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Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social · 4h

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Draught @draughtjournal.bsky.social · 1d

Draught is now live!
www.draughtjournal.com
Issue 1.1.1 with contributions by Glenn Adamson, Jen Calleja, Don Mee Choi, Mark Cousins, Daisy Lafarge, Mark Manders, Rosalind Nashashibi, Lisa Robertson, Christina Tudor-Sideri and Francesca Wade

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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 6h

We're thrilled to share that we have partnered with the University of Liverpool to deliver a master’s degree in Publishing, commencing September 2026.
Read our full announcement: liverpooluniversitypress.blog/2025/10/09/l... @sotauol.bsky.social

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Mike Pinnington @doublenegativem.bsky.social · 8h

Sometimes the cat lets us lie in til around 7. Other times I'm on my second coffee come 6:20...

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Heidi MacDonald @comixace.bsky.social · 20h

"That's the point – the smudge, the rough line, the hesitation - that's what makes my work come alive." - Jim Lee talking about why DC will never use AI storytelling. "AI doesn't dream, feel or make art, it aggregates it."

@jimlee.bsky.social speaking very passionately at Retailer Day. #nycc

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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 1d

if you’ve ever watched the apprentice, that’s the world without arts or humanities degrees

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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 1d

It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Silver Press @silver-press.bsky.social · 1d

Finished copies of Palestine is everywhere (publishing 16 Oct) 🖤 Edited by Skye Arundhati Thomas, this book contains dispatches from Gaza — essays, poems, images and letters from prison — reflecting on resistance, solidarity and the right to self-determination. www.silverpress.org/collections/...

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Mike Pinnington @doublenegativem.bsky.social · 1d

Genuinely scary and enraging insight into North America's culture wars. When footage from the Twilight Zone and Fahrenheit 451 bears comparison with the reality, you know we're in trouble.

Storyville - The Librarians - BBC iPlayer share.google/cbvd0VPioto5...

Storyville - The Librarians

A Storyville documentary that explores how librarians across the US are risking their safety to defend free speech as book bans and censorship threaten democracy from within.

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Mike Pinnington @doublenegativem.bsky.social · 1d

Now watching 🎬

a close up of a red and black background with the words `` all time '' written in red letters .

ALT: a close up of a red and black background with the words `` all time '' written in red letters .

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Designer Hasan @designer4hasand.bsky.social · 2d

2 years of pain that never heals, of children who slept and never woke up.
2 years of ashes,of tents,of cold, hunger & fear.
2 years where even the sky can no longer tell the difference between night and blood...
Yet despite the pain, we believe that justice will come, no matter how long it takes.💔

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Laura Robertson @doublenegativel.bsky.social · 1d

EXCELLENT NEWS. I signed a contract today with Tate Publishing!

Aimed at the general reader and gallery-goer alike, NIGHT delves into the nocturnal themes of slumber, revelry, death, epiphany, creativity and rebirth.

More: laurarobertsoniswriting.cargo.site/NIGHT-new-bo...

👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻

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Andy Adams @flakphoto.news · 2d

Hey friends, I'm looking for creative inspiration on Bluesky and would love to connect with more like-minded people. Would you recommend some of your favorite feeds so I can check them out? Thank you!

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Mike Pinnington @doublenegativem.bsky.social · 3d

Monday listening 🎧▶️
throwingmuses.bandcamp.com/album/moonli...

Moonlight Concessions, by Throwing Muses

9 track album

throwingmuses.bandcamp.com

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 3d

War as a moral metaphor is limited, limiting, and dangerous. By reducing the choices of action to “a war against” whatever-it-is, you divide the world into Me or Us (good) and Them or It (bad) and reduce the ethical complexity and moral richness of our life to Yes/No, On/Off.

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Mike Pinnington @doublenegativem.bsky.social · 3d

Surprisingly decent videogame adaptation alert >>>

Twisted Metal - BBC iPlayer share.google/FAYLnVNmbPq9...

Twisted Metal

A motor-mouthed outsider, a badass axe-wielding car thief and a mysterious package - it's time to have some fun in the apocalypse. High-octane action comedy with Anthony Mackie.

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Mike Pinnington @doublenegativem.bsky.social · 3d

Watch John Betjeman Goes by Train: King's Lynn to Hunstanton online - BFI Player share.google/CDOrm9Jr6uDb...

Watch John Betjeman Goes by Train: King's Lynn to Hunstanton - BFI Player

John Betjeman revels in the pleasures of travelling along the small branch line from King's Lynn to Hunstanton.

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Mike Pinnington @doublenegativem.bsky.social · 7d

*Phat

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Mike Pinnington @doublenegativem.bsky.social · 7d

A celestial journey – Tate Etc | Tate share.google/qENh5VhCm77n...

A celestial journey – Tate Etc | Tate

A celestial journey; Richard Hamblyn on Clouds. Tate Etc. magazine issue 5

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Mike Pinnington @doublenegativem.bsky.social · 7d

The women who redefined colour - BBC Culture share.google/AT8KDiVfwxzL...

The women who redefined colour

Five years before Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Theory of Colours, the English artist Mary Gartside published her own challenge to the ideas of Isaac Newton, writes Kelly Grovier.

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Mike Pinnington @doublenegativem.bsky.social · 7d

Hot desking: just another way to pit us against one another!?

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Rivkah Brown @rivkahbrown.bsky.social · 8d

Labour rescinded my conference pass over an unspecified "breach of the event code of conduct".

10 minutes later, @owenjones.bsky.social received a similar email.

This is a terrifying, authoritarian crackdown on press freedom.

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Mike Pinnington @doublenegativem.bsky.social · 7d

Giving a lecture on colour in a few weeks. Considering specifically talking about blue. This, from @artfund.bsky.social, looks well worth a read >>> 🟦👤💙🔵

Colour in art: a brief history of blue pigment | Art UK share.google/Q0N7UB40AODe...

Colour in art: a brief history of blue pigment | Art UK

Discover artworks, explore venues and meet artists. Art UK is the online home for every public collection in the UK, featuring over 600,000 artworks by over 60,000 artists.

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The Bluecoat @thebluecoat.bsky.social · 7d

JUST BROWSING: Lewis Prosser 🧺🪵✨

Lewis Prosser is an absurdist basketmaker, artist, and curator based in Wales, whose work explores themes of regional identity, cultural exchange, and public ceremony through heritage craft techniques.

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thedoublenegative.co.uk @thedoublenegative.co.uk · 7d

Today's #OnlineArtExchange theme is celebrations and unveilings for the recent reopening of The Harris, Preston👏

In keeping, here's John Fulleylove's 1877 painting, Opening of the Walker Art Gallery (the same year) 🏛️

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