Francesca
@francescacastelli.bsky.social
Chuffed to bits with my vegetarian Christmas Eve feast. It would have been vegan, but you can’t beat a few dollops of Gorgonzola cheese in your risotto.
December 25, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Chuffed to bits with my vegetarian Christmas Eve feast. It would have been vegan, but you can’t beat a few dollops of Gorgonzola cheese in your risotto.
Personally, the more police I see deployed, the less safe I feel.
I want all Londoners to feel safe over the festive period, which is why there will be increased Met Police patrols in the busiest areas.
Doubling the number of officers in the west end has already contributed to cutting thefts by 25%.
Doubling the number of officers in the west end has already contributed to cutting thefts by 25%.
December 12, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Personally, the more police I see deployed, the less safe I feel.
This ferocious, all-out assault on women's rights has been years in the making. They mapped out every sphere where women gained autonomy - education, healthcare, careers, social freedoms - and are systematically targeting each one for destruction.
judithdayal.substack.com/p/project-20...
judithdayal.substack.com/p/project-20...
judithdayal.substack.com
December 10, 2025 at 12:24 PM
This ferocious, all-out assault on women's rights has been years in the making. They mapped out every sphere where women gained autonomy - education, healthcare, careers, social freedoms - and are systematically targeting each one for destruction.
judithdayal.substack.com/p/project-20...
judithdayal.substack.com/p/project-20...
You can tell Thiebaud truly did worship Morandi.
December 5, 2025 at 3:44 PM
You can tell Thiebaud truly did worship Morandi.
What a delightful little Wayne Thiebaud exhibition at the Courtauld. Like Cézanne before him, Morandi proved instrumental in inspiring Thiebaud’s sublime still lifes of the mundane.
December 5, 2025 at 3:36 PM
What a delightful little Wayne Thiebaud exhibition at the Courtauld. Like Cézanne before him, Morandi proved instrumental in inspiring Thiebaud’s sublime still lifes of the mundane.
Super moon in Hyde Park.
December 4, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Super moon in Hyde Park.
Welcome to the Ritz.
December 3, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Welcome to the Ritz.
Beautifully written.
An essay for World AIDS Day and the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks's valiant act of resistance, an essay on quilts and solidarity, on stitching the fragments together.
Solidarity Stitches Us Together: Today, World AIDS Day, Is Also the 70th Anniversary of Rosa Park's Historic Protest
I saw two radically different versions of what a quilt could be yesterday and yet they spoke to the same issues. I caught the show Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California ...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Beautifully written.
With Melania Trump delivering a speech on the impact of AI on warfare to the US Marine Corps (which of course she cannot pronounce properly because language ability is one of the things money can’t buy) on Thanksgiving day, irony is officially dead.
November 30, 2025 at 10:31 AM
With Melania Trump delivering a speech on the impact of AI on warfare to the US Marine Corps (which of course she cannot pronounce properly because language ability is one of the things money can’t buy) on Thanksgiving day, irony is officially dead.
I’ll never understand why the cold season doesn’t get more love.
November 27, 2025 at 7:09 PM
I’ll never understand why the cold season doesn’t get more love.
The majority of job ads for foreign language speakers on LinkedIn are from AI companies who want you to train their model so your skills become entirely redundant. It's a hard pass and a big fu*k you from me.
November 25, 2025 at 11:15 AM
The majority of job ads for foreign language speakers on LinkedIn are from AI companies who want you to train their model so your skills become entirely redundant. It's a hard pass and a big fu*k you from me.
Ignorance and science denial are a tragedy.
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Ignorance and science denial are a tragedy.
This such an important point.
Both the Conservatives and Labour have very deliberately chosen Brown faces for their most virulently racist policies. This is a feature not a bug. Every single one of these Brown lemmings to White supremacy is fully aware of what they are doing.
November 20, 2025 at 5:47 PM
This such an important point.
Did a bit of walking and a bit of baking today. I love Autumn, it’s my favourite season. Always has been.
November 17, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Did a bit of walking and a bit of baking today. I love Autumn, it’s my favourite season. Always has been.
Great piece, thank you.
Johnson is putridly corrupt and has been getting away with murder for way too long. Is there an end to this privilege and impunity? Wouldn’t hold my breath if I were you.
Johnson is putridly corrupt and has been getting away with murder for way too long. Is there an end to this privilege and impunity? Wouldn’t hold my breath if I were you.
Temerko, a Soviet-born oligarch and a major Conservative donor, told Belton that he and Johnson spent time… plotting the overthrow May. According to Temerko, Johnson had finally been persuaded to back Brexit in 2016 by a group of “eastern European businessmen”.
bylinetimes.com/2023/01/19/l...
bylinetimes.com/2023/01/19/l...
Landmark Ruling in Strasbourg as MPs Challenge UK Government over Failure to Investigate Russian Interference in Brexit
'Nothing less than the future of democracy is at stake' says Caroline Lucas as a cross-party coalition and The Citizens win an unprecedented hearing over electoral safety and national security
bylinetimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Great piece, thank you.
Johnson is putridly corrupt and has been getting away with murder for way too long. Is there an end to this privilege and impunity? Wouldn’t hold my breath if I were you.
Johnson is putridly corrupt and has been getting away with murder for way too long. Is there an end to this privilege and impunity? Wouldn’t hold my breath if I were you.
Dumas is an extraordinary artist.
"Marlene Dumas [South African painter] has become the first contemporary woman artist to join the Louvre's permanent collection...."
(The Art Newspaper, 2025)
Continued 'Firsts' for women in the arts show that a quest for equity is still necessary.
(The Art Newspaper, 2025)
Continued 'Firsts' for women in the arts show that a quest for equity is still necessary.
November 11, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Dumas is an extraordinary artist.
Reposted by Francesca
Hundreds of thousands of people, dead because of a decision made by the world's richest man
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Hundreds of thousands of people, dead because of a decision made by the world's richest man
Cheeky day trip to my happy place.
October 15, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Cheeky day trip to my happy place.
Went to the cinema to watch Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and now I can’t get over these two. Ross was stunning, as well. What an epic trio.
October 12, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Went to the cinema to watch Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and now I can’t get over these two. Ross was stunning, as well. What an epic trio.
A must read for all AI users and for anyone wondering what AI is all about.
collectivefutures.blog/the-infrastr...
collectivefutures.blog/the-infrastr...
The infrastructure of meaninglessness
Listen, there are two realities that we should be aware of. AI exists to make your job obsolete because the alternative is that AI makes managers obsolete.
Let me try to break down this theory, which...
collectivefutures.blog
October 10, 2025 at 6:17 AM
A must read for all AI users and for anyone wondering what AI is all about.
collectivefutures.blog/the-infrastr...
collectivefutures.blog/the-infrastr...
I just finished my first AI-led work interview and I'm feeling slightly discombobulated. Couldn't help but feel like a muppet having to impress a non-human.
September 28, 2025 at 1:59 PM
I just finished my first AI-led work interview and I'm feeling slightly discombobulated. Couldn't help but feel like a muppet having to impress a non-human.
Worth sharing another one.
September 27, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Worth sharing another one.
Double rainbow. A first!
September 27, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Double rainbow. A first!
FUCK THE MONARCHY.
September 18, 2025 at 6:22 AM
FUCK THE MONARCHY.