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jonathan jones keeps the flame alive for art mattering, that one might actually care whether it’s good or bad. instead of self-defeating industry boosterism where every critique is implicitly advocating more for the importance of art vs being on your phone or the contribution of creative industries

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i work as a curator at the tate galleries and each exhibition i include more and more gratuitous fashion displays solely to annoy jonathan jones. the board has figured out that i’m doing this but can’t do anything about it due to woke.

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Working on a piece for Defector about Young British Art of the 1990s, something I've wanted to write for about five years, and my research revealed that the breathless superficiality of fashion photography contributed more to the UK's total artistic output than the entire conceptual art field 1/2

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if you don’t hate jonathan jones at twenty you have no heart, if you don’t recognise that he is basically correct at thirty you have no brain

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ore_ebbed @auorebd.bsky.social · 8h

a second warhammer gabriel has just hit the TL

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No, no, I like visual art. Well I don't really see as much of it as I should; I mostly consume it by psychoanalysing the columns of the nation's most belligerent art reviewer.

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[in the emergency military planning meeting] well sir it really depends. with the russian kalibr cruise missile for example if the russians call out “length: 6.2m-8.9m“ then we are screwed, but if they go for “speed: mach 3“ then our aster 30 anti-ballistic missiles will wipe the floor with them

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1) An enemy such as a yank or a left shitposter launches a post confidently repeating a fake viral statistic about the British economy 2) The 'Britannia Shield' will use new radar systems to detect the posting threat and upgraded command centres to co-ordinate the response

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enjoy how this incorprorates badenoch’s argument that edinburgh is the uk’s second city

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gutted to have been beaten to a qing one, asleep at the wheel. could do a blackpool hotel beds one but it’s already been mentioned in my replies and would feel like patter theft.

rory malcolm @rorymal.com · 23h

feel like a pacifist left campaign against the current push for increased military spending to face up to russia would struggle to find a discrediting framing as good as the tories “we want to build a british iron dome”

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peelsessions.club had a little bit of fun building this tonight after I got really, really into post-punk's heydey again recently

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Peel Sessions

Every session recorded for John Peel's BBC Radio 1 show, 1967–2004. Filter by genre, band, year and origin; watch on YouTube.

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clamplifier @clamplifier.bsky.social · 12h

most common one does market cap to GVA which is nonsense, can get a little closer but still wrong with more appropriate metrics if you cherry pick years to compare but uk statistical classifications for fishing narrow in terms of what is included vs what one might understand as the fishing industry

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clamplifier @clamplifier.bsky.social · 13h

this fake factoid will never die ffs

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clamplifier @clamplifier.bsky.social · 23h

i will not be hand-holding my audience by listing nine definitive favourites for anything, you should have to see me be enthusiastic about something and then try work out for yourself whether i’d still stand by that opinion two weeks later

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clamplifier @clamplifier.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

laughing imagining a random plod in sussex suddenly tasked with getting to the bottom of the entire history and debate over zionism

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

'Venetian Reflections.' In 1879 Whistler travelled to Venice, a move which instigated a period of great artistic productivity with an increasingly minimalist approach, more abstract and dependent on a minimum of lines.

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clamplifier @clamplifier.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

thanks gabs, missed the bevins substack post so will look at that and DM you :)

clamplifier @clamplifier.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

does anyone know of a good english language account of lula’s third term and how support slipped away?

mammon @derekhill.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

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blocked + reported + familiarizing my beast with your scent

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wake up dead mang @mangmangmang.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Efficient storytelling

Two Google reviews
Lisa-jane k
***** All my piss head mates here I love it
James Hunter-Jones
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Seems to attract a crowd that would not be welcome anywhere else

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clamplifier @clamplifier.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

every generation gets the t dan smith it deserves

clamplifier @clamplifier.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

enjoy how there’s now a narrative hook for any low level corruption involving anyone in labour and money from the UAE which is surely a fair bit

in old person culture talking at length about how their children are useless and never bother to see them is the highest honour they can bestow upon you, a total stranger

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Daniel Kennedy @fliglman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

should be able to digitally tip the bus driver when they show proper contempt for the tourists refusing to abide by the rules of the crossings in town. josh has tipped £2 - “fantastic pro-active deployment of the horn”

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one star review of the River Danube

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hindsight bias but feel like city have really penned themselves in on the overall merits of the FFP rules (surely the most compelling argument in their favour) by insisting that they actually complied with them. turning around now feels like cynically buying time while everyone else self-restricted.

feels of a piece with this, sick of these attempted mafia shakedowns. get rid! bsky.app/profile/flyi...

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American Association of Wine Economists AAWE @wineecon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

feel like before the verdict there wasn’t that much appetite for a big punishment and a general a sense of resignation that this stuff had long become part and parcel of modern football, whereas now i want a line in the sand

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The first poster featuring the Michelin Man, aka Bibendum, designed by O'Galop in 1898. The slogan "Nunc est bibendum" means "Now is the time to drink." Bibendum toasts with a goblet of nails and broken glass while rival tires slump beside him, because the Michelin tire "drinks up the obstacle."

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terror @weedlejuice.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

got to design my first ever traitors task for the second celebrity episode this year, so excited to see how the contestants got on with it!! not to brag but the producer said that the risk-reward element i came up with was so well thought out that they wouldn’t even need to playtest before approving

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Saw your man collecting splintered and structurally weak materials for the family nest

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going to ask the narrator in drive your plow over the bones of the dead for advice on how i can become a massive legend like her

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molly @bugmom.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

i read the acceptable/unacceptable poll as people testing whether they think it’s a good idea, ie would it be accepted or not

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fucking useless

gemini output that reads: "Because the term "mole people" refers to completely different concepts depending on your intent, the way you "join" them depends entirely on what you mean:"

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i find the argument that it’s reasonable to expect candidates to make an effort and follow social rules because that’s a shorthand for how most jobs actually function day to day fairly persuasive. iced coffee a compelling edge case because it’s not so easily legible as rejecting those expectations.

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it’s for a reward after the interview if you think it went well, or as a little boost to help pick yourself up if you think it went badly

trying to work out whether bluesky would defend this, i think it would

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please, it is glasgow which got the mill media outlet. london media personalities might have lasted a whole year here!

i wouldn’t recommend it but i know many people who could get away with it

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