Reposted by Espen HauglidMrs Quent @quarkquent.bsky.social · 20hDon’t assume everything will go to shit, fight for it not to 161
Reposted by Espen HauglidHetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 14/10/2026This is excellent! ‘The restaurant will continue to trade, while becoming a commercial tenant of the charity. Under the deal, the rent payments will go towards conserving the building.’ What a far sighted move www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukHome of London's oldest restaurant Rules given to National TrustRules, in Covent Garden, which opened in 1798, will be looked after and conserved by the charity. 25915
Reposted by Espen HauglidDaniel Kennedy @fliglman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026The AI=asbestos analogy is actually unfair to asbestos which kept hundreds of thousand of people warm and safe around the world for half a century 281
Reposted by Espen HauglidTricia Lockwood @tricialockwood.bsky.social · 12/10/2026the thing about the past is that everyone’s tummies hurt all the time 5987
Reposted by Espen HauglidIre….gor mortis @derbren.bsky.social · 11/10/2026i’m scrolling bluesky and have no idea what anybody’s talking about, just like it should be. 1161
Reposted by Espen HauglidMollie Goodfellow @hansmollman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026I actually don’t want to do discourse I just want to eat my pain au chocolat 3584
Reposted by Espen HauglidJay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 10/10/2026For today’s @ftweekend.com I am at the restaurant inside the high end Mayfair furniture shop RH London. And it’s chaos. Warm water. Can’t mix cocktails. Run out of hamburgers. Dull food for bored oligarchs who don’t eat. Have a few quotes and a pic of a £22 baked potato. www.ft.com/content/5993... 4354674
Reposted by Espen HauglidPaintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 08/10/2026'Wasteground with Houses, Paddington' (1970–72) by Lucian Freud (Garden Museum) 723340
Reposted by Espen HauglidJapan CamBot @japan-cambot.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Tokyo Station Marunouchi Station Square, Japan #Japan #Nippon 011
Reposted by Espen HauglidNational Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 06/10/2026You're never too old to get excited about seeing a really big tree. 301836460
Reposted by Espen HauglidDr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Sacred harmony: Pieter Jansz Saenredam, Dutch Golden Age architectural painter & draughtsman (1597-1665); pioneer of ‘church portraits’, whose subtle, tonal compositions foreshadow abstract modernism. St Bavo Haarlem, 1635, Gemäldegalerie Berlin 06212
Reposted by Espen HauglidJim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 03/10/2026There’s a lot of grumbling in London about new flats being sold to Chinese investors. But you never hear from the Chinese buyers. I asked Helen Gao to travel around Beijing property fairs and learn how you sell life in Woolwich to the Chinese elites. www.londoncentric.media/p/london-pro...londoncentric.mediaHow London flats are marketed in ChinaChinese buyers of London homes say they feel like “chives” • Bafflement at Londoners’ love of old homes built during the “Qing dynasty” • Fascination with the enigma of the British electrician 1814545
Reposted by Espen HauglidLev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Happy birthday Steve Reich appy birthday Steve Reich H ppy birthday Steve Reich Ha py birthday Steve Reich Hap y birthday Steve Reich Happ birthday Steve Reich Happy birthday Steve Reich Happy irthday Steve Reich Happy b rthday Steve Reich Happy bi thday Steve Reich Happy bir 14463124
Reposted by Espen HauglidDr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Cynicism is not pragmatism 151
Reposted by Espen HauglidDr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I do think people really need to start believing again that good things can happen - otherwise life is just one painful retreat after another. 1324932
Espen Hauglid @espenhauglid.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Really recommend watching this while listening to the new Julia Holter album 000
Reposted by Espen HauglidAlex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The vast majority of art and creative work ever made is destroyed and forgotten, usually very quickly. It is so unusual for these things to endure! 0152
Reposted by Espen HauglidJohn Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 28/09/2026I think the story of our era will be of a political class that were not only not up to the times they faced, but often wilfully blind to them. 724744
Espen Hauglid @espenhauglid.bsky.social · 27/09/2026This made me realise that Omaze and Omelas are two different things. A lot of old posts suddenly make a lot more sense now. 000
Reposted by Espen HauglidMark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I've seen this observation a few times now, but they didn't have social media in 1972. If they had, people would have been arguing the fuck out of iced coffee then too. It's not really about the Washington Post. We've just become a civilisation that talks nonsense 24/7 because we can. 514514
Reposted by Espen HauglidDraculosity Jones: Ghost Skeleton @brainmage.bsky.social · 26/09/2026[Suddenly, the dread flame of the eye of Sauron covers the landscape in greasy, dark light. Wolves howl, men weep and sweat in their beds, crops wither in the fields] F: Niles, it's for you N: Oh, hello Maris 1016019
Reposted by Espen HauglidDuncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026‘This is playing into his hands’/‘this will allow him to play the martyr card’/‘this will help with his fundraising’ are all really bad takes. Criminals should be arrested and charged with crimes. 161775280
Reposted by Espen HauglidDmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 24/09/2026If Elon Musk and half the Tesla C-Suite were currently in jail because Grok spent weeks generating CSAM-on-demand while they memed about it, Altman and the rest might be a bit more cautious about letting their little robots commit share price friendly press releasable crimes. 4322107
Reposted by Espen HauglidHanne Østli Jakobsen @hannejakobsen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The 'move fast and break things' industry made a 'move fast and break things' machine 2141
