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Toshiko Hishida, A Glass, 1997 Silkscreen

Oh the horror. How will one cope 😱 “As a result, she's considering asking family to help…” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I worked in this building for about five years before it was sold. I once mistakenly entered the fifth floor and couldn’t quite believe that I saw a dance floor 😳

That ain’t Derek Redmond, he hasn’t hurt his hamstring, lane numbers are nonsense, the stadium isn’t fit to host the Olympics. Modern AI is so powerful 😎

Better hope it’s not too windy in Scotland… where we’ve loads of *wind* farms.

Oh, great 🙄 “windfarms in Scotland are paid to turn off because there is not enough high-voltage cabling connecting the country to areas of growing electricity demand further south” www.theguardian.com/business/202...

In Manchester this week a church was demolished by the council. So were the windows. It is very easy to remove stained glass windows. Costs - a cherry picker and two/three people a day or two. Would they demolish a museum with artefacts in place, a gallery with paintings on the wall? #stainedglass

Does this require some extra punctuation or is it really true 🤷‍♂️

The magic money tree that no one wants to feed and water 👇

New knitting stitch just dropped, and I got to draw it!! www.scientificamerican.com/article/math...

Artificial light at night (ALAN) is a substantial, growing and largely unregulated threat to biodiversity worldwide. A Review in Nature Reviews Biodiversity examines the state of knowledge regarding the measurement, impacts and mitigation of ALAN. go.nature.com/4yglFr2 🌎🧪

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Attacking a boat in distress with a knife is fine but simply carrying one isn’t? Two tier policing 🙄 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

?? what could possibly go wrong with that ??

In his family growing up it was 2 out of 5. He must be staggered by the reduction.

The enornmity of the AI moment in markets in a few killer stats here in this column by Richard Waters on whether AI has broken the old VC model as.ft.com/r/95cda12f-f...

Oman oil escape route: How ship-to-ship transfers work — despite big risks https://aje.news/dc8kbm

New tiger cat species identified in Bolivia, first in over a century https://aje.news/oxwijr

Quite a discovery 👀

NEW: We spent months investigating a little-known media startup called Brown Brothers Media, which buys legit news sites and turns them into AI-powered zombie content farms What blew my mind was its traffic -- it appears to be getting more readers than NPR or CBS News futurism.com/artificial-i...

Supported by UN warnings on climate change and ICC rulings on Israel but not legitimate 🤷‍♂️

“I went out to the protesters and told them, ‘You’ve got it wrong guys, it’s a cricket club” And not “Stop harassing people. Go home immediately. This is unacceptable behaviour”. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/s...

Others trace this to 1607 (the year, not the time of day).

Monetised conspiracism is a neat description for huge problem. It shouldn’t be legal.

Of the 1,601,645 that live in Lancashire, the 754 refugees being housed equates to 0.047% of the total. Four out of five of them, 80%, are Afghans who assisted British military operations in their home country. Also, Lancashire council don't pay for it, the Home Office does. Performative politics

'On top of the hill.' (1901) Károly Ferenczy played a fundamental role in creating a genuinely modern Hungarian school of painting. His importance lies in the way he absorbed several European tendencies and transformed them into something individual.

I could be wrong, but I don’t remember so many polls being done about who would win a general election if it were held tomorrow at any other point when it was four years out from a GE ? Who is commissioning these polls? What is their purpose? Justification for wall to wall Farage coverage maybe?

It was obvious (to me!) quite a while ago that quite a bit of the polling was unreliable

'Japanese Lanterns.' (1930) During the interwar years, Eric Slater borrowed motifs from the Ukiyo-e masters of woodblock printing Hokusai and Hiroshige, and finessed them for his own means; the final flowering of a tradition of British printmaking until a revival in the 1980s.

Saw this and looked around. Wondering why #bbcnews choose to believe whatever local councils tell them. BBC: "Do you allow pavement parking?" Stockport: "No." Also Stockport: 🧵

Levenshumle bike infrastructure

This is from r/snooker, and it shows a new mural at the back of Sheffield Snooker Club, uncanny, isn't it?

The road ahead is closed so we’ve decided to close the pavement and not tell you about that.

Hassling someone for 20+ years.

This Roman perfume bottle shaped like a bird is 2,000 years old, yet it looks like a modern design! 📷 Corning Museum of Glass glasscollection.cmog.org/objects/7194... #Archaeology

“Emma is designed to improve access…” Bullshit. Emma is designed to replace humans, lower operational costs and provide “efficiency”. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

“I can count on one hand the amount of times our book choices might have overlapped…” What’s the point of this entire article? www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

I wfh. It’s a south facing room in a 130 year old house with poor insulation. Stopping the sun hitting the window keeps the room 4-5 degrees cooler. Keeping it in place (here with bamboo) makes a big difference too. I cannot recommend this enough. Zero cost, some time figuring it all out.

Revealed: just 20 out of of 6,600 Defra staff working on climate adaptation, as UK burns in fifth heatwave of this summer - FOI request by me @andyburnham.bsky.social needs to level with the country about the climate crisis & set out radical plan to tackle it 🧵 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

He left everyone else on board to get shot at 🙄 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Driving 1000km a weekend in any vehicle sounds pretty bad tbh 💤

"A student’s essay on Macbeth has no value as a product. It’s what you learned in the reading and writing that created it – the swiftness and resilience and suppleness of thinking you built, along with the knowledge gained of a literary marvel, of something unsummarisable – that was the point"

National Highways have a deeply flawed ‘performance indicator’ for measuring the safety of people travelling along or across the road corridors they manage on foot, by cycle or on horseback transportactionnetwork.org.uk/national-hig...

'Fruit in a blue delft bowl.' (1880) The Finnish painter Maria Wiik is an obscure artist even though her name is known through her friend Helene Schjerfbeck. In 1878 the art critic Carl Gustaf Estlander judged her work as 'downright excellent.'

Making a printer is a pretty high bar for any type of vehicle

“We respond to predictable crises as if we had had no warning” Like a brief dusting of snow 🌨️

If only medical school was about surgery 🙃

The UK will often spend hundreds of £millions on a single road junction that would fund Jodrell Bank for centuries.