Eyal Weizman · All they will find is sand: Gaza’s Yellow Line Most of the Gaza Strip – cities, refugee camps, schools, universities, mosques, the health infrastructure, agriculture...

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Poster for the Milton Glaser solo exhibition at Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris in 1977

Floating Pear (1968)

Life is full of surprises, most of which can't go on a postcard.

(Card courtesy of @jondennis.bsky.social )

Albert Jones Textiles, Manchester, 2023, photo by Ruxx Naqvi.

"You can’t let society go to shit and expect everyone to be fine with it forever. At least not in a country that has this many tractors." 😂

Just back from Ireland and witnessed the so-called “fuel protests” in Dublin. Many contradictions in these protests and the performance of petromasculinity is off the charts. But as this article says it’s a response to a government out of ideas.
www.thejournal.ie/readme/surre...

Big January 6th energy coming from some of those tractor guys #speirghorm

View of the sea on the county Clare coast

The waves at Lahinch on the Clare coast

Full moon at night with reflection in the sea

Saw the waves at Lahinch yesterday. And in the evening, here’s the view from Liscannor under a full moon.

Mural of person dancing wearing a straw mask

Waterfall in Ennistymon framed by trees

Ennistymon, Co. Clare

Dutch Court Orders X, Grok to Stop AI-Generated Sexual Abuse Content Dutch court bans Grok's nudify tool and hits xAI with €100,000-a-day fines in Europe's first binding injunction against an AI image generator.

A Dutch court has ruled Grok must stop generating non-consensual undressing images of Dutch residents worldwide and child sexual abuse material in the Netherlands, with €100,000-a-day fines for non-compliance, reports Ramsha Jahangir.

Always a surprise to see my annual payment from
@alcs.co.uk for copied published books and articles. Thanks to ALCS for recognising and supporting the work of writers!

The modernist stacked disc tiered candlestick was produced by King's Lynn Glass from 1967-69 and then by Wedgwood Glass until 1988. The sizes ranged from 1-9 tiers in clear glass, dark green, dark blue, amethyst, and topaz. Image: Judith Miller Collection

The Sheringham candlestick by Ronald Stennett-Willson for King's Lynn Glass (1967)

A handwritten sign saying: CLOSED TODAY LADS I’M IN BITS FROM LAST NIGHT NOT ABLE OPEN TOMORROW MICK

Memories of one of my favourite post-St Patrick’s Day signs from a shop in Galway a few years ago.

Ik heb gestemd. Het duurt niet lang meer.
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My surname Tynan

So proud of MA Design Cultures graduates @vuamsterdam.bsky.social who just launched #PlatformPudding for new design criticism (Eng & Dutch). 1st issue theme #proof inspired articles on de speculaasplank, copying in fashion, graphics in a post-truth era, the labubu as burnout symptom & much more 🧐

Spring has sprung in Amsterdam 🌼🐑🌱😎💐#springtime#lente#voorjaar

A lovely surprise from my son on Mother’s Day! ❤️

The choices universities and colleges make about AI are political Ahead of this week's Digifest, Michael Webb and Rebecca Flook confront the complex values systems behind general purpose AI technology

wonkhe.com/blogs/the-ch...

Did baby boomers eat all the pies? John Lanchester on the truth about the generation gap It’s a grim time to be in your 20s, no doubt, but don’t blame it all on older people: being chopped up into ever smaller rivalries only serves the market

A very balanced and insightful analysis of generational inequalities in the UK made even worse by Brexit. www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...

“The sun is burning in the sky
Strands of clouds go slowly drifting by…” 🎶
View from my office @VU Amsterdam

‘Our blood, our sweat, our tears’: how textile artist Tabitha Arnold weaves the US labor movement The Tennessee socialist and labor organizer creates art that reflects and inspires organizers and workers

‘Our blood, our sweat, our tears’: how textile artist Tabitha Arnold weaves the US labor movement

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Come to our Open Day on Saturday 7 March VU Amsterdam! On the MA Design Cultures, in the faculty of humanities, we explore #design as a material, aesthetic and economic practice that shapes our #environment, #politics and future

vu.nl/nl/onderwijs...

Brilliant! 😄

Yay!

The pancake bakery, 1560, Northern Mannerist work by Dutch artist Pieter Aertsen. Known as ‘the Dutch Peiraikos’, he created monumental genre, with sturdy figures in domestic scenes of intense realism, often of religious significance. #shrovetuesday
@boijmans.nl

The Rocky Road to Dublin - Trondhjems Studentersangforening YouTube video by Trondhjems Studentersangforening (TSS)

Norwegian men's choir does stirring version of 'Rocky Road to Dublin'

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Totally. Chirpy and in yer face. De *Leukste* Ochtendshow!

Animal Fashions This book examines material artifacts that inhabit the intersection between fashion, colonialism and biological specimen collection

link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

A long but worthwhile read from Adam Shatz in @lrb.co.uk