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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 10/09/2026
“This is the museum event of the decade, possibly the century so far. Are we really to believe that a more ethical partner would not have jumped at the chance to be involved?” @benlukeart.bsky.social on the #BayeuxTapestry at the British Museum. www.thenerve.news/p/bayeux-tap...
We need to talk about the Bayeux Tapestry show and its billionaire sponsor. By Ben Luke. Photograph: a poster for the Bayeux Tapestry outside the British Museum with sponsor Igor Tulchinsky’s name at an equal scale to those of the British Museum and the French government.
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Tom Emery @tomemery.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
The latest Tate Papers covers some of this (although I haven't read it all yet) share.google/QzgqWiyaKQ6N...
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Tate Papers no.38: Voice/s in the Museum: Summer 2026 | Tate
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Tom Emery @tomemery.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
We try to keep things as short as we can, but I'm certainly still doing labels. Although there's a lot of current work across the sector on bringing in other, external voices, but usually in a complementary way to the museum voice
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Tom Emery @tomemery.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Magneto's death was very cool
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Tom Emery @tomemery.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Comments here made me realise that Dad Baby is not available on Disney+ UK, but *is* available on BBC
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Tom Emery @tomemery.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
X of Swords is so much fun, exactly the sort of nonsense I want from the X-Men
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Tom Emery @tomemery.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
It's Hockney himself when he was 17 share.google/1OZUeFyaRICI...
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Pride of plaice: Hockney print that hung in Bradford chippy goes up for sale
Lithograph depicting owners of fish and chip shop frequented by teenaged David Hockney was among artist’s first forays into printmaking
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Tom Emery @tomemery.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Beautiful stuff, and now he's rejoined the Wolves I must support Mexico
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Very proud to be on the advisory board for this campaign. If of interest, please sign and share. ——— Infantino isn’t fit to lead FIFA. 
And FIFA isn’t fit to govern football. Agree? Add your name to this mass complaint: rebootfifa.com/sign?utm_sou...
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Infantino isn’t fit to lead FIFA. 
And FIFA isn’t fit to govern football. Agree? Add your name now >>
Add your name to our mass complaint
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/06/2026
"The values described in Claude’s constitution sound very nice, but that hardly matters; it’s dishonest to suggest that Claude is capable of moral reasoning, because it’s not." -Ted Chiang, No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...
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No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious
Taken to its logical conclusion, this line of thinking is absurd—and damning.
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Tom Emery @tomemery.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Amazing, cheers! I'll email you in a moment
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Tom Emery @tomemery.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Hi Sam, is there any chance you'd share the article with me? I work at Tate Liverpool and this sounds really relevant for some research I'm doing around the founding of the gallery, but we don't appear to have institutional access to the journal
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 10/11/2025
Following firings and Grand Theft Auto VI delay, union plans to keep pressure on Rockstar aftermath.site/grand-theft-au...
IWGB union members protesting on the street, holding red banners
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Tom Emery @tomemery.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Love seeing kinects pop up in unexpected places. Last place I saw one is when I bought a mattress, it was part of the set up that tells what mattress suits you best
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Tom Emery @tomemery.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
I remember being taught that they were basically posh hobbyists, so it's been weird seeing everyone go nuts over them the last few years
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Tom Emery @tomemery.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Never been more excited to read a review
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Tom Emery @tomemery.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Yes! Immediately thought of this car ad from 2002 youtu.be/1cyG8H3UxHA?...
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Renault, shacking that ass 2002
YouTube video by DigitaliseMe
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Tom Emery @tomemery.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
A good show and an interesting experiment in making comedy expensively (complimentary)
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Tom Emery @tomemery.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Oh fuck, that does it, time to finally sign up
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Josh Spero @joshspero.ft.com · 20/08/2025
“The thing about AI is it’s lying, it’s telling you what you want to hear,” Sanborn said. His voice rose. “These people are so arrogant, they so believe that they have absolutely cracked it because AI has told them they cracked it, congratulations.” on.ft.com/41aGHcP
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Jim Sanborn has a secret
[FREE TO READ] The sculptor of the CIA’s ‘Kryptos’ has spent decades guarding its last secret code. What happens when he’s gone?
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Tom Emery @tomemery.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Moviprep is truly awful. But if you get lgas and air during the procedure, that's not bad...
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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
AI bot scrapers are hitting every site on the web in search of training data. This report is the first good attempt to evaluate the impact of these AI scrapers, especially on smaller institutions that are trying to make their collections open to the public www.404media.co/ai-scraping-...
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AI Scraping Bots Are Breaking Open Libraries, Archives, and Museums
"This is a moment where that community feels collectively under threat and isn't sure what the process is for solving the problem.”
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Tom Emery @tomemery.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Could make for a good, niche Halloween costume though
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Tom Emery @tomemery.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
I guess I should reserve judgment until seeing it, but only if I can get in free, there's no way I'm paying £30 or whatever it is. Insane that you can see the real things for free at NPG but this is so expensive
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Tom Emery @tomemery.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Me and Zoe had a rare listen to Front Row (because the Lowry was also featured) and caught your review! Not surprised at how bad this is, slightly surprised how much the presenter liked it... People seem so easily impressed by something that's basically just a bunch of big jpegs
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Tom Emery @tomemery.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Just had to dispose of my Fiorentina shirt as the Nintendo logo was peeling off. Now frantically searching for a Sevilla SNES shirt for a reasonable price...
