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Profile pic is from a t-shirt I bought decades ago in HMV. Banner pic is the shopfront of a Kardomah cafe. Art, Design, Ancient Near East, history, architecture, cultural history, photography, and random stuff

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It's a bit overwhelming isn't it! What a character. At first I thought it was just the scrap books but then saw that she studied art at the Royal Academy - and I really like her art! And the lists. And her getting arrested and deported from Hong Kong! 😆I hope she enjoyed her life.

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Some photographs you keep coming back to. They live in your head and you have to revisit them every now and then. Like this one, of Mark Twain playing with a vacuum lamp while Nikola Tesla watches in the background.

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If you like going down rabbit holes, check out artist Audrey Amiss who "documented her everyday life in a striking visual diary. When she died, her family donated her archive of hundreds of scrapbooks, sketchbooks and notebooks to Wellcome Collection."
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wellcomecollection.org/works/dw67bv4q

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Richard Littler's avatar Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social
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Unbelieveable! Sony Music Entertainment has made a copyright claim on the music in a YouTube video I uploaded years ago. I wrote/recorded the music myself on an old untuned piano in my in-law's house! And the kids playing sample is from a copyright-free audio library
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OO2...

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You'd better get mobilzed to eat that cake you ordered, which counts as fun in my book, and then be immobilized again by cake. Happy Birthday 🎂

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I think those of us who've been trying to decide whether choices made by the Tories were deliberate or due to incompetence, can put this one in the incompetence folder. Or maybe it was just that they couldn't be arsed.

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Ironic that woke is more popular than Popular Conservatives

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Kardomah's avatar Kardomah @kardomah.bsky.social
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I found an answer on the apple help pages - if you proceed to the "set up apple pay" then cancel it at the next window, the pop up messages stop. Worked for me.

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and when journalists have exposed them, Aaron Banks sues their arses off to shut them up

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It's grim isn't it. And I've had no butterflies whatsoever. Most of my plants are for pollinators, and there just aren't any. The flowers are in bloom and I use no pesticides. I do hope the bees can make a comeback.

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Good news Labour are acting on their promise to ban this pesticide again. I see max 2 bees a day in my garden this year. Gove claimed that UK would use Brexit to stop use of this pesticide. Instead, the EU banned all emergency authorisations of neonicotinoid pesticides while UK govt allowed its use

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Skot Armstrong's avatar Skot Armstrong @skot.bsky.social
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#OTD 1937 – The silent film archives of Fox Film Corporation are destroyed by the 1937 Fox vault fire.

The aftermath of the Fox Vault Fire

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Presumably this is related to the parental tactic of giving a child a nickname so that you can reserve their full name for death threats.

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I love that the rest of the house just groaned while he was having his tantrum. I've been watching the swearing in of MPs and wouldn't like to be the guy who asks each of them "would you like to swear or affirm?" when he gets to Farage.

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It really wouldn't surprise me... he always has to look like the rebel doesn't he? 🙄

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Upgraded recently to "cover them in milkshake"

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Another good method is to chase them into the left-luggage compartment at the nearest railway station, playing the Benny Hill theme, as happened to the EDL in recent years in Liverpool youtu.be/-XhuC6L8il4?...

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Also, maybe some postal voters who might otherwise have had to apply for emergency proxy etc. might have decided not to bother if their preferred candidate was polling healthily.

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“The disquieting slash through the sitter’s neck, which the Fry family have so discerningly chosen to keep, tells such an important story.” German border guards would slash packing cases with their bayonets – checking for any escapers from Vienna. The oil painting was inside one of those cases.

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Tara - Sheamie Stan Account's avatar Tara - Sheamie Stan Account @theblueststar.bsky.social
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2 years ago the Daily Mail used one of my tweets in an article about airport chaos. They asked me if they could use it but before I could tell them to fuck off, they used it anyway. They'd embedded my tweet as opposed to screenshotting it so I did what was required of me.

