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Jake Tilson @jaketilson.bsky.social · 5h

Absolutely!! Local councils seem completely unable to protect important cultural establishments, the National Trust might be a clever way to go for a lot of places. I only wish The India Club had been listed. I’d also add the Wong Kei to the list.

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Jake Tilson @jaketilson.bsky.social · 7h

Hopefully when British Rail is fully nationalised it should reinstate beautiful tickets.

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Jake Tilson @jaketilson.bsky.social · 21h

I think the rather inventive hack of increasing the temperature in supermarket chilled displays in France could become a norm if AI goes rogue and decides to draw it out a bit.

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Jake Tilson @jaketilson.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Is it illegal to glue the old cover onto our new passports?

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Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

'Peckham Fish Shop, 1973' by Hector McDonnell (Private collection)

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Jake Tilson @jaketilson.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Oh bugger, hadn’t noticed the dodgy kerning, might have to get a plastic cover now.

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Jake Tilson @jaketilson.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Actually it’s The Tate supplying the Van Gogs

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Jake Tilson @jaketilson.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Etchings by Hopper and drawings by Van Gogh are fabulous things indeed - @art.feediverse.org seems to have one a day of each.

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Ella @gabriellanonino.com · 12/10/2026

Here is good article on the open source development of those Adobe clones tools. Until they are peer reviewed use the browser version, download only from the official sources, and treat them as alpha for now.

techspot.com

"Software is over": Developer uses AI to build free Adobe clones after frustration with cancellation fees

As Ars Technica reports, developer Brandon Thomas is taking on seven of Adobe's best-known applications through Artcraft. The project extend beyond Adobe's famous photo editing program to...

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Jake Tilson @jaketilson.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

For those of us with decades of projects locked into an application program the ability to open them in the future without having to license software is a must. Does DesignCraft open InDesign files?

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Jake Tilson @jaketilson.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Annoying that it doesn’t handle RAW well. I’d be interested in how the InDesign replica is too, especially thinking of a file-to-page process - PDF and press, likely to be hiccups somewhere.

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Jake Tilson @jaketilson.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I was happily buying the physical copies of Adobe CS using an older Mac to run the last bought version. To get the last update I had to actually telephone Adobe who kept saying it will cost £300, why don’t you just rent! Bastards. I used that for 5 more years. The Mac broke so I reluctantly rented

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Jake Tilson @jaketilson.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Have any professional designers out there tried any of these open source Adobe Creative Suite replicas? #adobe

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…

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Jake Tilson @jaketilson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The hidden leg could be here... a shadow on the floor at the base would help. Or it's just badly drawn, or a dodgy chair.

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Jake Tilson @jaketilson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Always reminds me of the first album I bought, and seeing North by Northwest in a Paris cinema in the afternoon, the projection was misaligned so you could see the scaffold poles holding up the sky above Mount Rushmore in the chase sequences.

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Jake Tilson @jaketilson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Same for hardware - avoid Amazon - our local hardware store/ convenience store has EVERYTHING.

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Jake Tilson @jaketilson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Thank goodness - I know the painting too

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Jake Tilson @jaketilson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A tough week to be a web server!

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Jake Tilson @jaketilson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It might have gone to aide in selling Glastonbury tickets.

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Jake Tilson @jaketilson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There was a small drawing of a copse of trees by David Hockney in his last big Royal Academy show that had a similar intensity- best thing in the show. I’ve never been able to find a reproduction of it.

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Jake Tilson @jaketilson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Ingenious humans are going to cure cancer, Parkinson’s and dementia, and the Labour Party roll out actual social care for all as either climate change or the AI uprising kills us all. Bugger.

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Jake Tilson @jaketilson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The new Prime Minister is writing a "10-year plan" for the UK. The arts & culture MUST be part of it. I've signed @campaignforthearts.org's petition urging @andyburnham.bsky.social to revitalise the arts – to revitalise the whole nation 🌱 Join me: www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/10-year-plan/

campaignforthearts.org

Prime Minister – put the arts in your 10-year plan for the UK | Campaign for the Arts

Sign our petition urging the UK Government to build a country where the arts are available from childhood, accessible to all and thriving everywhere.

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Helen Barrett @helenbarrett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you're in the West End today, there's a beautiful collection of Ghanaian and other African record sleeves on show as part of an installation by Harris Elliott in the basement at The Casbah gallery on Little Portland St.

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Jake Tilson @jaketilson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Britain really is beautiful / Cocklawburn Beach, Northumberland

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Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A Tate Madame, which is like a Tate Monsieur but with a fried egg on top.

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Jake Tilson @jaketilson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I have a small freezer that belonged to my grandmother, I’ve had it for 35 years and she’d had it for many years before!

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Jake Tilson @jaketilson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

My parents used to take us on a Piero della Francesca tour every year in the 70s - extraordinary what you can see of his in a day.

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Jake Tilson @jaketilson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We were there later, sadly don’t have photos of my favourite details: the patterned concrete ceiling from using crumpled plastic sheeting during casting and the vertical, bowed Douglas Fur panelling, so clever. #jamiefobert

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Jake Tilson @jaketilson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Cortona is so beautiful and has an annunciation by Fra Angelico

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Jake Tilson @jaketilson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'd agree - not good, I must check out the YouTube outtakes though

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Jake Tilson @jaketilson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Congratulations - worthy of a larger font size too

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Jake Tilson @jaketilson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

So true, perhaps fame rather than success?

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Jake Tilson @jaketilson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Interesting. Many cuisines need multiple words to help differentiate ingredients, such as chillies in Mexico: Poblano becomes Ancho when dried, Jalapeño becomes Chipotle or Morita. I bought The Great Chile Book by Mark Miller a long time ago! 50 chillies - fresh and dry, seriously useful.

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Nick Kapur @nickkapur.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Japanese used bookstores are reporting a massive uptick in bulk purchases of used Japanese books by overseas buyers, seemingly without any regard to their contents. The only logical conclusion is that these books are being stripped, scanned, and discarded to train AI models.

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Jake Tilson @jaketilson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I love London buses, even when slow, and as a non-driver they are rather essential!

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Jake Tilson @jaketilson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Saving: the cost of 1 Trident submarine-based ballistic

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Jake Tilson @jaketilson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Saving: the cost of 1 Trident submarine-based ballistic

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