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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
The Turner Prize 2025 shortlist has been announced: artreview.com/turner-prize...
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Turner Prize 2025 shortlist announced
Nnena Kalu, Rene Matić, Mohammed Sami and Zadie Xa will compete for the prize
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 16/04/2025
A real museum worker's take on Two Point Museum aftermath.site/two-point-muse...
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Tom Emery @tomemery.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Appreciate your work with the edits!
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Tom Emery @tomemery.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
It's me: I'm real museum worker Seriously though, it was a pleasure to write this piece and to play this game!
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Tom Emery @tomemery.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
My friend Sam Manton curated this! I don't think she's on here, but I'm going to share this with her, always great to receive positive feedback
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Tom Emery @tomemery.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
I also wish you could buy replica minitels in the shop.
Eduardo Kac animation on a minitel
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Tom Emery @tomemery.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Electric Dreams at Tate Modern is a fun show. Suffers a bit from too much irrelevant stuff and info overload, but more than enough good stuff to make up for it.
Nanda Vigo sculptureAtsuko Tanaka paintingKatsuhiro Yamaguchi sculptureMary Martin drawing
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Tom Emery @tomemery.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Big brain geniuses at the labour party running the dril playbook
dril tweet reading:
turning a big dial taht says "Racism" on it and constantly looking back at the audience for approval like a contestant on the price is right
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Tom Emery @tomemery.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
I guess the art world has enthusiastically entered it's AI slop era www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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AI takes centre stage at Photo Brussels 2025
A review of this year’s Photo Brussels festival, where the theme of artificial intelligence and its impact and potential were examined by the curated work
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Tom Emery @tomemery.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
JG Ballard, any / all but starting with High Rise, although this is just me thinking about the architecture connection
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Tom Emery @tomemery.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
But... But... Retain and explain... 🫠
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Tom Emery @tomemery.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Supporting a shit team (Wolves) seems so much less hassle than supporting a good one
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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
After their Schelling Architecture Foundation award was rescinded for signing an open letter supporting the Israeli cultural boycott, James Bridle (@jamesbridle.bsky.social) addresses the award’s refusal, Strike Germany, and the ‘duty of institutions to act ethically’ artreview.com/james-bridle...
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James Bridle: ‘The Denial of Genocide Is on the March Everywhere’
The artist addresses the ‘duty of institutions to act ethically’
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Tom Emery @tomemery.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Talk about your favourite weird little guys
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Scoiattolo @scarnecchia.net · 05/11/2024
@skywatch.blue has a label and a block list for MAGA accounts: bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
lHelp out if you can, or help spread the word? Every bit helps! www.gofundme.com/f/help-moham...
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Donate to Help Mohamed and His Family Get to Safety, organized by Meave Gallagher
Hello, My name is Meave Gallagher, and this GoFundMe is for my friend Moham… Meave Gallagher needs your support for Help Mohamed and His Family Get to Safety
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Tom Emery @tomemery.bsky.social · 24/10/2024
The boat is great, my favourite work benefit (I work at the Tate) is that I can ride it for free between sites and I'll go out of my way to do so whenever I have time
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Tom Emery @tomemery.bsky.social · 11/10/2024
Nice piece. When I worked on a Schiele exhibition a few years back, my favourite part was trying to figure out which works we couldn't include because they might be nazi loot, upsetting a couple of Austrian museum directors in the process...
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Tom Emery @tomemery.bsky.social · 17/09/2024
As a Wolves fan, I'm shaking my head disapprovingly at the thought of Brummy success (I'm actually pleased the Villa are doing well)
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Tom Emery @tomemery.bsky.social · 17/09/2024
It pains me to say it, but on this occasion, JJ is right www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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Michael Craig-Martin review – sorry, but these lamps and filing cabinets just aren’t that interesting
His early conceptual work inspired the likes of Damien Hirst, but the RA has inexplicably focused on his cool and clinical representations of the ordinary stuff of modern life
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Tom Emery @tomemery.bsky.social · 30/08/2024
Not to be too boring, but with work like this, whoever is cataloguing the pieces will usually give them basic descriptive titles as the artist probably wouldn't have bothered
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Tom Emery @tomemery.bsky.social · 23/08/2024
Really interesting piece
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 13/08/2024
The Cass Review is the subject of an opinion piece for NYT today. Lydia Polgreen writes with care, common sense, and remarkable moral clarity. She brings core criticisms of Cass to the pages of a paper better known for bending the rules of journalism to undermine trans healthcare. Gift link:
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Opinion | How a Supposedly Scientific Report Became a Weapon in the War on Trans Kids
For all its claims to science, the Cass report is fundamentally a subjective, political document.
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 05/08/2024
New: unraveling the Olympic boxing scandal, which has ties to a checkered organization whose president has Putin ties, was a member of an ultra-nationalist motorcycle group and is obsessed with opposing "sodomy" www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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The transphobia rocking olympic boxing has a Kremlin connection
Smears targeting women athletes trace to a sports organization whose leader has made opposing “sodomy” his mission.
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