@melanieconroy1-90.bsky.social
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Felix Vallotton's picture (1920) depicts late afternoon at Les Alyscamps, a large Roman necropolis a short distance outside the walls of the old town of Arles in southern France.
February 9, 2026 at 8:28 PM
Felix Vallotton's picture (1920) depicts late afternoon at Les Alyscamps, a large Roman necropolis a short distance outside the walls of the old town of Arles in southern France.
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Buttercup says hello
February 12, 2026 at 1:25 AM
Buttercup says hello
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I hear it’s almost time for some superb owls! Here’s one from 1508 by Albrecht Dürer.
February 8, 2026 at 10:27 PM
I hear it’s almost time for some superb owls! Here’s one from 1508 by Albrecht Dürer.
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Chomsky on Foucault: “I'd never met anyone who was so totally amoral”
I guess Foucault didn’t retain that distinction forever
I guess Foucault didn’t retain that distinction forever
February 3, 2026 at 10:27 PM
Chomsky on Foucault: “I'd never met anyone who was so totally amoral”
I guess Foucault didn’t retain that distinction forever
I guess Foucault didn’t retain that distinction forever
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Watching the Epstein atrocities continuing to expand, one of the horrors is knowing that many of these men feel absolutely nothing for their victims beyond annoyance - they are gross narcissists who see the world as FOR THEM and to hell with the rest whatever the destruction and pain wrought
February 4, 2026 at 7:44 AM
Watching the Epstein atrocities continuing to expand, one of the horrors is knowing that many of these men feel absolutely nothing for their victims beyond annoyance - they are gross narcissists who see the world as FOR THEM and to hell with the rest whatever the destruction and pain wrought
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UK Ministers to crack down on profiteering in care sector.
Promise made over a year ago. No legislation.
Corporations are profiteering everywhere - water, energy, mail, healthcare, dentists, banking, vets ...
Political parties funded by corporations, don't bite the hand that feeds them.
Promise made over a year ago. No legislation.
Corporations are profiteering everywhere - water, energy, mail, healthcare, dentists, banking, vets ...
Political parties funded by corporations, don't bite the hand that feeds them.
Ministers to crack down on profiteering in care sector and make renewed fostering push
Josh MacAlister issues warning as government launches £88m ‘call to arms’ to find homes for 10,000 foster children
www.theguardian.com
February 6, 2026 at 7:58 AM
UK Ministers to crack down on profiteering in care sector.
Promise made over a year ago. No legislation.
Corporations are profiteering everywhere - water, energy, mail, healthcare, dentists, banking, vets ...
Political parties funded by corporations, don't bite the hand that feeds them.
Promise made over a year ago. No legislation.
Corporations are profiteering everywhere - water, energy, mail, healthcare, dentists, banking, vets ...
Political parties funded by corporations, don't bite the hand that feeds them.
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worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead
February 4, 2026 at 4:44 PM
worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead
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An owl looks on in a corner of Harry Stammers' depiction of the Annunciation to the Shepherds, just a tiny detail in his great east window of 1963 at St Mark's Broomhill, Sheffield, visited last week.
#OwlishMonday
#OwlishMonday
February 2, 2026 at 9:48 PM
An owl looks on in a corner of Harry Stammers' depiction of the Annunciation to the Shepherds, just a tiny detail in his great east window of 1963 at St Mark's Broomhill, Sheffield, visited last week.
#OwlishMonday
#OwlishMonday
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Just a capybara hitching a ride on an armadillo. 😂😎😂
February 1, 2026 at 11:37 PM
Just a capybara hitching a ride on an armadillo. 😂😎😂
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Peasant Woman, Head - 1885
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/13736
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/13736
January 26, 2026 at 2:59 PM
Peasant Woman, Head - 1885
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/13736
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/13736
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If you tack space minus symbol ai ( -ai) on the end of Google searches, it bypasses the AI summary.
January 20, 2026 at 11:05 PM
If you tack space minus symbol ai ( -ai) on the end of Google searches, it bypasses the AI summary.
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Caravaggio (1986) Directed by Derek Jarman. Tilda Swinton makes her film debut in this fictionalized retelling of the life of 17th-century Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio.
January 19, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Caravaggio (1986) Directed by Derek Jarman. Tilda Swinton makes her film debut in this fictionalized retelling of the life of 17th-century Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio.
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January 19, 2026 at 2:20 PM
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Gloucester Road, London (1958)
One of William Brooker’s great strengths was his aptitude for combining the expressionistic lightness of painting with strong composition; flat patches of light and dark allow people and vehicles to recede gradually into the distance.
One of William Brooker’s great strengths was his aptitude for combining the expressionistic lightness of painting with strong composition; flat patches of light and dark allow people and vehicles to recede gradually into the distance.
January 16, 2026 at 9:10 AM
Gloucester Road, London (1958)
One of William Brooker’s great strengths was his aptitude for combining the expressionistic lightness of painting with strong composition; flat patches of light and dark allow people and vehicles to recede gradually into the distance.
One of William Brooker’s great strengths was his aptitude for combining the expressionistic lightness of painting with strong composition; flat patches of light and dark allow people and vehicles to recede gradually into the distance.
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“If we conflate the richness of biological brains & human experience with the information-processing machinations of deepfake-boosted chatbots, or whatever the latest AI wizardry is, we do our minds, brains & bodies a grave injustice.”