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Cornish Skipper #FBPE🇪🇺🔶🌹's avatar Cornish Skipper #FBPE🇪🇺🔶🌹 @cornishskipper.bsky.social
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“ In the largest public sector trial of the four-day week in Britain, fewer refuse collectors quit and there were faster planning decisions, more rapid benefits processing and quicker call answering, independent research has found.” #WorkLifeBalance www.theguardian.com/business/art...

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Dean Frey's avatar Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social
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Sergio Larraín From his series London, the City, 1958-9

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Dean Frey's avatar Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social
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In June of 1926 the Hungarian-born American photographer Nickolas Muray visited Claude Monet at his home in Giverny. You can tell that he's a big fan!

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There's also the financial obstacle now for many of us who don't actually meet the requirements of guaranteed minimum income. Artists for example can't always prove that their income is regular and guaranteed. Likewise, if one's pension doesn't meet the minimum requirement.

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Zandy's avatar Zandy @iskandarv.bsky.social
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Oh goody, my overseas UK postal voting pack arrived today. "We must get your postal vote by 10pm on Thursday 04 July 2024". Postmarked 1 July 2024. The only time I've had mail fast enough for that to be feasible between Australia and the UK was with FedEx Priority.

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Poor Frank Raw's avatar Poor Frank Raw @poorfrankraw.co.uk
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I feel the need to carve some Roman rustics. Quote from Cicero's "De finibus bonorum et malorum" (On the ends of good and evil) which gave us 'Lorem Ipsum', the printer's fill text, used since the 1500s.

#loremipsum #cicero #rustics #roman #lettering

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It does look like it's made of those brightly coloured wooden blocks

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This is amazing. Video footage at the link. "In an unprecedented display of extended eagle parenting, the two white-tailed parents skipped this year's breeding season to continue to tend to their year-old offspring." Its wing was broken when the nest fell to the ground last year.

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Liz Anderson's avatar Liz Anderson @lizanderson.bsky.social
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The Thames Foreshore is an archaeological treasure trove spanning millennia of London’s history. Most people walking high up on the embankment have no idea of the wealth of ancient features below. Absolute privilege to see Saxon fish traps, Iron Age posts, prehistoric peat & old mooring features.

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Great thread on the art & artists featured on the walls of the Overlook Hotel. Plenty of the Group of Seven! Can't believe I've never noticed.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly's avatar The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social
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This was written last week but in the end, I did take my son with me when I voted. He misunderstood the word "party" in my rushed explanation of who people vote for, and asked the poll workers if they had any snacks. He also declared who I voted for out loud to the entire room.

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"It is exceedingly rare for a building under the age of 30 years old to be granted listed status"

"Grade II reflects its national significance – a ‘Gesamtkunstwerk’ (or total artwork) of architecture, interior and landscape design."

Sphinx Hill, Oxfordshire
c20society.org.uk/news/thames-...

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badly-drawn bee 🐝's avatar badly-drawn bee 🐝 @soapachu.bsky.social
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*stares in Lionesses*

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c0nc0rdance's avatar c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social
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This is the Basilica Cistern, built in the 6th century by Justinian I to provide constant water pressure to Constantinople's Great Palace and fountains district. Some of the supporting columns have a unique feature.

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Michael Lobel's avatar Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social
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Terribly saddened to learn of passing of Dorothy Lichtenstein, widow of artist Roy Lichtenstein. As a former member of the Lichtenstein Foundation board, I came to know her as an incredibly thoughtful, generous, and caring person. She will be missed (Andy Warhol, Dorothy Lichtenstein, 1974)

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It's looking like they've made really thoughtful choices isn't it! People who actually know what they're doing, and care about it.

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Have to say I'm really happy to see this - James Timpson (of shoe repair and key-cutting dynasty) has been given a role in the new govt. Known for founding a network linking prisons with employers to improve employment opportunities for ex-offenders upon release. It's an inspired appointment.

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Yes, they need to take the wind out of Farage's sails. He'll relish this, as all he's good at is opposing things

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Also, if there was any chance of the fascists gaining more ground at the next election, I would hope that all the protest votes from former Labour voters this time round, might hold their noses and vote to prevent Reform from taking over.

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Still too many voting for them than makes me comfortable

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