's chapter “Trans Ecology and the Transgender Road Narrative” in The Oxford Handbook of Ecocriticism, following Susan Stryker’s foreword to the 2020 book Transecology: Transgender Perspectives on Environ
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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 24/09/2026
I'm finally getting the hang of using my fancy new website! Have a look if you're interested in seeing what I'm up to. www.tim-waterman.co.uk
tim-waterman.co.uk
Tim Waterman - Landscape Theorist and Writer
Tim Waterman is Professor of Landscape Theory at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, writing and speaking on taste, democracy, utopias and design.
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Not a dicky bird about thugs trying to sink a dinghy with a rescue worker on board or their claims to be "forming an army". Two boats of people seeking safety land and bingo bango they're the ones portrayed as the issue. Labour is complict in the rise of the far right. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Home Secretary hits out at 'unacceptable' migrant landings in Kent
Usually brought ashore by Border Security Command or the RNLI, these are the first uncontrolled landings since 2025.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 22/09/2026
"OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman gave Trump's super PAC a whopping $25 million" is one of those things that could really stand to be pointed out more:
finance.yahoo.com
OpenAI exec becomes top Trump donor with $25 million gift
The super PAC will help fund Republicans' midterm election battle.
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Tracy @wacket.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 23/09/2026
Oddly I was just thinking yesterday that Liv Lafflove would be a great drag name.
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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 23/09/2026
Mark Wigley, 2026: "landscape is probably a much more interesting category than architecture." Ha! Someone noticed what we've known about landscape for decades. landezine.com/mark-wigley-...
landezine.com
Mark Wigley: Landscape Is Now Probably the Most Politically Charged Site – Landscape Architecture Platform | Landezine
Landezine talks to Mark Wigley about landscape as a form of human exceptionalism, the politics of soil, architecture’s long separation from microbial life…
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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 23/09/2026
Draw an iceberg and see how it will float joshdata.me/iceberger.html
A white iceberg of unusual shape floats in a blue cartoon sea
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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 23/09/2026
CFP: Towards a Posthumanistic Mountain Humanities, Online Workshop 11 December 2026. networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
'The records have been digitised and indexed by the genealogy company Ancestry, which has partnered with the Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery at University College London.' Leaps and bounds forward in our understanding of the histories of the British enslaved. #Skystorians
theguardian.com
Nearly 4m records of enslaved people in 20 former British colonies now searchable online
Exclusive: Collection’s 300,000 pages record lives of enslaved people in countries including the Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica, Mauritius, South Africa and Trinidad
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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 21/09/2026
Remember this big guy? Just happened to spot him in the docks in Hamburg today.
Big green container ship called the Ever Given. Yes, the same one that stopped up the Suez Canal
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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 21/09/2026
Germany's elections are showing that voters across the spectrum correctly intuit that the so-called 'centrist' (but actually right-wing) neoliberal experiment has failed and that it's time to put it in the bin.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
🔴 Something Tom Watson won't tell you: Five police forces in the East Midlands working with Palantir on a controversial surveillance programme are ending their involvement Exclusive by Democracy for Sale and Liberty Investigates. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-f...
democracyforsale.substack.com
Revealed: Five police forces to drop Palantir surveillance tool
Exclusive: Palantir's UK policing ambitions take a hit as East Midlands forces end their involvement in a controversial data pilot.
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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Universities don’t go bankrupt in isolation When student numbers fall & a university cuts back, the shock spreads through the city: halls, landlords, shops, cafés, contractors, transport & local jobs Dundee’s student-housing collapse is a warning www.theguardian.com/education/20...
theguardian.com
Students scramble for accommodation after provider goes bust in Dundee
Case highlights severe financial strain on sector across UK as string of university housing schemes fail
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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 20/09/2026
Just in case you didn't know where the phrase "jumping the shark" came from. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumping...
en.wikipedia.org
Jumping the shark - Wikipedia
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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 20/09/2026
But I'm an intellectual who studies direct experience ...
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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 19/09/2026
Britain’s most artificial landscape may not survive climate change theconversation.com/britains-mos...
theconversation.com
Britain’s most artificial landscape may not survive climate change
The Fens are a food-growing powerhouse, but the landscape only exists thanks to humans holding back the sea.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
'The Labour peer and former deputy leader will operate alongside Palantir’s UK and Europe chief executive, Louis Mosley, as the company attempts to fend off pressure on Burnham’s government to axe its £330m NHS contract.'
theguardian.com
Former Labour deputy leader Tom Watson joins Palantir
Peer takes full-time position at the controversial company as it fends off pressure from both Andy Burnham’s government and Sadiq Khan
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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026
Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
'The University and College Union (UCU)’s Edinburgh branch said staff had been called into “informal meetings at less than 24 hours' notice” and told not to bring union representatives.'
heraldscotland.com
Fear and anger as university set to announce 'massive course and programme closures'
Asked to respond, a university spokesperson said that staff and students were recently informed of changes to “our future academic offering across…
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Rob 🏳️‍🌈 @rotster.net · 17/09/2026
The absolute scourge of the ‘informal meeting’ - a technique management now regularly use to avoid accountability. Always ask what ‘informal’ means, always demand the full formal process with union support, and always remember that it is definitely not an ‘informal meeting’ if HR are there.
