Stephen Hampshire
@shampshire.bsky.social
Customers, psychology, music, history...
Only learned about this story recently via @secondcaptains.bsky.social Great example of people with huge moral courage creating a movement.
One from the archives
In 1984 Dunnes shop worker Mary Manning refused to handle South African goods & was backed by her shop steward, Karen Gearon. Both were suspended. 9 colleagues came out in support. The strike lasted 3yrs & forced the Irish govt to ban the import of all SA goods. All heroes
In 1984 Dunnes shop worker Mary Manning refused to handle South African goods & was backed by her shop steward, Karen Gearon. Both were suspended. 9 colleagues came out in support. The strike lasted 3yrs & forced the Irish govt to ban the import of all SA goods. All heroes
September 27, 2026 at 10:14 AM
Only learned about this story recently via @secondcaptains.bsky.social Great example of people with huge moral courage creating a movement.
Today I avoided a taco stall because they had a shit AI menu. Perhaps their tacos were lovely? I’ll never know. Please don’t do this, taco people.
September 26, 2026 at 11:31 PM
Today I avoided a taco stall because they had a shit AI menu. Perhaps their tacos were lovely? I’ll never know. Please don’t do this, taco people.
Hard to do anything other than applaud this:
the extent to which online infrastructure is simultaneously 100% funded by taxpayer money and yet is 100% owned by private companies is an all-time world-historic civilization-defining lead-in-the-pipes level failure of every single apparatus of social engineering ever conceived by man.
September 26, 2026 at 11:15 PM
Hard to do anything other than applaud this:
I’d forgotten until today that Wu Tang Clan had a song called “For Heavens Sake”.
Presumably on an album with “Typical”, “Well, Really!“ and “I’ll Just Do It Myself Shall I?”
Presumably on an album with “Typical”, “Well, Really!“ and “I’ll Just Do It Myself Shall I?”
September 25, 2026 at 8:30 PM
I’d forgotten until today that Wu Tang Clan had a song called “For Heavens Sake”.
Presumably on an album with “Typical”, “Well, Really!“ and “I’ll Just Do It Myself Shall I?”
Presumably on an album with “Typical”, “Well, Really!“ and “I’ll Just Do It Myself Shall I?”
Been listening to the new Green Lung record this afternoon, and I am in a MUCH better mood as a result.
𝕹𝖊𝖈𝖗𝖔𝖕𝖔𝖑𝖎𝖙𝖆𝖓 𝖎𝖘 𝖔𝖚𝖙 𝖓𝖔𝖜! Our deepest thanks to everyone who has listened, preordered and spread the word. We can’t wait for you to hear the album in full - and to celebrate, an animated music video for ‘Dance to the Grave’ is premiering now 💀 💜 youtu.be/7EeepVS9OXA?...
GREEN LUNG - Dance to the Grave (OFFICIAL VIDEO)
YouTube video by GREEN LUNG
youtu.be
September 25, 2026 at 2:31 PM
Been listening to the new Green Lung record this afternoon, and I am in a MUCH better mood as a result.
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A selection of cover designs from Typografia, 1973.
Issue 7 Cover by Bohuslav Blažej
Issue 5 Cover by Luděk Rohlík
Issue 3 Cover by Milan Jareš
Issues 10 Cover by N. A. Gončarova
designreviewed.com/archive/
#czechdesign #1970s #typography #graphicdesign
Issue 7 Cover by Bohuslav Blažej
Issue 5 Cover by Luděk Rohlík
Issue 3 Cover by Milan Jareš
Issues 10 Cover by N. A. Gončarova
designreviewed.com/archive/
#czechdesign #1970s #typography #graphicdesign
September 25, 2026 at 9:34 AM
A selection of cover designs from Typografia, 1973.
Issue 7 Cover by Bohuslav Blažej
Issue 5 Cover by Luděk Rohlík
Issue 3 Cover by Milan Jareš
Issues 10 Cover by N. A. Gončarova
designreviewed.com/archive/
#czechdesign #1970s #typography #graphicdesign
Issue 7 Cover by Bohuslav Blažej
Issue 5 Cover by Luděk Rohlík
Issue 3 Cover by Milan Jareš
Issues 10 Cover by N. A. Gončarova
designreviewed.com/archive/
#czechdesign #1970s #typography #graphicdesign
This is great, and captures exactly why 7-70Up is so moving, enthralling, and occasionally enraging.
