Liz McFall
@allartmarkets
Professor in Sociology of Markets, Edinburgh| sentimental pragmatist following insurance, markets, data centres and BIG SHEDS EiC @jcultecon.bsky.social 🎥 @
Today the writing is mostly financifornicatory so here’s thirsty Dandy instead
Ah England and its historic country walks. You can walk the North Bucks Way but only if you enjoy navigating electric fences, nasty metal gates and various other improvised obstacles as approved by OFMILAND
I was convinced he was going to say he collected for the Pru which would’ve delighted me, but born in 1970 he’s just a bit too young. 🫡 🙏tagging me Chris, iykyk, insurance is the whole of the world 🙂↕️ www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1...
On the Princes St Edinburgh fires @threadinburgh.scot is um on 🔥 🧯🚒 again. As for the fire insurance maps with the OS slider ❤️🔥
Tell me again why the public convo is focused so much on LLM harms and humanism when this is happening.
Long long haul on a restrictive #lchf #ketogenic diet. I mean #Singaporeairlines could starve me and waft all those delicious noodles right past me
where sociology goes next 💭 changing the world one journal article at a time, with wiley/elsevier
And on that note @ludovico-rella.bsky.social this one is for you. Overlapping railway, advertising, finance infrastructures of 1874. This was after the tidied up version after legislation to control the excesses of billboard advertisers was introduced
Even if it’s hyperscale, its climate/energy implications are not equivalent to the ‘first Zuck takes Manhattan’. stories coming out of the US
The actually possible in this world is vastly narrower than all that is demanded; and there is always a pinch between the ideal and the actual which can only be got through by leaving part of the ideal behind. William James
Especially as someone who grew up playing on bings that uncles 2 generations before me were killed under
Saw this yesterday on @jcultecon.bsky.social field trip. Seeing shale bing extraction history when you can see greendykes bing to the north is a thing
I’m not lost I’m Right here ~ Dandelion’s 5am Easter art walk #trinity
‘Edinburgh has been blessed since 1925 with an innovative leader in the darts and television retail industry.’ Irvine Welsh and Kevin Williamson’s Visitors Guide to Edinburgh 1995 a snip at £42 ebay.us/m/WTq6E4
A peek into who owes what and to whom @tobyn.bsky.social giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... lions and tigers and bears oh my
Wet Dandy First Bath, could be a state of affairs or a good band name
🌅🐕🦺😌 Dandy clock change maxxing @ Starbank Park #newhaven #firthofforth
My work life balance has improved immensely since Dandelion Dartagnan (aka Dandy) arrived but my work space looks like a clarty flophouse
This, via @lanalanalana.bsky.social is basically my current research project (if you add a bit of institutional investment) #BIGSHEDS. The kind of money, financial instruments and endpoint consumption that funds these things = world