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Cluster Block🌈 🍉 @clusterblock.bsky.social · 36m

It’s the BBC. It has to give batshit suggestions far more weight than sensible ones.

Cluster Block🌈 🍉 @clusterblock.bsky.social · 13h

Expensive shelf merchants Vitsoe like to make out that they’re friends of architecture.

But they (unsuccessfully) sued their architect when the builder of their new factory messed up, blaming the architect for things they hadn’t been appointed to deal with.

Vitsœ @vitsoe.bsky.social · 9d

Are you a fan of modernist, mid-century and brutalist architecture? We have good news for you: the Modernist Book Fair is coming back to our London shop this month.

Find more details and mark your calendars: instagram.com/p/DPWB_WZDEwX

#vitsoe #vitsœ #modernistbookfair

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Cluster Block🌈 🍉 @clusterblock.bsky.social · 18h

Still under the weather. It’s at least medium-length Covid at this point.

Cluster Block🌈 🍉 @clusterblock.bsky.social · 14d

Still feeling ill but went for a little walk. I can’t have looked well though because a kind man asked if I was ok.

Nice of him to check!

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Cluster Block🌈 🍉 @clusterblock.bsky.social · 20h

You can get apps where you use your phone as the card reader.

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Cluster Block🌈 🍉 @clusterblock.bsky.social · 1d

Apparently there was a time in the 70s when Austrian wine makers put propylene glycol anti freeze in wine to make it taste a bit sweeter. Might be worth a splash?

Cluster Block🌈 🍉 @clusterblock.bsky.social · 2d

Almost all halal meat in the UK is stunned before slaughter. It’s the blessing makes it halal.

No kosher meat is from stunned animals.

But no one ever talks about that.

NationCymru @nation.cymru · 2d

Right or wrong should know no political yardstick of left or right when violence is on the table. And similarly, the way we treat animals should also not be a left or right issue. We either treat an animal humanely, or we don’t ✍️ Stephen Price

Halal slaughter should not only be a right-wing concern

Stephen Price Halal slaughter has found itself in the news again this week, following news that a Reform councillor has chaired a meeting with a far-right group and parents of young children to discus...

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Cluster Block🌈 🍉 @clusterblock.bsky.social · 2d

Oh! That might be doable!

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Cluster Block🌈 🍉 @clusterblock.bsky.social · 2d

Is it expensive?

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Cluster Block🌈 🍉 @clusterblock.bsky.social · 2d

I never read biographies because I don’t like to pry.

Unless it was into perhaps a colourful animation, I’m not sure a new translation of the tractatus would help!

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Cluster Block🌈 🍉 @clusterblock.bsky.social · 2d

Someone should invent a bike with a jolly coloured frame that costs less than £1000.

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Cluster Block🌈 🍉 @clusterblock.bsky.social · 2d

He also said that architecture was harder than philanthropy, after his Haus Wittgenstein experience.

I can’t be doing with all his tractatus business so I’ll have to take him at his word.

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Cluster Block🌈 🍉 @clusterblock.bsky.social · 2d

My mum said that Wittgenstein was once asked his opinion of the coastline of wherever he was in America, and he said it was very nice but not as nice as south Wales (his having lived in Swansea).

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Cluster Block🌈 🍉 @clusterblock.bsky.social · 2d

Pretend laminate flooring with glitter? Even busses have got the #GreyPlague at this point.

Fake laminate floor (with glitter) as a surface on the window sill bit of the upstairs of a bus. It looks ghastly.

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Cluster Block🌈 🍉 @clusterblock.bsky.social · 2d

We keep getting promised that the economic base of the Great Satan's capacity for evildoing will soon collapse.

And it keeps not happening.

Politics is all about imaginary concerns. Has the economy become disconnected from reality in the same way?

Cluster Block🌈 🍉 @clusterblock.bsky.social · Aug 23

Will the Great Satan’s economy really collapse in a pop of AI hubris? It keeps not happening.

But then the fracking boom that fucked the climate never made any money either.

oilchange.org/blogs/with-u...

It’s as if money is a mere tool for the ruling class, rather than the motivator.

With U.S. shale peaking & having “never made money,” investors lose billions - Oil Change International

A report from the financial auditing firm Deloitte says the “reality is that the shale boom peaked without making money for the industry in aggregate. In fact, the US shale industry registered net…

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Cluster Block🌈 🍉 @clusterblock.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve been using AI chatbots a lot recently, to sort out online shop. (Human customer support no longer exists).

Those things are so full of shit.

Telling you to go down menus that don’t exist. All these ‘automatic improvements’ making up total nonsense.

God knows what they’d teach you!

Schools Week @schoolsweek.bsky.social · 3d

Exclusive: Teachers will use 'deepfake' technology to create an AI avatar of themselves to deliver catch-up lessons for pupils who have missed school

Watch one of the school’s ‘deepfake’ teachers in our story below

schoolsweek.co.uk/schools-trus...

'Deepfake' teacher avatars to help pupils catch up

Academy trust staff to use AI generator to introduce resources for pupils returning to school

schoolsweek.co.uk

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Cluster Block🌈 🍉 @clusterblock.bsky.social · 3d

I was put making a Dundee cake because the recipe said it was nicer if you left it a couple of weeks before eating it.

Annoyingly this was two weeks ago.

Cluster Block🌈 🍉 @clusterblock.bsky.social · 3d

I've been trying get the shops products to show up properly in google but a load of wrong assumptions my its AI is completely messing everything up.

The chatbot support is just chatting shit and now it's completely fucked up and nothing show up at all.

I want to cry.

Cluster Block🌈 🍉 @clusterblock.bsky.social · 3d

I'd had it less than a year since the previous one got stolen!

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Cluster Block🌈 🍉 @clusterblock.bsky.social · 3d

I've had my bloody bike stolen. It's such a pain.

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Cluster Block🌈 🍉 @clusterblock.bsky.social · 4d

People used to go wild for every new chemical dye that came out. Now you can make things in any colour in the world for basically the same price. But everyone goes for grey!

Cluster Block🌈 🍉 @clusterblock.bsky.social · 4d

Sensory deprivation play! Bleak.

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Cluster Block🌈 🍉 @clusterblock.bsky.social · 4d

And you were right to do so!

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Cluster Block🌈 🍉 @clusterblock.bsky.social · 4d

There really needs to be a popular TV show showing people how to use colour. Or even just that it is OK to do so.

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Cluster Block🌈 🍉 @clusterblock.bsky.social · 4d

At least grey concrete is a real material, instead of this fake grey plastic wood and suchlike

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Cluster Block🌈 🍉 @clusterblock.bsky.social · 4d

Everyone in the country has caught the Grey Plague, gripped with a fever to extinguish every hint of colour from the world.

It’s like a social contagion.

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