...so read my long love-letter to this show, in which I explore all its complications and unanswered questions, here. juderogers.substack.com/p/the-unansw...
The unanswered questions of 70 Up
The death of Nick, goodbye to Neil, and the power of watching fourteen real lives in time-lapse – the return of my Mid-Week Culture Culture Blast
juderogers.substack.com
September 24, 2026 at 12:40 PM
This is great, and captures exactly why 7-70Up is so moving, enthralling, and occasionally enraging.
“Have you hyphenated that copy?”
“Sure did, boss, real smutty just like you wanted.”
“What?”
“Sure did, boss, real smutty just like you wanted.”
“What?”
September 23, 2026 at 6:52 PM
“Have you hyphenated that copy?”
“Sure did, boss, real smutty just like you wanted.”
“What?”
“Sure did, boss, real smutty just like you wanted.”
“What?”
Can’t believe Sable is 5! I remember excitedly watching this evolve from early teaser videos to absolutely falling in love with it on release. Maybe time for another play through?
It’s Sable’s 5th Anniversary!
I’ve written some reflections on what the game means to me, and to celebrate I’m delighted to announce that @lostincult.co.uk are reprinting the Sable Design Works
Find out more here:
www.eteogames.com/sable-turns-...
I’ve written some reflections on what the game means to me, and to celebrate I’m delighted to announce that @lostincult.co.uk are reprinting the Sable Design Works
Find out more here:
www.eteogames.com/sable-turns-...
Sable Turns Five with a Design Works Reprint
Reflecting on the Five-Year Anniversary of Sable, and announcing a reprint of the Sable Design Works art book.
www.eteogames.com
September 23, 2026 at 5:10 PM
Can’t believe Sable is 5! I remember excitedly watching this evolve from early teaser videos to absolutely falling in love with it on release. Maybe time for another play through?
”Did you get that photo for the cover of our flute book?”
“Sure did, boss, real fucking creepy just like you asked.”
“What?”
…
“WHAT?”
“Sure did, boss, real fucking creepy just like you asked.”
“What?”
…
“WHAT?”
September 23, 2026 at 12:01 PM
”Did you get that photo for the cover of our flute book?”
“Sure did, boss, real fucking creepy just like you asked.”
“What?”
…
“WHAT?”
“Sure did, boss, real fucking creepy just like you asked.”
“What?”
…
“WHAT?”
I knew Lichtenstein was a fraud, but I'm genuinely a little shocked how much worse his copy is. What a hack. Also, kudos to the original art by Tony Abruzzo, which is FAR better than it has any right to be.
I'd never seen this Roy Lichtenstein painting before, but it's incredible how he manages unfailingly to make his copies worse than the original comics he's ripping off.
September 21, 2026 at 10:08 AM
I knew Lichtenstein was a fraud, but I'm genuinely a little shocked how much worse his copy is. What a hack. Also, kudos to the original art by Tony Abruzzo, which is FAR better than it has any right to be.
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NASA picture of the day today is a real 🏴beauty! This is a composite image of the ~5000yo Callanish Stones on the Isle of Lewis. The amazing Giuseppe Petricca has only gone and photographed the Sun at noon there, every few days, for a whole year. #Dedication 🔭🧪👌
ℹ️: science.nasa.gov/image-articl...
ℹ️: science.nasa.gov/image-articl...
September 20, 2026 at 11:10 AM
NASA picture of the day today is a real 🏴beauty! This is a composite image of the ~5000yo Callanish Stones on the Isle of Lewis. The amazing Giuseppe Petricca has only gone and photographed the Sun at noon there, every few days, for a whole year. #Dedication 🔭🧪👌
ℹ️: science.nasa.gov/image-articl...
ℹ️: science.nasa.gov/image-articl...
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when ai leaves u behind
September 20, 2026 at 11:37 AM
when ai leaves u behind
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Kermit the Frog ys one thousande tymes more real than Tilly Norwood
September 19, 2026 at 7:15 PM
Kermit the Frog ys one thousande tymes more real than Tilly Norwood
In terms of sheer speed to create a nice-sounding-sort-of-track, this is one of the best toys I’ve ever picked up.
