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Angélique van Drunen 🇪🇺 @avdrunen.bsky.social · 15h

You know who else had an arch built during his presidency?
- architecturetoday.co.uk/reflections-...

- fresques.ina.fr/mitterrand/p...

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Angélique van Drunen 🇪🇺 @avdrunen.bsky.social · 16h

Ik ga je boek kopen. Daarom mag ik elitair zeggen dat ik verbaasd ben over de ietwat middelmatige kennis van Le Coultre van de geschiedenis van studentenverenigingen: 'die waren er toen blijkbaar ook al'. Behoorlijk lang ja: www.historischnieuwsblad.nl/hoe-studente... @historischnwsbl.bsky.social

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Kim van Keken @kimvankeken.bsky.social · 18h

Het is niet normaal wat mensen zomaar even de ether ingooien. Alle normale kritiek, op een rustige toon discussiëren: het is niet meer mogelijk online. Eerst niet door extreem-rechts op X. Maar het hoefijzer hier begint hele nare trekjes te krijgen.

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Thomas Heij @thomasheij.bsky.social · 7d

M’n Nietzsche-vertaling verschijnt over anderhalve week, maar de eerste signalering is al binnen!

Eva-Anne Le Coultre schreef dit mooie stukje in @filosofiemagazine.bsky.social 👇

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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 19h

This is both fascinating & frightening. There is a demand for images that show and confirm what people already know and believe to be true, and AI slop meets that demand—with visual content that emblematically visualizes what the headlines report. One could call it synthetic hypervisualization
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

That TikTok account has a few fake videos of reporters getting detained. They make these videos because it’s a big story in the news. Real reporters are getting arrested. And so people are making AI videos to get engagement on TikTok.

dontbeonline • 1d ago
Journalist gets detained while doing her job #ForYou, #viral, #foryoupage, #tikto... more
• Contains: Bad Boys (The...

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 4d

What's clever about the old Irish carved turnip heads is they capture perfectly the makers' disgust at the commercialisation of Halloween.

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 1d

Winter Night in the Mountains, Study
Harald Oscar Sohlberg

snowy landscape with dark spindly trees in a night sky

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 1d

War creates two categories of persons: those who
outlive it and those who don’t.

Both carry wounds.

-Anne Carson
#everynightapoem

трайна
"wound"
HISTORY OF WAR: LESSON 2
War creates two categories of persons: those who outlive it and those who don't.
Both carry wounds.

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 1d

empty street at night, a man walking alone

Understand
paranoid people
better by following. them around

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 1d

Michael Longley, from 'Ghost Orchid'

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Marie Ruiz-Vidal @ruizvidal7.bsky.social · 1d

Marlene Dietrich

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Matt Thrower @mattthr.bsky.social · 1d

I've spent years on and off curating a playlist of Halloween music that's listenable, a bit creepy and avoids any of the seasonal cliches. Spans alt-rock, rock, rap and electronica and I absolutely love it at this time of year music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Halloween

Playlist converted by Soundiiz from another music platform! https://soundiiz.com

music.youtube.com

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embar nitwitzer @amberwiznitzer.bsky.social · 2d

Het eerste voorbeeld van cancel culture vinden we in Genesis 3, toen god Adam en Eva helemaal kapotcancelde voor het eten van één verkeerde appel (‘het mishapje’). Dit maakt cancel culture tot fundamenteel onderdeel van de joods-christelijke traditie

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 6d

Zoom out 🙏 🤩 #wonder

Cartoon strip by me who is Stephen Collins. The imagery of the comic starts off with a single electron and then each panel zooms out one step - first to the microchip, then the OLED screen, then the iPhone, the person holding the iPhone, and onwards

Script:

An electron, forged in the first fire of the Big Bang

Courses through a deeply intricate maze of transistors and diodes

mined with unfathomable ingenuity from our planet’s deep geological past

and assembled from all over the world

Into a device perfected through centuries of technological evolution

to perform a beautifully synchronised pixel dance on an OLED screen

in an intricate moving pattern of shifting light

[Show a phone screen with an Instagram post featuring Ryan Gosling and bearing the legend:]

WATCH RYAN GOSLING EAT A PASTY FOR THE FIRST TIME!

whose choreography is powered by an global information network of unknowable complexity

which is specifically tailored to the interests of the being observing the screen

who is a member of the most advanced species on Earth

[Show a shlubby looking GUY idly looking at the Ryan Gosling/sausage roll Instagram reel on his phone while sitting in his pants and a stained t-shirt and eating a massive bag of crisps]

with a brain perhaps more capable of reconfiguring these signals into conscious thought than any other for billions of miles around

[Guy has a thought]:
“Mmm…"

in this endless, silent void.

