Ceri Shields
@cerishields.bsky.social
Painting, drawing, printmaking. Also music, food, and long walks on wild moors.
Move slowly and make things.
Move slowly and make things.
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Ceri Shields
@cerishields.bsky.social
· Nov 1
QRT with your black & white art.
Oh OK, here are some animal skull sketches
Oh OK, here are some animal skull sketches
Companies enthusiastically using A.I. to cut payroll costs from the balance sheet. Serious question, could A.I. replace expensive CEOs?
Grok has proved it can perform Elon Musk’s racism and disinformation duties perfectly. If Tesla fired him they’d be A TRILLION DOLLARS richer! Worth considering.
Grok has proved it can perform Elon Musk’s racism and disinformation duties perfectly. If Tesla fired him they’d be A TRILLION DOLLARS richer! Worth considering.
A 26-year-old PwC consultant built AI agents to cut client headcount by 30%, only to get laid off himself.
This is the reality behind the hype. AI isn't fully replacing people yet, but it is downsizing teams, turning 10 workers into 7 who now need to spend their time reviewing LLM outputs.
This is the reality behind the hype. AI isn't fully replacing people yet, but it is downsizing teams, turning 10 workers into 7 who now need to spend their time reviewing LLM outputs.
‘There’s Just No Reason to Deal With Young Employees’
AI is taking entry-level jobs. What happens when Gen-Z-ers can’t start their careers?
nymag.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Companies enthusiastically using A.I. to cut payroll costs from the balance sheet. Serious question, could A.I. replace expensive CEOs?
Grok has proved it can perform Elon Musk’s racism and disinformation duties perfectly. If Tesla fired him they’d be A TRILLION DOLLARS richer! Worth considering.
Grok has proved it can perform Elon Musk’s racism and disinformation duties perfectly. If Tesla fired him they’d be A TRILLION DOLLARS richer! Worth considering.
You know where in the UK is not about to run out of water? Devon.
No kidding, huh?
No kidding, huh?
Could we run out of water? “People would be shocked if they knew just how close we’ve come", a former Environment Agency officer told me. To many on this damp little island, the idea’s preposterous. But it’s a very real threat. Here's what I know...
watershedinvestigations.com/day-zero-is-...
watershedinvestigations.com/day-zero-is-...
December 1, 2025 at 10:21 AM
You know where in the UK is not about to run out of water? Devon.
No kidding, huh?
No kidding, huh?
‘If your child kicks the back of my seat again it is not your child I will be taking it up with, you take my meaning?’ *turning* ‘Yes, yes! Film it, go on! Do I look like I give a f— ‘
November 30, 2025 at 7:37 PM
‘If your child kicks the back of my seat again it is not your child I will be taking it up with, you take my meaning?’ *turning* ‘Yes, yes! Film it, go on! Do I look like I give a f— ‘
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Just a heads up with all the Christmas markets and fairs on at the moment - if you see art or art-based pieces for sale, ask who the artist is, because the amount of people deceptively slapping "made locally" on pieces locally farted out by their computer and a genAI prompt is getting depressing
November 30, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Just a heads up with all the Christmas markets and fairs on at the moment - if you see art or art-based pieces for sale, ask who the artist is, because the amount of people deceptively slapping "made locally" on pieces locally farted out by their computer and a genAI prompt is getting depressing
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November 29, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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What proportion of the distance to the moon is this? What I’m asking is, how high does 400 tons of coke get you?
November 29, 2025 at 1:52 PM
What proportion of the distance to the moon is this? What I’m asking is, how high does 400 tons of coke get you?
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In The Gutter, Shelford
November 29, 2025 at 8:32 AM
In The Gutter, Shelford
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AUTOGLASS REPAIR, AUTOGLASS REPLACE
November 28, 2025 at 6:41 AM
AUTOGLASS REPAIR, AUTOGLASS REPLACE
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Last month a small group was granted permission by the Port of London Authority to undertake a walkover survey of the #TowerBeach: the team was interested to examine the remains of structures recorded during the 1990s-2010s & to collect any significant artefacts found on the foreshore surface.
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November 28, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Last month a small group was granted permission by the Port of London Authority to undertake a walkover survey of the #TowerBeach: the team was interested to examine the remains of structures recorded during the 1990s-2010s & to collect any significant artefacts found on the foreshore surface.
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Surely being wined-and-dined at Windsor Castle on his recent state visit gave him the opportunity to notice that classy joints don’t use those spray gold three star wedding venue hotel function chairs?
November 28, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Surely being wined-and-dined at Windsor Castle on his recent state visit gave him the opportunity to notice that classy joints don’t use those spray gold three star wedding venue hotel function chairs?
You thought the ‘Mar-a-Lago face’ on all those Trumpette women was plastic surgery but in fact it’s how their faces go as they eat the food there and think about how much they’re paying for it.
November 28, 2025 at 4:57 PM
You thought the ‘Mar-a-Lago face’ on all those Trumpette women was plastic surgery but in fact it’s how their faces go as they eat the food there and think about how much they’re paying for it.
