@eob
Richard James. Composer, musician, sound artist, producer. Linktree - https://linktr.ee/HotelETAl?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaam-3zN6Mgu1KeQXb9By0VF-l1oLXLetcauUlYim5A71O1fk5LaTrzaDk8_aem_Z3WqK_2NZKLoX5-S5w_-BQ
Smooth, Neolithic stone axes, knapped flint tools and two awls made from bone.
Archaeologists have uncovered one of the first instances of interaction between #Neolithic farmers and #Mesolithic hunter-gatherers in central Europe, indicating a level of technology transfer not observed before.
🏺A communicative #AntiquityThread 1/10 🧵
Antler frontlet, consisting of the upper part of a deer cranium with the two antlers still attached.
Antler tools, such as axes, and an antler mask similar to that of the iconic Bad Dürrenberg ‘shaman’ indicate contact with local Mesolithic foragers. Antler flakes show the artefacts were produced on-site 7/10
Hotel Et Al
Live at the Glynn Vivian gallery, Swansea, Thursday February 12th, Free, 5:30pm doors
Yn fyw yn Oriel Glynn Vivian, Abertawe, dydd Iau Chwefror 12ed, Am ddim, 5:30og drysau
Tickets/Tocynnau -
www.songkick.com/concerts/429...
Wrote a thing:
The carnage associated with fossil fuel is why speeding the transition to renewables is good for international stability as well as everything else. Fossil fuel is inseparable from violence, and dependence on it it has created a brutal world order....
Please read, listen, and share widely. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
Pat Thomas: Black Top #GŵylNAWR
www.theguardian.com/music/2024/n...
Orphy Robinson: Black Top #GŵylNAWR
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Tickets are really starting to fly out now for NAWR Fest 2025
Advance Day tickets are only £15 buff.ly/GBR8bO4 Tickets on the day will be £20 so don’t mess about. Get your advance ticket now and have a fiver ready for a beer when you arrive. We cant wait to see you there. xxx
Have a listen to 'Elan' on your favourite streaming service
"deserves to be hailed as not only a Welsh, but a worldwide folk classic" Joyzine
"Syd Barrett meets The Beach Boys" Fatea
"A veritable triumph" Klof Mag
"a quite remarkable record" Folking.com
⭐⭐⭐⭐ Songlines
⭐⭐⭐⭐ Americana UK
Many thanks to @thewiremagazine.bsky.social for previewing this year’s NAWR Festival which is happening on 08/11/25 in Ty Tawe, Swansea. Tickets are just £15 in advance for the day here: shorturl.at/mGEpa or £20 on the door. We can’t wait to see you there. www.thewire.co.uk/events/gwyl-...
Great thread about Farage’s German immigrant roots. The man is a blatant hypocrite.
In the late 19th century, millions of migrants left Germany as a result of religious persecution, economic hardship, and political uncertainty.
Among them was Nikolaus Schrod, a cabinet maker from Frankfurt who - along with his wife Bina - moved to London to start a new life in the 1850s. 1/3
💙New paper!💙
How is knowledge transmitted across generations in a foraging society?
With @danielredhead.bsky.social
we found: In BaYaka foragers, long-term skills pass in smaller, sparser networks, while short-term food info circulates broadly & reciprocally
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One thing about me is that I will fight Nazis until I’m six feet in the ground.
Diolch / Thanks a million to Will Snelling @thequietus.com for mentioning me and @eob.bsky.social in this fabulous look at one of my all-time favourite albums by one of my all-time favourite guitarists
WaPo cartoonist resigns after Post rejects her cartoon of billionaires paying tribute to Donald Trump, one of whom happens to be her boss, Jeff Bezos.
Satire has literally died.
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
Please donate, it upsets the blob.
If you've never donated to Wikipedia, now's the time. Elon Musk is attacking it because it's one of the only sources of honest, curated information that he can't control.
www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-ta...
"Whenever someone starts talking about the `free market', it's always a good idea to look around for the man with the gun. He's never far away." - David Graeber.
This message seems relevant now more than ever!
For those interested in attending our Zoom meeting on David Graeber's work, here is the piece we will be discussing
'There Never Was A West.'
davidgraeber.org/articles/the...
"Like many other parts of the world, the UK is in the firm grip of an epidemic of disinformation and misinformation"
A good list of origins of the problem - and tools we need to combat it.
Capitalism itself—industrial capitalism at least—has had a very brief historical run. During a mere 200 years, it has nonetheless shown a remarkable ability to come up with threats to the very existence of the species: first nuclear destruction, now global climate change. . There are good reasons to believe it is simply not a viable long-term system: most obviously, because it is premised on the need for continual growth, and economic growth cannot continue forever on a planet with finite resources. . Capitalism that was not based on the need to continually expand production would simply not be capitalism; its fundamental dynamics would change; it'd become something else. Whatever economic system predominates in 50 years, it is very likely to be something other than capitalism. Of course, that something might be even worse. This is why it seems this is precisely the wrong time to give up on imagining alternatives to capitalism: that is, to come up with ideas for what might actually be better. - David Graeber
This is why we need to be talking about Capitalism.
Every month we host a Zoom meeting to talk about David Graeber's work
The next one will be on December 5th & we'll discuss David Graeber's concept of - There Never Was a West!
Greg Yudin & Mirko Canevaro will speak. If you'd like to join, you can register here:
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
From David Graeber's classic piece called "Against Economics."
davidgraeber.org/articles/aga...
"All capitalists want capitalism for the masses and socialism for the super rich elites. That's kind of the definition of capitalism in my honest opinion."
David Graeber
The spotlight on the financial sector did make apparent just how bizarrely skewed our economy is in terms of who gets rewarded and for what. There was this pall of mystification cast over everything pertaining to that sector, we were told, this is all so very complicated, you couldn’t possibly understand, We just had to take their word that, somehow, this was creating value in ways our simple little heads couldn’t possibly get around. Then after the crash we realized a lot of this stuff was not just scams, but pretty simple-minded scams, like taking bets you couldn’t possibly pay if you lost and just figuring the Gov't would bail you out if you did. These guys weren’t creating value of any kind. They were making the world worse and getting paid insane amounts of money for it." . Suddenly it became possible to see that if there’s a rule, it’s that the more obviously your work benefits others, the less you’re paid for it. CEOs and financial consultants that are actually making other people’s lives worse were paid millions, useless paper-pushers got handsomely compensated, people fulfilling obviously useful functions like taking care of the sick or teaching kids, repairing broken heating systems or picking vegetables were the least rewarded. . - David Graeber
After the financial crash in 2008,. David Graeber made some rather interesting comments about the so-called financial sector of the economy.
His words are still very relevant today in 2024.
Have a read for yourself.
Agor heddiw, ‘Modrwy Diemwnt’, gosodiad clyweledol gwyl Boia, Capel Seion, Ty Ddewi, 10og-6og Hydref 25ed-31ed
Hefyd mae’r prif gwaith sain/cerddoriaeth i’r gosodiad sef ‘Nature Purgatory Transcendence’ wedi rhyddhau heddiw ar bandcamp. Dolen yn y bio evolutionofbeauty.bandcamp.com/album/nature...
Opening today, ‘Modrwy Diemwnt’, audio visual installation Boia Festival, Capel Seion, St Davids, 10am-6pm October 25th-31st
Also the primary music/sound work for the installation called ‘Nature Purgatory Transcendence’ is released today via bandcamp evolutionofbeauty.bandcamp.com/album/nature...