Reposted by Espen HauglidTricia Lockwood @tricialockwood.bsky.social · 24/09/2026“shape of you” by ed sheeran is from the perspective of a dog … he’s in love with the shape of you because it’s all he can see with his dog eyes 1442127
Reposted by Espen HauglidREwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026ONE OF THE GREAT VILLAINS OF LITERATURE 4445
Reposted by Espen HauglidJonathan Gibbs @jonathangibbs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026A reminder for book designers. The job of a spine is to be noticable, interesting and legible in a bookshop. The job of a cover is to be identifiable when someone cool is reading the book further down the carriage from you the tube. 05713
Reposted by Espen HauglidPaintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026'Yellow and Red – Gilbert Place', Bloomsbury (2026) by Marie Lenclos marielenclos.com 010519
Reposted by Espen HauglidDr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Tolkien to get memorial in Westminster Abbey, and it looks like it’s going to be beautiful: broadbent.studio/tolkeinmemor...?broadbent.studioTolkien Memorial — Broadbent Studio 37022
Reposted by Espen HauglidNina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 20/09/2026The amazing “Elk’s Head of Huittinen” comes from a Mesolithic settlement in southern Finland, dating to around 6100 BC. The ~10 cm long steatite (soapstone) head was carefully ground and finished and features a shaft hole for mounting. Because the stone is soft, it is unlikely...🧵1/3 📷 me 8482142
Reposted by Espen HauglidDr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026“The grimness left his face, and he looked like one who has laboured in sleepless pain for many nights. ‘Nay, my friends, I am the lawful master of the Stone, and I had both the right and the strength to use it, or so I judged. The right cannot be doubted. The strength was enough – barely.’” 56110
Reposted by Espen HauglidDr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Winter Landscape with Skaters, c. 1608, oil on panel, by Hendrick Avercamp ‘Little Ice Age’ Dutch artist known for lively snow scenes with subtle aerial perspective; born in Amsterdam in 1585; pupil of Isaacsz, & possibly Vinckboons (a follower of Pieter Brueghel the Elder). Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam 2889
Reposted by Espen HauglidRose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Naughty but nice shall be the whole of the Law 6589
Reposted by Espen HauglidJim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 12/09/2026I’ve been OBSESSED with the Shard apartments for at least a decade. Priced at up to £50m. Visible across London. Empty since 2012. Unsellable. No pictures online. Now London Centric has found out what’s happened to them - and the first pic of the interior. www.londoncentric.media/p/the-shard-...londoncentric.media‘Airbnb for sheikhs’: The first look inside the Shard’s £50m apartments that won’t sellTen “cursed” apartments have sat empty since 2012 • The Qatari state can’t find buyers • The local council has approved plans to turn them into short-term lets at up to £18,000 per week 25478140
Reposted by Espen HauglidJonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 10/09/2026More to the point, it is good to remind people that bigotry is not okay! Even if it doesn't change voter behaviour! Sometimes the reason to call stuff out is that it's wrong, and we should say so! 314612
Reposted by Espen HauglidEdward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 09/09/2026"“Albania is not for sale,” says the normally pro-American Albanian street. If Kushner and Witkoff would listen, other parts of the world are trying to tell them the same thing." My column. as.ft.com/r/cd22dbcd-a...as.ft.comKushner and Witkoff’s blind amateurismThe misguided belief that dangling potential postwar profits can lead to peace has hampered US diplomacy from Ukraine to Gaza and Iran 1931371
Reposted by Espen HauglidJim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 09/09/2026The race for London's scammiest address is on! We found one building is responsible for a quarter of all trading standards complaints in Islington. Another in Camden is close behind — but weirdly is where Andy Burnham registered his new company. Read: www.londoncentric.media/i/214696641/... 89125
Reposted by Espen HauglidMarie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 03/09/2026the first rule of Crime Club is that you have to talk openly about your crimes as often as possible 1258761
Reposted by Espen HauglidRob Palk @robpalk.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Oh you write novels do you? "Helen took a sip" "Kenneth approached the desk" no they didn't, grow up 2241
Reposted by Espen HauglidStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Forget that dumb orb they wanted to have bathing a residential area in perpetual light - a huge pyramid of the dead, THAT's the visitor attraction east London needs. 151076
Espen Hauglid @espenhauglid.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Hannes byline er trolig det eneste som kan få meg til å abonnere på enda et nyhetsbrev. 000
Reposted by Espen HauglidLev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 27/08/2026yes YES the new joke format is out 1669
Reposted by Espen HauglidAshmolean Museum, Oxford @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social · 27/08/2026This “skidding goat” vase was likely made in Iran c.3500 BCE. Similar jars were made at settlements in mountain valleys that connected Mesopotamia in the west to Iran. 329390
Reposted by Espen HauglidRose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 25/08/2026An ice cream van playing La Cucaracha at the exact tempo of a panic attack, Doppler effect queasily bending the frantic chimes across the breezy air of a grey afternoon that feels definitively autumnal: like an almost empty holiday let, with summer’s suitcases packed, zipped & lined up by the door 0714
Reposted by Espen HauglidDr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 23/08/2026St Jerome in the Desert: praying in rough shelter under rocks, c 1520; oil on panel, by Flemish artist Joachim Patinir, friend of Dürer, died in 1524; pioneer of landscape genre, he created recession & atmospheric perspective using subtle brown, green, dark blue, light blue hues. ALT Musée du Louvre 0529