[Pull back to show the Earth as a tiny blue dot among the stars with a thought bubble coming from it]

"… I want a pasty.”

[ends]

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 5d

A riddle for @theguardian.com books page.
p.s. My new book 'Physics for Cats' is out this week in bookshops and online. Details at www.tomgauld.com

Title: One door leads to freedom, the others to certain death. You may ask one question.

Image: Three guards with shields and speard stand in front of three doors. One guard sits at a folding table working at a typewriter, his shield and spear leaning against the wall.

Caption: One guard always tells the truth, one always tells lies, and the third always tells an entrancing story that blends reportage with imagination in an attempt to reach a deeper authenticity by moving beyond the narrow categories of fact and fiction.

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Angélique van Drunen 🇪🇺 @avdrunen.bsky.social · 1d

#worldmentalhealthday @brianbilston.bsky.social

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 3d

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Daniël Boomsma @danielboomsma.bsky.social · 1d

Prachtig

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 4d

🖼️ Rob Bridges
‘Now, as you all know, the Black Rabbit of Inle is fear and everlasting darkness. He is a rabbit, but he is that cold bad dream from which we can only entreat the Lord Frith to save us today and tomorrow’ ~ Watership Down, Richard Adams.

Black Rabbit of Inlé, inspired by figure from Watership Down.
The artwork features a black rabbit in mid-leap, with a tattered, pale banner wrapped around its body. The banner reads "THE BLACK RABBIT OF INLÉ." The rabbit is shown against a textured, light-colored background with scattered twig-like elements.

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Eurozine @eurozine.bsky.social · 2d

A century after publication, ‘Mein Kampf’ is instructive not just about the mass appeal of delusional xenophobia, but also about the circumstances under which morality can become a form of terror. By Arnon Grunberg @arnonyy.bsky.social www.eurozine.com/the-elastici...

The elasticity of morals

A century after its publication, ‘Mein Kampf’ is instructive not just about the mass appeal of delusional xenophobia, but also about the circumstances under which morality can become a form of terror.

www.eurozine.com

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Lennart Quispel @lquispel.bsky.social · 2d

Nou ja zeg ... wie had dat nu zien aankomen ...

Tweakers @tweakers.net · 2d

Persoonlijke informatie van Australische burgers in de staat Nieuw-Zuid-Wales is uitgelekt door ongeautoriseerd gebruik van ChatGPT. Een voormalige aannemer van de staat uploadde in maart een Excel-spreadsheet naar de AI-chatbot van OpenAI, meldt de lokale overheid nu. #Tweakers

Gegevens van Australische burgers uitgelekt via ChatGPT-gebruik door overheid

Persoonlijke informatie van Australische burgers in de staat Nieuw-Zuid-Wales is uitgelekt door ongeautoriseerd gebruik van ChatGPT. Een voormalige aannemer van de staat uploadde in maart een Excel-spreadsheet naar de AI-chatbot van OpenAI, meldt de lokale overheid nu.

tweakers.net

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 3d

The choice of books in Felix Vallotton’s 'The Bookcase,' (1915) play nicely into the picture's palette: the shelves are filled with the yellow spines of the Bibliothèque Charpentier collection, in a nod to the (then) supposed female preference for thrilling novels.

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 3d

CENT

How to know if you are under the influence of Illegal Substances:

1.Cotton Mouth
2.Life Seems Pretty Good

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Angélique van Drunen 🇪🇺 @avdrunen.bsky.social · 3d

Happy little paintings.

NPR @npr.org · 3d

Thirty of Ross' trademark landscapes will be sold at a series of auctions starting in November. He painted many of them live on The Joy of Painting, which started airing on PBS in the 1980s. n.pr/474wJvJ

Dozens of Bob Ross paintings will be auctioned to help public TV after funding cuts

Thirty of Ross' trademark landscapes will be sold at a series of auctions starting in November. He painted many of them live on The Joy of Painting, which started airing on PBS in the 1980s.

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Angélique van Drunen 🇪🇺 @avdrunen.bsky.social · 3d

"De uitdijende weerstand tegen alles wat anders is dan zuiver Nederlands, ontneemt mij het zicht". Verdrietig stemmende afscheidscolumn van Karin Amatmoekrim: www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

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