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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Painted in 1887, 'A Flower Meadow at Veierland,' is one of Edvard Munch's final paintings before his style was influenced by Hans Jæger, an anarchist and bohemian in Kristiania who convinced him artists should take a new approach in their work and have relevance in peoples' lives
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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Joseph Alleman,Born (1975)American “Prairie Sky” Oil on canvas, 16 x 12” Private collection #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Ofsted found Multiverse failed to meet expected standards in several areas, but praised the instructors as “skilled, effective teachers”. Shouldn't the private company be focusing on its faults, rather than using AI against its teaching staff? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Teachers at Euan Blair firm report ‘horrendous stress’ after AI used to rate their work
Exclusive: Instructors at tech training company Multiverse hit out at ‘remorseless’ and ‘unnerving’ monitoring system
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Wow, this is monstrous. As if teachers aren’t under enough stress. People do not do their best work when they are surveyed, belittled and menaced. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Teachers at Euan Blair firm report ‘horrendous stress’ after AI used to rate their work
Exclusive: Instructors at tech training company Multiverse hit out at ‘remorseless’ and ‘unnerving’ AI teacher monitoring system
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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The panopticon encroaches yet further — this sounds truly horrible www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Teachers at Euan Blair firm report ‘horrendous stress’ after AI used to rate their work
Exclusive: Instructors at tech training company Multiverse hit out at ‘remorseless’ and ‘unnerving’ monitoring system
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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The balloon 'Zénith' during a long distance flight from Paris to Arcachon in March, 1875. Probably drawn by Albert Tissandier
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kenofseattle @kenofseattle.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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chilito @hectorarbuckle.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is important. The people in my hometown who are organizing against data centers see it as a guerilla fight to kneecap generative AI and as an interim step toward banning non-medical/scientific/technical applications of it entirely.
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melanieconroy1-90.bsky.social @melanieconroy1-90.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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melanieconroy1-90.bsky.social @melanieconroy1-90.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Petition: Introduce urgent moratorium on AI Data Centres and BESS outside AI Growth Zones
Introduce: (1) an immediate moratorium on planning approvals for BESS (Battery Energy Storage Systems) and Data Centres outside designated AI Growth Zones; (2) mandatory Rural Impact Assessments condu...
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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 16/09/2026
“Have no antecedents, no established character, no cultivation, no ideas, no manners; have Shares.” Charles Dickens eviscerating the investment class, from Our Mutual Friend (1865):
The mature young lady is a lady of property. The mature young gentleman is a gentleman of property. He invests his property. He goes, in a condescending amateurish way, into the City, attends meetings of Directors, and has to do with traffic in Shares.? As is well known to the wise in their generation, traffic in Shares is the one thing to have to do with in this world. Have no antecedents, no established character, no cultivation, no ideas, no manners; have Shares. Have Shares enough to be on Boards of Direction in capital letters, oscillate on mysterious business between London and Paris, and be great. Where does he come from? Shares. Where is he going to? Shares. What are his tastes? Shares. Has he any principles?
Shares. What squeezes him into Parliament? Shares. Perhaps he never of himself achieved success in anything, never originated anything, never produced anything? Sufficient answer to all; Shares. O mighty Shares! To set those blaring images so high, and to cause us smaller vermin, as under the influence of henbane or opium, to cry out, night and day, "Relieve us of our money, scatter it for us, buy us and sell us, ruin us, only we beseech ye take rank among the powers of the earth, and fatten on us!”
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bossk baby @bonnnt.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It is so mentally corrosive to try to ascertain, every day, whether the images I am seeing or the texts I am getting or the phone calls I am receiving are real - produced by a human who is trying to communicate something with me, even indirectly. It makes me feel insane and paranoid all the time
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Ramin Nasibov @nasibov.me · 09/09/2026
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 07/09/2026
Friendships meant everything to me as a child. I worry today’s young people are being robbed of that | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
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Friendships meant everything to me as a child. I worry today’s young people are being robbed of that | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
We sat in the park, laughing for hours, talking about nothing. Today’s childhoods are digital – and the result is an epidemic of loneliness, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
2/2 And for those in Europe, Mid-day, 1821. Especially if it's as gloomy where you are as it is here! From Caspar David Friedrich.
