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BARBIE (2023) dir. Greta Gerwig

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Go team!

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Dear friends ,

We are happy to announce that ”Socialist Modernism in Poland”, the sixth photo album/digital guide of @_BA_CU ‘s planned series, will be available in 800 copies starting the 1st of May. The photo album includes landmarks of socialist modernist architecture in Poland – from the 1950s to 1980s. B.A.C.U. Association explains socialist modernist tendencies, it presents – in color photographs – a functional image of the buildings and their often original elements that synthesize local culture and traditions, while bringing you up to date with their current state of conservation. At the beginning of the book, a map shows the location of each of the buildings described. The socialist modernist landmarks included in this volume have been organized by function, into six sections. The book contains the authors’ view on Poland modernist architecture.

Print run 800 Pages 192 +1 Spread/ POLAND-SOC MOD Map Polish and English Size 26×28.5 cm Weight 1.25 kg

Designed and published by @_BA_CU Association

Those who are interested in #SocialistModernism are able to order the book on @UrbanicaGroup @ushopamazon distributor page, (Link in our profile) ; link: http://urbanicagroup.ro/ushop/ or AMAZON: coming soon

by selecting the Photo album from among the books listed. (Shipping worldwide with DHL) #SocialistModernism #_BA_CU 1 Kukurydze housing complex, Osiedle Tysiąclecia - the Millennium neighbourhood in Katowice, Poland, built in the 80’s. Architect: Henryk Buszko, Aleksander Franta. 3 Hotel Forum. Krakow, Poland, built between 1978-1989 Architect Janusz Ingarden. 5 Development on Plac Grunwaldzki in Wrocław, Poland, built between 1968-73 Architect: Jadwiga Grabowska-Hawrylak 7 Państwowa Szkoła Muzyczna I i II stopnia im. M. Karłowicza. (“M. Karłowicz” State Music School of the first and second degree.) Katowice, Poland built in 1964 architect Wacław Lipiński. 8 Residential building of the Embassy of the Russian Federation, Warsaw, Poland, built in 70-s, Architect: Peter Sembrat, Janusz Nowak 9 House of Soviet Culture, (now is Pedagogium College of Social Sciences in Warsaw), 115 Marszałkowska, Warsaw, Poland 10 “Okrąglak” Department Store, Poznań, Poland https://www.instagram.com/p/COHmetGnmtZ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Mondial House, Upper Thames Street, City of London

1975

Hubbard Ford & Partners

Image from RIBApix

Modernist London

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What happens when you don't report pornbots

What you can see here are among the most popular posts for the convin (Connor/Gavin Detroit Become Human) tag for the last month. And presumably lollipop, cityscape, rick day, eva long, dostoyevsky, and all the other random, unrelated tags added to these posts.

You can see two identical posts made by separate bots that feature a bit.ly (so, disguised, you don't know whether the address is safe/where you're going) link to a website that contains an image of a pretty young woman (but who knows what else).

Each post is liked by about a dozen other bots, and only bots. (I reported them all, so can confirm their profiles were obviously those of bots/porn bots.) Some of them even use the same image in the pfp. Some are developed blogs full of porn images, some are clearly newer and don't even have a pfp yet. They are all gaining legitimacy from each other by the likes which act as links to their Tumblrs, and adding legitimacy to the post they have liked, which links to their ultimate goal: the site where they make money in undoubtedly dodgy ways.

They are doing this to legitimise their websites for search engines like Google, but if you don't care about that, it has the same effect in your Tumblr tags.

If we don't stop them, ALL your favourite hashtags are going to be full of meaningless posts like this, and probably porn you don't want to see (very different from porn you DO want to see).

This is why we report and block, lads. Not just because they are annoying and irrelevant to us, but because if we don't stop them they will take over this hellsite, and they very clearly do not understand the nature of the hell in which we live.

