Alex Tarr @avatarr8.bsky.social

Glad to see this work with Daniel Cockayne on Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) payment technolgies and consumer fintech published in the newest volume of @JCultEcon tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Researching digital financial practices, fintech use, or financial life on social media? @FieldsDesiree and I are organising a session on 'Platform(ed) Financial Subjectivity' at @theAAG in Detroit, March 2025. CFP below. Abstracts by October 20. docs.google.com/document/d/1E1…

friends and strangers, one of the most creative people I know has released a remarkable labor of love today -- there's not enough space to describe the whole concept here, but if you like games, this is gonna be a fun one (or, actually 50) with retro style but new game dynamics

@MarkBould3 now that Will Oldham is back on the big screen, are we going to get a sequel to Matewan? Can we get a Netflix series of The Anarchist's Convention? What happens at the end of Limbo?

@tamigraph my feed right now

@davidjmadden Oh, is Labour promising to bring back the Speenhamland system after the election??

@GabeSchwartzman Amazing. Pete LaChapple's "Proud to be an Okie" is really good on the invention of C&W categories, race and politics, and CA's strange role in the genres: ucpress.edu/book/978052024… Also, hate to admit it, but would 100% give students episodes of "Cocaine & Rhinestones" podcast.

Teaching this course in the Fall. What needs to be on the syllabus?

@DavidpStein @zachdcarter is Holly Hunter available to play Virginia Woolf?

.@zachdcarter and I are ready and willing to collab on a screenplay.

@lfalvarezleon @ucpress Just let out an actual exclamation and startled my co-workers. Huge congrats and so excited! We need to lure you here for a book talk or two...

#TheMapInTheMachine is real and it’s here* thanks to the good people at @ucpress. Pre-order it, and you too can be a happy customer, like the author! ucpress.edu/book/978052038… * See Fig. 1 for successful unboxing results.

@JooBilly @RiceArch Honestly, if you're on campus, it's pretty hard to beat a banh mi sandwich from Valhalla (delivered daily from a place up the street, Mai's I think) and sitting in the Turrell installation.

@JooBilly @RiceArch Houston is such a wonderful city to eat in! When I was at Rice, my goto was the Crawfish Pho at thelacrawfish.com Breakfast at the Breakfast Klub is not to be missed. The restaurant at the Menil Collection was great and pairs well w/ a visit to the Rothko Chapel

I'm heading to Houston this week for final reviews at @RiceArch. Where should I eat/drink while I'm there?

@WRRBureau So grateful you all are able to do this! By any chance is there a public repository of the raw data (a csv? excel? shapefiles?) that is not the @TweetWorcester's scanned PDF?

Worcester's 2023 Municipal Election is over with total turnout at nearly 22%. To explore the election results, WRRB has assembled a series of maps, one for each district race. Keep going in this thread for more. To start, this map shows the turnout for each precinct in Worcester.

@MeredithAlberta Is it Harold Innis?

@JoshGeog youtube.com/watch?v=Sg6Z5L… is a family anthem.

@avery_everhart @AcademicChatter Ask lots of questions. Faculty/staff can be bad at explaining mechanisms of bureaucracies -- like how the copier works -- if you need something that would make your work easier, ask. related, go to orientations and make friends w/ folks in other parts of the university.

@StuartEDunn First stop on my visit to London two weeks ago!

@EmmaSlager mapstodon.space

@MeredithAlberta the people from Belt Magazine beltmag.com

@InvisibleMapper This looks great, I say as someone currently contemplating writing a paper titled "What England needs are some new Levellers and Diggers."

@avatarr8 I've got a copy but not dived in yet, only so much time to read about England + currently on this bloomsbury.com/uk/blazing-wor…

England’s dreaming County Durham