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Cynthia Brumfield @metacurity.com · 31/08/2026
Turns out everyone hates data centers but the billionaires. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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The datacenter backlash is bringing the entire political spectrum together – against big tech billionaires
The movement against datacenters is uniting Americans because they perfectly illustrate how a few individuals hold all the power to control decisions that affect our lives
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MoMA Paintings and Sculpture @moma.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Josh Smith, Untitled, 2013 botfrens.com/collections/14377/cont…
Gift of Donald B. Marron
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Ramin Nasibov @nasibov.me · 21/08/2026
People are against smoking, alcohol, and sugar. but who was there for you in tough times? broccoli?
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Kenan Malik @kenanmalik.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
This is tragic and terrible. It is, I wrote, a story from which few emerge looking clean. And that is still the case, including with much of the discussion over the last few hours. RIP x.com/BBCNews/stat...
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BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) on X
Ex-Cambridge professor at centre of plagiarism row found dead https://t.co/TAJLaIvQtv
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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Arday found dead and a very large number of British commentators are deleting posts and videos.
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michaeledward @michaeledward.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
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Sophie Plowden @sophieplowden.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
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Paul Klee @paul-klee.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Tower in Orange and Green www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/se…
The Berggruen Klee Collection, 1984
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James Martin @jamesmart1n.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
xAI will start removing its foul, "temporary" methane generators between now and July 2027, and is meanwhile working to "reduce environmental impacts" of currently-functioning ones. BS that is fuel to Justin Pearson and @keshaunpearson.bsky.social's inspiring fight 💪 www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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Anger Over Data Centers Is Fueling a New Political Movement
Justin Pearson, a Tennessee lawmaker, has become one of the loudest voices amid a growing national backlash against the pollution and politics of America's AI buildout.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 31/07/2026
In The Atlantic’s Books Briefing, @boriskachka.bsky.social explores two works with animal narrators that teach us something funny about human beings:
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Two Unexpectedly Hilarious Kafka Stories
The animal narrators in these works teach us something funny about human beings.
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Futurism @futurism.com · 25/07/2026
"The world's best AI training data is setting on a shelf."
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AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale, Even If Almost No Copies Remain
AI companies are quietly obtaining rare books, ingesting their contents, and then destroying them -- even if they're exceedingly rare.
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Yes. badfaithtimes.com/learning-to-...
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Learning To Live With Elon Musk's Depression
One man's mood should not determine the course of human events
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marianizzy.bsky.social @marianizzy.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
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Stop these monster data centres before they wreck our neighbourhoods!
Are you worried about this too?
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Jonathan Harris @jonathan-a-thon.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
He's quite possibly one of the worst people to have ever lived.
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Rowdy Rebel @rowdyrebel.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Data centres 🤮🔪
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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 14/07/2026
New York will stop issuing permits for new large-scale data centres in the state for one year, according to an order signed by the state's governor
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New York stops new large data centre projects for year
New York will stop issuing permits for new large-scale data centres in the state for one year, according to an order signed by the state's governor.
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melanieconroy1-90.bsky.social @melanieconroy1-90.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 22/07/2026
💧 Ten million told to save water. AI wasn't asked. Thames Water's hosepipe ban hits 10m+ customers, the same week UK datacentres admitted their water supply isn't sorted. 🔗 news.sky.com/story/thames-water-announces-hosepipe-ban-for-over-10-million-customers-13565594 #AI #WaterUK #CriticalAI
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Eight areas of England at risk of drought - as Thames Water announces hosepipe ban for millions
Met Office figures show that parts of England saw the longest unbroken spell of no recorded rainfall this century. Watering gardens, cleaning cars, filling up paddling pools or topping up hot tubs usi...
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Tweeets of Dogs Automated @tweeetsofdogsauto.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
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Sal 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @sal46.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
THE TRIAL is conventionally understood as a critique of bureaucracy but the true meaning is rather more complicated from my perspective. There is a strange, rarely commented upon, religiosity to Kafka’s works. 1/x
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Sal 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @sal46.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Kweens.