September 18, 2026 at 11:42 PM
In terms of sheer speed to create a nice-sounding-sort-of-track, this is one of the best toys I’ve ever picked up.
Terrorism: elderly priest carrying a sign.
Not terrorism: masked thugs targeting volunteer emergency workers.
Not terrorism: masked thugs targeting volunteer emergency workers.
Lifeboat station in Portsmouth forced to temporarily shut after far-right action
Lifeboat station in Portsmouth forced to temporarily shut after far-right action
RNLI facility had been affected by attempts by activists to stop asylum seekers landing in boats from the Channel
A lifeboat station on the south coast of England near the spot where far-right activists tried to stop asylum seekers landing has been forced to temporarily close, it has emerged.
The station in Portsmouth shut after it and other sites run by the RNLI were targeted by people objecting to the lifeboat charity going to the aid of people trying to get to the UK on small boats. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
September 17, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Terrorism: elderly priest carrying a sign.
Not terrorism: masked thugs targeting volunteer emergency workers.
Not terrorism: masked thugs targeting volunteer emergency workers.
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Clare Youngs, contemporary graphic designer and artist who works with collage, paper and fabric #womensart
September 15, 2026 at 5:56 PM
Clare Youngs, contemporary graphic designer and artist who works with collage, paper and fabric #womensart
Been looking forward to this! Beautiful new vinyl from @greenlungband.bsky.social and @slipperyjack.bsky.social
September 11, 2026 at 12:11 PM
Been looking forward to this! Beautiful new vinyl from @greenlungband.bsky.social and @slipperyjack.bsky.social
Good Christ, LinkedIn is awash with AI Bayeux tapestry images. Of course it is.
September 11, 2026 at 8:26 AM
Good Christ, LinkedIn is awash with AI Bayeux tapestry images. Of course it is.
Penda‘s Fen on BBC4 alert!
September 9, 2026 at 9:14 PM
Penda‘s Fen on BBC4 alert!
Feels like we’re losing a local cafe/restaurant/bar/pub every week at the moment. I really am not looking forward to the monoculture chain dystopia we‘re building for ourselves.
September 9, 2026 at 3:08 PM
Feels like we’re losing a local cafe/restaurant/bar/pub every week at the moment. I really am not looking forward to the monoculture chain dystopia we‘re building for ourselves.
This is such an easy mistake to make that I keep forgetting it.
Yet he is regularly presented on the BBC as speaking for all British Jews.
September 9, 2026 at 1:26 PM
This is such an easy mistake to make that I keep forgetting it.
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Signed. Please consider doing the same. I have family on the local lifeboat who literally down tools to go and rescue anyone without prejudice. They, not these masked thugs, are the true heroes.
September 9, 2026 at 8:16 AM
Signed. Please consider doing the same. I have family on the local lifeboat who literally down tools to go and rescue anyone without prejudice. They, not these masked thugs, are the true heroes.
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I very much enjoyed this piece about the Barbican by @grindrod.bsky.social. I’m even using one of my gift links so others can read it. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
What happens when the future gets old?
A modernist icon, London’s Barbican Conservatory is in need of renovation
giftarticle.ft.com
September 9, 2026 at 7:03 AM
I very much enjoyed this piece about the Barbican by @grindrod.bsky.social. I’m even using one of my gift links so others can read it. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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good evening, starling sessions is on all streaming platforms now 🪺 sq.lnk.to/TRX031 choose your fighter from the list! I'd recommend 'Broody' if you're feeling melancholy and 'Sister Fledge' if you're at the gym. thank u for your attention in this matter 🚨
Loula Yorke - Starling Sessions
Listen to Starling Sessions by Loula Yorke.
sq.lnk.to
September 8, 2026 at 7:10 PM
good evening, starling sessions is on all streaming platforms now 🪺 sq.lnk.to/TRX031 choose your fighter from the list! I'd recommend 'Broody' if you're feeling melancholy and 'Sister Fledge' if you're at the gym. thank u for your attention in this matter 🚨