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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 14h

'Portrait of a Girl.' (1904) From early in his career, Ian Strang was recognized as a brilliant draughtsman. He was much admired for his portrait drawings, inspired by those of Hans Holbein in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle.

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50 Jenna Ipcar Fans Can’t Be Wrong! @ipcar.bsky.social · Nov 26

At the bank I was told "pick your four digit pincode but it can't be a year." "Aren't they all years?" I asked. We sat in silence for a bit.

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sqooky from:me @skeet.best · 1d

jokes aside, can you imagine how you would handle it if you asked a human assistant "did you make all this up instead of actually doing any of the work", and that person responded to you with "good catch"

Nosferatu RBMK 🦇 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 1d

girl are you chatgpt because your KPIs are crazy

Mostafa • @mokatia
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Shared row data file with GPT5 to analyze, the result KPIs were crazy, so I naively asked, and innocently it responded.
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Did you make up these numbers?
Good catch - I wasn't able to actually open and parse your CSV file yet,
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Anna H @athenepallas.bsky.social · 7h

Choose #20paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. #blueskyartchallenge #art #painting

Artist Unknown • Flora (fresco at the Villa Arianna, Stabiae near Pompeii) •

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Anna H @athenepallas.bsky.social · 8h

I love the personality shown by the angels: judging by the folded arms there may have been a celestial tiff.

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Anna H @athenepallas.bsky.social · 8h

Choose #20paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. #blueskyartchallenge #art #painting

James McNeill Whistler • Nocturne: Blue and Silver - Chelsea •

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Anna H @athenepallas.bsky.social · 8h

Choose #20paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. #blueskyartchallenge #art #painting

Artist Unknown • The Wilton Diptych

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Anna H @athenepallas.bsky.social · 9h

Venice to Cyprus, c.1571

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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 10h

Interesting piece by @evawiseman.bsky.social on 70-somethings and smartphones.
I’m convinced this was a significant factor in the Brexit vote and the rise of Reform.

observer.co.uk/news/columni...

Teenagers’ phone use? It’s the grandparents we should be ...

Maybe our fears about the ill effects of social media, screen time and doomscrolling are wasted on the young

observer.co.uk

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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 10h

with apologies to @dsquareddigest.bsky.social, shorter Peter Thiel.

Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 10h

Every time someone makes me read something Peter Thiel said it’s like “Scrooge McDuck is Jesus Christ and Huey, Dewey, and Louie are Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel and Daisy is Mary Magdalene and that’s why women voting has lowered American sperm count.”

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Bouba's Delivery Service @fernmonkey.bsky.social · 1d

My friend Sascha is a professional musician and he's lost a viola bow on the way to Heathrow. Please signal boost to help him get it back.

Lost viola bow on the way from Honor Oak Station to Heathrow Terminal 2. The bow slid from its bow case somewhere along the way, possibly on the train. TFL contacted already.
It weighs 68.2 grams and has got a stamped DODD next to the frog. If any info on this, please pm me.

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Josh Spero @joshspero.ft.com · 10h

Martin Wolf back in the comments (under a very positive review of Nigerian Modernism at the Tate) on.ft.com/42F542Z

Win one for the Gipper
51 MINUTES AGO
Creative bankruptcy and talent vacuum being championed by the freaks at Tate Modern.

Martin Wolf, FT
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Why should anybody take this idiotic remark seriously?

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Anna H @athenepallas.bsky.social · 10h

Martin Wolf going feral in the comments is worth the price of a FT subscription alone

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Lucy Prebble @lucyprebblish.bsky.social · 11h

Fucking French, man

the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 13h

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 11h

Britain's youth clubs have been quietly decimated. What's most revealing is that few seem to care | John Harris

These vital spaces have been the first targets of cuts in a nation that favours age over youth – despite being the remedy for blights such as social division, polarisation and loneliness, says Guardian columnist John Harris

www.theguardian.com

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 14h

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

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Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

www.cbsnews.com

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Clay Jackson @clayjak.substack.com · 1d

that lawyer was me.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1d

What Fr Dowling is doing here was not just "offering communion to detainees". A full on Eucharistic Procession is a really fucking big deal. In Catholic theological framing, those folks were the honor guard with the very great privilege of escorting Jesus himself to the detention center.

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