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Andréa Gates
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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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kerria.bsky.social
Gargoyles, grotesques, and corbels reading books are my favorites.
July 18, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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sjcoltrane.bsky.social
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.)

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Suzy Eddie Izzard- Death Star Canteen
YouTube video by Thorn2200
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November 2, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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karenho.bsky.social
@rusty.todayintabs.com Today in Crabs whdh.com/news/marbleh...
Marblehead architect builds massive moving crab costume for garage - Boston News, Weather, Sports | WHDH 7News
MARBLEHEAD, MASS. (WHDH) - Architect Tom Saltsman has put his special set of skills to work each Halloween to dress up the garage at his<a class="excerpt-read-more" href="https://whdh.com/news/marbleh...
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October 31, 2025 at 2:51 PM
andreagates.bsky.social
"[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."
theatlantic.com The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 27d
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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karenho.bsky.social
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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tylerfromtheinternet.com
Excuse me: bb turtles
A human hand, presumably regular sized, as in not some inhuman giant hand or anything, just a regular normal hand, and in it is held three baby turtles OMG they are so cute they aren't even as wide as a single finger! Just tiny little guys! Can you believe it??? They look very sincere and polite I wish I could feed them little leaves or other turtle food. They are adorable and you love them. 🔫👀 Say you love them. Say it.
October 18, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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meemalee.bsky.social
Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI
"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat. People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian
October 4, 2025 at 9:41 AM
andreagates.bsky.social
Morning.
jessemlocker.bsky.social Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · Oct 15
Ghost turnip, Fintown, County Donegal, Ireland, c. 1900 (replica), National Museum of Ireland
Frightening face carved into a turnip to place a candle in "In 1943 the National Museum of Ireland received a turnip lantern from a schoolteacher, Rois Ní Braonáin who was teaching near Fintown, Co. Donegal. She stated that it was the type that was always made in that locality around 1900. This plaster-cast model was created and painted by the museum artist, Eileen Barnes. Candles were placed inside the turnips and they were used to frighten people on the night of 31 October. The pumpkin that is prevalent today is an American development of this Irish tradition." https://www.museum.ie/en-IE/Collections-Research/Collection/Top-things-to-see-in-the-Irish-Folklife-Collection/Artefact/Ghost-turnip/b202e8ea-0728-4b3d-b0f1-82660fe45ce9
October 16, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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robertsaunders.bsky.social
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
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October 15, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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athenakugblenu.bsky.social
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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jessemlocker.bsky.social
Morris Kantor, Haunted House, 1930, oil on canvas,
94.3 × 84.5 cm (37 1/8 × 33 1/4 in.), Art Institute of Chicago
"Morris Kantor drew inspiration from the material culture of historical New England—ladder-back chairs, colonial portraiture, marine painting, wallpaper—in this fantastical rendering of a supposedly haunted house in rural Massachusetts. A shadowy figure lurks at the composition’s darkened right edge, an unknown presence encroaching on the comforts of the sitting room. Kantor later recalled that such a setting, with “its peculiar moldy smell, the fading beauty of old plaster discolored by time and living … turned my imagination to the past, to the people who had lived there and gone.” A Russian immigrant, the artist engaged with the stories and objects of American history as catalysts for his Surrealist, dreamlike musings." -AIC
October 7, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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annijyn.com
yes i am crying!

(by plumesofficiel)
October 7, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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uncleduke1969.bsky.social
Sign reads “Large Print Audio Books” over book store shelf. Inset picture of Garrett Morris from Saturday Night Live cupping his hands and appearing to yell.
October 5, 2025 at 3:40 PM
andreagates.bsky.social
I feel so seen
davekellett.bsky.social Dave Kellett @davekellett.bsky.social · Oct 3
COMIC: The Ice Cream Cycle
PANEL 1: GRAMP, an older bald man with a grey mustache, stands in the dark, eating directly from a tub of mint chocolate chip ice cream. NARRATION: It’s 11pm, so you have a bite of ice cream. Bu then one bite turns into 20. PANEL 2: We see GRAMP in the drivers seat of his car. NARRATION: And 20 turns into eating the entire pint. Which means you have to do a late-night drive to the supermarket and REPLACE the pint, so no one notices. PANEL 3: GRAMP holds the pint of ice cream, looking at it. NARRATION: But here’s the kicker… PANEL 4: GRAMP goes back to eating the ice cream. NARRATION: You now have to eat the new pint DOWN TO THE LEVEL IT WAS BEFORE. ——— Want 5,000 more comics like this? Join us at Patreon.com/sheldoncomics for the *FULL* Sheldon archives, art giveaways, fun community, and more! Sheldon Comics copyright Dave Kellett. Colors by Beth Reidmiller
October 3, 2025 at 3:06 PM
andreagates.bsky.social
"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
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October 3, 2025 at 2:30 PM
andreagates.bsky.social
"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.

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The politics of drawing a moral line
The politics of drawing a moral line.
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October 3, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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olivia.science
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
andreagates.bsky.social
This is really good. And free if you register.
youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · Oct 1
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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drjeball.bsky.social
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
andreagates.bsky.social
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
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September 26, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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gettymuseum.bsky.social
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.
Photograph of a bronze sculpture of a bear formatted as a meme saying "Me waiting to see who's crowned Fat Bear Week champion." The bronze bear is sitting, its four paws gathered onto a tiny (by comparison) bronze disk. The expression and body language are shy, inquisitive, and perhaps a little sad. The bear is certainly more retiring than fierce in this depiction.
September 23, 2025 at 7:31 PM
andreagates.bsky.social
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.
mckelvie.bsky.social Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · Sep 9
Some people have trouble interpreting abstract art. For example, many men can't see Mary's head in the design of this statue.
judgedewie.bsky.social Dewie @judgedewie.bsky.social · Sep 9
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
andreagates.bsky.social
A Lone Enraptured Male www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v3...
Kathleen Jamie · A Lone Enraptured Male: The Cult of the Wild
What’s that coming over the hill? A white, middle-class Englishman! A Lone Enraptured Male! From Cambridge! Here to...
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September 8, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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themerl.bsky.social
so something absolutely wild happened here in April: we were visited by Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter.

(short thread)
uorspeccoll.bsky.social University of Reading Special Collections @uorspeccoll.bsky.social · Sep 8
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