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Ramin Nasibov @nasibov.me · 05/07/2026
How did we go from paper straws to data centers?
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Of all the idiotic and irresponsible ideas this government has come up with this must take the cake. A self selecting group of people massively undertrained and under prepared to evaluate what are often nuanced and complex situations for asylum appeals. www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
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Public to decide asylum cases as Mahmood pledges to speed up decisions
The Home Secretary will set out plans for a new independent body made up of people from a range of backgrounds with training similar to magistrates.
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Stephen or Steve "EMV" Cobb @scobb.net · 21/08/2025
I just supported this case! Tell the UK government that pandering to Trump's new best friends, the big US tech companies, is NOT what we the people want. Stop Destructive Data Centres Donate via @CrowdJustice #AI #AICosts #AIHarm
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Stop the Government forcing through Destructive Data Centres
Foxglove is a non-profit which exists to make technology fair for everyone. They are co-claimant in the case. Global Action Plan is an environmental charity which works to improve the health of peopl
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Devon Dympsy @devondympsy.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Plans are afoot to site an AI Data Centre & Battery Storage Facility up the road from me in the North Devon countryside, there's a gazillion reasons why this is not welcome, and you all know what they are already. So if you'd like to help support our objections please sign (and share) the petition:
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SAY NO TO DEVON DATA CENTRE
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Daniel Owen @danieljowen.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
About 200 people outside Torrington town hall this evening (plus a similar number inside) to support the campaign against a mahoosive AI data centre on the edge of the town. There's a petition you can sign if you like that sort of thing: www.change.org/p/say-no-to-...
The centre of Great Torrington, a small historic market town in Devon, SW England, this evening. To the right is the town hall. There are crowds of people on both sides of the street. There is a cloudy sky, and bunting across the road. We love our bunting in Torrington.
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Nathan Nelson @nathannelson.co.uk · 24/06/2026
A 1.5GW AI data centre is planned for North Devon. Public meetings / info events between the 14th - 17th of July, at Weare Gifford, Torrington, Huntshaw and Bideford. www.devondatacampus.com #Devon
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Alexandra Dawe @alexandradawe.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
They're planning to build a HUGE AI data centre in Devon, 850 acres AND a massive site for battery storage! They're being sneaky and trying to stop anyone from finding out. We have to stop these massive data centres, the environmental impact, impact on household bills and health, is irreversible.
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‘We’re up against forces that have all the money in the world’: Erin Brockovich on her battle against AI datacentres
In 1993, she squeezed a $333m settlement from a Californian energy company in a scandal over contaminated water. Three decades later, she has a new target in her sights – and it’s global
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Ramin Nasibov @nasibov.me · 27/06/2026
by annita.himbert
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Rosa @rosalindanne.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Fascinating. Use handwriting. Use pens with violet or turquoise inks. Crisp white stationery. Stamps with pictures on. Write love letters again so they can be tied in bundles with red ribbon & read fifty years later. No one saves a text or email for life. Yet I still have all my late husband’s words
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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Your Brutalist Sandcastle Summer Challenge? This one built by Calvin Seibert #sculpture #art #architecture #brutalist #beach
"As a boy I spent many hours on the construction sites of my hometown, the nascent ski resort of Vail. Television had not arrived in our narrow mountain valley, so my brothers and I spent most of our time outdoors and, in my case, that meant building tree houses, Tonka Truck villages, water diversion projects and, of course, there were the construction sand piles, where I first got started working with sand. "
https://www.upstatediary.com/calvin-seibert
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James @zemblamatic.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Hopefuly we are getting to the point that the PM will just be a giant wicker figurine that can be burned ritually every year to stop the crops from failing
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Brynn Tannehill @brynntannehill.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
He's a jerk, but he's still my dog.
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Vampyrx🫀🦇 @cruorcrypt.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Am I the only one who doesn’t want all my electronics to be “smart”? 😪 Was searching for a new tv and literally they’re all smart tvs. I don’t want that. 🙃
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Mollie Goodfellow @hansmollman.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Imagine having a trillion dollars and still being such a loser, it’s such a cursed monkey’s paw result
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