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Andréa Gates
@andreagates.bsky.social
Supporting creative professionals with websites, apps, editing, research, and any excuse to go to the library. https://sitelines-studio.co.uk
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Gargoyles, grotesques, and corbels reading books are my favorites.
July 18, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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2 Nov. Things Which Make Me #Happy

Suzy Eddie Izzard’s ‘Death Star Canteen’ rendered in Lego.

I have to be careful even thinking about this routine in public, because the words “head of catering” make me explode in laughter.

(Also tagging #TinyJoys.)

youtu.be/Sv5iEK-IEzw?...
Suzy Eddie Izzard- Death Star Canteen
YouTube video by Thorn2200
youtu.be
November 2, 2025 at 8:16 AM
"[AI labs] have chased growth and scale at all costs, and largely, they’ve won. The data-center build-out is the ultimate culmination of that chase: the pursuit of scale for scale itself. In all scenarios, the outcome seems only to be real, painful disruption for the rest of us."
Tech companies are spending hundreds of billions of dollars a year on AI with little to show, and are now turning to complex financial vehicles to sustain their spending. Matteo Wong and Charlie Warzel on how it could all come crashing down:
Here’s How the AI Crash Happens
The U.S. is becoming an Nvidia-state.
bit.ly
October 31, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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I was recently laid off by ARTnews, a few days before the theft at the Louvre. The terms of my TN work visa means I can't freelance unless I donate the funds to charity. I'm open to new FT roles in business reporting and communications, and am willing to relocate to other cities, including Toronto.
October 28, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Excuse me: bb turtles
October 18, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI
October 4, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Morning.
Ghost turnip, Fintown, County Donegal, Ireland, c. 1900 (replica), National Museum of Ireland
October 16, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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In 2010, an interviewer told Neil Kinnock that the Labour Party "never used to understand aspiration".

Kinnock gave an absolutely brilliant answer that should be learned by heart by every Labour MP. (0.42 to 1.22)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGhP...
Neil Kinnock goes berserk
YouTube video by Vadrigar
www.youtube.com
October 15, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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I think we have a window of opportunity to stop AI from ruining us that is slowly closing

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Pupils fear AI is eroding their ability to study, research finds
One in four students say AI ‘makes it too easy’ for them to find answers
www.theguardian.com
October 15, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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Morris Kantor, Haunted House, 1930, oil on canvas,
94.3 × 84.5 cm (37 1/8 × 33 1/4 in.), Art Institute of Chicago
October 7, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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yes i am crying!

(by plumesofficiel)
October 7, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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October 5, 2025 at 3:40 PM
I feel so seen
COMIC: The Ice Cream Cycle
October 3, 2025 at 3:06 PM
"Gen Z’s entire experience as consumers is defined by the sensation of being price-gouged all the time... anyone hoping to sell them ... [anything] has to work even harder to overcome a deeply ingrained (and completely warranted) wariness of being exploited."

open.substack.com/pub/thegraym...
The art market's real Gen Z crisis is the cost of living
Prices for paintings look crazy when rent is crushing even high earners
open.substack.com
October 3, 2025 at 2:30 PM
"You can defend minorities as much as you like, but if your refusal to compromise makes you electorally irrelevant then you have not helped them. You have sacrificed them to your own sense of virtue."

This by @iandunt.bsky.social, gave me hope.

open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
The politics of drawing a moral line
The politics of drawing a moral line.
open.substack.com
October 3, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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People who coax chatbots into sensible answers are basically opening and closing the fridge until it contains something you wanna eat, yes, eventually you get hungrier & eat the stuff in there. But what changed was your cognition. The fridge stayed the same. You changed your mind about the contents.
October 1, 2025 at 9:55 PM
This is really good. And free if you register.
think that if you want to try and understand Jenrick's success within the right you have to realise that he.....actually tries, and makes an effort, which isn't something most (senior) Tory MPs have felt the need to do in, er, some time: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...
October 1, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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A #Roman figurine of a lizard, carved from a single piece of hyaline quartz. It was found in a Gallo-Roman tomb in Belgium, where it was buried as part of an assortment of grave goods about 2000 years ago (📷 MFAH, Brussels) 🏺 AncientBlueSky #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology
September 26, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Proof, as if any was needed, that Bowie was always a class act. open.substack.com/pub/letterso...
A few moments ago I was handed my very first American fan letter
An endearing letter from 20-year-old David Bowie
open.substack.com
September 26, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Happy Fat Bear Week to all who celebrate! 🐻

While this bronze bear isn't the chunkiest, it's still a winner to us. 💙

🏛️ Bear, about 1600, Italian. On view now at the Getty Villa.
September 23, 2025 at 7:31 PM
This is why formal analysis (and iconography) are essential to understanding art (abstract or figurative). If we can't recognise key forms, their arrangement and context, a Madonna Misericordia might look like... um, genitals.

Or the Selina Meyer Presidential Library.
Some people have trouble interpreting abstract art. For example, many men can't see Mary's head in the design of this statue.
The new statue of the Madonna at Santa Teresa di Gallura is an "abstract of Mary's form" 👀
September 9, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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so something absolutely wild happened here in April: we were visited by Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter.

(short thread)
We hold the world's largest Samuel Beckett Collection, and frequently welcome researchers, actors and dramatists.

In April, this included the cast of the upcoming Jamie Lloyd Co production of Waiting for Godot – including actors Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter!

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/t...
Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter Are Ready for ‘Godot’
www.nytimes.com
September 8, 2025 at 3:10 PM