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I dunno, comrades. What if we decided not to allocate all our earthly resources based on the delusions of pathologically overconfident tech bros? What if we started by giving people accommodation and food and enough spare time to hang out and make cool shit?
November 28, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I dunno, comrades. What if we decided not to allocate all our earthly resources based on the delusions of pathologically overconfident tech bros? What if we started by giving people accommodation and food and enough spare time to hang out and make cool shit?
Books thread 🧵
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 28, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Books thread 🧵
**Me , going on the Axminster Tools website and using the filters to sort by brand, price and millennium.
Site in Kenya reveals 300,000 years of uninterrupted toolmaking. Archaeologists uncovered nearly 1,300 stone tools spanning 2.44 to 2.75 million years, showing that early hominins taught and replicated the same techniques across roughly 10,000 generations. buff.ly/zQvktxJ
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
Advanced 2.5 Million-Year-Old Tools May Rewrite Human History
Early humans crafted the same tools for hundreds of thousands of years, offering an unprecedented glimpse of a continuous tradition that may push back the origins of technology.
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November 28, 2025 at 3:37 PM
**Me , going on the Axminster Tools website and using the filters to sort by brand, price and millennium.
Fabulous statistic on the Food Programme on BBC R4 just now: around 25% of British people think the tea they drink is grown in the UK.
Superb. Something to consider when contemplating the spread of mythology around things like vaccines and 5G masts. Humans are just…
Superb. Something to consider when contemplating the spread of mythology around things like vaccines and 5G masts. Humans are just…
November 28, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Fabulous statistic on the Food Programme on BBC R4 just now: around 25% of British people think the tea they drink is grown in the UK.
Superb. Something to consider when contemplating the spread of mythology around things like vaccines and 5G masts. Humans are just…
Superb. Something to consider when contemplating the spread of mythology around things like vaccines and 5G masts. Humans are just…
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'They've written eight episodes... As likely to see the light of day as that Fawlty Towers reboot we keep being threatened with.'
November 28, 2025 at 10:39 AM
'They've written eight episodes... As likely to see the light of day as that Fawlty Towers reboot we keep being threatened with.'
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I’m unsure why Presto supermarkets no longer exist. I suspect it may have something to do with the sinister tag line and the anthropomorphic penis used in their ads.
Coincidentally, I saw Anthropomorphic Penis play Glasto in ‘93.
Coincidentally, I saw Anthropomorphic Penis play Glasto in ‘93.
November 27, 2025 at 7:48 AM
I’m unsure why Presto supermarkets no longer exist. I suspect it may have something to do with the sinister tag line and the anthropomorphic penis used in their ads.
Coincidentally, I saw Anthropomorphic Penis play Glasto in ‘93.
Coincidentally, I saw Anthropomorphic Penis play Glasto in ‘93.
Aw, someone put a tartan blanket over his knees and push his wheelchair a little closer to the fire.
the Doug Mills video embedded in the NYT Trump aging story is pretty amazing
November 26, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Aw, someone put a tartan blanket over his knees and push his wheelchair a little closer to the fire.
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
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Died (alas!) on this day in 1516, in Venice, the incomparable Giovanni Bellini. Here, Madonna between two trees, looking rather askance at this miraculous child of hers.
November 26, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Died (alas!) on this day in 1516, in Venice, the incomparable Giovanni Bellini. Here, Madonna between two trees, looking rather askance at this miraculous child of hers.
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and again - literally just the hobby horse of some random anonymous Twitter accounts, enraging how quickly they managed to turn their horrid posting into actual government policy and rhetoric
“The Motability scheme was set up to protect the most vulnerable. Not to subsidise the lease on a Mercedes Benz,” Reeves says.
Misleading and nasty in equal measure.
Misleading and nasty in equal measure.
November 26, 2025 at 1:20 PM
and again - literally just the hobby horse of some random anonymous Twitter accounts, enraging how quickly they managed to turn their horrid posting into actual government policy and rhetoric
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Trees near Otterton
November 26, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Trees near Otterton
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November 25, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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The Oude Kerk in Amsterdam, during a sermon. Love in this one how you can see light from the windows behind-above us making patterns on floor, column, walls. Genius of Emanuel de Witte, whose day is today.
November 25, 2025 at 10:52 PM
The Oude Kerk in Amsterdam, during a sermon. Love in this one how you can see light from the windows behind-above us making patterns on floor, column, walls. Genius of Emanuel de Witte, whose day is today.
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2/2 Lifting the curtain on tomb of William the Silent in the Nieuwe Kerk, Delft, by Emanuel de Witte in 1653. That man with the red cloak gets around. We'll be seeing him again today, in another city.
November 25, 2025 at 12:49 PM
2/2 Lifting the curtain on tomb of William the Silent in the Nieuwe Kerk, Delft, by Emanuel de Witte in 1653. That man with the red cloak gets around. We'll be seeing him again today, in another city.