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A very balanced and insightful analysis of generational inequalities in the UK made even worse by Brexit. www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...
“The sun is burning in the sky
Strands of clouds go slowly drifting by…” 🎶
View from my office @VU Amsterdam
‘Our blood, our sweat, our tears’: how textile artist Tabitha Arnold weaves the US labor movement
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Come to our Open Day on Saturday 7 March VU Amsterdam! On the MA Design Cultures, in the faculty of humanities, we explore #design as a material, aesthetic and economic practice that shapes our #environment, #politics and future
vu.nl/nl/onderwijs...
Brilliant! 😄
Yay!
The pancake bakery, 1560, Northern Mannerist work by Dutch artist Pieter Aertsen. Known as ‘the Dutch Peiraikos’, he created monumental genre, with sturdy figures in domestic scenes of intense realism, often of religious significance. #shrovetuesday
@boijmans.nl
Norwegian men's choir does stirring version of 'Rocky Road to Dublin'
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Totally. Chirpy and in yer face. De *Leukste* Ochtendshow!
A long but worthwhile read from Adam Shatz in @lrb.co.uk
Have been rather like Moses in the desert since January.
“Wow. Never mind Manufacturing Consent – have a read of Not Giving A Shit About Consent. I thought Chomsky cared about power…” Marina Hyde in the Guardian.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This amused me greatly 😂 especially the fox painting 😂
Thank yoooo @cheekybudgie.bsky.social
Call for Contributions to a Sourcebook for Histories of Weather & Weathering teleskopos.wordpress.com/2026/02/05/c...
Full details linked and here teleskopos.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...
It will be edited by me, @lottaleiwo.bsky.social and Tamara Culkins. Please share! #histSTM #envhist 🗃️📜
Front cover image of book Animal Fashions depicting a Victorian woman with a dog
So glad we got to commission this new book for the Palgrave series. Explores how #colonial exploitation of natural resources came to #fashion female bodies. Thanks to editors Audrey Murfin, Victoria Pettersen Lantz & Sibyl Buchell for a fascinating book on #materials #ecologies #specimens
Don’t forget bookshops: Scheltema, Athenaeum, American Book Center, and the Spui book market in Fridays. All central. Lots of other specialist bookshops too.
The big museums are good but Het Schip is just charming and, as others have said, really informative. For drinks try Café de Pels or if you want quirky Café Welling behind Het Concertgebouw. Might be too cold for t’Blauwe Theehuis in Vondelpark. Also take the ferry across to Noord.
A reminder that we are recruiting for a new Chair of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Design History. For more details and to apply: buff.ly/p8JvO2P
www.irishtimes.com/technology/2...
Astonishing! US Congress group claims Irish regulators ‘censored’ social media coverage of IRISH elections…
They allege “harassment” (by regulators?) against tech groups (!)
to undermine conservative and populist perspectives.
Regulation = interference
Saw the Iris van Herpen exhibition at Kunsthal Rotterdam yesterday. Really busy but loved it. Inspiring, captivating creative work.
What on earth is "toxic empathy?" Twisted, sexist headline from The Telegraph (UK) calculated to harden attitudes. Lately we've been witnessing the re-branding of empathy by tech bros and others. Sinister.
recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best. It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.
it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI
Prisoners remaining on rolling hunger strike are suffering with dangerous symptoms, loved ones and a doctor say.
Taken by a frozen canal in Amsterdam zuid. Snow covered trees and and a bridge in the background
Still snowing #snow#amsterdam
Snowing in the Vondelpark Amsterdam
Let it snow….in Vondelpark Amsterdam today ❄️☃️