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this is so so important to me and mine, and I'm asking you to Do Something so I'll respect your time and keep it brief

in the UK, if 100k sign a a government petition it will be brought to Parliament and debated. y'all know this country is suffering from some 80s-style bigotry right now, and this is one symptom: almost 200k fuckholes have come together to force the government to discuss whether it is 'appropriate' to tell children that queer people exist. this is a big symbolic victory for them. and i am burning with fury.

please, if you're from the UK, sign this counter-petition so they can at least see how much of a minority they are. simply put, the attempt to put these bastards in their place isn't gathering enough steam. there are barely 2000 more signatures now than there were this morning (27th January 2023), and that isn't enough. i refuse to let these people feel even a moment of victory or satisfaction. please help.

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They transed the Scottish flag and I'm loving it.

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The Arts Tower, University of Sheffield (pre-opening)

Gollins Melvin Ward & Partners

Photo: 1965/ RIBA collections

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Alexandra Road Estate

Neave Brown, 1979

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Villeneuve-st-Georges, le Bois Matar.

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On January 8th the burgh of Stirling surrendered to the Jacobite army.

Significantly however, as with Edinburgh the previous year, the castle remained in Hanoverian hands despite a Jacobite siege which caused many casualties on both sides.

Stirling has always been a pivotal Scottish location. It had been an important, strategic site for centuries, particularly throughout the first and second Scottish ‘Wars of Independence’ of the 13th and 14th Centuries and, indeed, during the entire mediaeval period. The history of Stirling, the name of which is said to derive from ‘striveling’ meaning ‘place of strife’, which really ffits with the amount of battles fought in the Stirling are and d the 1745-6 Jacobite Rising also making its mark.

On January 6th of 1746 the Prince’s army arrived in the Stirling area, avoiding Edinburgh since it was now held by Hanoverian Lieutenant-General Henry Hawley. The Jacobite army was now reinforced by the arrival of Lady MacKintosh and her four hundred clansmen, among others, which brought total forces to over 9,000.

During this time the Prince committed many man hours toward the siege of Hanoverian-held Stirling Castle. Among others who were injured or killed at Stirling was Hugh Cameron of Loch Arkaig, an officer in Lochiel’s Regiment. He was shot through the thigh at the siege and taken to Montrose for treatment. In time Hugh would be taken by Hanoverian troops, tried at Carlisle and hung during the autumn of 1746.

The impenetrable fortress at Stirling appeared to be impossible to take, especially since Hawley was approaching with 8,500 Government troops. You might remember a previous post where it took Edward I with his “Warwolf” to take the castle.

The Prince took command of the army at this point, having little trust for most of his advisors, who he believed had deserted him if not in actuality then in their hearts. On January 15th and 16th he was drawing up the Jacobite army in battle order on Plean Muir, just south of Bannockburn.

The Jacobites spent the rest of January laying siege to the castle while "enjoying" the hospitality of the citizens of Stirling. The government forces in the castle no doubt watched the Jacobites setting up a cannon battery on the adjacent Gowan Hill. With the bedrock inches under the soil, digging in the cannon wasn’t quick and it wasn’t easy. In some regards it was nice of the Castle troops to let the Jacobites finish their work and fire one cannonball. Before they unleashed the many powerful cannon of their own and obliterated the Jacobite position within thirty minutes/

The Earl of Mar was less impressed; that one cannonball flew over the castle and landed on his house at the top of Broad Street, as seen in the second pic, destroying the roof. The building, Mars Wark is still there today. It is still without a roof.

After two fruitless days of waiting the Prince acknowledged Lord Murray’s proposal to march the army to Falkirk Muir, where they were able to take possession of a commanding position by midnight of the 16th. There, the Camerons took a position at the left flank of the first line along side the Stewarts of Appin. I will pick up the story in a few days.

Among the pics is a printed hand-coloured fan depicting the Siege of Stirling held by The Stirling Smith Art Gallery & Museum, the second pic is of Mars Wark.

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which one of u was going to tell me that tea tastes different if u put it in hot water?

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They transed the Scottish flag and I'm loving it.