— @anilseth.bsky.social, winner of @berggruen.org Essay Prize
— @anilseth.bsky.social, winner of @berggruen.org Essay Prize
The Mythology Of Conscious AI | NOEMA
Why consciousness is more likely a property of life than of computation and why creating conscious, or even conscious-seeming AI, is a bad idea.
www.noemamag.com
January 14, 2026 at 5:45 PM
“If we conflate the richness of biological brains & human experience with the information-processing machinations of deepfake-boosted chatbots, or whatever the latest AI wizardry is, we do our minds, brains & bodies a grave injustice.”
— @anilseth.bsky.social, winner of @berggruen.org Essay Prize
— @anilseth.bsky.social, winner of @berggruen.org Essay Prize
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Morning all.
Agecroft Power Station, Salford, 1966.
Photographer Shirley Baker.
Agecroft Power Station, Salford, 1966.
Photographer Shirley Baker.
January 6, 2026 at 7:56 AM
Morning all.
Agecroft Power Station, Salford, 1966.
Photographer Shirley Baker.
Agecroft Power Station, Salford, 1966.
Photographer Shirley Baker.
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In this painting from the 1920s, Douglas Percy Bliss has used beautifully sequenced low tones to create a feeling of unease. The picture depicts Over Palce which was situated under the railway off Newport Street in Vauxhall. It was destroyed in the Blitz during WW2.
January 3, 2026 at 9:51 PM
In this painting from the 1920s, Douglas Percy Bliss has used beautifully sequenced low tones to create a feeling of unease. The picture depicts Over Palce which was situated under the railway off Newport Street in Vauxhall. It was destroyed in the Blitz during WW2.
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This is tasteless, as well as being quite debatably bad economics. The "mild zombie apocalypse hahaha" is thousands of families losing their source of income. And there is no mechanism by which they will be immaculately replaced by "more productive firms".
🚨 The Resolution Foundation New Year Outlook has just been published 👇
🧟 Early and encouraging signs of a mild zombie apocalypse, alongside the prospect of deaths outnumbering births from here on out ⤵️ buff.ly/wXo84d2
🧟 Early and encouraging signs of a mild zombie apocalypse, alongside the prospect of deaths outnumbering births from here on out ⤵️ buff.ly/wXo84d2
January 5, 2026 at 9:35 AM
This is tasteless, as well as being quite debatably bad economics. The "mild zombie apocalypse hahaha" is thousands of families losing their source of income. And there is no mechanism by which they will be immaculately replaced by "more productive firms".
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Robert Abele ~ Stick of Gold, 2025
January 4, 2026 at 8:54 AM
Robert Abele ~ Stick of Gold, 2025
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Milton Avery
Seated Girl with Dog, 1944
Seated Girl with Dog, 1944
February 17, 2024 at 6:40 PM
Milton Avery
Seated Girl with Dog, 1944
Seated Girl with Dog, 1944
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Jack Chambers :
Lake Huron no. 1, 1970-71
oil on wood, 186 x 185 cm
Museum London, London, Ontario
Lake Huron no. 1, 1970-71
oil on wood, 186 x 185 cm
Museum London, London, Ontario
December 6, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Jack Chambers :
Lake Huron no. 1, 1970-71
oil on wood, 186 x 185 cm
Museum London, London, Ontario
Lake Huron no. 1, 1970-71
oil on wood, 186 x 185 cm
Museum London, London, Ontario
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Spotify has laid off thousands in recent years, while reportedly paying artists $0.003 per stream.
Spotify profits rose 28% in Q3. Its CEO is worth $9.8 billion. It's making money off ICE recruitment ads.
Don't you think it's time put a wrap on corporate greed and exploitation?
Spotify profits rose 28% in Q3. Its CEO is worth $9.8 billion. It's making money off ICE recruitment ads.
Don't you think it's time put a wrap on corporate greed and exploitation?
December 4, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Spotify has laid off thousands in recent years, while reportedly paying artists $0.003 per stream.
Spotify profits rose 28% in Q3. Its CEO is worth $9.8 billion. It's making money off ICE recruitment ads.
Don't you think it's time put a wrap on corporate greed and exploitation?
Spotify profits rose 28% in Q3. Its CEO is worth $9.8 billion. It's making money off ICE recruitment ads.
Don't you think it's time put a wrap on corporate greed and exploitation?
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December 6, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Now loss, however cruel, is powerless against possession, which it completes, or even, affirms: loss is, in fact, nothing else than a second acquisition—but now completely interiorized—and just as intense.
~Rainer Maria Rilke
~Rainer Maria Rilke
![[Blue Bird by Sergey Solomko]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:radq5ea3mto23ckpk7qe4j4v/bafkreia5vfepyvmant3rvoqaljeolceapftdqfnrp2a4zxzp6egxmiktau@jpeg)
November 30, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Now loss, however cruel, is powerless against possession, which it completes, or even, affirms: loss is, in fact, nothing else than a second acquisition—but now completely interiorized—and just as intense.
~Rainer Maria Rilke
~Rainer Maria Rilke
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A different solitude – pioneering aviator and breathtaking writer Beryl Markham, born on this day in 1902, on what she learned about life in the bottomless ocean of the night sky www.themarginalian.org/2022/09/19/b...
A Different Solitude: Pioneering Aviator Beryl Markham on What She Learned About Life in the Bottomless Night
“I learned what every dreaming child needs to know — that no horizon is so far that you cannot get above it or beyond it.”
www.themarginalian.org
October 26, 2025 at 3:28 PM
A different solitude – pioneering aviator and breathtaking writer Beryl Markham, born on this day in 1902, on what she learned about life in the bottomless ocean of the night sky www.themarginalian.org/2022/09/19/b...