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Josh Pizzuto-Pomaco @joshpizpom.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
EXC: 90 programmes in Edinburgh University's College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences are to be closed. The casualties, which include 48 language and literature programmes, will be 'taught out', w/ no admissions after 2027. @heraldscotland.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/news/2655839...
heraldscotland.com
Ninety programmes to close at leading university as savings plan takes shape
According to the document, a total of 90 programmes will be “taught out” over the next several years, including 48 in the School of Language.
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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 17/09/2026
CFP: OLHJ Special Collection Articles: "Eros Across Antiquity, Ecology, and Posthumanism" in the Open Library of Humanities Journal olh.openlibhums.org/news/1019/
olh.openlibhums.org
Call for OLHJ Special Collection Articles: Eros Across Antiquity, Ecology and Posthumanism
This special collection explores a simple but powerful concept: that love, or eros, as the ancient Greeks called it—is not just a personal emotion but a fundamental force that binds …
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026
Your burrito is fascist now.
wired.com
Chipotle Is Working With Palantir to Track Food Safety Risks
The burrito chain has enlisted Palantir for a platform that monitors pest incidents, employee illnesses, and other factors. The partnership comes after a nightmare summer for food safety across the US...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
One thing that Trump and Pete Hegseth will never tell you about the war - the truth. www.cbsnews.com/news/new-pho...
cbsnews.com
New photos show widespread damage at U.S. positions caused by Iranian missile, drone attacks
The images were sent to CBS News by active service members under condition of anonymity.
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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The Power of Mama is made up of 146 women, aged between 10 & 58, from 10 villages in West Kalimantan, in Indonesian Borneo. Power of Mama is Indonesia’s first-ever all female firefighting team, formed to protect one of the planet's most biodiverse regions. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
theguardian.com
The women saving Borneo: battling fire, patriarchy and super El Niño on Indonesia’s peatland frontlines
Fire threatens Kalimantan’s rainforests. On the peatland frontlines, a group of local mothers is defending their community
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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
“Intersex” is the “I” in LGBTQIA. Learned a lot, watching this.
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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 15/09/2026
If you missed Elisabeth Esselink's Solex the first time around in the 1990s, it's never too late to catch on, and it's exciting to know she's got a new project! daily.bandcamp.com/features/sol...
daily.bandcamp.com
Solex Does It Again
Revisiting the quirky joys of Elisabeth Esselink's '90s cut-and-paste indie project.
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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 15/09/2026
CFP: Drawing Futures: Technologies of Representation in Humanitarian Spaces, Geneva networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
networks.h-net.org
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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 15/09/2026
CFP: The Modern City Mediated: Emotion, Space, Image networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
networks.h-net.org
Call for Contributions: The Modern City Mediated: Emotion, Space, Image (Extended Deadline) | H-Net
Call for ContributionsEdited Book: The Modern City Mediated: Emotion, Space, ImageMiriam Paeslack and Dorothy Barenscott
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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 15/09/2026
You'll recall P&O Ferries did this and faced no repercussions. The rule of law (and trust and honesty and basic decency) is dying in the UK.
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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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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 15/09/2026
For the record, I just listened to Ed Sheeran's 'Perfect' and Macklemore's 'Thrift Shop' because I couldn't name a song by either of them, and Macklemore is probably a right on person if of limited musical talent whereas Ed Sheeran is a painfully dull musician and a banal whiteboy.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
When they eventually make a movie about this time, please don't put the male politicians in good suits. IMO, the ugly, low rent tailoring should be part of the story.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
LORD! THIS IS GOOD.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Don Jr. is compromised by the Russian government—something you could have guessed, but is now fully confirmed by this ProPublica investigation about an oligarch who helped pay for his wedding.
propublica.org
Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
'In some respects, what we are seeing resembles a form of collective grief. Not only grief for colleagues who have left, but grief for ways of working, professional identities and communities that once gave meaning to academic life. This creates an important challenge for university leaders.'
wonkhe.com
The loss of staff belonging in higher education
Nick Hulbert-Williams argues that what looks like low morale and change fatigue in HE may really be a crisis of belonging
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Judith Beyer @judithbeyer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
english version: zenodo.org/records/1973...
zenodo.org
"Pocket Guide for Academics under Attack"
Across Europe and beyond, higher education is being reshaped by the converging pressures of financial austerity, political interference, and AI driven managerial systems. These forces increasingly inf...
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